RELATIVE TO

THE TRADE

BETWEEN

Great Britain and the United States of America,

CONTAINING

USEFUL INFORMATION FOR THE PRACTICAL MERCHANT AND SHIPOWNER

ON THE SUBJECTS OF

THE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES, THE REVENUE LAWS OF

THE UNITED STATES, CURRENCY, PRECIOUS METALS, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES,
EXCHANGES, INSPECTIONS, ESTABLISHED RATES AND USAGES, &c, &c.

ACCOMPANIED BY

COPIOUS TABLES

THE EXCHANGES ARBITRATIONS, THE CORRESPONDING NETT-PRICES OF THE
PRIN AL ARTICLES OF IMPORT AND EXPORT, AND OF

THE STATISTICS

OF THE COMMERCE, NAVIGATION, PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURES

OF

THE UNITED STATES.

BY

W. F. REUSS.

LONDON:

EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE.

1833.

ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.

LONDON;

G. SCHULZE, 13, POLAND STREET.

INTRODUCTION.

THE principal object of the present publication is to furnish to the practical merchant and trader a compendium of the details of one of the most interesting branches of the foreign commerce of Great Britain which, by its arrangement and conciseness, shall effect a very considerable saving of labour, research and time. To those who have made the American trade the study of their lives, the Author does not presume to say any thing new; but he can nevertheless not refrain from entertaining a hope that the novelty and usefulness of his plan will recommend itself to their approval, whilst he ventures to flatter himself that to those who have hitherto devoted their attention but partially to that promising trade, the following pages may contain some useful suggestions.

It is an acknowledged fact that works on mercantile subjects, extensive and varied as the catalogue already is, do not usually meet with very general encouragement from those to whom they are more especially addressed. The cause of this drawback on a more general diffusion of practical mercantile knowledge is founded not so much on the illiberal tendency towards monopoly, of all mercantile enterprise, as on the circumstance that such works are too frequently undertaken by men who, although of high literary attainments, fail to a greater or less degree in the more useful details, whilst practical men but rarely find the time or feel the disposition to write for general information.

The present work claims in this respect an exemption from the general