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poor and Imn^^ry, would put down Uie Ministers, and 



* wanted much fight.' However, as we visited the same 

 spot again and again during the evening, and only found 

 tha same rather excited crowd, and horse and foot soldiei.s 

 patrolling tl)e streets, we thought it was a very well- 

 ordered and gentle emeute, and would recommend it as a 

 model for invitation to all other nations that way inclined. 

 It is somewhat remarkable how frequently F. and I 

 have come in for insurrectionary disturbances in various 

 countries. On the first occasion of our visiting Switzerland 

 in 1839, as we drove into the town of Zurich, we saw groups 

 of excited men standing at the street corners, and when 

 we asked our voiturier what was doing, he coolly replied, 



* Kien du tout, messieurs, rien du tout : seulement le 

 gouvernement en bas;' and such indeed proved to be the 

 case, as vve afterwards learned from the landlord of our 

 hotel, whose brother, with ten others, had been killed in 

 the affray not an hour before our arrival. Again, in 

 December 1851, when Louis Napoleon made his grand 

 coup cVetat^ as we drove from Italy into France by the 

 Corniche, and as we entered the turbulent department 

 of Var, perfectly ignorant of French politics, we suddenly 

 found ourselves surrounded by Ked Ivepublicaus at Dra- 

 giiignan, the carriage stopped, and ourselves marched olT 

 as prisoners before the self-constituted council ; and when 

 released, after many enquiries, it was only to be arrested 

 again at the next town or village, to hear the Marseil- 

 laise shouted in our ears, and be marched afresh before 

 the tribunal of oavriers, while v/e saw the magistrate.-^, 

 priests, and gens-d'armes on their way to prison with their 

 hands tied behind their backs. Nor did we escape from 

 that most disaffected district uiitil we were provided with 

 a Republican passport, whicli I treasure to this day as a 

 very curious document, and which says in the briefest of 

 terms, *Laisse?: passer citoyen Smith,' but which had the 



