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From the influence of such tenets good Lord deliver us! 
~ Such the sincere prayer of TimotHy HarrBRAIN: 
ANECDOTE OF GENERAL REDING. 
For the Bee. 
A sometimes wild, but yet, upon the whole, a good 
natured race, inhabit the desarts of the Alps in Swit 
zerland. Their stormy heaven renders them hardy 
and strong; and their pastoral life renders” them 
mild. An Englifhman has observed, that he who 
has never heard the thunder among the Alps, can 
form no conception of the roar, the reverberation, 
and tle long protracted noise, as it rolls along the 
whole horizon among these mountains ; and, on this 
account, the inhabitants of the Alps who have ne- 
‘ver had an opportunity of seeing better houses than 
their own huts, nor any other country than the Alps, 
‘consider the whole world in the light of a rough, 
astormy, anda toilsome waste. Perhaps it is so. 
But as the heavens after an awful storm resume 
their serenity and smile ; so the heads and hearts of 
the Swifs are alternately wild and complacent. This 
I can prove from history and facts. 
One of these citizens of the Alps, general Reding, 
a native of the canton of Schweitz, had lived from 
his youth with the Swifs guards in Paris and Ver- 
sailes, and’ rofe in the service of the French king” 
to the rank of lieutenant general, but remained, ne- 
verthelefs, always a Swifs. When France, about 
