ADDRESS AND DECLARATION AT A SELECT MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF UNIVERSAL PEACE AND LIBERTY, HELD AT THE THATCHED HOUSE TAVERN, ST. JAMES’ STREET, AUGUST 20, 1791, THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS AND DECLARATION TO OUR FELLOW CITIZENS WAS AGREED ON AND ORDERED TO BE PUBLISHED Philip Foner’s introduction: Paine returned to England on July 13, 1791. […]
From the original letter at the Library of Congress London July 21st – 1791 Dear Sir I received your favour of last Augt – by Col. Humphries since which I have not written to or heard from you. I mention this that you may know no letters have miscarried. I took the liberty of addressing
To His Excellency George Washington July 21, 1791 Read Post »
To Abbe Sieyes July 8, 1791 Philip Foner’s introduction: In the same month, July, 1791, in which he wrote “A Republican Manifesto,” Paine published in the Republican, which he and Condorcet had founded, an attack on the monarchy. Abbe Sieyes, the spokesman of the French middle classes, who had framed a constitution in which the
Note from the Thomas Paine Historical Association: Nicolas de Bonneville was a prominent French publicist and litterateur; Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet was an eminent French philosopher, mathematician and liberal, and M. Lanthenas later translated Paine’s Rights of Man into French-Editor. PARIS, GENTLEMEN : I have been informed by M. Duchatelet that it is the purpose of
To Messiurs Condorcet, Bonneville, and Lanthenas 1 June, 1791. Read Post »
As the publication of this work has been delayed beyond the time intended, I think it not improper, all circumstances considered, to state the causes that have occasioned delay. The reader will probably observe, that some parts in the plan contained in this work for reducing the taxes, and certain parts in Mr. Pitt’s speech
See Rights of Man Part II here. From the six-pence edition 1792 Being An Answer To Mr. Burke’s Attack On The French Revolution. To George Washington, President of the United States of America. SIR, I present you a small Treatise in defence of those Principles of Freedom which your exemplary Virtue hath so eminently contributed
Images above from Library of Congress London Sepr. 28th 1790 Dear Sir I enclose you a few observations on the establishment of a Mint – I have not seen your report on that subject and therefore cannot see how nearly our opinions run together, but as it is by thinking upon and talking subjects over
From the original letter at the Library of Congress London June 28th 1790 Dear Sir The talk and opinion of War is considerably renewed here since my last of last Frydays M. de la Lucerne’s dispatches – another Messenger arrived here from Madrid on fryday or Saturday last but as nothing transpires it may be
From the original letter at the Library of Congress June 23th & 25 1790 Matters remain here as in my last with respect to Peace and War. The Press-Gangs are not so busy as they were but that perhaps is either owing to Policy, to allure the Seamen to appear more publicly, or on account
From the original letter at the Library of Congress London June 22, 1790 Dear Sir The paper No. 1 is the beginning of the letter which I mentioned in the few lines which I wrote you by Mr. Hushinson – I now send it because it contains some soft reproaches to the M. de la
From the original letter at the Library of Congress London June 4th 1790 Dear Sir This is the third letter I have written you and I begin it before I know what the News of the day is – You will hear something about the return of the English Messenger but you are to understand
From the original letter at the Library of Congress London King Street No 31 Soho June 1st 1790 Dear Sir Mr. Rutledge sett off yesterday afternoon for Falmouth to go by the Packet He received your letter of the 26th the Contents of which impressed me very much, yet I cannot bring myself to infer
