THE

GENUINE TRIAL

OF

THOMAS PAINE,

FOR

A LIBEL

CONTAINED IN THE SECOND PART OF

RIGHTS OF MAN;

AT GUILDHALL, LONDON, DEC. 18, 1792,

BEFORE

LORD KENYON AND A SPECIAL JURY:

TOGETHER WITH

THE SPEECHES AT LARGE

OF THE

ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND MR. ERSKINE,

AND

Authentic Copies of Mr. PAINE's Letters

TO THE

ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND OTHERS,
On the Subject of the

PROSECUTION.

TAKEN IN SHORT-HAND

By E. HODGSON.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. S. JORDAN, No. 166, FLEET STREET,

1792.

TRIAL

OF

THOMAS PAINE,

FOR A LIBEL;

Guildhall, London, Tuesday, Dec. 18th, 1792,
The KING against THOMAS PAINE;

Before LORD KENYON, by the following Special
Jury:

JOHN CAMPBELL, Merchant, Foreman:

This is an Information against THOMAS PAINE, for that he, being a perfon of a wicked, malicious, and feditious disposition; and wishing to introduce diforder and confufion, and to cause it to be believed, that the Crown of this kingdom was contrary to the rights of the inhabitants of this king