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which would diferace the booth of an iti- 
perant mountebank. 
- Sculpture might be exhibited to the 
greateft advantage in the fublime temple 
of St. Paul: a building which, though 
of more diminutive conftruction than the 
tar-famed St. Peter’s at Rome, is infinitely 
more beautifulin the wizutie of its external 
decorations. This {plendid building would 
difplay monumental trophies with confi- 
derable effet, provided they were tafte- 
fully and judicioufly difpofed. Our 
fquares exhibit fatues, but they are not 
of the firft order. One, indeed, prefents 
a gilded horfe and its rider, which con- 
veys the idea of a gingerbread compofi- 
tion; while another has a ftagnant bafon, 
which in winter is frozen over, and in 
fummer fends forth its putrid effluvia to 
poifen and contaminate the air of the me- 
tropolis. Lhele deformities are, how- 
ever, beautifully contrafted by theaplanta- 
tions of Grofvenor, Portman, Fitzroy, 
. Leicefter, Finfbury, and Soho Squares ; 
and it is to be hoped that every open fpace 
of ground in this great city, will, in the 
courfe of a few years, afford its inhabi- 
tants this fpecies of fummer promenade. 
(To be continued.) 
—— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
y SiR, 
my NHE hardfhips Mr. Kotzebue has 
i undergone, being now the topic, of 
every polite company ; it will be inter- 
efting for your readers to know the truth 
of it: this is the moft authentic relation 
of it. 
Mr. Kotzebue having left two fons in 
the military academy at Peterfburgh, 
and being {till poflefied of a fimall but 
very’ valuable eftate near Reval in Li- 
vonia, which he called Friedenthal ; (that 
is to fay, Vale of Peace,) wifhed to 
travel once more to Ruffia, in order to fet- 
tle all his affairs there, and then come 
back, never to return again. His lady, 
who is of an old Livonian family, cefired 
likewife to embrace once more her Cear 
relations, and her children byher firft bul- 
band. Mr. Kotzebue, fully fenfible of 
the reafonablenefS of thefe motives, and 
firmly perfuaced of his own innecence, 
fought and cbtaincd a paffpert from the 
Emperor of Ruffia, couched in the mott 
favourable terms, and granting full liberty 
to enter aad repafs the Ruffian dominions, 
when he had finifhed his. affairs. ..He 
tock leave of a tender loving mother and 
all his friends at Weimar, where he re- 
“e, 
The Fate of Kotzebue. 
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fided during the Jaft winter, and where he 
had -bought, fome few weeks before his 
departure, a large garden-ground, which he 
intended laying out to his own fancy when 
he returned ; and went through Berlin(where 
he received the paffoort with all legal for- 
malities from the Ruffian Minifter, the 
Buron Kriidner, a Livonian nobleman) and 
Konigfberg, accompanied by his lady and 
three little children, two girls, and a babe 
ftill fucking at his mother’s breaft, and 
with feveral men, and women-fervants. 
The moment he arrived at the Ruffian ex- 
cife houfes and guards, at the frontiers of 
Pruflia and Courland, near ‘Polangen, 
an order for arrefting him was fhewn 
by the commanding officer. He was put! 
in irons, and conduéted, along with his fa- 
mily, whofe terror, lamentation, and dif- 
traction, it is eafier to imagine than to de- 
fcribe, to the capital of Courland, Mittau. 
There he was torn from his fwooning wife 
and fobbing infants, and carried in a fimall 
Ruffian carriage, which is called a kibftka, 
directly to the great capital of the empire. 
His lady obtained leave, from the governor 
ot Riga, to retire tothe little country- 
feat near Reval, but was not able, till the 
period. when fhe wrote her laf letter, to 
get the leatt information of her poor huf- 
band, whole guilt nobedy knows even in 
Livonia. In-. her letter, which bears 
{trong marks of a broken heart and the 
utmoft defpondency, fhe expreffes herlelf 
in the following manner about her eldeft 
daughter, Emmy, a lively, amiable girl, 
fix years old, and the very image of her 
father: “* Poer Emma clings always about 
my trembling knees, and afks for her dear 
papa in thoie melting, heart-rending ac- 
cents, which fting my foul with unipeak~- 
able grief. ¢ Pray, my dear mama, con- 
duct me thither, where my poor papa is 
lying. Let them put me in trons like- 
wife! I will not be free when my father 
is in chains.”” Mr. Kotzebue being ftill 
in the fervice of the Roman Emperor, and 
penfioned by him, fome hope is entertained 
that the, Emperor, who always patron- 
ized his genius, will not think it below 
his dignity to interfere in his behalf with 
his Imperial brother. 
P. S. This moment certain advice is 
brought, that Kotzebue, without any pre- 
vious inquilition, is brought to the fortrefs of 
Peteriburgh, Schluifelburg, and is kept 
there in clofe prifon. 
Hamburgh, W'S. 
Fuly 14, 1800. 
ANECDOTES. 
