The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-11-10 00:00:00, page 1

Bbotefalc ptice* Current
AT PORTSMOUTH, (N. H.)
Current prices of per from ^~,
D. c. D. C.
ASHES, Pot, iffort, T. 130 o 0 0
, Pearl - >55 0 0 0
Bread, Ship C. 7 0 9 0
Butter ib 016 .0 17
Brimstone, C. 3 0 40
Beef, common B. 11 o il 0
, mess, ' -- 13 0 13 5°
+ Beans, white bu. 150 166
Brapdy, Spanith ^th pr. G. 145 150
Naples 4th pr. — 140 14°
Corn, Indian — 0 75 0 0
, Rye — 083 090
Caffiia lb 075 ° BO
Claves — 2 0 216
Coffee — 0 22 0 24
Cheese, American = 0 6 o >6
Cotton, foreign farce -- 040 0 45
, American -- 033 °34
Cordage, American C. 15 ° 16 0
, Foreign, -- 13 0 14 0
Chocolate, common ft ) 020 020
, belt N;. 2& I -- 030 031
Candles, mould - — 020 024
, dipt •• 017 oxß
Coals, foreign Ch. 14 0 15 °
, American none,-- 0 0 0 0
Duck, Russia, tftqual. Bt. 17 0 18 0
, Ravens •• 11 0 12 0
Fish, Merchant, C. 433 450
,W. India mark. — 350 37$
Scale — 275 3 °
? Salmon none B. 11 0 0 0
Mackerel — 50 6 0
Flour, super. frefy -- 10 0 10 50
, fine ^- 950 010
, middlings — 850 9 0
, country C. 4 0 4 0
-Fuftick T. 45 0 0 0
Gun Powder so 050 066
Geneva, Holland Ift pr G. 1,25 125
, American — 075 0 0
Hogs Lard ft) 018 020
Iron, Philadelphia T. 133 0 148 0
, Russia —l3O 0 14° 0
, Swedes —l3O 0 140 0
Logwood T. 50 0 55 0
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 15 0 16 0
, dry - 14 0' 0 0
, red — 850 0 0
, sheet — io 50 11 0
Lemons frefo bx. ro 0 0 0
Lumber, boards clear M. 17 0 18 0
, , merch. — to 50 11 0
Singles - 150 2 3;
Molasses G. 050 055
Nutmegs lb 6 0 650
Liver Oil B. 13 0 14 0
Pepper lb 9 33 °34
Pork, best pieces B. 26 0 0 0
, common — 20 0 23 0
Peas bu. 1 50 175
Pimento lb 0 23 0 25
Pitch, scarce, B. 6 0^ 00
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 5
Redwood • T. 55 0 60 0
Raisins /reJ^ cask 9 0 950
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 17 1 25
, Windward 3dftr >& — 1 0 1 5
Rice, C. 675 7 0
Rosin B. 550 6 0
Soap, white ffi °l4 0 16
, brown — 010 0 0
Starch, Poland lb °25 03°
, American -- o I2| 017
Sugar, Havannah C. 18 0 19 0
, East-India -- 14 0 0 0
, Weft-India — JI 0 13 0
, Loaf „ lb 028 029
Salt, St. Übes r 60 650
, Turk's Island »- 6 0 675
, Liverpool — 5 0 550
, Rock - 666 7 0
Steel, German ffi 016 017
, English — 016 618
Salt Petre, rough -- 030 00
Shot C. 10 0 10 50
Tar B. 45° 5 0
Turpentine -- 4 0 5 6
Tea, Hyfon %1 I? 1 19
, Souchong ~ 0 9'o 0 0
• Bohea ^-- 040 , 042
y Tobacco, James River C. 7 0 0 9
, Georgia — 6 ° 0 0
Twine, sewing doz. 567 6 0
, seine — 5 0 s<o5 <0
Wines, Madeira 0. 217 2 °3
Lisbon —1 25 120
Sherry, none — 166 167
Malaga fc'rc q.c. 3'° 3 2 0
Red Port farce— 183 0 0
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER ro, 1801.
THE local and domestic origin of pesti
lential distempers, and of Alkalies to quell
their exciting cause is firlkingly proved in
the benevolent Howard's account of his
Quarantine at Venice, contained in his book
on Lazarettos, page Ilth. And if he had
written nothing but this, he would have de
served the approbation of all classes of men.
" Soon after unloading the boat," he writes
" the sub-prior came and Ibewed me my
lodging in the new Lazaretto, which Was a
very dirty room,full bf vermin and without ta
ble, ;hair or bed. That day and the next
morning, 1 employed a person to wall ) my
room ; but this did not remove the offen
tivenefs of it, or prevent that constant head
ache, which I had been used to feel in visit
ing other Lazarettos and some of the hospi
tals in Turkey. This Lazaretto is chiefly
assigned to Turks and Soldiers, and the crews
of those (hips which have the plague on
board. In one of the inclofures was the
crew of a Ragufan ship, which had arrived
a few days before me, after having been
driven from Ancona and Trieste. My
Guard sent a report of my health to the of
fice, and on the representation of our Con
sul, I was conduced to the old Lazaretto,
^hich is nearer the city. Having brought
a letter to the prior from the Venetian Am
baflador at Conflantinople ; I hoped now t # >
have had a comfortable lodging. But I was
not so happy. The apartment appointed
me (confiding of an upper and lower room)
was no less disagreeable and offenfive than
the former, I preferred lying in the lower
room on a brickfloor, where 1 was almost
forrounded with water. After fix days,
however, the prior removed me to an apart
ment in some refpeds better, and confiding
of four rooms. Here I had a pleasant view ;
but the rooms were without furniture, very
dirty, and no less offenfive than the sick wards
of the wofft Hospital. The walls of my
chamber, not having been cleaned probably
for half a century, were foturated with in
feaion. I got them washed repeatedly,
with boiling water ; to remove the offenfive
smell, without any effea. My appetite
failed, and I concluded I was in danger of
,the flow Hospital fever, &c."-—Strong pre
judices were opposed to his having the room
whitewashed with Lime. He however, with
great difficulty, got it done at lad. And the
consequence was, the noxious vapours were
neutralized, and it was immediately render
ed so freth and sweet that he was able to
drink tea in it in the afternoon, and to sleep
in it (he following night. The other inhab
itants of the Lazaretto admired these strange
proceedings.
Mr. Howard observes, that he left his
faccefors an agreable and wholesome room,
-instead of a nafy and contagious one.
This contamination of the walls of build
ings, seems to be less regarded now than
jformerly. In the times or the ancient Jews,
the plague of leprosy which invaded them,
invaded their houses as well as their persons.
This nasty diftempet feqtfred a very parti
cuhr method of &tml* (abfohrtion by
water and anointing ^itff'oil) that the per
son inferred by it might be rendered clean.
The direction given was that the person dif
coverirg this plague to be in the house,
should inform the priest of it, who fhoulo
order the house to be emptied, and then pro
ceed to examine the condition of it. The
poison acting as the exciting cause of the
disease, poffefled qualities enabling it to at
tack and corrode, the materials of the walls,
''forming hollow ftrakes, greemfh or red
ifh, which in fight arb lower than the wall."
Being curious to know the compofirion of
this mortar, for the inhabitants of the weal
thy, I looked into Shaw's travels for infor
mation. This judicious observer was led
to believe the cement or mortar now in use,
was the fame which the ancient inhabitants
of Syria, Judea And Egypt were wont ro em
ploy ; that is, a compoftrion of two pitrts of
wood ashes, three of lime and one of fine
sand, fitted, mixed and beaten intimately
together and fotrened with oil and water nn
till they become of a proper confidence. —
One can easily comprehend how such a wall
Miftellar,.
—, —<.&< ♦<««<♦»»+
THOUGHTS,
ON '
QUARANTINES & LAZARETTOS.
Addressed to the Health Officer of the port of
New-York, by Dr. Mitchell.
Continued from ear lafl.
sorbing extenuate, nor let noton ou^bt in malice.
[I DOL. JO CTS. PER ANNUM
That there is a kind of human nastiness
whence unhealthy and fever-producing ex
halations proceed, is fufficientiy well known.
— And if the Mahometan way of building
houses and living in them throughout Syria
and Egypt, tends to promote the accumula
tion of this foul and noxious matter, then a
proportional degree and extent of sickness
and mortality, may be expelled. But in
vain do we search the books of the principal
part of the physicians philosophers and mer
cantile and merely curious travellers for this
kind of information. Jt has been deemed
probably too vulgar and unimportant for a
polite and entertaining writer to treat of.—
Yet I am bold to express my convidion
that the origin and cause of their epidemic
fever or plague can never be underwood
without it. And it is for want of this know
ledge that the greater number of those writ
ers who have treated cf this disease, have
done it with so much prejudice and with so
itle intelligence.
Os all the travellers to the Levant who
have published their observations, none that
1 recollea has presented a more learned and
ufeful account of what the neighboring
countries contain than Dr. Thomas Shaw.
The description he has given of the houses
and way of life among the Mahometans is
invaluable. He has, among other things,
drawn a plan and explanation of a Mahom
etan dwelling, which shows it to be almost
is much adapted to engender and accumu
late pcftilence as a Venetian Lazaretto.—
The houses in their cities, he observes,
(Travels in Barbary and the Levant, p. 27^)
arc unfavorable to Ventilation. Both in
Barbary and the Levant, the method 01 build
ing stems to have been the fame from the
refilling ar.d neutralizing a long 1 m: could
be corroded and discolored at last by Septic
Acid Gas.
When the noxious matter or vapor th-s
Shewed itfelf in the house, and was spread
ing through it, the command in Leviticus,
is, to take away the very stones that aie in
fefled and carry them to an unclean place
without the city, to scrape the hpufe within
round about and carry away the dust which
i< scraped off, and to repair the house with
o.her stones and other mortar, and plaster it
anew. And, if after these things were done,
t' e plague shall come again and break out
in the house, it is directed to be demolished,
and the stones, timber, and mortar of it, to
be carried out of the city. A private family
here was forbidden to live in an unclean
house. Great pains were taken to purity it,
and if it was found too dirty to be cleaned, it
was to be pulled down as untenantable. —
How different is the practice of modern
times ! A (hip that has loft a focceffion of
crews by in-bred fevers is conlidered sea
worthy as long as her timbers & planks will
hold together, not regarding the unhealthy
nefs of her condition, nor whether (he is too
unclean to accommodate a family of human
inhabitants. A Lazaretto, the slaughter
house of hundreds, whose floors and walls
have imbibed putridity and infection ever
since they were erected, is considered a pro
per receptacle for the wretches who have
the plague, or are fofoeded of falling sick
with it. A private dwelling in a city has
been inhabited by unclean and indigent in
habitants for several hundred y^ars ; and in
America some of these die of yellow fever,
in Great-Britain of Typhus, and in Turkey
of plague. The exciting cause of these dis
tempers, being one and the fame, only dif
ferently modified, invests them closely and
Tallies forth from its lurking places in every
part of their habitation. Yet this hotife is
tenantable, and some new inhabitant to day
takes the place of the viaim of yesterday.-;
In these examples, the ship, the Lazaretto,
and the house, are the places where pefti
rience is engendered. Local origin, in eve
ry indance, as in the leprous-house of the
Jews, bears sway and ought to be guarded
against by removing contaminated materials,
by scraping and freffi plaiftering according
to the Leviucal regulations, or by a&ual de
molition.
There is one fubjea of enquiry, which
the Europeans who have travelled to Aha,
have generally omitted. This is the domes
tic economy of the inhabitants. To a per
son who refleded on the frequent occur
rence and deftruaive violence of pestilential
"distempers in some of the ports near the
eastern (hores of the Mediterranean sea, it
would appear certain that there must be bad
management either within their houses and
their appurtenances, or in the cities and
their purlieus, or in both.