Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-07-27 00:00:00, page 1

Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C
ASHES, Pot, iflfort, T. 95 0 100 c
, Pearl 120 0 125 0
Allum, C. 8 0 9 °
Anchors, lb- 011 12 0
Bread, Ship C. 450 7 0
'Butter ft) 0 12 °^
Beef, common B. 9 ° 12 0
mess -- 13 0 x 3 50
Beans, white bu. 1 12 1 16
Brandy, Spanish 4^,r. G. 150 156
, Naples4^,r.-- 15° 0 0
Barley none, bu. 0 0 0 0
Brimitone, C. 250 4 c
Brimhone, Roll C. 45 0 5 °
Corn, Indian -- 075 °^°
Rye -- 095 1 0
Cassia lb 060 06 5
Cloves -1 33 0 °
Coffee - 0 20 0 22
Cheese, American -- 06 014
Cotton,foreign farce -- 040 0 0
, American -- 0 24 N 0 0
Cordage, American C. 14 0 ° °
, Foreign, -- 12 0 13 0
Chocolate, common ftj 020 0 0
, belt N0.2&1 -- 028 032
Candles, mould — 018 019
,dipt - 016 0 0
Coals, foreign Ch. 14 0 0 0
, American, -- ,7 0 18 c
Copperas, C. 35° 4 °
Cloth, Tow yd. 0 16 0 17
Duck, Russia, iftqual. Bt. 16 0 17 0
Thursday, July 4, 1776.
WHEN, in the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which have con
neaed them with another, and to assume, a
mong the powers of the earth, the separate
and equal Ration, to which the laWs of na
ture and of nature's God entitle them, a de
cent refpea to the opinions of mankind re
quires that they should declare the causes,
which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be felf-evident :
—that all menace created equal—that they
are endowed, by their Creator, with certain
unalienable rights—that amongthefe are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness—that to
secure these rights, governments are institu
ted among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed--, that
whenever the form of government becomes
deftrudive of these ends, it is the right of the
people to alter or to aboiifh it, and to insti
tute a new government, laying its foundation
on such principles, and organizing its pow
ers in fuchform, as to them shall seem most
likely to effed their fafety and happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will didate, that govern
ments long established, should not be chang
ed for light and trahfient causes ; and ac
cordingly all experience hath shewn, that
mankind are more disposed to luffef, while
evils are fufferable, than to fight themselves
by abolishing the forms, to which they are
accustomed. But when a long train of a
buses and usurpations, pursuing invariably
the fame object, evinces a design to reduce
them under absolute despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such gov
ernment, and to provide new guards for their
future security. Such has been the patient
fufferance of these Colonies; and such is n^v
the neceflity, which cor.ftrains them to alter
their former system of government. The
hirtory of the present King of Great-Britam
is a hiltory of repeated injuries and ul urpa-
Aions, all having in direct object, the eftab
hihment of an absolute tyranny over these
w^gg,
FOREIGN BILLS.
Bills on London : 30 days, : (Fur Cafo) par
do. do. : : : to days, : : do. ; para r pr. cent. dis.
do. do. : : : 90 days, : : do. : laif do.
Bills on Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 days, : : I| a 2 do. do.
do. on Amsterdam, payable in do. 60 days, : : do. do. do.
•
Declaration of Independence.
NUMBER 48. VOL. III.]
IN CONGRESS :
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY S. NUTTING; PRINTER OF THE LA WS OF THE UNI TED STATES.
U§cn gou ®au tbefe Breus relate fpea^ of tbem a$ t^eg are : noting extenuate, not set Baton ottfit in malice.
Republican Ledger,
AND
States. To prove this, let fa£ls be submit
ted to a candid world :—
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. c.
Duck, Ravens -- 10 50 11 50
Flaxseed, rough bu. 1 0 1 5
Filh, Merchant, C. 4 0 4 2 5
,W. India mark. -- 325 350
Scale -- 225 233
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 0
Mackerel — 75° 8 0
Flour, super. frefh -7 0 0
, fine -- 650 0 0
, middlings -- 6 o 0 0
, country C. 375 4 0
Fuftick T. 45 0 0 0
. r Bristol cr. loby 8, bx. 15 50 16 0
✓] gby y, — 14 0 0 0
Bby6, -- 11 0 11 50
^) Hamburg ioby 8, -- 13 0 13 50
' 7 b y9, -- 12 0 12 5c
Gun Powder ffi 050 0 55
Geneva, Holland iflprG. 1 5 0 0
, Americanize -- 090 0 0
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 0 0
Hogs Lard $ 012 0 14
Iron, Philadelphia T. 130 0 0 0
, Russia —lls 0 120 c
, Swedes -- 125 0 130 0
Logwood T. 40 0 _45 0
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 16 0 0 <
, dry -- 15 0 0 0
red - 866 9 0
, ffieet — 11 0 0 0
Lumber, boards clear M. 16 0 17 0
, , merch. -- 9 ° 9 5°
shingles / — 150 220
He has refufed his assent to laws the most
wholesome and neceiTary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass
laws of immediate and pressing importance,
uniefs fuf,ended in their operation, till his
assent should be obtained ; and when so ful
pended he has utterly neglected to attend to
them.
He has refufed to pass other laws for the
accommodation of large diftrias of people,
unless these people would relinquish the right
of'reprefentation in the legislature ; a right
inellimable to them, and formidable to ty
rants only.
He has called together legislative bodies, at
places unusual, uncomfortable, 'and dirtant
from the depository of their public records,
for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into
compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved reprefentatiye houses re
peatedly, for opposing, with manly firmnefs,
his invalions on the rights of the people.
He has refufed for a long time, after such
dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ;
whereby the legislative, powers, incapable of
annihilation, have returned to the people at
large for their exercise ; the state remaining,
in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers
of invasions from without, and convulsions
within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the popu
lation of these States ; for that purpose ob
ftruaing the laws for naturalization of for
eigners ; refuting to pass others to encour
age their migrations hither, and raising the
conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obftru&ed the administration of
justice, by refuting his assent to laws for es
tablishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will
alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the
amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices,
and sent hither swarms of officers, to harrafs
our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace,
Handing armies, without the consent of our
legiflaturcs-
©bolefale Prices Current, at Portsmouth, Beto-lpampfyice.
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS.
—^iK^^cg^^g^^^Q+mfo
TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1802.
dourfe of Change, at Cotton,
He has affeded to render the military in
dependent of and superior to the civil power.
He has combined with others to fubjed us
to a jurifdiaion foreign to our constitution
and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving
his assent to their ads of pretended legisla
tion:
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among us:
For protesting them, by a mock trial,
from punishment for any murders which
they should commit on any of the inhabi
tants pf these states :
For cutting off our trade with all parts of
the world :
For imposing taxes on us without our con
sent :
For depriving us in many cases, of the be
nefits of trial by jury :
For transporting us beyond sea, to be tried
for pretended offences.
Fgr abolishing the free system of English
laws in a neighboring province, establishing
therein an arbitrary government, and en
larging its boundaries, so as to render it at
once an example and fit instrument for in
troducing the fame absolute rule into these
colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing
the most valuable laws, and altering funda
mentally the forms of our government :
For suspending our own legislatures, and
declaring themselves inverted with power to
legrflate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by de
claring us out of his protection, and waging
war against us.
He has. plundered our seas, ravaged our
coarts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the
lives of our people.
He is, at this time, transporting large ar
mies of foreign mercenaries, to complete the
works of death, desolation and tyranny, al
ready begun'with circumflances of cruelty
"and perfidy, scarcely paralelled in the most
batbarous ages, and totally unworthy the
head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained bur fellow-citizens,ta
ken captive on the high seas, to bear arms a
gainst their country, to become the execu-
INLAND BILLS.
Bills on Baltimore, 30 days fight, (For Cash) 1 per cent dis.
do. Philadelphia, • . : : do. : do. do. do.
do. New-York, : : do. : do. 'do# do.
do. Philadelphia, orl , , ~
New-York, f 6 ° da y s > • do - 2 do#
N. B, Bills at shorter fight, proportionably higher.
Current prices of per from to
D. c. D. c.
Lemons frefo bx. io o II o
Lime, half hhd. 1 75 2 0
Leather, Soal, dried, ft) 020 0 0
Molasses G. 040 044
Nutmegs lb 5 ° 55°
Nail Rods scarce C. 75° 80
f^lcrf M - 0 34 0 c
to I 6dj ' — 066 0 0
^J 6d, wrought — 117 0 0
< I lod, do. infpe&ed— 175 180
Zi I 2od, do. do. — 245 250
(Sheathing, cut C. 0 0 11 50
4 J Liver none B. 14 0 0 0
Q^Linfeed 'G. 1 8 112
Pepper lb 028 0 0
Pork, best pieces B. 20 0 0 0
, common -- 14 0 15 0
Peas bu. 1 25 1 50
Pimento lb 0 20 0 0
Pitch, B. 6 0 0 0
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 0
Redwood 1• 55 0 60 0
Raiftns /r^ calk 850 o c
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 0 0 0
, Windward 3d pr.-- 080 0 0
Rice scarce C. 6 0 0 0
Ro fin Scarce B. 45° 0 0
Soap, white ft, 014 016
, brown — 010 012
, cattle — 017 0 0
Sugar, Havannah C. 17 0 0 0
, East-India -- 12 0 13 0
, Weft-India — 9 0 12 0
[1 DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
tioners of their friends and brethren, or to
fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic infurre&ions a
mong us, and has endeavoured to bring on
the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merci
less Indian savages, whose known rule of
warfare is an undistinguished deftruCtion of
all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every Rage of these oppressions we have
petitioned for redress in the most humble
terms ; our repeated petitions have been an
swered only by repeated iijury. A prince,
whose character is thus marked by every aCt
which define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler
of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions
to our British brethren. We have warned
them, from time to time, of attempts by their
legislature to extend an unwarrantable juris
diction over us. We have reminded them
of the circumstances of our emigration and
settlement here. We have appealed to their
native justice and magnanimity, and we have
conjured them by the ties of their common
kindred to disavow these usurpations, which
would inevitably interrupt our connections
and correspondence. T hey too have been
deaf to the voice of justice and of consangui
nity. We must therefore, acquiesce in the
necessity, which denounces our reparation,
and hold them as we hold the rest of man
kind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
Wetherefore, the representatives of the
United States of America, in General Congress
assembled, appealing to the supreme judge of
the world for the reaitude of cur intentions,
do, in the name, and by the authority of the
good people of these colonies, solemnly pub
lish and declare, that these United Colonies
are and of right ought to be, Free and Inde
pendent States, that they are absolved from all
allegiance to the British crown, and that all
political connection between them and the
Rate of Great-Biitain, is, and ought to be,
totally dissolved ; and that as Free and Inde
pendent States, they have full power to levy
war, conclude peace, contraQ alliance, ef
fablifh 'commerce and to do all other aCts
and things which Independent States may of
right do. And for the support of this decla
ration, with a firm reliance an the prete^ioa
Current prices of per from to
D. C D. c.
Starch, Poland lb 017 0 0
, American -- o I2| 017
Sugar, Loaf lb 0 25 0 0
Salt, St. Übes scarce H. 6 0 0 0
, Turk's Bland -- 6 0 6 0
, Liverpool --4 50 5 o
, Kock —7 0 0 0
Steel, German lb 0 14 0 0
, English — 016 018
Salt Petre, refined — 025 0 0
Shot Patent, C. 11 0 0 0
. fW.O. hhd. M. 24 0 26 0
^ I do. do. heading -- 26 Q 28 0
>) W. O. bbl. — 10 0 12 co
<IR. O. hhd. -- 10 0 11 7-
I do. Shooks 066 0 0
(W. O. do. 120 [go
Tin in fhects bx. 18 o 2 0 0
Tar B. 325 0 0
Turpentine — 4 0 4co
Tea, Hyfon lb. 1 10 0 0
. , Souchong -- 065 0 0
, Bohea -- 033 034
Tobacco, Jamesßjver C. 7 0 00
, Georgia - - 550 6 0
Twine, sewing doz. 5 0 55°
, seine — 50 550
m (Madeira G. 217 283
^ \Lisbon scarce, — 140 0 0
Z < Sherry, — !'7 120
| Malaga scarce q.c. 32 0 0 0
(Red Port - = 140