A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FF.NS'O, No. 69, HIGU-STREET, PHILADELPHIA
[No. 16 y of Vol. IV.]
PRICE CURRENT.
PER QUANTITY. Do LI.A R S ICJO CciltS each.
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 25.
ANCHORS pr. lb.
AUnrn, Englilh, pr.cwt,
Ditto, Roch pr. lb.
Ashes, pot, per ton,
Arrack pr. gall,
Brandy, common,
—— Cogniac
Braziletto,pr. ton.
Bricks, pr. M.
Bread, fliip, pr. cwt.
Ditto, pilot
Ditto, small water, per keg
Beer, American, in bottles,
pr.doz. bottles included,
D'tto pr. barrel,
Boards Cedar pr. M feet,
New England
9
Merchantable pine id
————Sap, . do.
« Mahogany, per foot'
The above are the shallop prices,
for the yard price, add 1 dol
lar 33 cents per 1000.
®rimftone in rolls, pr.cwt,
®eef, Boston, per barrel
— Country ditto
Fresh, per cwt.
Butter pr. lb.
■ in kegs
Candles, Sperm
pr. lb
-— Myrtle Wax
— Mould, taliow
Dipped
Cheese, English, pr. Ib»
• Country
Chocolate
Cinnamon
Cloves
Cocoa pr. cwt.
Coffee pr. lb.
Coal pr. bushel
Copperas pr. cwt.
Cordage, American, per cwt,
Cotton pr. lb.
Currants
Duck.Ruflia, pr. piece
Ravens
Dutch fail duck,
Feathers pr. lb.
Flax ditto
Flax feed pr. bulh.
Flour, Superfine pr. barrel
Common,
Bur middlings, belt
■ Meal, Indian
ditto Rye,
—Ship-Ruff pr. cwt.
Fustic pr. ton,
in, Holland, pr. cafe,
Do. pr. gall.
pr . cwt.
■nger, white race, per cwt.
Ditto, common
Ditto, ground pr. lb.
Ginseng,
Gunpowder, cannon, pr. q.cafk. 3 70
Ditto, fine glazed
Gra Wheat pr . bush 93
Oats
Indian corn
—■ —Barlev
Bcft (helled pr. lb.
-Buckwheat, per bufli.
120 t
4
femp, imported, pr. ton,
American, pr. lb.
Herrings, pr. bbl.
Hides, raw p r . lb.
Hops
Hogftiead hoops, pr. M.
Indigo, French per lb.
Carolina
Irons, fad pr. ton,
Iron, Callings pr. cwt,
- Bar pr.ton,
Pig
Sheet
Nail rods
Jank, p r . cwt.
Lard, hogs pr. lb.
Lead, in pigs pr. cwt.
in bars
white
red
Leather, foal, pr. lb.
Lignum vitas pr. ton,
Logwood
Mace pr. lb.
Matk»Tcl, bed nr. bbl,
— f ennd quality
Madder, best pr. lb.
Marble, wrought, pr. foot,
Mall (pars ditto
MolafT.-s pr.
Mi'ftard per. lb.
slur, in bottles, pr.doz,
Nai's, Bd. 10d. i?.d. and 20d. pr.lb. 10
Nuimegs pr. lb. 7 8
Oil, Linked, pr. gall. 65 67
Olive . 87
Oil, D'tto pr. cafe,
Sweet, belt, in flaiks,pr.box
Ditto bafkcts, 12 battles
Spermaceti pr. gall.
Dtls. Cts. Dlls. Cts.
7 8
3 73 4
Train
Whine
Porter pr. calk,
——London, pr.doz.
ditto bot.inc).
Pitch, pr. bbl.
Pork, Burlington, per barrel,
Lower county
Carolina
Peas, Albany pr. bushel
Pepper, pr. lb.
Pimento
90
J 37
1 33
100
140
1 67
1 20
1 33
3 2 34
7
2
1 26
4
i 6;
3^
3 33
4°
Railing, best, pr. keg
Ditto pr. jar
Ditto pr. box
Rice pr. cwt,
Rosin pr. bariel
Rum, Jamaica, pr. gallon
• Antigua
Windward
Barbadoes
——Country, N.E.
i 40
4 67
J 4
11
10
37
8
10
Salt petre, pr. cwt.
Saflafras pr. ton
Shot ditto
Steel, German pr. lb.
Englilh,bliftered, pr. cwt.
American pr. ton
Crowley's pr. faggot
Snake root pr. lb,
Soap, Brown
3 33
8
6
3 33
4 67
16
10
9
53
8
'7
s 40
White
Castile
43
56
>3
i I
Starch
Snuff pr. doz. bot. 4
Spermaceti, refined* pr. lb.
Sailcloth, Englifh,No.i,pr. yard,
Boston, No. I. ditto
No. 11.
Sugar Lump, pr. lb
Loaf, {ingle refined
Ditto, double do.
Havannah, white 17
Ditto, brown,
Muscovado, pr. cwt. 14
SpiriisTurpentine pr. gallon 33
Salt, Allum pr. buflipl 24
Liverpool
Cadiz 23
Lisbon 25
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10
18
2 67
1 20
14 67
20 I
18
so
7 67
5.6
22
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4°
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9 6?
20
Ship build. W. O. frames p.ton, 12
Ditto Live Oak, 15
Ditto red cedar, per foot
Shingles, 18 inch, per M. 2
Ditto 2 feet,
Ditto 3 feet, drefled, 12
Staves, Pipe pi. 1000
White Oak hogftiead,
Red Oak do.
Leogan
Barrel
Heading
Skins, Otter, bcft pr. piecc
-Minks 20
Fox, grey 4 q
-Ditto red
Martins 24
33
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80
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90
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Fiflier?
Bears
Racoons
Musk-rats
Beaver, pr. lb,
-DeeijUn hair
Tar,N. Jcrley, 24 gal. p. bbl.
Carolina, 32 gall.
Turpentine pi. bbl.
Tobacco, J. River, best iool'd,
inferior
146'.67
9 11
?7
1 90
60
1
Tea, Hvfon pr. lb,
HyCon fk n,
Souchong,
1 33
*33 33
3 47
82 67
26 67
*73 33
9 6
Congo,
Bohea,
Tallow, refined, per bl.
Tin pr. box,
2 4
4
9
5 33
10
Vctdigreafe £r. lb.
Vermillion, do.
Varnilh, pergallon
10
5 67
Wine, Madeira, pr. pipe,
- ■ Llfbon
Trner iffe, pr. gallon
Fayai
Port pr. pipe
Ditto tn bottles, pr.doz.
7
io 67
6 6
20
6 4°
»7
5 6°
24
7 6
9
Claret
—Sherry pr.gall.
Malaga
Wax, Bees pr. lb.
Whale-bone, long pr.lb
7 33
6 67
20
16
! 33
33
44
67
5°
87
1 20
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
On London, a' 30 days, per ioo£. fterl. 456
at 60 days 453 33
at 90 aaya
Amsterdam, 60 days, pr. guilder,
90 days,
Government bills, drawn at 10
days, per 11 guilders,
Wednesday, July 25, 1792.
Dili, Cts, Dlts. Cts.
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10 67
20 42
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per Jb.
1 33
1 67
3 60
2 67
Rappahannock 2 50
■Coloured Maryland, 5 33
-Dark,
-Long-leaf
•E aftern-foore
•Carolina, new
old,
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106 67
96
5 l
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106 67
none at raaikct.
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FROM THE BALTIMORE EVENING PO!>T.
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THAT the manufactures of our country, are
of" too mush importance to be neglected by a
government, expressly instituted to promotetbe
general welfare is almost a felt-evident proposi
tion. That they should be promoted, however,
does not seem entirely to the taste of some po
liticians ; but as the thing cannot be attacked
direCtly, recourse is had to innuendoes and fuf
picions, under cover of" zeal for I lie public good.
The writer of" the article " Manufaßurcs" in
.yo.ur firft paper, would have it understood, that
Congress ought not to encourage mmujaßures, left it
(hould open a new field as he exprelfes it, " for
favoritifm, influence, and monopolies," and left Con
gress should excise them. It may be observed, in
reply, that it cannot be shewn that encouraging
manufactures .by laws, is contrary to the nature of
liberty ; contrary to the principles and spirit
of our constitution ; or contrary to the liqua
tion ofaffairs, or the true interest of our coun
trv—one at least of which points ought to be
dear and unanswerably demonstrated to render
their nou protection by law juftifiable. Again, if
experience is to have any weight in the determi
nation, it is notorious that the principal manu
factures of France have sprung up or increased
in proportion as they were protected and en
couraged by duties on imported articles, of a
like fabric, as those intended to be favored;
and that the growth manufactures in England
(its rival) have by the fame means and from
the smallest beginnings, encreafed to their pre
sent aftonidling magnitude, when the value of"
their woolen manufactures alone, exceeds eight
millions flerling, per annum, Congress with these
and. such like examples before them, have laid
protecting and encouraging duties, and our manu
factures have already sensibly felt their fetter
ing- operation. Our distilleries, paper and gun
powder manufactures; our rope walks, dock
yards, iron founderies, naileries, card-making,
shoe and boot manufactures, with a variety of
others, that might be mentioned, have all since
these duties.took place increased, and are in
creasing, whereby much money is retained in
the country, more employment given to our ci
tizens, and the home consumption of our pro
duce tonlide.rahly augmented. What then is
this favoritism and influence, which is held up as
aione fufficient to induce us to forego theft
manifold advantages, and what are we to un
derstand from the words favoritifm and influence,
which at this distance from the (eat of govern
ment, convey scarce any diftintt idea. Will
this influence and favoritifm counteract the opera
tion of the laws, or if generated by the laws, is
it of so dangerous a nature to public liberty as
to render it necessary for the people to eleCt
members of Congress, who will repeal these
laws and damn the fame of their enactors > It
may be remembered, perhaps, on this occasion,
what the Englilh Lords ComniJ/ioners of Trade and
Plantations recommended in their report to Par
liament, 1732, or 3, respeCting certain manu
factures, set up in the colonies. "It were to
be wished (fay these Lords) that some expedient
might be fallen upon to divert their thoughts jrom
undertakings of this nature, so much the rather,
hecaufe those manufactures in process of time
may be carried on to a greatc degree, unless an
early flop be put to their progress." The writer in
the Evening Post, may not, it is true, with to
to be thought to go so far as these Lords Com
millioners, and yet there does not seem to be a
wide difference between putting a flop to the pro
gress of manufactures, and putting a flop to the en
couragement of manufactures. The other argument
if it can be called one, suggested by this "writer
against their encouragement goes to this, that
it is better to leave them to Ihift for themselves,
rather than by encouraging them, they should
become objeCts of taxation. What shall no
thing be encouraged because one day it may be
taxed or afiized ? And is it found reasoning to
fay, that if government encourage a manufac
ture it must therefore be taxed, as if tht one
inevitably led to the other.
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Can a government by representation, a Con
gress and President dependant on the voice of the '
people, be compared to a despotic glutton, who
fattens only that his repast may be more deli
cious. I would submit to the candid reader,
whether such insinuations are not better calcu
lated to render our government odious than re
fpeftable. " A rcafonable jealovfy is (no doubt) a
rtpublican virtue j" but holding up the laws as
having for their objett the mojl infamous vhzus,is
certainly very different from a u reajonable jea
lousy" A cautious people, however, who have
reason to confide in their re;?refentatives, and
in the person at the head of the government,
who has a check upon the passage of laws, will
always carry in mind, when they read news
papers, which furnifh the public with abusive
pieces against government without their re
plies, that one of the most - fallible ways to
make men enemies to the Conjlitution, is to make
them enemies to the laws.
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Where honest industry can thrive no more ;
Here strangers, artists here is ample room,
Here laws give vigor to the labeling loom.
MANUFACTURES
[Whole.No. 558.]
From the. George-loivn Weekly Led^r i
The jollowing DISCOUKSF. wa» de/ivtredby Mr
William H. Kerr, at the ceremony nj laying
the Corner Stone of the Federal Bridge h the Gen
tlemen CommiJJtoners.
RESPECTED AUDIENCE,
I 7"E have the peculiar happinefsof aflVmbltng
VV at this time for the two-fold pur pole, of
celebratiug the anmvcrfary of our Independence,
and of performing a cuftomaiy ceremony, relative
to an undertaking, materially ufetul to the public
in genera), as well as ornamental to this place in
paitieular—lor the purpose of commemorating au
event not only ihemoft interesting and important
to our United America, not only the most cele
brated that has heretofore graced the annals of
any nation or age, but one to which we in a great
measure owe all the innumerable advantages we
at this day possess—one whole consequences have
roused the just indignation of the many millions
who weie held in contemptible slavery by the iron
fceptie ofdefpotifm ; have taught the tyrants hov/
to rule,and made them tremble on their thrones—
and whose influences will ere long reach the rfc
moteft corner of the habitable world : And alio
[ for the purpose of laying the foundation stone of
the firft public building, now ere&ing in the fu
ture metropolis of an empire established by that
event we are now celebrating, and won from the
dominions of an unjudaof) ci uefoppreiTor, by the
right hand of unity ana freedom. Around this
| (tone as upon the foundation of the firft altar creat
ing in the territory of freedom and fcdcial'.fin, let
us join our congratulations on this auspicious day,
which has furmfhed anew era in ihe empueof
liberty—which lias recalled the age of p?triQiifm»
valour, and hfroick virtue, to be again the scourge
|of coward tyranny and oppreflion—which has
i atfed the depressed human mind from its groiic
. ling servility, exalted it to freedom, and reiip
prefTt d it with the image of its maker ; lure let
us refle£t with grateful sensations upon the memo
ry of those who facrificed their ease, their fortune®
and even life itfell, tp purchase us these blcflings ;
who nobly ftept. forth in the hour of danger and
amidst the horrors of unequal war, in defence of
their rights and those of their posterity, who
[{coining life without liberty, in the ardour of
manly heroism fuffcied and died with the fortitude
of martyis, and worthy of the cause in which they
fought—'Twas liberty with the rights of equal
justice for which they bled, and it is Indepen
dence, with peace, happiness, and plenty we have
gained. Here let us utter forth our wiftus with
patriotic fervency for the prosperity of our coun
try, that country which was purchased for us at
a price we ought ever to hold dear—the sacred
blood of virtuous rural heroes, and the last deep
agonies of the dying brave—Here also let us ex
press our gratitude to the living who have been
inftrumcntal in procuring us the bleflings wc en
joy. The statesman whole keen penetration dis
covered, and whose pen unfolded to view with
unlhaken firmnefs those dark insidious snares of
a venal ministry, and the oppreflive schemes of a
corrupt government —The generous patriot who in
the hour of public embarrafTment laved her (inking
credit, and whose liberality fuoplied every ne.eef
fary contingency—The hardy veteran who has
survived his brother soldier in the bioody si Id,
who has sustained the hardfbips of a tedious cap
tivity, and who now enjoys those blellings he has
so bravely won—these, all these have a just claim
to our thanks, our gratitude, and our eftcem—To
discriminate generally, would be unjust, and to
recapitulate particularly upon the several services
rendered by each, would exceed the di sign of this
address, and be a talk to which my abilitieSr are
by no means competent—but fuiely there is one
character whom America can boaftof, which the
most deserving and the most impartial, will nqt
hesitate to acknowledge, deserves a superior (hate
of admiration and esteem, who notwithstanding
his precautions to elude the burst of gratitude and
the shout of heart-felt applause, which every where
attends him, is (till the pleasing theme of every
tongue, and the obj e6t of united esteem— so long as
public and private virtue, wisdom, courage, and
gratitude is reverenced in our land, so long will
his illustrious atchievments entitle him to the
foremoft place among the highest rank of heroes
and statesmen, and the worthiest in the field of
fame ; but his services in behalf of his country,
joined to the unanimous voice of united America,
exhibit an elogium far surpassing my feeble pre
tences—When the remembrance of kings and em
perors, those fceptcred scourges of mankind, 2re
loft in oblivion, or only mentioned to excite de
testation, the name of Washington will be
idolized, as the saviour of his country, and the
friend of mankind—whilst the dcfpolic crown is
falling from the head of royalty, and the dwindled
rays of monarchy are loft in the spreading radi
ance of the star of liberty, the laurel wreathe is
bloomiiig on his warrior brow, and the lustre of
his fame will extend to the latest ages.
Thrice happy land !—the highly favored Colum
bia ! is there a national b telling distributed, but
what is bountifully dispensed to thee—time,
and circumstance, all confpne to make thee happy
—amongst the various revolutions that have over
turned empires and destroyed kingdoms, there is
not one upon record, which has been so happily
concluded, or so generally bent ficial to mankind
—stretched over an immense territory, you enjoy
not only the necessaries of life in superabundance,
but all the varieties that luxury can ask, or that
( lime and foil can produce-—and amongst all the
nations of the eastern world, there are none whiefj
arcpoficfled of such internal refourccs, or whose
pfolpefcts of future acquifuions can be compared to
thine—plenty fmilek luxuriant throughout our