He also constructed large sluices at the
spot where the Ill enters the town, so as
to lay the whole country round, between
the Rhine and the Ill, under water, in case
of need. On the side of the Porte-des-
Mines, which could not be inundated, the
glacis was mined. The arsenal contains—or
did before the present war—arms and equipments
for nearly four hundred thousand
men, and it has also nine hundred and fifty-
two cannon, including the five hundred and
fifty required for the ramparts and for the
citadel. To all these resources of the semi-
German town, facing the Duchy of Baden,
we must add a cannon foundry, which
every year produces three hundred pieces
of artillery of various calibres, and boasts
one furnace that will contain twenty-six
thousand four hundred kilogrammes. The
town, as a military centre, also possesses
eight barracks, sufficient for the
accommodation of ten thousand men, a military
hospital built for twelve or eighteen
hundred beds, and used since 1814 as a military
hospital school. The stronghold is also
the seat of a regimental school of artillery,
under the command of a general. It is
impossible for the traveller to forget, when
in Strasbourg, that the town is an important
fortress, for all the seven gates are
shut in the winter at eight, and in summer
at ten o'clock, though diligences are allowed
to enter later, as well as travellers by post
or steamboat.

The greatest modern event that has
taken place at Strasbourg was the wild
attempt at an insurrection made in that
city by a certain Prince Louis Bonaparte
—a man not yet altogether forgotten—on
the 30th of October, 1836, the year Charles
the Tenth died. The misguided prince,
son of Louis, the ex-King of Holland, had
been educated in Switzerland, and was a
captain of artillery in the army of that
country. Having entered into a treasonable
correspondence with Colonel Vaudry,
of the Strasbourg garrison, who gained
over a few of the men, and filled the
adventurer's mind with too sanguine hopes,
the prince came to Strasbourg to fire the
train and try for the throne. On the
morning of the 30th of October, the
prince, dressed as like his uncle as possible,
and wearing decorations and a cordon-
rouge, proceeded to the barracks. The
zealous colonel, assembling his men
instantly, told them, with great alacrity in
lying, that there had been a revolution in
Paris; that Louis Philippe was no more;
lastly, that Napoleon the Second, a
descendant of the "great man", had been
proclaimed; and that there, in fact (pushing
forward the prince), he stood before
them. The coup de théâtre succeeded for
the moment. The soldiers, pleased at the
remarkable attention paid to them by the
new emperor, shouted and followed him
as their commander. The prefect was
arrested in his bed, and a guard was placed
over him. A body of the mutineers, led
by a Colonel Pargin, then marched to the
house of General Voirot, the commander
of the division, and requested his
allegiance to the new chief. The general,
however, calmly addressing the soldiers,
soon convinced them that they had been
tricked. The general, being then set at
liberty, at once secured the citadel.

In the mean time, the emperor of an
hour and his zealous colonel had proceeded
to the barracks of the Forty-Sixth Regiment,
and tried the old plan. But an aide-
de-camp of General Voirot gave notice
to the colonel of the regiment, who, going
to the barracks, found the prince and
his plotters reasoning with the soldiers,
and trying to gain them over. The colonel
was prompt; he at once closed the gates,
and trapped the whole party. General
Voirot then, having released the prefect,
came down from the citadel, and carried
the prince and his accomplices straight
to prison. The minor conspirators were tried
and punished, but the arch plotter, treated
in a generous and somewhat contemptuous
way by Louis Philippe, was packed
off from L'Orient to the United States,
on the 21st of November, in a French
frigate. Singularly enough, a similar
attempt was made at Vendôme on the very
same day by a hussar sergeant, who wished
to proclaim the rights of man, arm the
pioneers, and march on Tours. He
shot a brigadier who tried to arrest him,
and then gave himself up. He was
condemned to death.

The choicest promenades of Strasbourg
are beyond the enceinte. The two finest are
called the Contades and the Robertsau.
The latter is composed of huge lawns,
intersected by walks designed by Le Notre,
Louis the Fourteenth's great gardener, of
a splendid orangery (twelve hundred trees),
where the Empress Josephine lodged in
1806 and 1809, of an English garden, a
suspension bridge that leads to the Isle of
Wacken, and of a smiling and coquettish
village.

The two great celebrities of Strasbourg,
besides the immortal but unknown
discoverer of the pâté, are Kleber, Napoleon's
general, and Guttenberg, the supposed