Here's a paper that discusses this question in considerable detail regarding Switzerland: http://www.academia.edu/1347816/The_Helvetic_Republic_an_ambivalent_reception_of_French_revolutionary_liberty
To summarize some of the points:
Also, were the polish commonwealth and Dutch republic still around at this time? Weren't they relatively democratic? What did they think. What did British parliamentarians think, especially in light of the English civil war a few centuries back?