Alexandria Gazette

The following are the principal facts in the Conseil affair, which has led to the late rupture between France and Switzerland. After the arrest of Alibeau, the police understanding that he had accomplices among the refugees in Switzerland, sent the individual above named, as a spy, with instructions to assume the disguise of a refugee, and thus to gain intelligence of their designs. His real character was not made known even to the French embassy. On requesting his passport, however, he was examined by M. Montebello, to whom he then made known his mission. From him he received orders to return to France, and a passport was given under a feigned name. At Berne this passport was inspected, and he made known to the police the circumstances under which he had obtained it. He was not then molested, but after having been in France, in attempting to make a second visit to Switzerland under the assumed name of Corelli, he was arrested and imprisoned. The French government demanded his liberation, and it is on the refusal of this that the rupture seems to have taken place.
Phil. Con. Her.