Note 191 — LIVRE TROISIÈME VIE DE LÉONARD DE VINCI

In Switzerland, believe me, there is much less liberty than people imagine. I give you my word that few places exhibit more of despotism than Z***. The government of that canton is iniquitous in a very sublime degree.... The aristocracy of Z*** raised my indignation, while I staid there. I speak not of the form of which one reads, but of facts which passed under my own eyes. Voir la conduite de B.... en 1815, L. Grey's speech. (Twed dell's Remains, page 111.)