The Inhabitants stood silent, gazing; the Town-guard laid down their arms, and went home.

Totally against Law; but cleverly done; perhaps Soubise's chief exploit in the world; certainly the one real success the French have yet had.
"Soubise made haste to summon the Magistrates: 'Law of Necessity alone, most honored Sirs! Reichs Law is clear against me.

But all the more shall private liberties, religions, properties, in this Imperial Free-Town, be sacred to us.

Defence against any aggression: and the strictest discipline observed.

Depend on me, I bid you!'-- And kept his word to an honorable degree, they say; or in absence, made it be kept, during the Four Years that follow.