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 jo >9 10 18 2 67 1 20 14 67 20 I 18 so 7 67 5.6 22 i* 4° '3 " 33 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 8 93 i 8 4° IX 85 80 to 44 12 9° 5 *3 4 8o 3 75 2 52 2 40 i 20 A 4 80 s > 33 7 7 8 24 4 4 95 54 26 44 90 3 4o 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. 2 s°, 10 5° 5 48 27 1 73 11 I 87 67 14 8 140 9 10 Jl 3 33 10 67 20 42 6 8 ii 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, t a 7 33 106 67 96 5 l 44 106 67 none at raaikct. 61 FROM THE BALTIMORE EVENING PO!>T. 24 24 1 4 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. 5 33 1 60 1 60 2 . . c - 11 67 10 9 73 5° 16 4° 2 5° £ 33 i 18 93 7 3 4 2 67 2 67 1 22 111 *3 33 6 7 5 60 48 20 3° 28 24 26 3 6 18 . 15 16 67 37 2 - *9 24, '3 33 16 67 33 33 33 33 4° 2 67 6 >3 33 2 9 ] 9 33 >9 5° 21 33 10 26 67 4 67 40 80 80 1 20 1 67 3 fio 60 20 * 33 3° 1 27 11 67 20 1 67 2 3 73 3 4 67 3 2 40 2 40 5 23 3 * 7 x 28 93 53 5° 43 3° 93 5° /33 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. 9 »3 6 7 13 33 47 1 .33 53 1 67 37 200 100 60 49 120 4 6 4 90 77 s 5 »3 1 20 80 27 3° Columbia hails, and thousands quit the shore, 45° 67 40 39 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
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