Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-05-08


commissary. For foreign parts. Fo'
foreign parts, and at such time ar
this Fit was isss Octoberl-where are
YOU going? To Switzerland. What
business carries you there9 None
None! and DO you expect that, having
no business, the project will permit
you to 60 there? If chuse to travel
without assigning reasons, Is the pre-
feet bound to find reasons for me? BE.
sides. is not the desire to visit that
country sufficient reason? That is
enough-the authorities must decide
you may return here in three days.
What! in three daysp--What, If | am
ali ready; if am in hurry; if my
place is taken? Three days. Pray,
have | been denounced to the commits
sary-has he any complaint to make
Of meo None. He is then satisfied
with ne and indeed the good citizens
mast necessarily be best known TO him.
Return in three days. listen to this
grave decision, pronounced with the IN.
| tlexibility OF destiny, and make up my
mind to wait till it be ascertalned whe.
Their, iu passing the Jura, l may not in
terrupt the Congress of Verona. Tie
time having past, return. Sir, said /,
with the hesitating voice of criminal,
the three days have expired. was
steadily scrutinized, asif to recall some
impression that the multiplicity of such
| affairs had for the moment effaced and
fter a short silence was ordered to
come another time. But | was only
pos, poned three days, said |. You
must come back. Are not allthe forms
gone through? No, you are not &C.
quainted with them all; and with an
air of languor and ennui, through
which appears, nevertheless, sort OF
satisfact ton in the CONSCIOUSNESS that
the authority which he exercises Is one
of the most strongly felt, a person
hands me the file relative to travellers,
and | perceive that sometimes even sup
elementary reports are required, 80 TO
the morals and politics of those apply
ing or passports.
Not knowing whether. ! had been ia.
vored with this supplementary report,
seeing that it was impossible to aseer'
tain when the clerks of their Exceilen-
cies of the Home and Of the Foreign
Departments would be sufficiently en-.
lightened with respect to me, re.
bounce all hopes of obtaining the pass.
port asked for, and therefore simply
content myself with getting an ordina.
ry passport for the frontier. l set out
l exhibit my passport to dozens OF gen
d'armes, who, after examining 1t with
all their eyes, and aseertainins, either
from the form of the paper or from the
blots and marks upon it, that 1t ia pro-
badly passport, give it back to me
| pass the frontier, and arrive at the
rates of Geneva: offending the govern
ment of that city, if any offence was
given, because I was authorized to ira
vel in Frauce and not in switzerland.
The day was Just dawning. Tne gates
OF this sage city we're closed, as III the
time when the young watchmaker,t at
forwards he author oil Emile, arriving
too late. fed to Turin. The draw
bridge was lowered over ditch, Tiled
with water from the lake. Who are
YOU. SAYS the guard? ~ FrenchFnau.
Your passport. l have nons.-iour
nance A. B-Since which | have
not perceived nor known that such a
thing as government existed at Gene
va.
In quitting Switzerland, however,
for Savoy, you soon perceive that
there is a government in Piedmont.
After having declared to the Pied.
montes Consul that would not take
the road to Turin, because Tnrin con
ducts to Verona,) lines of custom hou-
ses. performing the functions OF
sanity Gordon against certain books.
mus. be passed. If the traveller come
from any of those countries where hey
have the bad habit Of reading; if even
he read in his carriage, or have a prln.
ted book; the custom house is on the
alert. Have you the Revolution OF
Piedmont? No. What book is that9
The French Revolution. A Revoln-
ton. exclaims the whole custom house
hierarchy, Y on mus, gotothe Ceosors at
CRANBERRY In re.entering France the
influence Of authority is as immediately
! felt; particularly il you approach the
southern provinces from Montpelier
or Naybopne, the voice of clerks be-
comes louder: finally at Perpignan, the
projects. under projects and mayors,
are great diplomatists charged with
the public safety.--On an ordinary
frontier, were the servants of each no.
tel make the necessary arrangement
for passports, one employs the ordinary
method. But these we're no longer Or