Daniel Issac Eaton, a bookseller, was indicted for selling
the second part of Paine's Rights of Man in 1793 and for a supposed
libel on George III in Politics for the People in 1794; he was acquitted.
He fled to America and was outlawed, 1796. In 1812 he was again indicted
for issuing Paine's Age of Reason, and sentenced to eighteen months
imprisonment and to stand in the pillory when, to the credit of the populace,
they cheered and endeavoured to convey refreshment to him. He died in poverty
in 1814. |