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federacy than that which issued ff l fmm ^^ t ^ -Wk ^ tifpfirft' ^ % r |^ iffepfi ^ W&ci ^ hf ekmiiiUi 0 tt & threat ! tiet \* iifr d * it * u ei&ri . ; C " '" ¦ ¦¦ " ¦'* ^ " '" ¦ " ¦ ' -
The battle of Lefpsic hurled down the sovereign of the French fftfcto ^ JaStf * proud pre-eminence . Every succeeding day witnessed the defeat of some of his armies , tiHft& , l 6 W ^ df for ttesses and towns ,
and the confederated sovereigns followed up the blow with as much energy as the state of thefr finances «§< $££ % i ^ ti gii e ? they had already incurred would permit . Their troops advanced to the
Rhine , waiting for the signal , when they should pass it over in different dktricts ^ -ai > d com pel Fran ce StefegfeCfciradbich shauld idestft > y i ^ iprepoaderjvnce ih tfee affairs of feaifgpl ^ efA ^^ r ^ n cfert the plans ^ ttte ^ flMftri emfeissfceih to have
b . (^ n iwr adJ , and terms were ofkveiirtQ Baifctiaparte , % e j > rebise flAMrg ^ Mtl ^^ fully tefetfl t ^ Sf ^ l %£ Wfefct&v ejr they h 7 iK
fW ^ ifeWi ^) # ; priBfessear to haVe ii ^ ied fij ^ i hm ^ tit was Ms wish tJ ^ t-an atniisti ce should take place tffiftfefe C ^ rms ivere arranged ; but t « i ^ # t ^*^^ to be obtained ; and A ^ pt ^ emedrtated attack on France
tite c * fi' « sd ^ mtb execution ; A W ^ f ^ s ^ mo ^ chGdinvery d \ U feitt ^? terms frhm that of the © Pifa ?< tf Brunswick , t > r © ceded the ¦
iQfi » Mfibte ;| a ^ rayi Nbthi ng degnading t ^ the French people was tor ? bfe attempted . The indepen - d ^ nce i > f EttrdfJe was asserted ^ and the restoration of nations to those
nghts , of ii ^ hich they had beeo d ^ priredf by the Frenchvwaa tbe chief thing insisted upon . Sect ** rity to every kingdom was requir-
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ed , the p recise terms of wixiehj were not seftlea pn ; tbe Vfhotifc 11 Vwas evident , thai the peace ^ whatever it might be , wpuld be itiUtiged l » y the confederates , ' aricf to ehsiir ^ it thfejr must make suclf an attack oh France al ; slidufa
compel it to submission . From Holland to Switzerhin ^ the territories of France were now open to invasion , am ^ the J ^ j * W ® was crossed in various points ' v ^ ut scarcely any * resistance . The
greater body under the confederated emperors passed over above Strasbuirg , pan enteritog ^ 4 $ Alsace , and part marching into Switzerland at different points between Basle and Schaffhausen .
Switzerland had declared itself neutral , but its ^ tfoops ^ were ftot sufficient to maintain this deter * mination . Besides at Berne the old government of that canton wa » restored , and with it , we prfcswiaieg its wretched oligardiy , attd'th ©
miserable subjection of the pAy ^ de Vauda Geneva was sbon'tkkeri possession- of ^ « and tib is ci ity ^ rec ^ vered its ancient liberty , ifowe ^ ai ^ call by that Jtiime'thp restaritiote of a government ^ u ^ nder whicfe ^ il ?
was no uncommon thing , itt a ^ Irttkp squabble for power , tkat thfe « i » jct jority should thin the ranks of the ^ minority by banishing threebvf&nt hundred respectable' inhabitants ^ from its petty territory . Thustheirou ! mediate territories of France-fwrnsM
profaned , as the French w ^> uld ( balfc it , all albng its confines to Geneva ? . On the North its additianal territory was " equally ex posed \ -for Hoilanjd had thrown toff the ^ yota ^ and the Cossack $ made incursioiiff
from that country into Bralpmt . Th # j ^ vpiulion in ^ he / D ulcii gqu vernm « nl wa » brought about chiefly
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/59/
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