The Sun.
London, England, 1819-07-28 00:00:00

FOR THE F:UN.

• Etbrior.—ln addition to the °thee pro.
eeedings, a Military Band is organiied here, who
beet to practice at a public-house upon Hunslet-
Last night they paraded the Streets at
nidnight, accompanied by a numerous mob,
whose revolutionary shouts excited the utmost

noon.

alarm. By their playing, they appear to have
ramie considerable proficiency. This, tvith the
Other proceedings, excite the titOst serious apple-..
tensions in the tuinds of the peaceable and well-.
disposed inhahitants of this place, where Lhave
resided for haif a century,

Ilundet, July '25, 1819.

S P A R. R 1 N G.

IX.

On no occasion do we recollect the Vis'..eriurt
to have hr en bcter attended-this season. than ves-
tettlay, for the benefit of the gallant NeclTgryer.
The company, too, \vere much atpuse,d,by various
novelties, and the few excellent sets-to, which al-
for-ded more 'diversion than an ordinary fight.
The greatest novelty vas the Chartipion,of Eng-
land, wirh one foot tied up in the handkerchief he
had bravely won in combat, with the gout for the
first time ; and the next was the game Oliver, who
appeared with one aim in a sling.; both were of
course invalided.
Atter LEN Nox and Haowis; had opened Ole busi-
ness with a light lively set-to, LAttr,ixi, thepover-
ftil Life Guardsman, had a lons with HITCIICOCK,
a butcher, but he hit him drunk, and he was glad
to bolt. Larkin remained on the stage as it lie
wanted more, and Carter was loudly called for int
vain ; his absence pioduced alio her novelty.
LARKIN AND BFLCIIER.—The hitter has been
ill for some months past, but be had the hardihood
to mount the stage against this powerful man, and
he met with that which was before a stranger
him—the loss of a little claret Ills science was
hatterolll-own, as the blood from his arm demon..
strated, and When lie did place a hit he was run
down.

GEoRGE COOPER AND CARTER,--This set-to
opened the eyes'of the amateurs to Cooper's g00(1.•
ne•s and superiority over Carter.
RicumoND and it. VuncELL made a good bout.
Richmond challenged to fight Donnelly in a 40
feet ring, in two months, for 100 guineas.
Haßmca and CY'.,Davts also
,made a good set-
to ; but the next was as fine a specimen of science
as ever was seen. It was a fec simile of the fight
between them at Crawley. Like their fight,
Harmer had rather the worst of it.
The matches between Turner and Martin, and
Sheltou and Geo. Cooper arc made, the former
for the second Tuesday in October, and the latter
a week after. The 101. deposit on each was to
he advanced over a dinner last nht by each party,
to insure the fights.

BAR INGENUITY.--Acurions and very ingenious
expedient was lately resorted to at a trial int
Green• Street, to save a prisoner charged with
robbery. The principal thing that appeared in
evidence against him was a confession all,,dged to
have been made by him at the Polite-office, anal
taken dwell in writing by a Police- officer. Ihe
document purpt.rting to conte!in this selr-crimi-
nating acknowledgment was produced by the of-
ficer, and the following passage was read from it
" Mangan said be never rub Led but twice said it was
Crawford."
This, it will be observed, ha 3 no mark of the
writer's having any
.notion of punctuation, but
the •meaning he attached to it will be evident from
the following mode of printjug

" Mangan said he never robbed but twice—
" Said it was Cranford."
Mr. O'Gorosatt, the Counsel for the prisoner,
begged to look at the paper. lie perused it, and
tattier astonished the peace-oflicer by asserting,
that, so far frost► its proving the man's guilt, it
clearly established his innocence. " This," said
the Learned Gentleman, " is the fair and obvious
reading of the sentence:-
6 Mangan said he never robbed—
' But twice ~aid it was Cranford: "
The man was acquitted.—(Caledonian Mercury.)

SAILING MATCH.-Yesterday the display of
sailing for tl►e Cup and Cover, given by the Pro-
prietors of Cutnberland-Gardens, drew a large body
of spectators to the scene of action. 'line bridges
were covered; and the boats collected on the Rivcr
were never more numerous. Flags and bawls of
music gave an air of gaiety ,to the scene truly in-
teresting. The prize was disputed by four plea-
sure-boats under 10 tons. They started front
13lackfriars•bridge about four .o'clock, to sail to
Putney and return to Cumberland. Gardens. The
wind was fair, and after a fine exhibition of sail-
ing, during which the Contest was principally be..
tween the Spitfire and Waterloo, the prize was
gained by the Spitfire. Cumberland-Gardens were
thronged with company,

A correspondent has handed ns the following
anecdote :—" The lee Jamie Sutherland, whose
death yon announced last week, was for some time
an inmate and lodger in the house of another pan-
per of eccent character, Jamie Fairweather, Ivho
Was attacked with a dangerous distemper, and
Was attended by a distinguished i,nember of the
faculty, who had prescribed some pills to be taken
at night. In the morning, Jamie Sutherland
called upon the Doctor, to report the state of his
patient: As soon as the Doctor saw Sutherland
he rather rapidly interrogated the messenger—
ilow is he i has he taken his pills,) No, replied
Sutherland, lie, hadna time. What, not time
No—you ordered the peels to he ta'en at aught
o'clock, but he dee'd at seven I.—(Montrose Re-

tier.)
Yesterday afternoon a very alarming fire broke
out fit Messrs. Ravin and Botveu's, sugar refitiPrs,
Duncan-street, Red Lion-street, Whitt:chapel,
which At one titne threatened destruction to the
oeigiobourhood, as several small houses nyre eon-
rigtiolis to it. It was occasioned by the steam.
engine bursting.. By the speedy arrival of en-
gines the flames were preveuced from, doing fur-
ther mischief.

TRIAL OF GENERAL SARRAZIN.

[FURTHER PARTICULARS.]
COURT OF ASSIZE, PARIS, JULY 24.

The Court was crowded yesterday by a great
multitude, desirous to hear the trial of General
SARRAZIN for bigamy.
Miss Georgiana Hutchinson, the General's se-
cond wife, was seated with several other Ladies.
A pretty female child, between 6 and 7 years of
nge, the fruit of her union with General Sarrazin,
sat on her knee.

The General was brought into the Court by a
party of gendarmes. He is about 45 years of
age, gray-haired, and wears long whiskers, which
cover a considerable part of his face. In answer
to the usual questions, he stated himself to be
mimed Jean Sarazzin, born and domiciled at St.
Silvestre, in the Department of Lot and Garonne.
He bad at first been a professor if! the Royal
College of Sorreze. He had been 25 years a ge-
neral officer, and complained of having been de.
prived of his rank by the Duke of Fehre in 1814.
He added, " You see 1 come here in my uniform
of Marescbal de Camp, but from respect to his
Majesty's decision I do not wear either epaulets
or decoration, though by the Charter I am entitled
to my rank and the decoration of the Legion of
Honour."

The indictment containing the dates of the three
marriages, &c., having been read by the clerk,
General Sarrazin rose, and with great vehemence
stated some objections to its relevancy. Among
other things he urged, that Miss Hutchinson,
being a foreigner, was by law required to give se-
curity,judicuttqa salri, tor the expences, &c. which
were estimated at 600,000 trAnks ; that his our
'awry, which took place in 1815, five years after
the judgment for contumacy, dissolved every an-
terior marriage ; and that_
.his union, contracted
in France with Mademoiselle Petard, after per-
mission obtained from the Minister of War, was
now the only legal marriage.
M. Coffinieres, Counsel for Miss Hutchinson,
replied to these objections. Several other excep-
'ions were afterwards taken by General .Sarrazin,
butt they all set aside by the Court, and it
was ordered that the trial do proceed.
General Sarrazin rose again, and moved that the
Duke de la Chatre, the Duke of r)alttiatia,. the
Duke of Tarentum, and the present Minister of
Wdi, should be cited as witnesses to explain what
his political situation was at the time of his pre-
tended marriage in England ; but after some ob-
iervations trout the. Advocate-General and the
President, lie withdres.v this motion.

Preddent..—You have had children by Madewoi-
selle Schwartz, your first wife ?
Sairaziii —She had a child at Brest, but that
wss while 1 wog alPent 18 mouths.

Presidtut.—You have already admitted that
you have had children both by Mademoiselle
Schwartz and Miss Hutchinson.

Sarrazin.—By Schwartz, perhaps, but never Uy
11”Tehinson.
President.—Your contract with Mademoiselle
Schwartz was executed, for she obtained judgment
against you, and recovered her dowry. •
Sarrazin.—That was only because I did not
like to have any thing to do with the law. -
President--In England you abjured the Catho-
lic Religion and embraced the Protestant.

Sarrazin.—M. President, this has nothing to do
wi►h the cbarge of Bigamy. 1 require that you
desist 'flora bringing forward that accusation.

President —lt is necessary to establish all the
facts connected with your marriage in England.
You admit in your letter to the Chancellor, that
you attended the conferences of Protestant 11E-
ni,ters.

Sarrazin.—That was only for amusement. It
was better to go to Church than imitate other
foreigners in England, who frequented gaming-
houses and places of Prostitution. [Here he made
use of an indecorous expression.]
President —lrtu must preserve decorum.

Sarrazin.-4 have always respected morality,
and conducted myself with decorum. Here is the
certificate of my Curate in the department, of Lot
and Garonne, which declares that for several years
I have fulfilled all the duties of .a good Catholic.
I have to add, that all the department is filled
with affliction on account of the unjust proceed-
ings against me. The true motive of all these per-
secutions is, the, jealousy which my political
writings have excited.

President.—But the fact is, that you did con-
tract marriage with Miss Hutchinson.
Sarrazin.—l acknowledge to have .appear-
ed before a Clergyman; but a masquerade is not
a marriage.

President.—Miss Hutchinson bore a child to
you on the 14th of March, 1814.
Sarrazin.—lf that was so, I should he glad to
know why it was not baptized until 20 months
after

Here the President ordered the following pas-
sage of a letter from him to Miss Hutchinson,
written after they had separated, dated July 28,
1812, to be read :

" My dear Georgiana, return to your hugond. Remember
the three mouths which preceded our moirriage. Think of
the sacred engagements which we have contracted. If you
do not yield to your duty and the request of your husband,
your mother's malediction, the hatred of Lady It., and the
contempt of all the good, will be the precursors of the ter-
rible vengeance with which Heaven sooner or later punishes
perjuries."
_

fie wrote to Lady Besborough, who was the
medium of the correspondence between the
hustiand and wife :—" As to the legitimacy of
her marriage, which she seems now to doubt.
It is singular that she should
trouble herself about a matter which is quite
settled. Georgiana is my le;iiimaie wife. Every
doubt on that subject is unjust to me and out of

season."

In another Letter, dated the 2irtt July, 151.5, be
says—" I wish to know her residehce, that J may
tike the chid with which she is 14egnant, as soon
*3 she is duliVere(l.ll

writing on the 23d of July to Georgina, be

says—" Recollect that you carry with you a pre-
cious pledge of our love."
Relative to the fact of his desertion, the Presi-
dent read the following passage of a letter written
on the 25th July, 1813 :—" My desertion has
been useful to the English Government, as the
plans with which 1 supplied it have secured for
me several honourable distinctions—among others,
that of dining with all the Lords of the Admiralty
on the 2d of August, 1810, lor the purpose of
being thanked for the plan which I furnished for
en attack on the Isle of France, which perfectly
succeeded. I likewise supplied the plan followed
by the liwsians in 1812, fur the destruction of
Buonaparte's Artuy."
Sarrazin.—M. President, I was born a Gascon.
With regard to Miss Hutchinson, she had con-
ducted herself in an Wantons manner. I paid
300 francs for her debts. 1 decked ,her out in
new clothes ; and .one day she took
_the opportu-
;laity of robbing me of all my property, even to
my shirts and handkerchiefs. That girl has cost
me more than 40,000 francs, which is paying dear
enough for a few moments of pleasure. I was
brought up in the country ; you will, therefore,
excuse my frankness. We had only lived toge-
ther two Or three months, when, yielding to had
counsels, she ail at once resolved on leaving me.
We had dined at home with her mother. I left
them in good humour to procure tickets for the
;play; Miss Hutchinson said at my departure, in
a sweet tone, " Your health, my dear." I re-
turned, but fmind the .house plundered, In my
resentment, 1 resolved to take vengeance on her,
but I thought it necessary to disguise
_llly inten-
tion ;' I therefore wrote her the gallant letters
which have been read, My design was to draw
her into the snare.; if she had returned, I would
have put a cord about her neck, and, after the
English fashion, would
.have sold her like a cow
in Smithfield. Thus it would have happened, that
at the end of 24 hour,, I should have been finally
delivered Irony her.—(Here a movement of horror
pervaded the audience.:)
President. —We have among the documents a
letter of your first' wife, .Madetnoiselle Schwartz,
in which she .says; that " the sun of the West
Indies had .melted; your brains." She may be in
the right. •-

A Jurytnau.—?lay 1 request the President to
ask the, prisoner in virtue of what authority could
he sell his wite if he appeAls to the customs
of England, he was then the husband of Miss
Eini'eninson.

Sarrazin.—l was her husband, according to the
laws of the country, but this was only a piece of
pleasantry. It was then that I wrote to Lady
i3esborough that I bad given up to the English all
the plans Of Frame. I was born on the banks of
the Garonne; my gasconader may therefore be
excused,
Miss Hutchinson was then introduced : she
wore a long veil. She stated that she was only
21 years of age. The President asked her what
was her reason For leaving her husband in the 7th
month of -their marriage. She replied that she
lett hint because she had discovered that his hand
had previously been given to another.

Sarrazin.—This is false. Never did she hear
of Mademoiselle Schwartz. There is the letter of
apology which she wrote to me after robbing me
of my pr6perty.
The letter consists of six pages, and•the follow-
ing phrases are extracted from it :—" How is it
possible for a criminal like me to appear in your
presence. It is only by acknowledging my
:vickedness, and throwing myself at your feet, that
I can ask pardon. Lady Besborough has com-
municated to me the in >nner in which you spoke
of my conduct with Cantaiti Williams."

It vas expected that the disclosures made by
General Sarrazin and his English wife would be
very interesting, but he abruptly term inated,after
reading this letter, which she neither disavowed
nor acknowledged. She returned to her place
withnut any further questions being put to her.

Two or three witnesses were then examined on
very unimportant Rnints.
Miss Hutchinson's Counsel defended the mo-
tives of his client in bringing the action.
The 'ADVOCATE-GENERAL addressed the Court,
developed all the facts of the charge, replied to the
justification offered by the prisoner, and concluded
by invoking upon him all the severity of the law.
The sitting was suspended from 5 in the even-
ing until 7. On the meeting of the Court, the
General and his Counsel were heard. The latter
said, that it wag only a shadow of marriage which
was contracted with Miss Schwartz ; that the
General was then engaged in a campaign, and had
not time to get seriously married ; that this sha-
dow of a marriage whs supported only by the she-
Alow of a cerniticate. With regard to the second
marriage, he contended that it could not be con-
tracted, as the General was then civilly dead.
The General himself, holding in his hand a large
mass of papersAbegan by complaining of the ani-
mosity of his powerful persceutois, who had in-
stituted this proceeding. He gave long details of
his political conduct in France and England, and
ended ty declaring that there was no intentional
marriage bet weenhim and the two ladies in ques-
tion, Schwartz and Hutchinson and that his last
marriage was the only valid one.
The President announced tine close of the pro-
ceedings, and in an address to the Jury, summed
up the evidence. At half-past 10 the Jury re-
tired to deliberate, and at midnight returned with
a verdict of—Guilty.
After hearing the verdict without emotion,
General Sarrazin begged to make an observation on
the application of the punishment. He contend-
ed, contrary to the decree of the Court of Cassa-
tion, that the fact recognized by the Jury was
not punishable under the penal code, becaive th'e
marriage was contracted with a -foreigner in a
foreign country.
At a quarter past 12 o'clock the Court pro-
nounced judgment, sentencing him to 10 years of
forced labour, to the pillory, ana to the pay-
ment of 40,000 francs of damages to Miss
Hutchinson.

General Sarrazin smiled, and said in retiring,
" From a Lind General vou have converted me
into a General of the Gallies. l thank you, M.
President and Gentlemen of the Jury. The de-
partment of time Lot and Garonne will be grateful
for your impartiality."