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erect, rte. 9.
The .following letter from General Noy .to C.
Mohr, Secretary of State, has been published here:-
4' I am informed, Citizen Secretary, by teperrts
which have reached me both directly and imrtrectly,
that a number of foreign vagabonds infest the high
roads, and commit all sertsof crimes. Robbery,
murder, house-breaking, take place in various quar-
ters, while no measures to repress them are adopted
by your Government, or to protect the safety
of travellgts, of the inhabitants and their pro-
perties. "this indifference multiplies and emboldens
malefactors, and deprives the inhabitants, who rely
aspen the protection of the laws,' of ail confidence,
when they see them remain unexecuted or chided
by the enemies of France and Helvetia Several
petitions have reached me from persons styli* them:
selves patriots and good citizens, reclaiming the arms
they had voluntarily surrendered. They complain
that those they call insurgenti had concealed theirs
from discovery, and that, 4441 of falling viaims to
inch; hey require back their arms to defend their fa-
milies, their persons, and properties. I have complied
with some of these applications made by persons in
the neighbourhood of Zurich, where, by my orders,
General Barbon has given them back their arms.
It must likewise be within the knowledge of the
Helvetic Government that the political opinions of
the area of lb, foevle are influenced by Men who have
openly attacked the lawful 'authority, in spite of
the declared intention of the First Consul to cause
cq be respected the provisions of the laws and the
measures that might be the result of them till after
the cantonal arrangement and the establishment of
the new order of tiings. These men dare to boast
that they will render them illusory, or at least will
render their execution difficult. They threaten to
exercise 'vengeance upon those who employ vigour
en reduce them to obedience. These insurrectional
measures appear to have intimidated and to have
weakened the system of Government? The inte-
rim police of the Cantons is so ill-conduCted, that
no information of the culpable proceedings of the
enemies of public tranquillity comes before the Tri-
IsturtvlCto enable them to display severity against
the numerous offences and enormities which arc the
teisimqtteuce of them.
“ Emissaries of Eugland, officers in her pay, and
the old pensioners of that power, enlist under the
eye of the Civil Authorities, without their giving
any obstruction whatever to it. Numbers of men
receive pay in money, to second, on the first signal,
their-auclacious enterprises, in case the new order
of things was not agreeable to them. The agents
of the secret Police are in some sort dependant upon
them, because they receive large gratifications. A
Counter-Police, skilfully directed, exists in every
pan of Helvetia, and all the secrets of Government
come t,o their knowledge.
" The Mediator of Helvetia is treated with very
little ceremony in the libels and pamphlets which
daily circulate among the people. The French
soldier is considered as the er.errty of Helvetic
liberty ,• and many of them have accordingly
fallen the viairn; of the resentment and animosity
cfrmaed against them, although in gem rat the
French troop in-this country have observed.* wise
and moderate condea, and praaised that discipline
t: hick causes the property and safety of citizens,
Whatever he their opinions, to be respeaed.
" All these considerations, Citizen Secretary,
oblige me to call upon you to lay before the Exe-
cutive Council the observations which have been
di Rated to me by my solicitude for Helvetia, and
to request the Council to adopt such measures as
are calculated to secure the tranquillity of the pro.
prietors and the safety of the citizens, and to cause
t4be expelled from the country the vagabonds who
trouble its repose, and to prevent the recruitors
from taking away men whom commerce and agri-
culture may usefully employ. The police also de-
serves their attention. You may assure them that
I will second with real whatever tends to promote
the welfare and happiness of Helvetia.
(Signed)

" NEY."

The Executive Council have sent copies of this
letter to all the National Prefe&s, with a circular,
rem:minding to them to conform to it, and to re-
double their zeal and aelivity, in order to secure the
eiecutinn of the lass s, and the maintenance of peace
and order.

BRUSSEL% FEB S.

New embarkations of troops are about to take
place in the ports of Dunkirk and Havre for the
colonies, and principally for the island of St. Do-
mingo, a certain number of armed ships are ex-
peCted there for the different ports of La Manche,
which will take on board the troops destined for this
service, as well as the arms, ammunition, and all
kinds of military stores. Besides these, the Depots
for the colonies, established in the ports of I-lavre
and Dunkirk; by a decree of the Consuls, daily in-
creases by the reformed soldiers who arrive there,
as well as by many volunteer recruits from the di-
visions which compose their respedive distrids.

IT. PETERSBUROH, JAR. 21.

Our Court having now come to an understanding
wi►h Eng?and and France respecting Malta, Cou-
riers have been dispatched on this account to Paris
and London. The Neapolitan troops in Malta, it is
said, are to be maintained at the expellee of Eng-
land, aussia, and France ;, but this requires confir-
mation.

Isqe:strms.—On the 29th ult. an inquisition
was taken at GreatDW4ering, Essex, on view of the
body if Edward' about eleven years old,
who died through excessive drinking. On the 2fith
ult. an inquisition was taken in the same county, on
the body of John Studd, a child only two years of
age, who was most imprudently left with another
infant, in a room where there was a fire, the mother
having gone in se-arch of wood. The post-boy.
who travels that road, happened to be passing at the
ir..tant, and observing the child in flames, alighted
and stripped its diktats off, but too law to save
its life, as the child languished till the follow.
log morning.„n4 then died.—Accidental Death.
On the 'Pits° ult: an inquisition was taken on'the
body of Isaac White (a native of Hallingbury) who
fell from the roof of the Stortfort coach, by which
fall his skull was fraftared, and he died in about a
inmate after he had been lifted up by another pas--
senirk--:-Verdiet, accidentally killed. On the sth
instiot, another inquisition was taken at Waltham-
sunir, on.the body of C. Thus, who in a fit of lunacy
hung hims,rlf in the garden of 1. R id, Esq. in that
parish.--Limacy.

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