The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-03 00:00:00

FRO THE FNENCII PAPERS.

HAtUE JULY 2r.-During the last six month
we have succeeded in drying up a considerable par
e fV7 • Olt,. I,r 30 years filled the super
ficies of one fifth of this country. This work

Lis- been executed with astonishing rapidity
within the space of one year,. by means of Steam.
I,lch are conrinuaily working. The
wat !pus pumped out, have been carried from.
these marshes into the rivers and neighbouring ca.
. AI this 'moment smiling fields are visible,
where c,t, tie an abundant nourishment, and
where: formerly were to be seen only forests" of
weeds and muddy waters.

NioRT, JULY, 14.—From time immemorial
there tins prevailed a pleasant custom of leading
about, mounted on an. Ass, those Husbands who
have suffered their Wives to beat them. This ce-
remony, which has been revived at Ssuche some
months ago, occurred also last week at St. Eanne.
The inhabitants of the neighbouring villages, to
the number of 1200, with little kettles, knippers,
triangles, cornets,-.and other musical instruments of
the same kind, seized hold of the person guilty of
this fatal crime, and compelled him to undergo the
usual promenade.
,Notwithstanding the turbulent
ptti-ry inseivrable from so great a 'multitude, the
ceremony of the Ass passed off without the least
t.-r. The wh,tle body was under the authority
of a Commandant General, whose decrees were irre-
vut_an:. pt °visions, wine, and order of march,
were all regulated ; the ratio of wine was only half
a bottle, and they broke, without mercy, the bottle
of him who violated the public laW. In short,
every thing has passed at the expence of the Husbands,
but it is not known in what way the Women who
have been thrashed will avenge themselves.

PROCLAMATION OF THE COUNCIL OF EXECU-

TION OF THE HELVETIC REPUBLIC To THE

HELVETIC PEOPLE.

4‘ Citizens of Helvetia, the French Government
approves of the use you have made of your Inde-
pendence ; and the first pledge it gives you of its
esteem, is that of declaring its readineas to with..
draw its Troops from Helvetia. The Council of
Execution has accepted of this offer.
Th4t great aft of Justice, on the part of the
First Consul, should call forth all your gratitude to
so generous an 'Ally. Without him, and without
these Troops, that are now about to depart from
you, you again would have been a prey to all the
horrors of Anarchy.

" Now he thinks you may be relieved from the
expences which the necessity ofmaintaining a Foreign
Army, had imposed upon you. Agriculture, In-
dustry, and Commerce, will again flourish amongst
you, under the shade of Peace. The Citizens shall
reap the fruits of those. blessings, without being
obliged to part with them : and the father of a faint-
ly, 'retiring to his habitation at night, will feel with
pleasure, that it' contains none but his own children;
e ery Swiss will see hiMself Stu roundedby his coun-
t men alone.

But the departure of Foreign Troops from your
County , should' above all things be a cause of
think Ong to you. You, who were stung with
grief at beholding this land, so celebrated for the
glorious battles of out Fore-fathers, become a theatre.
of War for neighbouring States : You who mourned
when you thought you had no longer a nationalwill left
sufficient to restrain Ir.ii-tions, nor a Government able
to support itself,!,h9uld now rejoice ; you should open
your
.hearts to confidence. The Independence of
your Country, acknowledged in the stipulations of
Lunevilte, now obtains that privilege in substance..
Helvetia again enjoys her national manners, and her.
ancient liberty. -

" But know on what conditions you are to havte
the blessings of Independence ; and what duties the
confidence of the French Government, and the con-
fidence of your. own. Government, impose on you.
They command you to observe peace and.conCord.
They require of you the sacrifice of all those re..
vets, of all those hopes and desires, which are no
longer compatible with the existing order of things.
They call on you in an imperious manner to rally
round the Constitution, and the Government which
it establishes ; for it is only according to the Con-
stitution, and by the Government, that Liberty and
Independence can be preserved. supporting these,
you will be able to continue a Nation; in abandon-
ing them, you must perish. They wish that the
author of every attempt against the ailUal state
of things, .may be puniJied in an exemplary mar..
ner.

c‘ Such is the National Will ; such, is the inten.
tion declared by the First Consul on withdrawing
his Trodps. Citizens, there exists, among the
Goveintnents of Europe, a Compact for the main_
ter.‘ance of Peace, Order, and those Principles which
presetve every Political Slxiety.

s"
Too long have the Swiss disturbed Foreign
Powers with their dissentions ; and if, now that
those Powers arc disposed to take some interest in
our destinies, any disorders sho-uld rise up amongst
us, we must expe(i to see the same Powers, for
the sake of their own safety, taking up arms against
us.

We here declare ourselves to be the guarantees for
the will of the/People, consecrated by the Consti.
tution, and we have pledged ourselves to the French
Government, that the 'Peace shall not be disturbed
in Switzerland. Prudence in Council ; celerity in
Execution ; Justice to all ; prompt severity against
the fadions and the disturbers of Public Tranquil-
lity ;—these are, and shall ever be, the rule of our
condua.

Given at Berne, the zoth of July, 1802.
,g The Landammani President of the Council of
Execution. .

g‘ DOLDER,

" the Secretary General,

" moussox."