The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-07-13 00:00:00

tvloyed under his command. His character, ever !
inclined to accusation, soon raised him numerous.
cryonics. Ile avowed himself the accuser of the
Generals and administrations of the army, in a
memoir he transmitted to the Emperor, under date
of the 23d of Frimaire, year 13. The cry of in-
dignatioa which was raised against him deprived
him of the courage of supporti publicly the
part he had undertaken, and raised such a storm
against him, that he saw himself actin, for the se.
cond time, obliged to revest leave to resign. He
was nevertheless retained in his post ; and made,
Nto ith that part of the army, the campaigns of the
•
yea' 1806.
" Sat:se disputes which he had with Gen. lieu.
delet, in %Otos.: division he served, obliged the
Government to recall him to France. •
" On the 31st of October, 1806,. he was eta.
played in the 2itli military division, under the or.
tiers of Getwral Chambiilhac, who confided to
him the command of Vie department of the Lys.
The misunderstanding which soon took place be-
tween the Prefect and him, evinced the necessity
of giving him another destination, and lie was
seat to the isle of Cadsand. . hits conduct, conti-
%malty extravagant, and his arbitrary proceedings,
incensed against him the inhabitants, the authori-
ties, and G ,neral Chanthailliac. The complaints
which reached Government induced it to again
change his residence, and he received letters of Ser-
vice for the 16th Military Division.
'4 Ile served in this division from the 11th of
February 1809, and had the happiness to live there
in excellent harmony with both his superiors and
subalterns, till, by the most disgraceful desertion,
he imprinted a most indelible opprobrium on his

Immo.
4' Such is the history of General Sarrazin,
which, to speak properly, is only that of the cx.
trasegance of his mind, the errors of his character,
and his Numerous absurdities.
" The Duke de FELTRI, Mioi*ter at War."

PARIS, JULY 2.—The fete given by the Prince
of Schwarzett berg took place yesterday, at which
the Emperor and Empress were present. They
arrived at ten o'clock. The garden was illumi.
hated with much taste. It presented different
views of the country which the Empress inhabited
in her infancy. The opera-dancers executed the
dances, dressed in the costumes of the different
people of the Austrian monarchy. This part of
the fete was followed by uncommonly flue fire-
works. Twelve hundred people were invited.
in order to receive so large a party, the Prince,
according to the usual custom adopted at Paris,
bad caused to be erected, with planks of timber,
a ballroom, ornamented with pictures of gauze,
muslin, and other light stuffs. This saloon offer.
ed a very fine coup d'oeil. The Queen of Naples
opened the ball with Prince Estherhazy, and was
followed by the Viceroy and Princess Paullae 'of
Schwarzeoberg, wife of the eldest brother of the
Ambassador. After the cotillous, a Scotch reel was
d iticed, during which their NI iljesties arose to snake
II tour of the circle, and speak to the ladies. 'The
Empress had relented to her arm.chair, and the Em.
peror was at the other extremity of the saloon, near
the Princes Pauline of Sell warzeuberg, who had pre-
smiled beer daughters to him, when the flame, of a
wax candle caught the drapery of a window cur.
tale. Count Dumanoir,"Chamberleito of the Em-
peror, and many other officers who were near
him, endeavoured to tear off the curtains, but the
flames got higher. They immediately informed
the. Emperor, who hail but time to go to the arm-
chair of the Einpress, wlwo he was instantly
surrounded by the A onbassAJor gotta officer& of
tit: Austrian Legation, who persuaded him to
ptit the place. The fire extended itself with
the rapiJ;:y of lightning; and his Majesty slow.
ly retired with the Empress, recent:pending
calmness, in order to prevent all disorder.
The openings from the ballroom _ fortunately i
being very capacious, the crowd could easily get
into the garden ; bat many mothers lust much
time in searching for their daughters, from whom
they hall been separated by the Scotch reel, and
many young persons in endeavouring to fiutl their
mothers. The rapidity of the fire was so great,
that the Qacen of Naples, whet followed ito the
suite of the Emperor, having fallen, was only
'saved through the presence of mind of the Grand
Duke of Wurtzhurg. ThteQueen of Westphalia
leas conducted from the saloon by the King of
Westphalia ant/ Count Metternich. The Viceroy,
who remained at the bottom of the ball-room,
mid who feared to mix in the crowd with the
Vice-Queen, perceived that the fall of the lustros
and ceiling interrupted the passage. lie
fortunately, remarked a small door which led to
the atom 'moots of the hotel, by which he got out.'
Happily no body has perished ; some 2O ladies
have been more or less wounded. Thu Princess
Layens, wife of the Russian Consul, as well as
the Ladies of General Baron Tousand and the
Prefect of Istria, have, either in consequence of
being ‘,42;: ti with terror, or stopped in their getting
ut by some obstacle, been grievously hurt. Prince
urakin, the Russian Ambassador, hail the this.
fortune to fall upon the steps which lead from the
ballroom to the garden ; they were Owe tell fire ;
be ;was for a moment insensible. Two Ofileera of
the Austrian Legation and two Officers of the Im-
perial Guard saved him. lie keeps his bed, and
is in considerable pain. The garden, extensive and
well lighted, presented during half an hour, the
spectacle of husbands calling for their wives, of
wives calling upon their husbands and children ;
and who, the moment they found each other, em-
braced with transport, as if a long absence had
separated them. Thu Emperor and Empress got
into a carriage at the garden gate. When the Ent-
peror found his country equipages which waited
for him at the Elysian fields, and had placed the
Empress in one of them, he returted to Prince
Schwarzetilierg, attended by an Aide.de-camp.
Princess Pauline Schearaenberg was amen the
last who remained its the ball-room. Silo held one
of be; daughters by the hand. A piece of burn-
ing wood fell upon this young person, which a
man who was near her took up and carried out of
the saloon. She was herself hurried into the gut
den. No longer Reit% her daughter, she ran
every where, calling her with great lamentations.