114) ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
ment on the town, which, how- 
ever, soon ceased. An order of 
the day was soon after published 
by the Swiss commander-in-chief, 
Bachman, mentioning that the 
incursions of the French troops 
into the territories of Switzerland, 
attended with the plundering of 
villages, having rendered the ad- 
vance of the Swiss troops neces- 
sary, and at the same time seve- 
rai French frontier districts hav- 
ing requested that they might be 
occupied by the Swiss, they had 
entered the French territories, in 
which, however, they were order- 
ed to conduct themselves as the 
friends of the inhabitants. Basle 
continued to be held in alarm by 
the threats of the commander of 
Huningen to lay it in ashes 
if he were bombarded by the 
besiegers, till it was relieved by 
his surrender; and the total demo- 
lition of the strong works of 
that fortress was one of the desi- 
rable results of the final success 
of the allies. 
The principal opposition to the 
new Helvetic confederation ap- 
pears to have existed in the old 
democratic cantons; and in that 
of Unterwald tumults prevailed 
which caused the Diet to send 
commissioners in August to the 
lower part of that canton, who 
by their prudent measures effected 
the complete union of that dis- 
trict with the rest of their coun- 
trymen. The commissioners, in 
a proclamation to the people of 
Lower Unterwald, dated Stanz, 
August 26th, express their satis- 
faction at the recognition of the 
legitimate authority, and bestow 
their parting advice for the pre- 
servation of tranquillity and good 
order. The diet passed a resoiu- 
tion for the re-admission of the 
canton into the confederation un- 
der certain stipulations, which de- 
note that a resistance to the pay- 
ment of the contingent imposed 
upon it was the cause of the dis- 
turbance. It may now be hoped 
that the federal constitution of 
Switzerland is so well arranged 
and finally established, that it will 
have no more storms to undergo, 
and will assure to that country 
the internal happiness and moral 
respectability, which have long ob- 
tained for it the admiration of 
Europe. 
