Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-09-20 00:00:00, page 1

Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C
ASHES, Pot, 1)1fort, T. 156 66 160 0
, Pearl -- 156 66 160 0
Allum, C. 7 0 750
Anchors, it)- 011 12 0
Bread, Ship C. 4 0 6 c
Butter 11) 012 014
./Mfs B. 16 0 16 50
^ )Cargo No. I, - 14 0 14 50
' No. 2, — 11 5° 12 0
pq (Rclufe —7 d 0 8 0
Beans, white bn. 1 0 1 10
Brandy, Spanith ^thpr. G. 142 150
Naplcs 4 /b /r.-- 125 133
Barley bn. 092 095
Brimitone, C. 4 0 45°
Brimstone, Roll C. 450 5 0
Corn, Indian — 083 000
Rye -- 083 087
Cassia lb 0 0 0 60
Cloves —1 33 1 42,
Coffee -- 0 28 0 29
Cheese, American -- 0 7 0 11
Cotton,foreignJearce -- 033 °4°
, American -- 0 0 025
Cordage, American C. 0 6 ] 5 °
, Foreign, -- 12 0 12 50
Chocolate, common fb 020 0 0
, bell AE.2&I -- 028 033
Candles, mould -- 017 0 0
, dipt -- 0 14 0 15
Coals, foreign Ch. 120 13 0
, American, -- 17 0 0 0
Copperas, C. 350 4 0
Cloth, Tow yd. 0 16 0 17
THE President and Directors of
the NEW-HAMPSHIRE FIRE and
MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY,
hereby give notice, that the amount of then
Capital Stock is Two Hundred IbouJand
Dollars, of which Fifty Thousand Dollars,
being the firft Inlldment, is already paid
and deposited. That they have power and
authority on behalf ot the Company ,to make
Insurance against hire on Houles, Stores,
Goods, Wares and Merchandize ; allo on
Vessels, Freight, Money,Goods and Effe&s;
and against Captivity pt Persons ; and on
the Life of any Person during his absence by
sea ; and in case of Money Lent upon Bot
tomry and Respondent!/.
The Office is now open in the
raft end of Mr. Billings’ houle, near the
Parade, where they are ready to receive Pro
posals for and issue Policies in the name and
behalf of the aforefaid Company, to any a
mount, on any one rifle not exceeding Fifteen
Thousand Dylars.
By Order of Directors
Samuel Ham, Prefifent.
Porffmouth, N. IL Angu/i i 6, 18^3.
FOREIGN BILLS.
Bills bn London : 30 days, : (For CaJb) 2| per cent. adv.
^do. do. : : : 60 days, : : do. : 2 do. do.
do. do. : : „: 90 days, : : do. : parai do.
Bils on Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 days, : , : par
do. on Amftcrdam, payable in do. 60 days, : : 1 do.
Benjamin Evans,
ffi- Plate Mfrier,
Respectfully informs the Public
that he has taken a shop in Ladd Hreet
opposite Col. Ladd’s Hore.
Ivbere he makes and keeps confanti, for Jale,
a general fjortment of
wholesale and retail, at the luwefi prices..
* life —a bandfame assortment oj
Japanned Ware,
wh ? ch being of his cwrf manufacture, will
be fold much cheaper than imported.
N. B. C^h or any of the above article
given for old Pewter and Lead.
CASH given sos clean linen and
cotton and linen RAGS, at this office.
NUMBER 4. VOL. V.]
TIN WARE,
NOTICE !
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY S. NUTTING, PRINTER OF THE LA WS OF THE UNITED STATES.
^itat gon flban tbefc fleets relate fpcah of t^em a# t^eg arc : Botbing extenuate, net set baton cugbt in malice.
Republican Ledger,
AND
I Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Duck, Russia, i/iqual. Bt. 20 0 22 <
Duck, Ravens -- 10 50 11 50
Flaxseed, rough bu. 1 0 0 c
Fllll, Merchant, C. 450 5 c
,W. India mark. -- 350 0 <
- Scale -- 275 3 c
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 (
Mackerel . — 8 0 8 5c
Flour, super. frefh — 7's° 8 0
, fine —7 0 75(
, middlings -- 6 0 0 c
, country C. 350 355
Fuftick T. 35 0 0 c
. [ Bristol cr.laby 8, bx. 15 0 0 c
fl 9 b Y 7> - ] 3 0 T 3 5 c
fl Bby6, -- 10 50 it c
^/ Hamburg toby 8, -- 11 50 12 c
7by9, -- 0 0 11 5c
Gun Powder ffi 040 042
Geneva, Holland if p<G. 133 I3d
, American — 080 0 <
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 0 c
Hogs Lard 1b 012 0 1^
Iron, Philadelphia T. 115 0 120 <
, Ruflia -- 115 0 120<
, Swedes -- 115 0 120<
Logwood T. 4 0 0 45'
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 18 0 0 c
, dry -- 16 0 17 c
, red -- If 50 12<
, Iheet -- 14 0 15 <
Lumber, boards clear M. 16 0 20 c
, , merch. -- 9 0 10 <
It feemsto be conceded, that in order to
defend our national hanor, whicn is the equal
independent right to the exereije of foverignty,
we may be obliged 10 have recourle to arms
and the queition is, which will be the moll
eligible mode of preparation for such an
event.
Should our right to traverce the ocean,
for the purposes of commerce, be called in
quellion, we mull defend it, at eveey hazard.
He who gave the earth to the sons of men,
undoubtedly granted an equal proportion of
the right of failing on the sea, as an ap
pendage to it ; and this right we mull de
fend by our Jrps, which will be increased
in proportion to the exigency of cur circum-
Hances, and the calls we have for them.
Where our trade is of importance to the na
tion which treats us ill, an expedient will be
firft attempted to octain justice, as a nation,
by the reelings of interest ; where this fails
we have no quellion as to the second expe
dient.
The invasion of our country by a land ar
my, or rather the best mode of preparation
to repel such an invasion, is the lubjcdl now
before ns.
The preparation is bya flanking army, or
by a dilciplined miltia,or by_both. A land
ing army has always, in all countries, been
considered as opposed to a free form of gov
ernment. Such an army, in time of peace,
is considered by the people, and it confiders
itfelf, as a body of men detached from the
citizens at large ; as having no interest in
their concerns, holding the people in con
tempt, and by them hated and despised as a
public burden on the community. There
never was, nor can there ever be, a well
trained militia, where such an armv has been,
or (ball be maintained. The soldiers are
ready to turn every effort of the militia jnto
ridicule ; and the people hold the necessary
©botefale prices Current, at portfmoutb, jaeto-pampfotre,
" A Standing armv for a Monarchy,
“ A Militia for a Republic."
Montesquieu.
On DEMOCRACY.
dourfe of ©change, at Cotton, September 7,
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1803.
From the Chronicle.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Singles -1 50 25c
Lemons frefb bx. 9 0 10 50
Lime, hhd. 2 50 0 0
Leather, Soal, dried, 1b 022 0 23
Molasses G. 046 048
Nutmegs lb 45° 5 0
Nail Rods scarce C. 7 0 0 0
r4di cnt M - 0 33 0 0
7) I 6dJ ' ' -- 066 0 0
^ ) 6d, wrought —.lO 1 6
< ) lod, do. infpeaed -- 150 162
^ I 2od, do. do. -- 225 233
(Sheathing, cut C. 0 0 11 0
^ (Liver Jcarce B. 11 0 12 0
Q I Linseed G. 0 0 142
Pepper lb 028 0 <
^ ( Bone Middlings, 20 0 22 0
No. I 17 0 18 c
N 0.2 0 0 17 0
Peas bu. 1 25 i 5c
Pimento lb 0 20 0 0
Pitch, B. 433 0. 0 0
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 <
Redwood T. 55 0 60 0
Raisins /r^ calk 8 0 9 0
Rum, Jamaica .G. 1 0 1 ic
, Windward 3d pr.— 90 0 1 c
lice scarce C. 6 0 65c
>ofin B. 450 0 <
Soap, white ffi 014 016
, brown -- 010 0 it
.., caftile -- 017 020
Sugar, Havannah C. 17 0 0 0
, East-India -- 12 0 12 50
f war, on their praetorian guards, or Hand
ing legions, but called forth the the power
ot the state from the body of the people ; &
then the largesses were distributed, and the
agrarian laws palled, or proofed. No
modern nation has placed a dependence for
defence, on the army which had been main
tained in time of peace.
The ancient nations had no fixed and e
Hablifhed constitutions. ^1 he lines of civic
rights, or of civic duties were no where ex
plained on principles reduced by the people
to rules, and established as the guardian
lines of Liberty, as the designation of the
rights to private property, or the limits of
men in either military, or civil power.
Hence therefore, an army of mercenary
troops fupericr tothe force of the people e
flablifhed a tyranny of course. An armed
multitude, without the lines of tllablrihcd
authority, to regulate and guide their move
ments, introduced an anarchy which ended
always in a tyranny.
Montesquieu describes a tyranny, "to be
the subversion of democracy ; ' and fays that
the politics of it " are like aJ mootbfile which
" cuts slowly, and attains its end, by gradual
" tedious progreflion." These are impor
tant sentiments, and whoever reads his firfl
volume from page 162 to 330 will find, that
he had drawn them as a conclusion from a
review of all the Republics, ancient and mod
ern. They will allo find,' that a Handing
army in all instances, has been the overthr
ow of the people's liberty ; and those who
review the measures and conduct of the
Hamiltonian party, from the formation of
theCon(lituiion,to the present day,will find,
that thefmootb file was well under Hood by
them ; but that in the matter ofthe Inability
of the Hates and some other meafure,they be
came impatient of the flow effeds ofaJmolb
discipline of arms is contempt, because it is
the day labour of a set of idle mercenaries,
who are ufeful for nothing in time of peace,
and serve only as bad examples of vice and
debauchery.
There is no necefiity for a display of learn
ing on this fubjed ; yet it may be observed,
that the Romans never depended, in time
. INLAND BILLS.
Bills on Baltimore, 30 days light, (For Cash) lai per cent dis.
do. Philadelphia, : : ' do. : )|a2 do. do.
do. New-York, . : : do. : i~ do. do.
do. Philadelphia, or?,
New-York, foo days , : do. laz do.
N. B. Bills at Shorter fight, ,rop O rtionqWy higher.
foe and by laying held of one more rough
ey have overthrown thier own project.
A Handing army can never be a defence
d our extensive tea coall, and immeasurable
iron ltrs. Therefore it we are to exiil as a
nation, and as a Republic, we muff have a
miliria. Ido not n^an to cxclude a com
petent number ot mercenary troops tor our
garifons, cur Hore, and arftnals, or a /effi
cient number to attend to, and exciicife our
artilery ; but that cur dependence as a na
tion, tor defence, mull be en curfthes, that
is on the yeomanry, the body ot the people
and the only question is, how the militia
shall be lb difcipliped that a dependence can
be confidently placed in them.
The fuggcHions w hich arc to be made on
this important fubjed, will be very imper
fed ; but on a matter, in which each one is
equally interested, and in which the fafety of
the nation is fc intimately involved, everr
cne who attempts to inveHigate it, has a
claim to attention.
When I Ipeak of the discipline of a mil
itia, for the defence of cur country, I do
not mean, merely,the ex pertness ct manual
xercife and the cxcdl performance of evo
lutions, I mean a discipline of sentiment ; a
discipline of spirit and opinion e^genia! to
the conftituticns of our governments. The
troops trained as a militia dor the defence
of our country, mull have ideas, and senti
ments, very dirterent from trumps which are
intended for foreign conquests, or to add
Kingdoms as procincs to ur dominions.
Where troops are dilciplined to conquer
and pillage other nations, every sensation
of pity and companion should be extirpated
from their bosoms, their imagination, and
the imagination of the people who maintain
them, Ihould be entertained with the mag
nanimity of lacking cities, wafling coun
tries, burning villages and walking on heaps
of Hain. Every hall where the feflive
board shall be laid, muff be decorated with
the trophes of foreign victories,and the plai
ns of him, whose / word has been wet with
the blood of innocent millions, muff swell
the high founding chorus of each song.
Thus the tiling generation would be habit.
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
Current prices of per from t ,
D. c D. c.
Sugar, Wed-India -- 10 0 12 0
Starch, Poland It) 0 1.8 0 0
, American -- o 121 017
Jugar, Loaf ]§ 0 22 0 22
Salt, St. Übes scarce H. 6 0 650
, Turk's Bland -- 6 0 0 0
, Liverpool -- 5 0 6 o
, Rock -- 0 0 7°
Steel, German lb 013 016
, Englilh -- 0 14 0 16
Salt Petre, refined -- 034 oij
Shot Patent, C. 14 0 0 0
. fW.O. hhd. M. 24 0 26 0
I do. do. heading - - 26 0 28 0
/IW. O. bbl. -- 10 0 12 50
<'R. O. hhd. -- 12 0 ] 3 0
^ do. Shooks 066 0 0
(W. O. do. 120 130
Tin in Ihects scarce bx. 20 0 240
far B. 4 0 0 o
Turpentine -- 4 0 450
Tea, Hylon lb. 1 45 0 o
, Souchong -- 075 080
, Bohea -- 030 31 0
Tobacco, Jamesßiver C. 7 0 0 0
, Georgia -- 5 50 0 0
Twine, sewing doz. 5 0 550
, seine _ 5 < )5 5o
n ("Madeira G. 217 275
I Lisbon Jcarce, — 150 0 0
Z < Sherry, — 142 150
I Malaga Jcarce q.c. 30 0 0 0
> (Red Port — 142 150