Thomas Paine replied to them with an energy, courage, and eloquence worthy of his cause, in the _Rights of Man_.

But the substantial and decisive reply to Burke came from his former correspondent, the farmer at Bradfield in Suffolk.

Arthur Young published his _Travels in France_ some eighteen months after the _Reflections_ (1792), and the pages of the twenty-first chapter in which he closes his performance, as a luminous criticism of the most important side of the Revolution, are worth a hundred times more than Burke, Mackintosh, and Paine all put together.

Young afterwards became panic-stricken, but his book remained.

There the writer plainly enumerates without trope or invective the intolerable burdens under which the great mass of the French people had for long years been groaning.