ife of Louis Capet

XV. Shall Louis XVI. Have Respite?

XVI. Declaration of Rights.

XVII. Private Letters to Jefferson

XVIII. Letters to Danton

XIX. A Citizen of America to the Citizens of Europe

XX. Appeal to the Convention

XXI. The Memorial to Monroe

XXII. Letter to George Washington

XXIII. Observations

XXIV. Dissertation on First Principles of Government

XXV. The Constitution of 1795

XXVI. The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance

XXVII. Forgetfulness

XXVIII. Agrarian Justice

XXIX. The Eighteenth Fructidor

XXX. The Recall of Monroe

XXXI. Private Letter to President Jefferson

XXXII. Proposal that Louisiana be Purchased

XXXIII. Thomas Paine to the Citizens of the United States

XXXIV. To the French Inhabitants of Louisiana

INTRODUCTION TO THE THIRD VOLUME.

WITH HISTORICAL NOTES AND DOCUMENTS.

In a letter of Lafayette to Washington ("Paris, 12 Jan., 1790") he
writes: "_Common Sense_ is writing for you a brochure where you will see
a part of my adventures." It thus appears that the narrative embodied in
the reply to Burke ("Rights of Man," Part I.), dedicated to Washington,
was begun with Lafayette's collaboration fourteen months before its
publication (March 13, 1791).

In another letter of Lafayette to Washington (March 17, 1790) he writes:

"To Mr. Paine, who leaves for London, I entrust the care of sending
you my news.... Permit me, my dear General, to offer you a picture
representing the Bastille as it was some days after I gave the order for
its demolition. I also pay you the homage of sending you the principal
Key of that fortress of despotism. It is a tribute I owe as a son to
my adoptive father, as aide-de-camp to my General, as a missionary of
liberty to his Patriarch."

The Key was entrusted to Paine, and by him to J. Rut-ledge, Jr., who
sailed from London in May. I have found in the manuscript despatches of
Louis Otto, Charge d' Affaires, several amusing paragraphs, addressed to
his govern-ment at Paris, about this Key.

"August 4, 1790. In attending yesterday the public audience of the
President, I was surprised by a question from the Chief Magistrate,
'whether I would like to see the Key of the Bastille?' One of his
secretaries showed me at the same moment a large Key, which had
been sent to the President by desire of the Marquis de la Fayette. I
dissembled my surprise in obs