The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-03 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE SWISS IN LONDON.

Last night a meeting of the Swiss, resident in London.
was held at Radley's Hotel, Blackfriars, to consider an ad-
dress to the Federal Council upon the questions in dispute
between their fatherland and the King of Prussia. Care
was taken that the meeting was confined to Swiss. Shortly
after 7 o'clock the large room of the hotel was filled by an
assembly at once enthusiastic and unanimous. The pro-
ceedings were conducted in the Trench language.- -The
chair was taken by M. John Rapp, Consul-General of the
Swiss Confederation, who was supported by M. A. Doxat,
M. Jules Bordier, M. J. C. im Thurn, M. J. Petry, M. G.
Prevost, M. A. P. Prevost, M. C. Perry, M. A. Pasteur,
M. Jules Stauffer, M. P. Broe, M. C. Bovet, M. Gustave
Bovet, M. P. Walther, M. Beaume, M. J. W. Baeschlin,
M. Pictet, Captain Kesse,
The Chairman opened the proceedings by expressing a
hope that the meeting would be conducted with the mode-
ration and judgment which ought to characterize a public
assembly.
Mr. P. BROE, having been called upon by the chairman,
maid he should hesitate in addressing such an assembly if he
did not know that each of his words would find an indulgent
and eloquent echo in their hearts. (Cheers.) He knew
that they would snake up by the warmth of their senti-
ments for the feebleness of his expressions. They were all
aware of the gravity of the events which were taking
place in Switzerland. A cry of alarm had arisen among
the Swiss both at home and abroad. They had felt the
need of union, of calculating their means of defence, of
t %king counsel how they might be most useful to their
eommony country. It was scarcely necessary in such an
assembly to recapitulate the circumstances which had led
to the critical position in which Switzerland found herself.
Neushatel, whose liberties dated from the year 1214, and
whose alliance with the Swiss might be traced back to its
earliest existence, riveted in 1815 the bands which united
her to Switzerland by signing the Federal Pact. The T
minal rights of the Prince of Neuchatel—rights which had
had no real force and virtue except by the sanction given
to them by the States of Neuchatel in 1707 —were at a
liter period annulled when the Neuchatelais acknowledged
the new constitution which put this State in the rank of a
free and confederated canton. Eight years passed, and under
the order of things thus established, without the Prince
having claimed his rights or invoked the treaties said to b,e
in his favour, in a time of profound peace a movement took
place in the canton to establish his authority. The insur-
gents were taken prisoners with arms in their hands. In
attacking the legal Government of their canton in the
name of a foreign Prince they had braved the authority of
the Confederation and attacked its territory. From that
moment they became amenable to the Federal Tribunal.
The Prince of Neuchatel, who had not himself the right to
claim his authority by the strong arm, oven when it still
kad the shadow of legality, interfered, and demanded that
Switzerland should release the prisoners. The Federal
Council refused. The Prince then vanished behind the
King of Prussia, who threatened Switzerland with an
armed occupation. Switzerland immediately showed signs
of an energetic resistance. It was then that a neighbour-
ing monarch, to whom Switzerland once accorded its hos-
pitality, forgetting for a moment under the imperial purple
the simple officer of artillery to whom, and in favour of
whom, Switzerland had before given an example of heroic
devotion, interfered, and considered it his duty to recom-
mend Switzerland to yield. He ought to have known that
the word never had found, and never would find a place is
the Swiss dictionary. (Loud cheers.) A universal cry
was heard, "Resistance atr prix-tie netie sang.",` (Cheers.)
All parties tendered each other the-laqr.to easUltrtne-
Federal banner. Loans were voted and subscribed by
men of all opinions. Could the Swiss now scattered in
foreign lands remain mute spectators of such scenes? The
voice of their common country had not ceased to vibrate in
their hearts, nor had the battlefields of Sempach or Mor-
garten ceased to be present to their memory. They felt
the need of union with their countrymen at home, in order
that they might partake their sacrifices and their dargers.
Let them stand firmly together, so that there might no
longer be Bernese, or Vaudois, or Neuchatelais, or Balais,
or Genevais, or Conservatives, or Radicals. Let there only
be Swiss among them hastening to the defence of their
country, its independence and its liberties. (Cheers.)
Switzerland would then display a sublime example which
would gain for her the respect of Europe and of the civi-
lised world. Let them remember that the eyes of Switzer.
land were upon them, and that their proceedings would
exercise an immense moral influence among their fellow-
countrymen. (Cheers.) M. Broe concluded by proposing
the adoption of the following address to the Federal
Council of Switzerland :

4 To their Excellencies the President and Members of the

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Federal Council of Berne.
" Gentlemen—The undersigned citizens of Switzerland,
resident in London, having assembled at the news of the
danger which menaces their country, seize the first oppor-
tunity for testifying publicly to the Federal Council their
profound recognition of the wisdom and firmness which it
has displayed.
" Unanimous, in the strength of her good right and her
determination to make every sacrifice to maintain her inde-
pendence, Switzerland has confided the care of her honour
to the Federal authority, and rallies her sena, without dis- i
tinction of opinion, under the banner of the Confederation.
The Federal Council has justified the general confidence of
the Swiss people, and will maintain the national honour.
" May the present grave events, whatever be their issue,
result in the still greater good of the country ! May the
Confederation come forth from them united, strong, and
respected by foreign natioas ! Such is the ardent wish of
the subscribers.
"And may the Federal Council accept this assurance of
their indomitable attachment to Switzerland, and their
firm desire to unite their efforts with those of their fellow
citizens for the safety of their country.
" The undersigned pray you, gentlemen, to accept gra-
ciously on their own part this expression of their esteem,
and their unanimous wishes for your individual prosperity.
" God protect Switzerland !
" London, Jan. 2, 1857."
M. STAUFFER, seconded the motion.
The address was unanimously adopted, and a hearty
cheer a la Suisse was given with three times three.
Mr. BORDIER said it was the duty of the Swiss abroad to
open a subscription to assist such families as might be left
in want by their husbands and fathers being called to arms.
He had therefore to propose that a subscription be opened
for the relief of the families of the soldiers of the cantons.

M. WALTHER seconded the motion.
A committee was then appointed, and a subscription list
was opened. In the course of the evening the sum sub-
scribed was announced to be 1,784/. Several gentlemen
put their names down for 100/. each. The address to the
Federal Council was signed by upwards of 180 persons, and
about 20 Swiss put down their names as volunteers to de-
fend their country with their persons in case of invasion.
While the lists were in course of signature the assembly
were addressed in stirring speeches by Captain Kesse, of
the Anglo-Swiss Legion, in German, and by M. Pictet,
sen., of Geneva, in English.
The proceedings terminated by the usual acknowledg-
ment to the chair.

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