Bakewell’s Travels in the Tarentaise, 5c. 
are generally neatly dressed, and the 
labourers have their clothes well men- 
ded; and appear clean and comfortable 
Beggars, or persons in rags, are rarely 
seen in the streets, unless it be a few 
stragglers from Savoy. The very re- 
spectable appearance of the female ser- 
vants, speak strongly in favour of the 
morality of the higher classcs. - 
Genéya is surrounded by what may 
be styled a level country, slightly di- 
versified with gently sloping hills of low 
elevation, and richly adorned with neat 
country houses, cheerful villages, and 
groves of the horse-chesnut. 
Perhaps no city in Europe basa greater 
variety of fine drives around it than Ge- 
neva; the roatis are excellent, and suf- 
ficiently broad for any kind of English 
carriage. Another advantage is, that 
the view of the country is not obstructed 
by ‘bigh walls, as is the case in the 
neighbuurheod of Vevay and Lausanne. 
} THE NECKARS. 
A: few miles east, on the side of the 
lake, is situated the chatean of the late 
Madame de Stae!l at Copey. It con- 
tains the body of her mother, Madame 
Neckar, full dressed, and preserved in 
brandy, by her own particular reqitest. 
In this singular state it was shown to 
visitors for several years, but the vault 
which contained it, was closed a litle 
before we were there. The early at- 
tachment of our historian Gibbon to 
this lady, will preserve her memory 
much Jonger than brandy can preserve 
her body ; and the austerity of her tem- 
per and singularity of her disposition are 
sufficiently knewn by the writings of ber 
daughter. The memory of M, Neckar 
will also remain a striking instance of 
talents egregiously overrated by his 
countrymen, and, at one period, by all 
Europe. 
M. Rocca the young and handsome 
second husband of Madame de Stael, 
did not long survive his wife: he died 
of a decline in Htaly, after lingering 
some time in his native place, Geneva. 
POLITICS. 
Of the present state of political feel- 
ing in Geneva I had some opportunity 
of judging, in the winter of 1821, when 
the Austrians were invading Naples and 
Piedmont, aod restoring depotism with 
the bayonet. I was both grieved and 
surprised to find that many of the opulent 
Genevese took -part with the unjust ag- 
gression of the Austrians, and rejoiced 
at the extinction of liberty in Italy. 
Their joy appeared to me perfectly in- 
sane, for the independence of the Swiss 
599 
republics cay only be secured by the 
existence of other independent free 
states in Europe; and, whenever the 
allied sovereigns have fully succeeded 
in their impious design to crush the li- 
berty of larger states, so surely will they, 
soon after, stamp out the liberties of the 
Swiss cantons, and that with as much 
ease as an elephant would crash an 
ant-hill with its ponderous foot.* Many 
of the citizens at Geneva have their 
treasures in foreign funds, and where 
the treasure is, there their hearts may 
be also, and they may prefer a high 
price of French rentes to all the free 
constitutions in the world. 
am EN EDUCATION. 
With respect to the eligibiiity of 
Geneva, as a place of temporary resi- 
dence for families, or for the education 
of British youth, I must leave parents 
to make what inferences they please 
from what I have already stated. It 
may, however, be right to say some- 
thing respecting the expense of edu- 
cation. ‘Those who wish to economize 
should not send their children to Geneva 
for education : the terms for respectahie 
boarding-schools for boys or girls under 
fourteen years of age, are eighty Napo- 
Jeons and upwards per annum. Young 
men received as parlour boarders, or as 
pupils, into the houses of professors who 
take only from four to five pupils, pay 
very high. I have heard of three hun- 
dred napoleons per annum being given, 
Parents who have large families, and 
who educate their daughters at home, 
may save something in the expense of 
masters; the price per bour for attend- 
ance is from two to five frances. There 
are excellent drawing-masters; hut the 
music-masters are regarded by the 
English as inferior to our own. In every 
respect Geneva may be considered as 
dearer than other towns on the conti- 
nent; but it possesses the advantage of 
being 
* I was informed by a senator of Berne, 
that soon after the marriage of Napoleon 
with the Archduchess, the house of Austria 
earnestly solicited him: to suffer the Aus- 
trians to take permanent possession of 
Switzerland, which he sternly refused. 
The fact was well known at Berne. We 
may be assured that the object is not lost 
sight of ; and, should the crusade against 
liberty in Spain prove successful, Austria 
will find no power able or willing to pre- 
serve Switzerland from her grasp, and a 
grand Te Deum will be sung, for the de- 
struction of republicanism in the centre of 
Europe. 
