Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-12-13
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-. About the year $780,
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IN lSrTIDiS, clil WIZ tc!E iiiS tbC Siile't-
.tan:e, vas introduced to Mr.. Paine al,
London, 10 hauie in Boomibury fquare.
MIR. PANE ipoke in the rudeit and mott
con,enpiuoIs terms both OF ;he people of
America anu Of the country. He was
lai!,in, vita much esnphads OF !ome no.
blenen, who had taken notice CT him.
Re charged ;he Americans with irgrati-
tu.!e 20 ;..,nGeit. ltGo,s no; appear thar
this charge had IN hocc!t faun.:as;on. -
Da;ing tue war: Mr.. Faln= VS. appointed
Ecrctary 70 cons.ets, ter s!oic'sn WHAT'S.
This Vas certainly very hlsn mark CT
confidence. After the war, Consreis gave
HIM three thod!ani dollars, AMI he tate
OF Pennsylvania gave him rrcien' Ct live
hundred pounds. Tn: ha'es o. New
York AMI New JeI!ey, gave hin alto
compensation. Nj. Paine was thus We,
ry Handsomely rewarded. He was a, the
fame time, caIelled and tfutted by !ome OF
the hra people OF the continent. He had
no title to complain of American ins.a,i
,uae. He left this country. He foon al
ter learned, as he fays, that the principles
ofBtry 7cere expiring. 1t was his d.
~ to haze re,urned to tina, Country ir
which he prate!les 70 much a'tachmcnt to
give battle to the edition a:s. lnaead OF
;his, he continued in Enrore Tor aim 1t
fifteen sears. He faf.red ,hofe expiring
principles 10 h,ht their own way. Il
they were prevented from expiring, no
,hAnks Tor their yrs(e.vation are due
70 Mr.. pa;oe. II he could have found a
proper footing either in France, or Fog
land, we lhould not have heard any more
aboa. HIN.
MIR. Paine ip,aks OF newt papers with
contempt. AT the fAme time he chuies
that channel tor atdreGiag the publ'c.--
lie defp,ies writer's that ale abutlve. AT
the limc tine, he becomes as abuilve as
TIC wor3 Of them. i1e b'ags OF his
attachment TO America, vet he conseiits
an abfence ot no lefs than thirteen years,
after he had heard Other danger. lie DID
no; return at all, Till he copi'deted thc
danger over. He arrives, andjn ten DAYS
he ootan.s complete inFo'mafi's aP0" ne
jbot. He tells one half OF tie people OF
TINS county that be has frightened then
ou, 1T their fen!es. To the whole COM
mu1i:Y ne addrciies h!mie't in tic tone OF
p,iaga ne lhak!ng his birch. lie for.
sess thar, during an abfence OF fifteen
year,, his p'ace has been fuppltd that
cur dyfrtj5 can be d,nr 7vitboM him thai,
in llvenv fix, the American pr'!s was IN
the b,hv ciNa,hs of infancy tint II Las
hncc own up to tie maturity OF man
hUCC.
When it was h,it reported hat Mt
Icf.,!on had invited Mr.. PINE to retu'"
20 the United States, the write. OF thcte
remarks ict it down as federal caiumny.
MIR. Iatfarton had wi1neHedthe mipcaka
be mitchell tia, reiulred to his party from
Bache's publication of the Age of Reaion.
He knew that fufpicions o. aSheifn hal
beer alta he'd 10 himfeif. ! e, med, there.
fore, incredible that the PRECEDENT with
his eye, open ihou.d walk into fucha goii
OF reproath, as The invitation of Mr.. Paine
10 return TO this country. ,Fie could not
have taken a longer acp to deltrutt'on !;
and i. is amazing that Mr.. tcferfon did
no, toreite this Gmple and obvious fatt.
Voltai.e, Gi,bon and the King If P'ulila,
and many olhcr celebrated wrrers have
attacked the ch.iGian religion. But their
publications bear 10 more likentfs to tbs
inf,lent bl.ckguardifm of Mr.. Paine than
Gallatin bears to the Duke of Sully, or
Giles and Maiifon 10 the ancicrt Scipios.
TAeit exprefions may not be corfdered as
unclod d or uojua, here follows Tome pc
cisens of Mr.. Paine's Ase Of ReaEn.-
They are not frlefted as WORE, or better
than thonfand Others. The iteond part
is more generally indecent than tie fri;
ana as NJ. Paine Jays in this letter thar
{" he had iome manu(criPt works to rHb-
l:h," the natural Inference is that tie
thi:d part will be itiil more indecent than
the i-cond. He had p-omifed to write an
an!uer 70 5iH,o Walton, and sncthcr TO
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