Paine left France was that Bonaparte set up king craft ; 

 Paine and Bonaparte were on good teims before that; 

 they had together planed a new system of Gun Boats; 

 they were to have two guns instead of one ; one was to 

 be pushed forward as soon as the other had fired. Grant 

 Thorburn ought to reverence the name of Thomas Paine ; 

 had not his writings been practically enforced in this 

 country, the Providence that he so much talks of, would 

 never have given him the Quakers meeting house, or 

 an independent fortune. No Paine, no Congress, no 

 Independence ; Grant calls him an Infidel : if the word 

 means any thing, it must be one person differing in his 

 belief from another. Paine was a real Republican, and 

 Grant a Tory, therefore the latter was an infidel to the 

 former, which was the case in religion. Paine was a 

 sincere Deist ; Grant, I believe, an hypocritical Chris- 

 tian. But to return to ihe history of Thorburn's life, 

 the greater part of which consists of the history of Scot- 

 land, England, and London: of the latter he gives a 

 poor description, in particular of Westminster Abbey 

 and St. Paul's Cathedral; he makes a boast of his in- 

 troduction to the company of Lords and Ladies, and 

 the kind treatment by them, and their astonishment to 

 see such a man of such wonderful talents, from America ; 

 but he leaves the public to find out the names of those 

 noble lords and ladies, by initials ; thus the reader may 

 attribute the initials to the lords and ladies, when they 

 may be those of the butlers, grooms, gardeners, cooks, 

 and chambermaids ; the latter characters are more pro- 

 bably the real persons in whose company he was ad- 

 mitted. 

 I recollect soon after Grant had furnished the old 



