ABSTRACT
By the Redacteur, a Paris paper, under the immediate direction of the French Directory, we learn, that Tom Paine is writing, under the patronage of Talleyrand, ‘a vindication of the character of Judas Iscariot,’ wherein, with his usual plausibility, he endeavours to prove, that Judas was a bon patriote, that he betrayed his master upon principles of liberty and equality, and that the thirty pieces of silver was but a douceur, which is countenanced by the proffers and proposals of X, Y, and a Lady.
