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

iuch great advantages over the army OF Berne
Bur The defendants Of William Tell, ought not
70 count upon their defpair and | viii not
dlicrnble 70 you, that want The news of the
frlf battle with 20 much the more anxiety. as
the cabinets Of the continental powers appear TO
look for The refult Of this conteG with the fame
indifference, as for that of the revole Of the
Pacha P4lwan Oglu againlt the Porte. | add,
not without the NIT ienible grief, that the
greatsa pait Of the people Of Europe, ieemto
behold the expiiing fight of HelveJic liberty,
with the fame itupid Rare that the imple iuha-
bitants Of a village regard at public lhow, The
fictiops fpeaacle Ct a dwarf combating a giant.
Tnevertheleis except from this cenfnre, ali claf-
fes Of the Englith nation, in whom this aggf eff
Gon has caufed fuch an indignation againf the
French, and fentiment Of lympaty 70 general
and oRrong IN favor Of the unfortunate Swifs,
that had their reiiRasce been prolonged few
days, flbfcription, truly national, would have
beeE opened, 10 have enabl-d them to fnhain
70 unequal ccntea. I doubt not, Cir, that the
news Of their cataarophe has produced in Anne
RIGA fmilar imprelions. well know thar,
even before this LAT dreadful event, your CHI
zens, VINO at fTf offered toheaven their iihctreif
prayers that Frarce might take her rank
mong free nations. have not been able to refrain
from beholding as the mott abominable tyran-
ny, that which the revolutionifs Of the day dare
TO call BY HE facred name Of Liberty. The only
c0nfblaton I experience, in the prelent rnomen.,
is in linking on the three people who reia,
with 70 much horror, the empoIoned doctrines
of the Frenchs They are, in truth, the only
three free people in the univerfe the little
cantons Of Switzerland, the people Of Great
Britain, #**# ss*#M@ and thofe If the
United States Of America. Here delight to
repofe myfelf on The idea Homage and glory
to real liberty 1t behoves all thofe who are
her true votariss, TO tear the MAX from thofe
bafe importers who have dared to feize en- her
Randards, to blaipheme her name, and who
would have made her odious, if ever true liberty
could have been rendered 70.
believe forgot to mention to you, that,
before the attack Of the Pays de Vaud, Men
caud, the new French ambahador, had exerted
his utmoa efforts to divide the members Of tile
Diet, and to break the bond Of the Helvetic
union.
1t iuccecded only in regard TO Bale, s, there
merely 70 far as to cauie an infurre6tion Of a
part ofthe people, who feized on the arfcnal on
the 18th February, at the very moment when il
Fribourg, and Soleure. The revolutionias of
Ba1e, who, at The fame time pcftaed them
felyes of the government, recalled their repre-
ientatives from the Diet, and periuaded them.
lelves that, BY 70 Ggnal fervice, they had in
lured their claim to the everiaaing gratitude Of
France. But leave yon to Judge of their
iurPrile, when, having reclaimed a certain
quantity Of brals that they poheAed in the arfe-
nal of Berne, and which they prefumed the
French had taken BY miRake, Mengaud an
f"ered them on thc Tzth March, that he beg
ged cave to congratulate thsm upon the atten-
tion which they paid to every thing that related
10 their own interef, without feeling the lea9
anxiety about the cares and folicitudes of the
French republic, and without coniidering that
his troops have more need than they Of the ar
ticles reclaimed for the csnqu5R of freedom, and
the a'qirtainance Of The HrlDefic rfesbht."
This was not all for few days after, this
fame Mengaud brought forward another affair
that had been long fincc fcttled relating to the
citizens of Bale, againR whom France pretend.
ed fhe had reafons Of complaint, and who had
flfered a verdia, with which MIR. Bartheeny
had declared hinfelf fatisfed. His fncceGor
affected to confder this verdiA as an act of deri-
hon, demanded a new hearing Of the caufe. aud
added, that be could not conceal, thar he fhould
coniider as their accomPlices every Perion who
ihould dare TO raiie a voice in their favour
L was TO this mefAge that the new national
ahembly # Bale anfvered, by laconicaliy de-
mandng il they were to underGand by hefe
words, the perlons Of the witneiTcs and Of the
lawyers.
1t is evident that fentiment of Indignation
and rage, forced from the Ballots this reply
and fhoold not &c afonfhed if the Temorf-
which they have experienced from feeling their
confederation betrayed, houd carry them, very
foon, 10 dilPlay the 6t Ggnal Of repentance
and vengeance, Sooner or later the inIurreaion
NUT BURT out. Never will France be able to
rellrai, H. eranernl Iara;- &c The S,r.c L.. L..