e to the person, whoever he may
be, that shall then be in the monarchical office, and for him to retire
to the enjoyment of private life, possessing his share of general rights
and privileges, and to be no more accountable to the public for his time
and his conduct than any other citizen.]

[Footnote 41: The gentleman who signed the address and declaration as chairman of
the meeting, Mr. Horne Tooke, being generally supposed to be the person
who drew it up, and having spoken much in commendation of it, has
been jocularly accused of praising his own work. To free him from this
embarrassment, and to save him the repeated trouble of mentioning the
author, as he has not failed to do, I make no hesitation in saying,
that as the opportunity of benefiting by the French Revolution easily
occurred to me, I drew up the publication in question, and showed it to
him and some other gentlemen, who, fully approving it, held a meeting
for the purpose of making it public, and subscribed to the amount of
fifty guineas to defray the expense of advertising. I believe there
are at this time, in England, a greater number of men acting on
disinterested principles, and determined to look into the nature and
practices of government themselves, and not blindly trust, as
has hitherto been the case, either to government generally, or to
parliaments, or to parliamentary opposition, than at any former period.
Had this been done a century ago, corruption and taxation had not
arrived to the height they are now at.]

-END OF PART II.-

THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE

By Thomas Paine

Edited By Moncure Daniel Conway

VOLUME III.

1791-1804

G. P. Putnam's Sons

New York London

Copyright, 1895

By G. P. Putnam's Sons

CONTENTS.

Introduction to the Third Volume

I. The Republican Proclamation

II. To the Authors of "Le Republicain"

III. To the Abbe Sieyes

IV. To the Attorney General

V. To Mr. Secretary Dundas

VI. Letters to Onslow Cranley

VII. To the Sheriff of the County of Sussex

VIII. To Mr. Secretary Dundas

IX. Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation

X. Address to the People of France

XI. Anti-Monarchal Essay

XII. To the Attorney General, on the Prosecution AGAINST
THE SECOND PART OF RIGHTS of Man

XIII. On the Propriety of Bringing Louis XVI to Trial

XIV. Reasons for Preserving the L