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IS it not a maxim of your party, that un
less confidence is placed by the people in
those who administer their government, the
government muff be inevitably destroyed ?
What party is now endeavoring to de
flroy this necessary confidence !
Is it not a maxinrof your party, that no
government can exist unless foch constraint
is put upon the press, as will effectually pre
vent calumnious publications against those
who administer the government ?
What party is now publishing the most
base and wicked dander against the public
officers of the United States governmentr
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C
ASHES, Pot, iffort, T. 130 0 0 0
, Pearl -->55 0 1 60 0
Allum, C. 8 0 9 °
Anchors, ffi' 0 12 0 0
Bread, Ship C. 550 650
Butter ffi 014 017
Brimstone, C. 3 0 4 0
Beef, common B. 10 0 II 0
, mess, — 12 0 12 0
Beans, white bu. 150 166
Brandy,Spanifh 4th pr. G. I 50 I 55
, Naples 4th pr. — 140 145
Barley, bu.. 1 0 I 0
Brimstone, Roll C. 5 0 6 0
Corn, Indian -- 067 075
, Rye .- 1 0 ° °
Caffiia ft > 0 75 080
Cloves — 2 0 2 1 '
Coffee -- 0 20 0 23
Cheese, American — 0 6 016
Cotton, foreign farce -- 04° 0 45
, American — 0 33 °34
Cordage, American C. 15 0 16 ®
, Foreign, -- 13 0 14 0
Chocolate, common ffi 020 020
, best N0.2&1 — 030 033
Candles, mould -- 020 024
, dipt -- 016 018
Coals, foreign Ch. 14 0 14 0
, American none, -- 0 0 0 0
Copperas, C. 3 50 4 0
Cloth, Tow yd. 015 /0 18
Duck, Russia, if quul. Bt 16 0 17 0
, Ravens — 10 0 to 0
FOREIGN FILLS.
Bills on London : 30 days, : (hr Cajb) 1 pr. cent, dis.
do. do. : : : todays, : : do. : 1 a2pr.ct.dil.
do. do. : : : 90 days, : : do. : 2a 3 do. do.
Bills on Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 days, : : do. do. do. do.
do. on AmLerdam, payable in do. 60 days, : :. do. do. do.
Are the men who commit and encourage
these aCts, destroyers or supporters of gov
ernment and good order ?
Is it not a maxim of your party that the
majority has the right to govern, and that
the minority ought quietly to rest fatisfied
with their administration ?
What party is the majority, what party
is the minority ? who ought to rest quietly
fatisfied with the prefect administration, a
greeable to this maxim.
I have direded these questions more par
ticularly to the candid, as from them honest
investigation is expelled —the hot head de
signing partizan never calculates upon fa&s
or principle, he only caculates upon his art
of deception ; certain men and not measures
are his great pursuit, he readily adopts what
ever his leader dire&s, without once reflea
ing upon the principle, to fee if it will not
operate to destroy eventually certain rights
which he holds molt dear. Such men lam
sensible will endeavor to Rifle the true and
perfea answers to the aforefaid queflions,
or will quiet the qualms of conscience, by
replying, that the republicans have held cer
tain maxims, in opposition to the maxims
of the Federalists, therefore the Federalists
are not bound by their own maxims, more
especially, as they have become the minority.
But hold good Mr. Federalist, the candid
part of your friends, mult and will fay, it is
NUMBER 16. VOL. III.]
THE CANDID FEDERALIST.
From the Vermont Gazette.
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©ben gou ^an t^fe teens relate fyeek of tbem as tie? are : Doting extenuate, nor set seton ougfit in malice.
but right that we should be bound and gov
erned by the good and wholesome rules and
maxims which we have considered and a
dopted for the better regulating our fellow
citizens and the protecting our rights. If
these principles were right in 1798, they are
right in 1861. It is not proper that we
should do wrong because the Republicans do
wrong ; No; something is rotten at the
bottom, our leaders are inconsistent, per
verting their own principles, and we much
fear that the great noise made about jaco
bins, diforganizers, and all this rant of as
persion will fall heavy on ourselves if we
hand any longer on this fide the house. We
with to think right and do right : we are
of no party but the party whose principles
tend dire&ly to benefit all mankind equally.
We-are willing all should enjoy the privi
leges and advantages we enjoy ; we are nei
ther royalist, nor the friends of royal gov
ernment.
Olbotefale prices Current, at pprtfmoutb, jacw^amp©trc.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Flaxseed, rough bu. 095 1 2
Filh, Merchant, C. 433 45°
,W. India mark. --. 35 0 4 0
Scale - 275 3 0
Salmon none B. 11 0 0 0
Mackerel — 5 0 6 0
Flour, super. frefh -- 950 10 0
, fine — 9 0 0 0
, middlings — 80 850
, country C.. 4 0 4 0
Fuftick T. 45 0 0 0
. , Bristol cr. loby 8, bx. 15 0 0 0
fl 9 b Y 7' - ] 4 0 14 5°
<. Bby 6, -- 11 0 II 50
^) Hamburg loby 8, -- 13 0 0 0
C 7byg, -- 13 0 0 c
Gun Powder ffi 050 066
Geneva, Holland iflpr G. 1 25 1 33
, Americanize — 0 75 ° '
Hoops, hhd. B 2 ft. M. 25 0 30 0
Hogs Lard lb 0 ^ 020
Iron, Philadelphia T. 135 0 139 0
, Russia - 125 0 130 c
, Swedes none" -- 130 0 14° c
Logwood T. 50 0 55 °
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 15 0 16 0
, dry -- 15 0 16 0
, red — 850 0 0
, sheet — 10 50 11 0
Lemons frefo bx. 12 0 0 0
Lumber, boards clear M. 17 0 18 0
, , merch. -- 12 0 13 0
shingles — 150 2 55
THE Omnipotence of the British nation
has been so long a fubje& of exultation, and
from political motives so generally admitted,
that an attempt to place America in an atti
tude of opposition to her Marine Mandates,
is considered by some, as the height of arro
gance, if not of madness. But no country
has been more overrated in its real commer
cial strength ; provided other nations would
exercise those national advantages which
they possess. The United States, by exag
gerating the power of Britain, and lessening
Their own energies, have originated the er
rors they have committed, and substantiated
the benefits obtained by England in our
Commercial negociations. The fears excit
ed by the friends to the British Treaty, that
war would be the consequence of refuting
it, were derogatory to our national charac
ter, as it exhibited a pusillanimity on our
part, which Simulated Britain to further
" The Evil men do, live after them."
©to ^outfo
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1801.
From the CHRONICLE.
Course of Grebange, at toofton.
excesses. The declaration of our appre
hensions of her resentment, and the dread
we displayed at her prowess, led the gov
ernment to pursue a system of depredation,
unawed by any measures of retaliation from
the American administration. Our lan
guage on that occasion was that of timidity ;
we became suppliants to their clemency ;
we openly crouched to the treaty, tho we
secretly detested its principles ; and thus gov
erned by fear, we ignominiously surrender
ed every neutral right to the uncontrouled
management of a supercilious Englilh Judi
ciary.
So far from considering Britain as omnipo
tent either in her marine, commercial or
manufacturing Ration, I believe there is no
power in Europe more completely defendant
as they relate to these particulars. Her
marine depends greatly on Russia, and her
commercial and manufacturing int^efts are
principally supported by her connexion with
America. The immense quantity of man
ufactures yearly imported into the U. States,
together with the export of our staple arti
cles to the Weft-Indies, and within her
own dominions, gives such a balance of
Trade, in the various diredions of her com
merce, as would (if for a short time flopped)
ftrikea fatal blow to the revenue and mer
cantile tranfadions of that country. The
benefits arising from the commerce of Eng
land, are allowed by all the authors who
have written on the fubjeCt, and the dread
excited during the short period of our Em
bargo, proves the propriety of its estimation
in the American scale.
This principle was strongly urged in the
State Conventions on the question of the
Constitution ; it was ever considered the
palladium of our national importance. Mr.
John Adams (the late President) when in
England, asserted in my hearing, that the
Commerce of America was the most pow
ful weapon to attack Britain : and further
declared, that if the United States would
unite in a navigation aa, that we could /orcc
the Ministry to our own terms. These are
sentiments which that gentleman vindicated
when residing at the court of St. James s ;
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C. 1
Lime, half hhd. I 75 2 0
Leather, Soal, uried, ffi 020 0 0
Molasses G. 050 053
Nutmegs ffi 6 ° 650
Nail Rods T. 8 0 0 0
f^Q M# ° 36 ° °
ri 1 6df ' .- 070 072
^J 6d, wrought 117 0 °
< ] rod, do. infpeaed- 175 183
Z I 2od, do. do. -- 240 250
(Sheathing, cut C. 12 50 0 0
-I (Liver B. 14 0 15 c
q Linfeed G. 110 116
Pepper lb 033 ° 34
Pork, best pieces B. 22 0 0 0
Q, common -- 19 0 20 0
Peas bu. 1 50 1 75
Pimento ib 028 0 c
Pitch, farce, B. 6 0 0 0
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 °
Redwood T. 55 0 60 0
Raisins /r^ calk 8 50 0 0
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 17 1 25
, Windward 3d pr.— 095 I 0
Rice farce C. 675 7 0
Rosin B. 550 6 0
Soap, white lb o£ 4 o i 6
, brown — 010 0 0
Starch, Poland lb 0 25 0 30
, American -- o I2| 017
Sugar, Havannah C. 18 0 19 0
, East-India — 14 0 0 <
, Weft-India -, n 0 13 0
INLAND BILLS.
Bills on Baltimore, 30 days tight, (For Calh) 1 per cent dis.
do. Philadelphia, • : : do. : do. do. do.
do. New-York, : : do, : do. do. do.
do. Philadelphia or 1 60 davs , : do. 2 do.
New-York, J
N. B. Bills at (barter fight, proportionably higher.
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Sugar, Loaf , lb 0 28 029
Salt, St. Übes H. 6 0 7 °
, Turk's Island -7 0 750
, Liverpool -- 450 5 °
, Rock -- 750 0 0
Steel, German Ib 0 15 0 17
, English -- 016 018
Salt Petre, rough - - 0 3° 0 0
Shot C. 10 0 10 50
(W.O.hhd. M. 26 0 28 0
I do. do. heading - - 28 0 30 0
>IW. O. bbl. -- 10 0 12 0
<< R. O. hhd. -- 13 0 14 0
^ I do. Shooks 060 066
(W. O. do. 1 20 1 30
Tin in Ihects bx. 18 0 20 0
Tar B. 450 5 0
Turpentine -- 4 0 5 °
Tea, Hyfon lb 112 120
, Souchong -- 088 090
, Bohea — 042 044
Tobacco, J,amesßiver C. 7 0 0 0
§ Georgia -- 60 0 0
Twine, sewing doz. 567 6 0
, seine — 5 0 55°
n (Madeira G. 217 283
I Lisbon —1 25 133
Z < Sherry, none — 166 167
I Malaga none q.c. 31 0 32 0
' (Red Port fcarce — 167 Retail
/Redwood T. 60 0 0 0
Logwood -- 50 0 0 0
^ (Fuftic -- 40 0 45 0
England, instead of being omnipotent, is in
the power of Russia and Auerica, who could
(in alliance) enforce their demands, upon the
most extensive principles. These two coun
tries are the locks which invigorate the
strength of this vindictive Sampson ; a vig
orous determination to maintain their neu
tral rights, would operate too powerfully
on the funds, the manufacturers, and the
people at large, to be treated with levity.
It would press with a ponderancy which
could not easily be shaken off, and the vari
ous interests of the British nation would ex
perience such a convulsion, as to alarm the
ministry for the political and commercial
exigence of the government.
The Treaty lately concluded between
England and Russia, fufficiently evinces
the apprehensions of England on the
Northern Confederacy. Russia being the
principal nation dreaded by Britain, the
terms concluded on are highly favorable to
she neutral position of that country. It is
founded on liberal principles, and brings the
business refpe&ing the navigation of their re
fpedive fubjeds to a precise explanation ;
it determines without any equivocation, the
fpecific articles of contraband ; it declares
in the most express manner, what charac
terizes a blockaded port ; that their veflels
(hall not be (lopped but upon just cause, and
evident fad ; that the right of search ihall
be confined solely to ships of war, and (hall
never extend to privateers,.or any other
velTels though armed for the purpose of war.
Every precaution is taken to prevent any
ill consequences by the meeting of their re
fpedive ships of war ; they (hall keep out
of the reach of cannon shot, and the com
mander of the belligerent veflel fiiall fend a
boat on board the convoying (hip, and the
utmost order and regularity are provided in
proceeding on the examination. If there
appears a reasonable suspicion for search,
the commander of the convoy has a privi-
he regretted that no Commercial System
was adopted by the American States, and
often spoke with a degree of enthusiastic
confidence on the power of this country to
controul the insolence of Britain.