Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-10-05 00:00:00, page 1

1 Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C
/ASHES, Pot, iftfort, T. 110 0 115 0
, Pearl -- 120 0 125 0
Allum, C. 8 0 9 0
Anchors, so • 0 11 12 0
Bread, Ship C. 450 7 0
Butter lb 0 12 013
Beef, common B. 9 0 12 0
nicfs -- 13 0 '3 5°
Beans, white bu. 1 12 1 16
Brandy, Spanish 4th pr. G. 180 185
, Naples 4t/>pr. — 175 1 80
Barley bu. 75 0 83 0
Brimstone, C. 250 4 0
Brimstone, Roll C. 450 5 °
Corn, Indian — 080 083
Rye — 083 088
Cassia Ib 060 065
Cloves -1 33 0 0
Coffee -- 0 20 0 22
Cheese, American — 0 6 014
Cotton, foreign Jr^rce -- 040 0 0
, American -- 0 23 024
Cordage, American C. 12 0 13 0
, Foreign, — It 0 12 0
Chocolate, common lb 020 0 0
,best N^2&l -- 028 033
Candles, mould — 018 019
, dipt — 016 0 0
/Coals, foreign Ch. 14 0 o + 0
I , American, -- 17 0 18 0
Copperas, C. 350 4 0
ICloth, Tow yd. 016 017
/Duck, Russia, i/?fua/. Bt. 16 0 17 o|
What h a Federal Republic ?
“ SEVERAL foverign and independent
" States may unite themfelvcs together by a
" perpetual confederacy, without each in
" particular ceasing to be a perfc& Rate.
“ They will form together a Federal Re
« püblic : the deliberations in common will
" offer no violence to the sovereignty of each
<< member, though they may, in certain ref
“ pefls, put some constraint on the exercise
,of it, in virtue of voluntary engage
" ments." — Mattel.
"As to the compound governments,
<< formed by the perpetual confederacy of
<' several Rates, it is to be observed, that this
« is the only method by which several small
<< governments, too weak to maintain them
<' selves feperately against their enemies,
" are enabled to preserve their liberties.
«' These confederate Rates engage to each
« other only to exercise, with common con
-66 sent, certain parts of the sovereignty, cf
« pecially those which relate to their mutu
“al defence against foreign enemies. But
<< each of the confederates retains an entire
<< liberty of exercising, as it thinks proper,
" those parts of the sovereignty, which are
“ not mentioned in the treaty of union, as
“ parts, that ought to be exercised in com
“ mon."— Burlamaqui.
Such being the definition of a Federal
Republic, a comcife consideration of the na
ture cf our government, and a few observa
tions on the administration of it, will lead
ns to form a just opinion of who are real
Federalißs. The States of America were
once Colonies of Great-Britain. On the
4th of July, 1776, the Representatives of the
United States, in general Congress assem
bled, difelved the political bands which had
conb^ded os with Great-Britaiu, and fo
lemnlv declared, " that these united Colonies
are, and of right “ ought to be, free and in
dependent States."— And here it may not be
amiss to notice in tranfittf, that among o—
ther reasons for our separation, it is laid,
v He has created a multitude of new Officers
FOREIGN BILLS.
Bills on London : 30 days, : {For Cajh) par
do. do. : : : 60 days, : : do. ; 1 pr. cent. dis.
do. do. : : : 90 days, : : do. : 1| do.
Bills on Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 days, : : 2 do. do.
do. or Amsterdam, payable in do. 60 days, ; : do, do. do.
NUMBER 6. VOL. IV.]
Course of Grebange, at tootton,
From the Chronicle.
Republican Ledger,
' AND.
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY S. NUTTING, PRINTER OF THE LA WS OF THE UNI TED STATES.
CTben [ou fyall tbefe Beets relate speak of tbem as tie? are :
Current prices of per. froth to
D. C. D. C.
Duck, Ravens -- 10 50 11 50
Flaxseed, rough bu. 1 0 1 5
Fish, Merchant, C. 4 0 425
,W. India mark. — 325 350
Scale -- 225 233
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 0
Mackerel — 75° 3 0
Flour, super. frefh — 75° 8 0
, fine — 650 7 0
, middlings -- 6 0 650
, country C. 375 4 0
Fuftick T. 45 0 0 0
. Bristol cr. loby 8, bx. 15 50 16 0
^\ 9 b Y 7, — 14 0 0 0
Bby 6, — II 0 11 50
) Hamburg 10 by 8, -- 12 0 12 50
' 7byg, — 12 0 0 0
Gun Powder lb 0 50 0
Geneva, Holland isl pr G. 1 17 1 20
, American — 090 094
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 0 0
Hogs Lard lb 012 0 10
Iron, Philadelphia T. 130 0 0 0
, Russia —lls 0 ion A
,Sweden —l2O 0 -?$ 0
Logwood 1. 40 0 45 0
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 16 0 0 0
, dry — 15 0 0 0
, red — 866 9 0
, ffieet -- II 0 0 0
Lumber, boards clear M. 16 0 17 0
, , merch. -- 9 0- 9 c
Singles — 1 5° 2 2c
" and sent hither /warms of Officers, to har
" rafs our people and eat out their substance.
In November, 1777, Congress proposed
“ Articles of Confederation and perpetual
Union" between the States, then thirteen,
the firft article of which was, “ Ibe flyle of
"this Confederacy Jhall be the United
States of America." Art. 3d, “ The
said States hereby severally enter into a firm
league of friendfhip with each other, for
their common defence," &c. The said
Articles were not finally ratified till the ift
of March, 1781 ; the Rate of Maryland hav
ing, by their members in Congress, on that
day acceeded thereto, and completed the
fame. Thus we confederated as free, sover
eign and independent States, for our mutual
fafety, and became truly and really a Fed
eral Republic, and the People of the said
States were almost universally Federal Re
publicans. But let the truth be confeffed,
the bond of federalifm was weak, and
though intended for durability vas made of
such fluff as was not fufficiently cohesive ;
there was not enough of power given to the
Federal Government to answer all the pur
poses of the Confederation. All became
sensible of this, and wilhed the band Rreng
thened ; therefore a convention was had to
amend, add to, and strengthen the Confeder
ation. This Convention) inßead of propo
sing additions to, and amendments of the
Confederation, proposed and offered to the
People for their acceptance and ratification
a new form of Government, or a Cenftitu
tion of Government ; which having received
the assent and ratification of the several States
is now in the Constitution of government un
der which we live. Upon its firft proposal
to the People, there were, it is true, num
bers in every State of the Union who were
opposed to its adoption ; not because they
were opposed to aConfederation or a Federal
Republic, but because they thought they saw
in this new form, an insidious attempt to
consolidation, or making one sovereign au
thority in all refpe&s, and reducing the se
veral States to mere subordinate corpora
tions. The framers of this Constitution,
well knowing that the People were, as I
CTbotefate prices Current, at portfmoutb, ^eto-lpampfyire,
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1802.
»<,„,>-►>•
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, or ] ,
New. York, „ o da ' s > : do 2 do -
N. B. Bills at shorter fight, proportionably higher.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Lemons frejh (farce) bx. io o II o
Lime, half hhd. 1 75 2 o
Leather, Soil, dried, lb 020 0 0
Molasses G. 040 043
Nutmegs lb 5 0 5 5°
Nail Rods frarci t C. 7 50 0 0
r 4 M ' °34 0 0
zI 6dJ ' -- 066 0 0
^ I 6d, wrought -- 117 0 0
< ) lod, de infpe&ed — 175 0 0
Z< I 2od, de . do. -- 240 245
(Sheathijg, cut C. 0 0 II 50
^ f Liver none B. 14 0 0 0
QiLinfeed G. 133 0 0
Pepper lb 028 0 0
Pork, belt pieces B. 24 0 0 0
, common -- 18 0 20 0
Peas bu. 1 25 1 50
Pimento lb 020 0 0
Pitch, B. 6 0 do
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 °
Redwood T. 55 0 60 0
Raifins/tf calk 8 50 9 0
Rum.,Jamaica G. 1 0 0 0
, Windward 3d pr.-- 080 085
Rice scarce C. 6 0 0 0
Kofin scarce B. 450 0 0
Soap, white ffi 014 010
, brown -- 010 016
, castle -- 017 0 2
Sugar, Havannah C. 17 0 0 0
, East-India — 12 0 12 50
, Welt-India — 9 0 12 0
have before observed, almost universally fed
eral (federal was the favorite of all true A
mericans) they never wilhed the league bro
ken, or a link of the chain that united us t<
be loft, therefore called it the Federal Con-
Ritution, whereas in truth and in fad man}
of its features were totally repugnant to fuel
a government, and is a government, orci ge
neris, approaching, to be sure, nearer a
Federal government than any other so;
which we have an appropriate name, and
therefore so called—and, being so called,
has attached to it the great boby of the Ame
rican People, who are now really and truly
friends to this Conßitution, and with to pre
serve especially every federal feature in it.
The next queßion then is who are the real
Foderalifts) MODERA TUS.
From the Baltimore African.
It is presumed all the abuse, written and
said against Mr. Jefferfon, is not so much
with a view to correct vitious practices, and
reform alledged moral depravity, as, by
bringing him into disrepute, thereby to de
prive him of a feat at the next Presidential
Eledion, It is a little singular that that
gentleman, who has filled for so long a time
so many important offices in the Rate—who
has been loved by his acquaintance for his
suavity of manners and friendlinefs of dispo
sition—who has been fop thirty years in va
rious capacities, the repository of his coun
try's confidence, grounded on a conviaion of
his attachment to her intereft —who has been
the pride of America, and the admiration of
Europe —we fay it is remarkable that in the
course of a single twelve months, he should
be declared the veriest mifereant in the land
over which he has been called to preside.
Till latterly, Mr. J. has always been re
puted not only a very learned fcholhr and a
ble politician, but also a very exemplary and
moral man. He is perhaps better known as
a politician and philosopher in Europe, than
any other perUn to whom this country has
given birth —ls it be any praise, so he has
lately been spoken of by one of the Cabinet
in England—When he - was fen, as our
mottling extenuate, nor fee baton oug^t in malice.
[1 DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
Minister to the court of Versailles, the lit
tleness of a grovelling party spirit, did not
preside over the ap^ointmeQ When he
was nominated by Congress one of a com-?
mittee to draft a Daclaration of Independ
ence, he was not thought by them a tymid
wavering charaaer—When by that com
mittee itfelf he was named as the fitteft a
mong them, to pen the instrument, he was
not fufpeaed of hostility to the nation : and
when that date paper actually made its ap>
pearance in the World, puerility of thought
and imbecility of expreUion, were not dee
med (on either fide of the water) its mo±
charaaerißic features—When he was fc
leaed from among his fellow citizens by the
illuftfious Washington, to (land at his right
hand, to give him council, and fill the poll,
next to his own, the molt refponfibie and
difficulty in government, he was not consid
ered altogether destitute of merit—when he
was elected to preside over wisdom hfelf,
and was not supposed unworthy to succeed
the immortal Franklin and amiable Rit
tenhouse, in the firft honors in the gift of
the molt learned body in America, there Izas'
displayed a just tribute of refpea to tower
ing genius and modest worth —But, above all
when called in (he course of events and pro
c©fs of time, by the unbilled voice of the
people, to preside not over alittle corpora
tion,or learned society, but a great and grow
ing empire of independent citizens, there
is afforded such a splendid example of merit
rewarded, as gives the lie to the aritient re
proach of "Republican Ingrati
tude."
When there is. want of refpe&, in a fore
ign government, to the person of a minister
who represents at its court, sovereignty of
the nation from which he goes—it is always
a good reason for his immediate recal ; and.
sometimes has been holden a just ground for
war—But what will other nations think of
the United States, when they fee, not a
Minister, the creature of government merely,
treated in a foreign clime with perhaps con
ftruaive neglect —but the chief Magistrate,
the very head of the government itfelf. slan
dered and abused by an ill-bred and uo-
Current prices of per from to
.'D. C D. C.
Starch, Poland lb 0 17 0 0
, American -- 0 I2| 017
Sugar, Loaf 1b °24 0 0
Salt, St. Übes scarce H. 550 0 0
, Turk's I Gand -- 550 0 0
, Liverpool -- 4 0 0 0
, Rock --6 50 0 g
Steel, German 0 14 0 0
, Engliih — 015 017
Salt Petre, refined -- 025 0 0
Shot Patent, C. I1 0 0 0
. fW.O. hhd. M. 24 0 26 0
^ j do. do, heading - - 26 0 28 0
?!W. O. bbl. -- io 0 12 50
<'R. Q. hhd. -- 10 0 11 75
j do. Shooks 066 0 0
(W. O. do. 120 130
Tin in sheets bx. 18 0 20 0
Tar B. 3 25 0 0
Turpentine ' — 40 4so
Tea, Hyfon lb. 1 10 1 16
, Souchohg — Cfy ogj
, Bohen -=0 32 933
Tobacco, fcuiesiliyer C. 7 0 00
, Georgia -- 550 6 0
Twine, sewing doz. 5 0 550
, seine — 5 0 55°
- , Madeira G. 217 283
Lilbon fare, — 146 0 0
Z < Sherry, — 120 12^
> Malaga Scarce q.c. 31 a 032
(Red Port — 142