ABSTRACT
Dieppe Thursday 16 August 1849 Left Newhaven at ½ past 12 o’clock by the Steamer Magician for Paris to attend the Peace Congress; arrived at Dieppe at a little before 7 the same evening, suffering a good deal from sickness during the voyage – next morning Mr. Chapman our Consul’s 1 brother was good enough to accompany me to the police office to procure a passport where I found crowds of country people in blouses & sabots going through the formality of having their passports visés – carriers, farmers, & others who move about the country are compelled thus to report themselves to the police, & to wait till their papers are duly examined. They may call their government a Republic or by whatever name they please, but so long as French citizens are compelled to take out a written permission to travel from place to place upon their ordinary business they cannot boast of being free. 2
