Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-08-30 00:00:00, page 1

FOREIGN BILLS.
Bills on London : 30 days, : [For CaJb) : per cent, adv.
do- do. : : : to days, : ; do. : I§ do. do.
do. do. : : : 90 days, : : do. : par 4 1 do.
Bills on Hamburg, payable in London, at 6c d^s, : : par
do. on Amsterdam, payable in do. to days, : : 1 do.
From the National Intelligencer.
No. VI.
4 Refutation of the Charges ngainf the prefect
Administration, that their views and
meajures are hoftilc to the
Extern States.
FISHERIES.
There E oho fubjeCt not altogether uncon
foefrd with that we have just investigated,
in which the eastern Rates are deeply itereft
ed. Allusion is had to the Fifoef.es. Their
importance, as well from local as national
confederations, being undisputed, it is un
necessary to dilate upon it. It is Sufficient^
to pbfeive that the persevering efforts of the
reval nations of Europe to monopolize this
Valuable resource at a great and conftart ex
pense, prove the universal estimation in
which it is held.
D) the sentiments an'd measures of the
prefect administration of the genera 1 govern
ment evince hostility to the interests of the
©aftern states on this point ?
As to measures, those taken by antecedent
congresses remain untouched. Whatever
protection they furnished is preserved by
those now in power, if the former admin
istrations have merit, so has the present.
What the one devised the other has guaran
teed. So far the claims of both to popular
approbation are the fame. Th^re may be
teafan for commendation ; there is none for
cenfore.
The measures of both administrations be-।
jpg - likej it only remains to ascertain the# r
sentiments. It is natural to expe& ' rom
, ,eastern men a regard to eaf!ern jr t€re ft s
& far from condemning this fenfeent we
pronounce it praise worthy. A f&fo
for the papery of the bfr be
unavoidably fall byte , ^ bei so
ptural tn expea It trom fyj, „
from the inverted i r ,a„ ence of @ in ,„ e ft,
?,,fr< in them it becomes an ob-
' f ~ r approbation. In the ipftance
tel y «mfem m^p, we may approve the
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C
ASHES, Pot, if fort, T. 156 66 160 o
, Pearl -- 156 66 160 0
Allum, C. 7 0 750
Anchors, 1b- 011 12 0
Bread, Ship C. 4 0 6 0
Butter ftj 012 014
fMefs B. 16 0 16 50
) Cargo No. 1, — 14 0 14 50
No. 2, — 11 50 12 0
g (Refufe —7 5° 8 0
Beans, white bu. 1 0 1 10
Brandy, Spanish 4M pr.G. 1 42 1 50
, Naples 4th pr. -- 125 133
Barley bu. 092 0 95
Brimstone, C. 4 0 450
Brimstone, Roll C. 450 5 °
Corn, Indian — 0 83 oco
Rye .- 083 087
Cassia ft )0 0 0-60
Clovers— I 33 1 4^
Coffee , -- 0 28 0 29
Cheese, American -- 0 7 0 11
Cotton, foreign scarce — 0 33 0 4°
" , American — 0 0 025
Cordage, American C. 0 0 15 0
, Foreign, — 12 0 12 50
Chocolate, common ft, 020 0 o
, best No.a&i -- 028 033
Candles, mould -- 017 0 c
, dipt — 014 015
Coals, foreign Ch. 12 0 13 0
. American, — 17 0 0 0
Copperas, C. 350 4 0
Cloth, Tow yd. 0 16 0 17
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY S. NUTTING, PRINTER OF THE LA WS OF THI^EITED STATES
NUMBER I. VOL. V.]
^ben roti Sail tfre Seelie relate fyetrftof tijem as Q are : noting ertenuate, nor set tofan cufft in malice.
Republican Ledger,
AND'
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
•t. : : * 1 ■■——■l I —^j^- I nil —
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Duck, Russia, ijiqual. Bt. 20 0 22 0
Duck, Ravens -- to 50 11 50
Flaxseed, rough bu. 1 0 0 0
Fish, Merchant, C. 450 5 0
,W. India mark. -- 350 375
Scale — 2'75 3 0
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 0
Mackerel — 80 850
Flour, super. frefh —7 8 0
, fine -7 0 75°
, middlings -- 6 0 0 0
, country C. 350 355
Fuftick T. 35 0 0 0
.< Briffol cr.ioby 8, b%. 15 0 0 0
70 gby 7, - - 13 0 13 co
fa Bby6, -- 10 50 ir c
0 / Hamburg loby 8, -- 11 50 12 0
7by9, -- 0 0 11 50
Gun Powder ftj 040 042
Geneva, Holland if p'G. 133 133
, American — 080 0 0
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 0 0
Hogs Lard fb 012 0 14
Iron, Philadelphia T. 115 0 iAo 0
, Russia -- 115 0 120 c
, Swedes —lls 0 120 0
Logwood T. 40 0 45 0
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 18 o o c
, dry „ -- 16 0 17 0
, red , -- II 50 12 0
, Sheet -- 14 0 15 0
Lumber, boards clear M. 16 0 20 0
, , merch. -- 9 0 10 c
wisdom that difeerns his interest ; in that
of the southern citizen we mull in addition
admire the virtue that refpeas the intcrefts
of others.
Ifthere be a man in America whose in
formation, researches and services in the
proteaion and advancement of the fisheries
constitute him preeminently their friend, it
is our present Chief Magistrate. During
his embafly to France an opportunity pre
sented itfelf of manifesting with effect his
zeal and information. The fifoeiies of A
metica were in a Rate of deplorable deprcf
fion. Without encouragement frotn the
government of the United States; which did
not possess the means of protesting them,
they were scarcely able to Support a lan
guid exigence againSt the high premiums
and large temptations offered to their fish
ermen by other nations. They were also
without markets for a sale of their fifb and
oil. Both England and France having lai?
prohibiting duties upon importations by for
eigners, or bounties on the importations of
their own fobjeCts, that forbade all compe
tition. Such were the tinpropitio' jscircj/m
--danecs under which Mr. Jrfferfon com
menced his negociations -at the court of
France. All these he overcame, and ob
tained an arret to be passed on the 29th of
December, 1787, opening _ markets of
France on terms as favorable as could be
exited and coated (o create a demand
r ' nce t" '° u ™, revive the Ametican
fisheries.. Thetwo j r ft articles ,fthis arret
a *e a F , follow :
Article L
" Whale „il s and fpermaceti, the produce
of the fineries of the citizens and inhabi
tants Qthe United States of America,which
lh?'ti be brought into France directly in
French vessels, or, in those of the United
States, Shall continue to be jubjefted to a
duty only of seven livres ten sols the barrel
of five hundred and twenty pounds weight,
and whale fins Shall be fubjeCt to a duty of
only fix livres thirteen sols per four deniers
the kental, with the ten sols per livre on
each of the said duties ; which ten sols per
livre shall ccafe on the last day of December
©boleite prices Current, at Portsmouth, BettLpampWire,
Coutfe of Grange, at Lofton, ougufti 7 .
TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1803.
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS.
—> # 4.H|^^^^^^^,g^l>.>.»>—
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. c.
Singles — I 50 2 50
Lemons frejh bx. 9 0 10 50
Lime, hhd. 2 50 0 0
Leather, Soal, dried, ft, 022 023
Molasses G. 046 048
Nutmegs It ) 450 5 0
Nail Rods scarce C. 7 0 0 0
f4 d lcut M ° °33 0 °
to I 6dJ ' — 066 0 0
^I 6d, wrought -1 0 1 6
< i rod, do. infpe&ed -- 150 162
^ I 2od, do. do. -- 225 2 33
(Sheathing, cut C. 0 0 11 0
^ r Liver Jcarce B. 11 0 12 0
Q^Linfeed ~ G. 0 0 142
Pepper lb 028 0 0
± ( Bone Middlings, 20 0 22 0
No.I 17 0 18 0
q( N 0.2 0 0 17 c
Peas - bu. 125 150
Pimento ifo 0 20 0 0
Pitch, B. 433 0 0
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 0
Redwood T. 55 0 60 0
Raifins/tf cask 8 0 9 0
Rum, Jamais G. 1 0 1 lo
, Windw^d 3d pr.-- 90 o 1 0
Rice scarce ^ C. 6 0 650
Rosin , B. 450 0 0
Soap, white ~ ft, 014 016
, brown — 010 0 16
, cafti]e — 017 020
Sugar; Havahbah C. 17 0 0 0
, East-India -- 12 0 'l2 50
one thousand seven hundred and ninety;
his Maj,dy referring to himfelf to grant
further favors to the produce of the whale
fisheries carried on by the fifhermen of the
United States, of America, which (hall be
brought into France in French yeffels, or
in those of the United States, if, on the in
formation which his Majesty Shall cause to
be taken thereon, be Shalljudge it expedi
ent for the inteieft of the two nations.
"The other fifh oils,, and dry or salted
filh, the produce in like manner of the fish
eries of the citizens and Inhabitants of the
United States, a,d brought also dire&ly into
France, in theu, or in French vessels, (hall
not pay any other nor grerter duties than
those r o which the oils and fifh of the fame
kin^, the produce of the fisheries, of the
Hanfeatic towns, or of othorthe tßoft favor
ed Rations, arc or shall be fubje& in the fame
case."♦
Time bad hot been allowed to produce
this effect, when the French government,
alarmed at the situation of ihejr markets
which were deluged with Englifli whale oils,
on the 28th of September followings puffed
an arret prohibiting the importation into
France of all foreign oil. It was immedi
ately perceived by Mr. Jefferfon that this
measure would prove a death blow to the
hopes of our fifhermen. It was at this pe
riod, therefore, that he made his greatest ef
forts to inspire the French government with
liberal and friendly sentiments. The means
he used for this purpose will appear in an
informal memorial presented to the French
minister, and copies of which were impart
ed to the different European ministers then
at that court § for which purpose a few co
pies were printed, one of which now lies
before us. In this production will be found
the concentred talents of the philosopher and
ftrtesman. It is short for the magnitude of
the occasion that produced it, but ton long
for entire insertion. It will be fufneient
to illustrate the view of these eflays to make
a few extracts from it.
After an historical view of the fisheries
European nations, he remarks :
INLAND BILL^.
Bills on Baltimore, , 30 days fight, (For Cash) lai per cent dis.
do. Philadelphia, . : • do. : ~j| 4 2 do. do.
do. New-York, : : do. : 1 do. do.
do. Philadelphia, or 1 .
New. York, j>. 6o d ays, : do. 14 2 do.
N. B. Bills at foorter fight, proportionable higher.
—, „
' [I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
" The Nantnkois then were the only
people who exercised this fi'fherw to any ex
tent at the commencement <f the late war.
Their country, from its barrenness, yields
ing no lubfiftence, they were obliged to seek
it in the sea which surrounded then). Their
economy was more rigorous thari that of the
Dutch. Their Seamen, inflead of wages,
had a (hare in what was taken. This in
duced them to fiffi with fewer hands, so
that each had a greater dividend in the pro
fit. It made them more vigilent in seeking
game, bolder in putfuing it, @nd parsimoni
ous in all their expenses. London was
their only market. 'When therefore, by
the late revolution, they became aliens in
Great Britain, they became fupje& to the
alien duty of 181. ss, the ton of oil, which
being more than equal to the price of the
common whale oil, they were obliged to a
bandon that fishery. So that this people,
who before the war had employed upwards
of 300 vessels a year in the whale fishery,
(while Great Britain had hcrfelf never em
ployed one hundred) have row almcft cea fed
to exercise it. But they still bad the sea
men, the most important material for this
fifhery ; and they flill retained the spirit of
fidhin^ : so that at.the fe-eftablifhment of
peacethey were capable in a very fhmt timc ,
of reviving their fishery in all its fplcndor.
The British government saw that the mo
ment was critical. They knew that their
own (hare in that fifhery was as nothing.
That the great mass of fifhermen was left
with a natoin now Separated from them :
that these fifhermen however had left their
ancient market, had no other refeurce with
in their country to wh'ch they could turn,
and they hoped therefore they might, in
the present moment of diPrefs, be decoyed
over to their est abliibmenis, and be added to
the mat's of their seamen. To effect this
they offer'd extravagant advantages to all
persons v^ fhnuld exercise the whale fish
ery ft r an Brinth establishments. But not
cou 'uiug with much confidence on a long
Cnr^Aion with their remaining pofleffiors
on. the continent of America, forefeeing that
Ithe Nantuckois would fettle in them pre. <%.
Current prices of per from to
D. c D. c.
Sugar, Weft-India -- !o 0 12 0
Starch, Poland ft ) 0 18 0 0
, American -- o I2| 017
Sugar, Loaf so 022 022
Salt, St. Übes scarce H. 6 0 650
, Turk's ISland -- 6 0 0 a
, Liverpool — 5 0 6 0
, Rock -- 0 0 7 0
Steel, German ffi 0 13 0 16
, Englilh -- 014 .0 16
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
>J W. O. bbl. -- 10 0 12 50
<AR. O. hhd. -- 12 0 13 0
I do. Shooks 066 0 0
(W. O. do. 120 130
Tin in sheets scarce bx. 20 0 24 0
Tar B. 4 0 0 0
Turpentine -- 40 4 0
Tea, Hyfon lb. 1 45 00
, Souchong -- 0 75 0 80
, Bohea -- 032 0 0
Tobacco, Jamesßiver C. 70 °0
, Georgia -- 55° 0 0
Twine, sewing doz. 5 0 55°
, seine — 5 0 55°
- ^Madeira G. 217 2 75
$ \ Lisbon scarce, — 1 0 0
Z < Sherry, — 142 150
^ I Malaga scarce q.c. 30 9 0 0
I Red Port — 142 I<o