If all the Gentlemen are innocent, it is very unfortunate for them that such a variety of suspicious circumstances should, without any design, arrange themselves together.
Having now finished this part, I will conclude with stating another circumstance.
About a fortnight or three weeks before the meeting of Parliament, a small addition, amounting to about twelve shillings and sixpence a year, was made to the pay of the soldiers, or rather their pay was docked so much less.

Some Gentlemen who knew, in part, that this work would contain a plan of reforms respecting the oppressed condition of soldiers, wished me to add a note to the work, signifying that the part upon that subject had been in the printer's hands some weeks before that addition of pay was proposed.

I declined doing this, lest it should be interpreted into an air of vanity, or an endeavour to excite suspicion (for which perhaps there might be no grounds) that some of the government gentlemen had, by some means or other, made out what this work would contain: and had not the printing been interrupted so as to occasion a delay beyond the time fixed for publication, nothing contained in this appendix would have appeared.
Thomas Paine THE AUTHOR'S NOTES FOR PART ONE AND PART TWO [Footnote 1: The main and uniform maxim of the judges is, the greater the truth the greater the libel.] [Footnote 2: Since writing the above, two other places occur in Mr.Burke's pamphlet in which the name of the Bastille is mentioned, but in the same manner.

In the one he introduces it in a sort of obscure question, and asks: "Will any ministers who now serve such a king, with but a decent appearance of respect, cordially obey the orders of those whom but the other day, in his name, they had committed to the Bastille ?" In the other the taking it is mentioned as implying criminality in the French guards, who assisted in demolishing it.

"They have not," says he, "forgot the taking the king's castles at Paris." This is Mr.Burke, who pretends to write on constitutional freedom.] [Footnote 3: I am warranted in asserting this, as I had it personally from M.
de la Fayette, with whom I lived in habits of friendship for fourteen years.] [Footnote 4: An account of the expedition to Versailles may be seen in No.