The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-03 00:00:00

TIIE STATESMAN.

GENERAUSARRAWN.
The modesty of this Gentleman Is scarcely to be
credited. An additional proof of it will be found in
the demands which he has made upon Government
for the notes and information with which lie has pro-
vided them, and the silly presumptuous Essays he has
published in this country. Gentle Reader, you will
hardly believe it ; but the following demands have
actually been made upon our Government by this
very disinterested man—this honourable betrayer of
the trust reposed in him by his own Government.
GENERAL SARRAZIN'S DEMANDS!! !
1. letterzuf naturalization. . . •

2. That his wife and son be considered as prisoners of war in
France. . _ _

3. That his rank of

be acknowledged from

the Bth of October, 1799, on which day he was exchanged in
that quality for General Sir Harry %mud, agreeably to tke
cartel which he dcitteJted at the Foreign Office. and conse-
quently recognised as holding that rank by the English Govern-
ment.

4. A pension of three thousand pounds sterling a year for life.
5. An indemnity of ten thousand pounds sterling fur his losses
at Boulogne, to enable him to take a house suitable to his rank
in London, as he had in France.
6. A capital of fifty thousands pounds sterling, in payment
fot his notesand

LYCEUM TIIB4TRE.

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A new Comedy was performed, fur the first time, at this
Theatre, yestarilay evestiag, called Riskter.Wrong.

DRAMATIS PliDarlM. . . .
Farmer Dakhla Mr. DiassimN.
Dick OaU '
NN' • -" ' ' Mt. thrsailair.
a Old ere trot.. -- ....yrs .T72-n-Otr- Pri-c4mr. •
.Mr. PENSO7I.
Sir James Ilareoart • Mr. Lortasiovz.
Harry Yevilke - • • Mr. DL CAMP.
klalcour. . - .. ...Mr. Ilou.sysp.
•
Venom ....... .... Mr. l'Ana.
Spr.icc • 11r. I'ENLEv.
•
Julia Mrs. EDM IN.
Cecilia
Esther
Dame Oakhatn
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Tlve interest of this Piece, or at least such as it possesses, is ex-
cited by the common place incident of a forged vs ill. which Nat.
emir bath pads., in conjunction with a minor villain (Yemeni),
by which Harry Neville, and his sister, Julia, are deprived of
the mansion and estates which appertained to their family. It
appears that this serious evil was effected by Maleour's practis-
ing upon the credulity of their uncle, who is dead, and making
him suppose that his nephew, who was in India, was a must li-
centious profligate: but there is no apology offered for his de-
priving Julia of her fortune, who is driven, in conoequenee, to
the most extreme distress, and compelled to seek fur protection
in the cottage of Farmer Oakham, where she is pursued by Mal-
emir, who labors to dishonour her. Eventually she is rescued
from the insults of Malrour ; first by the intervention of Cikarks
Pemberton, who proves to lie her lover; nisi, secondly, by her
brother. There is a sort of an under plot introduced, in which.
Sir James Harcourt and his daughter. Cecilia, are principally in-

terwoven, the latter of whom rejects the addresses of ..Itatruur,
in opposition to her father's desire, being secretly betrothed to
Harry Neville. After an infinity of bustle, that bath but little
meaning, and several challenges, and much foul language, young
Pemberton marries Julia, and Harry Neeille marries Cecilia.—
In the construction of this I'lay there is no evidence of either no-
velty or genius ; many of the sentiments have a just tendency,
hut they are as old as the Malvern Mills. Dick Oakhaut is a very
ill-designed copy of Harroteby, in The l'uor Gentleman; but
the Bard bath ingeniously contrived that he shall be almost as
injurious to the truth of the English language as a modern Tra-
gedian ! This imperfect Drama bad one capital fault : as every
auditor could foretel the doormen( before the second net was
finished. They knew what the dishes would be before the cloth
was well laid upon the table ! The Prologue was spoken by
INJTMAM, sad it woo crammer) with bgsets, aid roses; wait
field-towers, like Covent-garden market in Jana. The Epi-
logue was pointedly delivered by Mrs. fit,ovca : it was replete
with supplication, but it had no salt. The prostrate Bard was
much indebted to the meritorious exertions of Mrs. liowrr, Mrs.
Gloria, Mr. Doverox, Mr. LOVEGROVC Mr. l) CAMP, and
Mrs. SPARES. It was announced for a second representation by
Mr. Ds CAMP, amid such a din of yeas and nays. that it gas
wholly impossible to understand the verdict of the Public Jury.

The legality of the arrest of the Earl of FINGALL
and Viscount NEWERVILLE, will be tried iu the
Court of Exchequer, Dublin.

FRENCH FLEET.—The enemy have certainly a
formidable force equipped in their several ports for
immediate service, viz.

Antwerp and the Scheldt
Toulon
Rochefort

V sail of the fine.
17

ilel;t;ei;lisys, and other Dutch l'orts 27

Total

7 9 mi i 1 of the line.

To the above it has long been the design of BONA•
PARTE to add the several squadrons of Sweden, Den-
mark, and Russia ; but in which, we trust; he will
continue to be disappointed, by the vigilance and va-
lour of a British fieet.—There are only two ships of
force in any state of equipment at Brest, from the
impossibility of their receiving naval stores in that
port : this has compelled them to strip live or six sail
in order to equip those two. _

There have been grand illuminations in St. Peters-
burgh, in consequence of the late victory obtained
over the Turks, which is represented as having been
decisive. It is said the whole of the Turkish camp
was taken, including the Grand Vizier's tent, the
military chest, the artillery, the Divan's correspond-
ence, and considerable booty. This event hastened
the signing of the Preliminaries of Peace: There
were two nephews of the Grand Vizier in the battle,
one of ;whom was killed, and the other mortally
wounded. It is said there were several French Offi-
cers is the Turkish army.
The Committee of General Purposes, in the Court
of Common Council, have very humanely ordered a
quantity of coals, blankets, and rugs, for the pri-
soners, which are principally Court of Conscience
debtors, and very poor, in the Borough Compter,
commonly called the Clink, during the severe weather.
They have also given directions for the windows to
be repaired, which were almost all broken. This
prison, for want of a resident Magistrate in the
Borough, is gone miserably to decay.
ACTION Or FROST ON STONES.—At Perth, in the
last week, se intense was the cold, 'that in a few
hours the ice was near two inches in thickness. A
number of fine free-stones from Kingoody quarry
were split to pieces at the depot, and the contractors
sustained a very severe loss. The stones having drank
sufficiently of rain water at their pores, are lune.
diately incrusted with frost ; the water is forced int"
the centre, and, instantly confined, breaks forth
with a loud explosion. Two pints of Scottish water
had been taken from their centre previous to their
breaking.

SHHIWRECK OF THE SALDSINH.4.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE 811ArESMAN.

SlR,—Tlkose who are strangers to the perils of a
sea-life, and unconnected with any embarked in that
honourable, but dangerous profession—who, by a
happy lot, sit secure on shore in peaceful safety,
while the tempest spends its fury on the ocean, will
find it difficult, with all the susceptibilities of a feel-
ing heart, to form an adequate idea of that anguish
and sorrow, which the surviving and affectionate re•
Wives of the shipwrecked seaman, are inevitatt,

doomed to suffer. The truth of this observation,
was some days back brought home to my mind with
inexpressible force, when listening to the afflicting
tale of an elderly Lady, who has lost her son-in-law,
in the recent shipwreck of the Saidanha frigate. I
am aware that the distress of an individuul, neither
distinguished by title, rank, nor fortune, may be
supposed to want dignity sufficient to claim public at-
tention. Vet lam persuaded, that the number and
singularity of her misfortunes, wilt be found to range
her case in no common class, and to render her
narrative not uninteresting to the humane and
intelligent Reader. This Lady is the sister of the
late Mr. FELIX WCARTIIY, a Gentleman to whom
you could not, I suspect, be entirely a stranger ; and
whose recent and very unexpected death has been to
her a source of unceasing sorrow. This Gentleman was
,the last-of three brothers, who may be saidall to have
died in early life, each of whom were dear to her af-
fections. But the most remarkable circumstance in
her eventful history is, her having been the mother of
no less than twenty-four children, twenty of whom,
after having reared them almost to maturity, she
lost by death. These numerous and severe trials,
though they had long made her familiar with afflic-
tion, had not sufficiently fortified her mind against a
still greater calamity that awaited her, which she ex-
perienced in the sudden death of the best of hus-
bands, and the tender father, protector, and guide
of her numerous offspring. Of her four survit ing
children, the youngest is in his fifteenth year, and
what may be deemed singularly remarkable, is her
eighteenth son. Thus, by the wise, but in-
scrutable decrees of Providence, has the ravages
of death swept from this mortal in ra-
pid succession, a progeny of promising and
. accomplished children—her nearest and dearest rela-
tives, together with the husband of her youth—her
best friend, her comfort, and her pride. At last,
however: a ray of light darted through the gloom
which hal long hung over her fortunes, and cheered
her with the hope of happier days in declining age.
Her only daughter, with every prospect of felicity
to herself, was last year married to Lieut. DAVID
Titom A s,of the Royal Navy. This excellent young risen
had entered into the service at a very early age—
had been almost constantly engaged in active duty,
and distinguished himself in so many important
and perilous engagements, that he
_had rt!c!ird.
most flattering assurance of speedy promotion.—

Enthusiastically attached to his profession, he was
ever eager to follow where danger led, and during his
short, bat adventurous career, he had repeatedly
the good fortune to merit the approbation of his
Commanding Officers. His zeal, knowledge, and in-
trepidity, ensured him the respect of his superiors—
his strict integrity, combined with a mild and
obliging temper, commanded the esteem of his equals
-end his unremitting attention to the comforts of all
below him, procured him the grateful attachment of 1
his inferiors. In this high and all :able condition of
apparent felicity—honoured, respected, and beloved
—cheered with the animated view of rising to profes-
sional distinction, he was returning home on board the
Saldanha frigate, full of life and hope, when, on the
sth of this month, on the north coast of Irelafid, she
was suddenly wrecked, and he, together with every
man on board, perished. Thus, was lost for ever to
his friends and to his country, Lieut. THOMAS, in the
24th year of his age, whose widow is now far advanced
in her first pregnancy, and whose poignant and unceas-
ing grief for her melancholy loss, has already so mate-
rially affected her health, •as even to endanger her
life.—SUch then, Sir, is the short sketch of this
Lady's disastrous and afflicting 'history, and surely,
if duly reflected 00, it might tend at least to still
the murmurs of complaint at common misfortune,
and to reconcile us better to isittly of the ills of
life, which, while uncontrasted with deeper scenes of
human misery, are too apt to appear insupportable
and overwhelming.
Ibee.9o,lStl.

A. T.

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Intelligence from Sweden, states, that BERN A.
WM .has ordered a levy of no less than 80,000
men to be made in the kingdom of Sweden, who
are to be ready to take the geld in the ensuing
spring. The various departments under Government
lave been ordered to provide during the winter for
the establishment of magazines and hospitals. For
.the subsistence of this large force, supplies of grain
are to be ' froarilioports f Ankh( Swe-
dish Pomerania.
French.:
those which
not contain
armies.
merchant-s
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from the
Wilmington.
families,

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