Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-12-21

the French government IS loosi ds - iaW
the diieTdeg checked, and lis mediation
demanded, hatteaed to make the event
known to the adjoining powers. The
following is the letter shat was written
on the location on the 5th 10 M. de Get
TO. AIinilter Of Bavaria.
TIE MMyfsr IF Foreign Affairs Y N. De
Ceft0.
Pa,4s, n Sd Nexdemaire, Goa. 49,
SIR,
4 The relations Of neighborhood which
sexiR between Bavaria and Switzerland,
and which will be rendered cloler by the
acquihtion his electoral highns.s IS about
to obtain in Germany, mutt have made
him dirett his particular attention to the
lase events of which Iiclsetia has been
the theatre. That country has beenlong
divided. An influence OF intrigue and
money has hitherto prevented the govern
nent eaabliihsi by the faffrages OF the
majority from aloming the petition and
the power necelia.y TO IT'S preiervation.
As long as the oppotition was confined
TO iniduous ana oeicure practices, the
FirR Conful III ught he ought not TO inter
fere in difcufions 10 which tiGle and the
influence of the general tranquility OF Eu
rope ~plomiied continually to put an end.
Ba, at length the enemies OF the tielvetlc
people have attempted an open expedition.
Blood has flowed, aud Helvella hiss been
menaeed with general dearuttion.
In this frishtfaE conjecture, the wiihes
of all have demanded the mediation of the
rira Conlul. The very party which had
armed againG the government, drawn a.
way by the opinion Ct men who mutt have
been miled, to attach them to i, have
been forced 70 claim folemnly the media
tion of France.
The Continental Powers adjoining Hell
yeIia, have nor contemplated, without
apprrhenlion, the external effstts Of a dit
orler, The focus of which was eaablihed
IN, that country. IN This fate of affairs,
humanity, the inserei Of France and Of
Earopc, demanded thar The Fiff Coniul
ihoald deia from the determination he
had made not 10 Interfere in the affairs ct
Switzerland. He fpolle as a mediator,
as a fr:end, and EIevesia was paclfied.
The people have returned TO their homes.
Thofe finpls and jais men, ieeing they had
been abufed, have menaced with their
arms the Chiefs who had attempted to de-
fame France in their Mods, and who IL
their public ats, had yentuTed to inveigh
againa her. General contempt now does
iutice 10 their clanlaars.
Such, Sir, are the facts which have
thought il NY duty TO communicate to
rou. TIE sSirf Lonfal neitherought nor
would abandon coartry which itands IN
need Of the friendthip Of France, & which
without The bensht OF his influence, would
have pafIei in a fhort time through all the
horrors of anaschy under the ancient
yoke, which it feels isiclt happy TO have
broken.
.NfZSJ the utSrttt} t' A1''1'So
rio natioa to fix ar length ferteiE, and IN
- ;rrcyocahle manner, her eopitnutional
,,eainy, he has nat ceafed for one moment
% coagiler thar the mot psrtess inlepen-
saeaee ought % be the BATS q her contiiu-
tioa. Tie right 81 e!tabiilhing her own
,r,sa;..rioa acquired hv fsslscsia, is one
- thc eiorians tsiu.ts Of he war which
r,ance has faifsined agamit 'ae mon pow
s,.ul armies of Europe, and st the treaties
,yh;ch hsve 5ermiasted i.
IT IS hecaafc iisIyelia poiitf : this ri5a1
CO, he Victories. aai the benevolent
noI,ey of Francs, that the llfit eonial
sva,,la new psa5eta the exerei!e OF IL and
49, essc that a handful Of sasouleat EN-,
srso,s. delestets from farelsa arasies' aad
: 10 have iuit carried Ere a'ad l~ora into
~ own country, shsli GOT iaceeed 10
sr,9;ying the whoie aln'iE OF sh1ir lei
,ag citiz-ns osttelr rights.
!, IS nor by fueh men that tire Treaty
ela,ev;lle can be invoked IN wnst re-
= ~ us,yetia. hus by the great portion )