The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-11-17 00:00:00, page 1

OWotefale prices ©term,
at PORTSMOUTH, (N.^
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
ASHES, Pot, ift fort, T. 130 0 0 0
, Pearl — >55 0 * 6 ° °
Bread, Ship C. , 0 9 °
Butter Ib 0 16 017
Brimstone,, C. 3.0 4 0
Beef, common B.it o xi 0
, mess, — 13 0 13 5°
Beans white bu. 150 166
Brandy, Spanish opr. G.&l 56 15$
, , Nalies 41b pr. — 140 145
Corn, Indian -= 075 0 ,
A , Rye / —0 83 °9°
Caffiia It 075 ° %
ClovesG — 2 0 21°
Coffee .- 0 22 0 2 4
Cheese, American -- 0 6 % l 6
Cotton, foreignfarce -- 04 0 %45
, American — 033 ° 34
Cordage, American C. 15 0 16 °
, Foreign, — 13 0 14 0
Chocolate, common fy 020 0 2°;
, best Ni. 2&1„ ~0 3° o f
Candles, mould ?%; 0, 20 o^4
,dipt , 0 17 ,i 8
Coals, foreign ' Ch. 14 0 15? 0
, American none^-- 0 0 0 0
Duck, Russia, ijlqual. Bt. 17 0 > 8 6
, Ravens —ll 0 1% 0
Fish, Merchant, C- 433 45°
,W. India mark. -- 350 4 0
Scale . - 275 3 0
Salmon none, B. I, Q 0 0
Mackerel — go 6 c
Flour, super. frefh r 10 50 It 0
, fine -- IO 0 ° 0
, middlings rr-r 850 9 °
, country G^ <4 0 4 0
Fuftick T. „ b 0 6
Gun powder , lb °5" °66
Geneva, Holland tf,r U. 125 125
, American -- 0 75 0 °
Hogs Lard so blB .0 20
Iron, Philadelphia, T.ty„ b 145 Q
, Russia -&30 0 140 0
, Swedes 4-130 0 14 0 0
Logwood T. 50 0 55 °
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 15 o 16 0
, dry -^l4 50 15 0
, red • •+ 850 0 0
, ffieet -- -10 50 11 0
Lemons frefo bx.. 10 0 0 0
Lumber, boards clear M. L, ,0 18 0
, , merch. ^ll 0 12 0
shingles --Iso 255
Molasses 9.050055
Nutmegs ft)' o 6 50
Liver Oil B. 13 0 14 0
Pepper 0 33 0 34
► Pork, bed pieces Bi, 24 0 0 0
' , common — 20 0 2 3 0
'Peas + bu. 1 50 1 75
Pimento lb ° 2 3 10 25
Pitch, farce, 8,6 0 00
Paper, Sheathing 375 4 5
Redwood T. „^O 60 0
'Raifins/tf ;"<^k 9 0 95°
Rtim, Jamaica G, 117 125
, Windward 3d, r. — 095 1 0
Rice C- 675 7 ©
I Rosin , 1 B. 5, 6 0
1 Soap, white $Ol4 016
, brown -- 0 19. 0 0
Starch, Poland lb 025 030
, American — 0 12j 01,
Sugar, Havannah C.", 48 P% 19 0
, East-India •—. 14 O% " 0 0
-Weft-India a - no 1$ 0
, Loaf # ^ 028 029
Salt, St. Übes H. 6 0 650
/' , Turk's Island -6 0 675
~ Liverpool — 5 ° 5 0
, ,Rock . : . - 666 7 0
Steel, German lb o ify 017
, English -- 0 16, o ^8;
&t Petre, rough , — 030 60,
Shot C. 10 0 to 5,|
, Tar ,sv4s^ 5^
TuTpentinfc u ^~
fa)Hym lb< f z
, Soufrg* ' - 096 0 0
, Bohei - 040 ote'
Tobacco, James River C. 7 0 00
, Georgia — 6 0 0 0
Twine, faring doz. 567 , 6.0
< , seine Z. — 50 55 0
Wines, Madeira G. 3*7 283
Lisbon —1 25 113
Sherry, none •'— 166 107
Malaga fc^rc q.C. VO 32 Rf
Red Pofl/carre- 183 0 0
NUMBER 13. VOL, III.]
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The Republican Ledger,
OTbra gou fan tbefe ucai# relate fyll of rtiem u #Q are :
PATENT, AIR-TIGHT AGITABLE
LAMPS,
The peculiar advantage 0/ which is not only to
prevent frilling the oil; but „ being made
air-tight the oil is defended from the pres
sure of the atmofpbere, which causes st
to rife much lighter and further to
the burners, burn brighter and
prevents it from coagulating.
The above LAMPS are kept cotrftantly for fate,
JOHN BADGER,!
Tin-Plate Worker,
Opptfte Mr. Peirce's Bookstore, Da lei-frett.
Tin & Pewter Ware as usual.
==— — — ——
Hard Ware Goods.
H. & B„ Penhallow,
i ^Hove imported, inthe lap rebels from Liverpool
and Briflol,
&large and general assortment of
HARDWARE . ,
GOODS,
Which are now ready for file by wholesale
anti retail.
Portsmouth, 08. 26; rßoi. 6w.
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WOOLENS.
JAMES RUNDLET,
Hasjtyl received per the ships Fame and Hantonio,
from Liverpool,
A large assortment of
WOOLEN GOODS,
Direa from the manufa&urers, which he
is now opening and will fell by wholesale or
retail at a final! advance.
Nov. fa b ,
LOOKING GLASSES.
Received b, the Minerva from London, andfor sale
Jonathan Goddard,
Avery hanctfome assortment of
GILT AND MAHOGANY FRAME
LOOKING GLASSES,
Portsmouth, 00. 26, 1801.
, : . —_ —Q— —— — —- — ___— -
30 Day bills of Exchange on Lon
don,
50 bbls. Tar, Rice pr. talk; Salt
pr,hhd. Sugar pr. hhd<
BUT SALE cY
JOHN SALTER.
0^.26, 1801.
— ——; . id!full
New, Wholesale and Retail
SHOE STORE,
Tbe Ladies and Gentlemen of Ports
mouth and its vicinity, who wife to befutt
ed With SHOES and BOOTS, of the
sirs quality, and at a moderate price,
will pleaft to call at the fore lately
occupied by Burleigh & Rogers,
Congrefs-freet, North fide of
, Restate House, Portsmouth,
WttERE
ROB't MCCLEARY & Co.
HAVE FOR SALE,
An extensive and general assortment of
LADIES' & GENTLEMEN'S
SHOES,
—ALSO—,
CORDEVAN and SHEEPSKIN 44
800 T S,
Ladies' CORK SHOES.
A few Seal-Skin, Cow-Hide, and Leather
TRUNKS,
Os the bed quality. %-; ^4 ,-r .
^
As stria attention will be given, and the finalleft:
favor gratefully acknowledged, the, flatter
thenifelves they cannot but meet with
good encouragement from a gen
erous public.
Allowance made to those who ptirchafe by
!; Wholejale. „ .
Portsmouth, Sept. 28, 18001
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1801.
Mifcellan,.
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THOUGHTS,
QUARANTINES 0 LAZARETTOS,,
Addressed to the Health Officer of the port of
New-York, by Dr. Mitchell..
Concluded from tour lafl.
At Cairo fte narrow Greets are thronged
with patients ; several families live in one
hnufe, and a number of persons in each
chamber of it. (Ibfol&ge 340., Among
the poorer class, ip & villages on the Nile,
'the houses are commonly constructed with
mud walls, and with the fame muddy ma
terial are the walls of the huts ol the fc ,
tionary Arabs partly built. In such cirf
) umftances, how is it pofjible to avoid pefti-
Lntial distempers ? The proof is as clear as
it needs to be, that the plague of Asia is not
propagated by a morbid animal secretion
like the virus of the small pox and other
contagions, but like the yellq.w fever of A
merica owes its exiftepce to the septic exha
lations which proceed from the putiefa&ive
procefifes going on in the clothing, cham
bers, provisions, excretions, and in, fhprt in
almost every thing belonging to the wretch
ed inhabitants. The common putrid efflu
vium is the exciting: cause of disease in both
cases. But as to contagion, there is not the
lead evidence of its existence. Sandys re
lates, (Travels, p. 27,) that the best of the
private buildings at Conilantinople, are in
ferior to the most contemptible of the Eng
l;fh. And as women are prohibited by the
Koran, to buy or fell, or shew themselves
Ipublicly, what must be their condition of
;domeftic economy 1
Notwithftandipg the locality of peftilen
- Itial Virus in all places favorable to its pro
du&ion, nations are railing at each other as
being lahars or lepers. It has been said that
the minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States at Madrid has presented a memorial
to the Spanish Government, the objeA of
which is to procure a mitigation of the ex
cessive rigor with which American vefels
are compelled to perform quarantine in the
ports of that kingdom. To this the Span
ish government have made no reply. They
intend doubtless to enforce the regulations
very ftri&ly to prevent the importation of
the Weftern plague from the Atlantic cities
of North America! We may think this a
grievance ; but it must be allowed the Span
iards a& confidently. There are Physi
cians, Merchants and Legislators among us
who declare the autumnal distempers of our
climate are contagious, and that ships, car
goes and crews "contain a great deal ofthat
contagion. Now, under such assurances,
added to their own prejudices, the Span
iards declare they will keep the evil out by
all possible means. , Arid who can blame
them ? They imagine their fixation is such
as to expose them constantly to the Conta
gion, of Plague from the East and of yeltow
fever from the Weft. This is an unhappy
sentiment ; but before the people of Ameri
ca complain of it, it becomes thetn to grow
!wifcr ihemfelyes. When they have cleared
the mote out of their own eye, they may
venture to remove the bean! from their bro
ther's.
Amide the oversights and blunders on
th'fe fubjeas there is another which de
feryes particular notice. This is the articlc
of provisions for human food, “ Provisions,”
fays Mr. Howard, " have never been fof
pe&ed of being infeaious." Therefore
they have never been fubje&ed to purifica
tion or dMlru&ion in any of the Ports of
the Mediteraneah Sea. While colons both
raw and manufiaured, was fubje&d to the
most rigid quarantine, beef and pork and 0-
ther articles of provisions were never thought
worthy of one moment's detention as con
taining any thing noxious. There is reason
to believe there was a great omiflion here ;
and the damage done bv the fluids exhaling
from corrupting provisions has been falfely
scribed to contagion and traced to Turkey.
—On this point yoy and I have a right 40
judge. America is a country abounding in
provisions, which are exported tb the great
er part of the commercial world. The
people of the United States are greater con
sumers of animal food in their diet than
oerhaps any civilized nation upon earth.-
Therefore as a great quantify of animal
food is con fumed, felted and infpeQed, and ,
much of w hat is infpe&td teafmwards@t+ ^
ported from our hot climate to the hotter
001*1 meniute, not fat Wton ought fa malke.
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM
Iregions of the South, we have opportunities
of knowing much about themin all thetir
Ivaries and degrees of corruption. We well
remember that the healthy town of New-
London was almost depopulated in 1798 by
the putrid vapors exhaling from corrupting
cod-filh, (Mled. Repor. vol. a—p. 462 and
403) Frompurifying hides, beef land lify
ithe fame year,,he town of Bolton, was poi
soned by septic effluvia (Ibid, p. 391—467.)
I The fame yen pur own city was rendered
' unhealthy ,y the gaffes emitted from larger
quantifies of rotten beef ; a pestilential dif-'
case broke out, and many of the inhabitants
loft their lives. These causes which poison
cities can render ships sickly and uninhab
itable. Several ships of the American Navy
have been already visited by mortal sickness
/ con sequence of provisions spoiling on
uoard. I have a very correct (Element of
sickness bred within a (hip on her flflage
from Liverpool to Philadelphia in conse
quence of a barrel of slinking beef flowed!
below in the steerage.—-And it is understood
to be an occurrence of course, that Ameri
can vessels which carry failed provisions to
the Weft-Indies or other foreign markets in
hot latitudes are most likely to loose their:
teamen by diseases. From these and. num^
berlefs other fa&s of the fame import it is
rendered very evident that provisions, tho'
not at all fulpe&ed of being infectious, are.
often changed by corruption into pestilential
air, spreading sickness and death to human,
beings within its influence. TheEuropeanf
have been so intent upon their fancied con
tagion that they have overlooked the pracefe
of Putrefaction almost entirely, and have
unfortunately ascribed to the former, thd
mifehievous effe&s occasioned by the lattera
From these sources the atmosphere be
comes contaminated, without the knowledge
and oftentimes without the belief of the peo
ple who breathe it : It is changed then from
an enlivening composition to a mixture of
poison, verifying the words of the Philo
sophical poet I<l
frit not dir
That from a thrnfand lungs reeks back to thin#
Sated with exhalations tank and fell.
The Jpoll of dunghills, and the putrid thaw,
Os nature ; when from Jhape and texture,fa
RelapJes into fighting'tleme{its;
' It is not air, but floats a naujeous tnhjs
Os all obfeene, corrupt, ofenfroe things,,
4RM§TRONG.
If thus the existence at contagion is dis
proved, the regulation concerning areas &
(lores for unladed goods and merchandize,
will be as plain and intelligible as the airing
of feather beds and blankets in ordinary
hotjfe-keeping, The chief attention (houid
be directed to corrupting provisions; human
excretions, clothing & bedding, arid to hides
and other things, which, when' they putrify,
are known to furnilh ptdileritial air. Ffom
these ships derive their unhealthy taints, ind
have been known to poison feverri f&cceffive
crews that have gone on board of them.
Vessels retain the peflilential taint, ' be
cause Ift, from their fthi&bre it is difficuft
to introduce a Sufficiency of frefh air to Waft
awaythe infectious gas' ; 2d, from the din
ner of their cohftruaion, ft is also exceed
ingly difficult to Scrub, fcower arid cleanse
them by lime and alkaltes, as houses are
purified ; and gdly, from the prepoftferous
custom of pronouritirig a vessel deafa/g
(he has been pumped out and fumigated
with ta arid brimstone; while, in ha, ife
is aS foul after being flunked as she was be
fore. The negligence of navigators and
owners of vessels on thefe-pdihts, rertders it
abfokrtely peceflkry sot public authority to
interfere, AUthrf Ithink rtc&Tary in the
business, is, tbatethe neVef frilihg rtreth@
of house cleaning ffiquld be applied so ship
cleaning ; in the way thjtt you'have adopt
ed with such happyhiccef£ < And iffyti^e
shall arrive, when fca^vtiflels ffiall be kept
as cledft as genr&l habitations on ihg,ihifc
crews and paflehgers 4frfll foffc# qs ifafe $,
: infeafon Mid pestilence ; and then tM drety
-of importing diseases from foreign c^cir*
will be forgotten, pr infilled on no trfore as
a reality. And tifat fhisi^ not a mere con
jeaure, but a pfaaical fad, is confirmed
by the experience ts the; Dutch navigators ;
for the), carrying *M them to, lea, the
habits of that precise and unequalled clead
linefowh&ti prevails on Shore,ll the United
Netherlands, |ie- rarely or n^ver troubled
with the fe+ertb the plagues, and the infyc
tious didemptrs which incelLntlv barate
^a&mfcto^teto *