The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-17 00:00:00

SERIOUS AFFRAY AT GOfI'INGEN.

(Extract of a Private Letter.)
" TIANnVER, AUG. 6.---The following afflicting
news, which we have received within • these few
days past from Gottingen, has caused a great sensa-
tion hyre
" A student happening to pass quickly by a
butcher's shop, threv a child down belonging to
the butcher; he immediately picked it off) ; the
child was not at all hurt, yet the butcher's eldest
son sallied forth and at( acked the student in a
most furious manner, who went immediately-and
made his complaint to the hea of the University;
hut was told that lie could not take any cogni-
zlnce of the atTair, and advised him to go to the
Director of Police, which he accordingly did, but
the Police Director treated the affair too lightly,
and would not grant any warrant to arrest the
!-archer's son. The Esprit de Corps of the Stu-
dents now began to show its, It In the evening
a great number of the in went in a body to the
butcher's, got into the house, destroyed the
wiHows and furniture, and took the root off the
hoose•

" On the next day a messenger arrived here with
the inieiligence from the Justice and the Police
Director. An extraordinary commissioner was
immediately dispatched thiri:er, and he was or-
dered to take with him a detachment of hussars
and infantry, which were stationed at Nordshim.
On his arrival at Gottingen, he caused the chief
of the rioters to be arrested, and read a procla-
mation, enjoining the 'students 1,01 'to appear in
large-bodies. But, in spite of the proclamation,
the students walked about the streets with arms,
and the patroles of the hussars paraded the streets
all night. After a few skirmishes the parties came
ro blows; the students, to the amount of IMO,
attacked the military. Several students were
as also two hussars, and many wounded,
and the students would have remained masters of
tile field of battle, had not the infantry come to
the assistance of the hussars.

The students on the next day quitted Gottin-
gen ; nut one remained behind ; they are all gone
Witzenhausen, in the electorate of Hesse.—
Nothing could have happened more injurious to
the Town of Gottingen than this affair. -..(British
Monitor.)

CLAREMONT.

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR,—The constant interest which you
take .in the public welfare has induced me to offer
a few observations on a late event, which, inte•
resting in itself, is rendered important by the ge-
neral di.mappoiotment it creates. A few days ago,
a lively and grateful sensation was excited in the
public mind, by the announcement of an inquali-
tied permission, from his Royal Highness the
I'd'we LEoPoLD, to open the gates of Claremont,
for the inspection of the Public, during his ab-
sence on the Continent. Such an announcement
could not fail to produce the most gratifying ex-
pectatiop in every description of persons ; and I
make no doubt that many parties were already form-
ed. who anxiously looked forward to the time when
they might witness the perfectionl of those works,
which were the constant care of that beloved object,
at whose remembrance every breast heaves forth
the mingled sigh of sorrow and respect. What
then must have been the surprise and chagrin
when a public and formal notice is given, that no
person can be admitted except those who have
interest, enough to procure tickets. To what cause
so Sodden and unexpected a countermand can he
attributed, I am at a loss to conjecture ; but front
the liberality with which his Royal Highness first
granted his permission, it would be the greatest
distespect to treat such a revocation as proceeding
front himself; and therefore an explanation front
those under whose direction the order issued, is
the least satisfaction due to the public. The peo-
ple at large looked up with gratitude to the per-
son who thus afforded them the opportunity
of more deeply imprinting on their minds the me-
mory of departed excellence, but that gratitude
mbst now be converted into obligations to the
distributer of the tickets,—l am, Sir,
Your humble servant,
RAMS,