226 City of St. Peterſburgh; and the Ruſſian Trade.[O&.

15. A tin lamp, with wicks oſ cotton or brown paper filled with tar for ſmoaking the plate after the ground is laid.|

16. The ſquare, caſt iron plate, to lay over the fire pots, to give an equal diſtribution of heat to the copper-plate on the frame when let down upon it, at wbich time the ground is to be laid.:

——————— CITY OF ST. PETERSBURGH, AND RUSSIAN FRADBE,&e.

To the Editor ef the Commercial'aud Agricultural Magazine.

SIR, St. Peterſburgh, Sept. 20, 180T« INCE my arrival in this metropolis I have been bitherto ſo much engaged by bufine(s, and by the attentions of a flatter- ing hoſpitality, that T could not ſteal a moment to write a ſingle letter of civility and friendſhip. To write to you for the pur- poſe merely of ſaying that I was well, and of aſking whether you and your family were not ſo, would have been no very acceptable compliment after the promiſe you extorted from me. I can at Jaſt communicate. a few fas, which may, I ſuppoſe, be of ſome ſervice toward the end you bad in view. I leave you to make of them what uſe you pleaſe. j . The Britiſh vi@&ory, of the 2d of Api1il, before Copenhagen, our ſubſequent triumph in the Baltic, and the moderation with which we conſented to make peace, have, in addition to the commercial advantages which Ruſſia finds in an intercourle with Britain, contributed to progure, for the preſent, the higheſt reſpei and kindnefs, both in this capital, and, as I am credibly informed, throughout the whole Ruſſian dominions, ts every, perſon and thing that is at all allied to the Britiſh name. And yet‘it is not to be forgotten, that’ the French revolution has ſent a colany of exiles from France into this country, who have thus ſown in it the ſeeds of a new attachment to French cuſtoms, literature, arts, and manners, which will not fail to grow, in the end, up to a conſiderable influence, permanently favourable, both in politics and trade, to the intereſts of France.:

Y ou know, in general, the fate of the trade between Ruflia and Britain. From our ports the Rufians are ſupplied wih Weft India commodities, with Britiſh manufactu res, zndeven with various Eaſt India goods. Britain has long engroîled, to0, IG in part, the carrying trade between Ruffia and the ſouthern ports of Europe. Hemp, flax, coarſe linens, coarſe woollens, hides and leather, tallow, timber, furs, iron, pot-aſh, wheat, rye, hog?s briſties, feathers for beds, quills, tow,&c. are the principal exports from Rufſlia to England,‘The góods, which England draws from Ruila, being either raw materials or coarſe manufactures, afford a foundation for a leſs flu@uating and le(s licanable trade than that which depends on ſuch articles as Britain