reature called a king."--Crisis,
iii.

"Though the Kennedies were convicted of a most
deliberate and atrocious murder, they still had a
claim to the royal mercy. They were saved by the
chastity of their connections. They had a sister;
yet it was not her beauty, but the pliancy of her
virtue, that recommended her to the king.

"The holy author of our religion was seen in the
company of sinners; but it was his gracious
purpose to convert them from their sins. Another
man who, in the ceremonies of our faith, might
give lessons to the great enemy of it, upon
different principles, keeps much the same company.
He advertises for patients, collects all the
diseases of the heart, and turns a royal palace
into an hospital for incurables. A man of honor
has no ticket of admission at St. James'. They
receive him like a virgin at the Magdalen's--'Go
thou and do likewise.'"--Let. 67, to Lord
Mansfield.

The above will explain a passage in Junius--Let.
56--which is as follows: "You must confess that
even Charles the Second would have blushed at that
open encouragement, at those eager, meretricious
caresses, with which every species of private vice
and public prostitution is received at St.
James'."

I will now make a few remarks upon COMMON SENSE. I have introduced a few
extracts to show its spirit, scope, and object; and the opinions,
principles, language, and style of Mr. Paine. I have also thrown by the
side of them the similar characteristics of Junius, but this is not all.

COMMON SENSE was to America what _Junius_ would have been to England if
the same success had attended it. There is a _plan_ in COMMON SENSE
similar to that of Junius. It opens the new year with a new policy; it
begins by a contrast between society and government; it attacks the
government and defends the original rights of the people; it assaults
the king and his minions; it defends republicanism against royalty; it
calls on the people to rebel against the tyrant, to take up arms in
their defense, and to establish government upon the natural and original
rights of the people. If one will study the two works he will find not
only the general