To starve us out seems to me their safest game.

Were they to fire on the town, the public opinion of the civilised world would pronounce against them.
The Mobiles, who receive 1 franc 50 centimes a day, complain that they are unable to support themselves on this pittance.

The conduct of these peasants is above all praise.

Physically and morally they are greatly the superiors of the ordinary run of Parisians.

They are quiet, orderly, and, as a rule, even devout.