The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-12-23 00:00:00

TO THE CURIOUi.

To be DISPOIE iTi; CONTRACT.
r 11111 IR El; very extraordinary IN E itA L CU-
JL 10:411 Es, lately found in a rich Copper Mine, in
the County of Corner. Ta,.• brat is a Slab of Virgin and
Cbr,suillszed Clipper, nci4Uiug loalbs. which, fur size and
pinny of Metal, exceed. any thing of ilia Mud ever lOW in
tais kiagdnal. fhr fCCifiki asid third, weilibitig about tea
ponds each arc speriaseid of brilliant Native Copper,
coated with Malachite, an I interspersed with Ruby t;arys-
tals of the frollir.s rug distinct and defined tunas, via. Four-
aided Pyraarids, Cusses, :Ltd Ithipashs.
The above are well %surto the attention of the carious, and
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ma and Go. Nu. ti, IVardrube.cauri„ that:lolrs' Cllo3lllUlli, re.
apectiug the Aline, are requested to determine no or before the
3.lth lad. and to siguify we:more us above, where the Speci-
mens are to neseeta, and Particulars known.

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PktOPOSITI TENAL

LONDON:
SATURDAY, DEC&USER 23.

TOE march of the French troops into the Swiss
territory has excited surprise, ev,oi on the Conti-
neht of Europe, where the vices and immediate
objects of France may be presumed to be in ge-
neral sere correctly known than they arc in this
country. That the introduction of these formi-
dable friends among the peaceful Swiss is nut rod.
come, may be easily conceived. The Foreign
Journals concur in describing the unexpected
visit to have produced a strong sensation. We
are hourly told of the brutality and excesses
of the French soldiers, the arrogance of the of.
Berra, and the iurariable horrors by which the
progress of their armies is marked.. With refe-
rence to Spain and Portugal this may be a correct
description: the French troops have committed
innumerable outrages on the persons and property
of the inhabitants of the Peninsula, who arc in
the interest of FLUDINAND the V 1 ith ; but the
people of the Peninsula are not remiss in retails-
tion. Although it has hitherto been found lin.
possble to supply the regular troops with arms, it
is well known that every peasant has arms,
of some description, without which, be uever
moves ; and wherever an advanced French Par.
ty is surprised by the Peasants, no man is
left to tell the talc, and the bodies of
the victims are invariably interred on the spot.
In this way thousands of the French troops hare
disappeared from the commencement of the c.,n.
test. We, however, see ho reason to suspect
even, that the conduct of the French troops,
in entering the Cantons of Switzerland, will be
marked by any such scenes of outrage and bru.
tality. For whatever political object they may
have entered Switzerland, the preservation of
the friendship of the inhabitants is clearly
the natural policy of France. It has been
conjeetttrad, that in the Cantons of Switzer-
land there existed a stroug party in the interest of
Germany, which, bad the French been less ra-
pidly successful at the opening of the Arvettrian
campaign, would have Mem/ themselves. To this
party is imputed the having supplied the Tyrolese
with arms and gunpowder. Whatever be the oc.
easion of the quartering, of French tr,oops in Suit.
I zeriand, we shall, at th, remote period, leery the
object of France, and that may, in some degree,
teed W.Alteclove the ketteral views of that colossal