The immediate effects of the Declaration in America are traced in Frothingham's _Rise of the Republic_, p. 548. "No one can read", says Wm. B. Reed in his _Life of Joseph Reed_ (i. p. 195), "the private correspondence of the times without being struck with the slight impression made on either the army or the mass of the people by the Declaration of Independence." The Declaration was, of course, at once commented on in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, in Almon's _Remembrancer_, and in the other periodical publications. Hutchinson's _Strictures_ have been mentioned. The ministry seem to have been behind the _Answer to the Declaration of the American Congress_, referred to in a preceding page, which was ostensibly written by John Lind and privately printed in London in 1776, but was soon published without his name, appearing in five different editions during the year, and was the next year (1777) printed in French both in London and La Haye. In the earlier edition the outline of a counter declaration was included (Sabin, x. 41,281-82). Lord Geo. Germaine is also said to have had a hand in _The Rights of Great Britain asserted against the claims of America_, which passed through three editions at least, the last with additions, during 1776, beside being reprinted in Philadelphia (Hildeburn, no. 3,352). Sir John Dalrymple and James Macpherson are also thought to have some share in it.[711] Lord Camden's views are given in Campbell's _Lives of the Chancellors_ (v. 301). It soon became apparent that the liberal party in England felt that the Declaration showed the Americans determined to act without their continued assistance (Smyth's _Lectures_, ii. 439). Bancroft (ix. ch. 3) traces the general effects in Europe.[712] The appearance, Jan. 8, 1776, of the _Common Sense_, written by Thomas Paine, a stay-maker and sailor whom Franklin had accredited when he came over in the summer of 1774, had produced a sudden effect throughout the continent.[713] [Illustration: JOHN HANCOCK. (_The Scott picture._)