Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-12-28 00:00:00, page 1

Current prices of ,er from to
D. C. D. C
ASHES, Pot, if fort, T. 120 0 125 0
, Pearl -- 130 0 140 0
Allum, C. 6 0 0 0
Anchors, ffi. O ? 11 12 0
Bread, Ship C. 4 50 7 0
Butter fb o<2 014
[•(M^i B. 12 50 13 0
) Cargo No. i, —ll 0 0 0
No. 2, — 9 0 0 0
CQ (Refufe (dull) — 5 0 0 0
Beans, white bu. 1 0 0 0
Brandy, Spaniel 4th,r. G. 185 1 9
, Naples4^,r. — 180 185
Barley bu. 092 495
Brimstone, C. 350 4 0
Briaiftone, Roll C. 450 5 0
Corn, Indian — 0 75 0 83
Rye -- 083 0 0
Cassia lboo 0 6c
Cloves -- 142 I 5<
Coffee -- 0 20 0 22
Cheese, American -- 0 6 012
Cotton, foreign scarce -- 040 0 0
American — 028 030
Cordage, American C. 12 0 13 0
, Foreign, -- II 0 12 0
Chocolate, common ffi 020 0 0
, bed N0.2&1 -- 028 0 33
Candles, mould -- 018 019
, dipt -- 014 0 15
Coals, foreign Ch. 14 0 0 0
, American, -- 17 01 18 0
Copperas, C. 350 4 °
Cloth, Tow yd. 016 0 171
From the Newark (N> %) Centinel.
XT is impossible to enumerate the absurdi
ties which have marked the career of the
federalists of this state. Devoid of ever,
other motive, but such as will gratify their
ambition or avarice, their profeffions of
patriotism re always refuted by the felfifh
means which they employ to effc& their real
designs- —they flatter themselves that all the
talehts of the state belong to their party, and
that the people will mistake their loud
clamours about public good, friends to the
constitution, &c. for found patriotism, with
out requiring of them any exemplification of
their dodrines. Some years ago they enabl
ed a law authorifing the representatives to
Congress to ^ eleded by diftri&s—they
found this law was operating against them
from the rapid change of principle ; they
therefore thought it mod patriotic in the year
1800, to elea them by a general law, this
was done from a confidence of their own
strength being adequate to secure the whole
reprefentation —they were however, deceiv
ed, and the republican ticket carried it by a
considerable majority ; this plan therefore
no longer comported with their ideas of
patriotism—in their proportions for a barter
of offices this year, they have exa& d as a
condition, a diftria law, so divided as to
injure them an equal number of representa
tives.
They formerly enabled a law prohibiting
any person from holding offices under the
ftaic and general government at the fame
time —this law was Toon found to operate
Unfavorably, as they wiihed to fend Aaron
Ogden, Esq. to the senate, which he did not
with, except he could be secured in the office
of county clerk aKo ; they therefore repeal
ed it for the special purpofe'ot enabling
Aaron Ogden, Esq. to exercise the duties of
fenatoi, and those of clerk of the county of
Essex.
This year has produced in the various
formings and livings of federalifm, a more
©onuadidory afped than any heretofore—
FOREIGN BILLS..
Bills on London : 30 days, : (For Case) para ^ per cent, advance,
do. do. : : : 60 days, : : do. : par
do. do. : : :, 93 days/ : :r do. : 1 pr. cent. dis.
B#!sm Harburg, payable.® London, at to days, :: 2a 2|do. do.
do. ob Amsterdam, payablein do. to days, : : do. do. do.
^ CTben pou fan t§efc fleets relate fyeut of oerti is fr? ate : Dotting extenuate, nor set baton oug§t in malice.'
Course of Grrbange, at zoom ^
NUMBER 18. ^L. IV.]
political siftflUnpi
PORTSMOUTH PRI£E-&URRE#T.
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY S. NUTTING, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Republican Ledger,
being in the minority last year, and having
obtained an equal number of representatives
in joint meeting this, they were unusually a
vidious in grasping more than their fhare —
they were determined to embarrass the gov
ernment of the state unless they could obtain
their wilhes—what they would declare as a
cunfeious duty one day, they would depart
from the next —Richard Stockton was de
clared to be the most competent person for
Governor, and Bloomfield was considered by
them as deficient in every tequifite qualifi
cation —yet when other points of more im
portance could be gained, they wee willing
to vote for Bloomfield though in direct vio
lation of what they pretended their duty re
quired ; they profeffed to be generous and
conciliatory, while they were constantly
thwarting every laudable measure ; their
schemes were the nefarious broodings of se
cret cascades, composed of lawyers who at
tended the supreme court, and the federal
representatives by pursuing their plans, prov
ed to be their pliant dupes. The business
of legislation was converted into a feene of
trade and barter for office, which was plan
ned out of doors by men who had no other
motive to serve than that of gormandizing
all honors and emoluments.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. # D. C.
Duck, Russia, ijiqual. Bt. 16 0 17 0
Duck, Ravens — 10 50 11 50
Flaxseed, rough bu. 1 50 0 0
Fi/h, Merchant, C. 4 0 425
,W.lndia mark. -- 325 350
Scale 2 25 2 50
Salmon n^c B. 10.0 0 0
Mackerel — 75° 8 0
Flour, super. freth -- 8 0 00
, fine — 750 0 0
, middlings — 6 0 650
, country C. 375 4 0
Fuftick T. 35 0 0 0
Bristol cr. loby 8, bx. 15 50 16 0
/if ' gby 7, — 14 0 0 0
<7 Bby 6, -- 11 0 ri 50
-4 ) Hamburg iQby'B, -- 11 0 12 0
( 7byg, -- 11 0 0 c
Gun Powder ft, 050 0 c
Geneva, Holland y?,rG. 1 17 0 0
, American -- 090 094
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft; M. 20 0 0 c
Hogs Lard ' ffi 010 0 12
Iron, Philadelphia T.llO 0 0 <
, Raffia —lls 0 120 0
,Swedes -- 11© 0 115 0
Logwood T. 40 0 45 c
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 16 0 0 c
, dry -- 15 0 0 0
, red — 10 0 0 <
, sheet — 12 0 0 0
Lumber, boards clear M. iu 0 17 0
, , merch. -- 9 ° 95°
From the Chronicle.
'SEVENTY-FivE^n the 17th Century,
is a prominent number in the American cal
endar ; it is emphatically designated "the
time which tried men's fouls" ; it is the per
iod of the American Revolution, which call
ed fourth all the energies of patriotism, valor
and decision. The man who halted between
two opinions at this crisis, was justly consid
ered an enemy to his country. America
then assumed the attitude of an injured and
determined nation. Britain avowedthe prin
ciple, and pursued meafujes to carry into ex
ecution, the detestable declaration, to " bind
ns in all cases whatever." This veto was at
tempted to be enforced by the laws of the bay
onet, and the citizens of America had no
alternativedhan to decide between SLAVERY
and FREEDOM.
©boUfale prices Current, at pottfmoutb, ^eto^ampfyire.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1802.
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS.
ISLAND BILLS.
Bifls on Baltimore, 30 days fight, (For Cath) I per cent dis.
do. Philadelphia, : : do; : do. do. do.
do. New-York, : : do. : do. do. do.
do. Philadelphia, or)
New-York, , 6 ° da ^ : d ° 2 do,
N. B. Bills at shorter fight, proportipnably higher.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Singles — 1 5 0 2 20
Lemons frejb (scarce) bx. 10 0 11 0
Lime, half hhd. 1 75 2 0
Leather, Soal, dried, ft ) 022 023
Molasses G. 050 0 55
Nutmegs ffi 5 0 0 0
Nail Rods scarce C. 7- 0 750
M 0 33 0 ©
ri | 6dj ' -- 066 0 0
^I 6d, wrought — 117 0 0
< I rod, do. infpeaed- 170 175
Z 2od, do. do. -- 242 0 0
^Sheathing, cut C. 0 o 1I 50
^ { Liver none B. 14 0 0 0
O (Linseed G. 120 125
Pepper ffi 028 0 3
Pork, belt pieces B. 19 0 20 0
Cargo No. 1, -- i6| 0 17 0
Peas bu. 1 25 1 50
Pimento ' th 03° 0 33
Pitch, B. 6 0 0 0
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 0
Redwood T. 55 o 60 0
Raisins /r^b calk 850 0 0
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 10 1 15
.. 7 Windward 3d pr.- 1 0 I la
Rice sane C. 6 0 7 0
lofin scarce B. 450 0 0
Soap, white ffi 014 016
, brown — 010 016
, castle -- 017 020
Sugar, Havannah C. 17 0 0 6
, East-India -- 12 0 12 50
In this contest, Liberty or Death was the
motto —“ Uniting we stand, dividing we
fall," was the creed to which every real
friend to his country fubferibed. The Tories
took one fide of the question, and the whigs
the other ; one party assisted the Britilh, and
the other opposed them. The Bolton Town
Meetings were an epitome of the controver
sy between Britain and America. Fellow
citizens ! ye who remember the contest, re
colle& the debates in your solemn assemblies ;
bring to mind the crouded audiences, who
with anxious concern attended to the delib
erationfyf your intrepid patriots. Can ye
forget the machinations of your enemies or
the subtle designs of Hutchinson and his ad
herents r Were not your liberties suspended
on the intrepidity of your determinations,
and were not a body of Tories assailing you
in every direction? If you had then been a
fraid to espouse your rights, they would
have fallen a facrifice to your timidity.
Recollect the Horn Book Faction, who inter
mixed themselves among the Sons of Liberty ;
the Soldiery who were lent to intimidate the
Citizens during their freedom of debate and
inveltigation. Our fouls were then " invig.
orated with the spirit of Liberty ;" Faneuii
Hall bore teltimony that men were superi
or to wolves ; the decisions of the town of
Bolton gave ample evidence that the liberty
of brutes, and the unalienable rights of Free
men, were not analogous. No real Ameri
can at this period contemplated the deroga
tory connexion between the voracious ani
mals of the desert, and the deliberate senti
ments of citizens. Even at this period,
when the Revolution of America was in
fwovling cloths, when the Independence of
our country bad scarcely formed its features
in embryo, no one was hardy enough to
draw a parallel between our exertions for lib
erty anJlmefavage difyojition of wolves in the
toreft ! This degrading Similitude was re
Served for the man whorofe to his pre-emin
ence by the magnanimous efforts of those
whom he now degrades.
The period of 'SEVENTY-FIVE reminds
us of that sanguinary feene, when the Greets
of Bolton were crimsoned with the blood ol
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
its citizens ! The horrid massacre on the
night of March the sth, 1770, is a lesson
which ought to impress on the minds of
Americans the hoflilerdifpofition of Britain.
Can any friendship exist in a nation, whose
myrmidons spread indiferimiriate Slaughter
among the inhabitants of this metropolis ?
and the old Whigs forget the diffreffing feene
when the corps of five of their fellow-citizens
were followed in solemn procession through
the Streets of Bolton ? When the Tories
were rejoicing the fanguinaty catastrophe,
and only bewailed the misfortune that Sam
uel Adams and John Hancock were
not the objedts of general lamentation. The
Whigs well remember the Town-Meeting at
the Old South the preceding day : tWaffem
bly of citizens was august and impressive;
the energies of the inhabitants appeared in
their full majesty ; one spirit irtygorated the
whole body, and one tongue e^feffed their
ultimate determination. Canffe forget the
venerable Samuel Adams, this solemn
occasion ? Can we forget tiff fortitude of
his mind, or the integrity or his condua?
Do we not even at this day recognife him in
the Old South Pulpit, while landing as bul
wark to impede the encroachments of the
enemy ? " How did our hearts burn within
us," when he recounted the impositions we
had fuffered ! arid how & our fouls beat in
unison with the fentimehts which he incul
cated !'This was truly the " time to tr,
men's Jouls." Venerable Patriot ! you are
now retired from the world to enjoy that
composure which your services merit ; hap
py are you in the 'refleaion, that you have
never deviated from the road which you early
described as the only path of fafety and hap
piness. In your retirement yon have to la
ment, that some who began the journey
with you have Grayed into the broad way
which leads todeftruaion ; but still your re
flexions mult give consolation to your declin
ing years ; and though feeble in body, yet
your foul must experience those joys which
are ever Grangers to the breasts of apoftate<.
While others have received the fyeophantic
addrelfes of men, who in '75 would have led
them to the gibbet, you have enjoyed domefti;
Current prices of per from
D. C D.r
Sugar, Weft-India -- 10 0 12
Starch, Poland ft) 018 0 ,
, American o I2§ 0
Sugar, Loaf ffi 023 024
Salt, St. Übes scarce H. 5 co 0 0
, Turk's Island - - 550 6 0
, Liverpool -- 4 0 0 0
, Rock — 650 o r,
Steel, German ft > 013 ° T S
, English -- 015 017
Salt Petre, refined - - 034 040
Shot Patent, N C. 13 50^ 0 0
. fW.O. hhdi M. 24 0 26 0
I do. do. heading -- 26 0 28 0
>J W. O. bbl. -- 10 0 12 50
<jR. O. hhd. -- 10 0 11 75
; I do. Shooks 066 0 er
(W. O. do. 1 20 t 30
Tin in Iheets bx. 18 0 20 0
Tar B. 325 Go
Turpentine -- 4 0 4^o
Tea, Hyfon lb. 1 10 1 i&.
, Souchong -- 070 075
, Bohea -- 032 033
Tobacco, Jamesßiver C. 7 0 0 0
, Georgia -- 550 6 <
Twine, sewing doz. 5 0 550
, seine — 5 ° 55°
n , Madeira G. 217 283
^ \ Lisbon scarce, — 140 0 0
z; < Sherry, — t 25 129
Malaga scarce q.c. 30 0 0 0
1 I Red Port — 142