Pickford and Co. wharf on the Warwick canal, load boats daily, and convey goods to London, Liverpool, and Manchester; which they deliver on the fourth day at each place; and to all other parts of the kingdom with the greatest expedition.

Robinson, Corbet, and Co. wharf in Broad-street, load fly boats to London, Stourbridge, Stourport, Wolverhampton, Worcester, and all intermediate places; also to Bristol every spring tide.

  Skey, R. S. Worcester wharf, loads boats daily for
  Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Worcester, and all
  intermediate places.

Smith, Joseph, and Sons, load boats at Worthington and Co.’s wharf, Great Charles-street, for Burton and Gainsborough, from whence the goods are forwarded by a steam vessel of their own, in one day certain, to Hull; they also convey goods to Nottingham.

Swaine (late Thomas), Friday-bridge wharf, loads boats three days every week, for Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Lichfield, Nottingham, Shardlow, Tamworth, &c.

  Webb, H. and Co.  Aston-Junction wharf, load boats to
  Atherstone, Coton, Coventry, Fazeley, Hinckley,
  Nuneaton, &c.

Wheatcroft, N. and G. Crescent wharf, load fly boats every Tuesday and Friday, for Barnsley, Derby, Leeds, Leicester, Sheffield, Wakefield, and all parts of the north.

  Whitehouse and Sons, Crescent wharf, load fly boats to
  London, and all the intermediate places, every Tuesday
  and Friday; and slow boats daily.

Worthington and Co. wharf, Great Charles-street, load fly boats daily, for Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. and deliver goods to responsible and regular carriers to the north of England, and Scotland.

To enumerate a long list of carriers by land, would not be in the least interesting to strangers, nor can it be of any use to the inhabitants, they being published in the Birmingham almanack, and also in the directory.

The number of boats specified above, are sufficient to convince any person, that the manufactures of this town are of the first importance, they being laden with goods manufactured in this town and its vicinity.

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WHICH IS INTENDED FOR PUBLICATION.

They are supposed to be part of a prophetic oracle, delivered by the priests of the god Woden.

  Had we, Oh Birmingham, for thee design’d
  A trade that’s partial, and a sphere confin’d,
  Thou’dst been a city, near some stream or shore,
  To bless some single district and no more;
  But thou must minister to thousand wants,
  Of cities, countries, islands, continents: 
  Hence central be thy station—­thus thy town,
  Must make each port around the coast her own.