Star.
London, England, 1803-03-08 00:00:00

tO TYR EDITOR..

Gidgovi, 164 Mosul.
Sot —I am happy to learn. that the project for
bringing a canal from Saltcoatsoravigable fur large
steals to this city, meets with univerfal approba-
tion. The advantages of Inch a national work are
immenle, and will mark the arkt when it takes place
as the time when good fettle and true patriotilin
have joined with wealth and profperit y in promot-
ing the true interetts of our fellow citizens. It will
give a balls and permanence to theifade and ma-
nutaEtures of this city, and hold out powerful in-
citements to rho& who are willing to lay out their
private fortune for its embellillsment. and tOr the
ease and accommodation of its increafing inhabi-
tants.
It hasbeen mentioned as *drawback upon canals,
that they are fobjett to be frozen up and require
frequent repairs, but this cannot be any ferious ob- 1
jeftion, when it is considered that they are in every '
other refpea more under our immediate diration
than tivers,and leis liable to the injuries of currents
and banks of land. Betides. we &thd reflea, that
a great part of the coati of Europe, all Germany
and the Baltic, are much more liable to this dif-
advantage. Holland, the north of France and
North America, are at at heal) as much 10, and
yet in thefe places trade is not fenfibly the worfe
for it. By its inland lituation,Glalgow is entirely
removed from the rilk (if there be any) of having
its port vifited in time of war by a foreign enemy.
There is an advantage that may be m*de pecu-
liar to this canal, and of which experience now
thews the importance. In London and Liverpool.
veffels, warehoufes, and dockharenecellarily crowd
ed together for want of room, and commercial pro-
perty thereby is liable to depredations, and when
fire takes place to immenle Ids. But here, where
there is at prefent plenty of room by (imply mak-
ing a bred' to the canal and extending the line
through the contiguous wound, there will be no
occafion for any two velTels to lie very near to each
other. If it thould be found advilable to allow in-
dividuals (which it is prefunsed will be the cafe)
to build warehoufes, granaries, &c. on certain
conditions and in certain foots' upon the verge ut
the canal, flick alto may be fo fituated and fir mul-
tiplied as to make it impoffible for any great lots
of property ever to take place by tire, while the
vicinity of the whole to the city will prove a Itrong
inducement to merchants to have their own ware-
'mules under their own immediate direCtion in
thefe fituations, and under fuck management as to
prevent depredations.
In England and in Holland the utility of caLals
is well eitablilhed ; as it is done in there countries,
branchcs may afterwards be made ft om this Great
Canal, which will facilitate internal commerce,
and bring into afhion the many latent energies of
this country. This city, will, of courfe, become
the depot in which thefe all will concentrate
At the debonchement of the canal, the mooring
is moil excellent, and capable of cons :lining, in fate
filcher, any number of veffels, while the tea is open
for them to proceed at once in every direftion to
ditlant countries without waiting the different
winds which the circuitous courfe of rivers re-
quires. Its fittratic,n is loch, that they may pro-
ceed by either fide of Ireland, or trade to either
coati thereof with equal cafe.
In fine, from the fituation of Glafgow, being
in the centre of the natrowefi part of the Wand,
and having a complete conneftion with the Forth
by means of the Great Canal ; from its riches;
from the commercial habits of its inhabitants ;
from its poffeffing fuch valuable manufaaures,
all firmly eltablilhed ; and from the ineshauffible
fupply of coal. ironstone, and other articles of tht
firs) neceffity in manufatures. in its immediate
neighbourhood, there is every session to expert
that it will loon be one of the first cities in the
world ; that it will become the magazine where
the forests and harvelts of Germany and the Bal-
tic, as well as the rich produaions of the fonds and
of the well will be colleted, furnithing to its inha-
bitants the means of induftry and of wealth, and
that its prefent flour hate is only a prelude
to one much greater and more liable, founded on
a combination of advantages fyfiematically con-
, nelted together and mutually ltrengthening each
other.

The commercial intereft of the country in gene-
ral, and of this city in particular, mutt he fenfible
that it is of the utmoft eonliquence to have this
work immediately completed and finithed, on a
reale correfronding to its importance, and it is
In people of property will come forward with
that liberality which is required in an undertaking
of filch magnitude.
Nor is it lefs the interell of gentlemen of landed
property than of merchants to promote this great
wits k. If, by means of commerce, Holland achiev-
ed its independence, and, though furrouraled by
enemies, acquired health and renown—lf cos
merce has aftifled this country to maintain its
honour, its freedom and its laws, and to diftufe
prolperity and happinefs, is it nut the ditty of thole
who arc in a (cute the guardians of the foil to
toiler this precious plant ? is it not their intereft
to welcome its appearance, if it happen to fpring
tip in their neighbourhood, as more valuable to
them than mines of gold or filver ?

M IRC• TOR SCOTUS.

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