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progress of agriculture, manufactories, arts, maritime discov- 
eries, and navigation; 3d. the geography of commercial 
nations, comprehending the astronomical, geological, and po- 
litical considerations, which enter into the science of ctom- 
merce, 4th. the historical revolutions of commercial nations 
trom the most ancient to the present time. 
The theory of commerce, properly speaking, comprehends, 
1. Outlines of the commercial system in the following 
order: Notions of commerce and its branches, objects of ex- 
change arising from agriculture, mines, fisheries, hunting, and 
the arts, means of communication by caravans, navigation, and 
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, or 
the art of establishing in any nation the basis of an extended 
eommerce, of harmonizing its different interests, of organizing 
internal trade by wise regulations, and ensuring the contin- 
uance of its exterior relations, upon justice, strength, and 
moderation. 4. Commercial laws or analysis of the laws of 
commerce before Colbert, under Colbert, during the French 
Revolution, 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- 
fy but that of presenting their names to the professor. 
H. C. GuinHe, Professor. 
Louis Fasre, President. 
A. Vernier, Secretary. 
Rev, Encye. Dec. 1823. 
