Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-09-27 00:00:00, page 1

THE President and Dife^ort of
the NEW-HAMPSHIRE FIRE and
MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY,
hereby give notice, that the Amount 'of their
Capital Stock is Two Hundred Thoujand
Dollars, of which Fifty Thousand Dollars,
being the firft Instalment, is already paid
and depofried; That they, have power and
authority on behalf of the Company, to make
Insurance against IFire oh Houses; Stores,
Goods, Wares and Merchandize ; also on
Vefelfyfright, Money,Goods and Effeas ;
and against Captivity of Persons ; and on
the Life of any Perfonduring his absence by
sea ; and in Case of Money Lent upon Bot
tomry and Refpondentia.
The Office is now open in the
east end : of Mr. Billings' house, near the
Parade, where they are ready to receive Pro
posals for and issue Policies in the name and
behalf of the aforefaid Company, to any a
mount, on any one rifle not exceeding Fifteen
Thousand Dollars.
By Order of Direßors.
1, Samuel Ham, President.
Portfmeutb, N. H. Adguft 16, 1803.
; Benjamin Evans,
Tin-Plate Worker,
Respectfully informs the Public
that he has taken a (hop in Ladd street
opposite Col. Ladd's store.,
Where be makes and'keeps consl antly for sale,
a general assortment of
TIN WARE,
wholesale and retail, at the lowest prices.
Alfo —a bandfome assortment of
Japanned Ware,
wb'ch being of his own manufacture, will
be 'fold much cheaper than imported.
N. B. Cdh or any of the above article
given for old Pewter and Lead.
CASH given for clean linen and
cotton and linen RAGS, at this office.
Current prites ts ft, from to
D. C. b. c
ASHES, Pot, Iftform, T. 156 66 160 0
, Pearl — 156 66 160 0
Allum, C. 7 0 750
Anchors, lb # oil 12 0
Bread, Ship C. 4 o 6 c
Butter ft ) 0 12 014
•✓Mess B. 16 0 16 50
& ) Cargo No. 1, — 14 ° 14 5°
No.z, — »9b 12 0
© (Refufe — , ^ 8 0
Beans, white »• 10 1 10
Brandy, Spahilh 4th p^. G. 142 's°
, Naples4%r. — 125 133
Barley ' bu. 092 095
Brimitone, C. 4 0 45c
Brimstone, Roll C. 45° 5 °
Corn, Indian — 083 ooc
Rye — 083 087
Cassia 1b 00 060
Cloves -- 133 * 4^
Coffee — 0 28 0 29
Cheese, American -- 0 7 o ri
Cottonf oreign /carce -- 033 040
, American -• 0 0 ° 2 5
Cordage, American C. 0 0 >5 °
, Foreign, — 12 0 12 50
Chocolate, conimeh ft, 020 0 c
, best N0.2&1 -- 028 033
Candles, mould — 017 0 0
,dipt — 014 0 15
Coals, foreign Ch. 12 0 13 0
, American, -i, 0 0 0
Coppers, C. jso 4 0
Cloth, Tow yd. 016 017
FOREIGN BILLS.
Nilson London : 30 days, ; -(For Cafo) 2§ per cent. adv.
&. do. : f: To days, : : do. : 2 do. do.
,db. do. : : : 90 days, : : do. : parai do.
Bills on Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 days, : : par
do, on Amsterdam, payable in do. 60 days, : : 1 do.
NUMBER 5. VOL. V.]
NOTICEI
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY S. NUTTING, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
UZben pou WI tbefe tieelis relate fpeah of tljem ag the? are : Potting ertenuate, nor set boson ouglit fa malice.
Republican Ledger,
AND
THERE cannot be a greater judgment
,befall a country than such a dreadful spirit of
division, as rends a government into two
diftin& people, and makes them greater Gran
gers, and more averse to one another, than it
they were actually two different nations : the
effeas of such a division are pernicious to the
last degrees not only with regard to those ad
vantages which they give an enemy, bu
to {thofe private evils which they produce
iff the heart of almost every particular person
• This influence is very fatal with our mor
ale and their underGandings, it finks the vir
tye of a nation, and not only so, but destroys
even common sense.
A furious party spirit when it rages in its
full violence, exerts itfelf in civil war and
bloodshed ; and when it is under the greatest
restraint, naturally breaks out in falfhood,
detraction,calumny, and a partial administra
tion ot justice. In a word, it fills a nation
with fpleenand rancour, and extinguishes ah
the feeds ot good nature, companion and hu
manity.
Plutarch fajs, very finely, that a mar
should not allow bimfelt to hate his enemies
because, fays he, if you indulge this passion
on some occasions, it will rife of iifelt on
others I if you bate your enemies, you will
com rad such a vicious habit of mini, as by
degrees will break out upon theft who art
friends, or those who are indifferent to, you.
I might here observe how admirably this pre
cept of morality (which derives the malignity
of hatred from the passion itfelf, & not from
its objefti answers to that great rule whic!
was dictated to the world about an hupdrec
Qu moniet ut facias quod jam Jacis, ille monendo
Laudatt hortau cumproblif Oita fuo.
Ovid de Trift.
I Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C
Duck, Russia, xjiqual. Bt. 20 0 22
Duck, Ravens -- 10 50 115
Flaxseed, rough bu. 1 a 0<
Fish, Merchant, 'C. 450 5 1
,W. India mark. -- 350 0 <
Scale -- 275 3 <
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 <
Mackerel — 80 85c
Flour, super. freth —7 8c
, fine -7 ° 75'
, middlings -- 6 0 o c
, country C. 350 35<
Fuftick T. 35 0 0 <
.( Bristol cr.loby 8, bx. 15 0 0 <
9 b Y 7> - >3 0 >3 5 c
Bby6, -- 10 50 ii c
^ /Hamburg toby 8, -- 11 50 12 c
7by9, -- b 0 ii 5c
Gun Powder ft, 040 042
Geneva, Holland iflprG. 133 13;
, American -- 080 0 <
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 0 c
Hogs Lard lb 012 0 14
Iron, Philadelphia T. 115 0 fio <
, Russia -- 115 0 120 c
, Swedes —lls 0 120<
Logwood T. 40 0 45 c
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 18 0 0 c
, dry - & 16 0 17 <
, red — 11 50 12 <
, Iheet .-- 14 0 15 c
Lumber, boards clear M. 16 0 20 c
, , mercb.— 9 0 10 '
Mr. Nutting,
I gave you a few. months finee, a fortes of pa
pers on Party Spirit, which IJtncereiy wijh
my engagements would allow me to continue
tueekiy or even monthly. 1/ you think the
present paper worth insert ion it ought to have
its proper effect upon men's minds.
CTWefalc prices Current, at purtfmoutb, jaewpampfyice.
On PARLY SPIRIT.
Gourfe of Grange, at Gotten, September/,
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2% 1803.
For the LEDGER.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. cJ
Singles -- 150 2 50/
Lemons frffl bx. 90 10 50
Lime, hhd. 250 0 0
Leather, Soil, dried, lb 022 023
Molalles G. 046 048
Nutmegs lb 45° 5 0
Nail Rods 'fcarce C. 7 0 0 0
f^l t " °33 '° 0
ri I6d f cut> - 066 0 0
J 6d, wrought —io 16,
< 1 lod, do. infpeaed— 15° 162
^I 2od, do. do. -- 225 233
(Sheathing, cut C. o, fr o 11 0
^ { Liver Jcarce B. 11 0 12 0
O \Linfeed G. 0 0 142 I
Pepper lb 028 0 0
^ ( Bone Middlings, 20 0 22 0
No. 1 'l7 0 18 0
^( N 0 .2 0 0 17 0
Peas bu. 1 25 1 50
Pimento 1b 0 20 0 0
Pitch, B. 433 0 c
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 °
Redwood T. 55 0 60 0
Raisins /rg^ calk 8 0 9 c
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 0 1 ic
, Windward 3d, r.-- 90 0 1 0
Rice scarce C. 6 0 650
Rosin B. 450 0 0
Soap, white ffi 014 016
, brown — 010 0 16
, caftile-- 0 17 0 20
Sugar,, Havannah C. 17 0 0 0
, East- India -- 12 0 12 50
years before this philosopher wrote ; but in
stead of that, I (hall only take notice, with
a real grief of heart, that the minds of many
good men among us appear soured with party
principles, and alienated from one another in
such a maner as seems to be altogether incon
sistent with the duties either of reason or
religion. Zeal for a public cause is apt to
breed passions in the heart of virtuous persons
to which the regard of their own private
interest Would never have betrayed them.
If this party-spirit has so ill an effect on
morals, it has likewise a very great one upon
our judgments. We often hear a poor
insipid paper or oration cried up, and some
times a noble piece depreciated, by those w hb
are of a different principle from the author.
One who is actuated by this spirit is almost
under an incapacity of difeerning either teal
bkmifhes or beauties. A man of merit in a
different principle, is like an objed seen it
two different mediums, that appears crooked
or broken, however strait and entire it may
be in itfelf. For this teafon, there is scarce
a person of any figure in America who does
not go by two contrary characters, as oppo
site to one anothcras light and darkness.-
Know ledge and learning fuffer in a particu
lar manner from this Grange prejudice,
which at present prevails amongst all ranks
and degrees in this nation. As men
formerly became eminent in learned fo
cietics, by their parts and acquisitions, they
now diltinguifh taemfelves by the warmth
and violence with which they espouse their
refpeaive parties. Bocks are valued upon the
tike conliderJians; an abusive, feurriluus
ttyle paired for satire, and a dull scheme cl
party notions is called fine writing.
There isone piece of sophistry praCtifeo
by both Tides, and that is, the taking any
fcanda^us Gory that bad been ever whifpera
or invented of a private man, for a known
and undoubted truth, and railing suitable
Speculations upon it. Calumnies that have
been never proved, or have been often re
futed, arcthe ordinary poGulaiums of theft
intamo Icribblers upon which they pro
ceed as upon firft principles granted by al!
men, though in their hearts they know they
INLAND BILLS.
Bills on Baltimore, 30 days fight, (For Cassi) far per cent dis.
do. Philadelphia, — : : do. : i|a2 do. do.
do. New-York, *—, : • do.•. 1 .do. do.
do. Philadelphia, or 1
New-York, f 6O days, : do, I*2 do.
N. B. Bills at shorter fight, proportionably higher.
are falfe, or at best very doubtful. When
they have laid those foundations of fcurriliyy,
it is no wonder their fnperftru&ure is not
answerable to them. It this fhamclefs prac
tice of the prelent age endures much lon
ger, praise and reproach will cease to be mo
elives of action in good men.
There are certain periods of time in all
governments when this inhuman spirit pre
vails. Italy was long torn in pieces by the
Guelfes and Gibcilines, and Fiance by those
who were for and against the league : and
by successive factions thro' the revolution—
but it is very unhappy for a man to be born
in such a stormy and tempestuous season. It
is the reliefs ambition of artful men that
thus breaks a people into factions,and draws
several well-meaning persons to their inter
est, by a specious concern for their country.
How many honest minds are filled with un
charitable and barbarous notions, out of their
zeal for the public good ? What cruelties
and outrages would they not commit against
men of an adverse party, whom they would
honour and esteem, if instead of considering
them as they are } Thus are persons of the
greatest probity seduced into fhametul errors
and prejudices, and made bad men even by
that noblest of principles, the love of their
country. I cannot here forb ar mentioning
the famous Spanilh proverb: "If there
were neither tools nor knaves in the world,
all people would be of one mind."
For my own part I could heartily with
that all honest men would enter into an af
tociation for the support of one another,
against the endeavours of those who they
ought to look upon as their common ene
mies, whatever fide they may belong to.
Were there such an honett body of neutral
forces, we should never fee the worst of men
in great figures of life, because they are iife
tul to a parv : nor the belt unregarded, be
canle they e above practiling theie methods
which wcihd be grateful to their faction.
We Ihould then fiugle every criminal out of
ihe herd, and hunt him down, however for
midabic and overgrown he might appear :
on the contrary,we fhoold (belter diilreft in
nocence, defend virtue, however beset with
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
Current prices of per from ~
D. c D. c .
Sugar, Weft-India -- 10 0 12 o
Starch, Poland lb of ß 0 0
, American -- 0 I2| 017
Sugar, Loaf lb 0 22 0 22
□alt, St. Übes scarce H. 6 0 6 5,)
, Turk's Island - - 6 0 0 0
, Liverpool -- 5 0 6 o
, Rock -- 0 0 7 <>
Steel, German lb ° ! 3 ° 16
, English -- 014 016
Salt Petre, refined - - 034 040
Shot Patent, C. 14 0 0 0
„fW.O. hhd. M. 24 0 26 0
I do. do. heading - - 26 0 28 0
>JW. O. bbl. -- 10 0 12 50
< " ] R. O. hhd. -- 12 0 x 3 0
I do. Shooks 066 0 q
(W. O. do. 120 I ff)
Tin in sheets scarce bx. 20 0 2 4 <r
lar B. 4 0 0 0
Turpentine -- 4 0 450
Tea, Hyfon lb. 1 45 0 0
,_Souchong .-- 075 080
, Bohea -- 030 31 0
Tobacco, Jamesßiver C. 7 0 0 0
, Georgia -- 550 0 0
Twine, sewing doz. 5 0 550
, seine — 50 55°
. ^Madeira G. 217 275
Lifboh Jcarce, — I 5 0 0 0
z; < Sherry, — 142 1.50
I Malaga scarce q.c. 30 0 0 0
(Red Port — 142 150