Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

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Switzerland. 383
one would expert in such a Multitude
of States j for as soon as any Publick
Rupture happens, it is immediately clos’d
up by the Moderation and good Offices
of the rest that interpose.
As all the considerable Governments
among the Alps are Common-wealths,
so indeed it is a Constitution the most
adapted of any other to the Poverty
and Barrennels of these Countries. We
may see only in a neighbouring Govern-
ment the ill Consequences of having a
Despotic Prince, in a State that is most
of it composed of Rocks and Moun-
tains; for notwithstanding there is a
vast Extent of Lands, and many of them
better than those of the Siviss and Gri-
fins, the common People, among the
latter, are much more at their Eafe, and
in a greater Affluence of all the Conve-
niences of Life. A Prince’s Court eats
too much into the Income of a poor
State, and generally introduces a kind
of Luxury and Magnificence, that sets
every particular Perlon upon making a
higher Figure in his Station than is ge-
nerally consident with his Revenue.
It is the great Endeavour of the se-
veral Cantons of S-vsitzerland, to banish
from among them every thing that looks
like Pomp or Superssuity. To this End
the