WZ Eree Commercial School, Paris. 
progress of agriculture, manufactories, arts, maritime discov- 
eries, and navigation; 3d. the geography of commercial 
nations, comprehending the astronomical, geological, and po- 
litieal considerations, which enter into the science of com- 
meree, 4th. the historical revolutions of commercial nations 
from the most ancient to the present time. 
The theory of commerce, properly speaking, pag ive 8 
1, Outlines of the commercial system in the following 
order: Notions of commerce and its branches, pers of ex- 
change arising from agriculture, mines, fisheries, hunting, and 
the arts, means of communication by caravans, navigation, an 
roads. Measures of merchandise, or systems of weights and 
measures. Prices of merchandise or theory of money, and 
its paper representatives, commercial relations, and the bal- 
ance or rates of exchange, effects produced by commerce, 
with proofs that it is the source of industry, wealth, popula- 
tion, and happiness. 2.. The commercial state or degree of 
riches, power, and strength, of all commercial people, an- 
cient and modern. 3. The legislation of commerce, 0 
ue at of soenblishnig. in any nation the basis. of a extended 
merce, 0 organizing 
imeem trade by wise regulations, and ensuring * the contin~ 
uance — its exterior relations, upon. j ustice, strength, and 
— 4, Commercial Jaws or analysis of the laws of 
omm ore ge Colbert, under Colbert, during the French 
Revelolion, and the developement of a new code of com- 
merce. 5. The moral duties of a merchant. 6. The ele- 
ments of practical commerce, viz: arithmetic, geometry, 
exchange, and book-keeping. This plan, besides embracing 
the science of commeree, on a wide scale, presents a course 
of instruction which is connected with almost every branch 
of human knowledge. The school is absolutely gratuitous 
and open to every body, the pupils being under no formali- 
ty but that of presenting their names to the professor. 
H. C. Guiiue, Professor. 
Lovis Fapre, President. 
A. Vernier, Secretary. 
Rev. Encye. Dec. 1823. 
