Just think, what fun! So it was at first, till I was
fired at yesterday; but to-day I was not frightened, but it turned
me sick at heart, I don't know why. There has been no great
bloodshed, [though] I certainly have seen men's blood several
times. But there's something shocking to see a whole armed
populace, though not furious, for not one single shop has been
broken open, except the gunsmiths' shops, and most of the arms will
probably be taken back again. For the French have no cupidity in
their nature; they don't like to steal - it is not in their nature.
I shall send this letter in a day or two, when I am sure the post
will go again. I know I have been a long time writing, but I hope
you will find the matter of this letter interesting, as coming from
a person resident on the spot; though probably you don't take much
interest in the French, but I can think, write, and speak on no
other subject.
'Feb. 25.
'There is no more fighting, the people have conquered; but the
barricades are still kept up, and the people are in arms, more than
ever fearing some new act of treachery on the part of the ex-King.
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