Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-06-18

which enght 70 he regarded only as the result
VI paroxysm OF insanity. LP1is Paper.
Upon the intelllgenc of the rs "a ,siuaticn of
kotzebue having reached Jena, the Senate of
HE University caused the chamber occupied
Wy Sands, the assassin, TO be opened. A letter
was found addressed TO one of his fellow st,i-
dents, with request that IL should be read 10
the whole OF them. 1t stated, among other
things that lie felt. indeed, that il was dread.
mi 10 murder a man hut tina, he could not pos.
sibly longer withstand the voice within him
which necessarily urged him 10 destroy the
betrayer of his country: that he had long
brooded over this plan. which originated with
himself, and would now proceed to the execu,
ton oft; that they shpuld not be uneasy
about him, for that lie knew a safe place 10
which he could escape. A French paper gives
the following As the declaration left by the
assassin:
4" Sole bond Of union, Virtue, invoke,
"whet kotzebue'. breast receives the mortal stroke"
In our daysit is necessary TO pronounce
with resolution, for the law which God hath
engraven i'm flaming characters. OIL the hearts
OF his creatures. Prepare yourselves decide
for life OF death!
Opeu crimes are not the most pernicious
scourges of our nature vice attacks more
mortsliy Under the hypocritical veil OF habits
OF pOIiteneSs, aud the externals of morality :.
falsehood assumes thousand deceitfui forms.
What shall tue present state of the people be
the only result OF 80 many saciificesS Shall We
remain plunged in this miserable weakness 2
Half learned foois. confined by their own
vain knowledge. shall they alone continue 10
stttrulh at defiance. which reiyHs in the heart
Ut man III its own noble simplicity shall they
alone paralyze its effects on the conduct of
lifets'' In the great German nation there
are certainly many individuals who far surpass
me, bat for myself. hate nothing so much as
the cowarjice and the veuality of the mode Of
thinking in the present days"
owe 1t 10 you 10 give a proof-I owe il
10 myself 10 declare openly against that cow
ardice. know nothing more noble Than TO
ttrCa rlaax a.nl.. 81. f.
oithIs age OF venaiity-the corrupter aud be-
trayer of my country Bat owe IL TO you.
my cousIr>, TO hate and 10 sacrifice all those
who, IN their culpable audacity, have forgot
ten that which was divine in you-whO keen
you under by a yoke afIectediy wise, like a
crowd of fools, and wish 10 make you move
Ike complicated wheel, the instrument of
their perfidioas designs s.ss The reformation
must bs completed brethren, do not abandon
each other IN tempestuous circumstances
treason menaces with slavery sur generation.
and those which are To come The book of his.
tory Is open before you Arise see the noon
da, OF liberty Arouse my country, rejects
take courage, deliver yourself -"
The German papers aud letters received by
lay the Maria Lucie, contain mauy particulars
relative 10 the assassination of the celebrated
august FREDERICK Ferdinand ION KOtzebue.--
The sensation produced throughout GERMANY
aud Europe by this melancholy event. and the
many circumstances connected with il. will
probably not subside very soon. One of his
sons. Otto Won kotzebue The great navigator,
who had lately been married TO a very amiable
lady, OF noble iamiI in Lietiand, returned
with ms yeung wife 10 Germany 10 visit lie
father whom he had not seen for four wears.
He arrived in Wemar, at thu house of his
grandmother, and immediate dispatched
messenger TO Mannheim, TO announce his
sale arrival at Neimar. But the expected
pleasure OF meeting was affiictively prevented,
for on the very day that the messenger was
sent TO kotzebue, he was assassinaiedi
A very interesting work, the materials for
which have been in preparation for some time,
has just been published in GeI Inany:-Kotze.
6aes Literature and Political Labo.us
IN Y II ddp