Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-10-17

IS Cd; do 6ne IS I'd a 8 l0d; do very fine
as; New Orleans 19id Is; Tennessee
l9. 9Id-duty IS I'd per 100 lbs-there
has been steady demand by the trade this
week without any alteration in prIces-lm-
ports 8546 bags, sales $50 bags; aaxseed
crushing per hid 7os--duty Aid bush-out
of season; clover seed red per cwt-duty
9s 6d-do -four super weetbbl 43 4Ss;
do sour 81 4O-in fair demand; rice per
cwt in bond 45 46s-duty eos ld-do.
duty paid 81 800 casks in bond sold
at 46s; slaves per NJ white oak Dbl 10
ISL; do hid 10 "a; do pipe and red oak
hid none-duty Sc inches, 8s 8sdpe 100;
Sc so, les l-3d; 80 TO, 2ls Esd;
go 70, 3ls lid led ; above 7e, 36s SO
in demand turpentine per cwt los sd
l7s-du,y As 4!d-25O0 bis good sold at
! lis tar per bl 10 l7s-duty 2ls Ale per
la lbs-improving in demand; tobacco,
James river leaf, inferior 81 a Cd do ordi-
nary and middling 81 a 81; do fine and
wrappery 81 10! do stemmed lOsa Is;
Rappahannock 81 8 do stemmed 10
lOg; Carolina and Georgia leaf ga 81 ;
Kentucky stemmed l0a | Maryland and
Potomac, none-prices are expected 10 he
supported stock lst Aug. IN Liverpool,
4ll5 hhds, imported since 7O6-482l de-
liyereG for home use $40, Ireland 43, ex-
port 53-466 present stock $3.50; wheat
per 70 ID los cd is 9d--aggregate ave-
rage price of wheat for the SIX weeks 83s
I'd, which keeps our ports open for another
quarter
Sept. Our harvest is drawing to a
close with remarkably fine weather; not
outstanding which swee, -four is more
saleable, and sour has advanced Is per Dbl.
We can, as yet, receive no certain intor-
nation as TO the extent of our crop; most
people expect the wheat 10 approach near
1y an average one.
"A great number of the cotton spinners
have returned to their employment, and the
raw material is in fair demand; the sales Of
the last two weeks amount TO GO, 500 bags.
All kinds of naval stores dre on The advance,
and pot ashes are getting scarce"
In his celebrated letter 10 Mr.. Oswald,
one Of the English negociators, DR.. Frank
lin remarks as follows, upon that most obi
GUS and detestable system Of priyateering {:
"The practice Of robbing merchants on
the high seas, g." a remnant of the ancient
piracy" though il may be accidentally be-
ne6cisl TO particular persons, is far from
being profitable TO all engaged III it, OF TO
the nation that authorizes it, &c. As is the
case in other lotteries, though particular
individuals have got prizes, the mass OF
adventures are losers, the whole expense
of fitting privateers during war being
much greater than the whole amount of
goods taken. Then there is the national
loss OF so many men during the time they
have been employed IN robbing-who be-
sides spend what they get in riot, drunk
enness and debauchery, lose their habits
of industry, are rarely fit for any other bu-
sness after peace, and serve only 10 in
crease the number Of highwaymen and
house-breakers" Even the undertakes
who are fortunate, are by sudden wealth
ledinto expensive living, the habit OF which
continues, when the means of supporting it
ceases and finally ruins them. A just
punishment for their having wantonly and
unfeeIingIy ruined many honest, innocent
traders, and their families, &c.
Again, in another letter to Mr.. Hartley,
the Doctor observes.
"I do not wish TO see ne1s BarbGry RI
sing in America, and our long extended
coasts occupied by piratical states. fear
les, our privateering success the two last
wars should already have given our people
loo strong relish for that most mschIe-
vols kind of gaining mircd 7sih blood, "
We have not been able to lay our hands
Immediately upon DR.. Frankin's celebra-
ted letter to Mr.. Vaughan on the subject OF
the criminal law and privateering, but we
should think it difficult 10 add much TO the
strength of the above extracts. They ac-
cord with the feelings and opinions OF all
honorable and upright men in every coun-
try in every age since civilization was in
,roduced, and we do most sincerely and
ardently hope that the day IS not distant,
when men engaged in such pursuits as the