as an ornament for his study. From the Angel he removed to a house in
Harding Street, Fetter Lane. Rickman says Part First of " Rights of
Man " was finished at Versailles, but probably this has reference to
the preface only, as I cannot find Paine in France that year until
April 8. The book had been printed by Johnson, in time for the
opening of Parliament, in February ; but this publisher became
frightened after a few copies were out (there is one in the British
Museum), and the work was transferred to J. S. Jordan, 166 Fleet
Street, with a preface sent from Paris (not contained in Johnson's
edition, nor in the American editions). The pamphlet, though sold at
the same price as Burke's, three shillings, had a vast circulation,
and Paine gave the proceeds to the Constitutional Societies which
sprang up under his teachings in various parts of the country.

Soon after appeared Burke's " Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs."
In this Burke quoted a good deal from " Rights of Man," but replied
to it only with exclamation points, saying that the only answer such
ideas merited was "criminal justice." Paine's Part Second followed,
published February 17, 1792. In Part First Paine had mentioned a
rumor that Burke was a masked pensioner (a charge that will be
noticed in connection with its detailed statement in a further
publication); and as Burke had been formerly arraigned in Parliament,
while Paymaster, for a very questionable proceeding, this charge no
doubt hurt a good deal. Although the government did not follow
Burke's suggestion of a prosecution at that time, there is little
doubt that it was he who induced the prosecution of Part Second.
Before the trial came on, December 18, 1792, Paine was occupying his
seat in the French Convention, and could only be outlawed.

Burke humorously remarked to a friend of Paine and himself, " We hunt