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London, England, 1802-11-02 00:00:00

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following Extracts from a Pamphlet juSs.
published by Sir FRANCIS intituled,
" Les Ging Promesses---=Taleau de la Conduite du
Gouveruemeut Cousulaire, envers La France, L' An-
gleferre, L' L' Allemagne, e 2 surtout envers
La Suisse," will not, we trust, be unacceptable to
our Readers. With respOt to Switzerland, Sir
FRANC Is D'IVORNOIS professes peculiar sources of
information, which_enable him to give a detailed
and corral account of the situation of that Country,
and to display,•Wits-true•Colours, the condua of
France towards thieunfortunate Swiss. We shall,
therefore, ivithout,i,.futther preface, commence our from this nteresting Pamphlet, with that
portion Of it which relates to Stvit'herland':

FOURTH PaomisE-7Resoltition not to inter_
meddle in the Domestic Affairs of other Countries,
and to respel the Faith of Treaties.
4 I !:aye already. cited different Treaties violat-
ed by Consular France, and his conduit towards
Helvetia will complete the catalogue. But to be
just towards. the Consul, I must begin by taking
notice of the confusion into which his Predecessors
had already plUnged that Coun:ry, by confounding
in one common mass, 'all: the MeMbers of the Body, as well as its Allies, and imposing.upon
them an uniform .I?.!ginte.
~.4,This new. Re'gime drew with it an overthrow of
the ancient system, incomparably greater in -the
Aristocratic that-Lin the. Democratic Cantons, and
the reason may be easily conceived, , Tile ,members
of the PatriCian families alone. being educated for
the MagiStracy, When those were. dispossessed, the
ch.ss which suceeded them had, all on a sudden, to
combat with inexperience and incapacity, the
jealoUsy of their.equals, and the contempt of their
superiors, whom they had replaced. By this means
disorganization was. pt shed to its utmost . extent,
partictklarty,, at Berme, which 'was Once the_best
goi!erned Cou try in Sviiit2;erian.O. .
‘‘.As.:to the, iialler.Cantons, the -rightS,.orTher
People Wre. v tio , tensiv.e before. the, Directory de.
t
terinitied. to'-send',ampngst . them :tlie Preachers. of
.quality, that..iovakiroppssikle to offer th,em.any
Constitution oiVitu'of Government, which would
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not diminiShmonqf less the; rights whicti -they. al.:
.ready enjoyed. "gliq it wai,/iot.until after carrY-
ing amongst them fire and, Myotd . that the Diree-
tory accomplished its projects.. It is true, that its
persecutions,orily served to cement . more .and more
the union of all classes ; but that, union did not
console them for the loss of their Democratic Laws :
and what renders the conduet of France doubly, re-
volting is, that even admitting, it was her interest
to establish' a Central Government in Switzerland,
in order that she might the more easily hold the
clue in her :land, still that interest at least pre-
scribed to her to leave untouched the particular
Constitaiont of thd-Se of the Fed6res., who did not.
wish to'Sacrifiee them. In this manner the ,Le-
gislatrOrs of the United States of America aeted,
where the Provincial Constitutions, very different
from each Other, were of a more modern date, and
:less rooted than in Switzerland, and where experi-
ence has proved, that in consequetre of not mak-
ing avry change; the Congress has been better obey..
ed, and its alliance more sought after. ,The re-
generators of Switzerland, on the contrary, wished
to overthrow every thing, in order that they might
establish every thing anew, and they did not stop
until they had established in all the Cantons a re-
gime as uniform as that of the Depattments o
France.

" Such condua.could` not fail to lead by degrees.
the People of B,chwitz, Uri and Un;tirwaldriz, to
Wish to detach themselves from a Confederation of
which they had been the illiistrious 'binders, and of
which they would have Believed theinselves the'
Slaves,, ii it had persisted in suppressing their
Sovereign Assemblies, or to substitute Magistrates
of its own choice; • for those whom they bad elefled
annually for so many ages. What they- detnanded
•in concert and with loudiltitieSr: Was., that they
shotild.po- longer .speaelticib •aellidcratie Representa-
tives,. but that (10414:A21d 11,0eft, -like iheir•An-
- cestors, to, represenrtheinsVl44;in' their Liindsge-
ineiner which -thew hid beeiiirithe habit of. hold ing
in the open air, wheraivo !they had Any commOnln_.
terest to discuss. . •
-" A similar Rigime would, doubtless, only suit
Country. Villages, butt When the InhabitantS of these
Villages were miserable under the new System, and-
sighed only ro recover-their antient Constlintion; a
more exec:cable tyranny .was-conceived tin the parr
of the Zest of People, that of proclaiming, as a be-
nefit, in all the -Vallies of the Alps, The Era of
I?epresentafive.Covernmelzts. Tnis is a Specimen of,
that state of confusion into which the French
reetory• and its adherents, had succeeded in plung,
ing the whole.: Helvetic body, When BONAPARTE
proclaimed himself Consul at St. Cloud, 'and became 1
the Arbiter of its destinies.

14 i'crhaps_this event would have caused more joy
in Switzerland than in France, if, by the greatest
fatality for both People, BONAPARTE, in doing
_ills--
tice to their common Oppressors, had not retained
in .his service the Man of all others of the Directorial
Ministers, who had counselled, prepared, and di-'
retied the subversion of the Thirteen Cantons ;
the Man whorri,they constantly regarded as• the In-
stigator of that atrocious. Crusade.
" Long, however,. before the 18th of Brumaire,
and in spite of the prolonged malevolence of TAL-
. LEYRAND, they. had 'already succeeded in purging
their Central Government of some of those men
whO were the most devoted to the Revolutionary
• Chief, and 'in replaCing them by, paters who were
less- odious.
.Thit those who:had torn the authority
from the DireEtOrs tOcas and LA HARPE, still
persisted in wishing ,to.,teniforiniie all the Cantonal
Constitutions, alth9,agh ,the averkidn of the smaller
Cantons for the a4o4oeel;,zmitjCibreame every day
more strong. As to„stliei largri Cantons, I must
admit that the 'country pectple: appeared very-in-
different as to particular specie's of‘ regime,' which
was established, and were more attached to their
ancient Magistrates than their, ancient Laws. As
the inhabitants of the Towns were much attached,
to Political Equality, and did not wish to be de..
prived of it, a very simple means presented itself
of conciliating their new pretensions
.with their
ancient forms, which was, to substitute the Aris.

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toeraer.. of Fortune for Of Paiiilly; iri order i•O
render the reins of Government; if not the right of
Patriciaus,_at least the tight Of Propiiitors; of rrieq
Who atone had the habits 'of atithority, and had
exercised it in a paternal Manner; All the wise
men ck both Parties supported that idea, aril after
the grind views of order which BOllitfAßTk had
proclaimed immediately after his elevation, they
did not doubt that he would embrace it with plea.:
sure, as the only, means of ijeading baCk the Arsto-
cratical Cantons into the 'harbour of Peace. Nu
person, above all, doubted that he would make
merit of restoring to . the smaller Cantons die
tranquillity which they had enjoyed, by inviting
them himself to .resume their ancient Corbstitutions:
EVery one knows that one of his first care,:
was to declare to both that he compassinnated their
suffering, that
.the evils they endured would be re..
paired, and that their liberties
.and' their independ.
ance would be more than ever recognized and re-
speaed. " Recolled,only the courage and the vir-
tues of your fathers," said he to the Deputation
which was sent to him; " have an organization
Simple as their mariners : remember those different •
religions and languages, which have their marked
limits in those vallies and mountains which separate
yoni How many remembrances are attached to those
natural bounds, and that there arises from these an
impression in your organization. Above all, for
the extample of the People of Europe, preserve
Liberty and Equality in that islation• which first
taught theta to be independent and free."- •

(To be contbmed.)

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We are happy -to Correa a statement- in sofne -
of the Papers;_relative to .the title of AtnoN-
ßY,..whieh we find to be perfealy!erioneous. --The
honours of. that:Premier Barony Of -Ireland •art,now
in abeyance between the two- surviving daughters
and co-heiress.es ~of the late Earl, of Loy TH Baron
of ATHONRY; On his Lordship's demise, in 17•99 i •
without -issue male, the Earldom became extinct—
but the Barony being in fer, is iransmitted thrdugh
the above.anentioned channel. In such a case, it is
in the discretion of the Royal Prerbgative to invest
either olthe Co-beiresses'withalie-dortnant Peerage;
but no such determination having taken place, iris.
'presumed :that thc. honour; of ,that, ancient' House -
`are reserved for THOMAS 13NtMINGHAM'SICW'ElAi
Esq. the natural claimant of these distinaitii4i,•:.,art:
being the only Son and Heir Apparent of the t:4et
ELIZ AB ETH,' eldest daughter and to-heiress of the' -
late Earl of LOUTR, Paron of ATHUNRYi whoie other .
daughters Move .no male issue. We are the more
foUnded: in ~this supposition; as'. it 'appears that all
the regular forms of authentication have been pass-
ed•through by that Gentle Man since the death of his
grandfather (in consequence _of an order of reference%
froff>His Majesty), .to the entire satisla&ion of the
-Crown Liwyeis--and their:o other claim had suf.
ficient'v-eight to be brought forward to the notice
and decision of those' learned CACerS. The occa.;
sional assumption of the title by the lately deceased •
JOHN BERMINGHAM, Esq. of Dalgin in the county
of Galway, -who pretended to a distant HatiOnship
to the late Lord by the male .line, proves to have
been wholly unwarranted, as the creation dates
from a period long antecedent to the institution of
titles by patent, and the descent by heirs general is
incontestably proved, 9n record, to exist in the co- -
heiresses above,mentioned-
MANsioNt-HoursE,—Yesterday a decent. young
woman charged mistress, a very handsome
Lady, and the wife of a Sugar Refiner in the City,
with having committed
.a most, violent 'assault
on 'her, person. The young•• woman stated, that
she had lived about three' years' with this Lady,
and that during that time she had • often beat
her that some since time, she was obliged to quit
her service on this account. The Lady; however,
had' sent _ her -sister, and made her presentS to in-
duce her to return. She at length consented, On
her promise to fOrbear using her so ill. Site
had not returned anany_ days before the Lady •
had recourse to the same convincing arguments,
and at lenvh, en Wednesday morning, .
log use of her tongue, she uplifted her haods,:and
gave her a severe -beating. The young wO,
man's lace-- sheaved eViderit. marks-:of the goad
Lady's science in the: art ofpugilism ; she had
put in her blows well,. and nearly closed one. of her
peepers. The assault': was 'corroborated by an old
woman, who happened to be present, ancl•who, seeing
het Mistress so engaged; roared but liiStily;
del I-" and. called out for help.-•--The Lady did -not
attempt -to deny- theassattiz, but pleaded in extenu-
ation, that-the girl: Was: very insOlent,•.which in;
siuced her; to -strike-her: - She said-she -had been first
assaulted,; _but Of,this= assertion-she no proof;',- •
His Lor4iip- he was. extremely' s",orry that
this business. hati•come before him; 'Att as it was, he •
Must disposepf it in -the- best Inannerlie.C•atTd: 1-1 t s
shmild theref(arg vhe the-Lady tts nialz:e•tbc:'
woman some !:.,,tisfael.ion rot. ttgfeat injury-,she had -
receiied.- 0:e rliciughtthis wou!d. be the better plan
than going before a j.tiry, The young woman deinand..
ed bait; after some con vepationi.agreed to,take
smaller sum, which was p'aid to her. Hii'Lordship
observed, that he would advise the Lady t&give the -
young woman a goad charaEter, as she bad admitted
that she'svas perfealy honest -nod' a goood serVant.
This the Lady proMised to do, and the parties were • •
dismissed. . • .

THAMES POLICE,OFFICE.—On Saturday JoHN-
HAR,M OTT and VCTILLIALI ERAGGE, Esqrs. ha&
several cases laid before them, but the' most
striking of was, a groupe of blacks, whites, and
mulattoes, to the number of npv:-aids of forty, were
put to the _tar, on a charge of being found lying
about the New Dock at Poplar, in -a vagabond
`way, withotit shoes, or hardly any covering upon
them, and stispeeted to have committed various:de-
predations in that quarter,
,which aptly
people. Being questioned how they came intwthat
deplorable situation, and as to their lying about
lime-kilns in the night, they in general said that
they had been at sea, and, spent their money, and,
havino; no refuge, they went under the ,warmth of
the kilns for want of better habitation. Being called
upon Ito know whit country they. respeftively be.
longed to, they turned out to be chiefly Americans.
However, the Magistrates consulted how todis.
pose of them.,, being chiefly foreigners, until the,
Consuls of their ..reopeaivc CQuarrns will receive
them, -

Francis Finlay was indicted for Counterfeiting
and Forging a Bill of Exchange for 421. at twenty_
one-days'. date, purporting to be The acceptance of
Janes Sykes, dated the loth of Otlober,.and utter-
ing and publishing the same to Thomas Fanshaw,
knowing it to he forged and 'counterfeit, with in-
tention .t:o defraud him; to which inciidrnerit he
"'leaded not guilty.
The Prisoner put in an affidavit, stating the ab.
sence/Of two 'Material Witnesses to his defence,
who ivere now at sea in His Majesty's service,
whom he f'xpeded to be able to attend in the
course of the next Sessions.
Mr. KNowiys, the Defendant's Counsel, moved
.that upon this affidavit the trial be postponed till
the 'next Sessions.

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Mr. Lander, a Clerk, to Messrs. Paul and Havi-
land Le Mesurier, described the circumstances of the
Prisoner's personating James Bannon at their Of-
fice on .the loth of September, and applying for his
prize-money. The stun due to Bannon on that pay-
ment, was IL 6s. 6.1. The practice was, after they
had got the authenticated list of the crews from the:
Navy-office, 'to calculate and ascertain the share of
prize-m6oey to Which each person is entitled.
Mr. Alderman. Le Mesurier explained, that the
amount stated by the Clerk, was that ,due to Ban-
non
on the first payment ; that there would. .be
more due" to him, hut that
,for so much, lie was en-
titled
to eall, at the time the Prisoner made the at-
tempt.
Mr. Lander resumed his evidence. The fietitious
Cettificate, presenid.bY the Prisoner, was produced
and tead-L-qt Was in substance as above stated,
and purported to be signed " John Eastwood."—
The Witness, though he recolletted the Prisoner's
applying at their Office befote—he expressed his
doubts to him, but without effed—Lhe still persisted
that he was the man—and insisted upon the Prize_ .
money due to James Bannon.--He advised the Pri-
sonerto desisr.---On comparing the signatures, he
was convinced of the fraud.. Mr. Le Mesurier, was
applied to on the occasion, and 'at length a Consta.

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