The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-09 00:00:00

THE SUN.

tOBIIETI"s UNNION OF PAINE.

bee to ,ohmit h the Sopportess of CAnt.rLp.
and Admiiers ni i'Attsitt, tiro following character
or the I,tter gia,Dhemer. It was ‘Nrittell in May,

1796, when ,COBBSTT wa:, or seemed to be, 14
believer in 0.-.-itianity aivi t triend tit Monarchy.
That tit Cit.,. s-erl Libel, 'hi .:Ali;e of Ri6son, for
which .CAto.n.P. ii now gwaitinz his (I trust,
sufficient) plini•liinent, is tie subject
,ot Mr. Cos-

BK-rr's

" As to the work itself, it cannot be better

ilecribett than by saying that it is as stupid and

as despicable as its a►►Otor. The wretch bas all
his life bee►► employed in iebiding fools aStIAV

fr,on their dt>te ; and, as nothing is more easy;
he has often succeeded. His rehgiou k exactly

Of A idece W;11) hiS pOilliell; one inenleates the
tight of revolting against Government, and the
other, .111.41 of revolting against Goi.

liccee.!ed against the Li rd's anoin:ed, (1 mean,
big mid our ci-devarti friend, the Most Christian
King,) be to-riled his impious arms against- the
Loud himself. This process is het featly natural,
us has been exemplified in the conduct of others,
AS %cell as !hat of NINE."

[CoBBETT then proceeds with a sketch of this
miscreant's lite, which I shall offer you for a fu-
ture number ; and relates, that be composed
" The Age of Reason" just at the time when the
French Radicals disowned Christianity, and set
up the worship of " The Goddess of Reason— to
propitiate their blood thirsty Atheism and save
himself from the Guillotine.]
" I would by no means be understood as be.
iievinz that PAINE'S book was a desertion of his
principles ; for, as before observed, he had been
corrupted years before. It is the disgraceful mo-
tive for publishing his creed that I am exposing.
That it was done to make his court to the tyrants
of the day, cannot be doubted ; for in all his for.
mer works, if he has occasion to speak of the
Christian Religion, he does it in decent, if not in
respectful language. In his Rights of Man',

for instance, he. extols toleration ; and observes,
that all religions are good ; but, as soon as he had
got into his new-fashioned study—a dungeon—he
discovered that they were all bad ; or at least the
Christian Religion ; and it was of the divers deno-
minations-of that Religion that he before pretended
fo speak. When he said that all religions were
good *, be was an abominable hypocrite ; or he
is one now, when he tells us that the Christian
Religion is a very bad one."

" It will be said by Tones deistical friends, that
the Second Part of the Age of Reason was written
after his releasement, and at a time when he was
in no danger. Very true ; but the die was cast ;
the First Part was out, and there was no recalling
it. He had openly attacked both Heaven and
Earth ; he could do no more. One essay at blas-
phemy was as good as a thousand for establish-
ing his new pretensions to infamy ; but THOM S
bad now something else to attend to besides his
reputation;--I mean, his belly.''

" Tom's fate in France was nearly what it had
been in America. When it was no longer neces-
sary to employ him, he sunk into neglect. Happy,
if he could have ceased eating, when his insurrec-
tion talents became useless : but as he could not,
be must continue to write; and, as he was in a
country where be was permitted to revile none
hut the ALMIGHTY, the ALMIGHTY be reviled.
The present of poison which he sent to his
of America, is not therefore so
much the work of choice, but of necessity. The
So-coact l'ait of the Age of Reason he wrote for a
lip i~ra, aml the First Part he wrote for his life.
" Those who prefer a few years of life to every
thing else, may fiood au excuse for this degraded
man: it is impossible for any of us to say bow we
9110,iid act at the foot of the guillotine. But,
what shall be said to those who, pressed by nei•

tlier clanger nor Want, make uncommon exertions

to spread his infamous Ferformance among the ig-
norant part of their countrymen, and thereby sow
the seeds of vice, inquietude, and du spit. ?, Again-:
Deists may find some apology for doing this ; but
who will dare to become the apologist of those
J3ooKsew.cits t, who, professors of the Christian
faith, ►hrow out this bait of blasphemy to catch
unwary comers, and, s►niiing at ►heir simplicity,
pocket the dirty pence ? Such men (and they are
but too numerous) are like the Hollander on the
coast of Japan ; who, to outstrip others in trade