The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-07-21 00:00:00, page 1

OlljoUfcU writes Current,
AT PORTSMOUTH, (N. H.)
/ —<.<fyQ444'^+** > "' —'
Current per from to
D. C. D. C.
A^HES, Pot, iflfort, T. 125 0 130 0
, Pearl - 155 0 0 0
Bread, Ship C. 7 0 9 0
Butter lb 0^ o '7
Brimstone, C. 3" 0 4 0
Beef, common B. ixo 1? 0
, mess, — 14 0 15 50
beans, whites bu. 150 166
Brandy, S^nith spr. G. 13% 1 33
, Naples ^h fer. -- 125 130
Copo Indian -~ 1 o 0 —
/ , Rye — ,1 2g 0 0
Caffiia lb 0 75 080
Cloves# — 20 2 16
Coffee - 0'24 0 25
Cheese, American // -- 0 6 °''
Cotton, foreign fa/4 — 040 °45
, American -- 030 031
Cordage, American C. 18 6 19 0
Chocolate, common ffi 020 021
,' best No.2&i -- 030 034
Candles* mould , — 020 022
,dipt -- 01% 018
Coals, foreign Ch. 16 „O 18 0
, American none,-- 0 0 0 0
Duck, Russia, ift qual. Bt. 19 0 20 0
, Ravens \— 13 0 14 0
Fish, Merchant, none C. 450 0 0
, W. lndia mark. -- 0 0 5 0
Sc^e --3 0 3 ! 7
Salmon none B. 11 0 0 0
Mackerel '''- 5 ° 6 0
Floor, super. frefh -- 13 0 ! 3 5°
, fine -- 12 50 13 0
, middlings = 10 0 10 5 0
, country > C. 6 0 0 0
Fuftick ^ T. 45 0. 0 0
Flaxseed, no fate bu. 0 0 1 0
Gun Powder ft > 0 5° 066
Geneva, Holland \fi ,r G. 1 25 1 33
, American -- 0 75 0 0
Hogs Lard ° $ °0 20
Iron, Philadelphia 4.14 b o 0 0
, Russia - 125 0 135 0
, Swedes -13° ° x 4o 0
Logwood T. 50 0 55 °
Lead, white, gr; in oil C. 15 0 16 0
. , dry -- 13 5° 14 0
, red -85 b 0 0
, sheet — 0 0 to 0
Lemons frefo bx 4 13 0 1$ 0
Lumber, boards clear M. 17 0 18 0
, , merch. —l6 0 to 5 0
Singles -0 15° ' 2 75
Molasses G. 0,46 050
Nutmegs > 650 7 0
Liver Oil none B. 14 ° ,5 0
Pepper ft) 0 34 b °
Pork, best pieces B. 28 0 0 0
, common "- 20 d 22 0
Peas bu. I 50 1 75
Pimento lb ° 15 b ''
Pitch, fedret, B. 6 c ibo
Paper, Sheathtrig C. 375 4 5
Redwood T. 55 0 00 0
Raif:ns/re# - calk 825 850
Rum, Jamaica Ga 117 125
, Windward 3d pr. -- I d 1 4
Rice ' C. 675 ,0
Rosin B. ,50 6 o
Soap, white lb 014 016
, brown —Ol9 0 0
Starch, Poland $ 025 030
, American = o I2| .0 17
Sugar, Havannah C. 17 0 t 8 50
~East-India — 13 0 0 0
, Weft.lndia -- 12 0 14 0
, Loaf lb 028 029
Salt, St. Übes H. 650 , 0
, Turk's Iftand ^ 7° 0 ,7 5°
, Liverpool 1 co 55°
, Rock 666 7 0
Steel, German fool 6 0 19
, English • — 016 ,0 19
Salt Petre, rough -- 024 0 0
Shot C. 9 0 10 0
Tar B - 45° 5 ©'
Turpentine , 4 # 9 3 ©
,Tea, Hyfon 11° 1! 7
.Souchong — ©9° 0 0
, Bohea - o j6 37 0
Tobacco, Janies River C. , 0 0 0
, Georgia - rs 60 0 0
'Twine, fewihg *% 5'7 6 0
- , feme %5° 550
Wines, Madeira 6. 166 257
Lisbon '--* 1 20 1 2 5
Sherry, fcarce •* ,4 2 ^ $0
Malaga q.c. ?6 0 27 0
Red Port - Igo 0 9
number 48. vol. ll.]
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY NUTTING & WHITELOCK, MULBERRY LANE, ADJOINING ROUSSELETs MUSEUM.
The Republican Ledger.
aim „U (ban mfr tuas relate tyM of tbm U th arc :-—Dotfog extenuate, nor set before ought fa mriite.
In addition to his former assortment, viz.
A large variety of
Black, white, tambor'd and
lappet Muslins ; Dimities ; Muflinets ;
Cambricks ; Linens ; Hollands ; Cottons ;
Shawls ; Handkerchiefs ; cotton, worsted,
and silk Hosiery ; long and ihort kid Gloves ;
silk ditto ; Laces ; Edgings ; Ribbons, &c.
Satins ; Luteftrings ; Callicoes;
Chintzes ; Furniture Chintzes ; Calaman
coes#; Durants ; Tammies ; Moreens ; Oil
Cloths ; Merfeilles Quiltings ; F^ftians ;
Ginghams ; Nankinets ; a tew draw Bon
nets and Parrafols.
J Superfine Broad Cloths ; Caffi
meres ; and a general assortment of other
Woolens as usual. Sewing Silks ; Tapes ;
Threads ; Buttons ; Fans, &c. &c.
—ALSO—
Hyfon & Souchong Teas ; Pol
and Starch ; a few Kegs best Bollon Snuff,
with many other articles too numerous to
mention—All which will be fold wholesale
—_t=_—__= _______________ „_
Imported in the Jhip Harriot,
• From BRISTOL,
A general assortment of
GOOD S,
IN THE
Ship Chandlery Line,
And for Sale by
LONG & HAMILTON,
AT THEIR STORE IN FORE-STREET ,
The following Articles, viz.
RUSSIA and Ravens & Quart black Jacks,
Duck, r pint do.
Raffia Sheeting, 12 l )int "'
PITCH; ± Speaking Trumpets,
TAR, T Horn Lantholnty
ROSIN, iTiti do.
BRIMSTONE; T Sailors' Pots,
Black Varnith, '& Cofthe Pots,
Sheathing NAILS, , 1 18, 15 and 12 thread
Deck Nails, - T Lines,,
.od, idd, 6d, & qd do. £ Deep Sea LineM and
, 2 d &8d Sprigs, j Leads,
Pumps Nails, ff Hand Lead Lines and
4 d, 6d, and 8d Clouts, & Leads,
Scupper Nails, T Marline,
Club AXES; & Whipping Twine,
Carpenters' del;! Sewing Twine,
Coopers' Adzes, # Mackarel Lines,
Ships' do. & Buntings,
Hatchets, , CHARTS, friz.
Iron Shovel; M Romans Gulf,
Tack and Smoothing & Weft India Charts,
, PLANES, ^ T Coast of France,
Fry PANS, & Mediterranean,
Bell Steel plated Hand- North Sea,
s a ws, 7 'St. Geo; Channel,
Iron ditto. * Coast of Guinea;
A variety of 7 Moore's Epitome,'
IH and HL Hinges, & — ^_=—
Butt Hinges, a Ink Powder,
;GIMBLETS, T Inkstands,
CHISELS,' L Brass Conipaffeb,
; GOUGES, j Wood do.
angers, , Teiefcopes,
:^ung-Burerfy a Quadrants,
Draw Knives, T Round Sea HOofa,
Brats Cocks, Q Sail Needles,
fill'd Iron Table : Paint Brushes,.
Spoons, * Tar Brushes,
Tea ditto', £ Sash Tools,
Gridirons, T Scrubbing Brnfliety
Tormentors, * Clamps,
Ladles, . * Mop^,
Wood Screws, T Hanks,
Post Coffee Mills, £ Time Glares,
Pump Hammers, Binnacle Lamps,
Carpenters' do. , Dividers,
Tinder Boxes, with L Gunter Scales,
flints and steels, T Ground SPANISH
Japan'd Candlellicks,+, BROWN,
Chell Locks, 1 Ground Yellow Oket,
Cabin door Locks, TVenetian Red,
Banbury Locks, & Prussian Blue,
Padlocks, % Vermillion,
Knives, T White Lead,
Palm Irons, & Red Lead,
Pin Mauls, T Logs and Log Reels,
Caulking Irons,. , Lead Pencils, #
Making do. Philadelphia Cantboof-
Mafk^cr do. , A ° ies..
WEST-I^DIA GOODS, ^
AS USUAL.
Wittes, Brandy, Teas, Irons, &c.
— & — = — ; —
Four Gentlemen may be accommodat
ed with genteel Boarding and Lodging, in a private
family, in a pleasant part of the town—lnquire of
the Printers. . J^*
fuff received, and for sale by
TIMOTHY WINN;
Huck-Jtreet,
A general afiortment of
SPRING & SUMMER x
NEW GOODS.
GOODS
CHEAP STORE.
TUESDAY) JULY u, 1801.
DOES it not feein as if the great author of all
good, had given usin this auspicious day a special
evidence ot his favor—after weeks ot torrid heat,
the iky is overeat, and from the bosom of the
heavens cooling Glowers cheer the haff parched
earth, the gentle zephyr refreshes the eve of our
fertility, and the vaulted azure prefects to our
gladdened and elated spirits a serenity congenial
with the happy slate into which our country has
puffed through a season of heat and apprehension.
How shall I proceed to difeharge the obligations
which your kindness and partiality has this day
imposed upon me ? How shall I perform the talk
while the grandeur of the, fubjett overpowers and
almost incapacitates me from utterance.
To fee a whole people on one day aflembled, in
peace, pfofperity and concord, offering up the in
nocent devotion of cheerful hearts, and commem
orating the anniversary of their refeue from thral
dom, is a fpettacle capable of inspiring the nioft
ardent and generous emotions ; but it is the for
tune of only a few happy spirits, so be endowed
with faculties suited to the expression of those ele
vated festiments which are suited to the sublimity
of the octafion. In calling upon hie to deliver
a difcouife on this fubjetl, your partiality and
friendfllip has been honorable, but I fear you have
ehimatej my capacity by your knowledge of my
principlcs~-and that I shall be more indebted to
your generosity for an excuse than entitled to ap
probation for die manner in which 1 shall difeharge
thisdety.,
Fortunately the occasion of our meeting this
day, is marked by many circumstances linking in
themselves, new in their nature, and grateful to
recapitutote—Let us then take the Declaration of
Independence in our hands—and while it is read,
let tis relief upon the cauk uhich gave it birth,
the ifloccf the contest by which it was obtained,
and theawful and extraordinary vicifitudes thru
which We have fiuce puffed, .
[here the Declaration of independence ""*" ' e "'
by a Citizen.] , , A
Is there on this auspicious day a man so loft to
his country, his virtue, or to the sacred principles
of social happiness and Security , as not to be filled
with gratitude to the men who conceived, and
the heroes who achieved the great and glorious
conquest of tyranny and the eftablifbment of this
nation ? Isothere on these happy shores, thisday,
a mag indifferent or hostile to tliefe felt-evident
truths, or to'the buffings which gives to fix mil
lions of freemen diffufed over avast continent, the
bliss of celebrating this antliverfary miaflailed from
abroad-— -and at hotoe secured under the admin
iOration of virtues and talents which illustrate by
example the great charter of American glory and
freedom.
If there are such men=may they learn to ap
preciate the refyea due to principles which give
them the security and freedom of opinion even
though they™ are hoflile to themselves. Let us
learn to avoid error, and to treat it with reason
and moderation-Bur let us ih order to appreci
ate duly the value of our lituation, examine the
course through which ue have passed. Equal li
berty is oub birth-right—and a free people can
never examine their Situations too scrupulously.
Upon the foundation of the Declaration of In
dependence; the flandard of American liberty and
independence wasreared, and to fopport it eighty
thotifernd of bur citizens in the prime of life de
voted themselves to zhefwoid and the torch, the
affafflnating bayonet, the dungeons, and the pri
son Ships .bf bur oppressors ; and at the colt ot
money and property of above twelve hundred mil
lions of dollars. It was a purchase too precious
to be Gartered away lightly and in haste, and of
which ,e cannot be too proud or two watchful.
In this immortal declaration it is laid down—
“ that all experience hath /hewn mankind more
disposed to fuffer while evils -are fhfferable ; but
when a long trairi of abuses and uforpations por
fuing invariably the fame object, evinces a design
hostile to that government, thet iit ib theit duty to
provide new guards for their-future fecurity.'
In this eloquent sentence, felltiy^citizens, is to
be found another cause of bur original revolution,
and of the happy secondary revolution, which has
taken place in our public affairs. A long and pa
tient fuffetance of abuses was tandrned into an
approbatibn by the people ; and a difoofition to
fuffer while eviltwere fufferable, had been taken
as an evidence of popular indifference, baseness or
tameness, which would fuffer any fchentes, how
ever atrocious, any measures however wickeds
But the authors-of evil at botoe, like the par
ents of opprefiion abroad, fed-mil,aken the Ame
rican people, who taking as we do this day this
important declaration arid rest of American virtue
id their hands wete afltmifhed to find that out of
TWENTY-SEVEN charged of grievance and op
preffion against the British tyrant;, set up as the
foundations bf cotoplaint and the jollification of
refinance-—no left than feIFTEE* may be directly
or indirectly provide against those whom we ap
pointed to administer the public affairs of our
young and regenerated governments . .
fare than is a criterion of public moderation
united with firmnefs and confinency Unexampled
in the ahnals of the world ; here we cart account
!or the present change of the public opinion ; but
the caiifes are not confined td these alone. Abuses
of which we could not impeach the Britilh gov:
ernment have been committed by men employed
to difehatge the gteat truth of pur owns
We shall in the firft Instance touch upon the
parallel grievances enumerated in the Declaration
of Independence. Id that great ipttroment it is
declared that rt the hiftor, of the present king M
Great Britain, is a hiftory of repeated Injury and
"',^'h, endeavored to prevent the vtyfe,
of these states : for that purpose obflrubhog the
DELIVERED QN THE 4th DE JULY, 1801.
Rn ©ration;
PHILADELPHIA, 3 UEY 7.
[1 DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM '.
liws for naturalization of foreigners, refuting to
pals others to encourage their migration hither,
aud railing the conditions of new appropriations
of lands. &
2. "He has obOruaed the adminiltration of
j iliice by refuting bis alfent to laws, for enabling
lug-judiciary powers., . ~
3. " He has made judges dependent on his will
alone, for the tenure of their unices, and the a 1
mount and payment of their salaries.
4. ,- He has erefted a multitude of new offices,
and sent hither fivarms of officers to harrafs our
pe ple, and eat up our I bttance.
5.," He has kept among us in tithe of p^ace,
(landing armies without the consent of otir legil
lai ures..
6. “ He has abetted to render the military in#
dependent and superior to civil power.„
, 7, “ He has combined with others to subject us
to a jurifdi&ion foreign to our conflitution, and
acknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to
their pretended aas of legiflatibn.
8. “ For quartering large bodies bf armed
troops among us. . < r '
9. " For protesting them by a mock trial front
punishment for any crimes they Ihould commit 011
the inhabitants of these ftateh
1'6." For cutting off our trade frbm all parts of
the world. , , t t
11. “ For depriving us id many cases of the ben~
efits of trial by jury, .
12. “ For imposing taxes on us without our
For altering fundamentally the forms of
our government. e .
14. " He has confirained out fellow-citizens
tak n captive on the high seas, to bear *lms against
their country, to become the executioners of their
friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their
hands.,,
15. M He has excited domefbe infurredions a.
mong us, and has endeavored to bring on the in*
habitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian fav^
ages whole known rule of warfare isan undidin 4
guilhed deHiu&ion of all ages, sexes, and condi#
tions."
Can it be neceffafry tb recall your attention to
the tranfadions which resemble these so much .
If it is cohfidered for a moment that a dangerous
infurreCtion of the negroes lately took place in
the southern dates. That while we were colonies
the king of Great Britain negatived our laws for
prohibiting the negro trade, and that millions of
acre§ adequate tb contain without incommodation
a population of greater numbers than that of all
civilized Europe, is now waste and uncultivated
On this continent, that the only security which Wd
poflefs againfl foreign nations is our numbers, and
the cultivation of onr foil, the u orking our mines
and the encouragement of mamifaaures and inge a
nuity in our owr country ; the cause of complaint
against Great-Britain ibftrong & too grievous^
It is by a limited* population alone that she could
keep ns in fubje&ion^or that a mercenary arm/
of ordinary numbers could ekpett to subjugate
ah ? eriflave us.
What shall wb fay of those who were bntrufled
with our security and prosperity, honored by pub<
lie confidence and reward, pursuing the fame mca a
fures? ~fhe British law for discouraging emigre
tion, extended the right bf naturalize tion tofevert
years. Many of the brave Germans and Irish who
fought ih dur revolution emigrated under that
law; and we deemed it then a grievance to make
the terin only feveti feats. By a law puffed by
those whom we had chosen to promote our prod
pefity, the term was extended tb fourteen years,
'Exactly double the term of which we complained
against Britan as a grievance!
The second and third of the charges against
Britain are explicit. Our adminifltation has not
been able ideftft the fame ends'by the feme means.
Bur other means producing the fame efleds have
been devjfed. The judges of our fupretoe court
have been tak@n from the bench and appointed td
embafFes, and enormous sums have been left at
their difpof.il, Whereby the independence of the
judiciary was undermined. New la^s were elan
ddllnely and corruptly formed, to encreafe the
number bf the judges, and men appf»nud to ju
dicary fituatibns of profligate characters, as the
reward of their Iroflility to the principles of the
revolution and the ffiSliflied form of govern
nient ; marshals have been dismissed from office
for not packing juries ; men were entrulled by the
executive with office as a reward for br< ¥h of
the law, whereby the w hole course of trial by jury
had been brought iqto disrepute, the fpirir ot hat
red stirred up between the parties ; the bonds of
fbciety broken down; intercourse between citi*
zenstut off; abd alarfn and affaffinatlon prow led
the fireets,.
The fourth charge has been too closely and fa
tally imitated. The original inOitution of the
War Office; the fobfequent erection of a navy of
fice , the retention ofan nfelefs and extenlive bo
dy of loan officers, whose business could be tranf
ailed at the treasury for the expence of one offi
cer , the multiplication of foreign, embaffies,with
out neceffiry or utility, and at great expence and
greater danger from their characters & intrigues ,
the dillribmion of contrasts and illegal conduCh
of the treasury so conniving tit the breach of them,
but above all the multitude of new offices created
under tie damp att, and the tax on lands and
honfes, the former a tax odious in principle ; the
Jotter in its Operation and extravagance which ip
dead of calling upon tbe°States for their quotas^
which world produce a great Caving to the coun
try, has erected a numerousbody of officers who
bate already committed grievous abuferand ex
ceffa under CounteDancte of the authority of that
law.,
The fifth charge agafoft Britain, been tod
fatally exemplified Dot to- he generally tek and
underbid. The British government , ■
inoft defpoiifm never fiffered their rawd
ftaudtag army to extend beyond a year. A pfr
po{kl was offered by our public fervanu for raifr
ing 50,000 metGenartes, and a la*