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tined to carry on a new and unufval war- 
-fare amidft its cragey precipices and in 
the depth of its abyffes. The whole fur- 
rounding country abounds with atcounts 
of the intrepidity, obedience, fidelity, and 
fiurdinefs, of thefe Northern warrioss. 
Even the French officers were often heard © 
to fpeak with admiration of their military 
virtues. 
The melancholy incidents which tcok 
place during thefe hoftilities are necefiarily 
frefh in the memory of the inhab:tants. 
Among feveral which have beén related 
to me, I cannot refrain from communi- 
cating one which has ftrongly impreffed 
my mind. A newly-married pair were 
living happy and carelefs in their village 
when the tidings were brought by fugi- 
tives of a decifive battle having jult taken 
place in the neighbourhood. "The report 
was too foon confirmed by the thonderings 
of the approaching cannon. 
groom, equally animated by a martial 
fpirit and a love for nis wife, wavered be-~ 
twixt the defire of engaging in the con- 
teft and of flying with the cbjeé& of his 
affections. He went outas far as the hafty 
intrenchments of the retreating- party, 
where cannon was already planted again 
cannon, and where the cries of the com- 
batants were loft in the horrid roar of 
guns and the clafh of arms. In this {ceneé 
of tumult the thought of his bride and of 
her abandoned fate gaining the afcendan- 
cy io his mind, he haftencd back to his 
houfe amidft a fhower of balls, which 
ftruck the earth on all fides of him. Be- 
fore be reached his home his aged parent 
et him in tears, and pointed tothe roof, 
ere a hoftile ball-had violated their 
peaceful dwelling. Where is my wite? 
was the reply of the anxious hufband 
On beine informed that fhe was in the 
houie, and had gone up ftairs to fee the 
cottage that was faid to be burning in the 
mtighbourhood, he flew.to the garret, 
where to ins inexpr reffible horror he faw her 
weltering ia her blood. The vevy ball 
which had ftruck the roof had taken off 
both her legs in the ‘sieiesit in which. fhe 
looked out of the window. She now lay 
in the agon‘es of death ; he threw himielf 
befide her; and recalled her for a moment 
to life by the loudnets of his lamentations. 
She epened her eyes, effayed to ftretch 
forth her arms, and moved her lips to 
{peak to him ; but ber arms funk, her 
hips refufed to do their office, the reclined 
her head, and her foul fled to heaven ! 
She is dead, cried the frantic hufband, 
ftarting up, and breaking through the 
cscwd of fpeftaters, who vainly attenipt- 
Letters on the Prefent State of Switzerland. 
The bride- | 
(July l, 
ed to oppofe his progrefs, he ruthed to- 
wards the intrenchments, and was feenno 
mere. ; 
Some foldiers. afterwards related that a 
young man fuddenly ipruag im among 
them, they knew not from MPR {nat ch- 
ed the arms from the hands of one of 
them, and was darting over the intrench- 
ments with incredible fury, when fome 
grape-fhot fhatrered his body in pieces, 
and numbered him with the flain who fill 
ed the ditch. There he probably remain 
ed; for when the intrencoment became 
ufelefs, after having been ftormed by the 
enemy, the moat was clofed up, aod fery- 
ed as a commoa grave fo r the frienilefa 
ftranger and the uokappy hufband, whofe 
beloved wife, after a week"s univa, was 
corfigned at the fame time to a grave in 
the neighbouring church-yard ! ; 
Zurich is not ‘elegantly buil:, its freets 
being narrow and crooked. 
principal public edifices are the town- 
houfe, the two cathedrals, St. Peter’s, and 
the orphan houfe, which latter is the mott 
Geant place in the city. The town- 
houfe is decorated with the buits of great 
men of Greece, Rome, and Helvetia, wha 
have defeived weil of their country in the 
caule of treedom 3 and its shall contains 
the reprefentations of every {pecies of fith 
found in the Zurich lake. 
Before the Revolution the arfenal, one 
of the mott confiderable in Switzerland, 
wes exhibited as 4 very great curiofity, 
pellefing very imp rtant hiftorical anti. 
quities, ‘no leis inftruétive than venerable. 
Of the latter defcription was the bow and 
arrow with which William Tell is faid to 
have fhot the apple from fits fon’s head at 
the consmand of Gefsler ; and the battle. 
axe of the famous military prie&{ and re- 
former Zaingli, But the arfenal and trea- 
fury, beth here and in other parts, were 
alike cleared by the French. 
In the public-library are Rill preferved 
the orizinal letters of the unfortunate Lady 
Jane Gray and the MS. of Guintilian, 
from. which the firft modern edition was 
printed. The latter was difcovered, to~ 
getber with many other copies of the clat= 
fics, among the multy legends of the Be- 
nediét ne Abbey of St. “Gall. Fuefsli’s 
Magazine of Arts is cne of the richeft and 
mot valuable in Switzerland, being an 
ailemblage of all the fineft prod uGions of. 
modern artié s, in which clafs he himfelf 
hoids a re(peCtable rank. ‘The collections 
of the Phy fical Society are entitled to par- 
ticular notice, on account of Ufteri’s to. 
pogtaphical curiofities; Geffner’s draws 
ings, and a confiderable part of Lavater’s 
phy fopnans 
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