“With the help of God, we are undertaking to go from Vannes, whence we were outfitted, to the coast of Guinea in the ship Diligent belonging to the brothers Billy and Mr. La Croix, our outfitters and from thence to Martinique...

 Poor old Tom Paine! there he lies:Nobody laughs and nobody criesWhere he’s gone or how he faresNobody knows and nobody cares. Two hundred and eleven years after his lonely death on June 8, 1809, belittled and forgotten by the country...