He admitted that if it proved to be a moderate and virtuous Government, it might prove a source of danger to the monarchical principle in Germany.
I do trust that Englishmen will well weigh these utterances.

Surely they will at last be of opinion that the English Government should use all its moral influence to prevent a city containing nearly two million inhabitants being burnt to the ground in order that one million Frenchmen should against their will be converted into Germans.

It is our policy to make an effort to prevent the dismemberment of France, but the question is not now so much one of policy as of common humanity.

No one asks England to go to war for France; all that is asked is that she should recognise the _de facto_ Government of the country, and should urge Prussia to make peace on terms which a French nation can honourably accept.
General Vinoy, out reconnoitering with 15,000 men, came to-day upon a Prussian force of 40,000 near Vincennes.

After an artillery combat, he withdrew within the lines of the forts.