The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-01-27 00:00:00, page 4

From the Freeman's Journal.
Rivington's Confeflions, Patt L
Addressed to the whigs of New-York.
I ONG life and low spirits were never my choice,
_J As long as I live I intend to rejoice ;
When life is worn out, and no wine's to be had
'Tis time enough then to be serious and fad.
Tis time enough then to reflect and repent
When our liquor is gone, and our money is spent,
But I cannot endure what is practis'd by some,
1 Ins anticipating of evils to come:
A debt must pe paid, I am sorry to fay,
Alike, in their turns, by the grave and the gay,
And due to a despot that none can deceive,
Who grants us no respite and signs no reprieve.
Thrice happy is he that from care can retreat,
And its plagues and vexations put under his feet ;
Blow the storm as it may he is always in trim,
And the fun's in the zenith forever to him.
Since the world then in earnest is nothing but care,
(And the world will allow I have also rriy share)
let, tofs'd as lam in the flormy expanse, f
The best way, I find, is to leave it to chance.
Look round if you please, and survey the wide ball,
And charice, you will find, has direction of all :
'Twas owing to chance that I firft saw the light,
And chance may destroy me before it is night !
'Twas a chance, a mere chance, that your arms gain'd
the day,
'Twas a chance that the Britons so soon went away;
To chance by their leaders the nation is cast,
And chance to perdition will fend them at last.
Now becaufc I remain when the puppies are gone
You would willingly fee me hang'd, quarter'd and
drawn,
Though I think I have logic fufficient to prove,
That the chance of my stay, is a proof of my love.
For deeds f deftru&ion some hundreds are ripe,
But the worst of my foes are your lads of the type .•
Because they have nothing to put on their shelves
1 hey are striving to make me as poor as themselves.
There's Loudon and Kollock, those strong bulls of
Baflian,
Are striving to book me away from my Ration,
And Holt, all at once, is as wonderful great
As if none but himfelf was to print for the State.
Ye are all convinc'd I'd a right to expe&
That a (inner returning you would not reject —
Quite sick of the icarlet and slaves of the throne,
is now at your option to make me your own.
Suppose I had gone with the tories and rabble
To starve, or be drown'd on the shoals of Cape Sable
I had fuffer'd, 'tis true —but I'll have you to note
My woes would have help'd you to dinner nor coat.
You fay that with grief and dejection of heart
I pack'd up my awls with a view to depart,
"I hat my (helves were dismantled, my cellars unftpr'd.
My boxes: afloat and my hampers on Lnard ,
And hence you infer (I am sure without reason)
That a right you pofl'efs to entangle my weazon—
But who ever argued, where blood was not fpilt,
That terror of heart is conviction of guilt?
The charge may be true—for I found it in vain
To lean on a ftaff that was broken in twain,
And ere I had gone at Port Rofeway to fix,
I had chose to fell drams on the margin of Styx.
I confefs, that with shame and contrition oppreft,
I fign'd an agreement to go with the rest,
But ere they weigh'd anchor to fail their last trip,
I saw they were vermin, and gave them the flip.
Now, why you ffiould call me the worst map alive,
On the word of a convert, I cannot contrive,
Though turn'd a plain honest republican, Rill
You own me no proselyte, do what I will.
My paper is alter'd—good people don't fret;'
I call it no longer the Royal Gazette:
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ISAAC COLLINS.
Trenton, Dec. 9, 1783.
To me a great monarch has loft all his chirms,
I have pull'd down his lion, and trampled his arms.
While fate was propitious I thought they might stand,
You know I was zealous for George's command,
But since he difgrac'd it, and left us behind,
If I thought him an angel—l've alter'd my mind.
On the very fame day that his army went hence
I ceas'd to tell lies for the fake of his pence;
And what was the reason ?—the true one is best —
I worship no funs that decline to the weft:
In this I resemble a Turk or a Moor,
The day-star afeending, iproftrate adore;
And, therefore, excuse me for printing some lays,
An ode or a sonnet in Washington's praise.
His prudence alone has preferv'd your dominions,
The bravest and bolded of all the Virginians !
And when he is gone—l pronounce it with pain—
We scarcely fnall meet with his equal again.
Old Plato asserted that life is a dream,
And man but a Shadow (whate'er he may seem)
By which it is plain he intended to fay
That man, like a Shadow, mull vanish away:
If this be the fa&, in relation to man,
And if each one is striving to get what he can,
I hope, while I live, you will all think it best,
To allow me to bustle along with the rest.
A view of my life, tho' some parts might be folcmn.
Would make, on the whole, a ridiculous volume ;
In the life that's hereafter (to ipeak with submission)
I hope I Shull publish a better edition:
E'en swine you permit to subsist in the street ; —
You pity a dog that lies down to be beat —
Then forget what is paft—for the year's at a close—
And men of my age has some need of repose.
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