CHAPTER XIV.

Belleville Demonstrates.--Radical Clubs.--Their Blasphemy and Violence. --Unreasonable Suspicion.--Outrages.--Diplomatic Corps.--Some of them leave Paris.--Meeting of the Corps.--Votes not to Leave.--Embassadors and Ministers.--Right of Correspondence in a Besieged Place. --Commencement of Siege, September 19th.--Besiegers and Besieged. --Advantages of Besieged 170