Gazette Of The United States

At Tunbridge Wells, on Friday, it was thought right to tie a figure, representing the Writer of the Rights of Man, to a cart's tail, and flog him through the town. In order to give the whipping scene a better effect, a man was concealed in the cart, who bellowed out lustily at every stroke, and well supported the characteristic obstinacy of Paine; for no threats, nor even the promise of mercy, could extort from him that ejaculation commonly used by criminals under flagellation, namely, "God save the King!" The figure was afterwards burnt, with the ceremony that has been observed in other places.