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of Albany and New-York. The very idea of part-ing with this wealth, by suffering the products tobe carried to Montreal, there to nourish and fattenthe commerce of a rival nation, cannot fail to excite painful reflections in the minds of every man whoseheart is warmed with the love of country. I say,that the state ought to strain every nerve of its ability,to counteract the policy of the British, because the magnitude of the object utterly forbids all hope ofaccomplishing it by the money contributions ofindividuals What renders it more imperiously the duty of thestate to interpose with its ability, is the absolute neces-sity of regulating the rates of toll by a scale so mode-rate, as to make the expense of transportation to Albanypalpably less than the expense of transportation toMontreal. This is the grand desideratum to be aimedat in every scheme for improving the Lake navigationbetween the Lakes and Hudson's River. If the expenseof carriage to Albany exceeds the expense of car-riage to Montreal, the trader will be sure to send hisproduce to the latter only ; and, if the expense beequal, he will be apt to do the same, in as much asthe Lake, and its outlet, form the natural highwayfor conveying the products of this country to an Atlantic market, and the use of this highway is at-tended with less trouble and risk, and with greaterdespatch. At all times, and under all circumstances,it is difficult to change the course of nature, with success; and, in the present case, it can only be doneby giving the trader a deep interest in preferring theEastern to the Northern route. The expense of transporting a barrel of flour fromthis village to Montreal, is one dollar and seventy-fivecents; whereas the expense of transportation toAlbany is two dollars and fifty cents; and, as longas this difference continues, Montreal will be likelyto maintain a successful competition with Albany andNew York.