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following pages. - General Dugommier, after the capture of Toulouse,
spared the English general O'Hara, taken prisoner in spite of the
orders of the Convention. and received the following letter from the
committee of Public Safety. "The Committee accepts your victory and
your wound as compensations." On the 24th of December, Dugommier, that
he may not be present at the Toulon massacres, asks to return to the
convention and is ordered off to the army of the eastern Pyrenees. -
In 1797, there were thirty thousand French prisoners in England.
[79] Moniteur, XVIII., 291. (Speech by Bar?re, session of Brumaire 8,
year II.) At this rate, there are one hundred and forty deputies on
mission to the armies and in the departments. - Before the
institution of the Committee of Public Safety, (April 7, 1793) there
were one hundred and sixty representatives in the departments, sent
there to hasten the levy of two hundred thousand men. (Moniteur,
XVII., 99, speech by Cambon, July 11, 1793.) The Committee gradually
recalled most of these representatives and, on the 16th July, only
sixty-three were on mission. - (Ibid., XVII., 152, speech by Gossuin,
July 16.
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