The Journal des Dibats of yesterday . has the very worst
news from Switzer- land. " From the accounts we have received, which are somewhat confused, we collect that the Free Corps presented themselves before Lucerne upon the morn- ing of the 1st, and were received by a fire of musketry; and two attempts to enter the town were repulsed. It is added, that the besiegers, believing in a capitula- tion, retired to the Faubourgs ; where they were received by a Ere of grape-shot so terrible that from 800 to 1,000 were killed. Notwithstanding this terrible loss, the Free Corps mastered the town. On hearing of this loss, the Radicals of the other Cantons put themselves in movement against Lucerne. Those of Bale Campagne left on the 1st. In Bale Ville there was the greatest alarm; and at Bale several incendiary. attempts were made. On the other hand, the Catholics ppaarrttyy of Argovia had risen to go to the aid of Lucerne, and the tocsin sounded tthroughout the Canton. The Vorort had convoked seventeen battalions, and Berne seven; but it is not likely they can put down a struggle began in a manner so bloody."
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