merica or England, are remailed to the persons
addressed, thus saving to them the whole charge of Ocean Postage.
Paper is manufactured purposely to _save postage_, and, for this
quality, is called "Foreign Post."

He also tells the people of England very plainly what will be the effect
if _they_ first adopt the Ocean Penny Postage. _Some_ of the same
considerations ought to have weight with American citizens and American
philanthropists, and especially with American statesmen, in producing the
conviction, that it is better for the United States to lose no time in
adopting this system.

1. It would put it into the power of every person in America or
England to write to his or her relatives, friends, or other
correspondents, across the Atlantic, as often as business or
friendship would dictate, or leisure permit.

2. It would probably secure to England the whole carrying-trade of
the Mail matter, not only between America and Great Britain, but
also between the New World and the Old, forever.

3. It would break up entirely all clandestine or private
conveyance of Mail matter across the ocean, and virtually empty
into the English mail bags all the mailable communications, even
to invoices, bills of lading, &c.; which, under the old system,
have been carried in the pockets of passengers, the packs of
emigrants, and in the bales of merchants.

4. It would prevent any letters, newspapers, magazines, or
pamphlets, from lying dead in the English post-office, on account
of the rates of postage charged upon them, and thus relieve the
department of the heavy loss which it must sustain, from that
cause, under the present system.

5. It would enable American correspondents to prepay the postage
on their own letters, not only across the ocean, but also from
Liverpool or Southampton to any post town or village in the United
Kingdom; to prepay it also, to _England_, by putting two English
penny stamps upon every letter weighing under half an ounce.

6. It would bring into the English mail all letters from America
directed to France, Germany, and the rest of the continent, and
_vice versa_.

7. It would not only open the cheapest possible medium of
correspondence between the Old World and the New, but also one for
the transmission of specimens of cotton, woollen, and other
manufactu