Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-03-01 00:00:00, page 1

FOREIGN BILLS.
Bills on London : 30 days, : (For Cafl>) 1a i| per cent. adv.
do. do. : : : bo days, : : do. : I do. do.
do. do. : : : 90 days, : : do. : par,
foills on Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 days, : : 2 pr. cent- dis.
do. on Amsterdam, payable in do. 60 days, : : do. do. do.
'Current prices ts per from to
D. C. D. C
ASHES, Pot, iftJort, T. 120 0 125 0
, Pearl -1 0 '4° ^
Allum, C. b 0 00
Anchors, so 011 12 c
Bread, Ship C. 450 7 c
Butter th 0 !2 0 14
& .,Mefs B. 13 50 0 °
h, Cargo No. 5 —l2 o 0 0
No. 2, — 10 0 0 0
£ (rtetufe —7 0 0 0
Beans, white ^. < 0 00
Brandy, Spanilh 4th,r. G. 1 50 16
, Naples 4f»? r - — 180 185
Barley bn. 092 095
Brimttone, ^ 35° 4 °
Brimstone, Roll J, C. 450 5 '
Corn, Indian -- 0 75 o *3
Rye - 083 0 c
Cassia ft) ° 6 7 0
Cloves — 1 33 x 42
Coffee - 0 2 1 0 2x '
Cheese, American — 0 6 012
Cotton, foreign farce - 040 0 c
, American -- 0 20 0 22
Cordage, American C. 12 0 13'
, Foreign, -- 11 0 120
Chocolate, common lb 0 20 0 °
, belt N^2&l — 028 033
Candles, mould -- 018 0 C
, dipt — 014 0
Coals, foreign Ch. 14 0 0 0
, American, -- ,7 0 19 0
Copperas, C. 35° 4
Cloth, Tow yd. 016 017
WM & Cha's Neil
HAKE FOR SALc.
RUM per Hhd.; BRANDY;
Hollands GIN.
Sherry, 1
^^ /WINES.
Malaga J
Hyfon,l
Hyfon-Skin, irrt, A C
Souchong, > J L
Bohea, in half &;
quarter chests, {
FLOUR per barrel. COTTON.
FIGS. RAISINS, per calk.
India SUGAR. Loaf do.
COFFEE. Florence OIL.
PEPPER. PIMENTO.
Elliot's SNUFF.
Havanna Segars of the best quality.
GROCERIES as usual,
% on moderate terms. 4
Port [mouth, Feb. 22, 1803.
JOHN UNDERWOOD,
Withes to inform those who car
ry on the Fishing Business,
that he can supply them with any quantity
of CABLES, or CORDAGE cheap for calk
or a liberal credit, &c. &c.
Two Apprentices wanted
the Kope-Making business. Apply as
above. Feb. 22.
*lnfpeaor's BLANKS ;
Shipping Papers ; Returns of Mer
chandize, and Apprentice s Inden
tures. For Sale at the Ledger Office,
NUMBER 27. VOL. IV.]
With a genera 1 assortment of
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
PORTSMOUTH (NF'V-HAMI' ^e.) PRINTED BY S NUTTING, PRINTER OF THE LH«S ()' THE UNITES 3i rfi t:S
CT^en pou SaH tbefe techs relate (peak of t§rn 0 tier are : Rotting extenuate, not set boson outfit in malice.
TUESDAY, MARCH I, {BO3.
Republican Ledger,
4 AND
OXyotefaie prices ductent, at ^ottfmoutb, oeto4painp@in,
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
)uck, Ruflia, iflqual. Bt. 16 o 17 0
Duck, Ravens — 10 50 II 50
Flaxtced, rough bu. 1 50 0 0
ruh, Merchant, C. 45 0 5 °
, W.lndia mark. -- 4 0 450
, Scale -- 3 0 3'7
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 0
Macxerel — 850 9 0
Plobr, luper. Irelh — 8 0 0 0
, fine — 75° ° °
, middlings — 60 650
, country C. 375 4 0
"'udick T. 35 0 0 0
Bristol cr. ioby 8, bx. 15 50 16 0
0, gbv 7, — 14 0 0 c
0 Bby6, — 11 0 11 5°
) Hamburg 10 byh, -- 11 0 12 0
\ 7by9. -- Ii 0 11 5°
,un Powder lb °s° ° C
inieva, Holland ifprG 117 O c
,Am rican -- 090 094
[ions, hi. 12 it. M. 20 0 0 c
ILrd tb ° " > 0 12
con, Philadelphia T.lto 0 O 0
, Raffia —IOO 0 100 1°
,Swedes —IIO 0 115'
Logwood T. 4 0 0 45 0
: \ead, white, gr. in oil C. 16 0 0 0
, dry -- 15 0 0 c
°, red — 10 0 0
, theet -13 0 °
Lumber, boards clear M. 16 0 17 C
, , merch. — 950 10 0
It is always the interert of a far greater part
of the nation to have a thing right than to
have it wrong ; and therefore, in a country
whose government is founded on the fyltem
if election and representation, the fateof
every partv is decided by its principles.
As this system is the only form and prin
cipie of government by which liberty can
be preserved, and the only one that can em
brace all the varieties of a great extent of
country, it necessarily follows, that to have
the representation real, the election muff be
real ; and that where the election is fiction,
he representation is a fiction aifo. Like
will always produce its like.
A great deal has been said and written
concerning the condu&of Mr. Burr during
he late contest in the federal Lcgiflalure,
whether Mr Jefferfon or Mr. Buir should
oe declared President of the United States.
Mr. Burr has been accused of intriguing to
obtain the Presidency. Whether thi>
charge be substantiated or not makes little or
10 part of the purport of this letter. There
s a point of much higher importance to at
nd to than any thing that relates to tt
individual Mr Burr: tor the great poin
is rat whether Mr. Burr has intrigued, but
vhether the legislature have intrigued with
him ?
Mr. Ogden, a relation of one of the fin
tors of New-Jersey of the fame name, and
o f the 0 rtv affirming the stile of federalists,
has written a letter publish'd in the New
york papers, signed with his name, the pur
port of which is to exculpate Mr. Burr
from the charges brought agaiutt him. b
this letter he fays,
“ When about to return from Wafhinc
" ton, two or three members ot Congrep
« of the federal party spoke to me of then
“ views as to the election of a President,
THOMAS PAINE,
To the Citizens of the United States.
Letter the Fifth.
From the National Intelligencer.
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS,
Couric of exchange, at lotton, Pcb. 7,
}^^33s» >»»=•
Current prices ©f per from to
D. C. D. C.
Shingles —1 50 2 20
Lemons frejb (Jcurce) bx. 10 0 II 0
Lime, half hhd. 1 75 2 0
Leather, Soal, dried, ft 022 023
Molasses G. 045 05c
Nutmegs ffi 5 0 0 0
Nail Rods feared C. 7 0 750
f4dl M. 033 0 0
ri | 6dj cut> — 066 0 0
^) 6cl, wrought -- 117 0 0
< I iod, do. intpe&ed — 170 1 75
^ 2od, do. do. — 242 0 0
^Sheathing; cut C. 0 0 11 50
-1 (Liver Jcarce B. tl 0 12 0
5 iLinfeed G. 120 125
Pepper lb 028 030
/ ( Bone Middlings, 20 0 21 0
{ No. 1 16 50 17 0
-( N 0.2 15 50 16 0
Peas bu. 1 25 1 50
Pimento lb 0 26 0 2b
Pitch, B. 6 0 o<
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 '
Redwood T. 55 0 60 c
Raisins /r^ calk 8 50 o c
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 10 1 15
, Windward 3d,,.-- I 0 0 <
lice scarce C. 6 0 o c
tofin scarce B. 450 or
joap, white ffi 014 01€
, brown — 010 oit
, cattle — 017 020
^ar, Havannah C. 17 0 0 0
, East-India — 12 0 12 50
" defying me to converse with Col. Butt
“on the fubjedt, and to afeertain whether
"he would enter into terms. On my re
“ turn to New York I called on Col. Burr,
" and communicated the above to him.
“ He explicitly declined the explanation,
“ and did neither propose nor agree to any
“ terms." How neatly is human cunning al
lied to folly ! The animalsto whom nature has
given the faculty we call cunning, know al
ways When to use it, and use it wifely ; but
when man defeends to cunning he blunders
and betrays.
Mr. Ogden's letter is intended to excul
pate Mr. Burr from the charge of intrigu
ing to obtain the Presidency ; and the letter
that he (Ogden) writes for that purpose is
dired evidence againit his party in Congress,
that the, intrigued with Burr to obtain bin.
for President and employed him (Ogden)
tor the purpose. To save Aaron, he betrays
Moses, and turns informer against the golden
calf.
It is but of little importance to the world
to know if Mr. Burr listened to an intriguing
proposal, but it is of great importance to
the conlbtuents to know it their reprelenta
lives in Congress made one. The ear can
commit no crime but the tongue may ; and
therefore, the right policy is to drop Mr
Burr as being only the hearer, and dire&
.he whole charge against the federal faction
in Congress as the active original culprit, ot
if the prints will have scripture for it, as th<
Ie: pent hath beguiled Eve.
The plot of the intrigue was to make
Mr. Burr President on the private condition
of his agreeing to, and entering into terms
with them that is, wth the proposers. Had
then this election been made, ,the country
knowing nothing of this private and illega
transaction, would have supposed, for who
could have supposed otherwise, that it had a
President according to the forms, principles
and intention ot the conUitution. No such
1 ring. Every form, principle, and inten
t on of the condition * ould have been vio
lated ; and iultead ot a President, it would
lave had a mute, a fort of image, hand bounu
and tongue tied, the dupe and Have of a party,
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[1 DOL. 50 CIS. PER ANNUM.
Current prices oj per from to
D. c D. c.
Sugar, Welt-India -- 10 0 12 0
Starch, Poland ft) 0 18 0
, American -- o 12| 017
Sugar, Loaf ft> 022 023
Salt, St. Übes scarce H. 550 0 0
, Turk's llland -- 550 6 0
, Liverpool — 4 0 0 0
; Rock -- 650 0 &
Steel, German ib ° 13 0 16
, English -- 0 14 016
Salt Petre, refined -- 034 040
Shot Patent, C. 13 50 0 0
, (W.O. hhd. M. 24 0 26 0
I do. do. heading — 26 0 28 0
> )W. O. bbl. -- 10 0 12 50
< I R.O. hhd. — 12 0 13 0
do. Shooks 0 66 0 0
(W O. do. 120 130
Tin in sheets bx. 18 0 20 0
lar B. 325 0 0
Turpentine --4 0 4 50
Tea, Hyfon lb. LlO 1 j@
, Souchong — 070 075
, Bohea -- 032 0 33
Tobacco, Jamesßiver C. 7 0 0 0
, Georgia — 55° 0 0
Twine, sewing doz. 50 55°
, seine — 5 0 55°
.(Madeira G. 217 283
;ILifbon Jcarce, — 140 0 0
Z < Sherry, — 125 129
I Malaga Jcarce q.c. 27 0 0 0
(Red Port — 142
placed on the theatre of the United States,
and a&ing the farce of President.
It is of little importance, in a constitu
tional sense to know what the terms to be
proposed might be, because any terms other
than those which the constitution prescribes
to a President is criminal. Neither do I fee
how Mr. Burr, or any person, put in the
fame condition, could have taken the oath
prescribed by the conlhtution to a President,
which is " / do jAemnly /wear (or affirm)
" that 1 will faithfully execute the office of
" Pref dent of the United States, and will to
" the bes of my ability preserve, protect and
" defend the confitutien of the United States.''
How, I ask, could fueb a person have
taken such an oath knowing at the fame
time that he had entered into the presidency
on terms in known in the conftittition and
private, and which would deprive him of the
Teedom and power of a&ing as President of
the United States, agreeably to his coliitu
tional oath ?
Mr. Burr, by not agreeing to terms, has
escaped the danger to which they exposed
him, and the perjury that would have fol
lowed, and also the puniihment annexed
hereto. Had he accepted the Presidency on
erms unknown in the constitution and pri
vate, and had the tranfa&ion afterwards
jranfpired (which it is most probable would,
;or roguery is a thing difficult to conceal) it
would have produced a fenfarion in the coun
try too violent to be quieted and too juitto
bt refined ; and in any case the cledion
innit have been void.
But what are we to think of those mem
bers ot congress, who, having taken an oath
)f the fame constitutional import as the oath
f the president, violate that oath by tamper
ing to obtain a president on prrou/econditions.
It this is not (edition against the constitution
and the country, it is difficult to define what
/edition in a representative can be.
Say not that this statement of the case is
the effect of personal or party resentment.
No. It is the eftd of Jincere concern that
such corruption, of which this is but a sam
ple, ffioul I, in the fh>rt space of a few years,
nave crept into a country that had the faireft