As he wore an unknown uniform they took him for a Prussian.

Messenger Johnson, being an old soldier, was belligerently inclined.

"The first man who approaches," &c.
The porter of the Embassy, however, dragged him inside, and explained to the mob who he was.

He had great difficulty in calming them.

One man sensibly observed that in these times no one should drive through Paris in a foreign uniform, as the mass of the people knew nothing of Queen's messengers and their uniforms.