LONDON, May 12, 1792. The honorable patronage which the Society for Constitutional Information has repeatedly given to the works entitled Rights of Man renders it incumbent on me to communicate to them whatever relates to the progress of those works. A great number of letters from various parts of the country have come to me […]
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ON THE PROSECUTION AGAINST THE SECOND PART OF RIGHTS OF MAN SIR:-As there can be no personal resentment between two strangers, I write this letter to you, as to a man against whom I have no animosity. You have, as Attorney-General, commenced a prosecution against me as the author of “Rights of Man.” Had not
LONDON, May, 1792. It is now upwards of eight years since I was a resident inhabitant of the town of Lewes. My situation among you as an officer of the revenue, for more than six years, enabled me to see into the numerous and various distresses which the weight of taxes even at that time
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SIR: For your satisfaction and my own, I send you the enclosed though I do not apprehend there will be any occasion to use it. If, in case there should, you will immediately send a line for me under cover to Mr. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, who will forward it to me, upon which I
From the original letter at the Morgan Library London Febry 13th 1792 Sir An opportunity immediately offering, I have had a Doz Copies of my new work put up for the purpose (the work being not yet published) to present to you and Mr. Jefferson. I hope the fifty Copies which were sent to Portsmouth
Images above and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress London Feby. 13 1792 Dear Sir Mr. Kenedy who brings this to N York, is on the point of setting out. I am therefore confined to time: I have enclosed six copies of my work for yourself in a parcel addressed
The Author’s Notes FOR PART ONE AND PART TWO In the situation England now is, it is impossible she can increase in money. High taxes not only lessen the property of the individuals, but they lessen also the money capital of the nation, by inducing smuggling, which can only be carried on by gold and
See Rights of Man Part I here. Combining Principle And Practice To M. de la Fayette After an acquaintance of nearly fifteen years in difficult situations in America, and various consultations in Europe, I feel a pleasure in presenting to you this small treatise, in gratitude for your services to my beloved America, and as
