A portion of the house in which he lived (at this period) is still standing : here he had a small room, the furniture of which embraced a miserable straw bed, deal table a chair, Bible, and jug of spirituous liquors. His breakfast table is thus described by an eye witness (Mr. Carver) : " The table-cloth was composed of newspapers ! on it was a tea-pot, some coarse brown sugar, part of a rye loaf, and quarter of a pound of butter.'"-'

As to Tom Paine's drunkenness, which has been stoutly denied, we have the following proof.

A writer in one of the daily papers said of Paine's habits :

" The stories of his drunkenness and licentiousness arc the wicked invention of the clergy whose path he has dared to cross, and who only refrain from practicing the abominable cruelties of past ages upon those who differ from them -- not because of want of will, but because their strength is shorn."

n The " Revolution of the World " was a toast given by Paine at a public meeting in Loudon.

b •' One evening (says Grant Thorburn) Mr. Paine related tome the following anecdote He said it was in the reigu of Robespierre, when every republican that the monster could get in his power was cut down by the knife of the guillotine. Paine was in the dungeon, and his name was on the list, with twenty -four others, ordered for execution next morniug. It was customary for the clerk of the tribunal to go through the cells at night, and put a e-os/with chalk on the back of the door of such as were to be guilloline.l. In the moi uiuj;, when the executioner came with his guard, wherever they found a chalk, the victim was brought forth.