Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-12-08

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Birth frigatc that learchsd every -, y
I, and down to the hold for T h.. q
Pane. then went, the fame year. ' :
embark at Havre. B,t feveral Br;, .,
s,ga,es were erai.ing in fight Of the pors
who knew | was there, and ! had :, ps''
turn again a: a fe Paris. Seeing mylyIf ,hu,
cut Oft from every opportunity Of return
ing that was IN my pcwer to ccmn,r4
wrote to Mr.. Jeaerfon, that if the fsf,
OF the election lhould put him in the cbs;,
Of the proficiency, and he houla have :.
ca4lon TO iend friga.e to France, b.
would give NE TIE opportunity Of return
ing BY il, which he cid. But decIirs3
coming in The Maryland, the ye1el thar
was offered me, and waited fer the f.;
gate thar was to bring the new Minieer.
Mr.. Chancellor Livingston, to France
but that frigate was ordered round to tbs
Mediterranean; and as, at that time, the
war was over, and the Pnti!h CRITTERS call
ed in, | could come any way. | then a.
greed to come with Commodore Barney
ina yeael he had eng .geG. 1t was again
fortunate did not, for the velel funk ar
Tea, ard the people were preieryed in the
beat.
Had half the number Of evils befalen
me, thar the number Of dancers amount
to, Though which / have been preierv.
ed, there are tbole VINO would a.cribe il
to the wrath Ct Heaven why then do
they not aicribe my prefeIyayion to the
protecting favour Of Heaven. Even in
my worldly concerns l have been bleAed.
The little property left in America,
and which I cared nothing sboug, not e.
ven to receiy. The rent Of it, has been
increaing in The yalae Of It's capital more
than eight hucdred dollars every year for
the fourteen years and more that have
been abfcnt from il. I am now, in my
circumstances, independent, aad ny eco
nomy makes me rich. As TO ny health
it is perfectly good, and I leave the world
TO Judge Of the fate CT my mind. I
am, in every infance, living contra
dicfion of the mortified federali}e.
In my publications follow the rule I
began with in Common Senle, that is to
con(ult with nobody, nor let any body
fee what | write till it appears publicly.
Were I to do otheswile, the cafe would
be, that between the timidity Of iome,
who are 70 afrald Of doing wrong they ne.
yer do right, me puny judgment of o.
theirs, and deipicabie craft q p-eferring
expeditat to rigbt, as if the world was
world Of babies in leading Grings. l
fhouid get forward With nothing. My
path';;a right line, as itrai, and clear to.
me as ray Of light. The boldnels if
they will have it TO be fo) with which I
fpeak on any iubjea, is a compliment TO
the jud smens OF the reader. Il is like
faying to him, l treat ysa as man, MT
as ehjl9. With reipect to any worldly
objed, as it is ilnpolible to diicoyer any
in me, therefore what do, and my man
ner OF doing it, ought to be aicslbed to
good motive.
In great affair, where the Happiness
Of man is at cake, Hove TO work for no.
thing; and 70 fully am I under the iaAn.
ence of this principle that | lhould loie the
fpirit, the pleafure, and the pride of II,
were ! conlcious that looked Tor reward =;
and with this declaration | take my leave
for the pgstent.
THOMAS PAINE.
Federal City, Lo0<lFs
HotsI, Dec. 5, 1902.