The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-02-03 00:00:00, page 4

From the Freeman's Journal.
Rirington's Confeflions, Part 11.
Addressed to the whigs of New-York.
[Continued from our lafl.]
BUT as to the tories that yet may remain
They scarcely need give you a moment of pain ;
What dare they attempt when their masters are fled ?
When the foul is departed who wars with the dead !
Poor fouls ! for the love of the king and his nation
They have had their full quota of mortification ;
Whereever they fought, or whatever they won,
1 he dream's at an end—the delusion is done.
The TEMPLE you rais'd was so wonderful large
Not one ofthem thought you could answer the charge,
It feem'd a mere castle conftruded of vapour,
Surrounded with gibbets and founded on paper.
On the basis of freedom you built it too strong!
And Clinton confefs'd, when you held it so long,
That if any thing human the fabrick could Ihatter—
The Royal Gazette must accomplilh the matter.*
An engine like that, in such hands as my own,
Had shaken king Cudjoe J himfelf from his throne,
In another rebellion had ruin'd the Scot,
While the pope and pretender had both gone to pot.
If you flood my attacks, I have nothing to fay—
I fought, like the Swiss, for the fake of my pay;
But while I was proving your fabrick unsound
Our vessel mifs'd stay, and we all went aground.
Thus ended in ruin what madness begun;
And thus was our nation difgrac'd and undone,
Renown'd as we were, and the lords of the deep,
It our outlet was folly, our exit was Deep.
A dominion like this, that some millions had cost !—
1 lie king might have wept when he saw it was loft —
This jewel—whose value I cannot describe;
This pearl—that was richer than all his Dutch tribe.
When the war came upon us, you very well knew
My income was finall, and my riches were few—
If your money was scarce, and your profpedts were bad,
Why hinder me printing for people that had?
'Twould have pleas'd you, no doubt, had I gone with
a few setts
Of books, to exist in your cold Massachusetts ;
Or to wander at Newark, like ill-fated Hugh,
Not a shirt to my back, nor a foal to my flioe.
Now, if we mistook (as we did, it is plain)
Our error was owing to wicked Hugh Gaine,
For he gave us such icenes of your starving and ftrife,
As prov'd that his pieties were drawn from the life.
On the waves of the Styx had he rode quarantine,
He could not have look'd more infernally lean
Than the day, when returning difmay'd and diftreft,
Like the doves to the'ir windows, he flew to his nelt.
The part that he aded, by some men of sense
Was wrongfully held to be malice propenfe,
When to all the world else it was perfectly plain,
One principle rul'd him—a passion for gain.
You pretend I have fuffer'd no loss in the cause,
And have therefore no right to partake of your laws:
Some people love talking—l find to my cott,
I too am a iofer—my character's loft !
Nay, did not your printers repeatedly stoop
To descant and reflect on my portable soup?
At me have your porcupines darted the quill,
You have plunder'd my office, and publifh'd my will.
Refolv'd upon mifehief, you held it no crime
'1 o deal my reflexions, and print them in rhyme,
When all the world knew, or at least they might^uefs,
That the time to reflect, is the time to confess.
You never confider'd my children and wife,
That my lot was to toil and to struggle thro' life •
My windows you broke—they are all on a jar,
And my house you have made a mere old man ofauar.
■ ■ *Si Pergama dextra
Defendi peffent, etiam hac defenfa fuiffent. Virg,
t The Negro King in Jamaica, whom the Englilh
declared independent in 1739.
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TO BE SOLD,
At Publick Sale,
On Friday the 20th of February next, 120 acres of
land, lituate 2f miles from Cranberry town, near
the publick road from thence to Monmouth, late
the property of Luke Smock, decealed.
THERE is of said trad near 30 acres well tim
bered, a quantity of good meadow, and the
whole well watered, with a good dwellinghoufe and
barn, and an excellent apple-01chard, pait of which
is of the bast grafted fruit. The sale to begin at 10
o'clock of said day on the premises, when attendance
will be given, and conditions made known by
HENRY SMOCK,
ROBERT SMOCK, J
Middlesex county, January 14, 1784.
To be fold,
The PLANTATION belonging to the
Subscriber,
Situate in Hopewell, abcut eight miles above Tren
ton, on the River Road,
CONTAINING about 130 acres, well watered,
7 of which are excellent good meadow; up
wards of 30 acres of timber-land, above 20 of which
are excellent. On the premises are a frame house
and barn, an excellent orchard of apples, chiefly pip
pins; pears, peaches, cherries, &c. Title indisputa
ble. For terms apply to the subscriber on the pro
mises.
ELIJAH HART.
Jan. 12, 1784. 3 w
And still you insist I've no right to complain !--^
Indeed if I do, I'm afraid it's in vain—
Yet am willing to hope you're too learnedly read
To hang up a printer fol being milled.
If this be your aim, I must think of a flight—s
In lels than a month I must bid you good night,
And hurry away to that <whel, ridden shore
Where Clinton and Carleton retreated before.
From signs in the sky, and from tokens on land,
I'm inclin'd to fufpe& my departure's at hand:
The man in the moon is unfually big,
And Inglis, they tell me, has got a new wig.
For many days past, as the town can attest,
The tail of the weather-cock hung to the weft—
My fliop, the last ev'ning, feem'd all in a blaze,
And a hen crow'd at midnight, my waiting-man fays !
Even then as I lay with strange whims in my head,
A ghost hove in fight, not a yard from my bed,
It feem'd Gen'ral Robertson, bra^ly array'd,
But I grafp'd at the substance, and found him a shade!
He appear'd as of old, when, head of the throng,
And loaded with laurels, he waddled along—
He feem'd at the foot of my bedstead to stand,
And cry'd—" Jemmy Rivington, reach me your hand:
" And Jemme (said he) I am ferry to find,
" Some demon advis'd you to loiter behind ;
" The country is hostile—you had better get off it,
“ Here's nothing but squabbles, all plague, and no
" profit.
" Since the day that Sir William came here with his
“ throng
" He manag'd things so that they always went wrong,
" And tho' for his knighthood he kept Meschianza,
“ I think he was nothing but mere Sancho Panza.
" Other luck we had once at the battle of Boyne !
" But here they have ruin'd Earl Charles and Bur
" GOYNE,
" Here brave col'nel Monckton was thrown on his
" back,
" And here lies poor Andre! the best of the pack."
So faying he flitted away in a trice,
Just adding, " he hop'd I wou'd take his advice—"
Which I surely shall do if you push me too hard, —
And so I remain with eternal regard
JAMES RIVINGTON printer, of late, to the king,
But now a republican—under your wing—
Let him Hand where he is, and don't push him down hill
And he'll turn a true Blue-Skin, or just what you will.
M Miller is wanted.
APerfon who has some knowledge of
the trade of a millwright, and is
thoroughly acquainted with the milling
bufinels, will meet with generous encou
ragement by applying, with a good re
commendation, to the subscriber.
JOHN NEILSON.
New-Brunswick, Jan. 8, 1784. 4w *
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time, as the subscribers may think fit ; and,
if the paper should be difeontinued, to be
returned on demand, after deducting the
price of the papers which have been fur
nifhed since the refpedive advances were
made.—lhe papers to go out in packets,
as heretofore, and one to be given gratis
with every dozen the packet may con
tain.—lhe packets to flop whenever the
term elapses for which the last advance has
been made, unless a further advance be
then made.—The subscribers to pay their
posts, as heretofore.
The publisher flatters himfelf that the
above conditions will appear so reasonable
in point of price, and so necessary in point
of precaution, that they will meet with uni
versal approbation—and that he will have
the fulled encouragement from his fellow
citizens in carrying on this ufeful under
taking. He is of opinion, that this me
thod of publication will fix the New-Jer
sey Gazette on a basis that will be per
manent; and is convinced, that this only
will enable him to devote to it a portion
of his time and attention adequate to the
importance of the object.
Gentlemen, to whom it may be conve
nient, will much oblige the publisher, by
forming packets in the several counties as
expeditiously as may be.
ISAAC COLLINS.
Trenton, Dec. 9, 1783.
Wanted Immediately,
A Journeyman Printer, to whom
constant employment and good wa
ges will be given, by the Printer hereof.
Neew-Jerfej, House ofHfcmbly,Dec. 23, 1783,
TH E several petitions from the Weft and East-
Jersey proprietors, relative to a dispute subsist
ing between them concerning the line of partition be
tween East and West-Jersey were read a second time;
whereupon,
Ordered, That the West-Jersey proprietors have
leave to present the draught of a bill at the next fit
ting of the Legislature, agreeably to the prayer of
their petition, on advertising their intention at least
fix weeks previous thereto, in both the New-Jer
sey, one of the New-York, and one of the Pennsylva
nia news-papers.
Extrad from the Minutes,
MASKELL EWING, jun. Clerk
NOT E
IS hereby given to the proprietors of East-Jersey,
and all other persons concerned, that we propose,
pursuant to the leave granted us by the Honourable
the House of Aflembly in the above resolution, to
present the draught of a bill at the next fitting of the
Legislature, for the purposes expressed and set forth
in our petition.
Jona. D. Sergeant, Committee
Clement Biddle, ('of W. Jer-
Ebenezer Cowell, Cfey Proprfo
Daniel Ellis, )etors.
January 8, 1784. 8w