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for their benefactress and friend. The Prussians prepare for the siege of Mayence. The creditors of Egalité fix his annual allowance at about 8000l. a year. His income is said to have been between three and four hundred thousand a year. Gen. Dampierre forms the camp of Famars, the French having retired from Holland. Great debates in the convention on the subject of a petition from 35 sections of Paris, against the chiefs of the Mountain. The English take the island of Tobago. General Miaczinski, Compte (sic) d'Arenberg, and le Compte Linanges, sent to the Abbaye at Paris, to answer for the safety of the commissioners. 12. A long and violent tumult in the convention, because the members come intoxicated. 13. Marat escapes from prison, and writes an insulting letter to the convention; decree of accusation against him. 15. Thirty-five sections of Paris demand the deposition of Brissot, and twenty other members of the convention. Marat remains concealed, but his journal appears every day. Weissenau is destroyed by heavy artillery; Dampierre makes a vigorous resistance. A battle