Lyons is walled round, and strongly fortified.  In 1791 it contained 121,000 inhabitants; but, in consequence of the siege of 1793, and the cruelties practised at that memorable period of French history, the numbers were reduced to less than 80,000.  In 1802, the numbers were 88,662; and in 1827, the fixed population had increased to 97,439;—­but there was a floating population, estimated at 43,684, which, with the inmates of the barracks and hospitals, stated at 8,600, made the total population at that period 149,723; and by adding the population of the suburbs, reckoned at 36,000, the whole amount of the inhabitants at the period of the census, in 1827, was 185,723; at the present time it is said to be, in round numbers, 200,000.

In 1828, the number of workshops in all branches of the silk trade within the walls, amounted to 7,140; that of the silk frames or looms to 18,829; and from 10,000 to 12,000 in the communes.

W.G.C.

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The ditty sung by the first grave-digger in Hamlet, beginning—­

  “In youth, when I did love, did love”—­

was written by Lord Vaux, an ancestor of Lord Brougham.  It will be found entire in Percy’s Reliques.

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