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done so, Mr. Paine would have contradicted him : I be- 

 lieve Mr. Paine never was in Scotland, or Ireland ; th 

 only countries that he had been in, were England, Ame- 

 rica, & France. Had he thus advocated his Tory prin- 

 ciples, Paine would soon have refuted them. Grant 

 knew very little of Mr Paine's treatment during his re- 

 sidence in France, or h.s imprisonment. The prisoners 

 were never permitted to leave their cells, to commune 

 with each other. Paine and three others were confined 

 in one cell ; it is true the door was marked outside when 

 open, when shut the mark was hid; had not this been 

 the case they all four would have been guillotined in the 

 morning.* 



Mr. Paine attributed his escape more to the Provi- 

 dence of God, then to the prayers of the priests; Grant 

 should have been better informed before he had publish- 

 ed any thing about the affair, then he might have told 

 truth : but he goes on and says that the husband of 

 Madam JBoneville, was executed in the place of Paine 

 which is, a down right falsehood : Mr.Boneville came to 

 this country after his wife and children, they all return- 

 ed home to France. Mr Boneville had been a Republi- 

 can printer,but whenBoneparte established his authority 

 he stopped Mr.Boneville's press. The only reason that 



*Mr. Paine escaped the guillotine when in France by the ac- 

 cident referred to; the executioners generally took their victims 

 in the night, and were merely guarded by marks on the or.ter 

 door of the cell. When it is considered that Paine had writ- 

 ten, but not then published his First part of the Age of Reason, 

 and that he afterwards wrote his Second part, his Essay on. 

 Dreams, the Examination of passages in the New Testament, 

 quoted from the Old as prophecies, and other pieces which still 

 remain unsatisfactorily replied to ; when all this is considered, 

 his remarkable escape is the strongest instance of a particular 

 Providence on record, 



