The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-08-29 00:00:00

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lug to the Federal. Compact, the Burgomaster Von
AV ,ss n, de Nn es 01:4'/It ?peed), of which the fol-
-I,:wiog s the 50b.0r,,,...;
Ile ti:sr .4.•tches a rat:itl picture of the unhappy
state of S.sitzerland after the Frerioli invasion at the
lwgioniell; of the itprolutiolt, the subjugation of the
coin:try, the dreadful battle fought on Swiss ground
bet w.veo the armies of the most powerful nations,
the inte,tive dis,ensions inflamed by lake ideas of H.
Per!). and equality, the change of constitutions, the
rage of factions, and lastly the act of mediation,
he observes that they spent II peaceful
years, in whist', though sobject to the will of a de.
—That, acre, however, better off than in the pe-
rim! hillne.lioely preceding. "At length," says he,
•‘lh..4},CfPd war,against the claims to the sovereignty
of th.• brought to us, as well as to the rest of
!•;,,rope, liberty and independence. The heroic ef-
f t, fso many united nations were directed by
tl:rce Nionarchs,
.whose names will be ever illustri- •
',ls 111001. V. ‘Yilh reverential gratitude Europe
bfossos their:friendship, blikses their union with that
ilow,,rtol nation, the especial friend of Switzerland,
summand the seas, and which has so
lone contended with invincible fortitude for the li-
berty of this quarter.of the globe."
He then mentions the fivour they have shown to
Switzerland, and the prospect of a happy state of
• things.
" But before this wholesome work was wholly
perfected, when suffering humanity had scarcely
dried op its bitterest tears, an unparalleled event
again filled Europe with a.tossi,hment, and laid new
burdens upon the exhausted Staten ; she formidable
Usurper, banish-41 to the rocks of Elba, broke the
peas.-of the world, and, in intelligence with a band of
great traitors, landed as a rebel on the French soil ;
• his former ride companions in arms thirsting for corn-
bait, forgetting their oaths to their lawful King,
flocked so the eagles, which promised fresit spoil and
dominion; the nation, terrified and defenceless, for-
sook its old royal family, and in a few days Na-
poleon again sat on the profaned throne of the
lino rumor."

He now notices the renewed alliance of the Sove-
reigns, the I),chration of the 13th of March, the
immensf armies sent spinet France, the accession of
the .4%si-s to the Alliance, the noble conduct of the
Swiss troops, in France, the Treaty of the `iWtl► of
Ma). &c.

At length, far from our frontiers, began the
dreadful and bloody contest. Two immortal heroes,
armed by the hand of God with the sword of venge-
ance, annihilated with their brave armies, in tour.
derous and gigantic battles, the main force of the
Usurp r, and cpeedily took the capital of the em.
pile. Important prorinces are already in the hands
of the Allies. Meantime the noble King, tried in
the .chool of adversity, has, for its safety and deli-
verance, mounted, for the second time, the long-
altak•ut terone of his fathers. To put a happy end
to tee boumlless confasion of his kingdom, is the in-
finileiy difficult object of his uncommon wisdom and
ton !,cation. Switzerland also honours in him the
august successor of its ancient Allies, who had al-
rfad. shared with the Allied Monarchs the care of
our welfare. May the loyalty acrd gratitude of a
numerous people, who owe to him a second deliver-
ance, and w ho have been, for centuries, our friends,
rewwrd the gencrouc Prim:cr.')
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fie then commends the behaviour of the Swiss in
the resent crisis, thanks the Representatives of the
Al led Sovereigns, and concludes by imploring the
Di hie blessing upon the renewed swiss Code:fere-
tidn.