From the original letter at the Library of Congress. Dear Sir I wrote to you from Havre by the ship Dublin Packet in the year 1797. It was then my intention to return to America, but there were so many British frigates cruising in sight of the port, and which after a few days knew […]
From the original letter at the Library of Congress. Dear Sir As the wind at one time and the tides at another prevented the Commissioners sailing at the time they intended it gives me the opportunity of sending you an addition to the other pieces. — We have nothing new since the date of my
To Anonymous July 1800 Rue du Theatre frangais, 12 Thermidor, year 8 DEAR SIR: I send you a sketch of a Plan that I believe is new in this country. The idea originated with Franklin. This is sufficient to procure it attention. I have done no more than apply it to the circumstances France is
To Citizen Skipwith Spring 1800 Prairial 13 8th year PARIS DEAR FRIEND: I received your favor with the information I had asked for which I am obliged to you. On my return to Paris I received letters from America with a postscript as late as the 23 March. They are on private affairs and contain
To General Brune November, 1799 8 Brumaire, 8 year DIEPPE I congratulate you, my dear and brave general, on your happy and glorious success in Holland. It is a death blow to the coalition and to the politics of the English government. I see that general Knox is to remain a hostage till the articles
COMMENTARY ON THE EASTERN WISE-MEN TRAVELLING TO BETHLEHEM GUIDED BY A STAR, TO SEE THE LITTLE JESUS IN A MANGER Mat. Chap. 2. THREE pedlars Trav’ling to a fair, To see the fun & what was there, and sell their merchandise They stopt upon the road to chat. Refresh and ask of this or that
To Citizen President Spring 1799 No. 4 Rue du theatre francais, 24 Germinal 6 year CITIZEN PRESIDENT: In a letter to the Director Revelliere le Peaux a few days past, I mentioned that I had reasons for believing that the orders of the Directory were made a trade of. I am now assured of the
To Citizen Barras December 29, 1797 CITIZEN PRESIDENT: A very particular friend of mine, who had a passport to go to London upon some family affairs and to return in three months, and whom I had commissioned upon some affairs of my own (for I find that the English government has seized upon a thousand
TO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE AND THE FRENCH ARMIES Philip Foner’s introduction: On the Seventeenth Fructidor, September 3, 1797, the leaders of the majority in the Council of Five Hundred decided to vote the impeachment on the following day of Barras, Reubell, and La Reveillere, members of the French Directory. In case of resistance on
Philip Foner’s introduction: Monroe was recalled from France on August 22, 1796 by President Washington who had been influenced by Gouverneur Morris, still in Europe, to believe that the American Minister to France had attacked the American chief executive and was organizing an anti-Washington conspiracy among Frenchmen. On his return to the United States, in
Philip Foner’s introduction: The letter which follows the introduction was addressed to Thomas Erskine who had defended Paine in the government suit conducted in 1792 to suppress Rights of Man, but in 1797 conducted the prosecution of Thomas Williams, a London publisher and bookseller, accused by the Society for the Suppression of Vice and Immorality
WORSHIP AND CHURCH BELLS, A LETTER TO CAMILLE JORDAN Philip Foner’s introduction: This pamphlet, published in the summer of 1797 in Paris and London, was Paine’s reply to a Report made to the French Convention by Camille Jordan, a royalist lawyer and member of the Council of Five Hundred, recommending the restoration of certain Catholic
