Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-03-16 00:00:00, page 1

To the Free Electors of New-
Hampshire.
In anjwer to Lucius, in the Oracle of the 2.6th and
27th February.
(concluded from our lafl)
Mr. L.is also accused of voting against opening
the galleries of the Senate Chamber. This is
partly true and partly falfe, in common with most
of the other charges brought against him ; that is,
there is just truth enough for an artful and mis
chievous man to make fumething out of, to excite
the prejudices of those who have not an opportu
nity to examine for themselves, The truth is,
that during several feihbns of Congress, there
were no galleries to the Senate chamber ; the
/ room itfelf was small, scarcely fufficient to accom
modate the members, so that it was impossible to
admit fpe&ators without incommoding the Sen
ators in their feats ; for this reason Mr. Langdon,
and with' him a very large majority were againll
opening the doors ; a few warm fpirired gentle
men only were in favor of it ; Mr. L. however
voted in favor of erecting galleries, but •unfortu
nately was against their being opened until they
were built!
We are told that Mr. 'L. voted in favor of the
bill for suspending our intercourse,at a certain pe
riod, with G. Britain, and that he was willing the
French mould fell their prizes in our ports,aswe did
in their ports when we were at war with Britain—
thefe charges I believe to be true ; indeed I fliould
be sorry not to find them so. He voted also, fays
his accuser, against the bill for the proteftion of
our trade against French Spoliations, &c.._ln this,
however, he had the countenance of his colleague,
Mr. Livermore. Lucius does not mention this.
But why does he not proceed with his complaint
and tell us all the .truth ? That Mr. L. voted a
gainst the Standing Army ad, by means of
which many millions of dollars "have been worse
than thrown away ? The (hare that New-Hamp
ffiire must eventually con tribute to that molt
unneceflary and useless expense, would undoubt
edly be much more than fufficient for the " hon
orable support of our State Government" for ten
years to come. Why are we not told that Mr.
L. was opposed to the alien aft, the sedition
alt, the STAMP aft, and every other aft that in
his opinion would be injurious to the people, and
fnbverfrve of the true spirit of the Conflitution ?
One general answer may be given, which will ap
) ply to every queftionof the kind that can be put ;
it is this—that potwithftanding any hypocritical
pretensions to candour, Lucius had no other de
from the beginning than to wound the rep
utation of Goh Langdon in the greatest possible de
gree, and for that reason has dated only the debt
Crren pricest of per from to
D. C. D. C
ASHES, Pot, iflfort, T. 120 0 126 66
, Pearl -- 140 0 146 0
Allum, C. 8 0 9 0
Anchors, so 0 12 0 0
Bread, Ship C, 450 650
Butter ffi 0 14 016
Beef, common 8., 9 0 0 0
mess — 11 0 11 0
Beans, white bn. 1 20 1 20
Brandy, Spanish 41b,r. G. 150 155
, Naples 4th pr. — 140 145
Barley bu. 1 o 1 0
Brimstone, C. 3 0 4 0
Brimstone, Roll C. 450 5 0
Corn, Indian — 075 0 75
Rye .. 090 0 0
Cassia ffi 070 075
Cloves —1 66 216
Coffee — 018 '0 19
Cheese, American — 0 6 014
Cotton,foreign force — 040 045
, American ^- 028 030
Cordage, American C. 14 50 15 0
, Foreign, -- 12 0 13 0
Chocolate, common ffi 020 020
, best No. 2^l -- 029 032
Candles, mould — 017 020
, dipt 0 17 0 17
Coals, foreign. Ch. 14 0 14 c
, American nze, -- 0 0 o c
Copperas, C. 350 4 0
Cloth, Tow yd. 016 017
Duck, Raffia, ifqual. Bt. 16 0 18 0
FOREIGN BILLS.
£ills on London : 30 days, (For Cafo) ij a 2 pr. cent. dis.
do. do. : : : 00 dajs, ; : do. : QI. pr. ct. dis.
do. do. 0 : : 90 days, : : do. ; 3 do. do.
Bills on Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 lays, : : do. do. do. do.
do. on Amsterdam, payable in do. so ays, : ; do. do, do.
NUMBER 29. VOL. IIL]
From the New Hampshire GAZETTE.
PORTSMOUTH, (NEWHAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY NUTTING & WHITELOCK, PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNI TED STATES,
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
Republican Ledger,
Olben fan
Current prices of 4 per from to
D. C. D. C.
Duck, Ravens — 10 50 12 0
Flaxseed, rough bu. 1 0 1 5
Fish, Merchant, C. 4 0 425
,W. India mark. — 325 375
Scale — 250 275
- Salmon none B. 10 0 0 0
Mackerel — 75° 8 0
Flour, super. frefh — 850 8 0
, fine --8 0 8 0
, middlings -- 650 7 0
, country C. 30 350
Fuftick T. 45 0 0 0
. , Bristol cr. loby 8, bx. 15 0 15 50
^ 9 b y 7, --.14 0 14 5°
Bby 6, — 11 0 II 50
J ) Hamburg ioby 8, — 12 0 0 0
< 7 b y9> -- Be 0 0
Gun Powder ffi 050 055
Geneva, Holland i/l pr G. 1 20 I^2o
, Americanize -- 090 o 0
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 25 0
Hogs Lard ffi 0 12 0 14
Iron, Philadelphia T. 140 0 o a
, Russia —l2O 0 125 0
, Swedes - 130 0 0 0
Logwood T. 40 0 45 °
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 0 0 16 0
, dry '-- 14 0 14 5°
, red — 850 0 0
, iheet — to 50 0 °
Lumber, boards clear M. 17 0 18 0
, , merch. — 12 0 13 0
shingles — 150 22
fide of the account, and magnified each charge to
the utmost extent of possibility.
We are now come to the fix last columns of
Lucius' luminous Waris, I mean those that have
made their public appearance, how many more
there may be in reserve, is difficult at once to de
termine ; it depends on an arithmetical calculation,
which 1 have not time to make. The quellion
would be how many different transpositions may
be made of all the words in the English language,
with liberty to convey over and over again ad
libitum, the fame ideas, or no ideas at all. 1 hope
this will not be considered a reflection on the tal
ents of my friend Lucius ; —he certainly has tal
ents—he abounds in language, and has a talent at
difeharging it in molt copious effufions; nor is he
without ideas—they are however, rather of an ex
traordinary kind, and he is not a little lingular in
his manner of enforcing them. I shall notice some
of them, but having little time to spare, my obser
vations will be fbort.
©botefale prices Current, at Portsmouth, Octo^ampOjire.
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS.
Mr. L. is represented by him as wanting econ
omy, because be owns a carriage ; and a house
that has furniture in it, and because he lives in
that house and is so extravagant as sometimes to
invite a friend to dine with him, and occasionally
entertains Grangers who may fall in his way.—
Is Gov. G. guilty of these things, or is he not ? if
he is, he is in this refpeft a no better man than
Col.L. if he is not we, will allow him all the mer
it of this fort, his friends can desire for him.—
Mr. L. is not economical because he thought it
would be for the interest of the State to have the
necessary business properly done ; and as this
could not be effected at one session, that it would
be bed to have two—Gov. G. and his party were
of a different opinion ; they are not however en
tirely free from censure ; these gentry are only
halfway economies—for if the general Court, in
having but one session in the year, saved 10,000
dollars to the State, as Lucius asserts—by the fame
kind of calculation they would have saved 10,000
more, by having none. If economy be the only
object, we had better have done with the foolifh
and expeufive buliuefs of choosing and paying
Senators and Representatives to manage our af
fairs—it would foe much cheaper to continue our
excellent Governor in office, and commit the man
agement of all necessary legislative business to him;
his talents and diJinterefled regard to the welfare
of,all parties, peculiarly qualify him for the trust,
and with a thoufaud dollars additional salary, he
has doubtless patriotism enough to undertake it.
But to he a little more serious, let mealk you, Lu
cius, to put your hand upon your bread and ans
wer, like an honed man, this question, Was it
from a regard to economy in the expenditure of
public monies, or for the purpose of preventing
the incorporation of the New-Hampihire Union
Bank for another year, that the winter session of
the General Court was omitted?
$aH tbefe Deebs relate fyeati of tjm as ^ are : flowing attenuate, nor set baton ougjt fa malice.
• TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1802.
Gourfe of exchange, at Lofton,
§»@ ► »►>.••-
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Lemons frejb bx. 70 8 0
Lime, half hhd. 175 2 0
Leather, Soal, dried, Ib 020 0 0
Molaifes G. 040 042
Nutmegs lb 5 0 55°
Nail Rods scarce T. 8 0 0 0
relent M - °34 036
u)|6dj ' — 070 072
^! 6d, wrought -- 117 0 0
< ] lod, do. ibfpcaed- 175 183
Z I 2od, do. do. — 240 250
(Sheathing, cut C. if 50 0 0
^J Liver B. 14 0 14 0
O[Linfeed G. 110 115
Pepper lb ^3O 030
Pork, best pieces B. 16 0 18 0
, common -- 13 0 15 0
Peas bu. I 25 1 25
Pimento tb°^ 0 20
Pitch, B. 6 0 0 0
Paper, Sheathing *C. 375 4 0
Redwood T. 55 0 60 0
Raisins /ts cafl< 7 0 7 25
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 4 1 17
, Windward 3dpr.— 0 90 0 90
Rice scarce C. 550 0 0
Rosin scarce B. 450 450
Soap, white lb oz 4 oi 6
, brown — 010 012
, castle — 0 17 020
Sugar, Havannah C. 18 0 19 0
, East-India — 12 0 13 0
, Weft-Ihdia — 9 0 12 0
The reasonings of Lucius on the principle of ro
tation in office are perfectly confident with the
views of the party to which be belongs. Were
artful men always on their guard, the honest and
unfufpe&ing, would not long be fafe. It is owing
to the imprudent zeal of some hot headed politi
cians, in prematurely divulging what was intend
ed to be kept secret, that the plan of an elective
monarchy, generated in the political clubs of the
high toned advocates for executive power, has
not ere this, been brought into operation in our
country, and that our republican Confiitution,
purchased at the amazing expence of an eight
years cruel and bloody war, has not been in the
short period of less than twenty years, with all
our boalled liberties, wrested from ns forever.
If I understand Lucius's newfangled logic, it is
this—that altho' the people have a conflitutional
right annually to eleft whom they plea fefor their
Governor, yet once having exercised that right, it
muff be considered as a grant merely for the peri
od for which he was elected, but until voluntarily
relinquished by the grantee, unless destroyed by
demonfirative. evidence, that he is unfit for the of
fice, because re-election to office may be consider
ed (or be pretended so to be) the principal valua
ble compensation for his services and to withhold
that at aay period would operate as a repeal of
the privelege of the grant from the beginning,
which without a violation of moral obligations,
the people, notwithstanding their coufttutiopal
power, can never do ; and that the rotation prin
ciple if established by the constitution muff be bad
because it will destroy all pretentions to such claim,
and the people to be left free to eleft whom they
please as a successor without the charge of violence
or injustice. If there be any force in this kind of
reasoning, repeated reelection serves to firengthen
the claiiii, and comes near to the principle of
electing for life—but as the people are not yet
prepared for such doctrine—this leafomrfle devel
opement may be the means of saving our conifi
tution and securing our liberties.
On the score of abilities so frequently mention
ed by our author, to the disadvantage of Mr. L.
we have no objection to intituling a comparison
between the two candidates —wholly to deny them
to either, as both have been repeatedly eleded to
important offices, the reflection wouhi fafi perhaps
as severely on their electors as on them—Mr. G.
may have talents, but if so they have been conceal
ed even closer than in a knapkiu, it was not a ve
ry plentiful commodity in the family and the eld
ed fori has. never been thought to have inherited a
double port ion of it ; —but enough of this. Lucios
has said many excellent thingsof his friend Mr. G.
& after a few remarks I foall be willing to let them
go for what they are worth : The duties of the treas
ury office, inithis Statelhave for ought hascome to the
knowledge of the public, been fufficieutly attended
to, but "as there were no checks and scarce any
' INLAND BILLS.
Billsvn Baltimore, 30 days fight, (For Cassi) t per cent dis.
do.. Philadelphia, : :• do„ : do. do. do.
do. New-York, - • • do. ; do. do. do.
do. Philadelphia, or] , ~,,
New-York, da y s > = do 2 do >
N. B. Bills at ('sorter tight, pr&portionably higher.
. [I DOL. JQCTS. PER ANNUM
ft Current prices of* p e r from to
D. C D. c.
Starch, Poland ffi 022 022
, American -- 014 01^
Sugar, Loaf lb 0 27 023
Salt, St. Übes scarce H. 650 7 0
, Turk's Iffand -7 0 7 0
, Liverpool — 450 5 0
, Rock --7 0 7 50
Steel, German Ib 014 °'s
° , Englilh — 016 017
Salt Petre, rough - 020 0 0
Shot C. 10 0 10 0
fW.O. hhd. M. 24 0 26 0
[!} do. do. heading — 26 0 28 a
>,W. O. bbl. " — 10 0 12 5
<1 R. O. hhd. — io 0 IT 7
do. Shooks 0 66 000
[W. O. do. 1 20 1 00
Tin in Iheets bx. 18 0 2o 0
Far B. 350 350
Turpentine -- 4 0 450
Tea, Hyfon lb 112 1 17
, Souchong — 080 080
, Bnhea — 036 038
Tobacco, J°amesßiver C. 7 0 07
, Georgia — 55° 6 0
Twine, sewing doz. 550 0 3
, seine — 5 0 55°
.fMadeira " G. 217 283
Q I Lifhon — 120 130
Z ^ Sherry, scarce — 146 150
Malaga q.c. 29 0 30 3
' [Red Port scarce — 167 Retail
controul 01 cr the office" (as Lucius juflly observes)
we can form no favorable conciuhon but of the
negative kind, and there can be no other than
preemptive evidence that " every cent of tie
public money has been accounted tor"—but I have
no disposition to refill even such evidence as this
when no better can be had.—Lucius denies that
Gov. G. has ever exhibited any fymtoms of dis
content in regard to his salary, and has unfortu- 4
nately adopted a little of the rough language of
that part of the country from whence be originat
ed, to express it ;—but early impressions are
firong and as he came so fairly by the m both from
natural as well as local causes I shall confider it a
small error and qnite pardonable How does he
reconcile this demal with what in a few fucceed
,ing fentenecs, he admits, viz.—That Gov. G. find
ing other salaries enlarged could not bear to fee
the loaves and filhes thus deftribmed without de
manding a (hare for himfelL—Mr. G. knew that
he was not forgotten in this deftributicn ; the
General Court bad fully considered his case and
had twice told him they thought he bad his (bare,
but not contented with this and finding that the
division on the question was not very great against
him he ventured to try his own influence ; it suc
ceeded, and procured for him an additional sala
ry of two hundred dollars. Lucius :&s it he
threatened ? I answer—yes—is he -denies it let
him alk even Mr. G's friends who were present.
I would refer him to the letter itfelf which ought
to have been on the files, but some one more ptu.
dent than Mr. G. found means to suppress it. The
subsequent applications for increase of salary and
for compenfotion for reviewing the militia are said
to have been made w ithout the knowledge of Gov.
G. It is barely possible—it is not probable. Gov.
G. mult firft declare it himfelf those then who are
acquainted with the circumflances are at liberty
to think as they please. Is °rt probable that a
•queflioidput at so many different times and in such
various Shapes, and urged with such vehemence
by his molt particular friends, bis advijers, his
privy counfellors, could have taken place without
his knowledge—candor itfelf will nqt admit the
supposition. Had not Lucius mentioned Gov. G's
difintereiled benevolence I should have flopped
here—but as bis cendua in some infences cannot
be reconciled with that amiable qualification, I
mull take the liberty to fufpe& that he does not
possess it. It is a matter of very general notoriety
that the question on the incorporation of the N.
H. Union Bank was made a political one, and that
the principal opposition was on that ground, and
that to advocate the cause of the petitioners was
to incur the stigma of Jacobiniftp. Just at this
time Gov. G. adopted the plan of leaving out of
office several justices of the peace whufe commis
sions had expired for political opinions only, of
because th„ wire friends to the incorporation of
the Bank—sand among them meu of the matt up-