The New York Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1869, Page 4

a 4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NUVEMBHEH: 5, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. ne ne greece eet et entne ner a , the ‘one she ever gave to the public—of this separation. | the lar chi whtio! to yours written by his I | brother, str pas of tie ber Tae TOE BYRON MYSTERY, — | SESSA csi ses" Sehcos | set emai, ein atte tne yar tmed | Ctecacen tam eae Ry eee ce cars | Ha ty arate cache Rae | tae tte eDeN, eta oe, y i ’ re affecting. on m Intimacies; and a beauti ‘cont a ’ ride in renown and witn for Gy ba 4 suiiter vas lvacd forsverin ins world, Moore's memos | Actress Mrs. Mardyn, with whom he had nover ex: | (iufetcige Mt i® hese aud not very well.” Koare mon af mu ‘suaply and solely Lord Byron's | Changed @ Word, narrowly escaped being driven off Moore’ sont whewe coy: bay the stage on bis account; ~ Know if she bad any remarks | | Not content with such ordinary and tangtble charges (says ~ bad been prepared, con! A argu cares.’ 1D UNINtOI Idle, all thea Jnarticulate, pu¢ no Was in juent Co f thi 7 mm wih rs en dun Whom we a naobied tao Laat sX@D 0 ae | Byron, and (what owe must explain} Mrs, Stowe’s “True Story” rious ladder it was diticult to get down again ‘a. Beecher Sti Bling, and to acura all eiaanied aad’ { hast 10 c0.siuch “Stir - loually with Lady Byroa too dan down a d-—-d corkacrew staircase, which he’ Kraar MALLORY, Feb. 14, 1816, The nt suTerti of all m: repaid 18 biesala; despair absolutely, dearest, ead leayo. me but auaugt rtulisiy . Do Paw. 2, 1580. up she sont a brief statement to | argon ‘tongue of rumor 3 | of your latureat to uff 4 ho ‘Deva constructed before the discovery of fermented Uquora, | To Mr. MugRaY—Pray tell Mra. Leigh to requed daly | ‘ arrafih toltetat aad his gttee a hase | Mali fariers and: proumtay upon the mde tus slows re | of that arrow which ara oat wahappy"te eau um nine | Af, 10 wi reruns uaa | weedncey e te efe t Dp, a ww garde a p ; ¥ r b, Ne 0} ie q “a » fe Proved False. ie abject the cuaifon oc” Re tatber ‘and | ‘at'vate isloner at UA Sie tte UE car hase | feat tear itsae Septean’ bunueR Horentioe and a iad pi ante ak ats | Eirosuat vet cate OF ME Present your bitterest reproach would be forgi ough, eavon Knows you have cousidered me more theo a thousand would have done—more than ing but my aifection for B., one most dear to you, could desorve, I uiust not reusm- ber these feolings, Farewall ! God bless you, from the bottom Of my heart, ALL B. We do not ee how negative evide: wall be carried furtuer, But yf Pain aie An Faith, fanatto faith, once wodded fast ‘To nome doar falsehood, huge to the last, ‘The oritics who were not convinced by Lady Anne Baruard’s stavement may yot find a loophole for mother from the charge made by etue the instl: | was left doi up ie Outline as he ploased. Larscipngh gar sg. Telling bis own story, tn “Phe Advent: if These alleged circumstances may be affecting, but 4 ry, tt rho Adventures of & oaem they aro limuginaty.. Lady Byron's own account, | Youre Andatusian Nobiemaa” (a fragment), he The Character of Byron’s Sister | wiion vss. Beconer Stowe proceeds to quote, ts com: | *4¥3— fe prised in_“Remarys on Mr. Moore's Life of Lord J Ager panier ety cere all the crim erick i j yrou by Lady Byron," and written subsequently to : era! which could bot be committed, aad little Vindicated, tie pabuicatioa of to Hist volume of that Work, us | !9#8 {hes ao ai-do-e was motisipated as the renult Mrs, Heecher Stowe might have seen from the refer- Few whoever heard of hagy Anne Barnard. her | enees to the printed volame, (a It runs thus;— Intellectual qualiiications, and her social position, { eed, ‘1230, To Mr. Mustay—P. &—My eter tells me tat yor erie her to taquire whero I wis, Lelieving in m fascial, delving a curricle, &c., Into Palace ).9rd. Do you think mea cpxcomb or @ maitinad to be capable oX auch an exhibition? My slater knew we better, wad told you Nat could not be me, MAavenna, March 1, ¥ To Moork--I have received yur message ‘aratal g Sister's letter, mbout Boglish secuxity, de. to, * ® ThiokIng of the funda sf do, and 4, (9 seoure @ raver. oo to my sister and ber cbildreu, 1 sould jump at most ex Mr. Trelawney states (in his “Reoo!leotions") that as usual, very good; but I carried away inuch wing, and the wing had previously cas tie away iny maraory, xo that all was hicoup and happiness for the laat hour or #0, 'aud Tam not lmpregnated with any of the conversation, “Lord Byron's actions,” writes the Rev. W. Har- ness, his schooifelioiy and frivud, “so far ag they fell wader my own ovservation, Were kind-hearted, gén- erous and umiabie, All the evil I ever knew of him was told me by limself, I those fits of self-accusa- tion which he had so strange a habit of indniging. will deny that her repors of conversations with Lady 1a my observations up this stat cinbinavoll Wicking op any Maliers teating peronaty | BYFON M1816, directly after the separation, on Its Mrs. Leigh and Lady Byron Always on the Best of Terms. LADY BYRON OF UNS 4 v cause eet « escape. We may be told that there was a subsequent There is a scene In “Woodstock” ta which, when Byron and myself. Th cause or causes, is better deserving of utvention | gig ry. a socond ask ~~ rc . Lord Byron was iu the act of writiag t his sister Mallory, tho Yestdance of mother, | than Mrs. Beecner Stowe’a account of tea- eothind, if not from. withon non toe ye BsFon's | Cromwell 18 1a ono of his most excited moods, verg- he was se fast tllnesa. Th: {sis'or Mauary, 818. Lott Hyroa had suited «3 | Uons om the same subject. thirty years ‘atterwards, | Owe wund, nok from without—or thus, if no new | tug on insanity, lie daughter enters the room, walks | {Het Be was seized with bis last illness, ‘no letter, {acis reached her, old facts again appeared to oer in now lig! Then there is the “talf-truth-at-a-tine theory,” which, we are assured, tn no degree weakens credibility; and the angeilo theory wilich Justifies-@ lady (if sbo 18 pure, chivalrous and reil- givus) in alternately exalting and vilifying, trusting and distrustipg, the same person, accoraing to her Jett uniinished, is dated Af |, Bebri q Teed ae eee a tusclougut, February 28, My dearest Augusta—I recelved Lay iiyron's report of Ada's cre ad Sagas ein’ marian The last sentence but one, alluding to of eptiepsy tn his own case, contains betes iad up to him, gentiy but firmly pas€3 hor arm through his, and saying *Father, his ig pot weil; you bave promised te tals should not Cel le him of obedient a8 o child, Byron's sister had the game Kiod of Indueoce over him, Lt may have been a.spell of his owa Weaving, but 16 was a spell of power; vy 6) bis absolute desire that {should | Lady Anne writes:— Fa leave Loudon on the eartient day that T could convealentiy . ‘Tho reparation of Lord and Lady B. iY wot safe for me to undertake the fatigne of a iy Byron asto: ‘sooner (han the Ith. Previously to my departure it world, which Believed bin » reformed map as to bi My strongly impressed on my mind that Lord Byron anda becalned man ssto bis remorses. At that period a er the iidnence of insanity. This opinion was de- | *9¥ere St of iliness had eon! bed for two mouth: wae to | {beard of Lady Byron’a diatress; of the paius be took t sive wharsh Wrpreasion of her character to the world. I JUND MIND. 4 mei ure from the communteatio: at relatiwes and al ati , Who had and weare convinced that he never spoke lightly So fs te ‘! . ‘en aa ater f itetsiae kin | foe Wo Hor, aud eatteated lee fo dome and etme see and | mood. (e) It will be hard, too, if solething cannothe | or irevoreally of Ner. “And ere, Defore Koln ur- | may netnnecsme’ ob thas ycMeeRUANTZ | ABaAt M8 thak a mei iat core Fofatt, Of, my stay in bE be TE pm ygy ay Fee ae yeep raat pa 8 the Ange eee ne gomeone thor, it may be as walt to, ascertain what sort of a | some precautions in the case of Adu. Sheets of ondon _ represen 10m at he was r | foided by this int cI “ lo Of statin; & del person tle sister was; for though the poetic imagina- Lora left 4 {From Advance Sheets of the Londo Of deatroying. blnselt. With ‘the concurrence of his | folded by this Inte creature who had so fondly | ryanner,”” although sie goes Oh to atate them ia | tion can build on a alishe fou dation, there Must be Byron left the whole of bis Alsposable erty to his sister and ner children, bis reason thus stated tn his will, dated the 29th of July, 116 T make the above provision for my alater and her childres, in consequence af my dear wife, % droa t may have being oluerwiee aus provided for oe Dr. Lushington, as we have said, re; what between Lady Byron. and himself as Daanttor of professions! confidence, staves that he never has revealed what passed and never will, But sure), the obligation to secrecy has been virtually cancel! Ife, bad made’'np aocaple of repeating the onanee rej o right and leit to almost anybody who hous to iste ing yor Review) frily t vad ‘vonsulted Dry Baillie, aa a friend (January ped {0 RAVEIRSEOS TERE m . eting the supposed malady. On acquainting bim The controversy raised by Mra. Beocher Stowe's vi i wate of the case, and with Lord Byton's desire that | patil pe “into rey ct ans enter, cOFe! d reve ;) 3 0. should leave London, Dy, Balilie thought that my aosence Pretended discovery and reveintion ns excited AD | Ki fK0 be nivlasble ay ait experineus aasumeny teefect of | TOU, tare been “t> pour ‘unagluation, ; Unprecedented amount of intores$ at hoine and | micntni derangement; for Dr. Balilte, not having had acceas | Possible ® woman your sense could form ue broad, The fair fame of Lord Byron ts dear to | @k0t Byrou, could not pronounce @ positive opinion on | Wild hope of reforming mef” Many are the tonrs yout will abroad, i Lord ‘ ear tO | that point: Ho enjoined that tn correspondence with Lord | have to shed ere that pian is accomplished. It ts enough for ai! admirers of bis genins in both hemispheres; and | Byron I should avold ull but light and soothing toploa, | Die that you are my wite Cor me to hate yous if you ware the hi : ralxail 4 _ | Onder th pressions I left Loudon, determiged to fol- | Wife of wny other manT own you might have charms,” 40. 1, 8 personality 1s so mixed Up @nd biendod with Rts | low the advice given by Dr. Bailife. Whatever might have | Who listened, was astouished. “How could you xo.ou alter poetry, that to blackea his moral character ta to | Dee the nature of Lord Byrou’s conduct towarda, me/rom the Tpmy, dear? Wey did you fot return to your H x | fine of my marrige, yet, supposing him to be in a state of use not @ conception he was iv jower bis literary reputation and excite a misciev- | menta) ‘alienuiony it was ut for me, hor for any person of reckoned it # bad and told bim s0— ous prejudice against his works, A number of | CoMon humanity, to manifest, at ial moment, a sense of fen very diferent from his of heselhy general terms. In dealing with such antagonists it is notenough tocutaway the groundwork of the calumny; We must sweep away the materials in the shape of conjectures, surmises, isinuations and iulerences, with which the dirty work may be recem- meneed; and we hope to do tins so effectually as not merely to clear Lord Byron’s memory from ali taint of guilt, but to refute the Incidental charges of unfeeling or ungenerous condnct towards his Wile. It seems clear that Lady Byron complained of language or conduct suMictent, in Dr. Lushington’s optaton, to render a reconciliation impoasibie. But it does not follow that some semblance of one, aud we have to decide not simply whether Airs. Leigh was likely to inspire an Incescaous, life-long aud all-absorbing passion, but whether ste was te sort of woman to reciprocate it and in position to induge tt with impunity. Tue reckleasaes3 with which this lady’s reputation has been aseailed and the feelings of hor family have been ourraged 18 one of the most extraordiuary aud Pegulaive features of tie controversy. - jarl Stanhope has Kindly permitted ns to print the POLO we extract from @ private letter writien by imi had aot been an hour in the injwy. He laughed It 0 ny gol Rer Wostt COMPLAINS WEP | y was very well acquainted with Mra, Letgh about forty | to {c, The tollowii : ti 1 Basten: i ” hurt, and I forgot what had passed | Well founded, Admitied unfitness for the married : 3 | te tt The tolloming letter @ oe.ct many so the Folvedy vid a arc etd ede Ai octal Mr |. yhllsmearest, nis only near relative was hus sister, | {iiforced ty remember ik Tbeieve he was ploasod wits ne, | state was rather bis misfortune than his tnuit; and | Fatnco' hear tet apbex angat Last Byrsucasahe was very | Same PULporE that have been wddresied to the newa- volved; and a great deal of curious information, well | Who was with him when his wife left tim. Colonel | too, for @ litte while. I su od | phe took him for better for worse with her eyes open. | fond or doing. That fact itaclf is w prea papers:— worth preserving, as been elicited in the shape of | 824 Mrs. Leigh aud two or three cousins constituted bed Ree 2 that I was his wil a fa ‘ needa: — pineas they enjoyed to have scattered letters and desultary notices, For these | NS Tamuly. Lady Byron proceeds: a. Lod th nm wnequal When Tarrived at Kirby Mallory my parente were unao- | tome tenderness, Davai eater ate ted tee fat ri pt, : : ° c tc - | to some tendernoss, mi Oris (among other) reasons we think that a complete | quatnted with the exisience of any causes Likely to destroy | Hiv sometimes reproached her for the copies that nd it: gummary and wnalysle of the controversy are im. | i posvecla of bappiness; and when 1 communtoated to | duced her to marry him—ail waa “vanity, the vaniiy of Miss 7 ; } them the opinion which had been formed concerning Lord | Mitbanke earrying the poiut of reforming Lord Bycou | He Peratively required, and will not be deemed ont of | Byron's state of mind they were most aaxious to promote | always knew Aor inducements; her pride shut ber place in these page bis restoration by every Means in ther power. They assured | he wished to build up fis character bis fortunes . ise relations who were with bim fa London ‘they | were somewhat deran; ihe hada high name and would If we had apy doubts or scruples about (he course i davota sbelr wole care and atiention to the alleviation | have « fortune worth bia atiention—let her look to ihat or ake ; * and hoped to make the best arrangement for | Au) motives!” “OB, id “ mn deso- pal pursued they would be removed by t he could be Juduced to visit them. “With these | Jute me!" ean! ah a Rk ae @nd langvage of an infuential portion of the preas, , ; Q Mallory, She had always treated him } himself on the ground w a frenzy, which sho believed which nothing ehort of searching investiga riferation and inddigence, which | was affected to conceal the coldness, wnd marynity of Me b an irritating word escape her lips in ber whole intercourse | to + with tends 4 organ of opinion declared that s black mark had | with bm. ithe . hy seme implications’ not followed. up by" tua what 1a alleged, since, on such would surely be fet as painful and tremely unprepossessing Iu ber perso: more Ika « nun than wnytbing. and never can have hed Jeast pretension to beauty. Tf thought hor ab: tive to @ fault in her mind and character, and, saw and kuew of her, I hold her to have bewn'uttorly incapa- ble of such a crime as Mrs. Beecher Stowe {sso unwarrant- ably seeking to cast upon hor memory. y The Dowager Lady Shelley, a woman of large experience, penetration and sagacity, well ac- quainted with Byron and his contemporaries, writes thag:— Ihave seen a great deal of Mra. Ledzh (Augusta), havin; Od some Gaye, with ber and Cotonst Letgh for my hus ‘band's shooting near Newmarket, when on was tn ‘There is not the shadow of coljatera) or confirm- atory proof that Lord Bryon treated her cruelly or brutally, while there is strong presumptive ’ evi- dence to the contrary. The “Dear Duck” letter would not have been written by a proud woman who had been harshly treated and was writin under a sense of wroug. They had lived a good dea with her father and mother, who must have had am- ple opportunities of observing his tone and manuer, and Were too wrapped up in their daughter, not to notice any approximation to unkinduess. But when (in January, 1816) she suddeniy ar- rived at Kirby Mallory, they had not the least suspicion that ‘there was _ anything mies; and the day after her arrival Lady Noel wrove To tue Eprron or Tur Pant, Matt QagerTe:— Stt—Lady Noel Byron realded, on and of, muny yeare tm Brighton, and her circle of friends gofncided ver} with my own. For most of these years I heard ‘but crime of which ahi d her dead husban it aa secreta, but, on tho contrary, ma facts to defence of ner conduct, characts r of private judgmer whon deciding questions tnvolving criminal charges witich ean be properiy Peete only by publio tribui a mother wrote on the 17th to Lord Byron, Invit- He would then accuse himself of being mad, and throw unsparing exposure can counteract. AWhile one | etonled toe je pecuilarity of his feelings. Never did } heart—an affectation which at that time never failed cconnts gwen me after I left Lord byron by | fad” by some implications mot followed. up by mo | to him in th 2 jom | the house, and, as sho tla nic, was writiny “Ile dotealt,” | Noone, told her, bad to Tepeat such charges, ax- Deen set for all time to come against Byron's most | 2 Peavy tm constant intercourse, with him adited to Cos | Test sue mgt have condemned herself afterwards for Sorin. | her: Srhloh Lady Hoot ein cactaihis nonhiee Ait | tomy great astonishment, Cor it'was a wretched email house, | cept as decisions of courls of law. Her stories differed. Hee Li Casas tpn pr dade amma nmere cha before tranalonty oluutary dinciontrea, that he aoonattempiad wo conrupt ber | ie guy had autleipated austing, disuareeabio. oF | Lukotber ieaiued cule, win wary always runnloy up | Darratives and mamoranda wery glvaa away, right And if | rn nd ated oubt whether of r i rinetples Loth with reapect to her t and b : : end dowa stairs aad gotag tato “uaateta’ in, whero contidantea who knew her beat, her pecul dant were fer fcom eatebilshing the ext Nie Tar hiss Rue anw che procipice “oa which she stood, ev’ | thought that er daughter had been ariven from bis | Fernaiued all the moraing. “Mrv. Leigh was like w mother to | troubles with her daughter, her cller grandson, her hOrvante, Would be consistent with fine feeilag or propriety anything hke lunacy. Under thi ever to open his works again, another regretted that, | Tight te communicate to m: house or harsily treated in any manner. His lan- guage, 80 long as there was a hope of reconciliatiog, jormly generous and conciliatory, He writes to Moore, March 8, 1316:. I must set you right on one point, however, trot—=no, nor even the misfortune—th ty, “oliote choosing at all), for 1 do uot believe—aud T f nil this bitter business—that there ever na brighter, a kinder, or @ more amiable aud jngthan Lady B. yr had, norean have, y reproach to make ner schi'e me. ‘Where there ts pieme it belongs to myself; and, if 1 cannot redeem, I must ear It, He did his best to redeem It; and tt was only when she uncertainty deemed it | dept hisstater with her us murh as poss'b'e, “He returned 1h ti , | Fight ko “comnnntcate renta tant Af T were, tocar: | evaulngs (rom the fauute of ice ware he made her under ae fier Lord By" concfuct a8 th on of sound | gtand ho bad been, with maune: 0, the sitice €0 crushing an exposure wes to come, tt had J grind rotuing could fnauce me to Tocura hime Mt, there; | wratch 1 aid 1 he to maorbenieot remorse? SARE rs : pneared expedient both to them and myself to conatit | ‘Sometimes ho appeared. to bave ther not come tn ume to be: a the generation that read jest miviaers. For that object, abi also to obtain still | home from one? his lawless parties; bo saw meso indie him and took an lutevest in him instead of being de- | further tuformation reapesttig” thd “appearancea which | nautly collected, and. oaritg. all with sucha deteriined yed tii! his fame and tnduenc aad aa’ med to indicate mental derangement, my mother | calmness, that a'ruah of remorse seemed to come over him; lye his famo and influence have passed away. | determined to go 10 London She waar empovered by mo | be calied’ bimselé @ monster, though his cious ese prosnt Now, no man of matured understanding, mode: a apiece o me on written Mot poy of mine and theew bicaself {a agony at my feet. ‘I could sigh a Saas : Foner’ | though Earl then reaeona for reserving u port of the case from the | mot—Rocl could. not forsive, Im oa ries. Hl fey vee as European and transatianttc itera- } inovielge even or my father ant mether.. Being convinced by | had lou me forever! “Aatoalgbon at the renara cr eciieed, my ure, would he: all ate to declare that Byron stands | the result of thess inquiries and by the tenor of Lord Byron's | tears, { belteve, flowed over dT said, ‘Byron, immeasurably higher for world-wide fame and in- | longer hesitated to authorize auch measures ay were neces: | started up, and, folding bis arms while he looked at me, Byron, being so mach older, and not at allan attractive per- son. Tt afterwards wout with hor, at her request, to pay » wedding visit to Lady Byron when she roturnod to town, and she (Mrs. Leigh) exprersed the greatest ansiety that his ould reform him. He opened the drawing room and recelved my congratulations au savage: au I expected. looking demon-iike, as he often dl But my astonishment at the ’ present accusation is unbounded. She, a Dowdy-Goody, I being then, J suppose, a young fine lady, Scrope Davies usod to cowe to dinner, and (alked to me ® great deal about Byron afier- wards, when ho resided tu tie country, and I never remember ® bint at this unnataral and tiuprobable Guin when all London was at Byron's feet. Ihave hoard from Lady A. L relative to and to Mrs, Lofgh, that my recoliec- tion of her was perfectly correct. Bhe save, “She was an never would bave repeated hor stories with pens and types. ‘They thought her mind was touched, | Suspfeions had become delustona.” Three of her frionds, myseif being one, came Separately to this conclusion, | The sealed papors eld by ber {ristees, {¢ they contain the aocusatlons she made, can only records of her delusions; for the charge froquently te not capable of-prout. aud ihe charge Mra Stowe has published is epee recent and utterly in- credible. IUHN ROBERTSON. ii 12 NonvOLE Roan, Bept, 12, 1869. The Rey. Francis Trench, after stating, first, bis conviction that any public revelation of tho ‘kind recently made would tiave been deemed most objec Uonabie by Lady Byron herself, proceeds in a iettor to the Zimes:— One night, coming roceedines that the notion of insanity was an iilusion,1 no | {x forgotten; never, never shall you hear of if more.’ ‘H Auenco than any English poet; amd thore ws aome- | S00 47 Oeure me som being er aguin placed in hie | Hurat into taugher. “What do you moan?” ald 1. “Only a m ‘i y 7 power. Conformably with this resofutlon my father wrote to hilogophical experiment, that’s ali,’ sald ~ | every effort fatled, and his very reinctance to bring | amjable and devoted wife and mother of seven children. thing almost ludicrous to our minds in testing id of February to propose a nmioabl Eortatn the valugor pout resolutiouss * Taeed not say more | Matters to an extremity was turued against ulm, | Her husband was very foud of her, ani bad w high opinion | Secondly, it ledesirable to obviate the impression that Mra, gonius by morality. Are we not to relish Sterne be- Byron at firat tod this proposal; but wi of this prince of duplicity, except vhat varied were bia | that ho occastonally broke into bitterness, His fixed | of her.. She must have been married (in 187) when Byron bees rel by flint Sn Feil poet Ug) rae ; ¢ Bo rat tint JF be persisted in bis re- | methods of rendering her wrotched, even to the inal. When | and deliberate state of feeling towards hus wife will | was quite a boy ho was ninotenn), She bad no taste for | fan D SUG io ountoation on. th At maeny boos cause he preferred “whiulug over a dead oe had to legal measures he agreod to | her lovely litte child was born, And ik was iaid Veride its | be vest collected from his conversations with Dr. | Poetry, She led ead mistortunca in her later years. Her | Cottle veriods Lady Noat Byron had Tully stavod the cause \ ass to relieving a dytng mother” or Rousseau, nee tmother on the bed, snd he was {uformed “he might seo his | Kennedy, in Cephalonia, the year before his death. | Cirilent and only au viety dausiver yurenl her with du tavdivest | Oo hGr Yoparation Yo many of her relaives. and inthnate muile, thie w die tor tig hen tnt fue. How any one could have been | OF er separation to many of het, relaliyes, and tntinate ‘The professional advisers were Sir S daugoter,” after gazing at {t with an exultin, becanse, walle oxpatiating on pareutal lova, he sent | pr, Builile succes Uusiaeten: Who caine to. UNG | te gaciiadion vat unos from htt, gut hrlat an pie Dis Megitimate children to a founding hospital? or Jusion that there Were Ro sufficient proofs of in- | t%! of torture have T acquired ta yout Aiferl, because he committed adultery with Laay | Séuity. {wo of them showed no lack of zeal:— GILls SSO OLE ERA ee ry with Lady 7 rid rh aa . e 5 ken with many Ligonier? or Dante, because he exsited his early Ps Pas ey yr py el ar sah Fedde httad gia grains of allowance in lts bearing on the general one. love, Beatrice, far, far above “la Sera rrogiie,? hig | ing thempeives st the same time into my room, I did not yron admitted that his wife, who never would or Wifet or Milton, because (according to Jonson) he | ineirguestion siagan fivelon: and sonenLat mapnrees. | sayatidcnnoas dor which ke hed anos ee ton, ause J heir questions singular, frivolous and somewhat importunase, | mystifications (for which he & morbid fancy) for Wasa harsh: father, aud drove the first Mra, Muton | if not impertinent; bul what whould 1 tuvo thought if Thad | insanity. But the obvious course, after Laving boon from bis house? David Deans would not take physte | roo s Ue ee a mak? proyide Proofs of my insanity ? | taken in once or twice, Waa to let him see that no ae? 2n3 would not tak sic fee * ot, however, tax Lady Byron with this traps. a h from a doctor who ‘haa not aright sense of the right } Actions Probably ‘she was ‘not privy tort "She ‘waa tho Tire Reoamnais URE einai begun, winiaee eTHNY | fool of others.” " i ne hand and left hand def yas of the day.” Miles Dr. Lu toia him that be was guilty of a bad jest. She migit ye" 3 . Lushington, on Lady Byron’ v1 aoe, cae a Poter Andrews (as recorded by Boswell) could see no | in Jantary, 190" wrote wer, checclaicg ‘eer Rave said, Gn tia One 208 it seas & French Tons of fun in a man who owed him three guineas. Thesen- | Which is printed in her “Remarxs't;— the ante-revoluionary period, Lauzun or Riche- Bitive journalist can derive no pleasure from By: poetry since the terrible disclosure of Mrs. B Dr, Kennedy is defending tho dovtrino of eternal punishment: — ““Wantevér God does 18 right. Tt it denen ded on me, judging by mere feelings of tumantiy, I would have all saved. Nay I would go further than you; 1 would have no hell at all, bul Would pardon all nd aend ail to equal happine: “Nay,” some of them, “I would not save all. “I would save,” cried his lordship, “my nister and my dangh- ter, and some of my friends and a few others, and let he rest suift for themsel “And your wite niso,” I ex claimed. No," he sai ut your wife; surely you would ave ron wifol™ “Well be suid, “I would aave her, too, if you Ike." Here the bitternesa which ho betrayed in “Don Juan” and some minor poems of a domestic charac- Rt poers out, But a day or two afterwards we ne no wicked as 10 ws! to have friends left who cowld refute ¢ belief.” Lord Stanhopo’s and Lady Sheliey’s impressions are confirmed by the surviving friends and acguaint- ances of Mrs. Lelgh. Her husband, Licutenant Col- onel Leigh, of the celebrated Tenth Hussars, had seen service and Wasa man Of social distinction in his day, He was the friea@and coustant companion of the Prince Regent, the Dukes of Bedford, Rut- Jand and Cleveiand, the Earl of Egremont, Lord Rivers and other distinguished patrona of the turf. He and Mrs. Leigh occupied apartments in Flag Court, St, James’ Palace, given to her on being ap- pointed bedchainber woman to Queen Charioite, in 1814 or 1815. She died there November 31, 1851; one of her dauguters never quitted her, and wag with her when she diced. A daughter and @ son ard allil liv- ing, whose feelings may be guessed. she leit the fe ao horrtble a atury of one too long dead story aoemaheyond | ust; and, 00 fares I know, not one of them, mach to thele honor, Judgment and propriety, has broken’ that profound atoucé and secrecy which, so far as the public is concerned, should have been continued forever, A secret 1s no longer @ secret when it is told a¢ suecessive perloda to many relatives end frienis; aud whatever liberties Lady Byron might take with Lord Byron’s character, do not recognize her right (except as an angel or on the angelic theory) to whisper away Mrs. Leij Mr. Trench, ing subsequent letier, disputes obertson’s conclu- sion that Lady Byron was acting under a delusion; | but suroly this is thé more charitable hypotuesia, i] whon we consider the frequency with which her damolng revelations were voiunteered, the exteat to which they diftered from one another aud the variations with which the main charge was occasion~ ally dished up. The story told a3 coming from her by a lady of unimpeachable veracity was this:— : ag lieu, who said of his wife a month after mar- cher iy Laay Mos ur behalf while you ware in | (Od L should stil be of her!’ Byron was snnoyed ry. The circumstances detailed by ber were svoh | @t fluding that the lady’a maid was to travel tu the d anything disrespectful of Lady B. Iam very much ady H. deserves every respect from me, and cer- ould give ime greaier pleasure than’ a recon- ciliation. Biowe, and almost feels that he shall never open his eparati : 7 it fi ble impression on ali who had an oppor- d & separation, but they wel wot of the | 8ame Currlage; but the expression of annoyance on With such sentiments how Js It possible that » separation | Most favorable tmp 1) “ ot only bad Lord Byron conlessod | Works again. It will, therefore, be a kind of good eription ar to seaaer sue Fy mes: that account was the reverse of offensive, and the ek piece, or how is tt ataroaaton extn veaiTectoi? ba od of eee td ae ee bee top ae is tg er that the patiier of his guill Se ay i seta oe On Lady Noel's representation 1 ° jar auch circumstances neither you nor she can be happy, | palaces generally contrive no ut one an- Aoed to take “Childe Harold” aud “Don Juan” out intion with Lord Byron practieabie, end | Presence of the abigall (if she was present) affords | gra'the cause must bo singular, whieh two persons of suck | Siler geod, bad or inaideront, Infact, her habia, | C2, tue taith of @ promise to be. apal Byro a sud } an unanswerable presumption that he sald nothin Sarteay, cxageeratlon oF the fea Nat} of the kind attribated to him. (0) : ‘4, any delermination to prevent a Again, may not the ejaculation that broke from him ertala ¥ pone was expressed when I | O01 Ue bagel sight oy child haye been identical wita ben you came to town tn about | the reflection in bis journal, “What a torture she tion of the dead, we must venture Into a ee ars teats i Bee ait | with | may bo to me?’ Or he may have meant nothing talnted atmosphere aud bandie things it 1s isagres- | Ulery unknowa, asf have no doubl, io Sit Ralph wad Lady | Wore than what he sald of his cousin's child, “She Able to touch; but the critical tribunal resembles | Nor. On receiving this addiviona, Information my opimon | Will grow up @ beauty aad a pingue." A jest’s pros. rainaty tribunals in this re “ nee ly changed; 1 considered a reconciliation tinpossi- | Petty les in the ear of him who hoaré tt. Laay oinary tribunals in this respect—conventional rales ed my opinion aad added that if such an idea | Byron had no taste for jesting at any time, and, with - ane must give Way When truth ana justice are a! entertained J could pot, efther professionally or } ail her show of candor, did not spare him in the re- ake, otberw Be ny part Coward effecting It. lati er Wi % " ‘Moore, who had the best posatble information apa very faithfully 5 ation of her wrongs. In the case of any other exposure, had delivered to Lady Byron @ written and signed confession, which Lady byron had forthwith deposited with the Lord Chanceilor (Eldon) as @ bar to any future proceedings that might be taken by Lord Byron to obtain the custody of his daugoter.” There can be no mistake in this instance, so far a3 our information ts concerned, We are convinced that it was her story (or rather } one of ber stories), and, “like Aaron’s serpent, swal- lows up the rest.” To expatiate on iw luproba- bility would be to insult the reader’s understanding. Awritten expression to avoid exposure or punish rank and understanding cannot find out OY Tdo not, indeed, know the cause of separation, sald Lord B, I know that many falsehoods have been spread abroad such as my bringing actresses to my house, but they were all false, Lady B, oft me without explaining the cause, 1 sent tse to her, who almont went on his kneos, but in vali and at length I wished to inatitute an action what were her motive I said, “Lady B. is to be commended. No Wite, fom inotives of deliescy, would ike the pubite to be acquainted with tue canses of her sorrow pad grief, in cir- her husband was concefoed; and {f she acted under mlsapprevension or bad influence, it was your Of quarantine and fumigate them for family ure. To Go this effectually, to clear up a mystery which 88 of the living as well as manners and appearance were @ complete autidote to calumny, especially this sort of calumny, It 13 well worth wnile to run over Byron’s printed allusions to his sister m prose and verse, if only to show what the perversity of the critical mind can do in the way of misconstruction wheo there is a fore- gone conciusion to be worked out, The attempts to extract proofs o fguiity passion from them have been utter failures. mauuer of iealizing her nega- tives the charge; and if he nad been conscious of guilt, it is to the laat Te ie Improbab® that he . ~ lordabip's duty tu bave acied fn such # way ai in time to Ha hi din draw: ear r | 4 sh oe eo OF P 7 woman she oc her friends would have been his.?” would have persevere: A NE Sato ersheinia® hr ohana wi ol Was best qualified to iterpret any doubtful aliusions irons EH. LUSHINGTON, | y to Tat ee at the suspected tie, or ta flaunt! ~ Whciming evidence t6 convict. Judges aie notin in the journals und letiers, say! Great Gronaz Stuer, Jan. 81, 1530, eked explain why she kept her father | What could I have done? I did everything at the tim tégether Sain ees Are (ies Be ran be the haolt of receiving ex parle statements in nom —"With respect to n 4 2 the causes that may be supposed to have infty this Now, what were these facts? It hag been tngeni- ee peraistently in the dark? Way she re- Separation, tt eeeins neediess, witd the character of | OUSiy argued by @ writer wito liad the goad tar: nag | sexta Ase? motte both partied before our eyes, to go in quest of any | tO Anticipate Mrs. Beecher Stowo that they musi structed? Why she pursued a course a thousand very remote or mysterious Teasons to account for it)? | have mvoived au extraordiaary amount or degree of | times more dainaging and aunoying to Lord Byron qnis Was aud 1s the only rational and consistent | chime, somerhing worse than “negiect, bitterness f than a direct aud open charge? Aud (above ail) thoory. The case of tiisii-nssorted patr wasaclear, | 2d rdultery’’ put togecher, and that “although 1¢ | why sho persisted tn making a mystery of hor spe- undeniable, meviiable one of noompatibility. Each | 18 worso (han useless to speculate upon the precise | citic charge until his death, his sister's death, the had HXoed habits and modes of thonght which neither | ence” Incest offers the most piausible clue to the | destruction of his autoblography (li which she con- Was disposed to give up, They were both accustomed | ™ystery. In reference to the statement imputed to | curred) and the lapse of time had destroyed all or to have their own way. Each possessed no common | Lédy Byron in “Don Juan,” that her duty both to | most of the direct evidence in refutation of it? What gwount of felf-consciousness aud self-esieem, | Mad aud God required this conduct, the same writer | she must have told her patents was more likely to His was the genuine poetic temperament, | &r@ves:—‘‘When br. Lushington declares reconciila- } shock aad alarm them on her account than what she which required soothing and could not beat | tou to be impossible, and that, If attempted, he could | jg aggorted to have kept“back. We cannot so much argument or contradiction. Jt was impossible | take no part in the attempt, professionally or other- | gs imagine anything that uilght be told to Dr. Lusn- for him to get on with @ reasoaing, strictly | Wise, be must be understood to mean that dnty both | ington aud not be told to them; and when she says reasonable wie, who made no allowance jor | to God and man forbade Lady Byron’s return to her | tn emtect that if the insanity had beon estabiisned she the caprice or Waywardness of genius, and was | Dusband.” (» would not have resisted a reconciliation on hia re- resolved on being siways in the right. Granting ‘This 18 a fair specimen of the common mode of | covery, she impltes that in such a contingency the that in the minor differences which preceded the | Teasoning; failacious in the extreme, but jastified in } specific crime (whatever it was} Would not have pre- decisive one she was siways in the right, this does | some scrt by the original vagueness and attendant } vented her from returning to him, hot much mend the matter, 11 was nov the less evi- | Mystery of the bmg Its bare adoption, be it} ‘The additional information supplied to Dr. Lush. Gent that if, instead of making the beat of the sitn- | Whatit may, by Dr, Lushington has been deemed } ington did not consist of new facts—that ts, of facts ation, she’ aggravated 1% by remonstrance or } t&niamount to proof; and no ong has 60 much a4 } qew to Lady Byron. It consisted of facts known to reproach, & catastrophe was inevitable sooner or | Hoticed the incongruity of Lady Byron’s language | ner when sie drt consulted him and kept back til later. ‘There was some domestic sparring, no | $8 her “Remarks” with the language she is known | q new light broke in upon her. if this was made doubt. But there ia ample evidence in his familiar | % bave used at later periods, or with the language | clear to Dr. Lushington, we must be permitted to Yetters that he was much attached to her, and that | Which (if she spectted a crime) she must have used | guy, with the highest posalble respect for the vener- he accepted the (with his notions and habits) nocon- | i ber Bnai consultation with Dr. Lashington. Lady | abie Judge, that the course he took 1s utierly unac- that “whatever might have been tuo | countable to our minds. He 14 consulted, ag are two ‘bs thet could Ye done, and 1am and have almera hn ~~ 2 for, ‘Suit for the restoration of conjugal rights ts a proceeding from which any man might reasonably Tefrain at any time, and Byron was not 10 a position to face the additional scandal, whether he was right or wrong. ‘Thelr friends had tried at resonotliatton, ‘Then their relations, who made maitera worse. (y) The fact of friends and relatives trying at recon- cNiation tells strongly agaist any criminal charge. Neither of the many crimes suggested 1s such as the most lenient advisers could palliate or tho most for- giving wife condone. Nor 1s this all, When Mr, afterwards Sir Robert) Wilmot Horton, acting for er, met Lord Brougoton (Hobhouse), acting for Lora Byron, with @ view to an amicabie arrangement, Broughton insisted asa preltuinary that all the specifio charges circulated agatuat Lora Byron should be disavowed, to which Mr. Wilmot Horton readily assented on her behalf. Lord Broughton ‘was wont to relate that he “racked his imagination’ to exhaust them, and put each categoricaily. “Do you adopt or believe thia? to which the invariable ‘answer was, ‘We disclaim It; we do not believe it.’ are not aware whether thls specific charge was med among the rest, We should think that, though no novelty it ranked in tbe minds of all parties with the Florence tragedy to which Goethe gave tem- axiating suits. Lady Byrov, by her own showing, broke faith, In all ber other versions, #o far ag we are acquainted witb them, she relies on what she calls Lord Byron's confession, and makes not the re- motest allusion to Mra, Leigh's, The story of the confession was certainly tol@ rior to 1861, It 1a impossibie to fix preciaely when | ly Byron threw off all restraint in her Commuat- cations, as described by Mr. Roboriaon and Ar, . Trench, In ® letter to Miss (the Hon Amelia) . Marray in 1920 she writes:—“I hope to lenve this . world without baving said a word that could damage . anybody, 80 1 must jet people say what they wil of me.” Her tongue, like Conrad’s sabre, ‘made fast atonement for its first delay,” aud sarely somebod: was damaged by her words, oral and ‘Written, 1816, or stili more cruelly by ‘The insignificant eye Which learns to wound with slience, Was not her husband damaged by her words when Gu the September of that year) ho wrote;— ‘The means were wortby and the end is won; T would not do by thi ‘thou haat done, Mr. William Howitt, who had kaown hor intt- mately, gives the foliowing instance of a constita- tional tdiosyncrasy of ® most peculiar King, which rendered her, when under its influence, absolutely and persistently unjust”’:— ‘ fashion, He writes from Newstead to Mr. Murray, February 4, 1514:—“Mra. Leigh 18 with me; much leased with the place, and less so with me for parting with it, to which pot eyea the price can reconcile her.” - Tne frst member of this sentence—‘Mrs. Leigh is with me—nas actuaily been guated of ominous linportance, coupled with aletterof the following March to Moore, intl- mating that he (Byron) had something “anoemfort able’ to communicate; as well he might, consider- ing his muitiform entanglements, amatory and pecunial Guilt bas also been discovered in this entry of his Journal for March, 181 Augusta wants me to make itup with Carlisle, I have ree fased every body cise, but Ican’t deny her anything, though I had as liof ‘drink up'Eisel—eat » crocodile.” On April 10,1816 (he left bic tage on the 25th), three months after the separation, be writes to Mr. ogers: ‘My sister is now with me and leaves town to-morrow; we shall not meet again for some time at all events, if ever , under these clrciin- stances, I trust to stant excused to you and Mr. Sheridan for being unable to wait upon bam this evening.” Tho last verses he wrote 10 England were ‘“‘Stanzas to Augusta,” Including:—- Ob} blest be thine unbroken light, That watch’d me as a acraph'n eye, er “HOPPE egven” them? Why. And stood between me and tho mighi, . Byron 8t f genial part of husband tp good faith. Tueir only | bra “ orary credence, the Glaour story, or the many ining sweotiy nigh, fugner waa “ihe chia of fove, though Dorn insu. | Astro of Lor szon’s conduct towards ber from | oiuer eminent professional, men, by the moter of 8 | Uther wig mveniions watch fwly bear out the Hoble Aer Shade eed te atten _ofuasre ta, coal ae ty ibe. eleton of & marae ternoss.” ree weeks after the ceremony (FeO | 1's ato of mental allenation, it was not for her to . Poet's statement that bis case was supposed to com Wifeh strove to biacken o'er thy ray for nim to unite the Naaived qualities of a thor Bry 9, 1815) he writes to Moore: — Gince I wrote last Ihave been ti &e., and the Sten ery that, if sue were to consider Lord Byron's “past | determi ; reel mar. Ls termined to act; and In @ private interview with ; wats and and mrtel gut | Conduct” ae that of @ person of sonad mind nothing | funeneiatoras bum of tacts kept back from her saya “nO wie man ever married ;” but, fora fool, I think ft } could induce her to return to him. It was his past | parents which entirely change his opinion and in- tho most armbrosial of ail future states. J alii think one | conduct to herself, then, of which she complained; | duce him to lend the full weight of his high author- erpht to marry upon lease; but am very sure I should renew | and Mra, Beecher Stowe, assuming to speak on her | ity, private and professional, to blast the reputation Ha pape tir Ralphs, hath receatty | SUCDOTILY, way’ ot her husband, one of the tliree or four most gifted 4 men which England has produced for centurles. Such was not the intention, but such was certainly the effect of Dr. Lushington's second opinion and vp | confirmed silence. (d) on the young woman’s writion statement ts latd be- ferred to my father-in. | Manifest at that moment @ sense of Injury; and that | fore them. They give opinions which do not suit ey ey and she aeemed it right to communicate to her parenta | her views or do not justify ber in acting as she has prise all the crimes which could, aud several which could not, be committed. There gan be no doubt, however, that Mr. Wilmot Horton's disclaimer was virtusily complete. When, in the presence of the arbitrators, Lord Byron pat hia name and seal to the deed of separation, he added, “This 1s Mrs, lermont’s act and deed.” Mrs. Clermont was the lady so disagreeably immortalized in “A Sketcn.’” Lora Brougiton made no secret of what passed between Mr. Wilmot Horton and himgelf, We were, therefore, rather surprised to sce (quoted from an Irish paper) o letter from a gentieman, Mr. Porcy Boyd, acguitting Lord Byron of moral nae oe ‘Then purer spread {ta geutle flame, “And dasii'd the darkness all away. she was the purifier, the comforter, who lightened his darkness instead of deepening it. So, in tie sec ond set of “Stanzas to Augusta,” evidently alluding to the calumpy:— ‘Though human, thou did'st not decetve ma, Though woman, thou did'st not fors ‘Though loved, thou forborest to grieve m Though slaniber'd, thou never cowld’st sha’ ‘Though trusted, thou did’st not digclatm me; ‘Though parted, it waa not to fly; ‘Thongh watel Cul, "twa not to defame me, te oughly practical kuow: of the operations o! culture careers with fucation ‘snd in! tity of an accomplished schoolmaster, She asked me to try and dis- cover this rara avis for her. I knew exactly sach s man tn Nottinghamabire, who was at the same time agli houorable, trustworthy and fond of teaching. At her earnt request 1 prevailed on bim to Udi ‘his then for ble position and seg her oder. For = time he wae everytuing in her eyes that aman and » schoolmaster could be. “She was continually spesking of him when womet the most cordial terms, But in the course, aa L + 01 two oF three the poor fellow wrote to me in the uimost distress, saylug that Lady Byron, without the slightest inti- mation of being tn eny beg digsausiied with bim or with nis the chool, had given him notice to quit. Be Lord Byron's treatment of bis lady during the rensit period that preceded the birth of the child and during confinement was marked by paroxyams of unmaniy bri tailty, for which the only charity on her part was th Durham, but bere several, several tic He iw now, [be i ag (t to bimeel middle ) over va: 4, Which eae noliber int hain nor fail yement ol sree yeh Tate! k and personal attractions ; ith f © Cute Mela nasties pk: if young women of rani bare but stating that the real and specific cause of Nor, mute, that the world migist beliv. treated her to let him know what was the cause of this Pataca e sath teu estat — Kiney Mai.tony, March 10, 180, | Who desire @ separation could always make thelr | sepgration was well known in society and had been } jhe “Epistle to Augusta’ begins th sudden dismissal, She re(used to gire any, and he entrented March 8, 1615, from Seaham: I received your letter of January 1, ofeting to my perusal | Cage good by the decision withous inquiry or appeal | communicated to himsol{ by the late Mr. McKinnon, ine to write to her and endeavor to remove her displeasure, Wo leave this place to-morrow and shell stop on our | » memoir of part of your I I decline to inspect it. Leon | of a young counsel, many husbands would bein & | Woo nad it from Thomas Campbell, Now Thomas eG A ilaaidan RA oe OO ‘ov to aacertain ita cause. I felt, from what 1 had seen o| way to town in the rval of taking ® hotise there) at | sider the 7 Lady Byron befora, that it was uscloss. 1 otal Ce Mike Tuts kapninee oe | bad predicament, Dr. Lushington was what 13 | Cemppell was known undor aicunollo 1nfuence to ponmoeenk gant ; wrote to him, Mountains and “Kemeiaver Lord Byron! If Lady Byron has taken {t into | Leigh's, near Newmarket, where any episile of | xt any time as prejudicial to fatuce happiness. For | ¢ 18, W : 4 rill ind its welcome way. I’have been Copiienabie | my own sake Thave bo reason to abriue from publioation; | considered Young at tle bat tn Asia. | We Are | specity what he calied the cause, and to adduce No tears, but te SA thet tou'diab. go sting Wil bara ie. G8 you ne whieh elderly g ti ing the iajur feh I bave sufered, 1 | ‘nformed tt ssalet ¢ ta Lady Byron as his authority. It was a series of bru- Phis is the poem, written at Diodati in the autumn nd you tad Deiter preparo forit,"” And the poor tel 4 in which my pious father-in- A. BYRON. and mother were communicated to a young milltary | raisies, coming very neariy within the description | o¢ 1816, in reference to which he writes to Mr. | low, with i family of about five ebildren and hfe old altuatton ening—save one, when he pia} man at the same tine; aud a second mine was thug { of crimes tat could not be committed, It cervainly Murray!—"There is among the manuscripts an alied up, was turned out ato the world to comparative ruin, yy have been very kind and he place vastiy, and [ hope Beli ie in ith and in I received venti But we are ail in the | of acking wad parting; and T suppote by this time shail be stuck fn the chariot wilh my chia upon ox. T have od auother carriage for the ayi- id all the trumpery which our wigs dreg elong with d through Moore, waa: — charged, with the train Jaid, Whe young man be Ravenna, April®, 1820, | comes old and distinguished; he grows into high au- 7 your answer dated March 10. My | inority: he says nothing, but heshakes his head, jike Ter mas un honest one, and surely sould only be consirned | Hurieigh in the “Critic,” and tho sake 1s mter- pcr yon, but too late, and it ta hot wortivwhile. To | preted by his family and friends to mean something mm menace of the Inst sentence, w too repuisive to be translated into words, cannot pretend to unriddi That thelr interpretation must be a lamentable as vetora occ reeme mistake, or that Lady Byron 1 one of the most Inex- Lp ge plicabie of human betags, is proved by the following letters and extracts, addressed by Lady Byron to Mrs. Leigh, now published for the first tine. The first, not Gated, was evidently written by Lady Byron in January, 1816, shortly after she jeft for ‘His reply, forw ‘Was not what was repeated to Mr. Boyd, Campbell rinted In the New Monthly Magazine (im which he Ta writien @ foolish defence of Lady Byron) a letter from ner to himeel!, in which she says she vannot tell him “tho causes’ of the separation, In 1414, two years after her firat communications, Lady Byron writes Uius to Lady Aune Barnard:— Ho bas wished to be thought partially deranged, ar on the brink of perplex observers aod prevent them from tracing effects to their real causes through all the fotricactes of bis conduct. Twas, ae l told you, at one time the dupe of bis acted {nasulty, and’ clung to the former delusions in re- to the motives that concerned me personally til the whole aystein was laid bare. He ts the absolute monarch of One morning Lady Byron requested the attendance of the clergyman of Ham. He caine obedient to her summons, and she immediately proceeded to ex- patiate on her unremitting Kimduess to her grand- son (Lord Ockham, now deceased), the ungratefal return she Nad received, and the infinity of troubie he had given her. after she had ran on in this . strain Ull she had fairly run herself out, the clergy- man ventured to suggest that ne did yot see how ha could be of any use to her under the cireamsiance: @ proposition to which she assented, and they stitly: bowed him out. The pleasare of hearing herseig talk on her own merits and eacrifices was apparently ‘ppistie to my Sister,’ on which should wish her opinion to be consulted beiore pablication.” In a subsequent letter:—“My sister has decided on the omission of the lines, Upon this pomt ber opinion will be followed.”? They were firat published mn 1830, On the title page of the presentation copy of the two first cautos of “Childs Harold” he wrote:—“'To Augusta, my dearest sister, aud iny beat friend, who has ever loved ma much better tan I deserved, this volume is presented by ler satfer's son and most afectionate brother, B.” - “Manired,” again, wonld never have been writtea “3 a MAN CONsLiOUs Of Bit and morbidly apprehen- sive moepesretnEts La Diem, The unwonted restraint of the married state be- eowes more galling as the novelty wears oi He proposes to Moore excursions totthout their wive: he contemplates avother journey to the East alon ho partiaily resumes his bachelor habits, big trreg é lat noUra ANA Meals, With the solitary wusings, the La flera muogiie, pia ch wiro, itn Kirby Mallory, her sister-in-law being then under tho co oh firs ofdespondency and gioom by whion his wild | ZobadyBynow. «soar HON. | domme roof with her. Mrs. Leigh remained with Lord | Worda,and usesthem, as Honaparte did lives, for conquest, | sive of detection. Besides, if “Manfred” proves | her sole motive tn sending for him. | Fhe attempted no rejotaier fs, Journals aud Cor : without moro regard to their intrinstc value, considering it ey ‘the solicitors of the representatives of Lady Byron burats of yon were fi ieee gs hfe. ThE } renye of Thomas Moore, © y Kart Russell, vol. | Byron in Rs uy for wei cnt) sett bun where kha them only @ ciphers which must derive all holt Import frown apy tuing, it proves we ae ee have addressed @ letter to the Times (Septomber 2) . time of trial for the wedded partner o! his cares was Uy p artare of Lady Byron; and on le in when te he places the: tthe enda to wht have al ' 4 ; come, bubifse bad realiy studied and understood i » & * . M d ha Found she could be of uo further use to eliher | he adapts them with aot Vonsuaxnaye kill, Why, then, yo: Blood, but not here; and yet her blood was shed. diatinctiy repudtating and discrediting Mrs. Beecher Stowe, and stating thatail Lady Byron’s manuscripis J saw wad could no have been leit co three trustees, who alone are au. acl It, them to givo wbetter color Ki will ams not e hie character ahe should have been prepared for A day or two after the birth of ile child Lord yron came | party:— room and told hor that her Boca he ja too good an exe {| 4 Goet ‘* a’? Don Jose and Donne Tnex ted u utter falsehood, but it wae s | You will think me very foolish, but T have tried two or fc genre LS Be pon sede Rybiad Ky vray cena Te pane thorized to make use of them “as might be judged For some ee ery i < 3 ates ‘t, ‘ specinu he many less injuries and crueilies by “hen times and cannot talk to you of Pay rvare, with a etry, egotism is the vital princtple of Lie | fhe wie, and the lever (iyrony Kills the Rusband, | best for the interests of her grandohildren.'” 4 otags, wok atvoreed, bat dead; which he expressed his intred of her. Gacent, Vises, 00 10: ihe sag Cue wore, Sf nt ton 7 apare | imagination, which it is digioult for him to kiudie on any aub- | TPC a : by dd these ‘They lived reapectabiy aa man a * With the expectattone which T have | AeA th witich his own character and interest are not Lioni- | “Lord Byron removed from Fiorence, aud these ro restraint and embarrassment—as well he may, con- Whelr conduct was exceouingly weli-bred, : tay philoey her story was that he fred off a pistol tn her | filo cab tk Jon to slay ang moment longer tad 70 spirits haunted him all hia hfo after. ‘This romantic 4 | Lord Wentwerth, who writes under evident | ‘3 t 2 i {troduction of fictitious inetdents, by change 4 gare no outward signs af Inward strife, afier threatening to shoot himself; and the | jrelinedto do, I would (vel the worst retura for ali fever | Ded; but by the intr Sie a 4 " sidering 18 conducting obligations tu the memories Watt af longth the stuother'd fire broke out, crowning slander of the time was that he hoped | received fram yoa, huts fee kate ae least, arm truth itgelt™ pide: he has enveloped bia poetionl ui TOI LE tGeaT TT the weal enor of his iaternal grandfatuer and dmotier—bas Aud put the business past all kind of dou these repeated shocks would provejfatal. Now, Lady | when Lany (hat whatever the situation may iJ there isno | trea creaming @ sensation wakes hia nA 0 he attachea to the poem may be collected trom bis | Sadressed @ letter to the Patt Mall Gazelle, 1D which For Inez call’d some draggtats and phy * Byron, when ehe took professional advice, must have } 029 whose solely ia dearor to me, or can contribute more 80 Yb Ortconder and. twrionity, een Wough accompanied by some dark yp he says: rd . my happiness. These feelings will not change under any in eorrespondence with Mr, Murra; Ana Kise catia made up her mind to one of two alternatives—cither | ciyuimatauees, and | ahouid be grieved if you did not under. | a"d rague suspicions, i the "Witch Drama © About three years ago 8 manuscript in Lady Noe! Byron's oe oh me to have him pnt under medical treatment nd } stand them. {you hereatter condem me I aball not In Lhis govere analyats (written whan the angel of | March 2b 1817.— With regard to the UAV aia bad 1 | BSndwriting was found among her pal ‘giving ag account vet wien they ask Featraint Or to xeparale from him. She says she | love you less, I will say no more, Judge for yourself about | love Was wbses on leave) she has lit intuitively on | Prygou no account be risked (n publication. If good ft fs at | Of some circumstances conndcted w marriage, and No sort of expianation could oe had, prepared # written statement, in which sixteen 008 or maylog. Sv Dee eactaeton wm Oh gg nih one eouliarity At least—his tendency to ba | yourgervice. 1 value tat 200 guineas, and less if you lik Ee domuianieeaman ee pepiicatio ee seca pasilin: Save that her duty both to map andGod Aymptoms were mentioned as evidence of Insanity, | bo wise eovugh to do that for the iret Four life, Fine, | Ye sarvaron des vices guiil Mavott pas, IM Lis Jour+ | Perhaps, 1¢ publiahed, the best way will beto add it to your | {inh Hh rs ‘ofa memolr boing written, Required this conduot—which aeein'd very oc6 Was the ayowal of incest one of them? ifnot, m a ited feign | nai for March, 1814, bo acts down: winter volume, and, not publish separately. The price will | (xis wae come to. aa the erent of a Miadod, Dus bitwerto it hat folic f ° hh | [Addressed on the cover ‘*To the Hos. Mrs. Leigh.”} dow you that don’t pique myself upon it; 60 mpenk out. nt = Bbe kept s jourual, where bie faulte were noted What follows. Kemorse for # fancied crime, w! Jan. 16, 186 He (Hobhouse) told y ned Rial r} "fae and Gitora dour | bas not been proposed to pubi ‘any other matter about ber ‘Aud oped'd certain trunks of books and i consiant dread of detection, is a common form of Pedy Abed nig bit London) Courad, the veritable ( Fou way put 1 ito the y , Ph mb pe 8 ib nud wile might, goenslon sneven, be 4! monomania, The wife of a man aMicted by it in ite My Danner A,-It le my great comfort that you ave in hd hi is statement in Lady Byron's o' writs BA whic And this isthe poem that reveals the grand secret of his fo! It is iucky for alm that he had no step. motber, a8 he would certainly have been identided with Hugo in “Parisina.’? In a letter to Mr, Murray, in Angnst, 1821, he writ most aggravated shape draws up for her mother, hile they were living together tn London curl- | with ® view to professional advice, a detailed state: Kinpy Mouton! Pe te 1816. ‘ontty was all alive to discover what he was dolng in | ment of his case, and in the account of his symptoms Drarnut A. I tnow vou fool for ms as { do for you, and 00 ed) was ia the | omits the capital one, the wort, Ip allusion to the ain better understood than I think, You have bean, ee iury, and Lady Hyron (he complained) pi Dal 101 Pakecn T Seow jonan bon ComNnIN IEE ALTOS: nev about the year aft any one—por-nor—however, Jt lea Vi equivocation of the friend who lies Hike truth. ‘The habit of myatife: #0 inveterate that he Picoadiliy Mrs. Stow an accusation of fo gravee nature as fire. Stowe aswerts uéreand wary 9 Mrs. Stowe aswerts wan told be seen how mat. itulation it will From this recapitulation 0) ve abit of rommaging among his papers when he was | pistol story Moore says: 7 “ge ared upon . fad Vernier Anpoverr te Pcie: dee So M4 or thia mory vere wan to far foundation, that the pene: | “ble Rite 708 Atom Tuas ot the Os bias ta iad by Wer being icaueitied wit Lars, by ra ailing | enka son ers Miva: Leeighfft oaiey aie Ae ween erreesaay Soawnet ‘are the real ob} bos ste has | 080 Voy > 9 WON KONE } tic b bad accustomed b on tin y GUSTA~ “ a Lara, muat get from Mra, Leigh, of my jou ps, while! OMPrO alates Lert ae en etna zriod wouaan to itn | having loused pistow alnaye near inareh ELE woe eomeAt, | Mik DRANveT AvaUsTA-Shall T atill be your sletor’ X ) Abous With ® datnsel in male attire, tough this Was | cootalue all ie gorme of “Manfred.” (W) . to moet. ‘That Lady Byron repeated the charge to Com promiaty Rit eon to his marriage, het nd enclosed to the husband, who threw thom into m at night, was consid ust reeign my rights to be so consi d 40 sirange m propennity as to ba included fo that etot | that will make yimptoms (aicteen, f believe, tn number) which wai fication or apology at all, She would ner eround on Toque itane did not know alread that she was one many doepositaries of the & plagiarism from “Marmion.” ‘The tonderest verses addressed to his alster were those on the Khine, in the third canto of “Cotld ny dilference iu t Lady Byron seized ced from you, ) a medical opinion in proof of hiv {aeanity, Another Kinvy MALtouy, Feb. 8, 1816, the fire, told nis wite te had ‘done wo, and took mo | Pittedto maton ep ia aati g Harol A tnt of fact, It h symptom was the emotion, alinost to hysterics, which he had osed socret; that, in of fact, it was uo Further notice of them. exuibited on eesiog Kenn act “Bit Giles Orbrreach.”” But | ¢,MY_DeAnver Atavers—You are desired by your brother But one thing want these banks of Rhine, Botet at all; that, instead of trusting to 'an “Ament Hie OWN Kocount of the separation, sapplied to | the most plausi grounds, as he himself oned to allow, | {0 MM trauon. He bag, Te canuol be supposed hatin Iny Sioa, ‘ibe events ta ttle even Thy guile bund to olasy in mine. San lady of whom she knew comparatively littl, Moore, is that she leit London on w Visit to het | on which these articles of impeachmeut sanity | orGeent distressing situation I am aapabie of Anything for a sen a. 4 4 ‘They were written after every erfort had been ly Byron had made careful provision for the pos {ngs from ‘‘haanta of vice,” where he made bis wife Onderstand he bad been (tho best prooi that he had not) Was no more real than bis piracy. He was then 1815) living a8 in ® glass case, Hits journals and fetter show that bis evenings were not passed in aunts of vice, unless Brookes’, Holland House and inner tables Where he met poets, wits and orators, go designated, ‘Moore (says Mrs. Beecher Stowe) sheds @ Cp acagel abt on this period by telling us that about this time Byron was drunk day efter wee Sheridan.” This is another specimen ay inaccuracy. Moore tella nothing of (he ting In @ doe Father's houses, where he was to join her. “The wore drawn up, Was ao committed by htm on 7 - bs Dad parted in 'uie uimnost Kindness. she wrote him | Eiapoite od Watch Ghat had been bs compaaion from boy, Laid monaer e,reacne, ah id eon deaiy Sa 8 letler, Tuli of piayfulness and affection on the road bt gn h meee \Weting c ‘winh to remember unnecessarily (sic) those Injuries for wh nd iuimodiately on her wirivat ae Kiroy Mallory yoiliaing embarrass. | Wowever deep, feel no rereutment.. J wilt wow only Fee hier father wrote to ucqualut Lora Byron that sie upon the bearth, aud grouud it to piooep | 9 Lord Byron's mind his avowed and insurmountable aver- ‘would return to him no mor Tia lore with the poker. sion to tht 1d Riate, d determination “pear Duck," and ended “y te ye ‘ i bi ours ever, Flippin,” & |” From bringing ® pistol into hia wife's bedroom, to | CMe wear anat bondegoc ae hading Wt quite insupportable, + lines 1 from briny fe'a bedroom, to | self from that bondage, as findin, quite inew) " ame he bad given ner in reverence to the fusin of frag it of, f © seep which the female Imagiaacion | thougls eaudioly ok Wdg ne efort of duty of : has bee too patnfull ‘ : ‘ would easily overloap. In one of hia letters he tela | aMfecton Apt pdiberd pon Sof ady ByTON's AccoUMt Is thus introduced by Mrs | g story of his getting into ® tage one night with an | convinced me th 10 contribule tower: Beecher Stowe . ink bottle and Oashing it through the window Ito vindication of ner fame. Before taking any ttep iu the matter, Mrs. Beecher Stowe shonid have BY herself in communication with the fami If, 1n defiance of all rales of propriety and age was resvived on printing her story, she suonid ha been severcly ample ia her ousi7 accurate in her facts: ying im her comments and — inferences, Sho has been sho oxact contrary) and the story ta her version is Bo colored, ampittied and overiaud that 1 18 utterly impossible to distinguish what Made to biackon Lim, and aro thus mtroduc Though unwed, ‘That love was pare, and, far above diaguies, Hd stood the feat of mortal enmities Still undivided. In 0 subsequent stanza of the same canto, addrosa- ing Lake Leman:— -——Thy soft mormuring Sounde awoet as if w sister’ voios reproved, That} with atern dehgits should eer have been so moved. Lord Byron and Mrs. Lalgh never met after he lett omen te; resolutely seif- A abort time after her confinement she was informed by | tho garden, where it struck against a plasior image fection: | reats on Lady byron’s authority from what has booa be te that iT " , ) | sort; erely print letter from Byron, dated | England in April, 1816, but ai wiways a! Ev. dias he could ok and ound mol Touser hace her of Enterpe and sadly, defaced the muse, Why was October 81, 181: Pianos the following paswaye: ~ | ately remembered in tits letters; and Mr. Deline Rad- ‘aod when hor oulid waa doly Ave weoks oid bo car . A Pulsion Into effec of his nore added to the A good Gea! was made rt Here we Wil need brieOy Lady Byron's own aoa int Navity which he had ia common with Uoot Ld By 4, rbid disitke to seeing women eat—a pecu- Thope, my dear A., that you would on no account withhold ‘ But | ¢eom Pour veotbec Vue lower which Lent yesterday, (a eaawer aS ble bears about the same propor. ou clife, who olaims to have bean HOTU ey Bar and (mprobaole that Falgtatt's snadow of her Wing,” aud ta ready to ac Tdi out with a large-tsh party here re event Lid Solianor Harry Eearris, of, Oy ane bie . | added on Otner or Do authority by Mrs. Stowe. ‘ihe '