Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-08-31 00:00:00, page 1

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• FOREIGN BILLS.
Bills on London : 30 days, : (& Cash) par
do. do. : : : to days, : : do. : I pr. cent.,d|L
do. do. : : 90 days, : : do. : 4,
Bills on Hamburg, p2ya^e i,l+^ " ftxt, . „, A ' . °
^raxwnneraam, payable in do. 00 days, : : do. do. do.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C
ASHES, Pot, iffort, T. 90 0 105 0
, Pearl -110 0 0 0
Allum, C. 8 0 9 0
Anchors, ftp 011 12 0
Bread, Ship C. 450 7 C
Butter tb 012 0 I 3
Beef, common B. 9 0 12 0
mess — x 3 ° '3 5°
Beans, whit^ bu. 112 1 16
Brandy, Sp trifh 4thpr. G. 154 1 58
, Naples 4//),r. — 1 5° 0 c
Barley none, bu. 0 0 0 0
Brimstone, C. 250 4 0
Brimstone, Roll C. 45° 5 0
Corn, Indian — 0 75 080
Rye -- 083 088
Cassia lb ob ° 065
Cloves — 1 33 0 0
Coffee -. 0 20 0 22
Cheese, American -. 0 6 014
Cotton, foreign scarce -- 040 0 c
, American — 0 24 0 0
Cordage, American C. 14 0 0 0
, Foreign, -- 12 0 13 °
Chocolate, common lb 020 00
, best Na. 2&1 — 028 032
Candles, mould — 018 0 19
, dipt — 016 0 0
Coals, foreign Ch. 14 0 0 0
, American, — 17 0 18 0
Copperas, C. 350 4 0
Cloth, Tow yd. 016 017
Duck, Russia, tfqual. Bt. 16 0 17 0
We often notice in the Price Currents of
our principal cities, that Fish of all kinds
continues to be imported from Nova-Scotia,
and other foreign colonies. —This merits
some attention, particularly at this time,
when the return of peace will leave a con
siderable number of our seamen at large.
It is no more than a wife and prudent mea
sure of felf-prefervation, to devise means for
their?mployment at home, as well as for
the due encouragement of our own fifheries
in preference to those of other countries.-
The importation of a commodity which we
can ourselves provide equally well, and as
cheap, is an adual wrong done to our hq^e
industry, it is giving a bounty to foreign in
duftry, to the discouragement of our own.
It appears that foreign manufactures are
charged, on an average, from t2| to 20 per
cent, while the duty on foreign fifh is only
per cent. The bounties bestowed on the
Eastern fifheries were firft proposed by Mr.
lefferfon, while he was secretary of Rate,
and their success in enriching the Eastern
states has been fully experienced, though not
very liberally regarded. „ ,
Besides rendering a service to ourselves of
encouraging our home industry, by advancing
the duties on imported fifh bf foreign colo
nies we should render a service of a more
remote tho not less humane nature. The
laboring poor of other countries, find them
fclves deprived of the fifh which formerly
came to them at a reasonable price, but the
fifheries of foreign nations have not encreaf
d' they have rather decreased in proportion
to 'the foreign demand ; and the adventures
of our own fineries earned to foreign
countries have contributed to this decree ;
while our population has encreafed immenle
beyond the proportionate encreafe of our
filing trade.-There can be but little doubt
that our country would now confute n^re
than the whole of our fifhing produce. The
Iprice which it bears in our own market
is an evidence of this truth.
NUMBER I. VOL. IV.]
POLITICAL ECONOMY.
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PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT. ,
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY S. NUTTING, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.,
Ulben pou (ball t^efe betas relate speak of item as t^ep are :
Republican Ledger,
AND
Current prices of per from to
0. C. D. C.
Duck, Ravens -- 10 50 11 50
Flaxseed, rough bu. To 1 5
Fish, Merchant, C. 4 0 425
,W. India mark. — 325 35c
Scale — 225 233
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 0
Mackerel —7 8 0
Flour, super. frefh —7 0 0
, fine — 650 0 0
, middlings — 6 0 0 0
, country C. 375 4 0
Fuftick T. 45 0 0 0
,Bristol cr. loby 8, bx. 15 50 16 c
987 7, — 14 0 0 0
fl Bby 6, -- 11 0 II 50
j ) Hamburg ioby 8, — 13 0 13 50
' 7by9, -~ 12 ° 12 50
Gun Powder lb °5 0 0
Geneva, Holland \Jlpr G. 1 5 0 0
, Americanize -- 090 0 4
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 o. 0
Hogs Lard ft) 012 0 ic
Iron, Philadelphia T. 130 0 0 0
, Russia — 115 0 120 c
, g wedo# - YA, 0 *3'-
Logwood T. 40 0 45 C
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 16 0 0 <
, dry -- 15 0 0 <
, red -- 866 9 <
, sheet — 11 0 0<
Lumber, boards clear M. 16 0 I7 C
, , merch. — 9 ° 9 °
shingles -1 50 220
OlbotefaU prices Current, at portfmoutb, ^eto^arn^ira
The English government imposes general
y duties on foreign fifh, nearly equal to 100
her cent, in some places the importation of
fifh from foreign parts is wholly prohibited.
Fhis is in the spirit of that commercial
policy which has raised that country from
the natural order of a second or third rate
power to a consequence in the scale of
nations, equal with the firft.
We do not either admire her policy or the
use which she has made of her confequeut
power, as objects of deferable imitation, on
general principles. But while one powerful
nation pursues such a policy, and while
another nation her rival, is in pursuit of it,
and promises to establish the like partial
system, it would be the height of absurdity
in us to surrender our right to protest our
selves ahd promote our own home industry
and prosperity by means so natural within
ourselves. This can be done by railing our
duties on foreign fiih imported, so as to ope
rate as a bounty to our own fifhermen.
Ffh oil is allowed to be imported upon a
duty of 15 per cent, into the United States
from foreign countries. The English im
pofc a duty equal to 150 per cent, upon our
oil imported into England. This is pot done
to annoy us dircCtly ; it is not done with
hostility to us ; but it operates injuriously,
as it puts us out from that market, in order
to encourage the fifheries of their own
country. This is the spirit of their policy,
and we fuffer our fifheries to labor under a
competition with those of England, to the
amount of 135 per cent, in their favour.—
Why do we not lay a duty on oil, the pro
duce of the English fifheries, equivalent to
the difference ?
Another good effe& must result from ar
early attention to this point. The French
government is deeply employed in forming
its abt of navigation, upon the principle of
Oliver Cromwell's ad. By taking early
heps to guard our fifheries, we preserve our
fcamen and fifhermen from palling into
foreign employ ment, and teach those who
may expert to rival us by our own bands, that
we are not indifferent to the value of them.
Aurora,
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS,
TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1802.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Lemons frefh bx. 10 0 11 0
Lime, half hhd. 1 75 2 0
Leather, Soal, dried, ffi 020 0 0
Violates G. 040 044
Nutmegs It ) 5 ° 55 c
Nail Rods Jcarce C. 750 8 <
fill . M. 0 34 0 0
z|6d j cu '° -- 066 0 o
^) 6d, wrought 117 0 0
< ] rod, do. infpeaed- 175 180
^ I 2nd, do. do. — 245 250
(Sheathing, cut C 0 0 II 50
-1 f Liver none B. 14 0 0 0
Q[Linfeed G. 125 0 0
Pepper lb 028 0 0
Pork, belt pieces B. 20 0 0 0
, common -- 14 0 15 0
Peas bu. 1 25 1 50
Pimento lb 0 20 0 0
Pitch, B. 6 0 0 0
Paper, Shedthing C. 375 4 0
Redwood T. 55 0 60 0
Rai fins /rej^cafle 850 9 0
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 0 0 0
- , JV;ndward 3d ,r.--- # 0 80 0 0
Rice scarce C. 6 0 0 c
R.of\n,Jcarce B. 45° ° °
Soap, white ffi 014 010
, browri — 010 016
, castle — 0 17 0 2
Sugar, Havannah C. 17 0 0 0
, East-India --12 0 0 0
, Weil-India -- 9 0 12 0
Messrs. Peirces,
THE fubferiptions fore. National
M< NUMENTS, which have been recently
opened in Europe and America, have led
me to offer a few relative remarks, &c. —
Although mos tof our readers may have
collected from hiftory the opinions of an
cient and modern Sages, on the lublime ef
fe&s of these monuments, it may not be
improper to repeat, that they were origin
ally intended, not only to preserve the fea
tures of their illustrious sages & heroes, but
chiefly to stimulate their adthiring youth to
emulate the virtuous and glorious actions,
by which such enviable exaltations were
firfl obtained. I will not trouble you with
a recital of the miraculous effects of Monu
ments of antiquity, for they are almost in
numerable and prove beyond the reach 0
controversy that where the tales in every
mouth of an Epiminondas, or a Leoni
das, have been disregarded, a glance only
at their striking Monuments, have some
times instantaneously produced the most de
sirable effects, by exciting idle and dilhpa
ted youth to the paths of virtue and of glo
ry —Whoever will reflect on the causes
which have produced in Greece and Rome,
such holts of Heroes and of Patriots, and
secured for those Nations the applause of an
admiring world, will find no way to ac
count for the splendid excellence in their
long catalogue of Worthies, unless they at
mit the effects of these Monumenrs, in
which alone these nations excelled, to be a
prime cause of Grecian and of Roman exce
ience. „ . ..
It may be said that this sublime principle
has been abused, so has every other good,
when nations have become degenerate,
which would have been mrl;b sooner, 1 e °
noble Monuments had not itood as Centine3
to flrike villains with the comparative state
into which they would be plunged by their
crimes.
Many a wretch intent on murder, has
desisted, when the innocent vidim has fled
INLAND pus.
^ills on Baltimore, go 0s fight, (For Cash) r per cent dis.
do. Philadelphia, : : do. : do. do. do
\ — : : d °- = d °- d °- do.
do. Philadelphia, or 1 , ~„ ,
N ff Y^k, f 6 ° dav% : d ° 2 do -
N. B BilVut Barter fight proportionably higher.
National Monuments^
-Bettag extenuate, not set acton onflt in mekl
From the N. H. (Gazette.
[1 DOL. 50'CTS. PER ANNUM.
Current prices of per from to
D. C D. C.
Starch, Poland lb 0 17 0 0
, American -- o I2| 017
Sugar, Loaf ft) 024 025
Salt, St. Übes fedree H. 6 0 0 0
, Turk's Inland -- 6 0 6 0
, Liverpool — 450 5 0
, Rock -7 0 og
Steel, German lb ° [ 4 0 0
, English -- 016 018
Salt Petre, refined -- 025 0 0
Shot Patent, C. 11 0 0 0
fW.O. hhd. M. 24 . 0 26 0
I do. do. heading -- 26 0 28 0
>!W. O. bbl. -- 10 0 12 50
<?R. O. hhd. -- 10 0 11 75
I do. Shooks 066 0 0
(W. O. do. I 20 1 3°
Tin in fhects bx. 18 0 2o 0
Tar B. 325 0 0
Turpentine -- 4 0 450
Tea, Hyfori lb. 1 10 0 0
, Souchong — 065 0 0
, Bohea -- 032 033
Tobacco. Jamesßiver C. , 0 0 0
• - /Georgia --5 5° 6 0
Twine, sewing - doz. 5 0 55°
, seine — 50 55°
. , Madeira G. 217 283
^ I Lisbon Jcarce, — 140 0 0
Z < Sherry, — 117 120
I Malaga scarce q.c. 31 0 0 0
(Red Port - 140
to, or even pointed at the Statue of a Good
Man, and thus obliged the villain to form
the convicting contrail—that disarmed him,
in spite of hitnfelf.
It is said fßete are public and private fub
feriptions open at this time in Europe, for
Statues of Bonaparte and of Pitt, these are
premature, and therefore may be con fidered
as an abuse of the principle—Many an in
terested individual will fubferibe to the
Monument of a living great Man, from the
meanest motives, —National Monuments
should owe theif origin and completion to
pure patriotism orfly ; add to this, the charac
ter of a living Man, is liable to change.—.
The late universal British fubfeription plan
for a sublime Naval Column, to commemo
rate the four splendid victories of the late
war, by permitting every Sailor and every
Citizen to contribute their mite, was one of
the most interesting, judicious projects that
was ever atchieved by that enterprizing
nation.
This is only excelled in modern times by
the more exalted plan of Washington,
who in his Will, firft opened a fubfeription
for our National University, by a donation
worthy of himfelf—His motives are fully
explained in his will and valedictory : and
I am happy to find he is Seconded sooner
than he seemed to expert, for he there fays,
he would have the annual interest of his do
nation inverted in stocks, 'till in time it may
prove fufficient for his noble purpose—He
will no doubt favour with smiles, from his
blefs'd abode, the plan which hhs so soon fol
lowed his efforts by a mode which, instead of
favouring cxclufively the aristocratic pride
of the rich, will annex the mite of 'every
friend of every age, sex, and party, to the
venerable name, and inestimable plan of
Washington.—l am aware of the diffi
culty that the Originators of the fubfeription
plan were undet, from the variety of opini
ons, that by producing votes for Maufoleum£
Statues and Monuments in Congress, haVp
retarded the great operation, but 1 believe a
vast majority would join in a reqdert that
the National University of Wash
ington, founded by .him, might be Hi#