Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-09-21 00:00:00, page 1

Current prices of per front i(>
D . C. D. C
ASHES, Pot, iflfort, T. 95 0 100 0
, Pearl -- n° 0 0 0
Allum, C. 8 0 9 0
Anchors, lb- on 12 0
Bread, Ship C. 450 7 0
Butter ' Ib 0 12 ° r 3
Beef, common B. 9 0 12 0
mess -- T 3 0 '3 50
Beans, white bu. 1 12 1
Brandy, Spanish 4th pr. G. 150 160
, Naples 4^f>r. -- 1 5° 0 0
Barley none, bu. 0 0 0 0
Brimrtor.e, C. 250 4 0
Brimstone, Roll C. 45 0 5 °
Corn, Indian — 080 083
R y e -- 083 088
Cassia lb obo 06 5
Cloves -133 0 0
Coffee - 0 20 0 22
Cheefe,American — 0 6 014
Cotton, foreign scarce -- 040 0 0
, American — 0 2 3 ° 2 4
Cordage, American C. 14 0 0 0
, Foreign, — 12 0 J 3 °
Chocolate, common lb 020 0 0
, best N2.2&1 — 028 0 33
Candles, mould — 018 o^9
, dipt — 016 0 0
Coals, foreign Ch. 14 0 0 0
, American; -- 17 0 18 0
Copperas, C. 35° 4 °
Cloth, Tow yd. 016 017
Duck, Russia, iftqual. Bt. 16 0 17 0|
We have repeatedly pledged ourselves to the
public, to furnijb evidence that a certain
Member of Congress of Massachusetts,
bad committed agrofs and palpable faljehood,
for the purpose of creating a prejudice^ a
gainst the present government of the United
States. We preJame it has been well un
derload, that this engagement related^ to a
report, which had been indufrioufly circu
lated by a member of Congress for the 4th
Weftern Diftrid, that a thousand dollars
had been paid by the government, for advice
in the Treajary Department, in conference oj
the abjence 0/ the Attorney-General. —-In in
troducing the JubJequent communication, we
feel it our duly to fate, that the Hon. Seth
Hastings is the person to whom we have
alluded, and who, we conceive, is referred to,
in the Jiatement of the Attorney-General. It
is not denied he has propagated this report.
The public will decide whether the documents
are fuffcient to convict him of afafebood, and
©J courje to absolve us from cur engagement.
Those Editors who feel an intereJi in repell
ing the sanders, will, we presume, cheerjul
iy republiJh this official document. — AEgis.
TO THE PEOPLE.
BUT few occurrences will juftify an in
dividual in introducing himfelt on the atten
tion of the public. —It any will, they are
those which both falfely implicate private
character, and involve imputations on Gov
ernment. No man ought, no reflecting man
can, feel an indifference for the esteem and
approbation of his fellow citizens. But, no
circumfpeaion, no rectitude of intention or
aflion, no laudable solicitude to obtain, can
iiniverfally secure them. It has been long
known, that censure and abuse are the or
dinary incidents of public employment.—
Experience and observation have taught me
the superior propriety of meeting them (when
tinder no peculiar circutpftances) with pa
tience, and refuting them, by a steady and
firm adherence to principle and to duty.
The public attention has been directed to
«4<re<^ffi
FOREIGN BILLS.
Bills on London : 30 days, : ® r Cajb) pat•
do. do. : : : To days, ; : do. : 1 pr. cent. dis.
do." do. : : f 90 days, : do. : if do.
Bills on Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 days, : : 2 do. do.
do. on Amsterdam, payable in do. To days, : : do. do. do.
NUMBER 4. VOL. IV.]
apolitical ^ifcell^
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY S. NUTTING,
Ufyn pu sall tbefe teebs relate (peak of tljem as t>eg arc : Dotting attenuate, nor set boton ought in malice.
Republican Ledger,
Current prices of per from to
D. C. Di C.
Duck, Ravens — 10 50 11 50
Flaxseed, rough bu. 1 0 1 5
Fifli, Merchant, C. 4 0 425
,W. India mark. — 325 350
Scale -- 225 233
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 0
Mackerel — 750 8 0
Flour, super. frefh — 750 0 0
, fine ty -- 650 0 0
, middlings -- 6 0 0 0
, country C. 375 4 0
Furtick T. 45 0 0 0
. ( Bristol cr. toby 8, bx. 15 5$ ;6 0
fl oby 7,— 14 0 0 0
3by 6, — 11 0 1150
/Hamburg ioby 8, -- 13 0 13 50
' 7by9, -- 12 0 12 50
Gun Powder lb 0 5° °
Geneva, Holland ifl prG. 110 0 0
, American — 090 094
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 0 0
Hogs Lard ft, 012 0 10
Iron, Philadelphia T. 130 0 0 0
, Russia --120 0 130 0
, Swedes -- 125 0 135 0
Logwood T. 40 0 45 °
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 16 0 0 0
, dry -- 15 0 0 0
, red — 866 9 0
, fhect , — 11 0 0 0
Lumber, boards clear IM. 16 0 17 0
; , merch. — 9 ° 9 0
shingles -1 5° 220
me, much beyond what either my situation
or my conduct in life can juftify. It is not
of importance, to decide on the motives or
the object of this procedure. Believing that
time, and the good sense of the people, would
seasonably and cffedually correct, in refer
ence to rhyfclf, error, prejudice and misre
presentation, so far as they depended, merely,
on newspaper authority, or vulgar and un
traceablc reports, they have been, hitherto,
altogether unnoticed.
Their effeds on the public tranquility have
been fubjeds for serious regret. The com
mon; party; and personal abuse, the incredi
ble newspaper slanderous assertions, with
which New England has teemed, for the last
twelve months, the mere effects of ignorance,
prejudice; pride or paflion^ merit nothing
but silence, or anonymous answers. They
excite more of regret than contempt ; more
of compassion than resentment, more of con
fidence, firmnefs and encouragement for per
severance than either. The assailed thinks
little of them, feels less, will be the firft to
forget, the last to seek for their authors, or
trouble the public concerning them. This
evil, feeble in its operation, of a circumscrib
ed extent, a depredator on itfelf, and coun
terading its designed tendencies, must soon
expire, to the corividion and confulion of
those who produced it.—As such, at firft,
was viewed the report, which, in the course
of the last winter, was hurried through the
country, in all the federal papers, and in some
with double indexes, in reipedt to the pay
ment OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, BY
the Secretary of the Treasury, on
ACCOUNT OF THE ABSENCE OF THE At
torney General from the seat of
Government.
But this report, and many others, have as
sumed a different complexion, as originating
with persons who are, or have been, in au
thority ; who have pledged their weight of
chara&er, and other imposing circumstances,
in support of them. Thus they have been
circulated, perfidioufly, with induttry, and
the boldest profeffions of attachment to truth,
and of a tender and patriotic anxiety for the
public good. An instance of this kind is a
©bolefale prices Current, at Portsmouth, oefahl,amp(bire.
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1802.
aoutie of Grebange, at tootton.
Cur'ent prices of per from to
D. C., D. C.
Lenons frefo (scarce) bx. io o 11 o
Line, half hhd. I 75 2 0
Leather, Soal, dried, lb 020 0 0
Molasses G. 040 043
Nutmegs lb 5 0 55°
Nail Rods fcarci C. 750 8 0
f 4d lcut M ° 034 ° °
to j 6dJ ' — 0 66,4 0 0
^) 6d, wrought — 117 0 0
< j rod, do. infpe&ed— 175 180
Zi j 2od, do., do. — 245 250
^Sheathing; cut C. 0 0 11 50
-1 f Liver none B. 14 0 '0 0
Q [Linfeed G. 125 0 0
Pepper lb 028 0 0
Pork, best piece# B. 24 0 0 0
, common — 18 0 20 0
Peas bu. 1 25 1 50
Pimento lb 020 0 0
Pitch, B. 6 0 o °
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 0
Redwood T. 55 0 60 0
Raisins /refi ) calk 850 9 0
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 0 0 0
, Windward 3d pr.— 0 80 0 0
Ric e scarce C. 6 0 0 0
Rosin scarce B. 450 0 0
Soap, white ft> 014 010
, brown -- 010 016
, castle -- 017 0 2
Sugar, Hivannah C. 17 0 0 0
, East-India -- 12 0 12 50
, Wert-India — 9 0 12 0
Had it been true that the Attorney General
had been guilty of the alledged abandonment
of duty, and so unjust as to have fubjeded
Government to the necessity of making a
double compensation for a single employ
ment ; had it been true that the treasury office
had been so forgetful of right, and regardless
of itfelf, as to have passed an account of one
thousand dollars, or one cent, for per
forming the services allotted to a salary offi
cer, during his unnecessary absence, it would,
from the principle involved, have been mat
ter of serious alarm to the people, and of just
reproach to the Government. It would have
called for public censure, on a congreflional
investigation.
This calumny firft made its public appear
ance in a Bofen newspaper ; and soon reach
ed the feat of Government, from whence it
probably originated, while Congress was in
its last Session, engaged, as it ought, the^ at
tention of its members individually. Each
had within his reach, various and ample
means for afeertaining the fad. The Se
cretary of the .Treasury, the Register, the
Auditor, or the Comptroller, could have
done it on a simple enquiry.—The records of
the office, within twenty minutes travel from
charge of misrepresentation, transferred to
the Attorney General, from one of the num
bers of the Farmer, refpefting the Berceau.
Another is contained in the bold assertions of
Claudius, pf rnifreprefentations, in another
number, of the fame writer, and the intole
rance of the present, and the liberality of the
old Administration, in employing republican
characters in the offices of the four executive
departments of state. This publication was,
originally, made in a Connecticut paper. And
containing matter notorieufy talfe, llanderous
and malignant, was, of course, copied into
the Pforcefter Spy.
Falsehood so propagated, for such purposes,
and implicating Government and individuals,
will juftify a resort to something beyond a
naked denial, the ordinary mode of refuta
tion. Their apparent authenticity, from the
presumed refpe&ability of their authors, calls
for the highest documents and proofs, to
confute them.
.INLAND BRILLS.
° n Baltimore; 30 days fight, (For Cash) 1 per cent dis.
Philadelphia, . : • do? \ do. do. do.
dp. New-York, • . : : do. : do. do. do.
de. Philadelphia, or],, ,
New-York, / 6 ° da ! s > : d ° o 2 do.
IV. B. Bills at (horter fight, proportionably higher.
INTER OF THE LA WS OF THE UNITED STATES,
[1 DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
the Capitol, would have done it, in twenty
seconds. Each member, in his place, could
have moved for an enquiry, and have caused
the evidence of the faft, had it exilled, to
have been laid before Congress. It was
understood that out-door enquiries were
made, and that Gentlemen, not the most dis
posed to think favorably of the conduct of
the present officers, of Government, being
fatisfied of the falfity of the report, explicit
ly rejected it. A member from New-York,
in a circular letter to his conflituents, which
was published in several papers, and which
was matter of much conversation among
the members, fully and pointedly dated it.
among many others, as a gross mifreprefen^
tation.
There was season to hope that the afoer
fion would have ended here, and that Gov
ernment would have experienced no further
prejudice or injury from its effects—lt
could not have been anticipated that any
member would have been so unfortunate as
to have returned from the feat of Govern
ment (where in any hour he might have
learnt the falfity of the report, it he did not
previously know it) to his constituents, and
to them revive and confirm this groundless
and falfe calumny against the officers of gov
ernment —Yet this has been the faft.
Report fay, 1 Member of a diftriff, east of
Bolton, made the above statement, in a let
ter to one or more of his condituents, and
that since his return on enquiry, he has un
reservedly confirmed it. If this is a mis
take, as the Gentleman's character fuflfers
by the imputation it fubjeds him to, ha
will be pleased with this intimation, which
will give him a fair opportunity of wiping
off the aspersion. It he denies that 'he ei
ther dated or confirmed the representation,
which his clerical character renders pecu
liarly necessary, if it can be done, he will
withdraw his name from an error, to which
others had attacked it for the purpose of giv
ing to it a currency.
Being furnifhed with the proof, that a
member from a more weftern diftrid had
under circumstances peculiarly calculated
to gain belief, and to prejudice the public
Current prices of per from „
D. C D. C.
Starch, Poland 16 017 0 0
, American — 0 12-g 017
Sugar-Loaf lb 024 0 0
Salt, St, Übes scarce H. 6 0 0 0
, Turk's Island — 550 0 0
, Liverpool — 4 0 0 0
, Rock — 650 0 ©
Steel, German 014 0 0
, English — 0 16 01$
Salt Petre, reined — 025 0 0
Shot Patent, t. 11 0 0 &
. fW.O.hhl M. 24 0 26 0
j do. do. heading — 26 0 28 0
>)W. O. bbl -- 10 0 12 co
<} R.O. hhd. - to 0 II 7 5
^ 1 do. Shooh 066 0 0
(W. O. do. 120 130
Tin in sheets bx. i 8 0 2o a
far ' B. 325 0 0
Turpentine — 40 450
Tea, Hyfori lb. 1 10 1 16
, Souchong — 070 080
, Bohea — 0 32 033
Tobacco, Jamesßive: C. 70 o a
,Georgia — 550 6 0
Twine, sewing doz. 5 0 sco
, seine — 5 0 55°
A ^Madeira G. 217 283
$ I Lisbon farre, — 140 0 0
Z { Sherry, — 120 125
Malaga scarce q.c. 31 0 o a
(Red Port — 140