[No. 24, of Vol. IV.]
PRICE CURRENT. DUt. cts. mis. cu.
r v , Oil, Ditto 1 pr. cafe. 2so
quantity, Dol LARs .00 Cents each. Sweeti f eftiirij ; itoi p r . hwt 10 L
PHILADELPHIA, August 22. Ditto balkets, 12 bottles 5
■ • - —Spermaceti pr. ,gall» 48
Dlls.Cts. Dlls.Cts. Train 24 27
1 ANCHORS pr.lb. 7 8 Whaie 24 26
Allum, Englilh, pr.cwt. 373 4 Porte> - pr . calk, 533
Ditto, Roch pr. lb. ~ Lo P d doz «33
Allies, pot, per ton, 90 ,00 Amcncan d tto bot.incl. . 4 ,6o
*~ >37 '4° Pitch, pr. bbl. .73
Arrack pr. gall. 1 33 j 67 Porkj Burll
ngtou, per barrel, it 11 33
Brandy, common, i 20 Lower county 10
Coniac 1 26 2 33 Carolina g
Brazilctto,pr. ton. 32 34 Peas, Albany pr. buftiel 73
Bricks, pr. M. 5 7 Pepper, pr. lb. 37
Bread, (hip, pr. cwt. 1 67 2 Pimento 16
Ditto, pilot 3 67 Raifms, best, pr. keg 9
Ditto, (mall-water, per keg 36 40 Ditto pr.iar 25a
Beer, American, in bottles, Ditto „J b
Pr-doz. bottles included, >4° K,ce pr.cwt. 2,50 t67
1 opr. arre , 467 0n p r . Cartel 233 267
Boards Cedar pr. M feet, 16 T • ~ . q
.New England ~ R»™, J»m..c., pr. gallon ..8 .22
• « q w I"" «
...... y Windward 83
Merchantable pine 10 ,7 Barbados 83
°'r Country, N. E, 67
Mahogany, per toot 10
The above are the (hallop prices, alt petre, pr. cwt. 13 33 14
r s i jj r j 1 jailafraS pr. ton 6 8
fort ne yard price, add 1 dol- shot P d;
la, 33 cents per ,000. Steel, German pr.lb. 4 9
Brimstone in rolls, pr.cwt. Englifh,bliftered, pr. cwt. 10
Beef, Hofton, per barrel y - —-American pr. ton .13 33
Country ditto 6 7 -Crowley's pr. faggot 10 67
— Fresh, per cwt. 333 467 Snake root pr. lb. 20 42
Butter pr.lb. .6 Soap, Brown per lb. 6
,n kegj 9 10 White 8
Candles, Sperm, pr.lb. Castile 11
Wax ,6 Starch 7
Myrtle Wax , Snuff pr. doz. bot. 4 560
———Mould, tallow j. Spermaceti, refined, pr.lb. 48
Dipped 10 Sail cloth, Englilh,No.i,pr. yard, 28
Cheele, En»lifh, pr. lb. ICi Boflon, No. I. ditto 30
Country 8 ic T o. "■ 2 9
Chocolate , 7 ,g Sugar Lump, pr.lb 24
Cinnamon 1 40 26- Loaf, single refined 26
Cloves , Ditto, double do. 36
Cocoa pr. cwt. 14 Havannah, white .7 18
Coffee pr. Id. ,3 10 Ditto, brown, 12
Coal pr. burtiel so 2? Muscovado, pr. cwt. 13 15 67
Copperas pr.cwt. , g; Spirits Turpentine pr. gallon 33 37
Cordage, American, per cwt. 767 8 a ' 1 ' Allum pr. bulhcl 24 27
Cotton pr. lb. t.6 Liverpool 2q
Currants 10 Cadiz 23
ti..!.!, n rr ' ■ ° Lisbon 2.5 27
.! " 13 ' pr. piece 11 33 Ship build. W. O. frames p.ton, 12 13 33
—*:«"« , «93 967 Ditto Live Oak, .5 33 .6 67
Duich fail duck, ,3 20 Ditto red cedar, per foot 33 40
Feathers pr. lb- 40 4- Shingles, 18 inch, per M. 233 267
Flax ditto 11 j - Oitto 2 feet, 5 33 6
Flaxfeed pr. bufii. 85 g. Ditto 3 feet, dressed, 12 15
Flour, Superfine pr. barrel 4 go staves, Pipe pr. 1000 29
Common, 4 8. White Oak hogftiead, ig 33
■Bur middlings, best 3 Red Oak do. ig 50
Meal, Indian 2 5 Leogan 21 33
-■ ■■ - ditto Rve, c 40 Barrel 10
Ship-fluff pr. cwt. 80 x Heading 26 67
Fustic pr. ton, 20 Skins, Otter, best pr. piece- 467
Gin, Holland, pr. cafe, 4£~ -Minks 20 4p
Do. pr. gall. 8 Fox, grey 40 80
Glue, pr. cwt. 2d 21 q D:t'o red 1 20
Ginger, white race, per cwt. 7 Martins 24 1
Ditto, common 7 F'fhcr? 33 67
Ditto, ground pr.lb. —Bears 3
Ginseng, 20 2 Racoons 27 60
Gunpowder, cannon, pr. q.cafit, 373 4 Musk-rats 11 2c
Ditto, fine glazed a aver, pr. lb. 67 1 33
Grain, Wheat or. bush 80 8 —-Den, in hair «o 30
—-"—Rye "-n ,N. Jer'cy, 24 gal. p. bbl. 1 20
"Oats Carolina, 32 gall. 1 33 1 67
Indian corn 4 urpentinc pi. bbl. 167 2
——-Barley g < acco, J. River, best ioolb. 360 373
" ■ ■■ Best (helled pr. lb. ■ ■ inferior a 67 3
Buckwheat, per bulb. 4 old 4 67
Hemp, imported, pr. ton, 120 146 6 Rappahannock 2 50 3
American, pr. lb. 4 Coloured Maryland, 533 8
Herrings, pr.bb). 3 Daik, 2 40
Hides, raw pr. lb. 9 1 Long-leaf 240
Hops Edftein-fhore 2 2 23
Hogftiead hoops, pr. M. 15 Carolina, new a 7 3
Indigo, French per lb. 120 .3 ,a, Hyson p" lb. 293 128
Carolina 60 , Hvfonfkn, ,53 67
Irons, fad pr. ion, ,333 —Souchong, <0 q 3
Iron, Callings pr. cwt. 3 4 Congo, 43 50
Bar P r * ton, 82 6 Boht . a> 33 3?
a 4 67 fallow, refined, per bl. 9
tt-V , >73 3i Tin pr. box, 1333 1367
Nail rods 96
Junk, pr.cwt. 4 5 Verdigreafe pr.lb. 47 ,53
Lard, hogs pr.lb. 9 ic V.-rmillion, do. 133 167
Lead, in pigs pr. cwt. 533 567 Varnish, per gallon 33 37
in bars 7 .Vine, Madeira, pr. pipe, 10667 200
— white 30 10 67 Lilbon 120 126
" 6 40 6 6 Teller life, pr. gallon 63
Leather, foal, pr. lb. 17 £ c Fayal 52
Lignum vit s pr. ton, 560 6 Port pr. pipe no 124
Logwood 24 Ditto in bottles, pr.doz. 4
—-—Mnrr p-* 7 33 76 Claret 4 6
Mackarel, best pr. bbl. g Sherry pr.gall. go 12c
— second quality 6 5- 77 80
Madder, best pr. lb. ,6 2 c '-V-«x , Bees pr. lb. 2,5 27
Marble, wrought, pr. foot, 233 2 A'halt-bone, long pr.lb. 13 30
Mast spars ditto 33 67
MolafTes pr.gall. 44 5C COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
Mustard per. lb. On London, at 30 days, per ioo£ . fieri. 453 33
Hour, in bottles, pr.doz. 1 2c — at 60 days 450 67
Nails, Bi. lod. izd. and tod. pr.lb. ic T 7. 7 at 9°° a >' s 41 8
Nutmegs pr. lb. 7 8 Amtterdam, 60 days, pr. guilder, 41
nil 1 r j ~ 9° days, 4c
' ! n ccd . F r - g a "' 65 67 Government bills, drawn at io
lve " 8? days, per 11 guilders, none at market.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY fOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA
Wednesday, August 22. 1792.
93
■*.0M THE AMERICAN V'JSEU.'-f.
REFLECTIONS on the STATE of the UNION,
Concerning the public delis.
(CONTINUED.)
IT will not lie questioned, that there i*> in
every walk of life or bulinefs a greater pro
portion of money, than was obfervabie two
years ago. Public works and buildings of eve
ry kind, and of species and values unknown
among us till the present time, aie undertaking
every where. Private buildings, of equal va
riety. and comparative value, are springing up.
The >rice of lands is advanced. The raw ma
terials,though raifeu in much greater abundance,
lell for larger prices. To what cause so pow
erful, so adequate, can these things be ascribed,
as to the sales of part and the re-animation of
the whole, of a public debt, ten times larger
than the amount of all the specie ordinarily cir
culating in the country ?
The relief of some of the States from their
burdens, has been another beneficial consequence
of the funding of the debt. It is but a few
years since one of the mod frugal, vigorous, and
productive counties in Pennsylvania rose against
the collectors of the taxes. The appreciation
and fa!e of the immense mass of federal securi
ties, owned by that State, has enabled her to
discharge all her obligations, though flie has
abolilhed her general land tax, and discontinued
her excise, both of which Ihe has collected for
forty years.
!>ome anxiety has been created by the fliare
of our debt, which foreigners have obtained.
But this was a powerful means of bringing the
whole into its pre fen t beneficial aw ion, by ele
vating its actual to its nominal value. It is
not at all probable, that it will be drawn from
the country. It has been observed, in the inoft
tranquil and prosperous state of Europe, that a
great proportion of che families of those foreign
ers, who have made large inveflments in the
United States, either in the times of the pro
vinces, or since the revolution, have become
inhabitants of this country, even when in its
rudest infant Hate. At this serious moment,
when almost everv transatlantic country feel;
or apprehends disorders, our chances are in
finitely increased. The United States, advan
ced in the means cffubfiftence, of comfprt, and
01 twiv picfe/it to them aa object of
greater chfire in a tranquil liberty, which they
are flruggling to obtain, a teeming agriculture,
and a prosperous commerce, both fortign am!
internal. Conformably with these refle&ions,
we may affirm, that no great object in our af
fairs has failed to attract the notice of the fo
reigners, who have engaged in our funds. The
internal navigation of South-Carolina, North-
Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Penn!y*vania,
New-Jersey and New-York, are among the wit
nelfes of this truth. The banks, both national
and State, the turnpike roads, and toll bridges,
the sales of city estates, of cultivated farms,
and particularly of unimproved lands, com
merce, Ihip-building, manufactures, confirm
the fact. Let us continue to exhibit an honest
spirit in our laws and conlßtutions, an efficient
execution of them, and due abflinence from un
neceflary wars, and there cannot exist a doubt,
that we shall draw much more copiously from
the population, the arts, and the funds of Eu
rope, than they will draw from those of the
United States.
There exists in tli« United States one de
scription of private difSculties .and incumbran
ces, which must engage the lolicitude of every
feeling mind, which, by an examination into
the detail and interior of our afEiirs, lias been
led to observe them. The cases alluded to are
those of the citizens of two or three of the
States, who are burdened with heavy debts or
claims, which originated before the revolution.
Whatever they may lie finally adjudged to pay,
the sum may be so great, and due from so many
perion-, as to give it the resemblance of a pub
lic debt : and as in one of those States it has
already occasioned some facrifices of their prin
cipal landed estates, very far below their va
lue, so t will probably operate in the others,
unless some extensive means, abundantly ade
quate to the occasion, cap be brought to ope
rate, before or at least at the time of execut
ing the judgments of courts, ivbich may be ob-
Gained. No resource, competent to the pur
pose, appears at all likely to prcfent itfeif, un
less it be the funded debt or stock of the United
States and of the several State*. The method
by which tiiis de'eription of property can be
rendered mod immediately and effectually fub
(ervient to the iiiterefting purpose of prevent
ing the deftruflion of many families, would
'eeiri to be the fixture of it at a stable unfluctu
ating rate, adequate to its proper value, under
the exiftine circumstances of the United States.
It is manifeft, that infucb aftate of the.market,
the dealers in the debt and others, would fell!
out, and would not buy in again, and that they
would seek objects for their money in the trade,
the manufactures, the buildings, and the lands,
of the country, which might promise them more ;
advantage. A tenth part of die value of the
piibfic debt', applied to the lands of the United
States; tiropid raise them every where to tlieir'
real fp, that the debtor, \rlio mijrht be
uider the neceflity to fell an eftatej could dif-
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[Whole No. 546.]
pose of his property-not only withoutruinous
f aci ifice, but probably to uncommon advat>tage.
Ihe propriety ol lands and buildings which
might be under this probability of lale, would
fullain no rifqueor injury in felling their eftatcs
for the public ltock.
It may be alledged, that the holders of the
debt will not go into fcferies so remote to make
investments : but there are facts, which appear
to warrant zdifferent opinion. The ot"
New-England have been brought into Pennfvl
vania, for ir.vellmcnt in lands of several kiiid;
—the money of Pennsylvania and Delaware
has been invested in mills and lands in Virginia
—the greater pa tof the iron-works of Mary
land (the most coftlv estates in our country)
were bought and worked by the capitals of re
lldents in Great-Britain before the revolution.
The fame fact existed in one great instance in
New-Jersey The greatelt cedar swamp, on
the waters of the Delaware, that supplies the
Philadelphia market, is owned in New England;
and people and vessels from that quarter, are
annually sent to perform thebufmefs of it. The
American public creditors, citizens oi the uni
ted Netherlands, have recently purchased eight
hundred rratts ofland in spartnfPeiinfylvania,
further from Philadelphia than the banks oi"
James's River, York, or Rappahanock. In
short, if the history of this country were ex
amined, as it regards this Jubjeft, it would de
monstrate, that the landed property of it lias
been conftantiy animated by the application of
the monies of di.tant capitalifls.
LONDON, May 30,
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Monday Mat 21.
RIOTS AT BIRMINGHAM.
SIR ROBERT LAWLEY presented
a petition from certain Difient
eis, 1 ruftees of the new meeting;
lioufe which had been burnt at Bit
mingham, praying for compcnfation
of damages received, &c.
The Speaker cbferved, that as the
limited lime for receiving private pe
ti-tions was expired, and :is, this vat
of that nature, it could not be receiv
ed.
The petition was withdrawn.
Mr. Wh i tbr e a D, jun. rose to m ake
his promised motion refpetfting the
Birmingham riots. He laid, tl.aton
this occasion he confidercd hiuifelf
not only as the advocate for the fuf
fering Diflcnters at Birmingham, but
for the Diflenters in general, and al
io for all the people of Great-Britain,
whose heft and dearest rights were
ftrnck at in the outrageous violation
of the laws, 111 the unhappy affair at
Birmingham — laws which were or
dained equally for the protection of
every fubjert in the kingdom, be his
religious tenets what they may. He
aliened, that the unhappy difference
between the Diflenters and the High
Church party at Birmingham had its
rife in religious and not in political
concerns. He was very diffufe 111 sup
port of this polition, reciting cir
cumftaiices, and quoting various au
thorities in proof of this allertion.
He then, much in detail, recited the
origin, rife, and progress of the ri
ots ; the immediate and ostensible
instigation of which was a hand-bill,
of the molt inflammatory and scanda
lous natine, which had been circu
lated a lliort time previous to the
commencement of the riots ; and
which the magifirates had taken 110
steps about until the morning of (he
14th of July, in the afternoon of
which the riots began ; —on this day
they offered a re ward for the pub
lisher of the hand-bill. Ihe condudt
of thele gentlemen (the magistrates)
during the time ofthe riots, was, he
laid, peculiarly > eprehenfible ; they
ac'ted with fupincnefs, if not worse ;
and in fume inffances they had, in»
stead of 1 e'lraii.ing, absolutely encou
raged the rioters to ac r ts of outrage.
They might, if so inclined, have
crufhedthe mifchief in the bud, bnc
110 steps wete taken ; they even re
lufed the aftiflance of an officer with
his recruiting party, then in town,
who offered with it to quell the riois.
Their exertions wereconfined to pub
lishing advertlf'ements and hand-bills,