Report made on the part of the Committee of Public Safety to the national Convention on 1 August 1793
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- Tiesset fils (Antoine-François Tiesset)
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- Rapport fait au nom du comité du salut public, le 1 Aout 1793, l’an II de la république française: texte et nouvelle traduction des lettres et notes anglaises trouvées dan une portefeuille anglais has translation
Notes
Barére's denunciation included a transcription of letters and notes which appeared to prove British involvement in spying and sabotage activities in France. His speech invoked Cato's call for the Roman republic to destroy Carthage, “One day the nations of Europe, terrified by… the excessive corruption of the British government will realise Cato’s vow. This modern Carthage must be destroyed”.
Rochedieu p. 311 mentions (Earl) Charles Stanhope as the author (or rather editor) of these letters but this seems highly improbable.
See https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Catalogue_de_l_histoire_de_France/urIPAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Barere+translated+Tiesset+fils&pg=PA199&printsec=frontcover