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


IN the month Of May, prepared for Barthelsmy
triunphal arches, four months after Jaw HIM
carried, as q vile criminal, from province to
province, in fort of cage, without receiving he |
inlallelt mark of pity or nteret in bis fufF.rngs
and the Official Of thofe who ufurped
hs place now announces, as proof of their hu-
mainly, thar having fallen ill, he has been tran
fported TO the hofPital of Caysnzs, where he IS |
Psyffaly qUeR taken care qjc
However ttiking may be this individual ex-
ample Of the vicilliudes of revolution, ii il |
nothing in comparilon with thescataRyophe Of
Switzerland. Hardly had the dire9ory rid
themielves of Mr.. Bartheiemy, aud dilarmed
Aultris when they judged that IN opportunity
had arrived Of feizing the treafure Of Berne, and
delivering up to Pillage that canton, and thofe
OF tnbourg and SoleuFe. A project which they
took great care 70 conceal until the moment
when one column Of the army Of Italy, defined,
as was iald, againa England, arrived on the
frontiers OF the Pays de Vaud. Although this
route was the natural march Of the troops, he
lllu'ion of the Magiltrates Of Switzerland On this
point was d'fiPated, in degree, after the events
hat took place at Portion, the 18Th Fru9i ior.
ihofe Of Berne, even began to replace thsr
confidence in Mr.. Steigner, when news fom
Paris announced 70 them, that il was no longer
he time to have recourle TO their councils, that
they NUT fly to'aTms that having waited the
liiue of the continental war, they were now con
demned TO fuftain its whole weight and that
the army Of Italy marched againa them a
lone.
The Directory. not choofing to truf entirely
70 the bravery OF this army, applied themf-lve
W.T. N IL.
cal governments from the people, and to take
from them, if Poaiole, the fupport of their fob
Jacts, BY endeavouring to Perfuade the latter
that they had no other view, than to force the
Patrcian families to divide the naturalization,
WI the other claGes of citizens. This attempt
produced no eIetl upon che German people Of
thele cantons but there was in that dilfria Of
Switzerland called the Pays de Vaud, A certain
olals of Inhabitants amonga the Towns people,
who had long time free been tempered with
By the Diredory who fecrslly offered them its
uPPort. The only thing which rearained them
was the fear of pafing under the dominion of
France, in accepting her preferred afIifanre.
With view TO tranquilize this devoted psos
pie the Directory did not helitate to de5lare BY,
their Miniaer at Bale, " that far from being
difpofed to make conquels upon the Helvetic
Body, or entertaining the fmalet deGgn againf
its integrity, the French republic was determi-
ned, to live in peace and perfect harmony with
the Swifs nation, and even to guarantee, IN The
mot folemn manner its independence and its
freedom.
To give more weight to this declaration the
directory, four days after, ftized an location to
fupprefs, with much Glamour, iome Of the Paris
news papers, againa which was charged very
heavy crime, namely, tie intention 10 cai4maate
the directory in imputing to them views Of H.
vadizg Switzerland, contrary to good faith
Hitherto, fir, yen perceive 10 this ltroke of arbi
trarypower, only the effect Of extreme delicacy,8S
fanfblity, which had induced the French gov
eminent TO refute, with 70 much Glamour, the
fmallel iafinuaton of breach Of public faith
bur read the lat words Of this incendiary drrcfe,
viz. I" and thereby fighter the Helvetic people,
upon the consequences of thofe meaiures, viii
il would adopt to sfaJhb fteay IN he Plenitzde
IF tIeir- rights"
This was only, as you perceive, new verfion
of the famous decree Of the 18TH November,
1894, which, notwithRanjiog what certain wri-
tiers have been plea'ed TO fay, has never been
revoked, but is, at this day, il full force
But the Directory was not content with this
war ofthe pen; for, atthe fIuetime they ordered
ed their troops 70 take poftEion Of that part OF
the Bihoprick Of Ba1e, into which they had
not yet penetrated. This march placed The
troops at the difance only Of fever or eight
leagues from BeIne, and then TO conpleat an
infurre6tion Of the people, and frighten the ad-
miniarators, It was notified to the latter On the
twenty eighth Of December, that the mem
bers Of the government Of Berne and Fribourg
ihould anfwer feri5naR for the iafety Of the
pcrfons, and property Of he inhabitants Of the
Pays de Vaud, who had applied, and who might
yet apply to the French republic to claim BY
her mediation, the execution Of ancient treaties,
to the end Of maintaing them in or reaorng