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 BETWEEN THE CZAR AND THE SULTAN. 261 this moment was two hundred and twenty. The chap. XIV whole Assembly declared that they resisted, and ' would yield to nothing short of force.* In the TheAssem- J ° ill kly refuses, absence of Dupin, M. Benoist d'Azy had been yieidmgonij 1 J to force : presiding over the Assembly, and both he and one of the Vice-Presidents were now collared by officers of police and led out. + The whole is made captive by Assembly followed, and, enfolded between files the troops and marched of soldiery, was marched through the streets. totheQuai J ° d Orsay. General Forey rode by the side of the column. | The captive Assembly passed through the Eue de Grenelle, the Eue St Guillaume, the Eue xTeuve de riTniversite. the Eue de Beaune, and finally into the Quai d'Orsay. § The spectacle of France thus marched prisoner through the streets seems to have pained the people who saw it, but the pain was that of men who, witnessing by chance some disagreeable outrage, feel sorry that some one else does not prevent it, and then pass on. The members of the Assembly, trusting too much to mere law and right, had neglected or failed to provide that there should be a great concourse of people in the neighbourhood of the hall where they met. Those who saw this ending of free institutions were casual bystanders, and were gathered, it seems, in no great numbers. There ' order to disperse. (Signed) The General-in-Chief Magnan.' Ibid. p. 57.— Note to 4th Edition, 1863. + Ibid. p. 60. M. Benoist d'Azy was one of the Yice-Presi- dents, and the other Vice-President collared by the soldiery was M. Vitet. — Note to Wi Edition. t Ibid. p. 11. § Ibid. p. CO.
 * La Vente", ' Recueil d'Actes Officiels,' p. CO.