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. There was a long passage in the cellar of this Bastile, having a row of cells on each side contatulngtbe prisoners; the passage was secured at each end, but the doors of the cells were left open through the day, and the prisoners stepped into one another's rooms to converse. Paine had gone into the next cell, and left his own door open back to the wall, thus having the door inside out Just then came the chalkcrs, and probably being drunk, crossed the inside of Paine's door. Next morning, when the guard came with an order to bring ant twentyfour, and finding only twenty-three chalks, (Paine being iu b d and the door shut,) th>'y took a prisoner from the further end of the passage, and thus made up the number ; so \i Paine esoaped. Before the mistake was discovered, or about Jforty-eight hours after, a Stroager party than Robespierre's cut off Ma head and about thirty of his associates -- so Paine was set at liberty ; and being afraid to trust his head among the good republicans for wh KB ho had written so much, he made tho best of his way to this couutry."-- Reminiscences 0/ (trant Thorburn.