The National Register.
London, England, 1819-04-12 00:00:00

TwE RATIONAL REGISTER'

during detention, so as to prevent comtuunication
with friends for the settlement of affairs and securing
of property about to be left. Brutality of treatment
is an net of the Officers employed, but it canaut be
wondered at when eight men are sent to arrest as a
felon an Alien who ha offended no law.

ASSASSINATION OF M. DE KOTZEBUE.
We reeeivedoi.y, says the Go relle de Francs, very ettrions
detail* relative to the a.sas•ltitoine of M. tie Kotzebue.
All agree as to the sort of fahaiteistu which was the cause
of it.

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The following is an extract of a letter written On the
26th March, at five o'clock in the eveiting ; it contains very
positive facts, which leave no longer any doubts on the
subject
" On the 181111 of March last, the students of Erlangen
assembled in a house of recreation. situated without the
tow n, and deliberated. a ith closed doors, upou the fate to
which they should subject M. de Kotzebue for having at-
tacked the licentiousu,as which existed its the Univeraities,
nod the novel doctrines which, since the events of Wart-
home end Gottingen, have made so mach progress
amongst the youth of Germany. At tide Secret sureties
the death of the stoker, whose remarks they so much
dreaded, wee conspired; the students who pronounced
the horrid sentence dein east dice for one who should be
charged to execute it. Chance, at first designated five,
ho threw between themselves fulfil the lot fell upon one;
it was the young Sand, son of a judicial counsellor, burn
at Wundizigel, in Saxony, out the borders of Lower Bohe-
mia. also found himself charged with what they called, in
true revolutionary style, the malaria of the crime. Saud
set od ;Kist trots, Erlangen on the 21st of March, as a ay.
rived at Menlitlin on the 2141, at seven o'clock in the
moralism; he look a bath, breakfasted at the table Whole,
visited the magnificent chute' the castle, and the prome-
nades. At tour o'clock he called npun M. de Kotzebue,
who was dressing himself to receive company. The valet
deorliambre told trim that his master could not be seen.
Inform Aim (said Saud), that a deputy from Me Musa of
&Mogen is come to visit Aim.' M. de Kotzebue begged
bins to wait, and gave orders to serve him with coffeeoSte.
and sent him a pipe filled with Virginia tobacco. Kotze-
bue, when only half dressed, caused this pretended alspogie
of the Muses to be introdured, went to inert him at die
door, received him with distinctiosa, took from him a paper
whith he presented to him, and whilst he was perusing it,
fell, pierced with a stiletto. The billet contained the fol-
lowing sentence :—' Sentence of death pronounced on the
18th of March, by the University of Es lantern, anal carsied
Witt extremiou on the 23.1 of March, by else present bear-
er.' Saud hoots); seen his victim fall, went tranquilly out
of the house ; assd scarcely wee he lit the street, when he.
stopped, and lifting up his hands to H , excleitued
several times —0 pus centruntination eat and plunged the
poniard twice in his own breast. There was found upon
a large' blue riband this device— I, its et Hors. H. was
taken to the civil hospital. and two rentinels posted at his
bed. This event, it is said, will be followed by very int-
poroint censequences, and may lead to confessions of the
highest interest."

MEETING OF THE NEW RENTERS OF DRURY-

LANE 1 HE-ATRE7

On Saturday a meeting of the new renters of thisTheatr•
was convened, for the purpose of hearing a proposition 4.!
one of the Sub-committee. relative to the liquidation of
the claims of tradesnoen and others.
At two o'clock Mr. Fallow field took the chair, and
shortly stated the olojeet of the meeting.
Mr. Ward, the Secretary, then read the report of the
trustees of the slew settlers. Is slated that they had. con-
formably to the resolution of the last meeting. prepared
toe draught of a deed for the purpose of granting to she
new renters their reni.charge; that they had painted into
a negotiation with the Sub•committee on the subject ; and
though all difficulties were not yet surmounted, yet the
husissess was in a state of terwat deem. The repots added.
that one of the Sub-Committee had offered to advance a
of money fur the purpose of paying tradesmen a eel..
tails posimbige, on contliti tttt that he reeeivrd security.
The security this gentleman demanded was, the private
hoses, the supplying of fruit, !etc. and the houses and
01:tee buildings belonging to the theatre, until the interest
and principal of his debt was paid, and that he was to
have this interest paid previously to the payment of the
annuities of the renters ; this security to revert to the
renters when the money so advanced, with the legal in-
terest, was paid. In the mean time the produce of it to go
into . and form part of, the Company's purse.
Mr. Hosier begged leave, in a few words, to explain the
object of the 'sleeting, atoll of the negotiations entered into
with the Sub-Committee by the trustee. of the new relaters.
The debts due fount the theatre to tradesmcn, and others,
sinomoted to seb..sit 24,0001,. For the settlement ',fittest. ale-
in sods, negotiations were before entered into, but they did
mot succeed. Ass Mobs ionsart of the Sub-Committee, who
had the mire CPI of the concern very snitch at heart, made
an off..r of advancing a sum of about 12,0001., to liquidate
the demands of creditors, upon seat terms as he (Mr. Ho-
sier) haul no doubt they would find it to their interest to
accept miller eae.ting circumstances. The reenrity he re-
quited for this advance was the same as that now posses.ed
..y the s re.hturs ; stausely,tlie iticione of the private boxes,
the tridisuffices, and the rents of houses belonging to the
theatre. This, if carried Motu effect, would relieve the
concern very much. If the theatre prospered. the geu'le*
snail who made this offer would, of course, receive back
site snit advanced, and the new renters be pot in posses.
-iou of their former security upon snore advantageous eir-
etionstances. To this proposition the trustees and the subs
,0. 'tree were willing to agree ; but before it could be
tried mien, the content of the renters was first nee ttttt y.
ru obtain this consent was the of jer.t of site meeting. It
wee then moved and seconded, that the proceeding of Hie
us twee), be confirmed by the renters, and that they be re.
quested to ears) them into execution.
The t esidistions wets' agreed to.and the meeting broke op.
A stray whale, found dead last month in the Bal-
tic Sound, has been towed by the Danish fishermen
to Ilamburgh, to be exhibited es a public curiosity.

REVBNUK.

APRIL IV.

An account of the total real or declared valise of the Pro.
duce and Manufactures of the United Kingdom, esporied
frum Great Britain during each of the three years ending bth
Jan. 1819,
1817. 1818. 1519.
42,955,258,. 43.828,254! 411.909,760 t.
Total rielcial value of Foreign and Commercial Merchan-
dise exported from Great Britain to all parts of the world '
1417 1818 1819.
14.516,964 L 11,534,6181. 12,381,9111.
An account of the total value of all articles imported
into Great Brit:,in during each of the three years ending the
srh of Jamisry, 1819, as calculated at the official rate* of
valuation.

1817. 1818. 1819.
Foreign and Colonial 26,406,62 11. 29,962,913 33,960.98,
merchandise . .. f
.Produce of Ireiniad
5_._...698,911_/. 4,4)0942 4......____;476,661
rid the Isle of %lan
Sal value of imports 30,105,5654 33,965,131 40,157,684