The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-08-04 00:00:00, page 1

CTbotefate Prices Current.
AT PORTSMOUTH,J N. fl.)
Current prices of "
D. C. D. C.
ASHES, Pot, iftfort, T. 120 b o o
, Pearl -->55 ° ° °
bread, Ship , 7 ° 9 0
Butter Ib P <6 017
Brimstone, C. 3 o 4 0
Beef, common B. 11 0 13 ,
,mess, -.14 0 <5 5°
Beans, white bu. 150 1
Brandy, Spanish 4th pr. G. 130 133
, Naples 4th pr. -- 125 13°
Corn, Indian —1 0 0 0
, Rye - 120 125
Caffiia^ ibo 75 0
Cloves -- 2 0 210
Coffee - 024 0 2 5
Cheese, American — 0 6 0 16
Cotton, foreign farce — 04 0 0 45
, American — 030 0 ] 3
Cordage, American C. 18 0 '9 °
, Foreign, -- 17 0 18 °
Chocolate, common lb 020 0 21
, belt &2&1 — 030 034
Candles, mould — 020 022
,dipt - 017 0
Coals, foreign Ch. 16 0 18 0
, American none,-- 0 0 0 0
Duck, Russia, iftqual. Bt. 19 0 20 0
, Ravens — 13 0 0 0
Fi£h, Merchant, C. 5 0 0 0
,W. India mark. — 45° 0 0
Scale — 30 3'7
Salmon none B. 11 0 0 0
Mackerel — 5° 6 0
Flour, super. frefh -- 13 0 13 5°
, fine — 12 50 13 0
" , middlings — 10 0 10 5°
, country C. 6 0 0 0
Fuftick T. 45 ° • b
Gun Powder ft) 0 5° °°°
IGeneva, Holland x,,rG. 125 133
, American —O7 c 0 0
Hogs Lard lb o>o 020
iron, Philadelphia T. 140 0 0 0
, Russia -125 0 135 0
, Swedes , -130 0 140 %
Logwood T. 50 0 55 °
Lead, white,gr. in oil C. 15 0 16 0
, dry — 13 5° *4 °'
, red - 8 5° ° 0
, sheet — 0 0 10 0
Lemons frefo bx- <3 0 1$ 0
Lumber, boards clear M. 17 0 18 0
' , , merch. —to 0 10,50'
Singles -- 15° 275
Molafts G. 046 050
Nutmegs lb 6 5° 7 °
Liver Oil none B. 12 0 00
Pepper '. 0 3 z 0 34
Pork, bell pieces 28 0 0 0
, common -, ,° 0 22 °
Peas bu. 1 50 1 75
Pimento ' lb °>s 0 16 ra
Pitch, farce, B. 6 0 0
Paper, Sheathing C 375 4 15 #
Redwood T. 55 0 , 60 0
Raisins /,^ calk 8 23' 850
Rum, Jamaica G. 117 125
, Windward 3d, r. — 14 18
Rice C. 67$ 7 0
Rosin B. 550 6 0
Soap, apite lb °<4 0 16
, brown — 010 0 0
Starch, Poind $ 02 5 0 30
, , American — 0 I2| 017
Sugar, Havannah C. 17 0 >8 50
East-India — 13 0 0 0
, Weft-India < — 11 0 14 0
, Loaf lb°2B 0 39
Salt, St. Übes H. 650 7 0
, Turk's Island —7 0 750
, Liverpool — 00 ss°
, Rock -, 666 7 0
Steel, German lb °1 6 019
, English — 016 019
Salt Petre, rough — 024 0 0
Shot C. a 0 10 0
Tar B. 450 5 0
Turpentine — 40 5 0
Tea, Hyfon ' 1 10 1 17
, Souchong — 090 0 0
, Bohea --0 36 37 o
Tobacco, James River C. 7 ^ 0 o
, Georgia v— 6 0 Go
, Twine, sewing dez. 567 6 0
. ^^ ^ ° 55°
Wines, Madeira G. 166 257
ILifbon — 120 tls
Sherry, force— 142 150
Malaga q.c. 26 0 27 0
Red Port — ifo ©0
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The Republican Ledger.
AS many of our Clergy, and others of our
fellow cititens)appear to be very anxious
for an nnibn of Church and State ; it may
not be amiss for their information and con
viCtion, to give place to the following ex
traa from the second volumn of the works
Os the reverend and pious Dr. Watts :
ri The great design of civil government,
and the institution of magistracy among men,
is to keep the peace, to secure the persons
and properties of mankind who are innocent,
from all manner of ihjury ; and there is no
thing more of religion comes within their
province, than is absolutely necessary to se
cure the public peace. Now, upon this ac
count, and that with some appearance of
reason, it hath been supposed that atheists,
or those who deny God, or his providence,
or his government of the world, may be
justly punched by the magistrate, to far at
least as to be banished from their domin
ions ; because they who deny the knowledge
and justice of God, a superior governor, Can
give no security by oaths of their allegiance
or loyalty to any government what soever ;
and will break all manner of bonds when
they can do it fafely. But where some di
vine power is owned & acknowledged, who
knows and will punilb perjury and fallhood
—the civil government hath no farther pow
er in the affairs of pure religion, where the
peace of mankind, the property of man, and
the fafety of the state are not concerned :
now these privileges and powers are not im
paired by any article of the religion of na
ture.
" This was the notion of the wiser and
better heathens by the light of nature, and
therefore you do not find them usually quar
relling about their Gods, and bringing one
another before courts of justice, because of
their contentions and differences in matters
of their religion : nor could the magistrates
bear it. This appears in the case of St.
Papi at Corinth, Ads 18, T 2, i 6.— And
when Gallio was the defeat, ts Achia, the %ws
made infurreffion with one accord against Paul,
and brought him to the judgment Jeat, faying,
this fellow feerfuadeth men to worship God con
trary to the law. And when Paul was about
to open bis mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews,
if it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewd
ness—O ! ,e Jews, reqfon would that I Jbould
bear with you ; but if it be a question of words
and names and of your law, look you to it ; for
I will be no judge of such matters : And he
drove them from the judgment feat. But then
Gallio was much to be blamed in the 17th
verse, when he took no cognizance of the
Greeks beating Softhenes, an innocent man,
being the ruler ofc the synagogue : which
was a crime against the peace of the city and
an offence against the government, which
Gallio ought to have resented. But, how
ever, the civil magistrates among the heath
en had nothing to do in matters of pure re
ligion, yet the Jews were continually run
ning to the civil magistrate with their char
ges against those who opposed their religion,
or any part of it. And this is the plain ap
parent reason of it :—The government of
the Jews was a theocrac, —God was their
king, as well as their God ; the law that he
gave them by the hand of Moses, was the.
law of their secular affairs, as well as the
rule of their religion ; and therefore the
high priest was made a judge in many civil,
as well as religious affairs. Their religion
and their civil, government were so interwo
ven, by God's being their king as well as
their God ; thit there were many crimes in
religion to be punished by the civil magis
trate, by the appointment of God himfelf ;
which makes the case of the Jews different
from the case of all other nations under hea
ven ; for no people ever had God for their
civil and political Governors and lawyers,
but the Jews alone. Christianity does not
claim, or assume, or pretend, to any such
privilege or power: It doth not alter this
matter from what the light of nature hath
determined : It introduces no new civil
government, but leaves all those matters as
it found them ; and since the Judaic Rate
and governmentsre abolished, there is no
magistrate on ear* hath power to enquire
or command, to rule of punish, any further
in matters of religion, than to fee that the
Rate fuflfers no damage, and the peace of
mankind, and the government be secured.
But this hath been the unh^ppinefs of
chriftians almost in all ages since chriftiani
ty began, they Have been cited before magif-,
trates, and punished even by their felffiw
1 ~
From, the Albany Register.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 4,
Item, To bis Majefly George the 111. I
bequeath my pictures of the executions of
Charles the firft, and of Louis the last, as
mementos that kings may, & can do wrong ;
and that there are not wanting precedents
of nations taking signal vengeance upon ty
rants.
Item. ITo Mr. John Bull, I leave " Seri
ous Confederations upon the caufr of fam
ine," the art of living upon double distilled
bone-j nice, alias soup; Pitt's elfays upon
the virtue patience ; likewise his develope
ment of the ways and means for insuring the
continuance of that blefling, a national deb,.
,1 also bequeath him a correct schedule of his
income tax; his hearth, window, head
horse, dog-t Axes, &c. &c. with abfauk space
for future additions, which I ex ped willbe
filled up with taxes upon John's physical
necessities, toping that the ingenuity of Ves
pasian may be eclipsed by Mr. Bull's finan
ciers.
/fem. To Mrs. Bull, late Mjfs Hibernia,
I leave the bittie of Bunker's Hill ; the sur
render of Burgoyne, and the capture of Cora-
CITIZEN EDITORS,
THE following fragment of a will, was
found among some miscellaneous papers be
longing to an eccentric chara&er, lately de
ceased ; it was evidently written for the a
musement of a vacant hour, and I do not
conceive I (hall disturb the manes of the au
thor, by communicating to you a copy of it.
NOL.
In thename of God, amen; 1, B. D. of
the city of New-York, being found both in
body and mind, do therefore make this my
last will and testament, in the following
manner:,
First. I leave my body to Messieurs the
worms, being convinced I cannot preserve
it from the pollution of their acquaintance.
—On this head I have composed my mind
from reflecting, that neither the fan&ity of
PUp^s nor the divine rights of Kings, can
save their sacred persons from submitting to
the will of these tacit levellers of Tank and
diftinaion.
chriftians,' as well as by the Jews and Hea^
thens, for these notions and practices where
in the magistrate hath no power. This the
Jews began you fee very early, and the Ro
man governors and Heathens have carried
it on ; and chriftian magistrates have carri
ed this matte, to the height, but it is in the
Antichriftian Church, They have done this
by the bloody ,eifecutions, racks, torments
and murders of the best of their fellow
chriftians, where the very light of nature
dictated to the best and wisest of heathens,
that they had no power or authority ; and
it is a plain confeffion of it, where Feftus
and Gallio were not willing to meddle ; nor
would Pilot, himfelf, who crucified Christ,
have done it, if the Jews had not almost
constrained him, as fufficiently appears in
the hiftory of the death of Christ. Let us
remember then, that the religion of Christ
is not built upon the wisdom ,or power of
men, nor doth it need such support : all that
chriftianity wants, is .to have the person,
property and peace of its profeffor secured
against the outrages of wicked men. Its
own truth and excellency, and divine au
thority, wifi make its own way into the
world, by the assistance of the bleifed spirit,
when hum^n powers do but let it alone, and
preserve it from the unrighteous violence of
its neighbors."
I fincer^y believe that there is not a real
pious, and truly enlightened divine, in the
United States, that wilhes for such an union ;
or who does not cordially agree in opinion
with the reverend Dr. Watts, in this mat
ter. But it is to be lamented, that there is
reason to believe, that there are many of the
'clergy, and other classes of citizens in our
country, whose fifeinated fouls are so rivet
ted to the o)d school of the ancient order, of
what they call regular governments, that
the most powerful and convincing argu
ments, will not effea a change in their with
es for a union of church and state. These,
however, are but comparatively few, when
contrasted with the real republican friends
to our constitutional rights ; and are more
the objects of pity, than of fear or alarm.
Hence, wherein they think differently, let
them remain the monuments of the fafety in
which error of opinion may be tolerated,
where reason and truth is left free to com
bat it. CANDIDUS.
1801.
From the Republican Watch-Tower.
Iwallis ; hoping that wren £be applies tor#
,iivorce, which the will find very ntccfla!y
from the ill-treatment of- her brutal hbfe
band, the will furniih counterparts to these
pictures, as tcftimanials of her right to a rep
aration.,
Item. To the ex-President. Mr. Joh#
Adams, I bequeath my voluminous collec
tion of heraldry-; consolation for difearded
RatefmeD ; enjogiums on the British con
stitution,. With a treatise on the benefits to
be derived from political apeftacy, also the
execution of Jonathan Robbins.
Item. To Alexander Hatailton, t leave
the voluptuous memoirs of Fanny Hill ; the
art of feduftion ; the amours of stage coach
es ; the charms of variety ; the new ballad
of Kiss and Tell; likewise the secret of man
aging presidents, secretaries and representa
tives ; Sir Robert Walpole's treatise upon
corruption, and the utility of a landing ar
my, with the key to flock-jobbing § and a
delineation of funding systems. I beg leave
to recommend to him, the beauty of patience
under afflictions, arj the necessity of repent
ing before it is too fate.
Item. To the ex-Secretary Pickering, I
bequeath my pourtray of infoknee in office ;
the necefiity of cultivating a good under
standing between copartners in peculation §
proofs that fire-brands can best elucidate
puzzling accounts and conceal defalcations $
the policy of pleading poverty to prevent a
suspicion of ill got wealth, and the rural
chaims of a country cottage.
Item. Io Jonathan Dayton, 1 leave a
view of Chilton ; the advantage of legisla
tive knowledge in making (peculations, and
the way to bilk a partner.
Item. To Robert Goodloe Harper, I be
queath my EBay on the utility of impudence,
the success of a fortune hunter, and my trea
tise, proving that a Proteus in religion and
politics, combines all the necessary requi-
Gtes \o form a complete adventurer.\
Item. To Judge Chafe, I leave my ele
gant representation of the fommary punish
ment of Judge Jefferys, by a justly enraged
populace ; a complete let of reports of the
proceedings in the court of Star Chamber :
the caricature of a bully on a bench ; A
portrait of Charles Fox's favorite mistress,
with my request that he willplace it among
his family pictures; Ukewifefas a particu
lar mark of my favor, ''The way to grow
rich by {peculations in flours"
Item. To President Dwight, I leave the
hiftory of the life and death of Arcobifhop
Laud, the folly of toleration, the utility of
bigotry, the caricature of an inquisitorial
priest : also the pictures of meekness, mildness
andgentlenefs ; hoping they will be personi
fied in his reverence.
Item. To Gen. Harry Lee, I leave a
mausoleum in peifpe&ive, with a clue to a
spec in a done quarry.
Item. To Parson Lim, I leave feriouk
confederations upon officious fanaticifm; and
the hiftory of a worldly priest..
Itenu To Cloaciha, 1 leave all the ad
drefles to President Adams, with his an
swers thereto.
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Cetera defunt.
The following Remonstrance rs the exclusive fed
eralitt^tf New-Haven (Con.) to the President oj
the United States, for dijptacing Elizur Good
rich, Esq from the office q Cotlehtor for the <$
tri& of New-Haven, and appoints Samuel
BiUiop, E/q. in hie room, together vim the Pres
fdent's anfiuer thereto, well dejerocs the candid
and attentive terujal of our n fttiers.—The tur,
faleralilb will not, we prejume, after reading
the reply, an, longer charge the Prefotent win
66 want of hrmnefi.”
* BemoKfrantt
Os the Merchants of New-Haven, on the appoint,
meat of Samuel Bishop, Est. Collator of the
Revenue of that Port, in the place ts Elizuf
Goodrich, EkreTq,tker vNt the Preftafs
reply.
To THOMAS JEFFERSON, Esq
jPtyident of the pate
THE undesigned Merchants, refidrag at the
port and within the Diftrift of New^Haven, ref
pedfully remonttrare against the late removal of
Elizur Goodrich, Esq. from the office of CoNefar
for the Diftria of New-Harm, and the appoint
ment of Samuel Bishop, Eq. w fill fail vacancy—•
As the ground of our remonftranee we repre&¥
that the office while filled by Mr, Goodrich was
conduced with a proroptneft, integrity and ablfc
ty, fatisfaflory to the mercantile taereft at this
Diff rig —a promptness and ability TO to be found
in his successor. , ';
Believing the character of E. Goodrich; Est. IB
an officer to be unexceptionable, we lament that
it mould be conceived necessary, that a change in
£1 DOL. 50 CTS. PER annum