413 Post-office regulations on letters to Bremen, etc.. 616 Silver and gold in America, product of... Q. R. RAILROAD, canal, and steamboat statistics, 115, 302 400 commerce of..... 637 91 QUEBEC, statistics of shipping at, 1845-46...... 114 Smuggling by American and French whalers.... 401 44 46 Massachusetts Western..... 324 prices of wheat, flour, hemp, and lead, 322 420 Philada., Wilmington, and Baltimore.. 326 214 Railway construction, cost of in Great Britain.. 536 Straits of Malacca, commerce in the............ 351 Magellan, passage through the........ 512 aggregate value of exports..... 371 44 633 coffee exported, 1837-46........ 374 Thunoe, lantern on the light-tower of.......... 315 Trade, the poetry of free...... 46 394 U. States, commercial treaty with Hanover..... 61 ports, 1845-46................... 625 and commerce of New York, 1691...... 399 Treaty between United States and Hanover..... 611 V. 537 VAIRO island, revolving light on...... 91 Tuscany, corn-laden vessels exempted from dues. 633 Valparaiso, custom-house and exchange at...... 297 U. UNDERWRITING in Great Britain, process of.... 121 421 Van Dieman's land.. W. WAREHOUSING system.... 66 of Atlantic and Pacific oceans.......... 278 domestic exports.. 302 404 85 298 516 West India islands, French, new regulations of.. 314 44 exports and imports of each State.... 518 Western Australia, ports of.... railroad, the Massachusetts.. 324 States, increase of population in....... 403 98 66 102 404 tariff regulations and instructions..... 81 Whaling-vessels owned in U. States, 1829-46... 99 prices of at St. Louis, 1844-46......... imports of sperm and whale oil, '38-46. 319 Wilmington, Philadelphia, and Baltimore rail- commercial regulations with Mexico.. 455 Y. INDEX TO THE FIRST TEN VOLUMES OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE. FREEMAN HUNT, Editor and Proprietor of the Merchants' Magazine. ART. CONTENTS OF NO. I., VOL. XVI. ARTICLES. PAGE I. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF NAVIGATION AND NAVAL ARCHITECTURE, No. III. New series. By Gen. H. A. S. DEARBORN, of Massachusetts, author of "A Memoir of the Commerce and Navigation of the Black Sea, and the Trade and Maritime Geography of II. COMMERCE WITH THE EASTERN COAST OF AFRICA,. III. COMMERCE AND RESOURCES OF ALTA CALIFORNIA. By a Merchant of New VII. LAW OF DEBTOR AND CREDITOR IN LOUISIANA-No. III. By FRANCIS H. Ur- VIII. LAW OF DEBTOR AND CREDITOR IN ALABAMA-No. II. By Hon. BENJAMIN F. IX. ACADEMY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION AT TRIESTE. Translated from X. THE CURIOSITIES OF COMMERCE: THE CORAL FISHERY, XI. COMMERCE AND THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE,.. View of Commercial Enterprise-Demand for Shipping-Management of the Government Fi- nances The New Tariff-Mexican War--European Railroads-Rates of Bills in London-Bul- lion in the Bank of England-Stocks of Cotton in Europe and America, in 1845, '46-Deliveries of Cotton for Consumption in France and England, in 1844, '45, '46-Current Prices of Cotton in 1846, compared with 1841, '45-Import of Goods into the U. S. under three Tariffs-Exports from the U. S.-Specie Movement-Quantities of Tea and Coffee consumed in the U. S., with the Rates and Amount of Duties-Domestic Exports of the U. States for five years, etc., etc.,.. 72 2 United States Tariff-Regulations and Instructions,.. Circular Instructions to Collectors and other Officers of Customs,. Neapolitan Tariff-A Correct Translation of the Neapolitan Tariff,. JOURNAL OF MINING AND MANUFACTURES. Manufacturing Industry of New York, No. 2-Chelsea; its Progress in Population and Indus- trial Pursuits-Chelsea Pearl Light Works-Knox's Cotton Factory-Greenwich Pottery- Crocker's Wire Works and Rolling-Mills-Archimedes Iron Works-The Allaire Works-New York Iron Foundry, Printing-Press, and Saw Manufactory-Hogg and Delmater's Iron Foundry- Columbian Foundry and Burr Mill-Stone Manufactory-The Works of the New York and Sau- Iron Mountains of Missouri; a Letter to the Editor. By L. FEUCHTWANGER, M. D.,. Extracting Silver from Lead in Scotland,.. Rochester Flour Manufacture and Trade.-Lead Mines and Trade of the West,. Manufacture of Railroad Iron in the United States,... . . .. . . Delaware and Raritan Canal-Charter of the Company-Original Cost of Canal-Receipts and Ex- penditures for eight years-Rates of Toll on the Canal in 1846-47,........ HUNT'S MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE. JANUARY, 1847. Art. I.-HISTORICAL SKETCH OF NAVIGATION AND NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. NUMBER III.-NEW SERIES. The spirit of commercial enterprise is diffused throughout the country. It is a passion as unconquerable as any with which nature has endowed us. The prosperity of foreign commerce is indissolubly allied to marine power. The authority to provide a navy was confided to Congress, and the period has arrived when it should be exercised. A navy will form a new bond of connection between the states, concentrating their hopes, their interests, and their affections.-HENRY CLAY. THE first object of Admiral Sir George Rodney, after he had organized his large fleet at Barbadoes, was to intercept a second convoy, which had sailed from Brest, for the same object of that which had been so successfully attacked by Admiral Kempenfelt; he, therefore, disposed of his heavy ships, in a line to the windward of the French islands, and another line, composed of frigates, was formed beyond them; but the convoy, having made the island of Desiada, to the northward, passed to leeward of the British fleet, and keeping close in under the land of Guadaloupe and Dominique, escaped, and arrived safe into Port Royal Bay, in the island of Martinico, on the 20th of March, where they found Count De Grasse. Sir George having been disappointed in his object, went to St. Lucia to refit and take in supplies, while his frigates watched the manœuvres of the French. The objects of the hostile commanders, were as opposite as their interests. It was the design of De Grasse to avoid fighting, till he had formed a junction with the Spanish fleet under Don Solano, at Hispaniola. On the other side, the salvation of the West Indies depended upon Rodney's preventing a union of the French and Spanish forces, or bringing on a decisive engagement with De Grasse, before it could be accomplished. The British fleet amounted to thirty-six ships of the line; and that of France to thirty-four, having on board five thousand five hundred troops; |