Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-12-22 00:00:00, page 1

THE various means nfed to effea fitch
putpofes, as would allift the British fa&ion
in their designs to involve this country in a
war with France, are too numerous to be
particularly recited at this period. Their
aim was not confined merely to this objed,
but every measure was taken to raise a jeal
ousy against certain republican charaders
who opposed their condua, For this pur
pose the public mind was constantly alarm
ed upon the idea of an invasion from France
—,Confpiracies were daily announced : Tay
lor-Plots, Tub Plots, and even Lady Plots,
followed in rapid succession. Mr. Harper
went so far as to pledge himfeit on the dis
covery of some terrific plan, which had near
ly arrived to a completion ; he said in Con
gress, that he had the “ clues," and prom
ised soon to disclose all the mysteries of a
treasonable combination. The party went
on from one species of alarm to another,
till at length the cry of danger became so
familiar, that the people considered them as
the mere chimeras of a distempered brain.
Finding these projects would not answer
their purposes, recourse was at length had
to the all powerful weapon of Religion
This sacred cause was brought into opera
tion ; the people ^were told, that all honor,
honesty and morality were to be annihilated,;
that deism, atheism and impiety of every
kind were to predominate ; and to favor the
deception, a few Clergymen conjured up the
exploded publication of Robinson and^ Bar
ruel, to forward their fyttem of fanaticifm.
The Illuminati was the watchword of the
rartv ; but the principal light arising from
fubje&, served only to make a certain
Reverend D^or appear more confyouf
ly ridiculous. Sermons were published on
this occafon, and marginal notes introdu
ced, with the horrid dory of a desperate
combination in Europe and America, to o
^erturn all that is called godly.
Current prices of, per from to
D.C. D.d
ASHES, Pot, if fort, T. 125 o 0 6
, Pearl —l5O 0 155 0
Allum, C. 80 9 9
Anchors, fb. .0 12 0 9
Bread, Shipul Q 55° 650
Butter ty 014 017
Brimstone, ' C. 3 0 4 9
Beef, common B. 9 0 10 0
, mess; -- 11 0 11 50
"Beans', 'White bn. Ijp 1 66
Brandy,Spanifh 4thpr. G. 150 155
, .;Napfes4/b,r. -- 140 145
Barley, / ' bu. TO lld
; Brimftbpe, Roll , } C, 5 ° 60
.Corn; Indian ' -- ,P 75 0 75
, Rye 1 0 0 0
Caffiia• ' It 0 75 0 8c)
Cloves., /2, 0 2 16
Coffee — 0 20, ° 2 ,
Cheese, American -- 0 6 O L 6
Cotton, foreign fam -- 640 0 4$
, American 0 32 0 34
Cordage, Americas C. 15 0 16 0
, Foreign, — 13 ° 14 °
Chocolate, commori fb 020 020
, belt N^2&t-- 0 3°' 0 33
Candtes, mould -, 020 ,0) 22
, dipt —— '=* 016 018
'Coals, foreign Ch. 14 5 14 0
, American none, -- 0 ° 0 0
Copperas,'' C. 350 4 0
Cloth, Tow _ yd. 0 15 0 17
Duck, Ruflia, ifqual. Bt. 17 0 18 0
,Ra"en c — il 0 <2 0
FOREIGN BILLS.
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do. do. : : : 90 days, : .•do. : 3 a 3i do- d °'
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do. on Amsterdam, payable in do. 60 days, : : do. do. do.
©ID ^outij.
e< For modes of faith tefiery zealots fight,
H^ can't he wrong, whoje conduct's in the right."
NUMBER 18. VOL. III.]
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Current prices of per front to
D. C. D. C.
Flaxseed, rough bu. 095 1 2
Fifli, Merchant, €. 417 433
,W. India mark. -- 35 0 4 0
Scale 2 75 3 0
Salmon none 13. 11 0 0 0
Mackerel .—SO 6 0
Flour, .taper, frefh .J''" 9 U 00
, fine --850 0 9
CT middlings- ' —..B;b 8 6
, country C.,,4 0 4 0
Fuftick T. 45 9 ° 9
. . Bristol ct. loby 8, bx< 15^ 0 15 56
fl 9by-7, -- '4 0 14 5°
Bby 6, -- it 0 11 56
^) Hamburg ioby 8, -- 13 0 0 0
A.;;;:..< 7^.9, ,- >3 O °Q
Gun Powder ft )o 56 066
Geneva, Holland ifpr G. i 25 1 33
, Americanize „0 90 Q °
Hoops, hhd; 12 ft. M. 2.5 0 30 0
Hogs Lard jb 016 0 17
Iron, Philadelphia T. 135 0 139 0
, Ruflia -- 120 0 125 0
, Swedes none , 130 0 14° °
Logwood 'T.- 50 0 55 °
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. q 0 169
, dry -- 15 0 16 0
, red -- 850 bo
, sheet -- to 50 110
Lemons frejh bx. ii 0 0 0
Lumber, boards clear M. 17 0 18 c
, , merch. -- 12 0 13 0
shingles -- 150 2 55
The Illuminati influenza lasted about 18
months, and at length expired with a few
druggies, under the injudicious management
of this clerical operator. —Thus have this
party run through the several parts of their
political drama, and now are brought to their
ne plus ultra, which is, that the PreJident ts
an Infidel, and does not believe in the Christian
Religion.
This is the only ground on which the
party now stand, and'while they think the
people believe them, they take the, greater
liberty in their calumny and detraction ;
they alternately call him delft, infidel, and
atheilf ; they represent him as having a de
sign upon the religions establishments of our
country, and some are even so foolifh as to
believe, that all the meeting-houses will soon
be razed, the ministers ditcarded, and car
nage and plunder become the " order of
tile day/'
At this enlighted age, it is almost an af
front upon the good sense of the citizens of
the United States, to reply to the many ab
ferduies written against the President on this
fubjed. If Mr. jefferfon is destitute of
those virtues which constitute a Christian,
or a citizen, where is the man who is pof
fefled of them ? If honefly, integrity, for
bearance, humanity, benevolence and palri
otifm are the prominent features which de
signate a Christian, certainly no man within
the United States Rands more conspicuously
eminent. So far from having Religion,
he is a friend to all ; and instead of con
trading its influence, he is desirous giving
every man a right to worship God in his
own way ; he is not a persecutor of any
led ; he is not a defainer [of any parti
cular mode of worship ; he is not a fan
atic to scourge those who do not believe in
bis tenets ; he leaves every confidence to its
own biafs, and instead of controuling men;
as the arbiter of revelation, lie is anxions to.
place the adoration of the Supreme Being
and his attributes, on that basts of the hu
man mmdfron which alone it can or ought
to be erected.
If this is the charade, of the President,
why is he attacked with such severity and
©bplefale prices Current, at portfinoutb, jaeto^ampfowe.
CAREFULLY REVISED AND' CORRECTED, ON SAtURDAYt.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1801.
Gourfe of Grtbange, at Bottom
Current prices of per from to
D. c. b. c.
Lime, half hhd. 1 75 29
Leather, Soal, dried, ffi 0 <8 0 0
Molatles G. 045 048
Nutmegs ffi 6 0 650
Nail Rods jfearef T. ' 8 0 0 0
QI ^ M. 036 0 c
^ 6dfr'' ' -— 070 072
= J 6d, wrought — 117 ° '
< } tod, do. infpe&ed — 175 183
Z I 2od, do. do. — 240 25c
(Sheathing, cut C. 12 50 0 0
^fLiver ^B. 14 0 15 c
( s[Linked G. 1 0 1 5
Pepper lb °3 2 ° 33
Pork, best pieces B. 20 0 22 <
, common — 16 0 19 c
Peas • but 1 50 1 75
Pimento ft, 0 25 0 c
Pitch, scarce; B. 6 0 0 <
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 '
Redwood T. 55 0 60 c
Raisins /r^ calk 8 0 0 (
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 17 125
, Windward 3d pr.-- 095 ° c
Rice farce C. 6 0 65c
Rosin ' B. 550 6 <
Soap, white ffi 014 0 d
, brown -- 010 ol'
Starch, Poland It ) 0 25 0 3
, American -- o I2| 0 i
Sugar, Havannah C. 18 0 19 1
, East-India -- 14 0 0<
, Welt-India — 10 0 13 <
If some of the Clergy are opposed to him,
it would be more honorable to Hate their
charges. If he has violated the laws of so
ciety, why do they not come forward in an
explicit manner, and give the public a nar
rative of the whole tranfaaion. 1 his line
of condua would appear more manly than
to attempt to weaken the confidence of the
citizens in his adminidration by invidious
surmises.
The condua of Mr. Jefferfon through
life has been peculiarly amiable: his writ
ings are fraught with benevolence, and sole
ly intended to ameliorate the condition of
mankind, and to lead them to an improve
ment of all those faculties with which Hea
ven has blessed the human species. His cha
raaer, in Europe, hands in the molt elevat
ed position, and it is degrading to our coun
try to find men who assume the reputation
of " the learned" demean themselves by such
gross refleaions as are daily published in
the Palladium, Centinel, and other papers.
If the clergy are* alarmed at the delay of
Religion, can it have any salutary etha to
represent Mr. Jefferfon as the opposer of
the Christian system ? Will it persuade peo
ple to embrace the gospel, by telling them
that Mr. Jefferfon rejeas it ? It rather ap
pear to me, that it has a contrary tendency
—no manwili believe merely because Mr.
indecency f Why is he held up as \hefub
verter of Religion, when he gives such am
ple scope to every principle connected with
its establishment ? If he injures no man in
his religion, why should others injure him
in his # reputation ; if he is an immoral man,
point out his immoralities ; if he is destitute
of the chriftian virtues, let them be fpeci
fiedin such a manner as the people may
judge of his criminality ; if he has destroy
ed any houses of worship, or disturbed any
pious aflembly, let the circumstances be re
lated ; if he is prophane let the inHances ap
pear. This mode of procedure would be
candid ; but to defame the Cheif Magis
trate under the vague appellations of deist,
athieft and infidel, is unbecoming the , cha
ra&er either of a Christian, gentleman, or
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As President of the U. S. he is not called
on to make a declaration of his religions
creed ; if he was I am persuaded the molt
orthodox would not condemn it. General
Washington was peculiarly careful in this
particular ; among the variety of his publi
cations we find but little to lead us to a con
clusion of his religious tenets—and as the
Conftitiition does not even fugged any test
of this kind, it is proper that the President
should not bring himfelf forward in any
point of view on this ground. He is not
called on to administer any religious ordin
ances, and while he intermeddles with no
particular fe&,and promotes the rightsof all,
neither the clergy nor other individuals have a
right to cehfure him for his own sentiments.
Suppose the President should mak? a de
claration of his firm perfugfion ot the truth
of the Gospel, dill a difficulty would remain
among his oppofers as to the particular tenets
he maintained ; some would fay, that he
was a Roman Catholic, others that he was
an Armenian; some a Calvimft —in short,
Socinians. Quakers, Baptists, Univerfalifts,
Swedenbourgians, and even Sandamenians,
would be clamorous to know to what dec
trine he adhered. His declaration, there
fore, as to his belief in the Scripture, would
not remedy the evil, for points of faith are
often contended for, as- the avowal ot a gen
eral principle, if religion is tub: brought
Current prices of per from Io
D. c. D. c.
Sugar, Loaf ffj 027 028
Salt, St. Übes H. 6 0 7 0
, Turk's Island --7 0 7 0
, Liverpool — 45° 5 °
, Rock -- 75° 0 0
Steel, German lb 0 f 5 ° *7
, English -- 016 018
Salt Petre, rough -- °3° 0 0
Shot C. 10 0 io 50
fW.O. hhd. M. '25 0 28 0
^ I do. do. heading - - 28 0 30 0
>J WO. bbl. -- 10 0 12 0
< ; R. O. hhd. — 13 0 14 0
= I do. Shooks 066 066
[W. O. do. 1 20 1 30
Tin in Iheets bx. 18 0 2 o 0
Far B. 450 5 0
turpentine -- 4 0 5 0
sea, Hyfon Ib 112 120
, Souchong 085 090
, Bohea — 042 043
Tobacco, Jamesßiver C. 7 0 0 0
, Georgia — 6 0 4 0
Twine, sewing doz. 5^7 6 9
, seine — 5° 55°
.(Madeira G. 217 283
I Lisbon — 117 117
Z < Sherry, farce — 142 150
I Malaga none q.c. 31 0 32 0
'[Red Port farce —1 6.7 Retail
° (Redwood T. 60 0 0 0
0< Logwood -- 5° 0 0 0
^ [Fuftic — 40 0 45 °
Jefferfon disbelieves. His character as a
fcbolar, philojopher and reasoner, gives him a
reputation too high to be made the negative
of a principle, either of religion or any oth
er fuQct. If the people are told, that the
President does not believe the Christian re
ligion, it may lead many to conclude, that
he knows more than they, and that he has good
reasons for his difbclict. This kind of ar
gument may be fatisfaaory to some, and
thus, inHead of helping the cause of religion,
it may have a very unfalutury effea. The
Clergy in this particular are doing an inju
ry to the caule they are attempting to (up
port, and it is the height of fully to expert
to gain profelites by propagating with so
much avidity the infidelity of Mr J-ffcr
fon.