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THE INFORMATION.

Of Easter Term, in the S2d Year of King George the Third.

London, (to wit.) Be it remembered, that Sir Archibald Macdonald, Knight, Attorney General of our present Sovereign Lord King George the Third, who, for our present Sovereign Lord the King, prosecutes in this behalf in his own proper person, comes into the Court of our said present Sovereign Lord the King, before the King himself, at Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, on Friday next after one month from the feast-day of Easter in this same term; and for our said Lord the King giveth the Court here to understand and be informed, that THOMAS PAINE, late of London, gentleman, being a wicked, malicious, seditious, and ill-dis posed person, and being greatly disaffected to our said Sovereign Lord the now King, and to the happy constitution and government of this kingdom, and most unlawfully, wickedly, seditiously, and maliciously devising, contriving, and intending to scandalize, traduce, and vilify the late happy Revolution, providentially brought about and effected under the wise and prudent conduct of His Highness William, heretofore Prince of Orange, and afterwards King of England, France, and Ireland, and the domi

nions thereunto belonging; and the acceptance of the crown and royal dignity of King and Queen of England, France, and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, by His said Highness William, and Her Highness Mary, heretofore Prince and Princess of Orange; and the means by which the same Revolution was accomplished to the happiness and welfare of this realm; and to scandalize, traduce, and vilify the Convention of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, at whose request, and by whose advice, Their said Majesties did accept the said crown and royal dignity; and to scandalize, traduce, and vilify the act of the Parliament holden at Westminster in the first year of the reign of Their said Majesties King William and Queen Mary, intituled, "An Act, declaring the Rights and Liberties "of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the "Crown," and the declaration of rights and liberties in the said act contained; and also the limitations and settlements of the crown and regal government of the said kingdoms and dominions as by law established; and also by most wicked, cunning, and artful insinuations to represent, suggest, and cause it to be believed, that the said Revolution, and the said settlements and limitations of the crown and regal government of the said kingdoms and dominions, and the said declaration of the rights and liberties of the subject, were contrary to the right and interest of the subjects of this kingdom in general; and that the hereditary regal government of this kingdom was a tyranny. And also by most wicked, cun

ning, and artful insinuations, to represent, suggest, and cause it to be believed, that the Parliament of this kingdom was a wicked, corrupt, useless, and unnecessary establishment; and that the King, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament assembled, wickedly tyrannized over and oppressed the subjects of this kingdom in general; and to infuse into the minds of the subjects of this kingdom groundless and unreasonable discontents and prejudices against our present Sovereign Lord the King and the Parliament of this kingdom, and the constitution, laws, and government thereof, and to bring them into hatred and contempt, on the sixteenth day of February, in the thirty-second year of the reign of our said present Sovereign Lord the King, with force and arms, at London aforesaid, to wit, in the parish of Saint Mary le Bow, in the ward of Cheap, he the said Thomas, wickedly, maliciously and seditiously did write and publish, and cause to be written and published, a certain false, scandalous, malicious, and seditious libel, of and concerning the said late happy Revolution, and the said settlements and limitations of the crown and regal government of the said kingdoms and dominions; and the said act, declaring the rights and liberties of the subject; and the said, declaration of the rights and liberties of the subject therein contained, and the hereditary regal government of the said kingdoms and dominions; and also of and concerning the legislature, constitution, government,

and laws of this kingdom; of and concerning our present Sovereign Lord the King that now is; and of and concerning the Parliament of this kingdom, intituled, "Rights of Man, Part the Second; combining "Principle and Practice: by Thomas Paine, Secretary "for Foreign Affairs to Congress, in the American "War, and Author of the Work, intituled Common "Sense, and the First Part of the Rights of Man; the "Second Edition, London, printed for J. S. Jordan, "No. 166, Fleet Street, 1792 ;" in which said libel are contained, amongst other things, divers false, scandalous, malicious, and seditious matters. In one part thereof, according to the tenour and effect following, that is to say, "All hereditary government " is in its nature tyranny.

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An heritable crown"

(meaning, amongst others, the crown of this kingdom) or an heritable throne" (meaning, amongst others, the throne of this kingdom), "or by what other

fanciful name such things may be called, have no "other significant explanation than that mankind are "heritable property. To inherit a government, is "to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and "herds." And in another part thereof, according to the tenour and effect following; (that is to say,) "This Convention met at Philadelphia, in May 1787,

of which General Washington was elected presi"dent. He was not at that time connected with any

of the State Governments, or with Congress. He "delivered up his commission when the war ended, "and since then had lived a private citizen. The

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"Convention went deeply into all the subjects, and, having, after a variety of debate and investigation, agreed among themselves upon the several parts of a Federal Constitution, the next question was the manner of giving it authority and practice. For "this purpose, they did not, like a cabal of cour"tiers, send for a Dutch Stadtholder or a German "Elector, but they referred the whole matter to the "sense and interest of the country," (thereby meaning and intending that it should be believed that a cabal of courtiers had sent for the said Prince of Orange and King George the First, heretofore Elector of Hanover, to take upon themselves respectively. the regal government of the said kingdom and dominions, without referring to the sense and interest of the subjects of the said kingdoms). And in another part thereof, according to the tenour and effect following; (that is to say,) "The history of "the Edwards and Henries" (meaning Edwards and Henries, heretofore Kings of England), "and

up to the commencement of the Stuarts" (meaning Stuarts, heretofore Kings of England), " exhi"bits as many instances of tyranny as could be acted "within the limits to which the nation had restricted "it. The Stuarts" (meaning Stuarts, heretofore Kings of England) " endeavoured to pass these limits, "and their fate is well known. In all those instances,

we see nothing of a constitution, but only of re"strictions on assumed power. After this, another. "William" (meaning, the said William Prince of