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OF

THE PRACTICAL ABRIDGEMENT

OF THE

LAWS OF CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.

FIRST EDITION.

FROM the summary view which we have taken of this Work, it appears to contain the most important information relative to the nature and management of Commercial Concerns, and to present an interesting display of Commercial Regalations and, under the impression which it has made on our minds, we can have no hesitation in saying, that it appears entitled to a place in the house of every Merchant, Ship-Owner, or other Person, in any respect connected with the Maritime Commerce and Manufactures of the United Kingdom.

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TRADESMAN; or COMMERCIAL MAGAZINE, April, 1812.

THE prodigious increase of British Trade, with the variety of articles now included in it, has rendered the Custom House Laws and Regulations a labyrinth not to be safely trod by every one, without assistance. There is some intricacy and more trouble, in passing goods through the London Custom House (for of that we speak, as having the better acquaintance with it); but the Laws which direct and limit the operations and speculations of Merchants are a much greater source of embarrassment, notwithstanding the readiness of the Commissioners to put the most favourable construction on the conduct of Commercial Men of repute.—Like other parts of our Law, they are a mass forming an irregular system; and whoever attempts to reduce them to order, by which their application to any given subject cannot but be facilitated, performs an acceptable service to the country.

LITERARY PANORAMA, Aug. 1812.

MR. POPE appears to us to have performed his task well; and to have compiled a Volume which may be said to supply a good clue to the labyrinth of our Custom House. MONTHLY REVIEW, Sept. 1812.

WHOEVER remembers the discussion which took place on Mr. Pitt's memorable plan for the simplification of the Duties of Customs, and the eloquent panegyric which Mr. Burke, though at that time in opposition, pronounced on the ability, perseverance, and skill of the Minister, in digesting such a System, and in rendering it intelligible to the plainest understanding, needs no farther information respecting the vast difficulty and labour attending the accomplishment of such a Scheme as that which Mr. Pope has perfected. Of the consequence of a plain, practical, and intelligible abridgement of those complicated Laws, in the execution of which so many thousands of the inhabitants of this Commercial Country are daily and hourly concerned, every man must be aware. It would be a matter of astonishment to us, that there is not one work which affords this desirable information, if we were not fully sensible of the extreme labour and great skill requisite for so arduous an undertaking. Mr. Pope has not been discouraged by this consideration, and he has performed his task with great perspicuity, diligence, and talent.

ANTIJACOBIN REVIEW, May, 1813.

CHARACTER

OF THE

SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS.

A MOST valuable feature of this [second] edition is the Table of Bounties and

Drawbacks on British Goods Exported, and which in itself renders this Book of essential utility to the Merchant and Custom House Agent. We can only repeat our high approbation of the manner in which Mr. Pope has executed his task, and we are convinced that the Commercial World in general cannot fail to reap the most important benefits from his meritorious labours.

TRADESMAN; or COMMERCIAL MAGAZINE, June, 1814.

THESE Adjudged Cases we deem particularly valuable, as they show the opinions and feelings of the highest Law Authorities, and therefore may safely be taken as a Directory, and allowed to influence private sentiment.

The whole is a Work of great labour and no small difficulty. It presents, in as narrow a compass as possible, a mass of information that entitles it to a place in the Compting-House, where it will be found useful as a Book of Reference, ou innumerable occasions. LITERARY PANORAMA, June, 1814.

OUR opinion of the extreme utility of this mass of information, and of the merits of the Compiler, was delivered on the appearance of the First Edition, in our number for May, 1813. The important additions to the present Volume, comprising the whole of the Statutes relating to the Revenue of Excise, East India Trade, Warehousing, Wrecks and Salvage, the several Trading Companies; Proclamations touching War and Peace; Reports of Adjudged Cases, &c. &c. add materially to its value, and reflect credit on the industry, perseverance, and talents, of Mr. Pope. ANTIJACOBIN REVIEW, Sept. 1814.

In our number for September, 1812, we took sufficient notice of the First Edition of this Work, and gave our testimony to the success with which Mr. Pope had laboured to afford a clue to the Labyrinth of our Custom House Laws. The present [second] Edition contains considerable Additions, relating chiefly to the Excise, the India-Trade, and the Regulations under which the Warehousing System has of late years received so considerable an extension; forming now a large and closely printed Volume, and comprising a great mass of materials in a more accessible form than any that we have seen on the subject.

MONTHLY REVIEW, Nov. 1815.

IN our opinion, Mr. Pope is deserving of great credit for his very laborious undertaking; it is a Work that we feel pleasure and confidence in recommending, not only to Officers in the Navy, but likewise to Merchants and the Masters and Mates of Vessels in their employ; and also to the principal Officers attached to the Customs and Excise in the Out-Ports and abroad; each of whom ought to possess a copy of this extremely useful Publication.

NAVAL CHRONICLE, March, 1817.

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