He Is Married To A Very Amiable
Russian Lady, And Having Acquired A Pretty Good Fortune In Russia, He Lives
Here Very Happily And Comfortably; But Notwithstanding This, He Is Often
Tempted To Visit Paris, Milan And Other Great Cities, And When There, Sighs
To Return To His Native Mountains.
As the Ultras of France bear a great hatred towards the inhabitants of the
Canton de Vaud, on account
Of the asylum given and sympathy shown to the
proscrits, they have been at the pains of trumping up and printing a
pretended petition from the inhabitants of the department of the Doubs,
praying that the French Government would endeavor to obtain the removal of
these proscrits from the Canton de Vaud, and stating that the said Canton
was the foyer of Jacobinical principles, and the place where Napoleon's
return from Elba was planned and accelerated, and thro' which the
conveyance of intelligence backwards and forwards was conducted. I have no
doubt that in this petition more is meant than meets the ear; that the
Oligarchs of Bern, as well as the Ultras of France, have a share in it, and
that it may be considered not so much as an attempt to compel the Canton to
refuse asylum to these exiles, as to excite the Great Powers to enforce the
abolition of the independence of Vaud, and to replace it under the dominion
and authority of the Canton of Bern.
Everybody here, however, sees thro' the drift of this petition, and many
persons whose names are put down as having signed it, have written to their
friends at Lausanne, to declare not only that they never signed such a
petition, but their entire ignorance even of the agitation of the question
till they saw the petition itself in print.
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