GENERAL HISTORY. 



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treasury of Paris the sum of 

 31,000,000 francs, by 19 instal- 

 ments, the first of which to take 

 place on the 1st of June,^ IS 17, 

 and the last on the 1st of June, 

 1818. For the liquidation of this 

 sum (if 31,000,000, the city of 

 Paris binds itself to pay to the 

 contractors, in the course of IQ 

 years, the sum of 52,176,000/ 

 in 48 quarterly payments of 

 1,087,000/. each, between the 

 1st of October 1817, and the 1st 

 of July, 1829. The city of Paris 

 engages to make no loan during 

 a year, to employ the sums con- 

 tribute!' by the contractois for the 

 purposes mentioned in the ordi- 

 nance, and to create 33,000 obli- 

 gations of 1,000 francs each, 

 making 33,000,000 



These obligations 

 will bear an interest 

 of 6 per cent, each, 

 per annum, which in- 

 terest, in consequence 

 of successive liquida- 

 tion of capital on the 

 same bills, will a- 

 mount, in the space 

 of 12 years, to .... 13,094,770 



In addition to tiiis, 

 the premiums, a- 

 mounling to 6,081,230 



Willraise the w hole 

 sum to 52,176,000 



DISTURBANCES IN THE PROVINCES. 



In June it was announced in a 

 Paris paper that the disturbances 

 which iiad taken place in several 

 ports of France ha<l entirely sub- 

 sided. They appear to have risen 

 chiefly from the high price of pro- 

 visions, and the leader of a band 

 who disturbed the inarkets at 

 Yonne was condemned to twenty 

 year.« captivity in iron.?. At Lyons, 



however, some machinations of 

 greater im))ortance appear to have 

 been in agitation ; and the fol- 

 lowing proclamation, by the Comte 

 de Fargues, Mayor of Lyons, evi- 

 dently points out an intention in 

 certain individuals of exciting a 

 political conspiracy. 



MAYORALTY OF LYON. 

 PROCLAMATION. 



Inhabitants of the City of Lyon. 

 — For several days sinister reports, 

 which are but too frequently the 

 forerunner of storms, have awak- 

 ened the attention of the authori- 

 ties, and led to the developement 

 of the wicked designs of the dis- 

 affected, the gloomy advances of 

 which, notwithstanding the shade 

 of mystery under which they en- 

 deavoured to conceal them, could 

 not escape the penetration of the 

 mrigii^trates. 



A plot, as extravagant as cri- 

 minal, was contemplated ; and its 

 ramifications extended to the sur- 

 rounding country, where misguid- 

 ed individuals, seduced by ialla- 

 cious promises, gave ear w ith con- 

 fidence to the seditious discourses 

 of the vilest instigators. 



Their aimwas disorder, pillage, 

 and assassination ; it was to these 

 that their wisties and efforts were 

 directed, and they were about to 

 employ the most horrible means 

 for their purposes : but all the 

 details of this odious plot were in 

 the hands of the authorities. Every 

 means was taken to oppose a vi- 

 gorous and legitimate resistance 

 to the attempts of these scoun- 

 drels, whose criminal intentions 

 were carried no farther than in 

 assassinating, in the most shame- 

 ful njanncr, the brave officers of 

 the legion of I'Vonne. 



Thanks to the wise and prudent 



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