Thomas Paine: “It was not against Louis XVI. but against the despotic principles of the Government, that the nation revolted.”

It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

Whether robbery shall be banished from courts, and wretchedness from countries?

Burke's Book is easily accounted for.--When a man in a wrong cause attempts to steer his course by anything else than some polar truth or principle, he is sure to be lost.