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.

c Abridged from Chutham's Life of Paine.

THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE.

The Rev. J. D. Wickham, D.D., replies to this statement as follows:

"The writer of this communication was more than fifty years ago a resident of New Rochelle, N. Y., where the body of Paine was buried. His grave was in one corner of a farm, which, having being confiscated as the property of a Tory during the Revolutionary War, had been presented to Paine by the State of New York for his patriotic service in aid of the Revolution. A monument, erected by friendly hands, marked the place of burial. His bones had not then been removed, as they afterwards were, to England, for no good object on the part of those who under cover of the night disinterred, boxed, and carried them away. On this farm he spent his latter days with a solitary female attendant. I have heard the physician who visited him describe the condition in which he was accustomed to find his patient, and to which his vicious habits, and especially his habitual drunkenness, had reduced him. This he represented as revolting to his sensibilities, making even his necessary calls to prescribe for his relief exceedingly unwelcome and repulsive.