the committee were ostensibly there to adjudicate impartially on both the internal disputes between the cantons and on a number of minor border adjustments, none of which touched on the vital interests of any but the Swiss. But as each of the five powers had its own clients in Switzerland, and as each of them was engaged in negotiations with the others on entirely different matters, the consequence was that far from being addressed dispassionately, the affairs of Switzerland were dragged into the power struggle over Poland and Saxony.
