The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-08-08

few ARTICLES made by the order of the Englil ambaf
iador for peafens and incidentally few cafes of p;
tolls and their way to the Levant. The French be-
fore the revelation, who hudied the wines of rhofe
whom they fought lay under the contributions of
commerce, fupplsd ornan,ented arms in conliderabe
Quantities Bat from Br:feia,a city Of Italy SO miles
north wet of Milan, the Greek Market was annually
Implied with thirty cafes Of arms; the sfua price Of
eight dollars for irelock, and from ten to twelve
for pair OF ptos News either of two fas that the
articles mu be- extremely cheap or Of inferior quality
but Bretcia Is a. much celebrated for ts fire arms as
Teledo or IfPalian for fword blades-the Venetians
turnithed nearly As much the Brefcians. The
Turks prefer barrels Of polied iron, and ia this the
Venetians grati6ed them; the French arms being
bronzed, or as the gunfmh technically calls ness.
3D. which is an operation performed by holding the
bright iron or feel over clear fire, and employing
tma portion Of oils until the heat produces the degree
OF colour required. The Turkh armourers have no
knowledge of this art and their habitual Indifference
to fueh things induces them to prefer the pol,fhed
arms though more difficult to be kept bright, than the
bronzed. which cannot be uniformly cleaned as they
uiuaily clean arms, with pummce file. They
prefer ftoeks ornamented and inlad with filver and
god and barrels ornamented at the breach in the fame
way.
The trade in clocks and watches was beyond belief
great, in the Levant; and the Englih poif.ded the
market IN the greateft proportion. There were fold
annually at Salonca thirty dozen Of Watches at Con-
tantinoPle 500 dozen, in Syria 400 dozen and in E.
gypt $50 dozen and from the prices on an average
unlike the firearms of Brefcia they NUT have been
ct the good kind, the average being from 80 to 100
dollars, this trade alone yielded England million
OF dollars year; they made for the market with
dial plates uted to the country and with triple cas
the outer OF tortoife hel the two inner cafes of Ill
yer; gold watches no, being in requea. The princi-
pie competitors Of the Engli were the Genoefe, who
h1r narz fI,us-- III
IN his article may be prefuned not to neglect mar
ket 10 productive, and which had doubled in fifty
years, and it ie probable will ncreafe, for wherever
eivxation Is, time pyeeioss sritie and though the
Turks may not be equals in the cultivation of the
arts and the application of time, yet as they pray at
hse hated times eyerv day, watches mutt be both me-
eehary and economical.
In the numerous articles of fix manufacture the T.
Italians carry on mmence trade in Greece and Tur-
key, and they have maintained it againif ali eompeti
ton from, the reign of Mahomed II. in 1855, when
the arts banihed from Greece to italy, and took
refuge under the houf- Of Medicis sl.,l
ne celebrated Forentine fattirs OF all colours the
Florentine tanetas, and .,antuan fks known by the
name OF Maufinii the damaks Of Genoa, which with
gold fringe form the furniture Of the Turkih apart.
nents the coverings of fofas and the hanynps of their
areades; the hk gauzes of Bologna and Venice the
galloons and embroiderics which go into the compo.
tion oftcarfs and turbans and thofe quare and OBJ
long pieces Of ornamental dres which are Improper
~, becauie It is the peculiar of the Cgisvirean
garment called sarsH but the manufactures of Iy-
ons befre the Evolution had entered into fnrn,ida-
BILE competition wsb the ELK manufactures of Italy
the Workmanship of Lyons was hyperion 70 all but the
iatins OF Florence and the Genoef. dana,s TO which
nothing can be hyperion of the kind In the commerce
OF k England has other part bur in the raw arri-
Gle which The carries from Smyrna, and upon which,
until the imPortations were made from China the En-
shih nix manufacture wholly depended
the Srfscfs of Italy properly belong this branch
thoie OF Genoa, LUCIA, and Pifa furpafs the whole
world; the vevets Of theIe cities are lighter cloer
IN grain, iofter and have brighter luGre than any
others, their colours nave never been eauaed tho
various efforts have been made in France and Eng
land to rival them; the Italian velvets are befides
cheaper than the inferior vevets OF other countries
Fagon accelerated Lyonefe nlanufa aurer, faid rha,
IT they could equal the yevets and danahS. of Genoa
would be neeeiary TO build another city along fide
the old one. The home confumption of v.lvets in
France before the revolution, amounted to million
OF dollars, and the plgeantry of the French imperial
COURT appears to per,end exravagance in drefs eona
10 any ioFmer period. The f,ls Of vevets in the Lee
want anioun's annually to 4oo0oe dollars.
ne competition OF the Rufiians in the Levan, in
the articles of 0s'i and other Ek with the fourth of
Europe, IS circurfance 70 curious that we paffed
the general trade of Rudia over in our review in or
DER that we might purdue the general trade which
diners from all the ref OF Europe afrer we had
touched this branch in which they are rivals.
The Ruiian empire hrnihes fix of every kind ::
taetas, games, galooas, Pertains, gold thread and
gold lace; there come alfe oejz,.s5, and which an
proaoh the perfection of the Cenoefe, clofer than
thoe of any other nation. Ru1ia owes thefc riches
oil commerce to her nroads. ON the borders OF the
CaiPian, and the looms Of Teils and the whole range
to the borders of, Hindaaas may BE- fad 70 furnlh
theie reiources. The fiks of Caffan, ARrachan Chi
Ian, and Mazanderan, which formerly found their
way by the Caravans of Erzera, and Tefiis 10 Snyr
ma, have htterly found their way by RulIia, and in
their manufactured fate by the Danube and the
EuIne to Conltantnople. The goods depofited at
the capital entered the Levant other portions paed
into Romeia by the provinces Of WaIlachia and Mol
davia, and 10 fouh of the Danube by the markets
ofSemia and Ozougovia. But let il be ohferved the
Creest are the iole agents in this commerce. The
RgJFan' are too fupid to take any part in it. The
Rpiiian trade in ,s aud velyets in the L.vant is COM
puted at 100000 dollars
Fursare the chief itaple Of the RufIian commerce
in the levaDt, well as in Greece as in the whoe
Turkh empire. The various articles of this CONF
meree would require feparate eIay, ard they are
iufheiently familiar us, render deail ulnecef
larry at the fame time that this article does nor come
within the icope oil our immediate diicufIion there
being 90 competition in thefe articles with the natl
ons OF Europe The fur trade of Turkey Yields Ruff.
fla annually about 100000 dollars.
Thefe outlines might be extended 20 multitude
ofpartieulars in the van range Of commerce. bur as
our views have been rather confined to the de-
monRrati o. Of truths which though exiting have
either NOT been generally known or not duly appre-