The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-12-09 00:00:00, page 1

NEW GOODS,
At Wb^ttfak & Retail.
Benjamin brierley,
Lase of she Firm of
Lang, Brierley, & Co.
&Q leave to inform bis Friends and
the Public that be is just arrived from
Europe with a very general affortthent qf
Fancy, Fashionable and Staple
GOODS,
Which arc now opening, and for sale either
By • Wholesale or Retail,
for Cath ofjhort approved Credit, ^
At the fa on Spring-Hill, nearly ofepofte
Mr, PeterGffirfs.
TkE abbORTMENTCONSIbTS 0,
White And color'd Baizes and
Flannels; spotted Swan Skins; Ratteens ;
Plains ; Kerfies ; Forest, Elastic and Broad
Cloths ; Coatings ; Duffils ; Kerf,meres,
and Swandowns.
A variety of
Color'd, ftrip'd fcplain Durants ;
Calimancoes ; Wildbores ; Tammies; Shal
loons ; fancy printed and black Florentines ;
Cambieteens, and cloak Camblets ; Cordu
roys ; Thicksets ; plain and fancy Velvets ;
flay Cords ; Dimities ; Muflinets ; some
beautiful white & printed Marseilles Quitt
ing ; a few pieces of very fine cotton Shirt
ing, and a general affortulent of Irish Lin
ens'
Chintzes of evtty description ;
Cotton Checks and Stripes ; Ladies', Men's
and Boys' Beaver Hats all Sizes and prices ;
silk, cotton and worsted Hosiery ; silk, cot
ton and leather Gloves extra lengths ; a few
dozen open work, white and colored Cotton
ditto.,
A great sjartet, ,
White, color'd, netted arid fringed
Camels hair Shawls, from 7s. to 245. cot
ton, linen and cambric pocket Handker
chiefs; black and fancy silk do. and Shawls;
sewing Silks ; Twists ; Threads ; knitting
and mending Cotton ; black arid color'd
GalloOms ; Shoe & quality bindings ; round
and flat Bobbins; Tapes; mould and wire
fliirt buttons ; Ferrets ; cotton and silk Bra
dells ; white and'chfntz Bed Lace ; Line &
Tassels to match ; white & color'd Fringes.
An extenfte assortment of
Book, Jaconet, plain, figured And
ftrip'd Muffins ; Cambric Muflius from §s6
to ids. per yard ; a few pieces of the new
rft fafhori spotted and Striped ditto § Likroife
,B'thin cambric for gentlemen's Necker-
Black', green arid crimson Mohair
fauihes : black and color'd silk Velvets for
Ladies' bonnets ; a few squares rich black
Velvet for Shawls. ,
An elegant afortinent \
Ladies' Hats and Bonnets of the
newest fafhian, trimmed and untrimmed.
Fashionable Muffs and Tippets ;.
Fur Livings for Shawls ; Italian Crapes of
all colors ; cotton, silk and silver Trim
mings, ,
A great Variety
Fans ; a few very elegant dress do.
Fancy Feathers and Flumes; Wreaths and
Ladies Cap Bands ; white and black Laces,
Edgings, >nd Veiling. c
ILadies' Slippers, Sh^t* Clogs,
of all kinds ; a few with cork Toles ; Floss
and silk Rofetts to match.
helper the ,rip NaumsiCapt. Lunt, jufl ar
rived from Liverpool, is received,
A general assortment of
HARDWARE & PLATED
IGOODS.
A Which with a f@ Boxes of ,
Pty Men's low pric'd HAT§,
' will, be fold wholesale only.
The GOODS having been chof
qi by himfelf at the, manufactories, and^
bought with ready money, he prefum.es will
/ enable him so. serve his friends pn the best
I &ns. 'f : : '
ForifaoHh, Not,, tte; ' a r
The Republican Ledger. ,
NUMBER 16.—VOL. 114
" WHEN YOU SHALL THESE DEEDS RELATE, SPEAK OF TkEM AS THEY ARE ; NOTHING EXTENUATE NOR SEt DOWN OUGHT IN MALICE."
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY NUTTING & WHITELOCK, MULBERRY LANE, ADJOINING ROUSSELEPs MUSEUM.
^FRESH
Raisins, Currants and Figs.
Juf received and for Sale at
B. LEVERETT'S
GROCEkr.STORE,
Ao. I, Bow-street, Spring-Hill,
—r/z.-
Malaga Raisins per 'a" °'
retail ; Mufcatal do. per box ot do.—black
Zant Currant's ; Figs; foft fheU'dAlmonds;
Citron ; Mace ; Nutmegs ; Cloves ; Cinna
mon ; Ginger ; Alfpice & Pepper per bag or
retail. A
Superfine Flout pet bbl. or retail ;
Oatmeal ; Rice ; Coftee ; Wellh & Sweet
fer's No. I & 2'warranted Chocolate ; Cho
colate shells; English Mustard pr. lb. or
bottle ; Cayenne per do. Florence Oil per
flafk ; Anchoives and Capers per bottle ;
Scott's true Liquid Blueing per jugg ; Cake
Soap ; Windsor's shaving do.
Hair Powder ; Polarid Starch ; re
fined Salt Petre per lb. ; Spermaceti mould
and dipt Candles ; Spanish and French In
digo ; warranted pigtail Tobacco per role ;
fine twist & ladies' do; Smoaking No. 1,2
and 3 do. Spanish Segars; American do.
Gunpowder per^aik or retail ; pa
tent Shot allotted per bag or retail ; wrap-'
ping paper per ream ; Elliot's warratned
Snuff per keg or retail.•
Philadelphia & Boftori loaf Sugar
per hundred or retail ; East India per bag ;
Wed-India per bbl. or retail.
Bohea, Souchong, Hyfon Skin,
Hyfon, Young Hyfon& Gundowder TEAS
of the firft qualities.l
W. L Rum, Old ditto ; Brandy;
real Hollands Gin (white) per gal. or case ;
old Cherry Rum ; Molzffes ; Sherry, Lisbon
anti Malaga Wines.[
Quart and pint Decanters ; Tum
blers per straw.
Weft-lridia & Georgia Cotton.
Portsmouth, Nov. 10, 1800.\
JOmOONGALLS
RfteafuH, informs bis Friends and the Pub
, lie; that be has opened an
AUCTION OFFICE,
In the building formerly improved by Mr. Norie,
on the Parade, north fide of the State-houje,
Where he will attend to receive
GOODS for Public Sale,
And promises that those gentlemen who may
be pleaded to favor him with ariy articles
for file, that his bed endeavors shall
not be wanting to compleat the fame
with fidelity and dispatch —
and the smallest favors shall be duly attend
ed to.
On the EL ECTION of PRESIDENT
& VICE-PRESIDENT of the U.S.
(Attributed to C. Pinckney, ET^)#
Fellow tmuzfrs,
'• THE firft objedls of a free government
are the proteaion of the religion, and civil
rights of its citizens; the next, those of
property. Without full possession of your
religious and political rights, to men of feel
ing of principle propertyjs of little confe
qhence ; but with a competent share of it,
the enjoyment of these rights is tendered
mote agreeable ; 1 security for property is
therefore a valuable ingredient in every go
vernment, not can any be said to be a free
one, where this security does not ex ift.
In the view, therefore, Which I have cori
fidered 'it my duty to give you, of some of
the proceedings of the present administration
and its party and Supporters, it was my in
tentiott to have exhibited to you a summary
Iketchiof your finances, finee Mr. Adams's
administration ; to have Shewn you how
much your debt has increased within that
period, and how enormous have been the
films expended in pursuance of the views of
himfelf, and his party. For this purpose I
had with some pains procured the proper do
cuments, and entered on the statements.-—
This, however, has now become unneceffa
’ ry, by the late publication of Mr. Gallatin's
View of aur Finances ; a work able, cor
rea, and replete with information, and to
which I not only refer^yon but request your
Serious attention—it will soon be published
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1800.
here for your information. By this it will
appear your debt has really enlarged nearly
ten millions, notwithstanding the increase
of the impost duties, the stamp and dire&
tax, and the modes the federal government
has resorted to for raising money mrom their
constituents. This increase of the debt is
not the most important point for your con
sideration ; it is the vast expenditure of mo
ney in th&hree or four last years', which,
if not applied to the purposes it was, would
have of course gone to the extinguishment
of your public debt. To give you fame idea
of,what these expenditirfes are, I have ex
traaed from the secretary of the-treasury's
report to Congress, the following items for
one year only, the year 1800: '
Dolls.
In this year, the army estimate was; 4,067,200
The navy, -- - 2,482,953.
For ammunition, &c. - - 260,000
'_——►-=
^Dollars, 6,810,153
Making altogether very nearly seven millions
of dollars ;fo that, supposing the fameallow
ance, or nearly the fame', to be made' tor
every year, and including the money granted
for the Seventy-four, and a Variety of inci
dential charges; we may fafely eftimaie these
extraordinary expenditures' to range tonfid
erably above twenty millions.
It is not necessary in this number to go
into minute Statements because these will be
furnifhed you in Mr. Gallatin's Sketch.—
Taking it, however, for granted, that these
extraordinary expenees have been occasioned
by the meafores which produced the British
treaty, and the confluences that have re
sulted from it, a question then arises, wheth
er Mr. Adams and all his Supporters, and
all the prefect federal party; are not the men
who produced that measure, and to whom
you are to attribute Its confequences.* We
will not again go into an examination of a
Subject which has so often been investigated,
but only remind )ou, that there Springs
out of it a point very important for your
confederation, and one which ought to have
great weight in governing your vbte in this
election ; that you, who disapproved the
British treaty, and already forefaw and Bat
ed the consequences that must have inevita
bly Sprung from it, will certainly not be
pleased with the large expenditures and in
crease of taxes it has oecafioned. You Will
think it might have been avoided, and a
more cautious and temperate State of things
adopted^ The approvers ofthe treaty will'
on the countrary think the measure right, &
of course applaud all its results and conse
quences. Thus will men differ, as they
have a right to do, in a free government, and
this difference refpeaing the treaty and its
confequerit expenditures and.lofs of trade
with France, will be among the leading
points that will direa our citizens in their
votes at the ensuing eteaion ; but certainly
my countrymen, if all these new and heavy
expenees and ' taxes, were neceflary, they
ought to have been equal. Every class of
citizens and inhabitants Should have borne
their Share ; the merchants, the planter,
and the profeffional man, are all equally
proteded by your government, xnd ought
all equally to contribute to its Support ; no
man, not even the most orofeffed devotee to
party, will deny this.
How then does it happen, that ih laying
adire& tax, the-whole of it is laid on lands
and Slaves drily, arid on no other Species of
property t Why is the whole of it laid on
the agricultural interest and landholder r
Are the planters and land-holders obnoxions
clafles of citizens to the government, that
they are to bear these exclusive burdens ?
Or What have they done to draw down up
on them this penalty, or punishment ? For
certainly, wherever one class of citizens is
taxed and obliged to raise contributions,
, and all others excused, it operates Both in
the nature of a punishment and a fli^ma :
it Shews it clearly that the government are
the least inclined to favour them, or even to
protea their equal rights, arid proves, that
in this country, whenever <httrdatdinary
burdens are to be inipofed, /fr land bolsters
and planters are so bear them alone.
Whatever tav be th * views and designs
lof the Federal Government, in thus early
making a diftinftiori between claflfes of citi
:Zens who afe to be taxed, and others that
are riot,the diftinalon here made; appear! to
, me to be in contradiaion to all the opinions
* An accurate writer flares the Iff by expendi
tures, and loft of trade occasioned ' by the Brifl/h
treaty, to be upwards rffrat, miffiam- qf duHdrs 1
at the hwejl calculation. ' ff
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
hitherto held by nations having the least
claim to wisdom. Wife governments have
invariably considered the landed and agricul
tural interests as among the most valuable
of their citizens ; as attached to their coun^
try by thole ties which always most Strongly
bind the effeaions of a people ; as the elafc
who cannot remove, but with difficulty, and
who most follow the fortunes of their coun
try ; whereas dur government, by this invi
dious distinction, his placed the land holder
an 4 the planter in ap oppressive and degrad
ing predicament And what is this done
for i Why clearly to exempt all .the monied
interest, which-is by far the largest in the
northerri States, and by fat the greatest fa
vourites ofuhe federal party, from bearing
.any (hare of the public burdens, and throw
ing all direst taxes entirely upon the landed
and planting interests #, that if any mart
in a Northern State is worth half a milljon
of flock or money +.t interest; he shall not
pay a Shilling to a direct tax, while a poor
Virginia or Carolina planter, who owns a
little land and a lew, negroes, and perhaps
owes for a part of them, is obliged to con+
tribute his Share, for instance that Mr. A^
dams, owning as he probably does a large
estate in stock, Shall not pay for his Stock a
(hilling, while Mr. Jefferson, wb^e
whole estate is in land and negroes, will have
to pay a heavy tax. And yet there are men
who will tell you Mr. Jefterfon is an unfafe
president for you ; he, whose whole estate
is exactly like that of your own planters,
who owns two hundred riegroey himfelf, and
who, in order to remove all doubts upon
the fubjeCt, has explicitly authorifed his
friends to declare a! his affertioh '« That the
constitution has not empowered the federal
legislature to touch in the remotest degree
the question respecting the condition or pro,
pert, of Slaves in an, of the States, and that
any attempt of that fort would be unconsti
tutional and the usurpation of rights con*
grefs do hot pofiefs."
I Shall not trouble' you with any farther
remarks on the direct tax, it is so clear an
oppression of our landholder and planter,
that I wish them tri read the a& with atten
tion ; and if, after this, they agree to fnpport
one of the federal party, I Shall suppose
them content to be more oppressed and de
graded, and to bear heavier and more une
qual burdens, that I at present believe they
are. A REPUBLICAN.
* It is confidently averted in North - Carolina, so
reprobated i.jhts unequal direct tax, that merely
to anjwer the electioneering purpoJes.the colkaion
of it is pojtp ncduntil after the elc&ion is over in
order that at beeJent it may be hept as much as
possible out of the view and recollection of the peo
ple.
mto=pampg)rce LegUlatuce.
^^ti^+Wfofew
ANSWER of the SENATE to the GOV
LRNOR's SPEECH.
Mdv it pleafiyotw Excellency 1 ,
WITH pleating sensations, the Senate of
New-HampShire hive received your Excel
lency's Addfefs aS the opening of the present
session, and are highly gratified in the view
of that prosperity and tranquility which the
citizens ofc this State generally enjoy ;.to
continue and promote which, by attending
to the duties enjoined us in the Constitution, -
Shall be our corittant and ardent endeavor.
When we confider, tire effi&s of that re
volutionizing spirit which has overthrown
the Governments and corrupted ihemlorals
of some foreign,pations, we esteem it a du
ty incumbent op every citizen of this State,
by all lawful and laudable means, to pre
vent the infection from Spreading in our
own country ; and by precept and example,
encourage true religion and found morality.
The appointment of electors for choosing
a President arid Vice Rrefideni of the U. S.
is a matter of high importance, to which
we Shall give due attention.
Calling to mind those scenes of Slaughter
and devastation lately exhibited in foreign
countries, and viewing them as proceeding
from a de moralizing and anti-social conspi
racy, we gratefully acknowledge the kirxl
nefs and superintendency of that divine Be
trig, who, through the means of a good sys
tem of government, wifely administered, has
hitherto preserved our country trom.becom
ing a Theatre, for the exhibition of feenes so
affli&irig and horrid.-
To guard ag-aiuftthe arts arid intrigues of
foreign nations,is negeffary fokthr preferv
!ation of our own Independence ; and wte
[ participate with your Excellency in that