This chapter examines the views of British radicals on the new United States of America from 1792 until 1820, and compares them with the expectations of the new republic that British radicals had expressed before 1792. For many British exiles, a dose of realism was administered to notions of American utopia. The abandonment of the hereditary principle in American government was particularly admired by Paine. He and Priestley criticized the emergence of party politics in the United States, but they blamed the Federalists for it. Sinecures and corruption were rare in an American system in which the interests of the government were identified with the interests of the governed. The American Republic has astonished the world, by the rapidity of its progress, and the brilliance of its career', asserted the Black Dwarf in 1818. Slavery was the most serious of the flaws of the American republic, in Bentham's view: it was an unjustifiable monstrosity.