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32 The council of regency, to whom the general adminitration of affairs is intruted, is compoed of forty enators, thirteen from the city, and twenty-even from the country.

The city, moreover, has its chief, its council, and its officers apart, and every one of the other quarters has the ame.

It is a total miapplication of words to call this government a imple democracy; for, although the people are accounted for omething, and indeed for more than in moll other free governments; in other words, although it is a free republic, it is rather a confederation of four or five republics, each of which has its monarchical, aritocratical, and democratical branches, than a imple democracy. The confederation too has its three branches; the general aembly, the regency of enators, and the land amman; being different orders tempering each other, as really as the houe, council, and governor, in any of the United States of America.

My dear Sir,

HE canton of Uri, the place of the birth and reidence of William Tell, hook off the yoke of Autria in 1308, and, with Switz and Underwald, laid the foundation of the perpetual alliance of the cantons, in 1315. The canton conits only of villages and little towns or gades,