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 BETWEEN THE CZAR AND THE SULTAN. 263 themselves to be made prisoners with the two CHAP. hundred and twenty already there ; and at half- _J '_ past eight in the evening the twelve Deputies who had been seized by the troops at the house of the Assembly were brought to the barrack, so that the number of Deputies there imprisoned was now raised to two hundred and thirty-five.* At a quarter before ten o'clock at night a large i^e mem- i rxi -it ^ • ^ i bers of the number ot the wmdowless vans which are used Assembly for the transport of felons were brought into the to different court of the barrack, and into these the two hun- felons' van* dred and thirty-five members of the Assembly were thrust.f They were carried off, — some to the Tort of Mount Valerian, some to the fortress of Vincennes, and some to the prison of Mazas. Before the dawn of the 3d of December all the eminent members of the Assembly, and all the foremost generals of France, were lying in prison ; for now (besides General Changarnier, and General Bedeau, General Lamoriciere, General Cavaignac, and General Leflo, and besides Thiers, and Colonel Charras, and Roger du Nord, and Miot, and Baze, and the others who had been seized the night before, and were still held fast in the jails) there were in prison two hundred and thirty-five of the •According to the 'Recueil' the number was 232.— La Verite, 'Recueil d'Actes Officiels,' p. 64. The difference is occasioned by including, or not including, II. Darn, and M. de Blois, and one other. — Note to 1th Edition, 1863. + Not all in one batch, but in three. The last batch was so large a one, that the prison-vans had to be reinforced by some omnibuses ; and some few of the Deputies were left behind for a time in the barrack. Ibid. p. 15. — Note to 1th Edition, 1863.