The Gazette

The infamous Tom Paine is, it is credibly asserted, editor to one of the Paris Gazettes, permitted by the omnipotent Directory—His abominable lies, and rank hostility to this country, which he affects to call his adopted country, are as black as hell, & as inveterate as the devil. It is a curious fact, that in a moment of political intoxication, he left Paris last Sept. for Havre, for the avowed purpose, as he said, of coming to America, to kick up a dust and to put us all right. On his arrival at Havre, much to the honor of the American captains, not one of them would disgrace himself with his company across the Atlantic—except one who offered to take him in tow with a rope round his neck.