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Effect produced by the actual invasion of the Principalities,
200
Importance of maintaining close concert between the four Powers, .
202
CHAPTER XIV.
State of the French Republic in November 1851,
205
Prince Louis Bonaparte,
207
His overtures to the gentlemen of France at the time when he
Selection of regiments and of officers for the army of Paris,
Magnan,
235
CHAPTER XIV.-continued.
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Before midnight several of the confederates assemble in an inner
The order from the Minister of War is in the hands of Magnan,
240
Maupas's arrangements for the intended arrests,
241
Disposition of the troops,
The arrests of the principal generals and prominent statesmen,
242
The whole Assembly taken prisoners by the troops, and marched
to the Quai d'Orsay,
247
The Assembly imprisoned in D'Orsay barrack,
248
The Members of the Assembly carried off to different prisons in
Magnan at length resolves to act,
Point of contact between the ground. occupied by the troops and
260
Mode of dealing with some of the prisoners at the Prefecture,
Gradations by which slayers of vanquished men may be distinguished,
Slaughter ranging under all those categories caused by the con-
federates,
274
277
Inquiry as to the alleged shooting of prisoners who were in the
hands of the civil power,
Effect of the massacre in removing one of Louis Bonaparte's personal
Terror, and afterwards a hope of gaining support from men afraid of
Violent measures taken for coercing the election,
Contrivance for coercing the election by the vote of the army,
296
298
State of Prince Louis Bonaparte during the period of danger,
302
Grounds for the anxiety of the plotters and of Magnan, &c.,
307
The gentlemen of France resolve to stand aloof from the Government,
The constant peril in which the confederates were kept,
312
314
315
316
The foreign policy of France used to prop the new throne,
CHAPTER XV.
Immediate effect of the Coup d'Etat upon the tranquillity of Europe,
The policy which it necessitated,
318
The French Government coerces the Sultan into measures offensive
to Russia,
319
And then seeks an alliance with England,
Personal feelings of the new Emperor,
320
The French Emperor's scheme for superseding the concord of the
four Powers,
321
The nature of the understanding of Midsummer 1853 between France
and England,
326
Announcement of it to Parliament,
331
Failure of Parliament to understand the real import of the disclosure, 331
The Queen's Speech, August 1853,
State of the Czar after learning that the fleets of France and Eng-
The effect upon England of becoming entangled in a separate under-
CHAPTER XVI.-continued.
His diplomacy seems pacific, .
He engages England in naval movements tending to provoke war,.
339
The Bosphorus and the Dardanelles,
The Sultan's ancient right to control them,
Policy of Russia in regard to the Straits,
340
341
The rights of the Sultan and the five Powers under the Treaty of 1841,
How these rights were affected by the Czar's seizure of the Princi-
palities,
Powerful means of coercing the Czar,
342
343
Importance of refraining from a premature use of the power,
Naval movements in which the French Emperor engages England,.
Proofs of this,
344
Means well fitted for enforcing a just peace so used to provoke
The French Emperor does nothing to thwart the success of the Note,
The Turkish Government determines to reject it unless altered,
Lord Stratford and the Turks stand alone in Europe,
The Protectorate of the Greek Church in Turkey still the thing in