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and a well-known person of fashion. The later part of the quo- 

 tation falls with this, for we know every year of Marat's Paris life, 

 when he used to entertain such men as Dr. Franklin. If the Mara 

 of the Warrington Academy was that Marat, you must show he 

 was not Le Maitre, no very difficult thing to do, as their identity, 

 or the fact of Le Maitre's being Mara, is not alluded to at all in the 

 trial. That done, the Mara of Warrington may be our Marat, for 

 his original name was Mara, and he probably did not Gallicize it 

 till he began to publish. I hope you will excuse this long rigma- 

 role, but you have brought it on yourself by taking such a kindly 

 interest in my work. Now if you can in any way manage to prove 

 the years in which Mara was at Warrington, we can work tenta- 

 tively on that basis ; and again, would it be too much to ask if you 

 know anyone at Dublin, who would work up the Medical record 

 between 1797 and 1773, to see if Marat took a degree there, or 

 became a student there ? He declares he spent a year in DubHn, 

 and it would be a great help to know when it was.' 



Still there is a problem. There is evidence that a similar name 

 was in the Warrington Academy books, and later investigations 

 have not found it. Has it been erased ? There was the Place 

 called Mara's Walk in Warrington, from the Bridge to the Bank 

 Quay. Mr. Bright, in volume xi. of the ' Transactions of the 

 Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire,' says that he can- 

 not find Marat's name in the minutes of the Academy, and thinks 

 Mr. Turner must have made a mistake. Mr. R. D. Darbishire 

 too cannot find the name. Still the general belief in Warrington 

 and the name of the place, " Mara's walk," cannot be put aside along 

 with Mr. Turner's words. But the best reason for believing in the 

 difference of the men is perhaps in the Christian names. The 

 revolutionist was Jean Paul, but we learn from Mr. Beamont (of 

 Orford Hall, Warrington) that the name of the teacher there was 

 Jean Pierre. Jeremiah Mara took his degree in arts in 1762 or 

 1773 in Dublin. 



