Gilperfe. 
“tranfaétions of 
7802.) 
the affairs of Switzerland.: Thus difabled 
from refiftance, Deputies wefe fent to the 
Confulta at Paris, in obedience to the 
mandaté of the Conful ; bur the Diet ftill 
continued its feffion, till the march of the 
French troops compelled the patriots to 
The Diet then peaceably dif- 
folved itfelf, and terminated its proceed- 
ings by a fpirited proteft againft this vio- 
Jent invafion of the rights “of an indepen- 
dentnation, which was equally a violation 
of the treaty of Luneville. 
In this proceeding, we have faid, the 
Diet and the European Powers have 
evinced the foundelt policy. To have al- 
ferted the rights of the Helvetic people, in 
defiance of the immenfe military power of 
France, would, at this period, have been 
imprudent. It muft have involved Eu: 
rope a fecond time in the-horrors of a ge- 
neral, a ferocious, and deftructive war.— 
On the contrary, thould the Conftitution, 
which is to be ithe refult of the approach- 
ing Confulta, be as hoftile to the real 
principles of liberty as the other legiflative 
the Chief Contful, the 
time is probably not far diftant when the 
claims of the patriots may be urged with 
equal fecurity and effeé&t. The headlong 
career of Bonapz*te muft have an end ; 
the age is too enlightened to admit of def- 
potic authority, even ianctioned by opi- 
nion and cuftom; in an ufurper it has 
ever been odious, and there all parties 
will unite to crufh it. Either the mo- 
ment of revofution, or the eftablifiment of 
a juft and equal Government in. France, 
will therefore be propitious to the reco- 
very of Helvetic liberty. The vifionary 
fabric of the day will be diffolved, and 
they may recover their liberties even wide 
out the intervention of Foreign Powers, 
which will be happier and better. 
GERMANY. 
We have as yet no authentic informa- 
tion in what manner the indemnities are 
to be finally fettled. At the twentieth 
fitting, however, of the Diet, held onthe 
26th ult. an addrefs was delivered from the 
Imperial Plenipotentiary, intimating, that, 
agreeably to his Imperial Majefty’s anxi- 
ety for the maintenance of tranquillity, he 
had removed every obftacle to the fuccefs 
ef his negociations at Paris, and had 
taken for the bafis of the conclufive ar- 
rangement the fupplemental indemnity 
offered by the French Government itfelf 
for his Royal Highnefs the Grand Duke 
of Tufcany. The addrels concludes with 
hoping that he will fee inftantly eftabliflicd 
@n amicable underftanding, which will 
have for its immediate confequence the fa- 
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tisfactory regulation of the affairs with 
which the Deputation is charged. 
In confequence, alfo, we conceive, of 
fome definitive arrangement to the fame 
effect, the King of Great Britain has taken 
formal’ poffeffion of the territory of Ofna- 
burgh, and iffued a proclamation, intimat- 
ing that he had made an amicable arrange-~ 
ment with his Royal Highnefs the Duke 
of York and Albany for the immediace 
ceffion. 
WEST INDIES. 
There isno one circumftance which has 
bore «more the appearance of tyranny in 
the French Government, than its treatment 
> gs brave but unfortumate Negro Gene- 
, Louffaint Louverture. The uncon- 
poses fubjugation of St. Domingo al- 
ways appeared to usa violation of the 
only principle which could be urged ‘in 
favour of the French Revolution—the 
right of a people to chufe their own forna 
of Government. After having entered 
formally, however, into a capitulacion 
with the gallant chief already alluded to, ’ 
to make him a prifoner—to tran{port him 
to Hurope—and to keep him immured in a 
dungeon—is an excefs of tyranny of which 
the old Government was feldom guilty. 
What is worft, the alleged crimes of Pou!» 
fainthave never yet been made public. Je 
is a vicious Government which envelopes 
its proceedings in myftery 5 and, were the 
offences eftablifhed upon proper evidence, 
there is not a doubt but the Government 
would rejoice in expofing them. 
This crooked policy is, however, not 
likely to fucceed. The climate has 
fought in alliance with the Blacks ; and 
it is now confidently affirmed that authens - 
tic information bas arrived in France, of a 
new infurrection, attended with the mot 
difaftrouseffects. Some fay, General Leclere 
is dead, and others, that the French troops 
have been completely defeated. It is not 
impolfible, therefore, that the unfortunate 
Touffaint may, by one of thole viciffitudes 
common in arbitrary Governments, be 
once more drawn from his dungeon to pestle 
upon himfelf the office of ‘mediator ; or 
poffibly the circumftance may haften thé 
fate of that gallant and unfortunate chief- 
tam. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
There is a degree of myftery which fill 
envelopes the proceedings of our Govern- 
ment with refpect to its foreign relations, 
which time only will explain. On the one 
hand, the diiarming of the navy has been 
diftontinued, and even in fome counties 
the militia have been ordered to hold 
themfelves in readinefs for being re-em- 
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