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

IRENCH AI,D. DUrell POIXAS.
PARIUJULIF
teems co nu SAJRSTIC THE EMPEROR. AND

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"Jttxs 30.—Siaa—Your Majesty has directed
me, by your order of the date of the 18th of
this month, to jnake.a report of all that coacerni
the Ex-General Sartain.

64 John Sarrasin wis born in the bontg of St's
Siloshe, in the canton of Pen .e, in the depart.
-.eat of the Lot and Garonne, on the 15th of
August, 1770. Hia pa eats were farmers I ott
the 47th Septeaitter,. 1/86, he enrnLed him.
self in the 6th regiment ot dragowns, which well
.isbawled on the, littit.uf SeptroslZet, 1187.
ISt thkg titetrltriftthAt at R 'AI*, in 'lse 4e.
petateat of r i Gironde, o hers, -to ram ise.cl the
profession of lac er of Mathetnatics. On the
Ist of Sept. 1790, he obtained the pl ,ee 1/. i-roe
fes*ir ofMsteetnatics in school elf gert ate,
which was then pettier the direVlon & the Bate..
&tine, ; anti it 4as no nom en ~infcireutnitanle
which ~aces rise to Ow report (oat he had been a

M-ink;. an a‘serbian abichp certainly, has novae
been roved. .

He left this emplovvitent two years aftor.
wards, to follow the snoreteent which .slut Est the
whole French nati,bri then made towards the from.,
tiers;,. and Ile repaired to the army of the North.
• 46 thing. sent to Chalons for the instruction of

' the yueniengineers in the school of artill—y, he
was there when, after the taking of Verdun,. the _
inhabitants of Chalons formed a battalion., of •
which he was appointed. Adjutant.Majer ; the
functions of which. appointment he performed till
the 20th of September, 1792, the time of•the dia.
banding of this bacalion. But thesecircuinstances,
found in a memoir signed by himself, are only war.
. ranted by his ion declaration. What is certain
lis, that he was appointed at Metz, Lieutenant of
a volwiteer company called the Saint Maurice, at
the end of 1792, and Captain of the same coin•
pan y, on the 18th Karch,.1793..
" On hi, first entrance into this service, he gave
proofs'of his restless and intriguing spirit, which
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she has. coustanstly shewn in that military-career.
He „Confesses himself, in the memoir above cited,
that fur having taken part in some remonstraucca
which appeared seditious, he was broken and de.
graded by order of General Houchard, in 1793,
and obliged to serve as a common soldier. He
J adds, that on the Ist of October, 1793, he joined
lat Chatillim tho cliasseurs of the Garonne; that
he was ptesedi in different affairs in the army of
La Vendee, in which he was in quality of Secre.
tary to General Marceau, and was appointed Ad.
julict to. the Ai;jutant.General, ou the 9th of
• Frdirinr, ,yeai °L. Ott..• the 6th" of Fructidor, of
the hi1:11C yeAr, lio-was.irppointed Adjunct of the
first class, to the corps of artillery, by the refire.
sentative of thespeogle, Gila, who had been scut
Ito the army .try the Sambre and the Meuse.
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`6 On the 6th of• Brumaire, year 3, the same
Represeetative 'appointed him Adjutant. General,
chart of
lita bittaliono in consideration of the tesii.
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'nies .which General Marceau had given of hie
conduct after the exitedition of Cobletitt.
..f,6 'the 18th Brinivalie, 3tl
,year, his appoint.
meat .vcas -confirmed by the 4.:uititilittee of Public
,Witiferre4, -end on the.6th of Prairial following, he
obtained We commission of Adjutant-General,
I..Chtefk of`Urigade. . ' • •
". 11141 leade:the•campiigne of the year 3, year
,
4, eipl yftei.bk•Aulth the armies of Sambre and
Itliosty had Italy. . .
66 On the $7O Friectidor, 6th years he received
orders to 'wooed. to Rochefort, to s rye in one
of the divisions of the army of England. He
• as one of. the small number of Frenchmen ' who
made good their descent in lieland ; and he was
.appointed by General Humbert, General of Bri.
Bade, at the capture of Killala, and General of
.Division at the ...flair of Castlebars wherebe took
4 standard from the enemy's horse.
64 On his return to France, he found. the &tern
cutive, Directory very little disposed to coiskin so
rapid a preusotiou. He demanded to serve as Ad.
jutant.,General of the army of Italy,,comtuanded
by General .1 oubert. Ravin been charged to
conduct a body of troops to the. army of Rsime,
lie made with that
and
the campaign of the 7th
year in Naples, was appointed General of
Brigade on the field of battle, after the affair of
(Teems. At the 'army of Italy his suspicious and
doubtful conduct-exposed him Insuspiciou, humi.
ibating fur a military person;' he was charged witti
acting the part of. an informer. His constant op.
posittim to the orders- of his chiefs strengthened
that opinion, and the unpleasant treatment he ex.
penance() compelled- him, to beg leave to .retire.
On the I ith.Plititiorte,• he received orders toietnrn
to "nice.. O. the Ist Priarial,. year 9, notice
was given him that he Wita no tongerin the list of
' the Staff-Officers. . •
66 Returned to private life, his natural inquie.
lode inspired him with several plans.. He•recoest.
ed sent-east/es to be employed in Americn,-, and
sinnetimes in'the Kant I•olies. He expressed .fide.
sire to serve in the troops of the Batavia!' Repub.
lic ; but he fulfilled none of these resolutions;
, and he was still in France,. when 'on, the lOst of
Vendemiaire he was re.estabiisned .in the staff of
`Generals of Brigade, in toe ro.nn of General Colli,
appyinted General of, Division. . Two months
Afterivirds he was appointed to go to St. Dennis.
i Ihe an remained there only a year ; the bad state
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of' ;his health induced General Itochasobeau •o
send him barb to France, where he arrived on the
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64 Gen. knivreau t hen commanded a camp; Geri.
' SAttigiD appinal, and obtained eerulissinit to be em.