Observing in the vestibule a collection of arms and uniforms, he at once formed the idea that that they must have belonged to men who had been murdered; and, swearing like a madman, he turned towards the door. "If you think yourself in any danger," said M. Crucy, "you are at liberty to go; but first go in with us, and see your comrades covered with our clothes and seated at our table; and after that you may go you will." Still trembling with rage, he refused to advance; but the younger Crucy having opened the door of the apartment, enabled him to see his companions in misfortune. At this sight he asked pardon, and embraced his libera

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These unhappy men, having cut their moustachoes, assisted in making for themselves threecoloured cockades. The Messrs. Crucy and their neighbour, M. Devis, provided them with round hats and coloured clothes, and even the porter of the house stripped himself of a vest, a smock-frock, and a pair of shoes, to assist in providing the poor fellows with disguises. It was the porter's wife who bathed the wound of the cuirassier.

On the following day, the men, thus refreshed and attired, set out in quest of their connexions in the city, leaving their arms and baggage with M. Crucy, who gave one of the sabres to a

neighbour setting out on the expedition to Rambouillet, and delivered the rest of the property to the mayor of his arrondissement, as goods belonging to the state.

CHAPTER XVI.

Proclamation made by the Provisional Government, after the popular triumph-Submission of the Royalist troops, in consequence-Instances of humane interposition on the part of individuals, on behalf of the Military-Fine example of self-sacrifice shown by a woman-Characteristic sayings, produced by the circumstances of the Revolution-An illustration of the feeling among the soldiery-The bombarded house-The interment of the dead, with the scenes attendant on that office.

ONE of the first measures of the Provisional Government, after the popular triumph had been secured, was to issue the following proclamation, addressed to the misguided soldiery:

"PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

"The troops of the Royal Guard, and of the Line, are ordered to present themselves within forty-eight hours at the provisional camp established at Vaugirard.

"We give our word of honour that no harm shall befall them, and that every soldier shall be treated as a friend and a brother, receiving rations and lodging until our farther orders.

"For the Commander-in-Chief,

"GERARD,

"The second in command, PAJOL."

This order was very generally obeyed; but before it had been effectually promulgated, a number of soldiers, reduced to a state of desperation, after throwing away their arms, had endeavoured to conceal themselves in the great hotel of the minister for foreign affairs on the Boulevard des Capucines. The place of their retreat was singularly ill chosen, from its tendency to rouse all the hostile feelings of the people, as soon as it was known that the residence of the chief criminal had become the hiding-place of the instruments of his crime. The hotel was attacked by the citizens, whose vindictive feelings had been roused by the cruelties they had witnessed. The cries of vengeance from without, and of mercy from within, had already excited a very serious fermentation, when M. Joseph Perier, the brother of M. Casimir Perier, and M. Garnier Perille of Loigny, rushed among the assailants, at great personal hazard, and, by the firmness of their demeanour, and the severity of the reproof which they administered, succeeded in rescuing the unhappy men, who were thus on the point of being sacrificed to the popular indignation, from the fate which too surely awaited them.

This is no rare instance of protection afforded to the military from the exasperation of the populace, by the firmness and humanity of individuals. Not far from the Protestant chapel, called the Oratoire, in the Rue Saint Honoré, a man dressed

in coloured clothes was recognized as the officer who, on the Tuesday before, had commanded the post of gen-d'armes at the prefecture of police. It was said so, at least, as he passed; and the report having speedily circulated from mouth to mouth, the supposed gen-d'arme was loaded with imprecation and abuse, and some one was heard to exclaim that justice should be done upon him-that he ought to be exterminated. Pistols were already produced, and naked swords had made their appearance, when M. Paul Caffe, one of the house surgeons of the Hotel Dieu, succeeded in penetrating the crowd which had collected, exclaiming that there was no more need of victims, and that it would be shameful thus to massacre an unarmed man. He then pulled a small pistol from his pocket, and, seizing the man by the collar, declared that he would blow out the brains of the first who injured him, adding that he would himself carry the prisoner to the Hotel de Ville, and ascertain his identity. The crowd were deterred from farther interference by M. Caffe's determined attitude; and a person of superior appearance, who had witnessed the transaction, presented him with a highly-mounted pistol of larger calibre, saying: "Since you make such good use of your arms, young man, here is one which will better serve your present purpose." It was with this weapon that M. Caffe continued to escort his protegé to the Place de Grève, where the

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