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was in great distress for want of the means of subsistence proper, therefore, to state, that at his death he possessed a farm in New-Rochelle valued at 10,000 dollars, and thirty shares in the New-York Phoenix Insurance Company, worth about 1500 dollars, which he devised by his will to various persons.

"It is somewhat singular," says Mr. Sherwin, "that so great a length of time should have elapsed since the death of Mr. PAINE, without a single author, either in Europe or America, attempting to give an impartial and faithful account of his life. Different reasons may be assigned for the silence of his English admirers, but in the land of freedom, in the land where his principles have flourished and triumphed, in the land which almost owes its form of government to his genius, a person would have thought that some honest biographer would have raised an avenging pen against the calumniators who have endeavored to blacken his name. In a country where literature is a real republic, where the press is neither shackled by despotic laws nor corrupted by treacherous ministers, we are naturally led to suppose that tyranny would scarcly have found a supporter, or superstition an advocate. But the silence which has been observed towards the falsehoods that have been propagated against the character of Mr. Paine, is a proof that letters way be venal without being corrupt."

EDITOR.

COMMON SENSE:

ADDRESSED TO THE INHABITANTS OF AMERICA,
ON THE FOLLOWING INTERESTING

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Man knows no master save creating heaven,
Or those whom choice and common good ordain.

Thomson.

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