108] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



Denis in great solemnity, the 

 princes of the blood attending, 

 with deputations of the two cham- 

 bers, and of other public bodies. 

 The same solemnization was also 

 observed in the capital at the me- 

 tropolitan and the otlier churclies, 

 and the temples of the Protes- 

 tants; and it is affirmed, that on 

 the whole day, the most impres- 

 sive tokens were given of the 

 public sorrow. 



About this time, however, in- 

 suirectionary movements were 

 taking place at and near Lyons. 

 The following details appeared in 

 the Paris papers. The command- 

 ant-general of the department 

 sent to the police for examination 

 on Jan. 20th, a subaltern officer, 

 who made several discoveries ; in 

 conseciuence of which, three sus- 

 pected persons were arrested at 

 Lyons, and one of their adherents 

 at Roanne. On the night be- 

 tween the 23d and 24th, fifty of 

 the national guard mounted were 

 conducted to Condrieux, whence 

 theylirought 140 muskets. Lyons 

 remained afterwards in a state of 

 tranquillity, though arrests fre- 

 quently occurred. With respect 

 to the cause and origin of this 

 commotion, it is affirmed, that a 

 party hostile to the existing go- 

 vernment arose at the time of 

 Buonaparte's landing from Elba, 

 of wliich the professed object was 

 the preservation of the country 

 from the incursions of a foreign 

 enemy. For this purpose, five 

 thousand of the citizens of Lyons 

 met in the hall of St. Clare, and 

 entered into certain resolutions 

 for bringing it to effect. Their 

 association was termed La Federa- 

 tion; and all the persons com- 

 posing it have been regarded 



with much suspicion since the 

 restoration of the Bourbons, and 

 many of them have been ar- 

 rested. 



At Tarascon on the Rhone, dis- 

 turbances broke out in the early 

 jjart of February, which are af- 

 firmed to have had no connection 

 with any plan of revolt, but to 

 liave originated in popular effer- 

 vescence. They were, however, 

 of sufficient consequence to oc- 

 casion a royal ordinance, dated 

 Feb. 22d. In this it is declared, 

 that the laws have been violated 

 at Tarascon ; seditious persons 

 have rendered necessary the in- 

 fliction of a legal ])unishment by 

 the magistrates : prisoners le- 

 gally apprehended have been 

 wrested from the hands of jus- 

 tice : the national guard, when 

 called upon to preserve order, 

 have stood motionless ; and the 

 sub-prefect himself was obliged 

 to withdraw, in order to escape 

 the violence with which he Avas 

 threatened. By way of punish- 

 ment for these criminal disorders, 

 the ordinance decrees, that the 

 seat of the sub-prefecture and 

 tribunal of Tarascon be trans- 

 ferred to the city of Aries, and 

 the prisoners, forcibly released on 

 the J 3th, be conducted to the 

 prisons of Aries, to be proceeded 

 against according to the laws ; 

 and that proceedings be immedi- 

 ately instituted against the au- 

 thors of the outrages committed 

 at Tarascon. These vigorous mea- 

 sures appear to have entirely 

 suppressed the commotions in 

 that quarter. 



In the beginning of March a 

 royal ordinance was published on 

 the important subject of national 

 education. The plan adopted was 



the 



