The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-09-17

tar as dcPenISd upon theADs ~ ioE"1i.sS =" A
revolutionary Judgments, by diicTdng from
public empoymeats thols WHO had concnFred ~
hem, and BIZ re eaabliihing Tort ct calm,
during The whole interval which was afforded
BY the interruptions Of the daorganizing Prejetts
Of the French directory.
IN Feb Ian, when toe troops OF Gen. Menar1
entered the Pays de Vaui, & advanced aganit
Berne. they bad no immediate interea in ieiz-
ing on Geneva, much leis had they any pretext
face It was completed maaiepahzsd, according
70 the orders it had recsived. The Gencyans
forgot then, their pat calamities, to weep over
thof. which threatened the RET Of Switzerland,
The only perfonal fesr which they could then
entertain was that cf feeing tlemleves ircorpo-
rated With the greae republic, who might be Dc
firous OF fome hrors hold to keep Switzerland
ii check. But i-pcver apparent the danger
was, they confoled thsmfelves, on receiving the
proclamation of Cen. Lrune, dated 10Th March,
wherein he reieets a. a hgnal calumny, the iup-
Pofton of 9 Prelee to conquer any part Of
Seitzetland Z Ne, hys The general, " the
French republicwhes to appropriate TO heifclf
nothing which belongs TO th5 F7elgedc. conlede-
racy."
a denial 70 formal Gained the mon fufpicious
Genevaas, and hey mutually reProached hem
lelves FOR having given way 70 iuch unjna fuf
picions If the viswk Of the GREGORY toward
them, when Defportes, the FIench refdent al
Geneva, oeTred a Confidential inerview with
thofe citizens who fcod higheft in the public
option, to whof. confederation lie fdbrnitted the
tignal advantages they wculd derive from beng
Incorporate ed with The Great Nation. Cbierve
the fame turn If Fhraf- is prelrrved, which the
agents Of the directory adopted three months
before With The Americas mniaers, tbat FraHce
did not make tie demand, bat tbops5s Il qy9Hia BE-
mare delicate that tbe afr Eop4 cane from tbsu.
Defportes added, that if they had the w1dom
to enter into bis views, and to anticipate his
wilhes, in expecting it as their own voluntary
and fponraneous delire, be was authorized to
grant to them the mot advantageous condi-
tions--among others, exemption from all mill
tary requiGticns during the prefenr war, the
pref.rvation Of their worlhip, Of their academy,
Of their hoGpitals, and of their property, midi
vual and national, sc.
The citizens TO whom he addreG.d himfelf,
might indeed have demanded upon what ground
the French republic was likely to have
more iacred regard for this fecond treaty than
for the promies which fhe bad formerly made,
never to makeNany attempts on their political
independence. Promiles to which lhe had given
the greatelt folemnity and publicity by fufpend-
ing the aandard Of Geneva by The fide Of that
Of the United States of America. But they
contented themfelves with requiring from him
an explanation Of the nature of thofe dangers to
which the refutal would expofe them. g will
not difemble,' replied he, "that Geneva would
be treated as Rate again9 which France has
heavy caules Of complaint"
Their condemnation was at the highef ex
IRENE but the danger Of the moment united
citizens of all parties not one voice was heard
to comply with the dere Of France and the
aftmbly Of the psople appointed commifion,
competed Of all the magifrates Unfortunately,
TO deliberate on meafures for laving the repub-
lie unanimous in the rcfolution Of ending
the independence of their country, and above
all, never to make the facrihce vomntarily.-
Thele commlioners relolved to accede to all
the Others, excepting thzt one; fuoh was the
tenor Of noe, in which they anlwered, to the
Refident Of France, towards the end Of March,
/" the difpoGtion of the people of Geneva 90
enter into every arrangement which might be
Agreeable to the Great Nation, with one iinale
relerve, reverle Of which they alone could
properly appreciate thevalue, tbat " TIER p3z:cai
iHdepeHdsnoe." The ReGlent, enraged at this
note, which was in etfea, folemn Pr0tef, redou-
bled the meafnTes Of rigcur fer the blockade Of
Geneva, which, fince the occupation Of Savoy.
IS furFonneed On every iIe by the French terri
tory. He went farther; he informed the IT.
habtaTe' that if they did not choofe to negotiate
With good grace with him, they mi ht treat 7val
NE uiaorioar airy then a their g4tef. As they
had declared to him beforehand that tbeywould
not have recoureto any phytisal reliance a.
gainlt open force, but that they would prefer
the peril offuch an attempt to the dif!race of
GRAZING themf.ives from the number Of Sover
eign and Independent States, this menace nei-
ther intimidated nor difunited them. Itislrnly
renarkahe that - this nar.nl III = -. -.