myself, that what Additions and Improvements it has received from my Labours, would entitle me further to your Favour and Protection. I am, PREFACE. THE many Impreffions this Book has passed through, is a fufficient Evidence of its great Utility; and the Proprietors, in grateful Acknowledgment to the Public for their favourable Reception of it, having thought it ftill capable of further Improvement, have, in this new Edition, fpared no Expence in having the Plan of the Work new modelled, methodized, and improved. And for my own Part, without detracting from the Merit of its late Author, I may venture to say, that The Negociator's Magazine has derived no fmall Advantage from the Additions now made to it. The Subject being handled in a more methodical Manner than before; for as the Book contains an Account of the Exchanges, Coins, Weights and Meafures of the greatest Part of the known World, I have first begun with the Nature of Exchange itself, and with the Laws relative to Bills of Exchange; and to render this Part more useful and complete, have inferted the feveral Cafes concerning Promiffory, &c. Notes, with the Advantage of a running Title throughout the whole. Then I have proceeded to give an Account of the Monies, Weights, and Measures of the different Places, with their Courfes of Exchange. After this follow Examples of computing the different Exchanges of the feveral Countries in Europe, likewife Examples of the Weft-India Exchange, with most of the Operations at Length, and feverat concife Ways of performing them. Then follow in Order Simple and Compound Arbitrations of Exchanges, in which I have given fundry Examples wrought at full Length; and as this is the most difficult Part of Computation, have enlarged more fully thereon; and laftly, for the Accommodation of the Tradefman as well as Merchant, feveral new Tables are added, which were never before published, with a new and familiar Method of Notation, whereby the Price of any Quantity of Goods, &c. may be known in moft Cafes by Infpection, and in thofe the more intricate, in a fourth Part of the Time they can be performed by any other Tables; (having given CONTENTS. 3. Of conditional Exchange, or Bills on Bottomry 6 4. Of foreign Bills of Exchange. 5. Of Bills of Exchange, fhewing what a Drawer be- fore the Delivery of a Bill, and what the Remitter before the Receipt thereof, muft narrowly obferve 14 6. Shews what ought to be done by every Party con- 9. Shewing what the Poffeffor of a Bill of Exchange, protested for Non acceptance, and is not accepted fupra Proteft, with what the Drawer and Endorfer 26. Of fubfcribing a fecond or a third Bill 27. Of exchanging for Account, and in the Name of 33. If the Figures of the Sum, and Words of the fame difagree; or, if a Name fhould not be mentioned An Abstract of an Act for the better Payment of Inland Bills of Exchange, Anno 9 Gul. III. 173. 43. Shewing how to caft up a returned Bill 44. Shewing how to know the Profit or Lofs 45. Of Promiflory Notes at Common Law, with an Abstract of an Act for giving like Remedy upon promiffory Notes, as is now ufed upon Bills of Exchange in the Statute of the 3d and 4th Years |