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PARtS, Tl'Ermint 2 14,

BASLE, DEC. 18.—We have received official
News of the highest importance from Paris.- All
the Ninnies having arrived in that City, were, by
a Conitnissiort of finir Senators; requested to meet
on the loth of December, in the Paper. Room of the
alice of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. They
met accordingly. BAIiTHELEMY, one of the Sena_
tors of the Commission, with Roux and RAMDER
its Secretaries, there communicated to them Let.,
ter from the Futsr CONSUL, dated St. Cloud, Dec.
to, and addressed to the Deputies horn the Eighteen
Cantons of Helvetia. The substance of that Letter
here follows :

" The present critical situation of Helvetia, de_
wands from all parties an entire sacrifice df their fac-
tious and selfish passions. The First Consul will
fulfil his engagements, and restore tranquillity to
Switzerland. He expens the Deputies to aid his
intentions. Switzerland is a Country distinguished
from all others by the peculiarity of its local cit.-
ciunstances. It is formed for a Federative Republic
by the very hand of Nature. CirctiMstances had
there 'established Sovereign States among others
which were dependent. 'Other circumstances have
introduced a general equality of rights. There are
in Switzerland both pure Democracies and Govern-
ments engrossed by particular fathilies ; both cannot
continue to subsist together. The three principles
on which alone tranquillity can be re-established,
are these—a general equality of rights among all
the IS Cantons ; an entire renunciation of all Aris-
tocratic Family Rights ; a Federative Confbrmation
in respell to each particular Canton. After the Can-
tons shill have been constituted, the course of the
Central Government will be easy. The Revenue, the
Military Force, the Political AdMinistration, will be
different in different Cantons. Switzerland has not.
hitherto had a Standing Army, nor Ambassadors in
ordinary to Foreign Powers. Commerce, and a Go-
vernment of a small expenditure, are the two things
of the chief importance to this country. The French
and Italian Republics cannot agree to the incritu.
tion of a Government in Switzerland, that might
become either direnly or indiredly hostile to their
interests. The insurgents have aned under the
influence of the enemies of France—they have in-
sulted the French nation—they have declared them-
selves against an equality of rights. No party,
and least of all, that of the insurgents, is to
triumph in Switzerland, It is the duty of the,.
French Government to take care that there shall
not be formed on that open, Frontier of the French
Republic, a system hostile to it. A Government
must be established in Helvetia, such as, in its
spirit, may be alWays friendly to France: The First
Consul will take into due consideration whatever
plans shall be communicated to him from the Depu.
ties, wpether individually or colledively."
BERNE, DEC. 23.—The Senate has received
very important intelligence from Paris, respecting
the Audience which the Helvetic Deputies have
had of the First Consul, through the medium of
their Commission of Five, appointed for that put.
pose by Citizen Start ER, the Helvetic Minister
at Paria. BONAMARTE explained to them at this
Audience, the System which ought to serve as the
basis of thti fate re organization of Savitzerland.
spolae, amongst other things, very strongly
against' )the connexions which a certain Party have
not ceased to entertain with England and other
Foreign Powers, in order to break the connexion
which so long subsisted between France and Hel-
vetia. The First Consul ,explained himself in the
following manner :
" If Switzerland wishes to enjoy a petfed inde:
kndence as to its domestic affairs, it must entirely
arise out of its relations with the French Republit:
England has not, nor ought to have, any relations
with Switzerland; her dangerous Emissaries can.
not be tolerated in that Country. It is true, that
the ancient Hernese Government, and, that lately
REDING and the other Chiefs of the InSnrgents, cm-
ployed the assistance of the Enemies of Franee ;
hut that ought never to be the policy of the Hal.
vetic Nation. As to. the interior organization-, the
First Consul advises the prompt and immediate
establishment of particular and local Constitutions
for each Canton. Then, and then only, when that
work is terminated, they can provide for the este.
blishment of a Central Rower,. that is to say, a
General Diet, or some other mode of administration
more suitable. Savit;..'trland is too poor to sup,
port a Central Government : its Inhabitants cannot
support any other organization than that where they
are not called upon to pay Taxes. They cannot
enjoy a distinguished rank amongst the great Powers
which surround' them ; nor can they establish a re-
gular Armed Force, •which would entirely destroy
the system of Militia, so conformable to the in-
terests of their Country.
Stvitzerhand, it is true, .possesses themeans
of aspiring to a certain grandeur. Thoae Means
would be an intorporation with Fraive, of, which
it would form two Departments; but it has been
separated from that Country by Nature, who has
herself fixed its lithits. It may enjoy perfen sc.
curity if it remains tranquil ; if it preserves its
morals, its customs, its laws ; and lastly, its nee_
trality. It would not have, besides, any person
capable by his authority, by the consideration
which he enjoys, or by the eininent services render-
ed by him to his Country, of being placed at the
head of Affairs. There is then only a Federal
Government adapted to the Ancient Constitution,
but without inequality, .without Subjeds, with
Privileges or Patricians that will suit Swdzeriand."

When the Commi.ssion of Five had finished its
Report of the result of this Audience in the second
Sitting of the Courudra, the French Commissioners
who assisted, invited all the Members present to
assemble by Deputations of Cantons, for the pnr.
pose of preparing a Plan of a Constitution for their
respedive Cantons, and transmitting the difE:rent
Projeds to the Commission of French Senators.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM C,UXIIA7P.IIS VATEr)

DECEMM 26.
it we have every avearance of bring blocked
up by the ice it) a very tew days, as since Thursday
hist, we have had corrstant Ealterly winos and severe
iron, both whiUl stalcontintle,"