Note 12 — XLI THOMAS PAINE. JACK BARLOW. THE ABBÉ COSTI. DR. SUDAEUR
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Of the Committee of Public Safety, at that time the executive power of France in every sense of the word. For the benefit of the Great Nation they pocketed £400 for signing these very passports, permitting two of the “serfs of George and agents of Pitt” to escape from France.