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Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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On March 3, the French National Convention adopted a decree proposed by St. Just to inventory patriots' losses and indemnify them from suspects' property. Danton suggested adding small property division for cultivation. A pension was granted to prisoner Francis d'Esloe after 45 years in irons.
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March 3.
St. Just, in the name of the Committee of Public Safety moved, and the Convention adopted the subsequent decree.
Art. I. All the Communes of the Republic shall make out an account of the patriots contained in each commune, together with their names, places of abode, their situation, and the losses which they have sustained.
2. The directors of each district shall send these accounts to the committee of Public Safety, who shall make a report in which shall be pointed out the means of indemnifying the unfortunate patriots out of the property of persons detained as suspected.
Danton wished that the division of the little country property should be added to this measure; and that the patriots who have sustained losses should be allowed to cultivate it, even to the walls of Paris. He moved that the Committee of Public Safety, should take this suggestion into consideration. Agreed to.
A letter from Florent Guyot, informed the Convention, that Francis d'Esloe, 50 years of age, had been kept in the prison of Lille, in irons, for forty-five years.
His family, who resided at Stockholm, had formerly allowed him an annual sum of 200 livres, which had been withdrawn for three years.
This unhappy man had been taken by a Lettre de Cachet after having served with credit in the French army.
This Convention decreed, that a pension of 2000 livres should be granted to him, and that enquiry should be instituted into the reason of this man's imprisonment having been kept from the knowledge of the government since the revolution.
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Paris
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March 3.
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decree adopted for inventory and indemnification of patriots from suspects' property; danton's suggestion agreed; pension of 2000 livres granted to francis d'esloe and enquiry instituted.
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St. Just proposed a decree for communes to account patriots and their losses, to be sent to Committee of Public Safety for indemnification from suspects' property. Danton suggested adding division of small country property for cultivation by patriots, even near Paris, and motion agreed. Letter from Florent Guyot reported Francis d'Esloe's 45-year imprisonment in Lille; Convention granted pension and ordered enquiry.