Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-01-04 00:00:00, page 1

Bills on London : 30 days, : (For CaJh) para f per cent, advance,
do. do. : : : 60 days, : : do. : par
do. do. : : : 90 days, : : do. : 1 pr. cent. dis.
Bills on Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 days, : : 2a 2| do. do.
do. oh Amsterdam, payable in do. 60 days, ; : do. do. do.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. c
ASHES, Pot, iftfort, T. 120 0 125 0
, Pearl -- 130 0 140 0
Allum, C. 6 0 0 0
Anchors, so on 12 0
Bread, Ship C. 450 7 0
Butter ft )0 12 0 14
(MWs B. 12 50 13 0
)Cargo No. I, —ll 0 0 0
Q) No. 2, — 9 0 0 0
FA (Refufe (dull) — 5 0 0 0
Beans, white bu. 1 0 0 0
Brandy, Spanish 4thpr. G. 185 190
, Naples 4/b,r. -- 180 185
Barley bu. 092 095
Brimstone, C. 350 4 0
Brimstone, Roll C. 450 5 0
Corn, Indian — 075 083
Rye -- 083 0 0
Cassia lb 0 0 0 601
Cloves — 142 1 50
Coffee •• 0 20 0 22
Cheefe,American — 0 6 012
Cotton, foreign scarce — 040 0 0
, American - 028 030
Cordage, American C. 12 0 13 0
, Foreign, -- 11 0 12 0
Chocolate, common ft, 020 0 0
1 , beftM.l&i -- 028 033
Candles, mould — 018 019
, dipt -- 014 0 15
Coals, foreign Ch. 14 0 0 0
, American, -- 17 0 18 0
Copperas, C. 350 4 0
Cloth, Tow yd. 0 16 0 17|
From the Chronicle.
THE PR ESIDEN7\ MESSAGE.
IT is said in the Centinel of the 25th Dec.
that every genuine federalift will hear with
pleaufure that the duty on imports has in
creased during the last year ; that the na
tional debt has been reduced nearly five
millions and an half; and that there is yet
in the treasury, notwithstanding, four milli
ons&an half of dollars, for any future emer
gency. ' But amidst all this joy, among the
leading fedcralifts, there is a light dash of
melancholy—-because the President has not
thought fit to ascribe all the honor of our
present happy situation to the profound wis
dom of his predecessors in office ! We shall
now only caution the Centinel and its cor
respondents, not to learn to forget what, at
the moment, they are so willing to acknow
ledge ; not hereafter assert, with unblushing
effrontery, that our present circurnftaoces
are not so agreeable as they are said to be.
One point of the following alternative be
comes irrefragable. Either that the Hamil
tonian system naturally led teethe exiting
order of things; or it did not. If it did,
then Mr. Jefferfon deserves well of his coun
try, for not omitting to make a due im
provement of the benefits which have sprung
ttoo? the two former administrations ; and
in his view he cannot be two highly com
mended. It is indeed a very flattering
compliment to his discernment, that he has
-made the most of his advantages. It is not
one in a thousand who is capable of doing
so much. If they raised the money, he at
least has nut spent it in idle projects; in
colily enterprises, in the pay of unnecessary
officers, at extravagant salaries, in a naVy to
make " war glorious," and the people mi
serable ; in a standing army, to provide for
the drones of society at the expence of in
duitiv ; and in a holt of Judges, to a& as
fpfes upon the government and to form an
insidious and an intriguing aristocracy in the
bosom of our dearly 46 beloved coumiy.'
There is mod certainly great roety in this,
and as the Centinel is force" 4 to declare it,
we shall rank it among those precious con
feffions which envy is obliged to make at the
fhrinc of virtue.
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
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PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY S. NUTTING, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
NUMBER 19. VOL. IV.]
fallen pou Sail there seen* relate [peak of them as the? are : Sotting extenuate, nor fee acton ought in malice.
Course of exchange, at Lofton.'
Republican Ledger,
FOREIGN BILLS.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Duck, Russia, iflqual. Bt. 16 0 17 0
Duck, Ravens — 10 50 11 50
Flaxseed, rough bu. 1 50 0 0
Filh, Merchant, C. 4 0 425
,W. India mark. — 325 350
Scale 1-- 225 250
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 0
Mackerel —7 8 0
Flour, super. frefh — 8 0 0 0
, fine —7 0 0
, middlings -- 6 0 650
, country C. 375 4 0
Fuftick T. ,5 0 0 0
Bristol cr. toby 8, bx. 15 50 16 0
ri ( 9by 7, -- 14 0 0 0
Bby 6, — 11 0 it 50
^ ) Hamburg toby 8, -- 11 0 12 c
( 7byg, - 11 0 0 0
Gun Powder ft, 050 o c
Geneva, Holland i/?,r G. 117 0 0
, American -- 090 094
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 0 0
Hogs Lard ftj 010 0 12
Ipn, Philadelphia T.llO 0 0 0
, Russia — 115 0 120 0
, Swedes -- 110 0 115 0
Logwood T. 40 0 45 0
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 16 0 0 0
, dry — 15 0 0 0
, red — 10 0 0 0
, sheet _ 13 0 0 0
Lumber, boards clear M. 16 0 17 0
, , merch. — 9 ° 95°
But what will be said when we utterly de
ny every part of the assertion ; and roundly
and peremptorily aver, that the whole of
this surplus, within the control of govern
ment, after difeharging all our obligations
is owing to the salutary provisions of the
present Congress in its last session, and to the
wife and prudent councils of a Republic
can Administration ? Had not the army
been reduced ; had not the expence of our
navy been diminished ; the salaries of our
Collectors curtailed, by a fixed stipend, and
our Judges limited to their original number.
Not only there would not have been four
millions of dollars in the National Treasury
but probably another loan of eight per cent,
must have been proposed and incurred to
supply the deficit ; toan amount equal
at least, if not much greater than the
whole sum that is now upon hand.
With what consistency, then, can
these drivellers take the merit ofthis
policy to themselves ? When it is but
a few days since, at one of their feftive
meetings, they persuade the honest, in
dustrious mechanics of this town to wish
that for every gun maintained at the
public charge we might have ten, and
for every man an augmentation to the
fame proportional number—As if there
ever was an additional tax which the
farmers, the mechanics, and the labour
ers did hot pay by diked or indirect ac
tion, nineteen parts in twenty of the
whole sum affefy upon the people.
The good or evil, then, of our exist
ing situation, is exclusively owing to a
policy exactly the reverse of that which
Messrs. Hamilton and Adams have so
warmly recommended and enforced. If
our expences had continued to encreafe
as rapidly as they had been encreafing
for the last twelve years, the mines of
Galconda would not have defrayed the
expence of our national government ;
^bolefaU Prices Current, at portfmoutb, ^eto^amptyirc,
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS,
TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1803.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Singles — 1 5° 2 20
Lemons frejh (scarce) bx. Ko 0 11 0
Lime, half hhd. 1 75 2 0
Leather, Soal, dried, ft ) 022 023
Molasses G. 050 055
Nutmegs ffi 50 0 0
Nail Rods scarce C. 7 o 75°
f 4d lcut M ° °33 0 °
ri |6d f cut ' -- 066 0 0
^) 6d, wrought — 117 0 0
< 1 lod, do. infpe&ed -- 170 175
I 2od, do. do. — 242 0 0
(Sheathing, cut C. 0 0 11 50
-4 f Liver none B. 14 0 0 0
Q[Linfeed G. 120 125
Pepper it )0 28 0 30
Pork, best pieces B. 19 0 20 0
Cargo No. !, -- 161 0 17 0
Peas bu. 1 25 1 5°
Pimento lb 0 3° 033
Pitch, B. 6 0 0 0
Paper, Sheathing C. 3 75 4 0
Redwood T. 55 0 60 0
Raisins /r^ calk 8 50 0 0
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 10 1 15
, Windward 3d ,r.-- 1 0 1 10
Rice farce C. 6 O 7 °
Rosin force B. 45° 0 0
Soap, white ffi 014 0 16
, brown — 010 0 16
, castle — 017 0.20
Sugar, Havannah C. 17 o o c
, East-India -- 12 0 12 <0
and we should consequently have been
compelled to make loan upon loan, at an
augmented premium, until the “ unre
al mockery" of a paper medim, like
the fabric of a dream, muft.have dis
solved, and have left even our present
patriotic creditors to have curled their
own credulity, for so long trusting to
the infatuated policy of their rash and
presumptuous leaders.
If the present government then has
not abused the trust repoled in its fidel
ity, if it has made neither strip nor waste
of the public property committed to
its care ; if, instead of adopting the hac
neyed maxims and the gross corrup
tions of the European world, it has co
pied precisely the economic policy of
our wife and prudent ancestors in New-
England, who fled from the insolence
and cruelty of ecdefiaftical establish
ments, to seek for shelter in this then
inhospitable desert ; ifit be mild, tole
rant placable in its resentments, and
constant in its principles and attachment
then is it entitled to the refpeft and at
tention of every honest federalift. In
asmuch as their former fears are now
compleatly dissipated : and that law
and order, liberty and property, are
maintained and secured to an extent
that they have pretended to believe was
impracticable under a republican gov
ernment. Why then are not these
people contented with the situation of
the country ? What do they want that
they have not got ? Is not their proper
ty secured and augmented, in its value ?
Are not the public funds sacred ? Is
not the debt leflening, and our credit
better established than ever ? Are we
not at peace with all the world, with a
certainty on their minds that this peace
INLAND BILLS.
Bills on Baltimore, 30 days fight, (For Cash) 1 per cent dis.
do. Philadelphia, . : : do. : do. do. do
d °- ^w-York, - : : do. : do. do. do.
do. tiladelphia, or l £ ,
Nesv-York, >°° da Y s > = d °- 2 do.
A. mas at sorter Jight, proportionally higher.
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
Current fences of per from to
D. c D. c.
Sugar, Weft-India — 10 0 12 0
Starch, Poland ft) 018 0 0
, American -- o I2| 017
Sugar, Loaf lb 023 024
Salt, St. Übes scarce H. 550 0 0
, Turk's Kland — 550 6 0
, Liverpool — 40 0 0
, Rock — 650 0 0
Steel, German ft> 013 015
, English — 015 017
Salt Petre, refined 034 040
Shot Patent, C. 13 50 0 0
. fW.O. hhdd M. 24 0 26 0
I do. do. heading - - 26 0 28 o
>J W. O. bbl. -- 10 0 12 50
<?R. O. hhd. -- 10 0 II 75
^ I do. Shooks 066 0 0
(W. O. do. 120 130
Tin in sheets bx. 18 0 20 0
Tar B. 325 0 0
Turpentine -- 4 0 450
Tea, Hyfon lb. 1 10 1 16
, Souchong -- 070 075
, Bohea -- 032 0 33
Tobacco, Jamesßiver C. 7 0 0 0
, Georgia — 55° 0 0
Twine, sewing doz. 50 55°
, seine — 5° 55°
m fMadeira G. 217 283
Liibon scarce, — 140 0 0
Z { Sherry, — 125 129
I Malaga Scarce q.c. 30 0 0 0
(Red Port — 142
will not be interrupted by visionary pro
jectors to gratify their inveterated resent
ments, and to fill their pockets at the
public cost ? If all this be clear, why
not Unite in giving the present admin
istration a fairexperiment unembarrassed
by a malignant, unprincipled and im
politic opposition ? Suppoling it possi
ble that the North could be set in hos
tile array against the South, is it not
known amidst the din of arms, Ameri
can against American, that the laws
would be silent, and our imposts tribu
tary to the rival combatants ? Is this
the critical moment when Mr. Hamil
ton's military talents are to be put in
requisition; and will he then be willing
to ride in the whirlwind and to rule the
ftorm —not as the guardian angel, but as
the evil genius, of this, not his, coun
try ? Is this the feaft of the pilgrims,
or the blood-flamed banquet of infatu
ated zealots, who, in their orgies, de
nounce pestilence and famine, civil war
and an organized despotism, in those
moments of indiscretion, when repeated
libations leave them to express senti
ments but too clearly, which in cooler
moments they affect to deprecate and
abhor.
But the sage policy of Mr. JEF
FERSON, dissipates every fear—fac
tion may hiss with its thousand snakes,
byt it will hiss in vain. The guardian
genius of these young and rising States,
will preserve our Union, and confound
its enemies.
A Paris paper of the 30th Oft fays, we
stop the press to announce, that all the dif
ferences between the French and English
governments relative to Malta, are amica
bly adjusted.