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London, England, 1804-04-21 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF stFli ZEALAND.

ZURICH, MARCH 2 3.--Srely were the tumults
oecafioned IA month by t e Addrefs of the Com-
munes of Andelfingen, Offingen, and others, againa
she redemption of the tythes and quit rents appeafed,
lara more ferio one arofe in the Communes of
difchwyl,us
Richtikhwyl, Schonenberg, and Hut-
tea. The t6eh of this month was fixed in thefe
Communes for taking the oaths of fidelity to the
Country, the Canton, and the Conliitutional Autho-
rities. The inhabitants of thek Communes alfem-
bled in very great numbers at the hour appointed,
in the church of Walditchwyl. The Counfellors
Usritas and Mem., Deputies of the Cantonal Go•
vernaseot, bad opened the fitting by a digeourfe ap-
propriate to the occafion ; after the reading of the
words of the oath, a violent tumult fuddenly broke
out, in which confuted and repeated cries were heard
of No, No ; we will not (wear that • brit we will
(wear to the A& of Mediation,' the donflitutinn of
1798, to the Liberty acquired by Tata. and Waii•
E ULM, Liberty, Equality, and the Gofpel ! AU ef-
forts proving ineffeanal to reline order, the Depu-
tation at length quitted the Affembly.
The Government of the Confederation being in-
formed of there tumults, immediately took efficacious
meafures to enforce retpea for the Laws and Coniii-
toted Authorities, and to obtain fatisfaaion for the
pall, and fecurity for the funire. His Excellency the
LAND/DINAH of Switzerland began by addretTing
to the refraftory Communes the following Prods'.
ILIM:1011
. We Roootromsrie WATTIMWTI, Landamman of Switzer-
Issok to an the taksbinats of the Cominunes of Wahl&
albaryl,, PJehtlfehwyt. Schroanberg, sod Hatter, health.—
. ...We make known to duos by the& pretests, oar will cloudy
Made massifs&
• The new kenos of tumult that have taken plate in year At.
fornhy of the 16th init. and the eefural which followed, to take the
ode grolcribed by your legitioiate and emanational Government.
Wm Ms ark known to ter. We have learnt, with the tnoft pro-
nging irapitint, that there are among yes men whom rive years
1111011111110, during which the country has wept under all the
011iatirdnenrd, has not divdted of pity fpliit. Dar cured of a est-

phis rattanee of the laws What la your obieet ? Where does
• the pent:Kends of known agitators, and your own blindnefa, lead
Ton be you think by theft proceedings to compel the Govern-
ment to change the wife meafures it has takeni (or tke whole Coa-
ti/111 ildpcdtfid reprefentstlons are liftened ito, but towards tu-
Inalsous affembUse humanity itfelf rcquiresforaity, and the em-
ployment of force. Do you entertain more culpable hopes ? is it
the Cooftitution you 'Sall ? In that cafe, inhabitants, bear out ad-
vise. the Confederal Order. fuck as it bah been eitablithed by the
sollailes, amid be the bans of our facial eontradt. The will of
. **Was is thls, Was with the vows of foreign Power. The Go..
MMUMilist eillallithod in confequence of the mediation ought to be
rimed us Too meths mediation Itfelf. AU renitence to this Go-
wingepit is bigik treafon, which can only draw on it felf opprobrium
old pirates. but will sever effentially difturb the public force,.
01M1011Wast rats on all friends of order, all true Swifs, who al-
ways Isla rapport it As to us, outfaces, it Is our Intention, as
lesndamonin of the Hetvaic Confederation, invariably to maks-
tans, with "tangles and (amity, if needful, the honour of the na-
tion. and tights of each confederated Government, arainit every
enemy of our revising yrofperity. Thad all the authority of the
Confederation is under the orders of the Council of the Canton of
Zurich, if its lost regulations are infulacient to reprefs
tumnka—
And we take 0,1) and our Country to witocfs, we titan never be
at raft till the conftitutional order Ihall be generally re-ellablithed,
and abfohite obedietwe guarantees your fincere repentance. Already
efileatious means an taken. The contingents of feveral Cantons
only wait orders to march. Inhabitants, and you all, whom a cul-
pable traampd may (educe, the Lantlamman of Switzerland is ready
at the firft heal of your refpedive Covernmcnts—and that, we
declare to you, punillunent (hall be terrible."
We learn that the LA titlA SI MA lil immediately gave
Orders for goo men of the garrifon of Berne, and the
like number from the School of Military barite-hos
to put themfelves under arms, and prepare to march.
He made his appearance on the Parade, and eddied-
ed them in a tpeech, in which he told them more
troops were about to arrive from Frihourgli. The
corps of referee is already gone in fourteen carriages,
put in requifition for the occafion, dining the night.
Another Company, pelt of the Military Scholl of
Inftrudion, is let -tf Itom Langenthal, and du esls its
march to our town. The Light Artillcry is alin to
be on the expedition. All thele forces are under the
command of Colntlel WART,. .r a. It appears
that they are going to ret with vigour and celerity,
(title in their !Anil thLic trouble., which, it they

are not (eon appeared, may estead to moR of the
Cantons us Switzerland. ,
Beast. M•ecn 29.—.-By accounts from. Zurich,
the unfortunagss tr °able' vihich broke out on the Waft-
ers) borders of the Lake. have even communicated
thetnfelves to the other fide. The LANDAMMAN has
reinforced the little corps of troops at fira tent againit
the infurgent Communes. Several Cantons fur tbis
purpofe are called on to furnifh their contingents.—
The chief command of this force has been conferred
on Colonel Zs so Lisa. A courier has already arrived
with accounts of an engagement between the troops
of the Confederation and- the Infurgentsv in cook-
quence of which there latter retires to the valleys
and mountains.

PAELMMENTART PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY. APRIL

The Archbi&op of Tuarn and the Duke et Grottos took tie
Oaths and their Seats. _ _ _

Lord HOBART, on moving the fecond reading
of the frith Militia Augmentation Bill, recapitulated
the advantages which have been formerly Rated by
the fupporters of that meafure, to refult from its
Adoption. He particularly alluded to the ecconomical
mode in which this force was propofed to be railed,
the bounty amounting only to four guineas per man,
and the expence of Officers being alto avoided, as the
men to be railed were to form additions to corps al-
ready officered. This additional force too, would
not interfere with recruiting for the line, the bounty
being Co final' in proportion. At the fame tine it
was not meant that this fhould be the only menus re-
torted to for increafing our force, other meafures be-
ing in forwardnefs, which would foon be brought be-
fore the Houle. He had obferved with ationithinent
that another Bill conneaed with the prefent,
yeller-
day under the confideration of the Houfe, had been
firenuoully oppofed by a Noble Lord oppolite to him,
who bad, while in office, brought forward meafures
exaSly of a fimilar nature. He could not, therefore,
Litter himfelf that this Bill would pars without op-
poiltion, as it teemed the determination of that Noble
Lord to allow no meafure propofed by his Majefty's
prefent Minifters to efeape cenfure, even although he
himfelf might once have faniffioned, with his fupport,
=afores of a fimilar nature, and more defeftive in
their &name and provifions.
Earl SPENCER gave the prefent Bill his decided
negative. He oppofcd it not on account of any mea-
fuse or fyftem of which it might be a part, but limply
on its own merits, abaraCted from every other confi-
&ration. He regarded the Militia as a highly ufeful
and refriltable force ; but, in the prefent Rate of the'
country, he objedted to the augmentation of it, or of
any other force which might not be applicable to
unlimited fervice. Economy was a motive unworthy
of conflderation in the endeavour to attain fo impor-
tant an objea ; and he would rather give ten guineas
per man for a difpofable force, than four guineas for
a force whole Cervices were to be limited. _ _

Lord GRENVILLE:after vindicating himfelf
from any with to give unneeeffary oppofition to Mi-
flitter', and maintaining that the meafures alluded to,
as having been introduced by him, were totally dif-
fimilar from the prefent meafures, which he chat-
ratfterifed as weak, futile and puerile in the extreme.
when the relative fituation of the country was con-
cerned ; Bated, that feeling himfelf fatigued, from
the latenefs of the fitting of laft night, it was not his
intention to difcufs the principle of the Bill in its pre-
fent liage. He hoped, therefore, that Minifters would
inform him' on what day it was their intention to
move its farther progrefs, that thofe Noble Lords,
who, like him; found themfelves unable to deliver
their fentiments at prefent, might then have an op-
portunity of doing Co.
The LORD CHANCELLOR affured the Noble
Lord, that Minifters were not afraid to meet him and
his friends, whenever they chore, in defending any of
their meafures, weak, puerile, and what not. as he
had deteribed ;hem. He hoped, however, that when
the Noble Lord confidered that the meafures which
he was new objefting to, and characterizing by fuch
epithets, were timilar to, though infinitely better than
thole which he himtellhad introduced, that he would
ceafe to (peak of them in fuch terms. He was ferry
to think that the Noble Lord and his friends felt fo
much indifpoled after their tall night's fatigue, and
affured him that Minifters felt like giants refrefhed,
and thould be ready to meet the Noble Lord in any
future liege of the Bill. He affured the Noble Lord,
that however they at indent differed in politics, it
was his with that they Ihnulti never feel otherwife
than they had hitherto done to each other, and that
they thould continue to view each other as friends.—
He thould therefore fecond the Noble Lord's motion.
After a few words in explanation from Lords
Grenville and Hawkeibury. it was underftood that
the Bill thould go into a Committee on Monday ; if
no amendments were made, Ihould be reported that
day : and, in that event, Ihould be read a third time
on Tuefilay, when the debate on the principle will
take place. The Bill was accordingly read a fecond
time, and ordered to be committed for Monday.
The Houfe then refolved into a Committee on the
Irith Militia Transfere.lce &mice Bill.
The Bilhop of ST. ASAPH ezpreffed a doubt
whether the Penalties of the Aa of George T. might

not attach to the Irith Militia Officers, Islim-comiiiii-

fioned Officers, &c. on their coming into this country,
for not having taken the oath of allegiance, &c. but
merely the oath Allowed to be adminittued to Roman

Catholic. (erring in Ireland.
The Lords Chancellor and Ellenborough thought
that a fair interpretation of the words of the ilatute
*mild not «•arrant fah a emigration.

Lords Grenville, eat nar von, ritz.int.tm, and Car-
lifle, each laid a few winds, *idling the point to be
put beyond a doubt, %%hen Lord Lllcnborough read
A CIA k explanatory of the gocllion, which, it thought
neccff.ity, might be inttusiuced at fume twine page
of the bell.

The different tholes were then gone through, the
report %V :IS brought up. And the ordered to be
mid a third liLliC i n'l'ucldd) —adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

ILL WiSTlllt ■LiCTIOM,

Th. Hnufe pmeet.led a tom. Inek to ballot fora Committee
to try the no. nn of the Ile heti, r 1- 1.. into P.:llton.

V, btu Itratigrr. ',ter admr.tol, Mr. K ONE was waking (tone
financial It ✓entent. and remark. on the yr• duct of !h. In...anent
taxes; but the gal r) h... 1,, er,wdrd, and the ma, to grr.t, tba‘
•114 ImpoiLtplc to c.41,..1 the httaance of ht. obfere.auum h.
conrl_,Sed web moving. tint an a.: ant b. Lid twiner Th.. Hr.:11..
Of the yrgducc of tt,e tke la4t tWO leat., 1.1144011

the yth of Wintry, .1303, and the st% oflontary. Ann. atts •
Quilting the 'mounts and dates or the refphn duties, Re.
Atka also words from Mr. VANSITIART, the madam waa
acted to.
It WM agreed to, that the Houk Mould nest Monday rekhe la
felt into a Committee of the whole Houk on the Minna Officers Bill.