112] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



same priiicipleSj should propose 

 to them, as times and circum- 

 stances may permit, the means of 

 their apphcation. In that case 

 they will find in the majority of 

 the Chamber a perfectly frank 

 and disinterested concurrence, but 

 also a firm and constant opposi- 

 tion to the application of any 

 principles of a contrary nature." 



The devotion of the chan;ber to 

 the Royal Family was manifested 

 at the sitting of March 27th, 

 when the order of the day was 

 the discvission on the plan rela- 

 tive to the Duke of Berri's esta- 

 Idishment at his approaching mar- 

 riage. The resolutions of the 

 conunittee nominated for this pur- 

 pose were unanimously adopted, 

 and thereby the reduction of 

 500,000 francs for the first five 

 years from his annual dotation, 

 proposed by the ministers, was 

 not acce])ted : the marriage ex- 

 penses also, fixed in their pro- 

 ])osal at one million, were laised 

 by the chamber to 1,500,000 

 francs. The Duke of Richelieu 

 tlien addressing the assembly said, 

 that his jNIajesty, who anticipated 

 their sentiments, ordered him, 

 when he expressed his sense of 

 them, to add to his accejitance of 

 the offer, that, resolved to main- 

 tain tlie principles of strict eco- 

 nomy, and to strip the happy 

 event which was about to con- 

 sole Fiance of all useless pomp 

 and superfiuo'.is ostentation, he 

 destined the 500,000 francs which 

 they had voted, to the immediate 

 relief of the departments which 

 had suilcred most by the two in- 

 vasions. The Duke of Berri, 

 also, by the same channel de- 

 clared his intention of devoting 

 annually the 500,000 francs with 



which they had augmented his 

 establishment, to mitigating the 

 calamities that pressed upon many 

 parts of France. 



The session of the chambers 

 was adjourned on April 29th. 



At the time when nothing but 

 mutual kindness between Prince 

 and people appeared in the inter- 

 course between the court and the 

 legislative body, an insurrection 

 was seci'etly forming, which too 

 plainly proved, that a dangerous 

 mass of disaffection to the go- 

 vernment was still existing in 

 the nation at large. It had for 

 some time been observed at Gre- 

 noble and its environs, that cer- 

 tain persons known for their re- 

 volution principles, and for the 

 active part they had taken on late 

 occasions, made excursions around 

 that town, for a circuit of several 

 leagues, assembled, and wandered 

 about the streets of Grenoble, 

 with an air of leisure which at- 

 tracted the attention of the ma- 

 gistracy. They also circulated 

 incendiary writings, and by letters 

 without signatxires, invited sol- 

 diers on half-pay to repair to 

 Grenoble on Sundays. In the 

 morning of May 4th, the prefect 

 was informed, that there were 

 assemblages of people at Vizille, 

 and Mure, communes near Gre- 

 noble. The peasantry had been 

 instigated to rise, by teUing them, 

 that all Languedoc was in a state 

 of insurrection, that Paris was in j| 

 full revolt, and that the garrison 

 of Grenoble had marched to oc- 

 cupy the line through which the , 

 Duchess of Berri and her retinile, 

 was to pass. General Donadieu, 

 commandant of the department, 

 informed of these proceedings, 

 immediately took measures for 



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