Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-08-10 00:00:00, page 1

,FOREIGN BILLS.,
Bills on London : 30 days, : (For Cafo) par
. do. do. : : : todays, : : do. ,: . 1 pr. cent. dis.
do. do. : : : 90 days, : ; do. : 1| do.
Bills or. Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 days, : : 2 do. do.
do. on Amsterdam, payable in do. 60 days, : : do. do. do.
Current bribes of per from b
r. C. d. c
ASHES, Pot, Iftfort, T. 90 0 105 0
, Pearl -no 0 0 0
Allum, C. 8 0 9 0
Anchors, so ° ^ 1 2 °
Bread, Ship C. 45° 7 °
Bitter lb 0 12 0 ^
Beef, common B. 9 ° 12 °
mess -- L 3 ° '3 5 c
B e ans, white bn. 112 1 16
Brandy, Spanish Afbpr.G- Is° 's°
, Waples \tb far. -1 0 0
Barley none, bu. 0 0 0 0
Brimftonc, C. 250 4 0
Brimstone, Roll C. 450 5 °
gorn, Indian — 075 080
Rye — 095 1 0
Cassia lb 0 6° 06 5
Cloves — 133 0 0
Coffee - -- 0 20 0 22
Cheese, American — 0 6 014
Cotton, foreign scarce -- 040 0 c
, American — 0 24 0 °
Cordage, American C. 14 0 0 0
\ , Foreign, -- 12 0 13 °
Chocolate, common ft 020 0 0
, belt N0.2&1 -- 028 032
Candles, mould — 018 019
, dipt — 016 0 0
Coals, foreign Ch. 14 0 0 0
, American, -- ,7 0 18 0
Copperas, C. 350 4 0
Cloth, Tow yd. 0 16 0 17
Duck, Russia, iftqual, Bt. 16 0 17 0
On the fourth of November, in
the year 1 790, our old and venera
ble friend, Dr. Richard Price, an
English dissenting minister, well
known in this country for his
friendship to it, preached to his
club, or society, (as his tncrtal an
tagonist the late Mr. Edmund Burke
thought proper to call the congre
gation of that eminent divine in
London) a most excellent sermon
on the French and American revo
lutions. In this discourse he assert
ed that the people have an undoubt
ed right to " choose their own gov
ernors—to cashier them for mif
condua---and to frame a govern
ment for themselves."
It is scarcely necessary to call the
public attention in New England
to the contemptuous manner in
which Mr. Burke, the redoubtable
champion of despotism, has Spoken
of every denomination of Chris
tians, saving that of the English
church and of the Roman catholic
persuasion. But it ought to be ob
served, that of all the enemies of
religion none are so outrageous
a^ainft innovators, as the infuriated
partizans of these ancient establish
ments; and of these enemies no
person has been more violent or
vindictive than this blood thirsty
apostate. This is clearly proved
by every line in his various wri
tings against the French revolution.
NUMBER 50. VOL. ill.]
political ^iftellan^
Brom the CHkoxiCLEa
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Republican Ledger,
©botefate prices Current, at iportfmoutb, jaetthpamptbire,
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS.
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Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Duck, Ravens — 10 50 11 50
Flaxseed, rough bu. 1 0 1 5
Fish, Merchant, C. 4 0 425
,W. India mark. — 325 350
Scale, - 225 233
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 0
,Mackerel — 750 8 0
Flour, super. frefh —7 0 0
. , fine — 650 0 0
, middlings — 6 0 0 0
, country C. 375 4 0
Fuftick , . T. 45 0 0 0
. , Briflol cr. toby 8, bx. 15 50 16 c
^) 9 b Y 7, — 14 0 0 c
Bby6, — 11 0 11 50
/Hamburg loby 8, -• 13 0 13 50
' 7 b yg, 12 0 12 5 c
Gun Powder ft) 050 0
Geneva, Holland isl pr G. 1 5 0 0
, Americanize -- 090 0 <
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 o c
Hogs Lard lb 012 0 14
Iron, Philadelphia T. 130 0,00
, Russia r- 115 0 120 c
, Swedes -- 125 0 130 c
Logwood T. 40 0 45 4
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 16 0 0 c
, dry — [5 0 0 0
, red — 866 9 0
, sheet , — 11 0 0 0
Lumber, boards clear M. 16 0 17 0
, , merch. -4 9 0 9 2
Ihingles — 150 2500
These three points, then, as they
were Rated by Dr. Price, with
much propriety, constituted the ba
sis of the great argument which has
divided the world finbe our nation
al independence was established.
Against them Mr. Burke has
written with peculiar acrimony ;
and in support of them have ap
peared, in England, not only the
venerable gentleman above quoted
and Mr. Macintosh, but the cele
brated author of Common Sense,
who did more by his Writings in
America to enlighten the people on
the fubje& of government, than
any other man or a host of other
writers.
It is Well known that the War of
the coalition against the French na
tion, to the promotion of Which
Mr, Burke's philippics were a fort
of British manifefto, Was proclaim
ed by the foreign monarchs of Ger
many, while the government of
France was an hereditary Monar
chy—-Louis the fixteehth being on
the throne with a salary of 11,500-
000 dollars a year ; and the clergy
and nobility in possession of their
private property, although justly
stripped by the nation of their ec
clesiastical estates and their titles of
diftindtion.•
It was the alienation of these es
tates, and the abolition of these bad
ges of aristocracy, that occasioned
the former order of men to rebel
against the existing government in
France,' and the latter to abdicate
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1802.
Course of (Exchange, at toofton.
INLAND BILLS.
B , s °° M"??^ 3° days fight, (For Cash) I per cent dis.
, ,dade phia, : : do. do. do. do.
r^V^ , ~: : do. : do. do. do.
da. Philadelphia, or ? £
New. York, f°° days# : do. 2 do.
N. B BU< a, //sorter fg/a, proportionally higher.
Current prices of per from to
/ D. C. D. Q.
Lemons frejb bx. lo o II o
Lime, halt hhd. 1 75 2 o
Leather, Soal, dried, so 020 o c
Molasses G. 040 044
Nutmegs ft) 5 0 55°
Nail Rods scarce C 750 80
f4J lcut. • M ' °34 0 c
ri | 6dJ 4 — 066 0 0
^J 6d, wrought 1-- 117 0 0
< I rod, do. iofpeaed- 1 75 180
^ I 2od, do. do. — 245 259
(Sheathing, cut C. 0 o II 50
-4 f Liver nine B. 14 0 0 0
5 ILinfeed G. 112 120
Pepper ffi 028 0 0
Pork, best pieces B. 20 0 ,0 0
, common ,- 14 0 15 0
Peas bu. 1 25 1 50
Pimento jb 0 20 0 0
Pitch, ~ B. 6 0 0 0
Paper, Shefthirig C. 375 4 0
Redwood T. 55 0 60 0
Raifins/re, , cafl^ 850 9 0
Rum, Jamaica .G. 1 0 0 0
, Windward gdpr.— 080 0.0
Rice scarce C. 6 6 0 0
Rosin scarce B. 450 0
Soap, white ft, 014 01°
, Brown — 010 oi 6
, castle ; -- 017 0 2
Sugar, Havannah C. 17 0 00
, Eaft-lndia — 12 0 0 0
I , Weft-India — 9 0 12 o
their country. Thus the. French
revolution commenced, not because
the people wished for a republican
form of government—-for the re
public was declared ^ofteriot to the
invasion, and the German armies
had begun hostilities, not in conse
quence of a republican constitution
being established in the centre of
Europe, but to restore the property
of the chuch and the titles of the
nobility,
All this the editor of the Centi
ncl, and every person of even com
mon information on the late con
troversy, must know to be true.
The war has now ended as Mr,
Fox and other eminent statesmen
prognosticated from the beginning
of it. The coalition has beenbroke,
numerous armies have been routed
or destroyed ; the Bourbon family
are deposed ; the teritory of France
extended beyond the expectation of
every man, and the nobility are ei
ther destroyed, in exile in the wilds
of Russia, or in their penetential
acknowledgements have been read^
mitted to their own country on
their future good behaviour-while
the property belonging to the
church has been indefinitely con
firmed by the Pope to its present
possessors.—Yet all this the editor
of the Centinel pretends in yester
day's paper, that he and other fed
eral prophets foresaw from the firft
of it, Such a ridiculous display of
vanity rnd assurance could only be
expected from the quartet jo which
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
Current prices of per from^
D. C D. C.
Starch, Poland lb 0 17 0 0
, American — 0 I2| 017
Sugar-Loaf lb 0 25 0 0
Salt, St. Übes scarce il. 6 0 0 0
, Turk's Island — 6 0 6 0
, Liverpool - 45° 5 o
, Kock -7 0 0 0
Steel, German ft ) 014 0 0
,English — o>6 0i&
Salt Petre, refined — 025 0 0
Shot patent, C. I1 0 0 0
. fW. O. hhd. - M. 24 0 26 o
^ j do. do. heading — 26 0 28 o
>JW. O. bbl. — 10 0 12 50
QI IL O. hhd. — 10 0 11 7^
^ do. Shooks 066 0 0
(W. O. do. 120 133
Tin in sheets bx. 18 0 2o 0
Par B. 325 0 0
Turpentine — 4 0 450
Tea, Hyfon lb. IIQ 0 0
, Souchong — 065 0 0
, Bohea — 032 °33
Tobacco, Jamesßiver C. 7 0 0 0
, Georgia -- 55° 6 0
Twine, sewing doz. 5 0 55°
, seine i—so 5 s<>
n ^Madeira G. 217 283
^ | Lisbon J/arre; — 140 0 0
Z < Sherry, — 117 120
> Malaga scarce q.c. 32 0 0 o
? (Red Port• — 1 40
it originated. What a pity the,
were not in France forewarned of
those infuriated aristocrats & royals
ifts, of judgements to come upon
them by their own intemperance:
and folly,
But it is now said that a Corfc
can adventurer has finilhed the re
volution ; and that the present gov
ernment ot France is nothing bet
ter than a military defpotiim. Be
it so, for the fake of argument, and
What then is to be inferred ; Is it:
intended to be insinuated by these
prophetic federalifls, because the
French citizens prefer a permanent:
executive power in the hands of
this wonderful man, to whom in a
>moment of national exultation, and
in a phrenzy of gratitude, the,
think they are peculiarly indebted
for their present felicity—that in
America we ought to follow their
example ; Let the editor of the
Centinel speak out to this question
^Let him be explicit in the declar
ation of his private fehtiments.
But if this is not his favorite wifb,
what is it to the people of America
what fort of a government the in
habitants of France prefer at this
moment ; That they are fatigued
by the vicissitudes of the revolution,
there can be no queftion ——But to
fay that the fubje&s of a despotic
monarchy were the bappieft people
in the world before this revolution
b^an, is such an affront to our
own government that we should
think the Centinel on f^ond thp'f