Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-09-07 00:00:00, page 1

Current prices of per f^, _ c
ASHES, Pot, iflfort, T. 95 0 100 0
, Pearl -- 11° ° 0 0
Allum, C. 8 0 9 0
Anchors, It' 011 12 0
Bread, Ship C. 45° 7 0
Butter lb ° ^ 0 ! 3
Beef, common B. 9 0 12 0
mess — ! 3 ° '3 5°
Beans, white bu. 112 116
Brandy, Spanish 4^,r. G. 154 1 5°
, Naples 4/b,r. -- 1 5° 0 0
Barley none, bu. 0 0 0 0
Brimstone, C. 250 4 0
Brimstone, Roll C. 45 0 5 °
Corn, Indian — 080 083
Rye - 083 088
Cassia lb °bo 065
Cloves -1 33 0 0
Coffee ^- 0 2° 0 22
Cheefe,American — 0 6 014
Cotton, foreign fearer — 040 0 0
, American -- 023 24 0
Cordage, American C. 14 0 0 0
, Foreign, — 12 0 13 °
Chocolate, common lb 0 20 0 0
% belt N0. 2&1 -- 028 032
'Candles, mould — 018 0 19
, dipt — 016 0 0
Coals, foreign Ch. 14 0 0 0
, American, -- 17 0 18 0
Copperas, C. 3so 4 0
Cloth, Tow , yd. 016 017
Duck, Rudia, IJlquaL Bt. 16 0 17 0/
FOREIGN BILLS.
Bills on London : 30 days, : (fr Cafo) par >
do. do. : : : to days, : : do. : i pr. cent, dis,
dJ do. 1 : : go days, : : do. : .41 ~
Bills on Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 #ay% : : 2 do. do.
do. on Amsterdam, payable in do. ) 60 days, - : do. do. do.
fflifcellon^
From the Aurora.
To % T. CALLENDER.
A conteß with you places your adversary
on a very peculiar ground. To approach
some animals is to be annoyed. Their fee
blcnefs excites pity, while their fetor for
bids contact. You unite the offenfivenefs of
these animals with a combination of nau
seous & repulsive immorality, seldom found
united in the human species. The mod
obvious truths do not always admit of de
monstration. But these truths muff be con
feffed by your warmest admirers.
Ofra queftiort of mere fact, who is the
tnah that would call on you as a credible
evidence. , On some occafiohs a simple fadl
may be brought into quehion by the death
of a witness. But how deplorable must be
the dependence of him who can obtain no
evidence but that of a man whose charaaer
is to all moral uses dead. Tobring you as
an evidence in support of fa& no man of
ordinary discretion or decency would at
tempt — it would be introducing a cadaver to
prove the exigence of odor. What then
tnuft be your condition as evidence for your
felf? Who but the most depraved and cal
lous of mankind would accept your testi
mony in your own case, when it would
damn any other cause in.which it should
be employed ?
Your 57th number has taught me to
question what 1 was before disposed to treat
fas matter of fa&. I have caught you
where I expected to catch you, trembling
and shrinking into yourfelf evading the
truths which you ought to have noticed, and
taking refuge in calumnies long refuted and
exploded, inllead of Handing forth in de
fence of your conduct or denial of its atro
city—You come forward with additional
calumny on the character whose charity
you have already repaid as you repaid Lord
Gardenftone.
This calumny I shall now expose, and
thofc who ^ your admirers will know you
NUMBER I. VOL. IV.]
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED ^Y S. NUTTING, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
©ten you (ball t^efe been# relate fyeak of tbem a$ t/iep are : Doling extenuate, nor set Doton oug^t in malice.
Republican Ledger,
= AND
©Curate prices Current, at PortCinoutb, J3cto@mptyi%
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS,
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Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Duc^ Ravens -- 10 50 11 50
Flaxted, rough bu. 1 0 1 5
Filh,Merchant, C. 4 0 4 %
,W. India mark. — 325 35°
Scale — 225 233
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 0
Mackerel — 75° 8 0
Flou;, super. frefh — 75° 0 0
, fine , -^ 650 0 0
, middlings — 6 0 0 c
, country C. 375 4 0
Fuftick T. 45 0 0 0
. , Biiftol cr. toby 8, bx. 15 50 16 0
„ gby y, — 14 0 0 0
<<Bby 6, -- II 0 11 50
) Hamburg ioby 8, -- 13 0 13 50
' 7byg, -- 12,0 12 5c
Gun Powder 1b 050 0,
Geneva, Holland ij? ,rG. 160 o o
, Americanize -- 090 0 4
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 0 0
Hogs Lard ft, oil 0 10
Iron, Philadelphia T. 130 0 0 0
, Russia —l2O 0 130 c
, Swedes — 125 0 135 0
Logwood T. qv V 1, 9
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 16 0 0 0
, dry — 15 0 0 0
, red — 866 9 0
b flieet --no 0 °
Lumber, boards clear M. 16 0 17 c
, , merch. — 90 9 0
shingles — 1 5° 2 20
better. You had indiredly assumed to your
felf the merit of a particular fpeciesof writing
which constantly appeared in the Aurora
during the latter part of 1797, and thence
forward, with little intermission, through
1798--9. I Rated that you were not the
writer of those articles, that you had not
the capacity for such writings, and that
your attempts were calculated to dishonor
the paper and differve republican principles.
You have not dared to notice or deny these
assertions, but why and how you have evad
ed them I shall now explain.
In 1798, I was employed by Mr. Bache,
as his afliftant for a certain portion of each
day, at ten dollars a week. The portion
of service I was to render was wholly at
my own discretion, and I was neither con
fined to place or time. The funds of the
Aurora did not afford Mr. Bache the ex
penses of a frugal establishment—not of a
family managed with exemplary economy.
He had expended a fortune of 20,000 dolls,
and was about to part with me through in
ability to make good the engagement enter
ed into with me. He proposed as an alter
native to raise a sum equal to my salary, by a
contribution of a numbet cf republicans living
in Philadelphia, and on the spot drew up a
written project with my confeht. It was re
ceived with fatisfadion and readily filled, and
I continued in thelranfaaion of his business
as usual, being afthe fame period engaged
in two other obje&s for publication, not of
a political nature. This was in the spring.
On an evening Mr. Bache requeued to
fee me. He Rated that he was about to
give me a proof of his esteem in a very un
common way, that was by requesting me to
relinquilh the salary, in order to defeat the
British minister Litton's overtures for the
,urchafe of Callender —that society was al
ready fufficiently disgraced by the groflnefs
of Porcupine, that Callender added to him
could not fail of ruining the morals and the
decency of the press ; the objed was now
to engage him for a time on the Aurora,
and as nothing could be published without
passing through Mr. Bache's hands, a check
iwould be kept on his vulgarity, and the ob-
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 71 1802.
Course of Grebonge, at Lofton,
INLAND BILLS.
Bills 0; Baltimore, 30 days fight, (For Cafb) I per cent dfc
do. Philadelphia, • • : • do. : do. do. do.
^.New-York, : : do. : do. do. do.
00, Philadelphia, orl 6< > — . 2 .
New. York, )''
N B. Bills at Shorter fight proportionably higher.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D, c.
Lemons frejb bx. Io o II o
Lime, halt hhd. '75 2 0
Leather, Soal, dried, lb °2O 0 0
Molalies G. 040 0 43
Nutmegs lb 5 ° 55 c
Nail Rods fcarce' C. 750 8 0
relent M ° °34 o 0
to 6d f ci "' - 066 0 c
^, 6d, wrought — 117 0 <
< I lod, do. infpeaed- 175 180
^ I 2od; do. do. — 245 2 5
(Sheathing, cut C. 0 0 II 5
-4 ( Liver none B. 14 0 0 <
Q(Linfeed G. 117 25 0
Pepper ft ) 028 0 0
Pork, best pieces B. 20 0 0<
, common — 14 0 15 0
Peas bu. 1725 1 5c
Pimento lb 0 20 0 c
Pitch, B. 6 0 o(
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 '
Redwood T. 55 0 60 0
Raisins /r^/Z calk 850 9 0
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 0 0 c
, Windward 3d pt>— 0 80 0 c
Rice fears, *C. 6 0 O c
Rosin fa% B. 450 0 0
Soap, whib ft, 014 010
, brotn — oio oib
, caftl -- 017 0 2
Sugar, Haannah C. 17 0 0 0
, Ejftlndia -- 12 0 0 0
,We-India ,-90 12 0
ject of the agent of Litton would be defeat
ed.
The fraiknefs of the proposal and the
manner of t, gratified me—l cheerfully re
linquished, and you, Mr. Callender, were
induced—uto the Aurora office infteld of
Mr. Liftor's employment.
These tanfa&ions took place in May or
June —who the Vice President was not
in Philadelphia. I was one of the firft con
sulted, an< l can fay that his name was
never menioned on the occasion ; the fub
fcriptiori vas expressly confined to a few
residents ts Philadelphia, who have no
cause to apprehend the publication of
their name, as they have never deserted
their politial or moral principles —and who
fooh after efufed to contribute if you were
any longer kept.
You were not kept, for I returned to my
former filiation in July, 1798 ; though
during the ix weeks, or thereabouts, that
you were employed, I through the medium
of that letter-box, which you remember to
forget, communicated those paragraphs
which you very modcftly wished to make
the motive tor the praise of a man, whose
charity you have tortured into crime.
This is a simple Ratement of the princi
pal lads involving your only connexion as
a writer with the Aurora. Your mode of
Rating it, furnilhes an additional evidence
of the incurable turpitude of your heart.
To serve your prefect employers, Mr. Jef
ferfon must be attacked. You began it
by imputing to him a desire to bribe, when
he had rescued you from the wretchedness
which your detestable habits constantly in
volve you. The public have execrated a
charaaer so insensible to emotions of grati
tude. They are astonished at your incon
sistency in imputing penury to any man who
could bestow an hundred dollars on a being
so miserable as you are.
But you have become sensible of the pub
lic indignation. You seek to cover one-de
gree of turpitude by stepping deeply into
crime. It is for this end that you have
ventured to assert that Mr. Jefferfon had
contributed to your employments ,pd the
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
various embellishments that accompany
your tale, while the circumstances them
selves prove your falfehood, and render eve
ry thing you assert unworthy of credit. At
the period of my engagement Mr. Jcfferfon
was not in Philadelphia ; I preceded you a
considerable time, and upon your difmiffiort
I returned. During all this period, Mr.
Jefferfon was not in Philadelphia.
Your present occupation (hews that what
ever the Briti(h Minister had conceived of
the effects to be produced by paying you, he
had not mistaken the profligacy of your cha
rader. In more than one point you were
suited to his views. Every means by which
the American name and morals are debased,
brings the nation into that Rate 0 hich is hos
tile to popular government. He employed
Porcupine for this purpose. You declared
Porcupine a prodigy, you envied his difeern
ment, and proclaimed his success as an evi
dence that the grossest indecency and vulga
rity of Ryle were alone calculated for the
taste of America—you endeavoured to rival
Porcupine —but you surpassed him ; the bloat
ed inebriety of your countenance, the filth of
your body, and the tortures of a cbward epn
fcience, have transferred their united vileness
into what you write—rendering you with
Arid propriety, the creature of ail that is a-^'
bandoned, and the natural enemy of all that
is unlike yourfelf. 'V. D.
utwrrCT —^^resa^^ —
From the Centinel of Freedom,
THOMAS'PAINE.
Wefts. Pennington and Gould,
HAVING seen for some time past, the
remarks of federal editors on a letter said to
have been written by Mr. Jefferson to
Thomas Paine, [This Letter was publish
ed in the Ledger of the 31/ ult.] and viewing
the bold effrontery with which they were
made, I was fearful that there was contain
ed therein something of a treasonable nature,
or at lead that he had expressed thoughts in
consistent with chriftianity ; nay, so high
was the coloring, that an impartial reader
would havebrn led tobdim that the Ptefr
Current prices of per from ty
D. C D. c.
Starch, Poland lb 017 0 0
, American —, o I2| 017
Sugar, Loaf ffi 024 025
Salt, St. Übes scarce H. 6 0 0 0
, Turk's Island — 55° 0 0
, Liverpool -- 450 5 6
, Rock — 650 0 g
Steel, German lb 0 14 0 0
, Englilh — 016 oiß
Salt Petre, refined -- 025 0 0
Shot Patent; C. 11 0 0 0
fW.O. hhd. M. 24 o 26 0
I do. do. heading — 26 0 28 0
> J W. O. bbl. — 10 0 12 50
<1 R. O. hhd. -- io 0 II 75
n do. Shooks 066 0 0
(W. O. do. 120 130
Tin in iheets bx. 18 0 20 0
Far B. 325 0 0
Turpentine — 4 0 45°
Tea, Hyfon lb. 1 10 0 0
, Souchong — 070 75 0
s , Bohea -- 03 2 °33
Tobacco, Jamesßiver C. 7 0 0 0
, Georgia — 55° 6 0
rwinc, sewing doz. 5 0 55°
, seine = 50 550
. , Madeira G. 217 283
3 j Lisbon scarce, — 140 0 0
Z < Sherry, — rl7 i2O
Malaga fafc# q.c. 31 0 0 0
(Red Fort — 140