The Sun. — London, England, 1802-10-26 00:00:00

D OttOBER 26, 1802. THE Moniteur of the zzd inst. which we received this*.morning,, has- at length •broker) its ,silence re sp.eecin‘g- the affairs of Sitvitzerland: '• • - An Artiele:appear - s' in that Per Of the above date, - without a date .cert.lin:y, a!id without a name, but evickntly drawn up in Tanis for the infortnatinii Of the People . -cf France. Though we • haveireason to ly.:lieve that it is made to" repre sent:things in a light very favourable to the French Interest, yet. it appears to us - to be grounded upon what has aetually - taken place, a kind of compro mis.e between the People of . .Szpitz.erlanq' and the firit'intentions,of the Citir.F ,CoNstm. The little Cantons Were unanimous in their .reso- • lotion to oppose French interference by force, bur in the larger Cantons,', and those most .ex posed to the . Invasion of the French Army, we fear--t-he'-•s rte sent . nt of unanimity did not, prevail,. and • that Compromise' has in consequence been made, which may save them from Military Execution, but whiCh•Will hardly exclude the full exercise - . of Vrenc7l inflitence; and thus ultimately and efFeEtually subdue' that' Country to' the' com plete controul of. RONAPARTt.. What effect this termination of -the'contest .may produce upon the . Courts of Europe most interested in stop ping', the ambitious career of 'France, we will not presume to, decide. It does' not appear to us' th,,at...thesint , tion is materially. changed; for if the Dorninion of the CitiEF CONS& I. \ be extended, it is of little consequence whether that be by the threat of or by, the exercise of the aft itself. The answer of the Diet of Schwitz, dated the Bth inst. we 'have given in, our Paper of to-day ; of the authenticity ofthat Paper we have no reason to,doitbt, though. we haVe"not been able positively to ascettain .it.. Tile langnage in which it is couched '.is moderate, but firin, such as we should have expeaed from the good sense and the courage 'of the Representatives -of the People of S'witzer land ; but at the same time payes the way for that Compromise which We believe to have alually taken I lace. There is no farther intelligence from Germany ; but we lave no doubt but that the Imperial Mi nister at Ratiskn will remonstrate strongly against the new Plan of Indemnities, which is still more unfavourable to the interests of the EMPEROR than the former. The Curate of St. Roc&, who, in compliance with the ancient usages of the Church of France, re fused to inter the body of Mad. CHAMEROY in 'consecrated ground, because, as an Adress, she was an excommunicated person, has been suspended for three months, and all such superstitious / praCtices are - in futvre abolished, by a paragraph in the Monitz 7 o-. The Funds are 53. 5. The Hamburgh Mail due on Sunday arrived this . morning, This morning arrived a Mail from the Leeward Islands, brought to Falmouth by the Duke of Mat!- borough Packet, in 33 days. • We learn by the late advices from Bombay,_ that the Province of Guzerat is restored to tranquillity, consequence of the surrender of the Rebel Chief NULKA Row. The lines of Kerry. Wew stormed n the 30th of April, and carried. by the . bayonet. The forces employed under the command of Sir W. CLAkKE, consisted of His Majesty's 75th 'Regiment, the 'flank companies of. the 843 h, and Abe Company's Grenadier. Battalion, commanded by Colonel COLEMAN, supported by His Majesty's FAA Regiment, led by .Lieutenant-Colonel WOO - pi/TON. • Numbers .of the 'Enemy have fallen ti , m-ng the killed are Lieutenant DAVID' Plll CE, of His Majesty's 86th Regiment, and Litutepant PRANets Iv le, of the .84th (Hut, 'withl9 rank and file, and six natives. Wounded- Lieuienant HE'NRY oLei-tER,pf the Ist Grenadier Battalion, 6th Regi ment, 7o .Europeans, and 53 •Natives. • . . DlcKtit was proclaimed at the Hague on the Toth inst. IT the President of the Legislative Body, Member Of the Government of State, in the room pf Ad. Pi t&A,N. ' , , statement hs appeared in some of the Pipers respe4ing the descent of the Irish Title of Athcnrv,• That Barony is now in abeyance, be., xweewthe two sotviving daughters of the, late Earl IDfLpuili, Baron of AntEN The e',,cessive Drought in the neighfinurhoodpf lan still continues, and is produCtive,of the Most il4astrons effeas, all the prooks and Streams in enYirt?;is heing dried op, particularly the fine ;Tountaiq Beze, the source of the River of that name, I i:(;:titain has only once before beefs tt:ntli Cciltry ? v :a the.yer 16Si. PARIS, Ocr. }IL LVETIC REPUBLIC. BERNE. ,:~~ ~. Colopel 4,pr his traversed: SfrAntzerland: he foimd the Cities and the Villages a prey to Anguish, the sorrowful companion of Civil War. His pre .. sence quieted all a.arms. The Assemblies are dispersed. The - Ist - and 2d Helvetic Demi-Brigades are marching to form - the Garrison of our City. Ihe arrival of the Senate is announced for the day after to-morrow. Deputies from all parts of Switzerland w ill 'repair to Paris. We begin" to hope . that our Revolution, which for eight years past.ihas , been prolonged and renewed every year, approaches its conclusion; that we shall enjoy at length all that it promises of the- good and the useful, and, that the Re'ginze under which we are destined to live,- will' not signalize the triumph of • any party, but will be consecrated by the union of all Citizens.. Weak, as we are, compared, to the ,Powers which surround Us,' can we pretend to an honourable In., dependence, or a peaceable Neutrality, if we. remain divided ? The sentiments of the whole Helvetic People unite in three wishes. tst, A Constitution in ,which the Oligarchy can never be restored, and which assures the same time the equality of the. Citizens, the equality of our Eighteen Cantons, and the equality of the five Religions which the different parts of Helvetia pro fess. zd, A Constitution 'whiCh shall accommodate it self to the inequalities of our Territory, in which Underwald, Berne, Lausanne, and Basle, may be governed'aceording to thelocal circumstances, the language, ..and the- manners which belong to them. Lastly, our third wish, which is-not less National than the other two, is, to see maintained in all their integrity, our ancient relations with the French People, and to deprive of all influence, those men who ?re in the pay of Foreign Powers. In the midst even of a general conflagration, our true in. terest is to remain neuter, which will never be that Of BACHMANN and VATTEVILLE, who, from their infalicy have served those PL)wers who are theEneL, mien of France. If at a future .period - War should re-commence- in Europe, and, as happened to the KING of SARDINIA' and- the Republic of Venice, Neutrality should become iMpossible, on our, part, the - alliance -of France ,wiil be out only wish, our roost just "and dearest intereit." There is not ote of us who does not think that the. Swiss united to Frenchmen, tan always defend our Mountains with glory, and render impenetrable to our Enemies our Plains and our great Cities, such as Zurich, Berne, Soleure, Fribourg, Basle, and Lausanne: There is not any of us who do not knots that our Army united ,to - a Foreign Force, although it may protea with some success the summits of our Moun tains, cannot defend against the French our Plains and our great Cities, Zurich, Berne, Solcure, Fri ourg, Basle,andlausanne. • Lastly, There is not.one of us whodoes not fee l that our policy' ought to be that of. our-Fathers, who, by their love of Liberty andof their Coun• try; were always closely allied to'Franee., If . any individual born on our. - teri'i.tory,' does. not participate in this opinion, he cannot'be .thought a true Swiss ; he blindly delivers up the -interests of his CoUfirry to foreign affections. The rallying try of the whole Nation is Equality. amongst the Cantons; the Independence of Helvetia, and an Alliance - with the French Republic. The Curate of St. Roch, in a moment of derange ment, refused to pray for. Mad. CHAMEROY,' or to admit her corpse into the Cliureh. One of his Colleagues, a sensible man, and instrueted in the true morality of the Gospel,. received the body. into the Church of St. Thomas, where the funeral . ser vice was performed with all.due solemnity. The ARCHBISHOP of PARIS has suspended the Cu rate of St. Roch for three months, in order to giVO himstime to remember . that JEsus CHRIST orders us to pray even for our enemies, and also to enable him by meditation, to recollea., his duty. He will learn that all these superstitious pralices, which . are preserved in some Rituals which took their rise in times of ig.norance, or were created by per sons of heated imaginations, only tend to degrade Religion by their folly, and that they were pro seribed•by :the Concordat, and by the Law of the S;h of April last. The-Consuls have decreed that a Statue shall he crewed on the Place Vietoire to General L)ws.Alx. Within these few days, on the road from Paris to St. Cloud, laMps ;lave been put up, as in the time t)f the IVlOr:ttc:iy, The CONSUL travels with eight horses, and just twenty- minutes coming from'St. ClOud to h;s Palace at tits'' ditqappe of neap 4ve French o - I{4niburgh i - ARRIVED I‘.lAl LS. PRICE OF STOCKS, DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK - 68 I Oinnium - Consols. a 'V, S U SOL&M 4.VIS DICERE.!'ALSLIM AUDIAT,? 9 i Disc. DU! i O SWITZERL AND. *. THE HELVETIC DIET. TO CITIZEN BONAPARTE, FIRST - CONSUL OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC * * - • _ . _ CITIZEN FIRST CONSUL, " The Proclamation which you did us the honour to send to us on the 3oth of Sept. by Citizen RAPP, your Adjutant- General, arrived at Schwitz on the 6th of Oaober.: • " We could - have wished that the letter we took the liberty of sending you, General First Consul, on the 3oth oL Septeuther,,Cbuld have reached you sooner, it contains a faith ful the present state of S'iVitzerland. Permit uS to, send yOtt inclosed a dupliCate of it; and to entreat you to receive -it .falourably. It will prove to you that the. Moxernents whieli have. taken place, in Switzerland are rot the result of a spirit of Party, and that the Swiss nation' has no other. :objea in view than to make use of the right which she claims., of giving herself a central and cantonal Constitution, founded on her position andter. wants=--a Sacred and precious right, which you d' eigned,yours4f, to ensure her by the Treaty of I,imeville. " Switzerland would long since have been tranquil,:if the Members of the Helvetic Government, : those obscure meta physicians, had consulted the.real. state of affairs, instead. obstinately attaching themselves to theoretic attempts, as erroneous as they are expensive. ' "The violence with which they have tried to impose their system upon the Democratic Cantons; 'the Civil War they' have organized to attain their end, direaed at first against those Cantons, then against all Switiorland; .the unex ampled severiiy with which they have done it, have pto- . duced a discontent-equally general and just, and a determin— ed and avowed will tb shake off this unsupportable yoke. " It is not then, General Pra‘r CoNsul., an Affair of Party—it is the sacred Cause of Humanity ;if is the general, wish of a whole Nation, which has given us our Power and our Instrudions, of a Nation which you yourself wished to free, and which has been ill-treated and irritated, contrary to your intentions. " Yet that Nation, we render ourselves Guarantees, will never abuse the _Liberty it claims. The Swiss have nothing more at heart than to attain a State •of- Repose, in which, under, the Shield of a mild and just Government, each Inha bitant may enjoy his .Property and Existence. We•are con vinced that we shall arrive at that essential objet of all social order, from the moment our will and our eft'orts - shall be no longer fettered'. " General FIRST CONSUL, all 'Europe admires in you the SUpreme Head of an immense Power and EMpire; which, without doubt,• according "to your own views, will be di-• reeled to the good of Humanity ; your magnanimity assures us, that you will not make use of it against a people Who only desire what you have made them hope, and who only Wish what they believe themselves authorised to do by your self. ' " Penetrated with eternal Gratitude, the Swiss Nation will do its endeavour to deserve the good will of the French GoVernment ; and will fulfil all the duties which are im posed upon it by the desire of cultivating good neighbour hood. " It is with the most distinguished respeel that we remain, General , FIRST CONSUL; "The DEPUTIES OF THE HELVETIC DIET. " Schwitz, Off. 8, iso2." The State Cotumision at Sehwitz also publi6hed a Proclamation, declaring that Switzerland neither is, nor wishes to:be,at 'War with. France;, butLthat she would do all-that honour permitted her to do, to preserve her ancient relations with that Pow,er. EXTRACT OF A LETTER F4OM. A MAGISTRATE OF BERNB, •TO A FRIEND IN LONDON, DATED BERNE, OCT. 2, 1802. " OUR - Sovereign Council, as it was before the Revolution of 1798, has again been assembled, and ha's juStly found that in such a crisis, so.numerous a deliberating body was not fit to meet the times. It has, in the'most spirited manner, given over all its rights and, powers, for. an unlimited time r to a Com- : mission of, ten persons ; and never had men a more weighty, diffictilt, and nnpleasing task. We are to' raise a new building, with searce.any mean; for it We must gilt it• onu'against the tyrannical and absolutelyniadileried Government we have expelled from . Berne, • -sword in hand,: We must pursue, through the 'greatest difficulties, the task of keeping foreign influence at a distance : We must support an Army of zo,ooo men in the field without Treasury, without Magazines, without any ready supply of implements of war : We must prevent a whole nation from avenging 'its, wrongs in adisordetly: manner, and give security to the persons and pro perty,of those very men, who, for four years past, have. preyed, in-a most shameful manner, on our. own, '46 TO do all this, and a great deal more,. we have no assistance but our private ruined fortunes, the '• love and confidence of our people, which bursts forth with unparalleled radiance, and our own patient firmness, public spirit and determined resolution to stifle every low passion, and ad up. t 9 the highest feelings of love for our. Country. Whatever may be the result of our exertions, the last month will for ever' remain the fairest page of our History, and when well known, will give a striking contrast to those selfish scenes which degrade civil - society. No . sooner was the Helvetic Government with a strong Garrison expelled from Berne by a handful of men, but Cohorts of •Swiss in arms rose out of the ground spontaneously From one end of Switzerland to th e other,: they ran t o t their banners without pay, with out proper cloathing, without any of the advantages Of a • regular soldier. In their progress not one instquce Of want .of discipline sullied their cause . and if I Waii to give .you a circumstantial account of all the scenes we have witnessed here,:you would be moved to the inmost of yOur . ioul.. They have 44 640 as eff:e4 on two of your iouptrynr'ci JEW of noble birth, who accidentally were here, thw: they went to our General and offered to fight by his side to the - last drop of their blood, with such men, and in such a cause. By voluntary Con- . tributions we have raised a sufficient fund for the • Military Chest : Our wives and daughters, by a single subscription, and uprernitted exertions,.have.. relieved the wants of the Army in point of cloa thing: ..GenerallAclusrArr has the...chief command. To-mor row the Enemy will be attacked on all points near orar ; and ,j have nodoubt, that place. will, fpr„,theT second time, be lathed in our Annals. TheriArfor of the Enemy a'ie - Tr 7 .ii - riect,Soldiers, With - Which they mean to secure their tyrannical power ; ."St T .if our Menh fight for Vielork,. and theirs foi Pay. They: . , . are, ashamed ..ofi.theit - . cause, and desert by whole, bands. ',shall not. send off this, till fean tell you-' The event of that , important day. • ' r - OCTOBER 5, 1 " gaj.ped, r ,,tll4 4 . 4 f ; before . yekter t lay, acorn_ .plete victory, with little loss. Men who had never - - :seem fire, have. Caryied.a strong Battery with tl :Bayonet. A wood near Avanches has been" the , clii4scene of action'; and our Troops have behaved th;oughont to their•highest credit. The atilan be gan at ten o'clock, was renewed in the course of the War- four times.; between Morat and Payerne, and erideiliiiith the captUre of the last place, at eight: o'Clock:at night. .Our s Army pushed yesterday - be. yond Maudon, 'making - a great many Prisoners, and "finding no . resistance, the Country rising as they 'advanced, to join them. To-day a_ thunderbolt lias succeeded, which,- however. heavy, does not entire. .Iy-dismay us. The Helvetic Government was ac. w ally embarking at O uchy, to escape into Savoy, 'and Our General was to enter Lausanne, this morn ing, when, an Aide-de-Camp of 110-NAPARTE .rived from f'aris, with such a Letter to us,,,..as.orilly no doubt, excite the indignation of'ail roy.)ey more' than any other State Paper in Modern HistarYl: the audience we gave him, he declared to us, that if we did not immediately bend to she will, and the •;shatheful...terms prbposed to us by the F 1 asT Con. Army of '40,00b 'Fr'tnch had orders :to' !march--.-in five days into the Country, and to lay •Swit;erldrid.wite by fire and swcrd. We referred 'him - to the Congress at Scheuitz; - _but he refused-to leaVe' Berne, and gave ; us five .days -to send to .Sch , witz,. and bring back an Answer from thet,m-• gress. There are no. words: for a behavic u r. We have, as far as.concerns us, rejedeci the terth s , 1:17e shall leave to BODtAPARTE the - detestable gory ' of bringing back to Herne, a set of Rulers.execrtred by the Public Voice of all Switzerland, . and vho h ave s hewri theinse"lyea as cowardly as thiy are, yar ranuical.Wq exped .the.,blOw with firmness. None of as wiil . leave Berne ; , - and•this. new Bit ENNUS tivr • alt the, part he is so fit to perform in this o=4 lll Tragedy.'.' The Grisons, goo in number, - arriv.ea here last night, having yesterday marched eleven Leagues. The same day, notwithstanding the coat' Mands.received'frOm Paris, we have taken and ! rateslFr;boupg, and made the PatrisOn of Soo W I vetic Soldiers, Prisoners of War." : SUN.OFFICE, - THREE O'CLOCK, P. M. . SINCE our Parer was pot to PCCSS, we, hav e received French Pafiers of the. 23d inst' Article from Lausanne, of the 16th, states, - the Senate was to' assemble at Berne on . the ath' Thus the triumph of France over the unfortunat 6 Swi , ,s seems complete ! . . . Researches are industriously making to discover Anticiuitiesfin a place, about two ieigues frog! Carlsrohe, in the MargraViate of Baden, 'Mier° further - Iy was a brook,.. hich is since dried up. I ), ' digging there for'stones to repair the Great RoaaP a wall of considerable dimensions was discovered' ' The iMaigrave, On being informed of the circa:ln— stance, ordered . a diligent search,to be Made, i f/ consequence of which several. Urns were fountL ill good preservation, with Rowan Inseriptionsr Ilan Tiles, &c. The attention of those emploY e was arrested by a spacious place, which on cs a al. rninatipn proved to be a large Chamber, ornainenica with Columns and Niches, in which were fou r : Bones. The Columns are of a Gothic form. 7', 1 Chamber -is traversed by two Canal s . Sever n „ Coins ;"have also been 'found, one be ar ing the J r " script ion imper. Anton.: f. Aug. sanimus sa ctrdT at-d another that of !viper. Nerva'Trajanvs C. The resenches.bccome every day more interesting;ci We are. Well assured that many of the par§et er in. different. Papers respating Robberies, are groundless, or much misreprented. F e wer rObberl;'.e r. ',, o outrages have‘been corntriitted of late than` 4 , c , 4o '.'' ever known at the conclusion of a - War, wh e e,..: , Many SFldiers and Sailors are disbanded, i!ha„ c11 : j i:? ~. •; tha t are :dually committed are generlit il i...- persons who have no other pretensions t o the C' rater of either Stildieror Sailor,. but their dre'i., 9 : ll ,: •We feel it due to the Magistrates to set thc, is-: lie right upon a point on which a. very gener 3( a '.o( conCeptiOn-seems to- prevail. The miscon du 1 , 0 Watchmen, instances of which are un fo r tunafelY_ or , frequent ; is attributed tp the want of arren ti° r " a rtc , the part.of,the Police, when in fat the Milgi sr 0- F el of that department have no controul over Lb- iab y. Phial. Watchmen, who are appointed and the Pitrish Qfcer,s. .