Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

New-York, Nov. 27.

Kingston Steamboat.—By the following article, which is copied from a late number of the Montreal Gazette, it appears that a large steamboat is about to be built at Kingston in Upper Canada, and to run steadily from that place to Prescott. We publish the article, not so much to convey this fact to our readers, as to announce the efforts now making by our Canadian neighbors to secure to themselves the benefit of the "inland commerce of North America." These efforts are certainly honorable to the people of Canada: and they ought to prompt the citizens of this state to a spirit of noble and generous emulation: Com. Advr.

"The great utility of steamboats on the St. Lawrence, between this city and Quebec, has discovered itself to our friends in Upper Canada, and we are extremely happy to hear, that several gentlemen of Kingston, have formed the plan of establishing one, on a large scale, to ply between that place and Prescott. We understand the shares are already filled up. When we consider the ultimate connection subsisting between those sister provinces, and the rapidly increasing trade of Upper Canada, and the immense country bordering on the lakes, we rejoice at the introduction of any improvement that can tend to facilitate the communication between that vast region and this city, destined, under proper management, to become the emporium of the inland commerce of North America. We sincerely hope, that the approaching session of both legislatures, will be marked by mutual applications for the immediate removal of local obstructions, and ameliorating the navigation between this city and Prescott, thereby securing those mutual advantages, which will very soon compensate any expenditure, that can possibly be incurred. No section of this Northern Continent holds out so flattering a prospect for the extension of commerce as we possess, if a liberal hand be extended towards its cultivation. The states of New-York and Pennsylvania are very sensible of the advantages of our local situation, notwithstanding the present impediments; and are adopting measures, at an immense expense, to attract the trade of the upper lakes to their sea-ports. Our obstructions are nothing when compared with theirs, both as to difficulty and expense, neither of which will check the attempt, unless anticipated by the resolution and enterprise of this country."

The Quebec Gazette, having stated the fact, that a steamboat was soon to be built at Kingston, adds the following remarks:

"We have no doubt but that, in time, these [steam-boats] will cross Lake Ontario, and probably with less danger of accidents than now attends the navigation of other vessels sailing on the lake. They will then extend to Erie, Huron, Michigan, Superior, lakes, whose coasts are more extensive than all the sea-coast of the United States, and surrounded by far more fertile countries. Shall their immense trade center in the United States or in Canada? Shall it go to support the power of Great Britain or be directed against her? These are not questions which concern very distant generations. There are now more than half a million of souls in the immediate vicinity of these lakes, where, thirty years ago, there was not one inhabitant."