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Duh Cts SUES, Pot, to*> • no —ifj Peiri - - 125 —130 ecf, mefs, sco lb. bb!. 13 — r4 cargo, No. 1, • fa — 1 j d». No. a, *10 — 10 3© nfiife. * - 6 — read, (biP. cwt. 4 — 3 pilot, * * 5 ■— 6 otter,infpeft if qnal. lb. 13 — 14 ad do. ri — u ;iody,Fr. ift proof, G.»l. 1 30— 1 30 4th do. 1 84— a Co*n:ac, 4»a do. - a — » 15 Spinilb, ill do. - 1 10— 1 15 Caurtks, tal. tno. Am. lb. 17— 1 8 dipt. do. 15 — Coil, pit, t chal. y— ta Amctican, -• y— 13 Jocoi, Surinam, cwt. 19 — ao UNnd, - 13 — 16 toffee, lb* ** • *7— 4St Joidage, America*?, cwt. 12 — Run'n, - - 10— Colton, Surmam, lb. - 40— Demarara - 3c— Caver.ne - 4c— W I. Mind - a8— Orleans - to— *• Georgia, Upland 18 — bed flaad 34 — :h< fc, Enflifo * — A.nersCaft * 6— 14 common, lb. 11— 14 Wcifh'a } No. i to I *5— 30 Rom'icy’a > No a to 1 a*— 30 Wait's ; M). i to 1 25— 30 latte. Ruflia, bolt * 13 — «7 Raven* - 9 25— 9 50 Enrflifh • 11 — i» lib. Table. c*'t. - 6—8 Merchant - 3 75— 4 Wdtindia, mark. a 66— a 75 S 1 % — a a, A cvk »ve«, bbl. — 3 50 Si mon - io 50 Herring* - 3 — 3 50 Mai kercll, Cummer 7 — 8 N Scotia, fum. 6 — ter?, Pcaver pelt, lb. I 50— 3 Bear, fkm - a — 5 Fox, crofs • *1 67— a red - 1 *5— 1 50 M » ks - • 60— 80 Mjfqualb • to— 37 Otter - * I 50— 5 S.ih’nj - - 33— 75 E^lour, Superfine frtfli, bbl. 7 5°— Tire • • 7 — X Brand - -5 25— 5“ 50 Middling* - 4 50 Rye - 3 jo— 4 Country, cwt. 3 — 3 25 tethers, live Gecfe, lb. 50— 67 Lifb;>n • 12— 17 Sea Fow^ • 40— 42 Sin, Holland, if! proof, gal. 1 5— x 10 4?h proof I 20— 1 25 Slafg, Biift.cr.toby 8, box, ij — 15 7 by 9 12 50— 13 6 by 8 10 50— k Hamburgh,7 by 9 it — 8 by 10 11 50— Briton, io b> 8 17 — 7 by 9 ij — 6 by 8 1 % — Jiaio, Buley. bulb. 1 —18 Corn, Indian,South 74— 78 Noith 8j — Rye - - 75— 78 IOata * - 33— opi, ^b. ... 9—* *0 oops, hhd, 12 feet, M — 23 on, Pig, ton - - 10 — Philadelphia bar 110 — Ruffin * - 95 —rco Swedes - U* —1 to bpanilh • “95 —ico idigo, Carolina, lb. i — French * • 1 5c— 4 Syanith - 1 75— * ime, ha f hhd. - t 5c— 1 46 emons, b«*k - 2 — father, foal, diied, beft, lb. 20— 11 ■Sibcr, Boards, clwr, M. i3 — rriertb. 11 — Shingles a 50— 3 ^aiRods, ton - ijo — liilt, 4<!. ) 30— 31 6d. 5wUU 60- 62 6d wrought »t X — 3d wro. infpec. 1 — 101 do 1 54— r 58 oyl do * 17— a 25 Sheathing 7 cut Sc ~ n — 12 Drawine Jwio'c. *13 — 14 orb, Bone Middlings,bbl 20 — 21 Cmjo No. r — 17 do do 1 — 16 ium, hrra'cj, 4tl. pr. gal. 96— 1 St. Crotx, ) 2d 78— 8c Antigua, St [3d t* — 88 fimicr forts ; 4'h 88— 92 Tobago, ) id 72— %s S:. Vincent#1 [3d 7;— 80 fimilar lorts '4th 80— 82 ^ New-England - 48— 49 jlltlil >',• ct:ri(', j.iecc 14 50— *J ’*Ce, cwt. - 3 — uga~, Havaora wh :c, cwt. — it brown to — ii W India dared 1* *5 brown 7 r©— 12 3 bulN. - 4 jo— J political. [A ferics of v'ry vu/uah V pipers headed ! *' J -fforfba Sc Callender,1* has appeared | in the Ncwyoflt Herald, ioved^a-ivg | m a mijitr/y manner, the can duel of the 1 modern Jeroboam and his unprincipled Lire hujs. /l e Lave this day commenced them in the Gazette, and rcommend them to the moft careful and dtjj. ifjisiale p-eru'.il of every American reader, ,?r a flandw* pro-f of the unparalleledimpohihet which has been prac tifed upon Frits toe Nrw“t'erk Ft raid. Jefferson & Callender. No. 1. OUR readers will recoiled* that we C me time fince republilhed from the Richmond Recorder, Home remarks of Callender, in which he Rates that the fpecimen fheets rf the firft volume of the Profpecl had been fent to Mr. Jef fetibn as th y were p'inted oft'; that upon h s receiv them he returned, not merely a letter of thanks, but toCal lender’s great furprize he had ducdled Mr. George Jefferfon to, pay him fifty dollars. That when the full pirt of the fccond volume was put to pref, Mr. JeSerfcn lent, unfoduted and une<pcd* ed, a fecond remittance to the fame am unf. We at that time briefly com fTKntei upon this very exrraordin.iry cnndudl on the part cf our Chief Msg iftrat^^'J intimated that we fhould refume the fu^jedt more at length at a future day.—We have fince feen the Aurora m • American Citizen, a>)d the National iEgis, with an impuierice and an audacityunparalleled,enter upen a defence and juftification of this con duct in its tail enormity, vv e mail tnerc fore give the lubje& a more thnrou Sh examination, and we confidently believe, thac the refult will fupport what we have already advanced, and tend at once to cover wish fharne the Idol of the day, and with confulon his humble, h reling champions. Should our Ian guage cn this occaiioa be marked wi h more than cudomary fcrviJnef ,w» (hall offer no apology, but red entirely upon the ftrength ot the cafe before us. The Citizen commences by declaring, that Ca lender “ on whom no reliance “ could EYfER. be p’aced, and whofe 41 continual inebriati n is one of the lead “ biemi'hes in his character, is become “ an avowed af>oJiate. He is a 1 ving M indance of that g eu truth, th U a “ man without m >ra i cannot be of fer “ vice to any ca'ife, to any nation, or to ** any people. He feems to have been “ made rather to dijiurb than to fubferve ** m inkind. He is re(llef», unprincipled, ; ** licentious”—His c?*arfe and vulgar “ m rnner. and the known Droflijracy of “ his life, have always defeated the ob. •* je£t of his wri ings. Coming fom “ him, even • hr majefty of tru'h feems “ to have fuffered much of its energy “ and fplenior. The republicans have “ reafon to rejoice that this peftilence “ of morals ha* withdrawn from their ranks.” This is the charafhr n^w given of one w*ho lately (hired Co largely in the intimacy, ’he confidence, and the regtrd of the Chiet Magiftrate of our o untry as to fubniil to his friendly eye the pol. lured pages of falfchood and fedit on— he fnujfcd the tainted gale of (1 inder, and giacioully rewarded the author.—Yes, fellow cit'z.ns, the roan who is now plainly declared to be “reftlcfi, unprin ci led, and licentious,” was paid by Mr. Jefferfor. for libelling the admirof trations, and even attempting to blift the private characters of W.i(hi"gton and Adams for ever ; and this too at a time when he he d the fecond place in the government. But to thofe who have been accuftomed accurately to ob ferve the conduit of Mr. Jefferfon this circumlt »nce will occafion little fur. prize. He who whdft Secretary of State employed a hireling prefs to ahufe the other members of the adminiftra tion, whilft it abounded in flattery to himfelf, was every way equal to the exercife of the fame bafe means of felf atfgrandizement w’hen he had become Vice President. And yet this is the man who, after thus making his way to the head of our government, affd* to be indifferent to public honors : who never ceafes to pant after literary re tirement and ph lofophic eale, but hum bly fubmits to the talk of ruling over us in pure obedience to the voice of the people. How long, fellow-citizens, will you continue to be the dupes of this canting hypocrify ? How long will you continue to repofe confidence in bin: who can defeend to hold fiiendly intercourfe with a man who isdefciibeJ as “ the peftilence of morals ?” Such we are told by Mr. JefFerfonS champ ion is the character of Callender ; fuch then are the irftiuments which Mr. Jei ferfen has ufed to promote his own elevation ; fuch a-e the wretched cipe di nts Hv which he his impofed upon the fenfe of ihe community. Not to weary evtn the moft indolent reader, we make this a mere introduc tory numb r ; but the fabjeft i> fettle, and we pledge otirfelves to flight no patt of it. 1 he fads on which we are ib-out to comment, afmrd a key to un lock the very fecrets of the heart. We on y h.tve to iolicit the lover of truth and juft ice to accompany us through our labors, and we venture beforehand, to promife him he (hall have no occa. ft an to regret his compliance w th our invitation. From tie Cenlincl. Mr. Wolcott’s Addrefs To the People o///;; Us'ictD SrATts. - No. II. “ \jt. THE fir ft fob] eft of inquiry re ‘l late* t > the conftruftion, which has been given by the Treifury Depa't ment to various laws, for approp i it “ ing money ia the Treafury, efpecial* “ ly thofc in relation to the expences of “ the VVar an l Navy Departments.'* This introduces the famous quellicn concerning fpec.fic appropri.rions ; the hulory of which queftion from the time when the fmall-mnded rivals of our firft fi »ancier Hartcd it as a we ipon to alHil lvs admini ira ion, until this icport of the Invelligatir.g Committee, would comprize a moft eflcntial portion of our national hiftory, and would unfold no fm ill infight into tl * fecret impulfcs ol political jealoufv, and the water clrfets of the human heart.—But we have not the time to enter into the necefTiry deta’ls of this hiftory, and fo far as re Utes to Mr. Wolcott’s publication the rcfuUs alone are material* M . Wolcott errers not minutely into the merits of the queftion itfelf—This ] has been dore by M Lucius Crassus,” in the i i«h number of his examination ; after perufing which, we boldly pro nounce it impofiible for any man of can did mind to entertain a doubt upon the fubjeft.—That writer hts filled the cup of demonilration to the brim, that fpc cific appropriation, as far as can be con. fiftent wi h the UnobftruS.d tranfatfion of neceflhry pub ic bulinef-, and with the true prallice c.f economy, h<s been always pra&iceJ, from the lirft eft.ibhfh mert of our prefcnt nttion-1 govern ment ; and he has crumb ed into dull the fophiftical quackery of the recoin dation to fubdivide appropriationi into eve y cbjcdl ftfccptib'c of definition. Mr. Gallatin himfeif, one of the loudeft clamourers in favor of m nuce and fpecific appropriation, until he had got the keys of the national Trcafury into his own hands ; what fays he now ? The fame th<pg as Lucius Crassus— “ As laxvs can be executed on'y, fo far as “ they are practicable, and as unavoidable . m m m « « •• a'viaivsnt wm promote a general relax* *• atiou,it will be expedient, in the feferal 4i appropriation laws, efpecially for the “ War and Navy Departments, not to *c $U3DIVIDE THE APPROPRIATIONS, BE “ YOND WHAT IS SUBSTAS^JI A LLY USE “ FUL AND NECFSBARY,’* Rrader !—Wh it fayed thou to this ? —Compare it wi'h ’he recommenda lion of the PreA lential meilage, and *e*I olie whe her it woul t not be a mod appropriate text for a l'eries of numbers, GdUtin t>/ Jefferfon—or Gallatin vs. himfejlf. N * ! Thou h^ft not hit it— There is a ciue to reconcile them in perfe.d ha»m >oy—The prinoip’e of the incfTage, was aflerted to c nvey fenfure upou he part adminifWticn—the prin tiple of the report wdl to provide for the convenience of the prefent—Mr. Jefferfon’s objeft was only a new vouch er for his title, upon the old Irilh princi ple—Mr. Gallatin’s was tofecure peace blc pofleflion.—Well may Mr. Wolcott ohferve on this paflage — “ All candid men will percicve, «* that piiociples never recognized, and always dif.tvowed, are with •« the utmofl iignr applied to pall tranf “ a cl ions of an adminiftraiion, which has re ired—to the iranfafhons of a •* period of great diff culry, when pre I »* parations of all kinds for the public »« defence, were progreGing wi h aftiv “ ity ; they will at the fame time, per “ ceive, that the future application of *{ the fame principles, in a period of pro “ found quiet, and in lefpeils to reduc “ ed elfabliihments is deprecated by “ the prefent adminiftration.” But more imfreprefmtation and un fiirnef* were not fufficient tor the pur po'es of the Committee—It was not fufUcient f >r them to have one fet of weights and me<fares for the former, and another for the prefent admini-1 ra tion—It was not fufHJcnt for them to Aigmatize, as an irregular pra&ice founded upon an arbitrary TieTu y ^onflrucliop, what Mr. Wolcott proves to have been a pran ce ten times over Dndtioned, after full and (harp invelti -gaticn and debates by both Houfes of : * Congrrfs—The moderate intoxication ■ of invidious i ftnua ion, and obliq ie detradion, was too feeble and vapid for | the tone of iheir llomithi.—Nothi g could fati.ire them but t'-e double d f 1 tnleJ brandy ot direct ialihood.—Thus; I they aifert, “That the approp’iaiors for the! “ army and navy relpe&ively, have “ been confidered as conftitutirg but “ one general fund for each cf th-fe ob. “jefts, although in molt ot the l-wsj “ making appropriations, a variety ot, “heads of expenditure are diftinflly “ fpecifieJ.” On this aifertion the fame Committee afterwards found the unqualified ani m rdverli >n, that in their opinion “ con “ fiderable furns of public money have < “ been greatly mifappliedi and that “ murh expence has beer, incurred, “ without any legal authority Now let us hear whit Mr. Wolcott f.ys cf the iupp^fed fads upon which the Committee bafe their opinio*. “ The letter of Mr. Gallatin does “not, however, authorize the declara “ lion of the Commiite. On the con “ trary, he enumerates a variety cf ac “counts, both in relation to the Wat “and Navy Departments, which he “ exprefdy admits, “ have been confiJertd " as dijhn3from each other, and j>om all “ other, made in relation to the /imy a :d " Navy reffectively. It moreover ap “ pears, from two (latements, annexed | «• to Mr. Gallatin’s letter, and which “ were primed for the Commutce, that “from the yetr 1797, to the year 1801. _1_.l _ xtr . _ HCCUUH13 were upcucu wrwtl wic »» *• Dcpaitment, under twentyfour, and “ with the Navy Department, under «*fventecn heais or expenditure.” Meflieurs Nicholfon, Giles, Williams and ElmenJorl ! — Before ibis p'ain and unequivocal anfwer, *htt has be come of your one general fund without diflinft heads of expenditure ?—\l a man fli ulJ to ihe face of either of you, characterize your atfer i >n by its proper name, you would th nk yourfclves obliged to (hoot him through the head to convince him of your veracity—as [ am out of your re tch, I flu'l apply to it no epithet which a timid man might fcruplcto ufe in your prclence— But whoever wants a j »(l and energetic deicription of your Jlatem.nt, and ot his anfwer9 m ty ti d it in the words of a tavouriie writer ot your own.—It is Gingerbread in tht jaw$of a Mammoth.” * LELIUS.' ISioffttplttcah GKOTIUS. ! THIS great civilian and this general fcholar is thus defcribed by Anberi du Maurier, who was intimately acquaint cd with him: “ G'Otius was a very good port in the Greek and in the Latin languages, and knew perfedlly well all the dead and living language*. He was, beftdes, a profound lawyeT, and a mo!t excel ent hiftorian.—He had re id all the good books that had eve been publiflied ; and what is allomfhing. his memory was fo ftrong, that every thing which he had once re »d, was ever prefect to it, without forgetting the m >(t trifling cir. cumlUnce. It has been often remark ed. that perfons of great memoiies have not always been perfons of good and of found judgment. B it Gmtius was extremely judicious, both in hi> writings and m his converfation. I hare often, adds Du M inner, *' feen thi* great m in juft caft his eye upon a page of a hug tbliovolume and inftantaneoufly become acquainted wiihthe contents of it. He ufed to take for hit motto, Hora ruit, to put himleU in continual remembrance that he lhould uftfully emp oy that lime which was flying away with ex treme rapidi y. ** Grotius was born at De’f in Hoi land i was a tall, iirong, and well made man, and had a very agreable countenance.—With all thefe cxcellen cies of body his m nd was ftill as excel lent. He was a man of epennef*, of veracity, and of honor, and fo perfefl'y virtuous, that throughout his whole life, he made not only a p int of avoiding men of bad ch.iraflei ,but offcekii g the acquaintance of men of w>o?th and per Tons diftlnguiftieJ by talents, not < r.ly of his own country, but of all Eu'« pr, with whom he kept up an epi.lcLry cori efpondencc.” Grotius efcaped from the ca^le of Louveftein, whc;e he had been confin ed on accoaut of his connexion with the illuftrious and unfortunate Barne velt, by the addr f* of his wife bhe wa*; permitted to fnd him book*, and thefe t them in a trunk Urge enough to hold her hufrund. She made «t pre tcnce to vifn him, and ftayed in the fo trefs till her UufbanJ was out oi the reach ol perlecutors. Grorius took refuge in F/ance, and was acenfej by fame of h s c u"tn men of imeqdi’.g t change hi* >e i < i n J(,d become a Catholic. ‘;Alu,M ;ep ei lie to one of his frien !■> who h id writ'en to him on the ftPj <$, •* wha'ever ad vantage thee m »y be t > quit a w *ker party that opp elle- me, to g i over t » a itronger one that won)J receive me with open arms, I tmfl that t ih U never be ttmpted to do fn. And fince,” added he, “ l h ive hai courage enough to beir up under imprTonmcn’, l null that L fh ill not be in wmc of it to ena, b'e me to fupport p>ver*y and ba ii h men'.” Louis XIII. give Grotius a very con fiderabie penfion. He wa , h »wevcr, no favorite with his Mini ler, Cardinal de R’chel eu, wh~m it is fai l he did n< t fufiicien ly i! .tter for his literary talents, and the penfion was fivn hop ped. G otius, however, me' with a. prote&refs in CLrtfii in t, Qjie of Swe* den, who made him her Audi iff J r a: Pads. Here ag iin he was h rr^ff d by Richelieu, who was angry w' h * im for not giving him til <t pre e icnce as a PriRC1^ of the Cbu c’it to which Gr>. Hus -bought himfelf entitled a* a rep e fen ive ot a crowne 1 head. This ditr nity, however, was fo lit !e a;rtenb!e to <i ni-tn of Grotius’s great and good mind, that in a letter which he wrote to his father from Paris he tebshim, | “ l am q >ite tired out wrth honors, A private and a quiet life alone has charms for me, and. I fhould be very Inppy f l were in a liruation in whi .h I could only employ royfeb in works of piity, and works that might be of ful to pof terity.*' H s cc ebrattd woi k upon the truth of the Chrilli n re ieion. has been ; trai lifted into all the languages of Eu rope, and into feme of thole of die eali. This great fcho’ar in early jife compo fed a Devotional Treatife in Flemish verfe. forthetffeof Dutch Jailors tint male voyages to the Eaft and Welt Indies. His countrymen, who had perfecuted him f) violently in his lifetime, (truck a medal in honor of him afte' his death in which he is ft tied the Oracle of Delft, the Phoenix of hs Country.” It may be feen in the “ HilT rie Medalique de li HolDtfJe,” a id Verities what Horace fa’d long ago, Urit enim fu'gorc fuo, oui piat^nra; artes full a fc polltas : cxtmeiui aniabitur id#m. The mao whofc life wife naiu e has defign'd To tca>h, to humanize, to fwiy h s kind, Burns by his fiimc too vivid and too bright. And dazzles by excels *f fpl.ndid ight. Yet when the he ot fecks the grave’s fid flatc, The vAiaand changing peOp’c, wife too lire, O’er his pale corpfe the fruitleb honors pnur, Their friend, their faviour, and their gu de de Audeach fau impotenceofgrief btrray, [plore ; To re-illumine the Promethean day agricultural. The furface of the earth, together with the atmofphere that embta es it, furnilhes the food of plants ; and the diff.rcnt clafles of plants, like the vati. ous clafles of animals, feem to require a correspondent dtff rence of food. I Hence, in part, arifes the ne efii j of a frequent th tnge of crops ; btea fe when p ants ot the fame fpeci:S are continued in conftant fucc. {ft >n on the fame piece of ground, they exhauft it of th it kind of food which nature had defigned and preptred for the r partic ular nouiilhmnr. In fume plants, as in fome animals, there is an uncommon degree of vora. city. Fnx Co comple el/ devours ail the food »f vegetables wi hin its reach, that it is next to impollible, on m ft grounds, to rftfe two good cr^p-, of i:, in immediate fucceffton. InJian Corn alfo exhaufts the nut i ive powers ot ihe eanh, in a very great degree. Thef* and limilar crops (hould feldorn be f wq or planted two years in immediate fuc* celfion ; but Ibould be ficceefted by plants which are hf exhmllirg. Per ' haps no crop txhaufts the ground lefs than potatoes ; yet experience proves that a conftant and long fuccelftcm even of th rt crop g’Catly ui ninifhes the quantity and injure* the quality of the fruit, even tho the ground be Jceptr.e? er fo rich by menures. The caufc of this may poflibly be, that th* potatoa delights ( f l may here u e the word) in one particular kind of food or m >d. ' ifica'ion of food ; therefore, tho it docs n t impoverifh the ground gencraly. it cxhauils it of that particular kind of nutrinunt, which is moft propet lor its own growth. Groan i thn h*s become unfit for p 'trto s, by having been cog [Van: ]f cropped with them, will fomethnds pro* duce a lux iriaut crop of wheat, usft:aa ^ora 01 dax--3 Havre.