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Poor Ex-Captain Henzi, "Clerk *of the Salt-Office," most frugal, studious and quiet of men; a very miracle, It would appear, of genius, solid learning, philosophy and piety, not the chief or first of the conspirators, but by far the most distinguished, was laid hold of, July 2d, 1749, and beheaded, with another of them, a day or two after.
By Henzi? grumbles Maupertuis to himself: 'Search in Berne, then; it must be there, if anywhere! To Konig Maupertuis answers nothing: but sulkily resolves on having Search made; and, to give solemnity to the matter, requests his Excellency Marquis de Paulmy, the French Ambassador at Berne, to ask the Government there, Government having seized all Henzi's Papers, on beheading him.
Peace had reigned throughout Switzerland since the battle of Villmergen, A.D. 1712, which had given to Zurich and Berne the ascendency in the confederation. The popular discontent caused by the increasing despotism of the aristocracy had merely displayed itself in petty conspiracies, as, for instance, that of Henzi, in 1749, and in partial insurrections.
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