The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-14 00:00:00

S A N D T.

The following is a copy. of a Letter addressed
by M. IVirTa, late Proleslor of Theology in
Berlin, to the Mother of SANDT, the Murderer
of KurzEnnE :
" You have been struck as a Mother by a blow so severe,
that I find myself compelled, by the friendship that you tes-
tified for rue, to write you a word of consolation. If you
had to 'want the simple loss of your excellent son I should
hold mrpeace, and leave it to your own pious heart, and to
the operation of time, to calm your sorrow; but the opinion
of the multitude will, witiran appearance of justice, brand
your son as a criminal. This is what engages use to be his
advocate with you, and to save his memory fro►u dishonour,
at least in his own family. The action be has committed is,
in truth, not only illegal and punishable in the presence of
temporal justice, but, considered abstractedly, is immoral,
and contrary to social laws. Fraud and violence can never
constitute a right, and the goodness of an object cannot jus-
tify thu injustice of the means. As a muralist, I cannot al►.
prove of such actions, it is by good, and not by evil, that we
must return evil. But when we undertake to judge of au
act already committed, we must take for the basis of our
judgment, Dot the general last, but the conviction and mo-
tives of him who has committed it. It is acco►ding to his
own faith that every one is to be judged. I admit that your
sun's resolution may have been founded in error, and not
have been exempt from passion ; but ►what man can flatter
himself that be is exempt from passion and from error ?. There
never has been but one only. Error, however, is excused,
and in some degree overcome, by the firmness and purity of
conviction ; and passion is sanctified by the source from which
it flows. lam persuaded that it has been so with your pious
and virtuous son. He regarded his resolution as just, and it
was therefore that he has acted well. Let every man act ac-
cording to his, conviction, and he will act well.

" If I do not absolve his resolution from all passion, I do
not thereby mean a gloomy intoxication, a boiling agitation;
fur Sandt was, as I well know, of a,calm and reflecting cha-
racter. It was the purest enthusiasm that inspired him—that
enthusiasm proceeded from the best source, but it received
from Sandtl youth a violence which impelled bins beyond the
bounds of life.. Without this species of passion, it is scarcely
possible to perform a great action. The fire of enthusiasm
must necessarily burst forth. I assure you that your son,
instead 4,f diminishing the love I entertained fOr bins from the
first =went, has only augmented it.

" Such an action as this, committed by a young man, pure
and pious, actuated by faith and a firm conviction, is a beau-
tiful phenomenon in our age. Whatever may be the fate
that awaits your-son, he has lived big enough, since he has
resolved to die for the noblest passion of his heart. Whoever
can thus risk his life, proves that he knows its full value, and
that he does not esteem it in proportion to its duration, but
by its intrinsic. beauty. Unhappily it has become the habit
among us to peter a life passed in luxury and idleness
to the noblest death. The conduct of Saudt is the sign of
a noble mind, which .might rouse west from their le-
thargy. A young man exposes his life to exterminate an
individual whom so many others revered as an idol. Can
such an act be attended by no effect? But. it is not re-
quisite to know the consequences, to enable.us to judge of
an action. We do nut estimate the life of a man by the
splendour that it sheds—that which is most obscure is often
the most beautiful. Respected friend, may you find these
reflections true, and preserve this manner of viewing the
transaction against all objections ! It is yen who have given
life to, and have brought up this extraordinary son; you
should be capable of owlet standing and of appreciating him,
you too should support with courage and resignation the fate
that he has chosen for himself.

" I am, with respect," &c.

This Letter appears evidently to have been writ-
ten with the intention of causing it to be circulated
among the friends and partisans of Sandt, It has
in effect obtained this sort of clandestine publicity.
The following is the King's React ipt on this sub-
ject to the Minister of Public instruction

" Professor Wette has ackauwledged as autheatic the
copy presented to him of a letter which he addressed on the
31st of March last, to Madame Smith, wife of the Counsellor
of Justice, and he has st rore to justify the murder committed
by young Sandi. The important charge of a Professor of
Theology and Morality is incompatible with this conduct. t
should wound we conscience if 1 continued to confide the in-
struction of youth to a man who regards assassination as
justihed under certain conditions and piesumptions, and I
charge you by these pi esents to remove Professor de Wette
Irvin his function of an Instructor.

(Signed) " FREDEILCK WILLIAM..
Sept. au, 1819."

WINDSOR, JAN. 13.—0 n Nlouttay her Royal
Highness the Princess AUGUSTA, attended by her
Lady in whiting, took an airi►►g in her carriage.
to 13Agshot Park, on a visit to the Duke mud
Duchess of GcoucssTatt. Her Royal Highness
returned here in the evetths4. The Princess
Sopnta is slightly indisposed With a cold. Her
Royal Highness has not left the Palace but above
a week.