Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-11-29 00:00:00, page 2

IT is a truth, which the mrff inveterate
enemy ot the government will not have the
effrontery to deny, that all calculations re
lative to the revenue, our current cxpences
and the extinction of the public debt, have
bitheato been completely fupperted by un
erring experience. The project of Mr.
Gallatin for redeeming the whole of the
public debt, within fifteen years and a half
from December 1801, was admitted by all
to be ingenious and pbulibie. Still it was
contended, bv the commentators on his re
port, that it was calculated only to catch the
the multitude, and that a bugle year would
be luGieient to prove its fallacy,when reduc
ed to practice. By fume it was fuggefled,
that in computing the proceeds of the du
ties in merchandize & tonnage, a fufficoent
allowance had not been made for the peace
in Europe ;- ty some it was believed, that
the current expences of the Government
would encreafe, much beyond the cGim^te ;
while by others it was ard'enil) h<pd, that
our Country might be involved'in a war,
which would strike at tle root of the reve
nue, and blast the fruits of our economy ard
vifdom. Two years have now ela| fed.
The tff 61of an European peace in cur
external duties has been partially afeer^in
cd. For the two years which have pah, it
appears that the revenue ardirge Irin that
force had been underrated. nunc than 600,
000 Dollars. The experces of the G vern
mint, although encreafed during the bft
year, by causes which coU pm have been
forefeen, have fallen considerably ib^u of
the estimate ; and although the pit Grate par
ty have exhausted all their efforts to kindle
up a war, which fhoul! confurn our reform
ces and dry up the fountains of our pros
perity, we yet find ourselves in the full en
joyment of peace, while the world is in
arms to encieafe our riches audio extend
our glory.
The tirft day of April 18T, found Us with
a public Debt of nearly eighty millions
of Dollars ; with less than two millions
in the Treasury, and thr, ton, after a long
European War, which had afforded to the
U. States the moG favorable opportunity to
diminish the pressure ot their accumulated
burdens. The thirtinth day of Septem r
1803, found us relieved ft m nearly ten
millions of the public debt, with Five
MILLIONS EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS in the Treafirry, and this, too,
during a period of European peace, calcula
ted to deprefs.our commerce, and of course
to dimiurih the molt productive source of our
revenue 1 !
The only extraordinary fund, to which
the government have been indebted, in the
pt^grefs of these wonderful operations, re
sults from the sale of the Bank fhare c , a
mounting to a torn of about thirteen hun
dred thousand dollars, which has been ap
plied to the payment of the debt' doe in
Holland. This fahnary measure. which,
like every other aft of the admiulGrariou,
excited its nine days clamor, and has re
ceived its seven vials of Federal wrath, is
row fully under Good, by all who have tak
en trouble to examine, and is acknowledged
by all to have been one of our moll prudent
and able pegociations. Deduct 'this sum
from the amount of the debt paid ; deduct,
also, One mi lion seven hundred and ninety
thousand dollars (the specie in the treafuty
on the firft day of April 1801,) and it will
be found, that jn the period ot two years
and an half, the United States have gained a
sum, of mote than Twelve millions
SiVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Tlo. Fallow Citizens, is the iJult <t
that ec^homy, which has been so often def
tiocrio'ou as ("pedons and plausible, but
LT- ,d hollow! This is a piaCl'cal
experiment upon that s-stem cf retrench
ment, wh?ch you have been so often told
•3oGentation and bypocrify, but
,ms to end in difappointmeut and
~oiob! ! Tec President's Message has
exhibited toe outlines of this flattering
picio L< national profperirv; the Secre
tco's report has filled up the sketch, & con
vinced you, by frilid and fubdantial demon
fltarion, that it is copied from falls that
cannot lie, sod from proofs which cannot
deceive ! 1
Fram /he National FEgis.
President's Message and M?. Gal
latins Report.
But, it will be fail, pr baps of what
avail is it that onedebt is extinguished if it
drily poves the wav tothe creation of ano
ther ?It will be asked, where is the confi
ftendy of the government which at one
moment employs all itsenergies to emanci
pate the Country from the (hackles of
pecuniary embarrassment and at the next
moment holds foth its hand to bind a new
burden upon the (boulders of their poll
eritv r The answer to these enquiries is
obvious and easy. It is not because the
government believes in the absurd and
paradoxical maxim that “ a public debt is a
public biding." It is not because they
believe, that the more a nation is involved
in debt, the greater is its lum cf collective
and individual happinef^ If is not bgaufe
the President believes, with Soame Jeivus,
(who is an abler champion ot the Chilian
Religion than of public faith) that "the
more a government owes the easier it cs to
borrow."
They do not therefore merely for thd fake
of encreafing this "public blefling," bur
row money at eight per cent, when it can
be as easily procured at fix— They de not
drain our treasury, to flipport the vain &
effentatious pageantry of a Court---! lit; do
not tax our houses and our lands to pa, the
ill-earned and woife (pent wages of a dilto
lute and sauntering army. The: do net rob
the month of labor, to build flips that they
may decay, to rear palaces that they may
perilh, and to ere& fortreffes that they may
crumble intoduft. They do not cofiralt
debts, which in a few years will leahe no
other memorial than a monument i( per
petuate the remembrance of their folv and
profufion ; and to r mind the peops that
they have once been deluded and ab|fed !
—To, Fellow Citizens !—Tne calculations
of the pr sent government are ft undtioo a
more solid and permanent basts. They do
not g asp at an imaginary blcfhng and waft
the fubffauce in fuzing on a Shadow. Nor
do they nje6l a real and fubflantial boon, bc
caufe a partial and comparatively trifling
evil is to be encountered in its acquisition.
Sincerely as they deprecate an accumulating
and inextinguishable debt, they yet believe
that a nation, like an individual, may feme
times receives equivalent so a debt, which
brings with it the means 0 its own payment
and cxioaion. Such is the nature of the
c^mr ,&, by which the immense tirritory of
Louisiana is edded to the United States.—
The advantages of the acquisition, are not
now to be th- fubica of remark—l hey are
too well crderltcod, to require forth r
elucidation. A few rcmark|on the provi
sion for the payment ot this orb*, may serve
to explain that part of the Pkhdent's Mes
sage and Mr. Gallatin'.: report, which
relates to this imerefting fubjpa.
[7o be coned^d ^x! week.
«r^jja'j!»B»arm—
FROM THE AMERICAN DAILY ADVER
TIER.
1 he vanity of being rated above out mer
its, is a disease of the mind peculiar to ma
ny, and is commonly mod luxuriant in
those, who have the least pretensions to that
form of excellence, which they would be
thought to polEfs, This weakness is the
fierce of mai y troublesome errors, and of
en betrays the dupes ot it, without their
knowledge, into 1 bring absurdities, and
most rid iculous foil)....when it appears to a
difp'ay of those virtues, of which it possesses
but the shadows it is rightly denominated
hypocricy ; but when it works in a servile
all dfion of the foolifli airs, and tumid im
portance of the filly great, it changes its
charaaer : what was vice in (hat case
is but meanness in this, and the detesta
ble hypocrite is dwindled into a ridiculous
ape.
It is not my plan to enumerate the various
absurdities that transform men into
apes 1 this would be an endless labour, no
less above my abilities than foreign to my
present view. The apes I mean to con
fider now are a class of men, whom fortune
in some of her giddy and unmeaning frolics
has accidentally thrift into notice. A Gyle
of conduct suitable to the rant they, have
unexpectedly attained, muff in their opinion,
be adopted ; and, as delicacy oftafte is con
sidered to be the natural offspring of a mind
cultivated bra regular education, and re
plenished with excellence, this is assumed,
and a suitable degree of mysterious pomp,
fopercilioufm fs and referee annexed to it,
the better to (bow how superior they are to
the unfafhioned rabble, whom they now
hold in sovereign contempt., but, unhappily
for them Grangers to the proper objeAs of
refined tafle % they are compelled to feled
those with which alone they are acquainted,
as beef, pork, mutton cabage, potatoes, and
othercsarticles of culmary imoitance, and
make those the interfiling themes of their
equal loquacity. But asthere would be no
iruleior'afcertaining the absolute and com
parative excellence of those articles, if there
were no Standard of perfc&ion, England
forfooth is declared to be the pink of excel
lence in all things, and by this every dish
brought to your tables is tried, cenfurad, &
condemned. Mention to be compared to
the beef of England ; praise the flavor of
your frr.it, and your are soon con
vinced by the most positive assurance that it
is infinitely furpa^ed by the fruit of England.
I have often teized and irritated by the
loquacity and impertinenceof these creatures
but never in so great a degree as lately at a
friends table, where I chanced to dine.' The
good lady among her other attentions to an
English gueG,who fat near herihoped he
was helped to the piece he liked beft—"lt
will do, Madam," replied he, "but I find
your beef is not to be compared to the beef
of London : it wants that flavo|, that
—that The fault may," con
tinued he, "in some measure be owing to
cookery, an art, which I clearly perceive
has not yet found its way into /his country.
For my part," added he, "I have not tafcd
what may be called a beet flake fierce I ftlt
Loudon Give me your London beef
Gake" cried he " tolled in a pan with butter
and onions." In a word there was not a
tingle dish on the table that die not fuffer
similar cerifures, and I obfcrvtd with no
(mall surprise that he regarded his plate with
the meft pei fevering devotion, and cleared
it often with unabating vigor and dispatch.
Indeed he acquitted himfelf so well in this
way, and apdarently too with Inch good
grace, that one would imagine he fancied
himfelf eating at the table of some Lord of
his acquaintance in London. Unable to
bear the hyperbolical rant of this imperti
tinent upstart, my friend bethought himfelf
of an happy Scheme toexpofe and punish his
impudence, and with this intent recom
mended to him some L ndon porter as the
produce of Philadelphia, alluring him it was
the belt winch <ur infant manufaaure
afforded. -This the r<ft of company extolled
for its real excellence, but cur new made
geilcman from London only tatted it, ihrug
ged his Shoulders with a grimace of difap,
probation piotefled it w;' inferior to the
t^ble beer ct L idn. Well, cried my
friend, you Shall be regail<d this moment
bumper of vour belt London, and so faying
uncorked a bottle ot Philadel[hia beer, fill
ed their gla es, and pledged our gentleman
of tafle. He no footer applied the glass to
his lips than he exclaimed " ah London, !"
and (wallowed its contents with an air of
unspeakable tatisfa&ion. This Scene threw
the company into an immoderate roar <f
laughter, which so difeoncerted out gentle,
man that he ibortly after sneaked off.
I have not, (deed, over btlore witreffed
in any Engblhn.cn < t niy acquaintance such
extreme rodentb, abluihiiy and ign< ranct
as this ; bu? I have been' often obliged tc
hear, not without chagrin, the most extrav
ag+nt tales c ncerning England, England's
people, laws, tveirnunt and predt flirts.
If the marvelous excellence of, all things in
Englan were recited without invidious
comparifors, cid;rg m the dUparagemero
of this (cui.} and its productions, the
impertinentr ' OIJ he tolerated as the wixd,
effervejcenie r; xc onatj? 01b :-- the hypeibo
lical panc^yro M<uu;ia„y in it abundant
evidence of abft tcry, aid recoil, without
offence 10 any <n its < rrqty furce. But by
the cot trails vl ich are conrii Daily made 01
this Ccuntiy aid England, a nan natu
rally credulous, and one v ho had not con
^orfed n rich with the world would be led tr
believe that eaten had exhauGed its utmost
bounty on Eigaid, and had nothing it
reserve tor us ; tlat we w te but a pigmv
race of beings, a degenerate branch of Go
old flock, deemed to lit, ger in perpetua 1
immaturity of naellca and condemned \<
a foil and atmosphere naturally ui kindanc
unproductive ot vegetable and animal per
ftflion.
But to come to the main point in vic w,
the neglect, r primands, affronts, derifun, or
contempt, with which those coxcombs have
been created, led them to fancy that they
have difeevered in Americans generally, a
deep-rooted and inveterate hatred cf Eng
liftmen, and overlooking their impcHiuerc
the true source, they trace it tip to a polities'
spring. The feelings of all men who have
a common interest, are generally alike in re
fpeCl to that inteieG, and whatever can be
said of one, may be fairly predicated ot all.
Sharing in the common imereft, and com
mon feelings of my fellow citizens, 1 may
declare in behalf of myfelf, that no such il
liberal and ill-founded antipathy rankles in
our breads. On the contrary, we believe
the English nation to be an enlightened,
pohfhed, and magnanim people ; and treat,
with refpe& rad triendfhip, fuel? of them as
we find to be gentlemen, ot which descrip
tion we unquctlionably have many among
us. These never ablife cur cunttitorion,
government, laws, manners, and product
ions, nor de they brand our neoft iliufbious
patriots with the epithets rascal?, rebels,
and cow ards, If therefore, we deride,
despise or bate any from England, it is not
because he is an Erglifhman, but because he
is not an Engiijb gentleman.
If the felt created nobility, above defeji
bed, hope to be treated with kindness and
refped, they muff not be puffing, when
admitted to cur tables, no attempt t<
deceive us by a rodomantade coucernir g
the nobility of their fanrilies, the fortunes
they have been entitled to, nor boaG of the
favors which they never received from my
Lady B. and the imcomparable Mils C.
They muff not dwell with too much min
uteness on the art of cookery or we fliah
fufpea they have acquired their fkul in some
kitchen at London. In a word they must
be content with our fare, rr we ihall ad
moniih them to set fail for London with the
firft fair wind,.JOHN LUNT.
fur the Ledger.
On MODERATION.
Mr. Nutting,
TO fulfil my promise of hearing from
me, I will take up exactly where 1 left c.G
This leads me to remark are liter inflance
of regret that 1 am sure will appear Gristly
to apply to the parents, uncles and aunts of
the riling genaration amenfts ps. Htw
is it that in any family er personal differ
ence whble lines are embarked without
knowing, or by any possibility can know,
the circumstance of that difference r— One
aufwer given to m in Portsmouth, that all
he federalifts are ft me way or other related,
and if they are net they male relations :
but does the conclusion follow that these
various ramifiea lines of relations Jp an to
affed their manners as we have found and
Gill find the several lines of Republicanifin
ffiaed.
There are ladies who are exceptions, ev
'TV way enviable to copy and imitate, b< th
-mor^ft the fedcralifts and rqiblicaus. Let
me repeat that wtift the gentlemen think
t indent to becotne moderate, that they
would advise the ladies to drop politics. I
hen challenge the union ter more beamy
nd worth than cat be found in the town of
Purlmoath. These unhappy faniydiftcr
tces, right or wrong, take it either way,
nd the beat of polities is the banc of fcc:c- •
tv. I .miter foi royfelf, that t pen the re
turn of American principles, I willnot con
tribute to hurt the hair ot a single head. Mo
deration is my favorite point. My princi
ples are ffriaiy American, and very plain.
I will only conclude do not be lulled into a
^!frcuritv. J. W.
By Mail.
Charleston Oct 2%
Capt. Prince, of the fehnerer Ariel, hrs race oath to
the frbittary and opprtffivc cougua cl Gen. Sarezin, ncur
in this city, towards bins Ecf.des ir tch ptrfenai ill treat
merit, the Deponent was (bilged to t-kt cn board h:s fchco
rer, of 66 tens, 75 fik folders, 3rd convey them to Sc.
Nichola Mole ;— when t<o his v< fid had octave gallons
of water on board, and cculd not procure more, the water
being cut eff by the brigands— The General declare g, that ^
it b^ did net inftartly cHy the order, he would cause him
to be hanged, 2nd his vtffel and cargo confiscated. He did
comply , and not belt g able te precure any cempenfttina
lor his fetvices, in St Dcmirgo, be has arreted the Gene
ral, ard held him tc bail. The General aliedges, that what
be did, be did for the Republic ; and will be fuppotted
therein by his Master.
A French fchoorer has arrived here, with 37 inhabi
tants cf Port au Prince, which place was evacuated about
four weeks ago by the French troops; as many of the in
habitants as could find paffge fled to Cuba in the most
distressed condition ; the remainder have Submitted to the
brigands, who, it is said, have treated them with humanity.
Fo<tcn, Nov 27.
Firm NEW YORK, NOV 2T.
" We learn from Teurtflee the very interfiling
intelligence, that on the 6'h it ft. tie Governor of
th t ftatc received infltuaions from the Frcfidtnt
of the United Slates, through the Secretary cl War
for railing without delay five hundred mounted in
fanu V, exciufive of officers, to be well termed end
in readinels to move for Natches within fix days
after the receipt of the order.
“ In addition to these troops, three regiments are
to be railed in Tenncflee,and in rtadineG to march
by the 26 h December next, to aid in r.kng pofTef~
fion of New-Orleans, should an oppolition render
it mcefUry."
INTERESTING.
The following letter from Commodore Prebble,
was received by the febooner Columbia, Captain
Appleton, w h ich arrived at Gluucefttr, on TLu.h
day test, from Cadiz.
I cannot but remark h<vever a total rev-
Hutiun in the rauners ^n?<rg the federal
ills as a further instance cf modetaticr—cut
oftwenty seven gentlemen, that I think I
counted, w ho twelve nonths fare denied me
the civility ot the hat in thr ftrett there
was but ere that I dui net meet with the ut
meft COTciialit) ard farmery a few evenings
since. I call tl.<m all fedpahGs because
the name alone does them alt great lonor.
oh the dcarinc of moderation recently e%^
hibited by Federalists. It was observed that
politics ibould net diftrua social intercoerfe
—lt is a science few are able to compre
hend in all its parte and very few are the
real aftors in the drama—and those only dis
play their ignorance, and its associate brut
ality, coarte jokes, and final! wit who dab
ble without knowing the elements of gov
ernment, or mistake the notion of govern
ment, it they think that it was not irfiitut
ed for the happiness indeed of the diGurb
ance of mankind. What a solecism it is
then for women who do not go so far as Mrs.
Wolftoncraft, and alhrt the Rights of Wo
men to embark their rations on the fide cf
yolilics either way and what a phy it is
that any inflance Arnold be produced where
these is not even an abfohne Lfpenfion of
th ir opinion though tightly formed that
goes to cffr& one of the m<>fl finking fafei
natious of a lady thht is "an amiable de-
meanor."
The copfcquence is that it drives the
genilen>an of the fame or different politics
to this fort of deliberation and result—is he
meets with any thing retuifroe vn bis mak
ing Iris bow, or moving his hat which is the
comma h ceremon -—to avoid that move•
rcent a second tine for fear of giving of
feree—and tor " Maxima reverentia, debi
tor Icemirris." This is my apology to fome'
ladies for keeping that cejtnenv to nyfclf
and to prevent tie cmbarrafmeut ard diffi
culty ot removing a federal doubt, whether
to return it with affability, 01 to! at ail !