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

provinces, and to whorl he made this arfger,
1t u oYs Of or pyigriois ID isterrasds " httle
q fe5ibs 4utb f5s afaal Of otEer beo6ls" Perhaps
it may be necefry to acquaint you, that th-
inhabitants Of Pays deVaud, 10 whom Ftance
thus granted her mediation, with an armed
force, were certain mea who had endeatoured
70 Introduce, into Switzerland, the French revo-
luton, nearly about the fame time, that your
government lapPrehe4, at Piitlburgh, fmilar
That Of the Vaudois was efeaed
without the eHnion Of blood but the guilty
were judged according 70 the laws of their coUn-
Try, and the greatst part were exiled, Or eicaped
INTO France, where they folicied A long time,
10 vain, the protection Of the Directory.
The latter waited only for the termination Of
the continental war to grant TO thsfe exiss
then public lupport. As1oon As theIr received
the frf fignal they paded It to their partzans,
who, thereon in feyeral Of the villages of the
Pays de Vaud ran 10 arms on the 10th of ian.
1898, planted trees ofliberty, and proclaimed
a Republic Lemaui9He.
This hgf f:ene palT-d without reliance,
which Is 70 much the more farpriiag as great
majority Of the people, effecially thole Of the
country, only waited for or3ers To fall upon he
inipfgent3, and nothing would have been more
eaiy than to have orerawed them before the ar
rival Of the French troops ;.hut the government
of Berne Aept il inch rfe6t tecurity, that noe
even one Of Their bal ifs had con4itional ORDERS
to dirett, in fuch cafe, he force qfthe J. op
who lhould remain faithful 70 their government 3
and it was by this objectionable wl1t Of fore
thought that The loyal people were reduce TO
inadion. abandoned by their legitimate chiefs,
they preferred the yoke Of the revoluti nary
Vaudois, to that OF the French lolderY, and
remained plGive, deceived By proclamation,
whsrein General Menard alured chem thar lis
army approached the frontiers only BY The eFett
of its pYeence, to prevent the enemies Of their
freedom from fuPPrelling that noble snihufalm
which elevated them to liber,y." Scarcely had
he learned that no one had nieavopred to ZIP
preis this enthuGatm than he paihed on with ali
bis troops to Laulsnne, where his irf care was
TO levy, by way of loan, lnbiidg of about fcrfy
fUs i5oaiaad pounds Gerling This unesp eaed
extorton, and the irrupson of he French, be-
gan to deprive him If the greatea rarr Of bis
pariizans but this detection did not prevent
him from purifying lis march againlt IhcGerrnaa
parr ofthe canton. The commander i'm chief cauf-
ed himfelfto Be preceded by ano.her maniieao, III
which he repeated to the B-rnois precilely what
BuonapaFte had declared to The Italians, The
french are your brothers. Put far away from
your minds all diarul; they viii refpet your
property, your cueoms, your religion, your IN
dependence. AK the inhabitants Of the PAYS
de Vaud"
While he thus invoked their tellimony. thefe
unhappy people, il defpair for having bs9n
duPei BY his firf promle, elcaped from all
parts TO JOIN the army If the B-raois, whIre
theY collected, 70 the number Of from three TO
four thouland men. Il was this column, jnlly
called the tab5t4l column, which achieved f1ch
prodigies OF valour, to eIace the blot M their
former inaGton and it was, above all, thar,
10 which the medlge OF the French Directory
alluded, when, in announcing 8he visfory, they
rePrelert it as 70 much the moye glorious, As Il
was ditputsd with uncommon bravery, and in
conceivable fury. o. the fri news Of the IN
valon the two parties al Berne were reunited
to each oher, ana it's ev1n fnd, that On this
occaiion the treafurer Frithiag dcplared, with
no leis candogr than bitterness. n iaiie policy
which had plunged all Switzerland i'd IA long
and 10 fatal a fecurity. They now thou lit
ony Of fighting, and the militia vi the German
country ran to arms with an alacrity and zeal
very proper to caufs thofe Senators ~ bluh.
who had not ceafed 10 RATE dou5ts of their
fidelity and th-ir patriotifn
They demanded with vehemense to be led
againft The enemy, and fach was the III -ention
Of their General d Erlach, forhe relied leis on
their diiciplne than or thsir valour he kn-w
the danger Of differing their en- Ia aim 10 cool
by matches and connSermarches, the expediencv
and objef Of which they would not have been
feni5le Of nor confequently did he accept Of
the command, but when inveiled with fn'l, and
the mott unlimited powers. HHdlyh had he re-
received them but be refolyeG on general T.
tack, fixed the day of battle, ard indicated his
reiolution 10 bis troops who, alho III. rilr il
numbers. receixet The news with tranlcorts &c