Star.
London, England, 1807-12-10 00:00:00

COLDINGHAM, NOVEMBER 24.

In the late (dere norm, which commenced on
Thurfday evening, the r9th innant, and continued
until the following night, the Ceres of Peterhead,
Amnesia, Mailer, was driven on chore on the rocks
to the cat of Coldingham Sands, and literally dallied
to pieces. Out of the crew, confining of the Mailer,
four men, and a boy, with three panengers, only
the Matter and one of the paffengers were Caved,
and that alone by the perfevering humanity of the
tenant of the farm on which the vefrel was wrecked,
who, along with his &mettles, in defiance of the
Ram, and after more than an hour's labour, extri.
cited the Halter from his perilous fituation among
the rocks, quite disarmed with fatigue. .The vat'
failed from the Orkneys, laden with flaws (by the
Matter's account), at eight A.M. on the t9th, and
was wrecked about nine P.M. of the zoth, sunning,
in that thou fpace, the whole length of the can coati
of Scotland. Four r f the crew, and two of the paffen-
gets (one of them a young woman from Orkney, faid
to have been going to Leith to get married), were
ail buried yelterday, in one grave, in Coldingham
church yard. Report lays another veflel was wrecked
the fame night, to the eaftward of Eyemonth, crew
Caved ; and another to the weltward of St. Abb's
Head, only one Paved.

Biz Sam having quitted the Rage of life, the enfu•
ing Pant. mime in Drury lane will introduce to the
public favour a great performer of the other rex, a
Lady fix feet high without her lh vs, who has long
been in training by that Maitre de. Ballet D'Egville,
and in whole favour he calculates upon prodigious
applaufe.

Friday night, between eleven an,' twelve o'clock,
David Wood, (idler, a native of Dunfe, fell into the
Moletidinar burn, a little below St. Andrew's-fquare,
Glafgow, :.nd was drowned. His body was, with
difficulty, got out, after a confiderable time had
elapfed. Evety neceffary means was ufed for his
tecovery, but in vain. He has left a wife and four
children.

Saturday afternoon a fire broke out in a houfe in
George greet, Edinburgh, which at firß had an alar-
ming appearance. Several engines were loon on the
(pot, and the fire was extinguilbed without doing any
material damage
FIRS AT FIEOBILICKSIBURO, VIRG tmtc—Extraa of
a letter from Meffrs. Thomas Seddon and Co. dated
Falmouth, Oftober 190.—" We (ball probably be the
fug to communicate to you a dreadful calamity which
this day befel Frederickflsorg, at t t o'clock, and dur.
ing a fevere Rorm from N.W. A fire broke out in
the large houfe upon the hill, formerly occupied by
Mrs. Carter, nearly oppolite Mt. Patton's fore, which
loon communicated with the main lbw, and burnt
every houfe on that fide of the Rivet, at the corner
below Rofs's large brick houfe, and deßroyed every
houfe on that fide of the greet, down as low as J. 1-1*
Rawlin and Co.'s It burnt all the honfes on the river,
as low as the bank, which is now in flames, with the
exception of James Brown's dwelling boort. Great
fears are entertained for a great deal of paper in the
vaults of the bank, which was not removed. It is
impogible at this moment to fay the damage that
has been fußained ; 200,000 dollars is not perhaps
too large a calculation—a great fum for Frederickt
burg ! Adam Coak and Hendeefon. we are informed,
ate =tone the greateft (offerers."' '

• COMMERCE. •

The following Mauro on an article which appeared in Mr.
Cosnapr's litogifter,are tratiflated front the Courier Jr Mni.

0 Without going to the bottrim of the lueftion,
we think it becomes us, as Ruffians, to examine thefe
polka's, viz. whether England has the power of rail
ing the price.of foreign merchandize tenfold ; and
how far the nations of the globe could communicate
wit 4 each other, if tht paths of the ocean were for-
bidden them. The folution of thefe two queleions
depends on Come local knowledge, which is not very
common.

The fill and important thing is, that merchan-
dim may be embarked at Brzelc on the Bug, and
may, without touching land, or changing its vefl'el,
arrive at Bremer Forden, within three polls of Bre-
men, by means of the canals of Bromberg and
Havel. This way may therefore be made ufe of even
for the moll bulky objeets ; and we doubt not that it
would have been ufed, but for the toll duties in
Germany, which arc a bar againft all Continental
circulation.

66 But let us fuppofe this obftacle removed, and
conlidering Amfterdam as the emporium of Conti
nental merchandize, let us fee what a Dutch mer-
chant will do who is defirous of fending cloth into
Arta Minor, and of receiving cotton in return. He
will certainly be able to embark his cloths upon the
Zuyder Zee, and, always protated by the files, will
carry them into the Wefer, where he will have to
tranfport them three polls by land, which will bring
him to Bremer Forden, whence, in the way above
mentioned, be will carry his cloths to Brzefc, even on
ftreams as eafy to afcend as defcend.
4‘ At Brzefc he will find a canal begun, and, for
the prefent, a thort paffage by land, which will bring
the wares into the Pt ypec, and from thence into the
Dnieper. If the Dutch merchant willies that his
cargoes of cloth fhould avoid the paffage of the ca-
taraes, he will have a further land carriage of Tome
leagues : then the cloth will have only to traverfe
the Black Sea, and go to Trebifonde. The return
of cotton, tee. may be made in the fame way ; or,
Ihould the Dutch met chant prefer it, he will find
at Odeffa waggons belonging to the peafants of the
Ukraine, which return empty, which will perhaps
coil lets than the vette'', and which will carry his
merchandize to Brzefc.
" Should the fame Dutch merchant be defirous to
tranfport his cloth intoPerfia, and join to it tbelopium
of Alia Minor, he will caufe it to afcend the Don up
to Zit izyn : there he will find a• land carriage much
employed, which will colt his goods not more than
at the rate of three kopecks each poud. He will go
into the Volga, and thence into the Cafpian Sea.
" Mr. COIIIIETT lays 6 we hold the keys of China;''
but this expreffion is not true in refpeet to Raffia.—
Rudia not only has commerce with China, but this
commerce would be fufceptible of a great extention,
were Ruffia to tranfmit piaftres, as other nations do. i
A thoofand pialtres would colt but tix roables to-
tranfport, and the returns would be made by water;
for the Selinga is navigable even to the frontiers of
China. It may be defeended as far .as the lake Bay-
kal, where the Argoun is entered, and thence in the
Jenittey to Jennifeytk, where there is a land carriage
of too vet fts to Ket ; and by that river, the Irtis and
the Tobel, the frontiers of European Ruffia are
reached. This road is much ufed. Thus among the
nations of the globe, there are many communica-
tions altogether independent of the
" Let us now enquire what are the articles of
merchandize which might be made tenfold dearer
at the good pleafure of the Lords of the Ocean. Let
us begin with coffee. All who have been at Veoice
there ten years or more, know that nothing is drunk
there but the coffee of Arabia ; dearer, it is true,
than the c. ffee of the Hands, but it alto pays an
enormous conttibution to the Beys of Egypt. Pal-
ting by Aleppo, Orfa, Ergerom, and taking the road
of Suez to Trebizonde, it would amount to tacro
werfts. Betides, the coffee which is bought at St.
Peter tburgh goes by land to the extremities of the
empire without being much dearer to the la con-
turner ; and the carriage on the back of camels is
not in general dear. It refults, therefore, that in
Ruflia, Arabian coffee might be bad at the pr ice for
which it was had at Venice.

" Sugar is unqueftinnably the article, in refpea
to which Mr. Coulter is neareß being in the right ;
and in fat he is in the right altogether as thing. are
now ; but this Rate of things may very &By be
changed, by a. free and lure communication with
the Indus, in order to attain which, nothing is
wanting but the content of the Perfians and Af-
gans. In fad, the Englifh have no eflohlilhatent
on the Indus. which belongs to the independent
Rajah of Tatta. Our Tartars of Orembourg, who
fometimes proceed In far, agree in laying the
price of Inger at the Indus is below what would be
imagined. There is a difiance of isoo wertls from the
Indus to the Cafpian Sea. Sugar, candied after the"
manner ufed in China and Egypt. might be feat there
Isoo wet Ifs without having its price doubled, I mean,
the original price, which is exceedingly low. The
camel colts abfolutely nothing to maintain, and hence
it happens that tranfpos is may be made in AGa very
cheap.
" Finally, fpiceries excepted, there are few Mimic
articles which cannot in time be brought into Europe
through Ruffia, and this Ruffle itfeif is, during half
the year, an ocean, being covered with water in the
form of fnow. All the horfes which cannot then be
employectin the labours of hulbandry, may be ufed
in the tranfport of goods, and that at a very cheap
tate. In fummer, numgerlefs rivers. bearing their
waters into the Volga and the Calpian Sea, thew
Ruffians the direaion they ought to give to their
altivity. _ _ _

44 It is beyond a doubt, that England confames
for its marine a great mats of prodnets, and has
hitherto given Ruffi4 advantages which fhe can expect
from no other commercial nation but if the menace
of Mr. Cobbett were put in execution, Ruffin, though
the might lofe at &A, would perhaps be a gainer in
the end."

Monday a labouring man was terribly wounded at
a public houfe in Little Britain, by a ferocious
dog. The animal, accompanied by his maßer, went
Acre,. lihetka difpute arofe, and the latter received
a bhiw, whiCh she dog perceiving, kized on the man
by the leg, and nearly tore away his calf. He was
taken to St. Bartholomew's Finfpiral, where it was
thought the limb muft be amputated.