Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-02-22 00:00:00, page 2

Os the United States, from the if oa, 1801,
to the 30th of Sept. 1802.
Species of Merchandize. Quantity or Value.
Alhes, pot, tons, 3,398
do. pearl, do. 1,785
Apples, barrels, 5,825
Beer,Ale & Porter, in cafc,gallons, 60,595
ditto, bottles, dozens, 5,499
Beef, barrels, 61,520
Bifeuit or ffiip bread do. 94,872
ditto, kegs, 36,167
Buck wheat, bulhels, 1,999
Barley, do. 435
Bran and Shorts, do. 616
Beans, do. 13,314
Butter, pounds, 2,361,576
Boots, pairs, 5,298
Bricks number, 1,546,375
Bark, Essence, gallons, 75
Corn, Indian, bulhels, 1,633,283
Cheese, pounds, 1,332,224
Coffee, do. 36,501,998
Cocoa, - do. 3,878,526
Chocolate, do. 20,117
Cotton, do. 27,501,075
Coals, bulhels, 13,422
Candles, wax, pounds, 6,488
do. fpermaceti, do. 135,637
do. tallow, do. 1,077,988
Canvas, or fail-cloth, pieces, 20
Cables and cordage, cwt. 10,875
Cards, wool and cotton, dozens, 1,090
do. playing, packs, 3>4 10
Copper & brass manufa&ured,dolls. 107,030
Coaches and other carriages, do. 23,285
Flour, bairels, 1,156,248
Fish, dried or smoked, quintals, 44°,954
do. pickled, barrels, 75,819
do. do. kegs, 13,229
Furniture, household, dollars, 92,343
Flaxseed, bushels, 155,358
Flax, pounds, 7,482
Gun-powder, do. 212,918
Ginseng, ?o. 201,910
Hats, # dollars, 31,163
Hams and Bacon, pounds, 1,588,267
Hair-Powder, do. 12,542
Hops, do - 60,866
Hemp, cwt - 4,3'°
Hides, raw, number, 953
Horned Cattle, do. 9,039
Horses, do - 6 > 60 7
Hogs, do# 5,5^
Iron, pig, t( ] ns >535
do. bar. do. too
do. callings, dollar, 26,101
do. manufactured, & Steel, do. 3'7>825
Indigo, pounds, 493,220
Lard, do - .MSMoo
Leather, ^ 0 - 12 3,215
Lead, L do 2 4b978
Meal, rye, bulhels, 33^,2
do. Indian, do. 266,816
do. buck wheat, do. 3,260
.do. oat, do-
Mustard, - pounds, 2,012
Molasses, gallons, 56,959
Mules, ' number, 1,003
Medicinal Drugs, dollars, 's>°37
Merchandize, &c. do. 14,906,081
Oil, linseed, gallons, 9,099
do. fpermaceti, do. 28,470
do. whale and other hlh, do. 379>97'
Oats, bulhels, 70,778
Peafe, , d % 9^2 5
p„rk barrels, 78,239
Pitch,
Potatoes, bulhels, 80,798
Poultry, dozens, 6,683
Rice, tierces, 79,822
R ve bushels, 2,492
K^i'n, b ^ rels > S,^^
Spirits foreign, x gallons, 5°7> 2 5 6
do domestic fr, foreign prod. do. 747>939
do. domestic fr. domestic do. do. 58,533
Shoes and flippers. pairs, 59,432
Skins and Furs, dollars, 316,030
Saddlery, do ; MUS*
Silk, raw, pounds,
Starch, do. 7 >735
Soap, ' do# 1,789,302
Sugar,brown & other clayed, do. 61,061,820
do. refined, do. 118,468
I have the honor to tianimit herewith,
a statement of gobds, wares and merchand
ize, exported from the United States, dur
ing one year prior to the firft day of Oao-
Ser, one thousand eight hundred and two,
and amounting to feveniy-one millions, nine
hundred and fifty-feven thousand, one hun
dred and forty-four dollars.
The goods, wares and merchandize, of
foreign growth or manufacture, included
in this statement, are estimated at thirty
five millions seven hundred and seventy four
thousand nine hundred & seventy one dollars.
I have the honor to be, very refpeafully,
Sir, your obt. fervt. Albert Gallatin.
The hon. Speaker of the House ot Keprefenta
fives.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,
Transmitting a Statement of Goods, Wares and
Merchandize, Exported from the United
States, during one year prior to the if of
oa. 1802.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Jan. 74, 1803.
LETTER
FROM THE
EXPORTS
Sheep, number, '2,157
Ship fluff, cwt. 1,121
Salt, bushels, 42,832
Snuff, pounds, 43,161
Spieces, pepper, do. 5,422, 144
do. pimento, do. 52,724
do. all others, dollars, 120,121
Tobacco, manufactured, pound, 233,591
do. unmanufactured, liogfheads, 77,721
TWow, pounds, 32,863
barrels 37,497
Turpentine, do. 38,764
do. spirits, gallons, 8,990
Tea, bohea, pounds, 389,263
do. fonchong, do. 613,312
do. h) fun, do. 613,583
do. other green, do. 278,380
Wheat, bushels, 280,281
Whalebone, pounds 80,334
Wax do. 223,912
Wines, Madeira, gallons, 35,911
do. all other, do. 1,248,316
do. bottled, dozens, 42,883
Wood (laves & heading, number, 29,808 430
do. Singles, do. 82,110 413
do. hoops and poles, do. 3 831,809
do. boards, plank, &c, feet, 80,877,655
do. timber, tons, 10,222
do. all other and lumber, dollars, 102,751
do. oak bark, & other dye, do. 100,601
dp. all manufactures of, do. 164,837
A Summary of the Value and Destination of the
exports of the United States, agreeable to the
aboze flatement.
To Raffia, 73721
Prussia, 150,920
Sweden, 13,037
Swedish W. Indies, 262.219
. . 275,256
Denmark, 638,911
Danifli W. Indies, 1,082.574
• 1,721,485
United Netherlands, 5,051,480
Dutch W.I. & A. Colo. 915 378
England, Man & Ber. 13086,494
Scotland, 2,063,253
Ireland, 842,583
Gibraltar, 383,688
Guernsey, Jersey, Sark and
Alderney, 91,220
British Ealt-Indies, 834'9
Weft-Indies, 6,689,490
American Colonies, 576,929
Newfoundland, 107,945
Imperial ports of Anf
tria, Netherlands and
Germany, 121,742
- 121,742
Hamburg, Bremen, &c. 6,107,750
France, 7,611,287
French Weft-Indies,. 6,710,889
Bourbon and Mauritius, 153,261
Spain, 2,920,115
Teneriff and the other
Canaries, 184,442
Honduras, Campeachy
and Mosquito shore, 32,062
Spanish Weft-Indies, 5,777,68 g
Floridas and Louisiana, 2,075,614
Other Sp. Amer. Colo. 237,941
Portugal, 1,54^085
Madeira, 481,058
Fayal and other Azores, 42,254
Cape de Verd, 95,268
Coafl ol Brazil, 1,041
Italy, . 2,423 935
Morocco and Barbary States, 63,932
Cape of Good Hope, 240 286
China and E. Indies (generally) 877,267
Weft-Indies, do. 1,261,122
Europe, do. 316,022
SEVENTH CONGRESS Second Session.
Total, 71,957,144
A Summary of the Exports frem each State.
From New Hampshire, 565,394
Vermont, 31,479
Mafl'acbufetts, 13,492,632
Rhode-Bland, 2,433,363
Connecticut, 1,606,809
New-York, \ 13,792,276
New-Jersey, 26,227
Pennfylvama, 12,677,475
Delaware, 440,504
Maryland, 8,006,290
Virginia, 4,660,361
North-Carolina, 659,390
South-Carolina, 10 639,365
Georgia, 1,854,951
Kentucky, 626,673
Territory of the United States, 443,955
The house went into a committee of the
whole on the report refpe&ing Navy Yards
and Docks —when 50,000 dollars were ap
propriated for erecting buildings tor the
preservation of timber in the navy yards.
The following motion was agreed to.
Refolded, That a committee confiding of
Messrs. Mitchell, Rutledge, Hanna, Wad
worth and Mott, be appointed to inquire
the ufefulnefs and propriety of conftru&ing
a Dock or Docks at either of the public
Navy Yards or alfewere in the United
States, for the building and repair of Ihips
of war.
Friday, Jan. 21.
A committe was raised to inquire into
the expediency of continuing the Mint at
Africa, do. 4°7>°53
North-Weft Coast and South Seas, 160,707
Total, 7^957,144
Treasury Department,
Regifler's Office, Jan. 13th, 1803.
JOSEPH NOURSE, Regifler.
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HOUSE — Wednesday, Jan. 19.
National Legislature.
Thursday, Jan. 20.
If you think the following ftrittures worthy of a
place in your Republican paper, please to inJert
them :—
Philadelphia, and whether any improvements
can be made in that eftablilhment.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.
I he committee on the lubject reported
the following Resolutions:
Refolded, I hat there be added to the
regiment of artilleries, two teachers of mu
sic, whose pay, rations, and clothing Ihall
be the fame as is by law allowed to the
teachers of music in the regiment of infan
try. Agreed to.
Refolded, That a committee be appointed
to enquire by what means, the value or a
mount of property taken from citizens of
the United States by the French during the
late war in Europe, can be best afeertained
and the several forts of captures diftingufh
ed and claffed,and report their opinion there
on to this House, to the end that indemnifi
cation may be made.
Tuesday, Jan. 25.
Mr. Davis called up his motion laid on
the table yesterday ; as follows:
Resolved, that a committee be appointed
to enquire into the expediency of concentring
the several public offices and other public
buildings belonging to United States in the
City of Washington ; which was agreed to
without debate.—Ayes 55.
When a motion was made to appoint- the
committee confining of 7 members by bal
lot and carried.—Ayes 53.
The ballots being declared, the following
additional members of the committee ap
peared to be appointed, viz.
Messrs. Griswold, Mitchill, Greeg, Con
dit, Bayard, and R. Williams.
The Speaker laid before the House a re
port of the Secretary of State on the memo
rial of Tobias Leaf.
Referred to a committee of the whole for
to-morrow.
Seditioque recens, dubioque autore Sujurri.
I AM prevailed on, through the importunity of
friends, to offer an Essay upon the art of Political
hj'i"g° We are told the Devil is the Father of lies,
and was a liar from the beginning ; so that, be
yond contradiction, the invention is old : And
which is more, his firft essay of it was purely politi
cal, employed in undermining the authority of his
Prince, and seducing a third part of the Subjects
from their obedience. For which he was driven
down from Heaven, where (as Milton expresses it)
he had been Viceroy of a great Weflern Province ;
and forced to exercise his Talent in inferior Reg
ions among other fallen Spirits, or poor deluded
dien, whom he still daily tempts his own Sin, and
will ever do so till he be chained in tl. o bottomless
Pit.
But although the Devil be the father of lies, he
seems, like the other great inventors, to have loft
much of his reputation, by the continual improve
ments that have been made upon him by the
Federalills.
Who firft reduced lying into an art, and adapted
it to politics, is not so clear from hiftory ; although
I have made some diligentenquiries. I shall there
fore consider it only according to the federal sys
tem, as it has been cultivated lately.—The Poets
tell us, that after the Giants were overthrown by
Mr. Helms reported a bill to make pro
vision for persons who have been disabled by
wounds, in the revolutionary war, which
was read twice, and referred toa committee
of the whole to-morrow.
E quibus hi vacua: implent fermonibus aures,
Hi narrata ferunt alio; menJuraquefi&i
Crejcit, & audit is aliquid novas adjicit autor,
Itlic Crcdulttas, illic temerarius Error,
Vanaque Laetitia est, confternatique Timares,
Rejoined, That the President, be author
ized to appoint one teacher of the French
language, and one teacher of drawing, to be
attached to the corps of engineers, whose
compensation fliall not exceed the pay and
emoluments of a captain. Agreed to.
Resolved, That the commanding officer
of the corps of engineers, be authorifed to
enlist for a term not lels than three years,
one artificer and 18 men, to aid in making
practical experiments and for other purpo
les, to receive the fame pay, rations, and
clothing as are allowed to the artificers and
privates in the army of U. S. and the fame
bounty when enlisted for five years, and to
be lubje&ed to the rules and articles of war.
Rejolied, '1 hat the President be author
ized to allow to the paymaster of the army,
the adjutant and infpe&or of the army, and
the military agent at Philadelphia, such
sums each for clerk hire as their refpe&ive
duties may in his opinion require. [This
resolution was disagreed to, on the ground
that allowance for clerk hire ought to be
defined and appropriated by law, and not
left to the diferetion of the President]
Monday, Jan. 24.
Mr. Mitchill presented a memorial from
the chamber of commerce of New-York,
against the repeal of diferiminating duties.
Mr. Mitchill rose to address the house on
a fubje& of a commercial nature. He al
luded to the depredations committed upon
the commerce of the United States, by
French armed vessels during the late war in
Europe.
The Speaker also laid before the House a
report from the Pofl-mafter General, which
was referred to the Poff-Office committee.
COMMUNICATED FOR THE LEDGER.
Mr. Nutting,
Falsehood flies and Truth comes limping after it;
so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too
late ; the jell is over & the tale has had its effect ;
like a man who has thought of a good repartee
after the difeourfe is changed, or the company
parted ; or like a physician who has found out an
infallible medicine after the patient is dead.
Cenfidering that natural disposition in many
men to lie, and in multitudes to believe, I have
been perplexed what to do with that maxim, so
frequent in every body's mouth, that truth will
at last prevail. Here has this laud of ours, for the
greatest part lain under the influence of such coun
sels and persons, wbofe principle and interest it
was to corrupt our manners, blind our under-
Landings, drain our wealth, and in time deliroy
our constitution ; and we at last were brought to
the very brink of ruin ; yet by the means of per
petual misrepresentations, have never been able to
diftinguilh between our enemies and friends. We
have seen a great part of the nation's money got
into the hands of those who by their merit, could
pretenq no higher than to Serve their masters ;
while others, who by their credit, and fortune,
were able to give reputation and success to the
revolution, were not only laid aside, as danger
ous and useless, but loaden with the fcaudal of
Jacobins and Pentioners'to France ; while Truth,
who is said to lye in a well, seemed now to be
buried there under a heap of stones. But all ths
was mere force and conflrair.t, however upht'd
by molt dexterous artifice and management, un
til the people began to apprehend their proper
ties, their Religion, apt! the Conflitution itfelf in
danger ; then we saw them greedily laying hold
on the firlt occafn nto interpose. But of this
mighty change in the difpolitions of the people I
shall difeourfe more at large in some following
paper ; wherein 1 shall endeavour to undeceive or
discover those deluded or deluding persons, who
hope or pretend, it is only a short madness in the
vulgar, from which they may foop recover ;
Whereas, I believe, it will appear to be very dif
ferent in its causes, its fymptbms, and its conse
quences ; and prove a great example to iftullrate
the maxim, that truth (however, Sometimes, late)
will at lap. prevail.
the Gods, the earth, in revenge, produced her left
offspring, which was Fame ; aim the table is thus
interpreted : That when tumults and {editions are
quieted, rumours and tahe reports are plentifully
ipread through a nation. So that by this account
lying is the lall relief of a rotted, earth-born, rebel
lious party in a State. But h^e the Feds have
made great additions, applying this art to the
gaining of fewer and preieivmg it, as well as
revenging iliemfelves alter they have loti it ; as the
fame imtiumens are made use of by apnnals to teed
thenifelves when they are hungry, and bite ihofe
that tread upon them.
But the fame genealogy cannot always be admit
ted tor Political Lying : I (ball therefore detire
to refine upon it, by adding feme circumllances of
its birth and parents. A political lie is sometimes
born out of a disappointed Federal Head, and
thence delivered tote nurted and dandled by therm
Sometimes it is produced a Munster, and /icAed into
shape : At other times it comes into the world
completely formed, and is fpuiled in the licking.
It is often born an infant in the regular way, and
requires time to mature it ; and often it dwindles
away by degrees. Here it screams aloud at the
delivery ; and there it is delivered with a whif
.per. To conclude the nativity of this monster;
when it comes into the world without a fling it is
still born ; and whenever it loses its fling it dies.
Ko wonder if an infant so miraculous in its birth,
should be defined lor great adventures; and ac.
cordingly we tee it hath been the guardian spirit
of the federal party. It gives and resumes em
ployments; can (ink a mountain to a mole-hill,
and can Taife a mole-hill to a mountain ; can
wadi a Black-amore white ; make an atheist of a
faint ; and a profligate of a patriot; can turnilh
foreign minivers with intelligence ; and raise or
let fall the credit of the nation. This goddess
flies with a huge looking-glajs in ler hands to
dazzle the crowd, and make them fee, according
as (he turns it, their ruin in their interelf,
and their intered in their ruin. Her large wings
like those of a flying filh, are of no use but while
they are moill; (he therefore dips them in mud,
and (baring aloft (cutters it in the eyes of the mul
titude, flying with great fwittnefs ; but at every
turn is forced to (loop in dirty ways for new fup #
plies.
I have been sometimes thinking if a man had the
art ot Jecond Jight for feeing lies, as tiiey have in
Scotland for teeing spirits, how admirably he
might entertain himf^lf in this town, by obfirving
the different shapes, sizes, and colours of thole
Iwarins of lies, which buz in the heads of Junie
people, like flies about a horse's ears in summer;
or hovering every afternoon enough to darken the
air ; or over a club of disappointed feds, and
thence fee down in cargoes to be scattered at plea
fore.
There is one essential point wherein a Political
Liar differs from others of the, faculty. That he
ought to have but a ihort memory, which is ne
cessary according to the various occasions be meets
with every hour, of differing from himfelf, and
swearing to both tides of a contradiction, as he
finds the persons disposed with whom he has to
deal. In describing the virtues and vices of man
kind, it is convenient, upon every article, to have
some eminent person in our eye from whence we
copy our description. I have flriftly observed
this rule ; and my imagination this minute repre
sents before me a certain Great Man, famous for
this talent, to the constant practice of which he
owes his reputation of the nfoft ikilful head in N.
Hampshire for the management of nice affairs.
The superiority of his genius conlills in nothing
but an inexhauftable fund of political lies, which
he. plentifully diftribures every minute he speaks,
and by an unparalleled generosity, forgets, and
consequently contradicts, the next half hour. He
never yet considered whether any proposition
were true or falfe, but whether it were conveni
ent for the present minute or company to affirm
or deny it ; so that it you think fit to refine upon
him, by interpreting every thing he fays, as we do
dreams, by the contrary, you are itill to seek,
and will find yourfelf equally deceived, whether
you believe or no : The only remedy is to suppose
that you have heard some inarticulate founds,
without any meaning at all.
Some people may think that such an accomplifli
meut as this can be of no great i>fe to the owner,
or his party, after it had been often pra&ifed and
is become notorious ; but they are mistaken. Few
lies carry the inventor's mark, and the moil pros
titute enemy to truth may fprgad a thousand with
out being kno^n for the author: besides, as the
vilest writer hath his readers, so the graateft liar
hath his believers ; and it often happens, that if a
lie be believed only for an hour, it hath, done its
work and there is no further occasion for it.