Private Correspondence.
The Times, 1824-09-07T00:00:00

hence tie expulsion from our territory of the foreigners who come to seek an asylum with us, tbe Alinisters of tle Holy Alliance harass less the Governments of the Cantons. Thc Prussin An inisters are the only ones who formed new demands, but upon the refusal to conform to them, even they have ceased from solicitations. They wished to force the Governmnent of our canton to deliver up to them a flrus;ian by birth of our university, called Follenius. It was proved to them that this professor had obtained the rights of citi- zen4hip, andS then they did net think proper to insist upon his being deliveted up. They then complained that the canton of Basle had nanied professor, the celeb.ated 51. de Wette, wiho had been expelled froni one of the Univecsities of Germany. They likewise demanded I his expulsion. The canton refused to concedc the point, and its. Univcrsity was immediately denounced by them to Europ,e as al focus of bad doctrines. Prassia, in consequence, prohibited all its subjects to prosecute there their studies. The Prussian Cabinet is put in motion by two of the lowest agents of the Holy Alliance-by one called Fauche Borel, who has been a long time notorious for his intrigues and his quarrels with the Bourbons of France, and by a bookesell tof qtrasburg, n-namied Schoecl, who, after failing once or twice in business, entered into thec service of Prussia, in 1813, with the title of Court Counsellor. These agents act upon the Govemments which employ them as the police director of Hesse Cassel acted upon the Elector, by inspiring thnem with false terrors. Let us hope that they will meet with the same fate, and that the striking example which the Elector lias made of Manger, his director of police, will not be entirely lost on the King of Prussia. But though at the present momnent the Governments of this coun- try are not tormented by the Holy Alliance, Swiss patriots are far from being at ease with respect to the future prospects of their country. They forsmerly found a cause of sccuritv in the jea- IOUKY w hich the French Government entertaiiied towards tie Powers of the North, and particularly towards the lousc of Atstri,a. They now see with alarm that the Cabinet of thic Tuileries becomes fromn day to day a mnore docile iestrurnent in the hands of the Russian and ! Austrian diplomatists. Last year Austria employed the agents of; the French G4overnrnent to cotupli Ltq to drive awav thc forvieners who resided on ouir territoryg and this vcyur it is Rutisia which tite. naes almost openly the diplomatic agents or France. andl which chooses thcm as among its own subjects. Scarcely ha- Baron Darnae, a French emigrant, long in the service of Russia, suc- ceetled M. de Chateaubriand in the Alinistry of Foreizn Aftairs, i than he honoured with the title ot Ambis.sador to the hele.rI tic Conftderatiose Viscourtt Duinustier, who held before on]y' the title of Charg6 d'Atlaires. At the same time he appointed S.' rrtarv of Embassy a Russian colonel, called d'l-lHver, settled tor si!me time in the caniton de Vaud, in the tneighbourhood cf IRLiicannc; for you knlow that Russia lias colonels wverever she needs police- agents. Some persons have ascribed this stratige appointment to the influence of the Jesuits, and inore particularly to that of he Abb6 Nicole; but others consider it more natural to believe that his Imperial Majesty had jtudged it not altogether useless to nmake a colonel of hiis army watch) the diplomacy of the Baron de Danmas, whom he long held in his service, and w ho owes to him, it iS said, thle rank of Minister. You ought not to be astonishetl if there ahould also be ascribed to tlte Jesuits the appointment of Secretaries of Emba1ssy, and the most important acts of the Frencl Government. This soviety has become a part and an instrument of the fHoly Alliance. It is, like the trunk of htic clephant, capable of seizing the smallest objects, and raising the heaviest nmasses. After the f.ll of Naro- leon, the centre of its operations was established at Brigue. near the Simplon, its order to be in a situation to take advantage of fa vourable opportunities. Nowv that it completely cornmands in Fribourg, its head-quarters are abont to be removed thither. Thie object which it has most at heart in Switzerland is the conquest of the establishnment which it formerly had ati,tcerne. MWhilst the diploniatists, anti their allies the Jesuiits, proceed in the oldl manner to consolidate or increase thleir influence anti their wealthl, thL industry of the inhabitants of Switzerland is developing itself. A second steam-boat has ;Ust been launched on the Lake of Geneva; a new one is about to be esta- blished ott the I,ake of Neucliatel, and another on the Lake of Con- gtance. Considerable puiblic establishnients are fonning in several cantons, and the number of new lhDuses whicih are springing up on all sides, announce that peace is not less favourable to Switzerland than to other states of Europe. I3ut how long will Governmients uchi as ours be endured by the Holy Alliance ? Our weakness or our comnplaiiance with respect to the great Powers of the Continent is so much the talk of Elurope, that I catinot refrain from relating to you an example of courage which has just been given by one of our smallest cantons. A French General, of nearly eight ' years of age, completely deaf, tad partly paralyzedt by two or three attacks of apoplexvy was amnong the number of men pro -11-1 Dy 0- 1l.y AlMiano. Until laot year lie w-a permitted to reside in the canton de Vaud, but at that period all the great Continental Powers united to cosivpel the Governmcnt of that canton to banish him froTn its territory. The old General, seeing no asyltm onen for himn, appealed to the compassiotn of AM.de Chateaubriand. to allow him to terminate his ca- reer in peace at Lausanne; but the ntolle Viscount was relentless,and it was necessary to obey. He then t(Kok reftge in one of the smallest cantons of Switzerland, that of Appenzehi. The notes of the Holi Alliance followed him, but whetlher the Government of that canton felt itself protected by the nmountams, in the ceotre of whicha it ig placed, or whether it was of opinior that Europe wouldl not put ar- mies in snotion for the purpose ot secizing an oild man on the brini of the grave, it resisted the clmitinental diplomacy with cou- rage, and in the endI its intlepen(lenite was respecteth. PRIVATE CORREsPOAVDBYCP. ARAU, AUGUST 24.