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 BETWEEN THE CZAE AND THE SULTAN. 271 VII. At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th, the chap. condition of Paris was this : — The mass of streets which lies between the Boulevard and the neigh- |^ °[ bonrhood of the Hotel de Ville was barricaded, on°th°Mtu k and held without combating by the insurgents; ofDec - but the rest of the city was free from grave dis- turbance. The army was impending. It was nearly forty- eight thousand strong,* and com- prised a force of all arms, including cavalry, in- fantry, artillery, engineers, and gendarmes. Large bodies of infantry were so posted that brigades Attitude of advancing from all the quarters of the compass could simultaneously converge upon the barricaded district. Besides that, by the means already shown, the troops had been wrought into a feeling of hatred against the people of Paris, they had clearly been made to understand that they were to allow no consideration for bystanders to interfere with their fire, that they were to give no quarter, and that they were to put to death not only the combatants whom they might see in arms against them, but those also who, without having been seen in the act, might nevertheless be deemed to have taken part against them. When it is re- membered that the duty — the judicial duty — of bringing people within this last category was cast upon raging soldiers, it will be clear that the army ilk Edition, 1863.
 * 47,928. Mauduit, tabular state facing page 302.— Note to