The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-17 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

(Extract from the Swiss Correspondence of the Courrier
Francais.)
Austria appears inclined to blockade our country in the
direction of St. Gall, the Grisons, and Tessin. She has
military posts at Bregantz, Feldkirch, opposite Martins-
brucke, and is about to establish others on the Italian side
of the Splugen. Heretofore, however, the passage of tra-
vellers and goods from Switzerland into Lombardy has not
been interrupted, and Austria has treated us with more re-
gard than our old ally. She, no doubt, has good reasons
for acting in that manner. Piedmont will, as usual, follow
the example of Austria. and complete the line of blockade
in the direction of the Valais, Vaud, and Geneva, when or-
ders to that effect shall have reached the Government from
Vienna. Baden, Wurtemberg, and Bavaria, have as yet
made no menacing demonstrations, but those States have it
in their power to line with troops, in the course of a few
days, the whole extent of our Rhenish frontiers, which they
have so long blockaded with their Custom-house officers.
Extract of a letter from Berne, dated the 11th inst.:—
" Although the blockade of the French frontier is kept up
with the greatest rigour, some few passports have been
granted by the ambassador, as special favours. These ex-
ceptions have been accorded to persons of known charac-
ter who are foreigners, not traders, who have been made

to point out explicitly the object of their journey to France
and to give pledges as to their political opinions. Nothing,
however, has occurred to assure us that orders will not be
given to the French authorities on the frontier to treat all
citizens of Switzerland indiscriminately in the same manner
as the inhabitants of Basle Country already have been
treated. Measures have been carried nearly to this length
in the Prefectures of the Jura, which adjoin France, where
the inhabitants who have lands in both countries are no

longer permitted to go and gather in the harvest of such of
their lands as lie on the other side of the frontier. Affairs
are nearly in the same position in the cantons of Neufcha-
tel, Vaud, and Geneva."

The Helvetic has the following :—" M. de Tschamm,
the representative of Switzerland at Paris. writes that the
present complicated state of affairs places him in a situation
of doubt and difficulty. He does not quite understand
whether his intercourse with the French Government is
entirely at an end or not, or whether it amounts only to a
certain degree of coolness. It is certain that M. Tschamm
was not invited to the first diplomatic dinner given by the
French Minister for Foreign Affairs ; nevertheless, a few
days afterwards, Count Mole made him a formal visit by
leaving his card. M. de Tschamm has, consequently, writ-
ten to the Directory for instructions. If the Directory and
the Diet understood better the real interests of the Con-
federation, M. de Tschamm would be recalled, as well as
his colleague at Vienna ; for neither of them are fully com-
petent to their missions, and simple Consular agents would
conduct themselves better on this occasion."
The Canton of the Grisons has adhered to the decision
of the Diet in the affair of Conseil. There are now 13
cantons and a half belonging to the faction, who presumed
to be so disrespectful towards the Cabinet of the Tuileries
as to lay before it documents explanatory of the conduct of
its diplomatic agents in Switzerland.—Helvetie.

The opinion-of the French population bordering on our
frontiers is favourable to our cause. Several respectable
citizens loudly condemn the measures of their Government,
in which they are sorry to discover a war of principles that
would have appeared monstrous some years ago, on the
part of a dynasty born out of a revolution. It would be
time for the Vorort to have recourse to reprisals. The
present state of things is detrimental to our carriers and
merchants, while it favours the French carriers and mer-
chants, who can freely import and export their goods and
merchandise.—llelvetie.

Count Berthola, one of the refugees, who assisted in the
arrest of Conseil, is in the hands of the French police, by
whom he was not allowed to proceed to England. He is
said to have made avowals quite at variance with his dis-
closures to the authorities of Berne. The French Govern-
ment intends to publish them in order to repel the facts im-
puted to M. de Montebello. It is to that circumstance cer-
tain Journals of the Camarillo have alluded since some days.
It is equally asserted that the spy Conseil, having lately
undergone a new interrogatory, contradicted that part of his
former deposition which was offensive to M. de Montebello.
With regard to the profession of spy, which he o,vns to
have exercised, he expresses surprise at its being brought
against him as a crime. Espionnage, in his opinion, is a
salaried function, liko that of Ministers, Councillors of
State, &c.

To-day the chiefs of the principal commercial houses are
to meet for the purpose of entering into the engagement of
suspending all orders for French goods during the whole
time the blockade of the Swiss frontier shall last.—Helvetic.
BERNE, OCT. 11, 183 G.—" The Grand Council of this
canton assembled yesterday for the purpose of drawing up
instructions for the Deputies of Berne, for their guidance
in the approaching extraordinary Diet. M. de Tscharner
(President of the Directory) opened the business of the
meeting by a speech in which he recommended that those
instructions should be as general and as vague, or evasive
as possible, so as to leave submission to the dictates of
France optional, should no other means of reconciliation
present themselves. After a debate and deliberation of I 1
hours, this proposition was carried by a majority of 131 to
80, but subject to ratification.
" The three deputies for Zurich have been chosen.
Among them is M. Keller, a member of the committee
of the Senate which reported on the affair of Conseil. They
are all opposed to concession ; but even were the Diet
itself favourable to submission, the public voice and the
public will would prove too strong for it, and prevent any
derogation from our national attitude and independence."