The Sun.
London, England, 1803-11-17 00:00:00

THOM 43 P AIVE.

. Triomm PAINE has written a third letter to the
people of the United Stateq, complaining -lii-tterly
of the:condttA:of the Editors.of the Federal Papera,..
and in which he -takes an opportuaityl of detailing•
his escape from the guillotine.'7• We extraCt the
lowing passage : • 7 ": • i•
was One of the nine Members .that c.nmpose4.-1
the first Committee of Constitution.. Six 'of thise
bad been destroyed. 51EYES and myself h=ive
vived.. He. by bending With the times,
,and I by
not bending. The other survitri)r, joined Ro it ES. •
11ER R ;Ind signed with him the; w.irrant 4- my
arrestation after the fall nigopEtTIE,P.W.E, :11C,W33
seized. and imprisoned io,his
,turn, and sentenced o
transportation. .He has since apologized to :rne.-i.br.
having signed the warrant, by saying, he felt. hint.
self in dart pr,
,and was obliged to
lIFttAV LT St:ig/10, an' acquiaintance of Mr.
JEFF tit,scix's, and a good patriot, was my suppli.
ant, as Member of the. Committee of Constitution,
that is, he i!i'39 to. Supply my ~place, hard opt ac.
cepte(i or had resigned,-.being next in number of
votes to toe. He was imprisoned in. 14e .Luxcm-
bourg with me, was taken .to the tribunal and guil.
lotined, and I, :his principal, was,lefr.
" There were but two foreigners in the Conven.
tion, ANAC It.SI'S CCOOT EC; and tnyselfo «'eer-e ere
both putout of the Convention,by ,thesame vote,
arrested by the same--order,- and: carried .to ;pfiscktt
together the sarne..night.. He, was, teik.'.ni ;to the
:guillotine,. and I was :again- left.: Jogt. BitaLoav
was 'with us when•we went to prison..:
Jos. LatioN, one of the vi'est charsfters that;
ever existed, and wh, made the streets- of Arras;
run-with blood, was my sapNiantas:Member of rite.
Convention for Pals When I. wits plt,
out of the Convention; he came anatttrok,tny place..
When I was liberated .froui'prisOrt; :and voted ag•ln
into the Conventidn,,.he was sent to the same pri.
son, and took my place there, and he ,went to the
guillotine instead. of me. •He -supplied my .place all
the. way-through. • . . • , •
'' One- hundred' and sixty.cight. persons were
taken out of the, Lnxemburghin one night,: and a
hundred an:l sixty:4:llloln guillotinetklie next day,
of which I new know 1- was to have- been one ;
and. the niarrner I tteaped that fate is. curious,
has all the appearare of accident. The room, in,_
which I was lodged was on the grennd ilea>r, and
one of a lnng range of rooms under a galleiy,,'And
the door of it opened outward and'ilat`against the
wall,, so that when it was. opened, .the .iPide Of
door appearedoutWlrdi and: 'the contrary when ,it.
was shut. I: had .three comradet., fellow.primertv
with me,' JogErit 'VANIII/11.4 of Bruges, sinee
sidentof that town, M C.13..V7 11.11 ti Si and Batts..
TIN!, of Lonvain. When persons by Scores and-br
hundreds were to he taken out of:the prison for the
guillotine, it was always done in • the fright; :and
those who performed that'oflice had a private mark:
or signal, by which they knew what,rooms-ta go
to, andwhabnumber to take. ,We, as I: have said,
were four, and the door of the :room was marked,
unobserved by us, with that number in.chalk ; but
it happened, if happeningis a proper word,, that the
mark was put on, when. the door WAS open, and flat
against the, wall, and. thereby,came on the inside
when we shut it at night, and theltii"stroying angel
passed by it. A few days 'after. titisTsoa 64 tE P. IC£
fell, and Mr: 'MuNitoe arrived and reelainard Ate,
and invited' me io his house.' • '