The Sun.
London, England, 1812-09-04 00:00:00

GENERAL StIRRA.ZIN.

The following Letter from General SARRAZIN
to the PRINCE REGENT, appe APA in a Morning
Paper The General has thought proper to speak
in very abusive terms of Ministers, principally be-
cause they do not value his notes and plans quite
a-, high as he- dos. It would be very singular if
they (lid, for he demasuds 60,000/. for them, and
says they aye worth 00,000/.
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TO EIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT OF

GREAT BRITAIN.
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take'the liberty of respectfully present-
ing to your' itoyal.Highnew On your birth-day,
the vows which I perform, with all t'ini4lishmen
for your happiness, which you deserve _by your
desire to 'ender happy all 'the 'inhabitants of the'
British Empire. "
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Seduced uy the promise 3 of "English agents, I
have been in England these twenty-six months,
without having obtained a deciiion suitalte to my_
principles of honour, copformahly to the usages
followed by all civilized nations. Ministers u'.7
fuse to tre:,t nie as an Englishman should be, 'who
would have been named Lieutenant General, on
tbe-Pth of
.october, 1798, the day of my ex-
change for General Sir 11. BURRARD: They have
sent me; .it is, true, some proposals, which, had I
been base enough to accept them, would have
rendered me the Vilest of men, since they would
have assiilated me to an ox sold at Smithfield

Market.
I wish to obtain a passport to go,to Sweden, to
'join 'my old friend the Prince Royal of that king-
dom. I have declared myself a Swedish .citizsen
from the 4th of April :last, after baying seen my
petition rejected lay Parliament, and my lodging
surrounded by Bow-street officers:. T ill I receive
permiss. ion to quit' Englancl,l I beg. your Royal
-flightless will be pleased to order that I maybe
allowed, as a prisoner of State, means of sub-
sistenee suitable to my .rank, and the services I
have rendered to England. I am' reduced to. the
utmost misery, and obliged to be in rags,--Mi-
-Asters refusing to give me 'even a farthing,
unless I consent to -acknowledge myself a free-
man, and' satisfied with their proposals. As- it
has not been in their power to'induee me to Vio-
late truth to eulogize _their political and mili-
tary measures, they anpeaa to 'order 'that I must
either live' by falsehood,- or die of hunger : a
word, they' intend. to dishonour me ; but they
are grossly mistaken; and I shall prove to them
that a brave and virtuous roan. can preserve his'
honour till his last sigh.
I must repeat to your Royal. Highness what I
said toLord Cochrane in my letter of the 21st
• of March last, the -sane day on which his Lor,;.-
ship was entrusted. with the commission of mak-
ing me proposals from Government. I 'did offer
by that letter to write to the :.French Emperor,
under the dictation of a Minister, and in the pre-
sence: of two 'Members of Parliament,, all that they
might think to be. most advantligeons to England.:
and besides, I consented to he shut up in a dun-
geon till the. accomplishment of the proposed
plans. I was induced to male such an offer, in
order to confound my adversaries, who sent me
at that time 'an anonymous letter, in which 1 was
told that 'lavas d'inteiligenice with I3VoNAPARTE.
Some persons have alone all in their power to put
me in correspondence. with .Vrance, by means of
my publications. What an absurdity, and,' at the
same tine, what a wic!ceancS ! They thought
to succeed iri avenging thesuSelYes of my.firmnesS,
by endeavouring to induce me to believe that
BuOlossPawrz was changed its my behalf ;' and
after„l shauld have been the victim ..of my credli-
lity, then they, would hay 'represented me as a
madman, or perhaps even as a traitor. They did
take me once by promises and signals : they may
rest assured that I shall that be deceived by cy-
phers. I wish to have authentic writings. ' I
wish to obtain a passport. I wish to quit 'Eng-
land honourably. Should, how ever, Government
continue to refuse me the means of subsistence,
which are granted to the greatest villains, sen-
tenced to death, till the moment of their execu-
tion ; and should the alins I intend to solicit in
that case, not be sufficient for my sustenance,, I
do declare to yourltossa High Ass, that I shall
avail myself of the first favourabk opportunity to
depart for Sweden, being under not obligation to
obey the,lnglh,h Government esseept the law of
the strongest, .since they refuse to treat me con-
formably to my rank, which is in the .English,
army 'after his Royal Highness the Duke
.of
GLOUCESTER.

I renounced my pretension of being recognized
`as
an Englishman, on account 'of the restrictions
put upon foreigners by the English Constitution.
WhateYer conduct may be iidcipted by, the Minis-
ters on my account, I do protest against.my de-
tention, the most arbitrary ever mentioned in the
annals of nations 5 and I do declare, that I shall
receive any succour in money which shall he
granted to me on account of the sum of 2,5641.
IN. the yearly pension allowed to the rapk of
General, the equivalent of which I cln obtain in
any other country, i.I am allowed a passport.—
Besides, 110 authority has the right of depriving
Die of that allowance, as long as. I am detained-
in England. Ido declare,falso, that since'Minis-
ters have not settled any priCe ,about my .notes
and plans, insist upon the payment at t50.,000/.
already asked by my memorial,-which sum is only
the tenth part of their real value, referring more-
over to the decision of a.Counnittee of. well-in-
formed Generals.
I am, with the most proflund respect,
Your most obedient
And most humble servant,
GENERaL

Swedish Citizeq, PKioner of titiltein England
London, Aug. 13, 1811,,