The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-27 00:00:00

FRANKFORT' YAMS.

TRIM Tea Maine, Aram 17.--Varints articles
tending to throw light on the dreadful deed committed
at SI anhei re, ia kith agitates all Germany, have already
appealed in the Public Paper., sod have given more
or less information respecting the mate of mind of
Ilthe perpetrator, and the real motives of his action.—
In this point of view metro particular attention is dye
to the letter which Solidi wrote to his parents, of
which soestion has already been made, especially as
it shows, la a very striking moaner, the dangerous
Mosier's of a mind deceiving itself by mystical and
hollow sophism., confounding whet is most sublime
and greed with a deed which deeply offends ell moral
feeling sod tears asunder the bonds of sods' union.—
The letter in question is in No. 107 of she Franconian
Mercer!, and in the Nos. 106 and 107 of the Attic-
min Ze' *Nig ; this latter Journal prelate' the letter
as follows :—.•6 We have received from a quarter on
which we tea &prod. a copy of the letter which the
unhappy Sandi wrote to his relations a short time
bolero the emotion of his bloody purpose, bet which
did net arrive till afterwards. We obtain from it
fresh amends for the consoling permission, that
Van& has been °sly the eictia, of his owolanstic is*
fatuatlon, and sot the Instrument of a coospiracy ;
bet we casuist behold, without sorrow, la these
lines, the atre/01e of • noble and timelier', disposition,
from which sometbiug great might have beers pro.
diced, with the delusions of a wild heatless, sod,
slag. the victory of the latter ! In this letter, which
is of very great letigth, the unhappy yowl mars re-
presents the pain it cost him to address a last (trowel
to his family, mud to reveal the secret which he has
bug suppressed. After thousands have fallen for she
liberty of Germany and re/moralise of the 'sties,
it would be infamies to lose the fruits of those el-
ections. A few only oppose the development of all
that it great in the German People, sod yet whole
crowds bend under the yoke of these wicked
wretcbrs."—He then proceeds to a long diatribe
against Kotzebue, whom he describes as owe of
the most wicked and artful widows, who uses every,
perfidious art to 101 l the Germans is a daestroosl
slumber, and is paid by Rossi' to admisister in his
Journal the poison by which half Germany, Sofa-
suited by his reputation, willingly realms Irons his
baud*. Who, he asks, abetl attack this bribed
traitor !—With satiety and bitter loaro,lie has long
prayed to Gal, he says. that somebody would esti-
cipato ids, end relieve him, who was not made fo?
a murderer, from his distress, and leave him in the
feudal career which be has chosen. Bot kis prayers
not being heard, he is resolved to do the deed him-
self, Disco It wield be an eternal disgrace if Kotze.
bee left Germany replenished. to enjoy in Russia the
tresses.' he has amassed by his treachery. Ile thee
announces his filed resolistiou of murdering Kotze-
bue, as an imperious duty which he cannot avoid
performing. Ile concludes with ezpressions of the
warmest attachmest to his parents, of his love for
the sciences. his attachment to life sod to his coos.
try, from which, as from his halls, he unwillingly
parrs, because slaty commands. H, Pepin.** his
immoveable crinirlinsce in Gnil. with a prayer to
whom for his country he conclodes.