The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-19 00:00:00

SURRENDER OF FRIBURG.

these papers.
A rumour was current in Paris on Wednesday, to
he effect that the great Powers intended imposing
.heir mediation in Switzerland. On this subject the
Siicle says—
" For some days past a report has been in circula-
tion that there exists an arrangement between the
great Powers to intervene in the quarrel which
divides Switzerland. If we are well informed, matters
have not as yet assumed so decisive a turn. M.
Guizot and M. de Metternich take much trouble to
bring about this arrangement ; it is even hoped here
that England, who so long resisted overtures for this
end, is on the point of yielding. The question is said
to be to impose on Switzerland the mediation of the
five Powers, and to regulate the difference by a
European arbitration. If the Diet should refuse to
accede to this decision an armed intervention would
take place to constrain it to do so. Thus, after the
intervention in Portugal would come that of Switzer-
land. Did it not commence in reality on the day
when the French Government sent muskets and am-
munition to arm the Sonderbund ? The intervention,
supposing that it takes place, cannot even invoke the
pretext of humanity, for humanity would have con-
sisted in preventing war, and blood has already
flowed, and is now flowing again perhaps at Friburg.
When the Diet pronounced the dissolution of the
Sonderbund, it interpreted an article of the federal
compact to which the seven cantons gave a different
interpretation. Between the majority and minority
of the cantons is it for Europe to pronounce ? On
the day on which the great Powers will interfere in
this difference there will not be any longer a federal
compact, or independence for Switzerland. The act
of mediation will be re-established not any longer for
the profit of France, as under the empire, but for the
profit of Austria, of whom M. Guizot is only the
humble and blind instrument. The majority of the
cantons has at present 80,000 men under arms. It
may happen that the Diet, seeing itself at the head of
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trusted ? It will not be France, for although the
Journal des Debats, confident in the thought which
governs, has spoken of 40,000 soldiers disposed on the
eastern frontier, M. Guizot is well aware that the
Chambers would be most reluctant to vote the funds
for such a campaign. This part then only suits
Austria who has troops collected in the Voralberg,
and who burns with a desire to make up for the
checks which she has met with in Italy. But for the
Austrians to penetrate into the canton of the Grisons,
and to lend assistance to the Sonderbund, would call
to mind most closely 1815, and it appears to us that
M. Guizot has no interest to awaken such reminis-
cences."

We mentioned yesterday that Count MONTALEM•
BERT, the head of the Jesuit party in France, had
opened a subscription in aid of the Sonderbund. The
false pretences put forth by the supporters of the
Jesuit Sonderbund are well exposed in the following
article on this said subscription, which appears in the
Courrier Francais :--
" M. de Montalembert has just published, in the
name of the committee for the defence of religious
liberty, a circular in favour of the Sonderbund. In
this question, besides the customary appeal for sub-
scriptions, there is a great deal of talk about martyrs,
and faith, and liberty, and independence, and country.
These are fine words, no doubt, representing noble
things ; but the matter to be discovered is how they
apply to the question. It is in vain that it is at-
tempted to turn away men's minds from the reality
of things. The present war is not a religious war
for Switzerland, nor one of independence ; it is a
war of national constitution, or, to use the plain term,
a civil war. It is in vain for the ultra-Catholics to
offer up prayers in favour of the parties, to take the
communion in its honour, to open subscriptions for its
profit; they wiil change neither the character nor
the nature of that war, which is exclusively political.
Were even the right on the side of the Sonderbund,
we should not like to see the name of God mixed up
with a civil war, nor the dignity of the Church com-
promised in the matter. That the Jesuits, menaced
in their interests by this War, should attempt to con-
found their cause with that of religion, at the risk of
compromising the latter to save the former, will not
astonish any one. Everybody is aware that the reve-
rend fathers, before being Christians, are Jesuits, and
that before aiming at the triumph of religion, they
aim at that of their order. But that the French
Catholics should consent, in the name of their belief,
to serve such intrigues is what we cannot compre-
hend! They speak of the Church! Has the Church
anything to do with the war between the Sonder-
bund and the Diet? Have the Catholics of the
mixed cantons been disquieted or persecuted in their
belief? How then should the primitive cantons be
so ? They speak of the liberty of Switzerland and
of her independence 1 Do the Separatists consider
themselves more liberal or more patriotic than the
Federalists ? To wish to have Switzerland more ho-
mogeneous, is it not to wish to see her more inde-
pendent and more free ? That is, however, the
greatest crime of the Federalists. How comes it,
then, that the country, that independence, that
liberty, are appealed to ? We have a higher opi-
nion of the cantons of the Sonderbund than M.
de Montalembert has. God alone,' he says,
by a miracle of his power, can give them the
victory.' No; the forces are not so disproportioned
as M. de Montalembert wishes to have it be-
lieved. And if the 20,000 experienced men of Lu-
cerne should gain a victory over the 28,000 new
troops of general Dufour, it would not be necessary
on that account to cry out a miracle, and to speak of
the intervention of the Almighty. As to the Jesuits,
who speak of devotedness and martyrdom, their first
care, after having compromised Friburg in their cause,
has been to take refuge in Neufchatel, in order to
escape from the struggle which they called forth.
We are well aware of the practices of the reverend
fathers ; the Lazarists of Syria will tell you of their
acts and deeds, and the Catholics of Gallicia, delivered
by them to the poniard of Sezela, will confirm the
opinion so given. And if you do not wish to believe
either the monks of the Libanus or the victims of
Tarnow, the Catholics of Frihurg will soon give you
news of the Jesuits of Neufchatel!

The Union Monarchique states that the Legitimatists
of France subscribe in support of the Sonderbund,
because "the Royalists of France ought not to fail in
that testimony towards a people who have so often
lavished their blood for the monarchy, and because
it defends the rights which we (the Legitimatists) de-

at 14i for paper; the Passives, at 41 ; and the
Coupons, at 11.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The Journal des Debats publishes the following
telegraphic dispatch received by the French Govern-
ment announcing the surrender of Friburg:—
" A sanguinary combat took place on the 13th, in
the afternoon, in front of Friburg. The town de-
manded a suspension of arms for twelve hours, to
deliberate.
" The following day, the 14th, Friburg surren-
dered, and at half•past ten o'clock in the morning
the town was occupied by the Government troops.
" General DE SALIS-SOGLIO (the Sonderbund Ge-
neral) has penetrated into Argau, and, as we are as-
sured, has taken possession of the important position
of Zofingen."
The Bale Gazette of the 15th gives the following
as the conditions of the capitulation of Friburg:-
1. The Government of the canton of Friburg for-
mally to renounce its alliance with the Sonderbund.
2. The troops of the Federal Government to occupy
the town immediately. 3. The troops to be lodged
and fed according to the regulations of the federal
army. 4. The troops of the Government of Friburg
to be disbanded, and the arms of the landsturm to be
deposited in the arsenal. 5. The troops of the
Federal Government to occupy all the gates, and to
lend assistance to the Government for the main-
tenance of order. The treaty of capitulation is dated
Belfaux, the 14th, and is signed by General DUFOUR
and the syndic of the Grand Council of Friburg.
The Constitutionnel gives the following letter :
"Berne, Nov. 13.
" The conductor of the Zurich diligence had this
morning brought the intelligence that the troops of
the Sonderbund had assumed the offensive on the side
of the Freiamt of Argau, and had even succeeded in
seising on Muri, the chief town of that district.
This news has been confirmed to a certain point by
dispatches which have been received by the Vorort.
The result is, that in the night of the 11th, four bat-
talions of infantry, two companies of carbineers, and
two batteries of artillery penetrated into the Argau
territory by seising first on Diewyl, where were taken
prisoners the imprudent soldiers of the battalion Fosi ;
but half a league further on this whole force was
held in check for several hours by three battalions of
Zurich infantry and a company of St. Gall carbineers,
until the arrival of two detached battalions from
Wohlen and a company of carbineers. A battery of
artillery happened to be at Muri, which up to yes-
terday morning could not be occupied by the troops
of the Sonderbund. According to posterior informa-
tion from a good source, this circumstance accele-
rated the explosion of general hostilities, and the
federal corps of the fourth and fifth division (Ziegler
and Bourckhard), the head-quarters of which were
at Arau and Zurich, were to have moved to-day to
commence the attack against Lucerne and Zug, and
the third division (Donatz) was to seek to attack the
army of the League in the rear."
This is all the news from Switzerland contained in