Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

By this day's Mail:
NEW-YORK, June 22.
REPORTS.
Those who are delighted with reports, must
have been highly gratified for two days past;
for it was reported, and by many believed, that
Tom Paine had arrived in the ship Steady,
from Bordeaux; who, it was said, had come
ashore in disguise, to prevent his being known.
This detects itself. No one who knows Tom
Paine, would believe, were he to arrive in
America, that he would appear in any other
character than that of a man of Common Sense,
notwithstanding the influence which the Age of
Reason might have over his enemies.

Another report was, that an augmentation of
the pay of the land forces of England and
Ireland was demanded. This, it was said, a paper
of a late date brought by the Orion, from Cork
contained. As we received the late paper by
this arrival, without this news, it is highly
probable that it is unfounded; though such an
event may be said to be a natural consequence
of the seamen's late successful demand.

And a third was, that Mr. Pitt was succeeded
in office by the marquis of Lansdowne. This
is much the merest report.

By the next arrivals, the public will, in all
probability, be furnished with much information
of a piece with the above, as there is doubtless
materials now in store—but they must come
out in season.