27 AUGUST 1836, Page 2

The attempt of the Duke DE MONTEBELLO to dictate to

the Swiss Diet, has excited quite a ferment in Switzerland. Public meetings to protest against French interference in their internal concerns have been held by the people of every canton. A spy, in the employ of the Duke, CONSEIL by name, has been discovered in some malepractices ; and the Bernese Executive threaten him with the " utmost rigour of the law." The Duke has brought an action against a newspaper, the Nouvelliste Vaudois, for a libel; and is also carrying on an angry correspondence with some of the authorities in Lucerne, on the subject of the sequestration of cer- tain property belonging to the ward of a French subject. Alto- gether, the French Ambassador has got his hands full.