The works of Lord Byron

THE

WORKS OF LORD ByRON;

IN VERSE AND PROSE.

HIS LETTERS, JOURNALS, ETC.

A SKETCH OF HIS I.IFB

HARTFORD:PUBLISHED BY SILAS ANDRUS & SON.

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PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT.

The Works of Lord Byron to be found in this edition, comprismg thewhole of his Poems, Lettel'llt Journals, Etc. have been collectf'ld andarranged, and a Memoir added, by

FITZ GREEN HALLECK, ESQ.

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron hav~ tJt,en pUblished in a varietyof forms-but at no time, or in any country, has a unifonn edition ofhiiProse and Poetical Works been attempted before the present. Theedition now publishing in London. by Murray, rlJIltains 80 much ofByron's Prose writing as is included in the Life by Moore.-In theAmerican edition there is a great number of the Lettel'll of Byron not inthe English copy, including Letters to his mother. 1'here is also in thisedition a large collection of Poems not in any previOOB American one;many blanks are filled up, and explanatory notes added, which will befound of eBBential service to the reader. The present, therefore, is em­phatically the first complete edition of the Poetical and Prose Works ofLord Byron.

The Beall (\f Byron, engraved fClr tbis edition, is from" palntlng by anAmerican fJtdt, and was conaidered by Byron and his friends u thebe8t ever taken.

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LETTERS, ETC•..£11. -un :IY LETTERS.

LV. to Mr. Beary Drury • · ItLll:TTEllt'I. LVI. to Mr. Rode- . •L toMm-Pip I LVII. to the Boo. Mn. BJr- • •lL to Mr. Pigot • I LVIII. to Mr. Heary~ • . II

1- m. to Mi.B Pitlot I LlX. to lb.e HOII. MIL pal • · IIIV. to Mr. Pigel · I LX. to Jl4n. Byrca IIV. to Mr. Pigel I LXI. to M... BYfllII . . IS

VI. to Mr. Pigue · I LXII. to the Ron. Mn. BJr- . ISYD. to Mr. Pi~ I Lxm. to Mr. HDdt- IS

VIII. to Mia Plgot . • LXIV. to Mn. Byroa UIX. to the Earl orClare . '. LXV. to Mn. Byroa UX. to Mr. Picot S LXVI. to Mn. Byron U

XI. to Mr. WiUiam Bulk. • LXVII. to Mr. HodpoD UXII. to Mr. William BuJkea . " LXVIIL to Mr. DalIaa . III

XUI. to Mr. Falkner · " LXIX. to Mr. HeIIr)' Drury · 18XIV. to Mr. Pigot · " LXX. to the HOII. Mn. Byn. . IIXV. to Mi.B Pip " LXXI. to nt. Pigot · ft

XVI. to Mi. Pip 6 LXXII. to Mr. Serope Dan. 17XVII. to Mia Pigue · 6 LXXIII. to - BoItll11, E.q. • · 11

xvm. to Mia Pigot • LXXIV. to Mr. BoItOD IIXIX. 10 Mi.. Pip • LXXV. to Mr. Bolton · 18XX. to Mia Pigot 7 LXXVI. to Mr. DaIlu 18

XXI. 10 Mi.B Pigot , LXXVII. to Mr. HDdt- · 18XXII. to Mr. DaIIu 8 LXXVIII. 10 Mr. DaI1u 19

XXUI. to Mr. DaIIu · 8 LXXIX. 10 Mr. Murray . · 19XXIV. 10 Mr. Heary Drury 8 LXXX. 10 Mr. Dallu 19XXV.toMr.~ t LXXXI. to Mr. DaIlu. · S)

XXVI. 10 Mr. HameM 9 LXXXII. to R. C. DaIIu, E.q. S)

XXVII. to Mr Becher · 9 LXXXIII. to Mr. Murray • · S)

UCVIIL 10 Mr. Bec:h« 10 LXXXIV. to Mr. DaIIu • SIXXIX. 10 Mr.J~ · 10 LXXXV. toR.C.DalIaa,~ · SI

).XXx. 10 Mr.J~ 10 LXXXVI. to Mr. Murray • SI

XXXI. 10 Mr. JackMG · 10 LXXXVII. 10 R. C. Da1lu, E.q. · 12XXXII. 10 Mr. Becb« 10 LXXXVIII. 10 R. C. DaDu, E.q. •"XXIII. to the Hoo. MrII. Bpa · 11 LXXXIX. to Mr. Murray • •lCXXrV. to M",. BynlB . 11 XC. 10 Mr. DaDu ItXXXV. to Mr.H~ • 11 XCI. to R. C. Dallu, E8q. · •'1tXXVI. to R. C. ,EIljo 11 XCII. to Mr. Dallu •cc:xvn. to R. C. DaIIu, Eoq. · II xcm. to Mr. DaDu · SS

~VIII. to Mn. Byron I! XcrV.toR. C. Dallu, E8lI. ISXXXIX. to Mr.H~ I! XCV. to R. C. Da1lu, E.q. · IS

XL. to R. C. Dallu. E8lI. IS XCVI. to Mr. DaDu 114

~XLI. to Mr. William BaDk. IS XCVII. to Mr. Hodpon · !6

XLII. to M",. Byroa IS XCVIII. 10 R. C. DatI.., E8lI. !6XLIII. to Mr. HeDry Drury · IS XCIX. to R. C. Da1lu, E8q. 18XLIV. to Mr. Hodpoa IS C. to R. C. 0.1"', E8lI. 91XLV. to Mr. Hodl!""D I" CI. to R. C. Datu, E.q. II.. XLVI. to Mr.Hodpm I" CII. to Mia Pigoc • • 18

XLVII. to the Hon. Mn. Bpal I" cm. Mr. Moore to Lord Byrca • 18

CD XLVUI. 10 Mr. RlIIIhtllll 18 CIV. to Mr. Moore 18XLIX. to the Hoo. Mn. Byrca • 18 CV. to Mr. Moon 97

~ L. to M",. Byroa • 18 CVI. to Mr. Moore S7

= Lt. to Mrt. Byroo · . · 18 cvn. to Mr. Moore · lJ7La. to the Hon.Mn. Byroo IS CVIll. to Mr. H..- lJ7

..>c L1II. to the Ron. Mrs. Byroll · 1. ClX. to Mr. Hamea 18

t .. LIV IAl lb.e HOII. M... Byraa U CX. to Mr. HOlI&- 18,.

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LK'l'TD8cn to Mr. Bode­

CXU. to Mr. aam..Cxm. to Mr. MoonCXIV.toMr. MoonCXV. to Robert R.....

CXVL to Robert RUlIb. •CXVH. to Mr. Hodgwon •

CXVIII. to Muter John Cowen •f::XIX. to Mr. Rog......CXX. to Lord Holland

CXXL to Mr. Hoo,-. •CXXII. to Lord Holland •

CXXlIL to Mr, Wil6am Bank..OXXlV. to Mr. William BaDkea •CXXV. to Lord Holland. •

CXXVI. to Sir Waller Scott, Bart.cxxvn. to Lord Holland

CXXVIlI. to Lord HollandCXXlX•• Lord-HolilUldCXXX. to Lord Holland

CXXXI. to Lun! Holland •CXXXlI. to Lord HoIlllDd

CXXXlII. to Lord HollandCXXXI V. to Lord HollandCXXXV. to Lord Hollaod

CXXXVI. to Lord HollandCXXXVll to Lord Holland

CXXXVIlI. to Lord HollandC.XXXIX. to Lord Holland

CXL. to Lon! HollandCXLI. to Mr. Murray

CXLU. to Mr. Murray •CXLIII. to Mr. William Bank...CXLIV. to Mr. MurrayCXLV. to Mr. Murray

CXLVI. to Lord HollandCXLVII. to Mr. Murray

CXLVlIL to Mr. MurrayCXLIX. to Mr. Murray

CL. to Mr. Murray •CLI. to Mr. William Bankes

CLiI. to Mr. MurrayL"LUI. to Mr. RogersCLIV. to Mr. MurrayCLV. to Mr. Murray

CLVl to Mr. MurrayULVII. to Mr. Murray •

CLVlIl to W. GiB'ord, E8q.CLIX. to Mr. Moore •CLX to Mr. Moon

CLXL to Mr. MooreCLXll. to Mr. Moore

CLXIll to Mr. MooreCLXIV. to Mr. Modre •CLXV. to Mr. Croker

CLXVL to Mr. MurrayCLXVIl to Mr. Murray

CLXVllL to Mr. MurrayCLXIX to Mr. MooreCLXX to Mr. Moore

CLXXI. to Mr. MooreCLXXII. to Mr. Moore

CLXXlIL to Mr. MooreCLXXIV. to Mr. Moore •CLXXV. to Mr. Moore

CLXXVL to Mr. Moore •CLXXVIL to Mr. Moore

CI.XXVIll to Leijrh HuntCLXXIX to Mr. MooreCLXXX to Mr. Murray

("LXXXI. to Mr. GiB'onlCLXXXlI. to Mr. MlIrt1ly

CI.XXXUL to Mr MIllTaY •

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LETTERSCLXXXIV. to Mr. MarrayCLXXXV. to Mr. Marray

CLXXXVl to Mr. MlllTayCLXXXVlI. to Mr. Murray

CLXXXvnI. to Mr. MurrayCLXXXIX to Mr. A.be

CXC. to Mr. Ashe •CXCl to Mr. Gah •

CXCIl to Mr. Leigh BAIDt •cxcm. to Mr. MerivaleCXClV. to Mr. MurrayCXCV to Mr. Moore

cxevI. to Mr. Moore •CXevIL to Mr. Murray

. CXeVnL to Mr. MurrayCXeIX to Mr. Murray

ce. to Mr. MurrayCel. to Mr. Hodpoa

een. to Mr. MooreCeIU.toMr.HUDtCCIV. to Mr. Murraycev. to Mr. Ragen

CCYL to Mr. RogenCCVIL to Mr. Moore

CCVUL to Mr. DalIuCCIX to •••••CCX. to Mr. Moore • •ccn \0 W •• W • • E:.q.

CCXIl to M. Moore •CCXIU. to Mr. MooreCCX1V. to Mr. Murraycexv. to Mr. MlllTay

CCXVL to Mr. Moore •ccxvn. to Mr. Moore

ccxvrn. to Mr. MurrayCCXIX. to Mr. MurrayCCXX. In Mr. Murray

CCXXI. to Mr. MurrayCCXXU. to Mr. Murray

ceXXIU. to Mr. MurrayCCXXIV. to Mr. Moon •CCXXV. to Mr. Moore

CCXXVI. to Mr. Moore •CCXXVII. to Mr. Rogers

CCXXVIII. to Mr. RogersCCXXIX. 10 Mr. MooreCCXXX. to Mr. Moore •

CCXXXI. to Mr. MurrayCCXXXU. to Mr. Murray

CCXXXIII. to Mr. MurrayCCXXXIV. to Mr. Moore •CCXXXV. to Mr. Murray

CCXXXVr. to Mr. MurrayCCXXXVII. to Mr. Moore

CCXXXVIII. to Mr. Moore •CCXXXIX. to Mr. Murray

CCXL. 10 Mr. MurrayCCXLI. to Mr. Moore

CCXLU. to Mr. Moore •CCXLlrI. to Mr. Moore •CCXLIV. to the cuun_ of· ••CCXLV. to Mr. MooreCCXLVI. to Mr. Hunt •

CCXLVU. to Mr. Moore •CCXLVIU. to Mr. Honry Drury

CCXLIX. to Mr. ';oweUCCL. to Mr. Moore

CCLI. to Mr. MurrayCCLII. to Mr. Murray

cCLIn. to Mr. NalhanCOLIV. to Mr. Moore •CCLV. to Mr. Moore

CCT.VI. to Mr. Moore

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LETTERS LETTERSCCLVU. to Mr. Murray • · 81 CCCXXX. to Mr. Moore III

CCLVIll. to Mr. Moore 81 CCCXXXI. to Mr. Murray IIICCLIX. 10 Mr. Moore . · 81 CCCXXXIl. to Mr. Murray • II~CCL:L 10 Mr. Moon 8S CCCXXXlII. 10 Mr. Murray liS

CCLXl. to Mr. Moore · 8S CCCXXXlV. to Mr. Murray • liSCCLXIL 10 Mr. Moore 13 CCCXXXV. to Mr. Murray • 114

CCLXIll. to Mr. Moore · 84 CCCXXXVI. to Mr. Moore 1I-JCCLX1V. to Mr. Coleridge 84 COCXXXVlI. to Mr. Murray 114CCLXV. to Mr. Murray. · 84 CCCXXXVlU. 10 Mr. Murray Wi

OCLXVL lo Mr. Moore 16 CCCXXXIX. 10 Mr. Murray Ji6CCLXVIL to Mr. Murray • · lib CCCXL. to Mr. Murray 118

CCLXVlll. 10 Mr. HUDI • lib CCCXLl. to Mr. Murray • · 118CCLXlX. to Mr. Moore lib CCCXLII. to Mr. Murray 118CCLxx. to Mr. Moore 88 CCCXLlII. to Mr. M.....y • · 117

CCLXXl. to Mr. Sotheby • 87 CCCXLIV. 10 Mr. Murray . 117CCLXXlI. to Mr. Sotheby 87 CCCXLV. to Mr. Murray. · In

CCLXXllL to Mr. Taylor · 87 CCCXLVI. to Mr. Moore 118CCLXXlV. to Mr. Murray 87 CCCXLVII. 10 Mr. Murray. 118CCLXXV. to Mr. Murray · 87 CCCXLVIll. 10 Mr. Murray 118

CCLXXVL to Mr. Homt • 87 CCCXLIX. 10 Mr. Murray. · 118CCLXXVTI. to Mr. Hunt · 88 CCCL. to Mr. Murray 118

CCLXXVm. to Mr. Hunl • 88 CCCLI. to Mr. Murray • · 119CCLXX1X. to Mr. Moore 88 CCCLn. to Mr. Murn.y 1'tOCCLXXX. to Mr. HUD! • 89 CCCLlll. to Mr. Hoppner 121

CCLXXXI. to Mr. Moore 88 CCCLIV. 10 Mr. Murray 121CCLXXXU. to Mr. Moore 80 CCCLV.loMr.Murray. 121

CCLXXXlU. lo Mr. Murray · 80 CCCLVI. to Mr. Murray IIICCLXXXlV. to Mr. Murray 80 CCCLVlI. 10 Mr. Murray • litCCLXXXV. to Mr. Murray · 80 CCCLVlIl. 10 Mr. Murray I!!S

CCLXXXVL to Mr. Moore II CCCLIX. 10 Mr. Murray. lISCCLXXXVTl. to Mr. HUD! · II CCCLX. 10 Mr. Hoppner lIS

CCLXXXVIlI. to Mr. Rom 81 CCCLXI. 10 Mr. Murray. 124COl XXXIX. to Mr. Moore 81 CCCXLII. 10 Mr. Murray 124

CCXC. 10 Mr. Hunt • 9! CCCLXIIl. 10 Mr. Murray. 124

• CCXCl. to Mr. Moore 9! CCCLXIV. 10 Mr. Moore 124CCXCI1. to Mr. Murray lIS CCCLXV. to Mr. Murray. 125

CCxcm. to Mr. Rogen . lIS CCCLXVI. to Mr. Hoppoer . 125CCXClV. to Mr. Murray lIS CCCLXVIl. 10 Mr. Roge.... 126CCXCV. to Mr. Mu"""1 • lIS CCCLXVlIl. to Mr. Moore • 126

CCXCVI. to Mr. Murray 84 CCCLxrX. to Mr. Murray 117CCXCVll. to Mr. Murray. 'l4 CCCLXX. to Mr. Murray. In

ceXCVIll. to Mr. Roge.. 84 CCCLXXI. to Mr. Murray 1'7CCXClX. to Mr. Murray 84 CCCLXXlJ. to Mr. Murray 128

ceC. to Mr. Murray 84 CCCLXXlIl. to Mr. Murray 128CCCI. to Mr. Rogan 116 CCCLXXlV. to Mr. Moore • 128

ceCil. to Mr. Murray 116 CCCLXXV. to • • • • 1!9CCCI1I. 10 Mr. Murray tl8 CCCLXXVI. to Mr. Murray. lSIceCIV. to Mr. Murray tl8 CCCLXXvn. to Mr. Murray lSICCCV. to Mr. Murn.y tl8 CCCLXXVlIl. 10 Mr. Murray • · lSI

CCCVI. to Mr. Murray tl8 CCCLXXIX. to Mr. Murray • lSiCCCVll. to Mr. Murray 87 CCCLXXX. to CIIfIl. Buil Hall lSI

CCCVJJJ. to I\Ir. Moore 97 CCCLXXXl. 10 Mr. Moore IS!ceCIX. to Mr. Moore lIB CCCLXXXI1. to Mr. Murray • ISSCCCX. lu Mr. Moore 118 CCCLXXXIIl. 10 Mr. Murray ISS

CCCXI. 10 Mr. Murray 101 CCCLXXXIV. to Mr. Murray. ISSCCCXI1. to Mr. Murray 101 CCCLXXXV. 10 Mr. Murray IS.

CCCXlII. 10 Mr. Murray 102 CCCLXXXVI. 10 Mr. Murray. IS.CCCXIV. to Mr. Murray 102 CCCLXXXVII. to the Edilor at Ga!ic_i'aCCCXV. to Mr. Murray 102 M_enger lSI

CCCXVI. 10 Mr. Moore lOS CCCLXXXVIII. to Mr. Murray 1MC,'ceXVll. to Mr. Murray 104 CCCLXXXIX. 10 Mr. Murray 1S6

CCCXVlll. 10 Mr. Murray • 106 CCCXC. to Mr. Murray. · lSICCCXlX. to Mr. Murray 106 CCCXCI. to Mr. Hoppner . lSICCCXX. to Mr. Moore • 108 CCCXCli. 10 Mr. Hoppner · lSi

CCCXXI. to Mr. Murray 108 CCCXCllI. to Mr. M.....y 151CCCXXlJ. to Mr. Murray .107 CCCXCIV. 10 Mr. Hoppner 151

CCCXXIlI. to Mr. Moore 107 CCCXCV. to Mr. Murray lSICCCXXlV. to Mr. Moore • 108 CCCXCVI. to Mr. Hoppaer lSICCCXXV. to Mr. Murray 108 CCCXCVII. to Mr. Murray lSI

CCCXXVI. to Mr. Moore .108 CCCXCVllI. to Mr. Murray. lSICCCXXVlI. to Mr. Murray 110 CCCXCIX. to Mr. Murray J.

OCCXXVlll. to Mr. Rogers • '110 CCCC. 10 Mr. Murray. • 140CCeXXIx. to Mr. Morray 111 CCCCI. 10 the Counln. G'licciola 140

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140 CCCCLXXIV. to Mr. M..-ray1(1 CCCCLXXV. 10 Mr. Moore141 CCCCLXXVL 10 Mr. Murray14 C~CCLXXVII.10 Mr. Murray14 CCCCLXXVUI. 10 Mr. Murray.145 CCCCLXXlX. 10 Mr. Murrr.y145 CCCCLXXX. 10 Mr. Moon

• 145 CCCCLXXXI. 10 Mr. Murray144 CCCCLXXXU. 10 Mr. P...,.144 CCCCLXXXm." Mr. Murray1'-" CCCCLXXXIV. 10 Mr. How­1'-" CCCCLXXXV. 10 Mr. Murray1403 CCCCLXXXVL 10 Mr. Shelley1'-" CCCCLXXXVII. 10 Mr. Murrr.)148 CCCCLXXXVIU. 10 Mr. Moon148 CCCCLXXXIX. 10 Mr. Moore147 CCCCXC. 10 Mr. Murray.147 CCeCXCI. to Mr. Hoppner147 CCCCXCU. 10 Mr. Murray.148 CCCCXCIII. 10 Mr. Moore148 CCCCXCIV. 10 Mr. Murray. •149 CCCCXCV. 10 the Coun_ GmccioIi149 CCCCXCVI. 10 Mr. Moore160 OCCCXCVII. 10 Mr. Hoppner160 ccccxcvm. 10 Mr. Murray160 CCCCXOIX. 10 Mr. Murray.160 D. 10 Mr. Murray160 DI. 10 Mr. Hoppner161 DII. 10 Mr. Moore

• 161 Dm. 10 Mr. Moore .161 DlV. to Mr. Moore151 DV. to Mr. Murra)161 DVL 10 Mr. Murn.)161 DVll. It" Mr. Murray165 DVm. 10 Mr. Hoppoer164 DIX. 10 Mr. Murn.y

• 1M DX. 10 Mr. Moore164 DXI. 10 Mr. Murn.y

• 1M DXII. 10 Mr. Mumy166 DXm. 10 Mr. Murray.

• 1&5 DXIV. 10 Mr. Moore168 DXV. 10 Mr. Murray168 DXVI. 10 Mr. Murray167 DXVn.IoMr.Moonl167 DXVIII. 10 Mr. Murray158 DXIX. 10 Mr. Murray158 DXX. 10 Mr. Moore158 DXXI. 10 Mr. Moore •158 DXXII. 10 Mr. Moore168 DXXIlI. 10 Mr. Murray169 DXXlV. 10 Mr. Murra)168 DXXV. to Mr. Moore •1. DXXVI. 10 Mr. Murray100 DXXVII. 10 Mr. Moore •181 DXXVIII. 10 Mr. Moore181 DXXIX. 10 Mr. Moore •1M DXXX. 10 Mr. MurrayIll! DXXXI. 10 Mr. Murray

• 165 DXXXII. 10 Mr. RogersIllS DXXXm. 10 Mr. Moore •lIS DXXXIV. 10 Mr. Murray1M DXXXV. 10 Mr. Murray184 DXXXVI. 10 Mr. Moore186 DXXXVIL 10 Mr. Sheppud188 DXXXVIIL 10 Mr. Murray187 DXXXrx. 10 Mr. Murray167 DXL. 10 Mr. Moore187 DXLI. It' Mr. Shelley168 DXLII. 10 Mr. Moore • •

• 168 DXLm. to t'lir Waller Scott, Bart.I. DXLIV. 10 nou,tu Kinnaird188 DXLV. 10 Mr. Murray170 DXLVJ '" Mr Moon

LETTERSccccn to Mr. Murray.

ccccm. to Mr. MurrayCCCCIV. 10 Mr. H"I'P"8r •cccev. to Mr. Iloppner

CCCCVL to Mr. HoppoerCCCCVIL to Mr. Murray

CCCCVIIL 10 Mr. HoppaerCCCCIX. to Mr. MurrayCCCCX. 10 Mr. Bank...CCGeXL 10 Mr. Murray •

CCCCXIL 10 lhe COIIUte. GuiccioliCCCCXIlI. 10 the (Jounte. Guiecioli •CCCCXIV. 1.0 Mr. HoppnerCCCCXV. 10 Mr. Murray

CCCCXVI. 10 Mr. Hoppa«CCCCXVII. 10 Mr. Moore •

CCCCXVIII. 10 Mr. BOlIpIIflrCCCCXIX. 10 Mr. HoppnerCCCCXX. 10 Mr. Murray

CCCCXXI. 10 Mr. Bank...CCCCXXII. 10 Mr. Murray

CCCCXXlU. 10 Mr. Bank""CCCCXXIV. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCXXV. 10 Mr. Murray

CCCCXXVI. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCXXVII. 10 Mr. Murray

CCCCXXVIII. to Mr. MurrayCCCCXXIX. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCXXX. 10 Mr. Murray

CCCCXXXI. 10 Mr. HoppaerCCCCXXXII. 10 Mr. Murray

Ccccxxxm. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCXXXIV. 10 Mr. HoppaerCCCCXXXV. 10 Mr. Murray

CCCCXXXvL 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCXXXVII. 10 Mr. Murray

COCCXXXVIII. 10 Mr. Murray.CCCCXXXIX. 10 Mr. Moore

CCCCXL. 10 Mr. HOW"CCCCXLl. 10 Mr. Moore

CCCCXLII. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCXLIII. 10 Mr. MooreCCCCXLIV. IoMr. MooreCCCCXLV. 10 Mr. Murray

CCCCXLVI. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCXLVIL 10 Mr. Moore

CCCCXLVIlI. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCXLIX. 10 Mr. Murray

CCCCL. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCLl. 10 Mr. Murray

CCCCUt 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCLIII. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCLIV. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCLV.IoMr.Murray

ceCCLVI. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCLVILloMr.Murray

CCCCLVIIl 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCLIX. 10 Mr. Moore

CCCCLX. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCLXL 10 Mr. Murray

CCCCLXII. 10 Mr. MooreCCCCLXIlI. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCLXIV. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCLXV. 10 Mr. Murray

CCCCLXVL 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCLXVII. 10 Mr. Moore

CCCCLXVIIL 10 Mr. MooreCCCCLXlX. 10 Mr. Moore

A~ 10 the Neapolitan govemmeatCCCCLXX. 10 Mr. Moore

CCCCLXXI. 10 Mr. MurrayCCCCLXXIl to Mr. Murray.

ccr,CLXXIIJ. 10 Mr Mur...y

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LETTER8DCV. to Mr. Moon • 0 ,

DCVI. to the Ron. Col. 8taahopa ,DCVII. to Mr. Muir •

DCVIll. to Mr. C. Huacock •DCIX.to Mr. Charlet! Hancock.DCX. to Mr. Chari.. Hancock

DCXI. 10 Mr. Chari.. Hancock •DCXII. te" •• •• • •

DCXur. to Mr. Chari.. Hancock •DCXIV. to Andre.. Londo • •DCXV. to Hie HiJh- Y-.J8'Pacha

DCXVI. to Mr. BarIl'DCXVU. to Mr. Mayer • •

DCXVUl. to Hoo. 00ugIu KiDDaltd ,DCXIX. to Mr. Barlf •DCXX. to Mr. Murray ,

DCXXI. to Mr. Moore •DCXXn. to Dr. Kennedy •

DCXXlII. 10 Mr. Baril' •DCXXIV. to Mr. Baril'DCXXV.IOSr.Parruca •

DCXXVL to Mr. Chari.. HancockDCXXVII. to Dr. Kenned,. •

DCXXVJU. to Co/oael Slaabopa ,DCXXIX. to M-. Sarff •DCXXX. to Mr. Sarff

DCXXXI. to Mr. Barff. • • •DCXXXII. to • • • • " a ""-ian oIIicer

DCXXXl1I. to Mr. Bartl' •DCXXXIV. to Mr. BarffDCXXXV.to Mr. Baril' •

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DXLvn. to Mr. 111-. , .' • ,117DXLVIU. to Mr. Moon • 1.8

DXI.IX. to Mr. Moon , , INDL. to Mr. Moor. IN

DLI. to Mr. M__ • • 1111DLU. to Mr. MlIlI1lY • 1111

DLlli. to Mr. M__ • • I.DLIV. to Mr. Morray • IlIODLV. to Mr. Marray , Il1O

DLVI. to Mr. Murray 100DLvn. to Mr. MlIlI1lY • 100

DLVlli. to Mr. Sh.n.y , 100DLIX. to Sir Waller 800ct , 101DLX. to Mr. Murray 101

DLXI. to Mr. M__ • • 101DLXU. to Mr. Morray , 101

DLXllI. to Mr. Morray , ...DLXIV. to Mr. Murray • ...DLXV. to Mr. Moore • lOS

DLXVI. to Mr. Ellioe lOSDLXVlI. to Mr. Marray • lOS

I>Lxvm. to Mr. Murray ~

DLXIX. to Mr. Meont • , ~DLXX. to Mr. Meont ~

DLXXl. to Mr. Meont • • 106r;·LXXII. to Mr. MlIlI1lY , 100

DLXXIU. to Mr. Manay , ..DLXXIV. to Mr. Murray • toeDLXXV. to Lady - , • 10'7

DLXXVI. to Mr. Proctor 10'7DLXXVl1. to Mr. Mocw. • , 10'7

I'LXXvm. to Mra. - 108DLXXIX. to Lad,. • • • • toe Em.ctII &om a J'0Ul1I&1 begun N.... 14, 181S, mDLXXX. to IIIr. Moon " 108 Eztracla &om a J'ournaI in Switzer1aDd • 144

DLXXXL to the EarloC~ ,108 Eztracta &om a J'ournaI in Italy • • • 147DLXXXn. to the Earlof'B1~, 110 Detached Thoughta, ftlraeted &om uriou. Jour-

DLXXXIII. lo the Kart otBIeaiIIpIa • 110 naI., ID8IDOI'UIl!UIllll,~. l:c. • • !.59DLXXXIV. 10 the COODt • '. 110 Rerie.. of' Word8worth'. Poem.. • . 171DLXXXV. to lhe0_B1-mp. ,Ill .. GeD'. GllOIf&Phy otltlw:a, &lid Ilinerary

DLXXXVl.lOthe o--oC."' III otGreece • , • • • • • 171OLXXXVl1. to Lady Bpo. , III Tbe firot chapter of'a N ....I, contemplated by Lord

OLXXXVlll. to Mr. BlaqDi_ III B11'OII in the oprIncot1811; (aft.erwardo publ..hedDLXXXIX,toMr.Bowrm,. .111 iDOIIIotMr.DaIlu'DOvela) 171

DXC. to Mr. Bowr:inf ' liS Parliamentary 8peech.. '. • 178OXCI. to Mr. Chareb , lIS A Fragment • • • • • • 184

DXCll. to M. H. BeyIe, , , 114 IAuer to J'oIm Murray 011 the Rev. W. L. Bowltc'oDXCm. to Lady • • • • • • ,It4 IIlricturea 011 lit. Life and writiDga of'Pope . '~6

OXCIV. to the Counlell oCBI..mc- 114 N_. . . . . . . . 191DXCV. to Mr. BowriDr • , • 114 ObIerYatione upon .. OboervariODo:" A IeCOM

OXCVI. to Goo!th... 0 , , It6 LeU.r to John MIIlT&Y E"'!. on the Rev. W. I..OXCVlI.to Mr. Bowrint 0 • • 116 Bowl~". Ilric_ 011 lit. Lir. &ad writinga CJl

"DXCvm. 10 lite General Gcw__ oC Pope • !95Greece •• , IIll Note. • • • • • • • SO:!

DXOIX, to Prince Manooordato Illl Some Obeervationo upon an artid. in B1&cllwoorl'.DC. to Mr. Bownn, , , ,116 MagulDl. • • • • • • SOS

DCI. to Mr. BoWfin,. , , 1171 Letter 10 the Editor otM,. r.raadmoth.r'o Rl'llew ~lt

DCII. to Mr. Bowria« • • 0 117 Ln..1 Be"",,'. AfK'1'htl,elPJ'l. • • • It..0010. to the H-.unble Mr. Dou,lu ITr.nal.'i"" of tWfl ~:I"'ll~. r"l111 1M 4rm_

K_ird .0 • • • !ttl "~"'"1f1 ., ••.. .'3DCIV. to Mr. 8rJ....,. , , III T·,.. WIll ,I Lord Byro. • lUI

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CONTENTS.

POEMS, ETC•

IUIllSISSISSIN

• IN114

ISSISSIBJla.18&184185185

• 1116166

• 181181186181

• 181181

• 188188188

• 189189189

.....SuD ,. the ...... • • • • • I'"

I Were my'-- u 11IM u tIIau~" II to lie I'"I HenId'l w.-t for~ • • • I'"S On the day .. the cIe.tnIcriAla ,.J--'- by

11 TilUl •••••• 17118 By the ri,en,. Babylon we oat dowa IIIId wept 17817 The dllltruction at S-cberib • 178a From Job 1784S OD. TO ."POLEO. avoaU".2'II 17861 Notel • 18067 _.ODr O. TIl. DUTB 0' IBJUUD.&a' 18068 L.UIUT 0' ...laO 1111III POI:JIL11 WritIeD Ia ......To··· . . . . .

Staozu writtelllo JIUIiaI the .Amlnciu Pi8taDzu •Writtllllat~ • • • • •WriU.. after nriauDina &om s.a to AbydoIBon, •••• •TralllIatioa or a&-Gre.k war ..,Tl'llllllatiOll or a a-ic.., .Wrilten beMath a pidunOn J*1iaIToTbyraStamMTo ThyraEuthaDuiaS..-Staozu ••••On a comeliu beut whiah _ ....To a youtblW 6ieDdTo······F'lWI the J>arluIu- •ImpromplU, ill reply '" a Ii_ ..Add.- opokeD at the opema, at Drary-l.-

Theatre 180·ToTime • • • • 180Tl'IIIIIIatioD .. a ae-ic ......... 180A-, • • • • • • • 1111On beina uked ",bat wu the .. orilla ,. Ie,." 191Remember bim. •• • 191Lin. ill8Cribed upoa a cup bmed &om a IkuII 191On the death ,. Sir Peter Parker, Bart. • 191To a lady ....pm, 191From the T'" 191~ IUSoaoet ••••• • 1851DIcriptiaa 011 the at a N'""'-IIUIlI

dOlFareweD • • • •Brj~ be the pIaoe at tbJ... •When we two partedSt_ fOr IIlUIioSt_ fOr llllllioFaretbee ....

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• 114III

146148141

• 168• 168

IllS

• 174

• III118

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174.174

174175176

.175116

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• 178• 178

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CRtLDII 84&0101I" '11Aauu...Pn6:oeTolantheCanIoLCUllon.Canlom.CanIoIV.Notello (.lanlo I.Nolel '" CUllo n.Aw-!IxNot. 10 CUllo IlLN_IoC_IV.

un: guovaNotel

1'IB laIn 0' ..11'_CanloLCUIlon.Notel

Tn OOUAILCUllo LCUltO n.CUllom.Notes

LAaA..

CUllo I.Canlon.Note

III:GI: 0' COaDITliNot.

p"' ••lIa..Not.

1'HI: PR.IOall:. or CBILLO••

Sonnet 011 CbWc.Nota

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Not..UI.J:W ID:LOD.""·

She _1111 ill beaut)'The harp the IIIOIIU'Cb IIUBIlnlI ....I.. tbat high .....IdThe wild pzelIeOil' weep for tholeOn lon!an'. bulb •Jepbtha'i daupler • • •Ob! -..:h'd a_ylo beauty'l ...My-.l iI darkI a .. It- weep • • • ,Thy da,. are daae • • •Boa, .. Saul .... billul baltloSaul • • • • • •.. AD iI ftIlity, oaith the preach'"Wbea coIdn_ WI'IflI tbia lullilring clayV.. ,.aew..-

• CONTKNTS. xiii

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A oblda 1116 Slaazu to a lady •To - • • 1116 The finIl II. ol m-Ode &om the FrlllJcb 116 •To M..,From the Fnmcb • •• 117 To WOIIIUl

0. the _ of !be Jep. of I-.. • 19'7 To M. S. G. •NapaIeGn'. ........ • • • • • 117 To a beautiful quUerWrillt'll 011 a bIaak leal oC II The PIeuurea oC Soac.M-r' 198 To-

iElonDel lIB To MUJ&a1lZlUl to-- 198 To Letobia • •. • •~. • • • •• 198 Linel add.-ed to a 7lMII1adrCIudillI'. pve. A 6IIlt Dt.aIIy .-Iered 199 Love'. Iut adieu • • •The dream • 199 DunelU~ ., • • • • • 101 To Marilllla.-- ..,. dclIarwo dellilio y!ADa de An.-IOI Olear of Alva. •A YerJ IIIIlUI1IfiIlIIaIIad CIIl the ....... -.- To the Duke or Donet

of A.Iham& 101 Ta.uraUTlO•• AIfD UOT.•ino...

s.-ue eli Viuorolli. • lOS Adrian'. Iddrsa to bla eouI when dyiD«, _:u.T......-w. &..... ViIIDlelli • ~ TransietiOll • • • •• S880cIe • • • IOf, TraulatiOD Iiom CatuU.. • • • _No"'" to P-=- 106 TraIIIIatillll of the epitaph 011 Virp aad Ti-

I'aOl'lDCY or _ bul1ul • • • • • • • 9lIlIe- L 108 Imi tatiOll or Tibullua lIII8CIIDIo U. 10'7 Traaolatioa from Catull.. lIII8Canto m. 108 Imitated fiom Catull.. • .' ll98CIIDIo IV. 110 Tranolatioa hID Horace _N_ III TraDoIation fromA~ •

CADI • III Ode fir. . . . •If.uuo 1'4LDU 118 FrapJeaIa of oehooI flII:ercm. • set

Notel 1li7 Tbe epieode of Nillue and EuriaI... S8IAppaa IIi8 Traulation &om the Medea of Euripidel 401

IAaD.urAPUoW 1& rvGITl1'1: PIII:cu.

N_ 191 1'bou«htIlUggtlIIOd by a coDer euminatiOll aTBE TwO I'OMaU 191 To the Earl of- • • • • • tIN

Appeudix S10 ADlwer to IOIDe elopnt YenIllI IeDt "y a IiieIlcIWEJUrE. • SI6 to the author, complalDiDr that.. of bi! de-THE DlIIJ'OaxaD TLf._ S46 IICriptiou .... rather too warmJy drawn 406BEA.1',.. AJID IIUTII !68 Granta • 406TB" ULoUD. Lachin y. Gair 401

CaDIo L • S88 To Romance • • t/I1".:;.... n. • _ Elegy OD NewNad Abbey • • • «l'\CIUllo m. S74 0. a change of muterI at a great publie ecbuoI 40tCuto. IV. S76 Cbildilb recoIIectiOlll ••• • «IIAw-lix S78 AMwor to a beautiful poem, writloo by MODte'~

.OVaI or JD~ mery,author ol"The Wad..... IaSW1.......Preliu:o • • • • • • • S8I 1aDcI," lite. &:e.flIItit1ed "TbeC__ Lot" 41SOD '-"iD« Ntnnlead Abbey ••• S8S To the Rey. J. T. BeeI.- 41SOIl a diBtaDt riew or the riIIar Ull oebooI of The death ofCa..... ad 0rIa 414

Harrow 011 the HiD SllS To E. N. L.. E.j. • 414ToD- • • SSt To- 411Epitaph OIl a .,. SlI4 SIlIIIZU • • • • • • • 411A hpeDt • 3114 Linlll writteD bo!DeaIh all elm iD the eburdlyardTo Ed<1IolIIGI • • • • • • sa. of Hamnr on the HiD • • • • 41'Reply 10 or J. II. Picott EIlJ. 011 Critique, eztracted tom the BcIiIIbIqb Reriew 411

Ibo cruelty olbil~ S86 II:IIOU.R ..aDO .urD __ U1'JII:WII:U.

To the .....BtnP- S86 Pref"aeeThe 1eU'. • • • • • • • S86 POIIIeript • •To M. PIpt • • • •• S86 BJltt8 nOli ROaAOII •

L_ wriUe iD " Leuen W au Ila1laa NOD aDl1 TRII: evan: or 1IJ",1'A.. E,.um o-tIemaD, by J. J.~ TRII: WALn.

tOuoded OD FaI:bI' •••• S86 To the publilber •A_tothefinaobll,llIIII.-.dtoM.- S86 Alia or alUlMll • •The conoeIian • • • • • • S86 TBa TJlJO. or lVD8........

0. the cIeatb oCa J-e lady, -.mtD the author, PreGu:e...aad YWy clear to him • • • • S8'7 1I0allAJIT& BAG.IOaL

To~ • • • • • • • lI8'7 Adverti.lemeat.An oceuioaal pro1ocue, deIiTered prw\aaI to the PODO.

per&--. ol " TIle Wheel fI PmUII!' at. The B1uIlI • • • • • •pri1'IIIe tbeaIro. .'. •• Sll'J Tbird A.et or Maahd, Ia b artp.I ....pe,.

OIl the cIeatb or Mr. Pa • sea Ii..t _ to the publilber 4'70To M. 8. G. • sea To my dear Mary ADM mTo~ sea To MiaC",-eb • 471To cvoWie S8I Frogmem •• m'1'0 CaroIiDII S8I The lftyeJ of ...... as

WlIYDY8

...... ......FraJ-t. • • 4'1S RemembraMe • .-On nm.wa, BanGw • 4'1S 'J'be Adieu ...(l~.tr ... 471 To a yaln Lady 481'J'o rrt ... • • •• 4'1'4 To.Amle 490Kpilaph GIl Jalua .ua-, « Bouda-o 4'1'6 To the _ • •• • • • 490Frapal • • 416 To the Author «a s-et~ " •Sad i.ro Mn. • • • 476 .y "'rM,' you I&y, • ADd yet DO lear.' " • 490A Ioor-, . . 4'1'6 On 60diDg a FIUl • • 49118_10 • • ••• • • 411 F&rlI....nto the MI1III .90To1hI_ • 47. To IUl Oak at NlIWIcead • •• &9180q • • • • •• 47. La- OIl hearing that Lady BJroD ..... ill WI8_ 10 • • ., GllIeaYiq BJ1BIud 47. Staazu" OOllid lore for eYer" •• 491Linee 10 Mr. Hodpoa. •• 477 8tuIzu 10 a HiDdoo Air • • • • 481Liaea ia the lI'ayeDera' book at~ • 471 LiDee klle8ded b- the Fint OUllo ~ Ollilde~Epiltle 10 Mr. HodgIoa • • • • 478 roId'. PiJ«rimap GSOn Moon'. lutoperatic liarce •• 478 Do. JVA-.On Lord Thurlow'.~.. 478 C 10 I 496To Lord Thurlow 478 an •'1' u____ 478 CUllo IL 609

o Tbomu.......... • • • 479 CIUllo m. SUFNpMDt of an epilt1e 10 'n..--1IIoore ' CIUllo IV. • • 6SOThe Deril'. driye C V 6S7WiDcbor poeti08.. • 480 Ulte. • • VIL VIII • 647Additional ._10 the ode to N•...s.- 480 Pre&ce to Canlol VL •

. ....- Canto VI. • 648'I'D Lady Caroliae Lamb 4S) CUlIo VII 6518_ b-1JIU8a • •••• 4S) Canlo vni . 611Addrea8 iatended 10 be recited at the Oaledaalu CIUllo IX. • 670

IIlflfllint 481 CUllo X. 676To Belahuqr. • • • • • 481 CIUllo XL 681Un the Priooe Rept'. relDrDiq lbe plcture« CUllo Xll. 687

Sarah COUDleII « Jeney to Mn.llI.. • 481 CUlIo xm. 691Hebrew Melodiel • • • • • 481 CUllo XIV 699Lin.. intended lOr the opemnc or II 'J'hI 8Mle« CUllo XV • • 808

ConJlu," •• 481 CUllo xvi 811Emact fftllll an Ullpllbli8hed poem. 481 NotOll to C~lo I. 110To AlIjIUIIla • • • • • • 481 N_ 10 Canlo m. _F~ « a poem OIl hMriq that Lady BJroD Nota 10 CUlIO IV. III

..... iII.-181'. •• • 484 Nota to CIUllo V. 8!1On the bull of Be1ll1l by 0_ 4N Nota to OUlto VI. • IttTo ThomuM~ 484 Nota to CUlIO VII. 8118luIu to the nYtII'Po. 484 Nolel to CUlIo VII1. 121&-etlo Gear,. lbe J'oartII • 484 Nolel 10 Canlo IX. 8UTbe IriBhA~ 486 Nota to CUlto X. • StS 'F_« llimiDi • 486 Nolel to CIUllo XI. • US .8_ .... NoleIlO CUllo XIL ItS!kuau ••••• • 487 NotatoCanlOXllL 814rlllplWDplD. • • • • • • 487 NoteetoCanlOXIV. • ..To the CounIeoe or a-Iqta • • • 487 Nota 10 Canlo XV ...C)n tbiI day I ClIIIIpIete WI~ yew 481 N_ to CUllo xvi. • llQ

PODD nOlI 1IUJIl1IIClU..... IlOLLJlCl'I'ait .. lass. IWicaticJII •'l'o a Lady who prMllIllM the Autbar wida a nI-

_ blUld wIlich boaDd ... II-. ..

TBB

LIFE OF LORD BYRON.

6u&&& Go&DOIf BYKolf, LoaD Bno_,-.. born In Holle&-8treet, London, on theltd of January, 1788. His name was ofNorman origin, and still exists, among thenoble.t in France, in the family of the Dukede Biron. His direct ancestor, Ralph deBiron, accompanied William the Conquerorto England, and he and his descendants forIIeveralsucceeding reigos, held large p0sses­sions in Nottinghamspire, Derbyshire, andLancashire. James Byron, of HorestanCastle, Derbyshire, appears on the "OxfordLiat," as one of the English Knigh1.8 whofollowed the banner of Richard Creur deLion to Palestine,· and he or his brotherbecame a hOlltage for the payment of theransom of that monarch after his captivity.In the wars of the three Edwards, and ofthe White and Red ROBeS, the family werehighly distinguished, and were engaged inalmost every battle, from Cressy to Bos­worth Field. Newstead Abbey, near Not­tingham, with the lands adjoinin~ it, waspresented by Henry VUI. on the di890lutionof the monalteries to Sir John Byron, andin 1643, hi.a great grandson was created apeer by Charles I. with the title of BaronByron, of Rochdale, in the county of Lan­caster. During the politicnl struggles ofthat period, the Byrons adhered faithfully tothe Crown, and suffered greatly by confis­cation and otherwise. At the battle ofEdgehill lIeyen brothers of the name werepresent, four of whom fell at MarstonMoor. William, the fif\h Lord, succeededtn the title in 1756, and, in 1765, was triedbefore the House of Peers for killing hillrelation Mr. Chaworth, in a desperate scufBeor ,luel in London, and found guilty of man­I'\:tughter, but pleaded the privilege of thereerage, and was dillcharged. He retiredto Newstead Abbey, and resided there,liviog in a very unsoeial, llllva~ and eecen­uic manner, till his death in 1798.

John, the father of the poet, was the sonvi Lord Wi:liam's eldest brother, Admiral

Byron, the cekbrated voyagt.r. He wu 8

captain in the guards, and notorious, alikefor hia personal beauty, and the prolligac'yof his conduct. In his twenty-seventh year,he won the affections of Lady Caermarthen,the wife of the Marquis of Caermarthen;lied with her to the Continent, and, on herhusband's obtaining a divorce, married her.She died in 1784, leaving one daughter,.o\ugusta Byron, af\erwards Mrs. Leigh. Irthe following year, he married CatheriQCGordon, the only child of George Gordon,Esq. of Gight, in Scotland. She was ofDoble, and indeed, of princely ancestry, beinga lineal descendant of Sir William Gordon,BOn of the Earl of Huntly by a daughterof James I. She was po88e88Cd of pro­perty to the amount of more than £20,000sterling, which was very s/)()n nearly ex­pended in paying her husband's deb1.8, amicontributing to his extravlJgancies. lu thesummer of 1786, they lef\ Scotland, antiresided in France, until the close of theyear 1787, when Mrs. Byron reklrned toLondon, and continued there until the birthof the poet in January 1788. At thia tim~

all her estate had been sacrificed, with theexception of about £150 sterling per an­num, vested in trustees for- her IJ8e,. FromLondon abe proceeded with her infant titAberdeen, where she Wall I'OOn after joinedby Captain Byron, who, a/ler pa89ing atintervals two or three months with her.during which they lived very unhappilytogether, departed again for France, anddied at Valenciennes in 1791.

At five years old, young Byron was sentto a day school kept by a Mr. Bowers, wl)erehe remained a year. He was then placet!for a time under the care of two other in.structers, and at sevel, entered the Gram.mar School at Aberdeen. In the summerof 1796, a/ler an attack of scarlet fever, hewas removed for change of Rir, to the High­lands, and resiiled, with I.ia mother, for sornt:time, at Ballater, on the Dee, about fan;

ni LIFE OF LORD BYRON.

miles from Aberdeen. To his pleaunt re- title in J679, having married a daughter ofcollection.. of this period, and its scenes and Viscount Chaworth of Ireland. Mr. Cha­all8OCiati;lnfl, he often recurs in his writings. worth, who fell in the dispute with the Lord

By the death without issue, of William, Byron of J765, was of the AmI! family.the fifth Lord, in May, J 798, he succeeded He visited Annesley daily for nearl.v SIX

10 his estates and titles, and his cousin the weeks, paasing mopt of the time with hi.FArlof Carlisle, the son of the late Lord's cousin, and became deeply and devotedly"ister, was appointed hia guardian. In the attached to her. He was then but fifteen.autumn of that year, he accompanied his She was two or three years older, verymother to Newatead Abbey, which had beautiful, and an heiress with large cxpee­been the principal seat of the family aince lation., and seems to have looked upon him,ita presenlation, and continued to be 80 at the moment, as a mere I Loolboy, aniluntil it was purchased by Colonel Wildman laughed at his passion and himself accord­in J8J4. On their arrival there, he wal, in ingly. He has pictured in " The Dream,"consequence of a lameneas in one of his page J99, the ltory of his love for her, andfeet, occasioned, it is said, by an aceident ita fate aod collllequences. It appears,which occurred at his birth, and afterwards young as he then was, to have made an in­increased hy improper treatment, placed at delible impresaion upon him, and to haveNottingham under the care of a person given, at least in his own opinion, a colour·who profeased the cure of such caseR, and ing of the deepest and darkest imparlancehe received at the same time le8llons in to the events and feelings of his alier lift:.Latin, from Mr. Rogers, a schoolml.llter ot .~lIusions to the subject as one of painfulthat town. He was removed, in a short :md of powerful interest, are to be found intime, to London, to the charge of the emi- almost every pnge of,his works. Many ofnent physician, Doctor Baillie, and studied his smaller poems, particularly the liliesfor two years at the school of Doctor Glen- "Well, thou art happy, Itc." page IB9,nil' at Dulwich. But neither the NoUing- were addressed tn her. In the followinghsm practitioner, nor the skiII of Doctor year, J805, she was msrried to Mr. :\Ius­Baillie, succeeded in relieving the infirmity ters, a gentleman of ,the neighbourhoolll,in his foot, which continued to be a source and it is said, that the marriage proved un.of extreme annoyance and mortification to happy. She died in J851. During (lnehim during life. of his vacations at this period, he studied

In one of his vacations at this time, French with the Ab~ de Roufligny in(1800,) he visited his cousin, Miss Parker, London, but made little progress. Heand" his first dash into poetry," he uys in a~..erwards read that language with ease,one of his memorandums, "WI.ll the ebulli- but never attempted to speak it. Hepall!'('dtion of a pa8lion for her." The verses he the vacation of 1804 with his mother ata;!udell to are published in this volume, Southwell, in Nottinghamshire, and in Oc­page 587. She was the daughter of Ad- tober 1805, left Harrow for Trinity Col­miraI Sir Peter Parker, on whose death lege, Cambridge.in 1814, he wrote the lines beginning, On a visit to Southwell in the followin~

• There is a tear for aU who die" In the summer, (18Q6,) he became intimate withHummer of 1801, he visited Cheltenham, the family or the Pigots, and to a lady ofand immed~atel1 on his return wu placed that family the earlier.t of his letters whil'hHt Harrow, under the tuition of Doctor have been preserved was addTel8ed. InDrury, for whom he appears to have uni- August, a dispute with his mother, who..e:ormlyentertained the utmost respect alld violence of temper, at times, exceeded ailaffection. In the autumn of 18Ot, he passed bounds, compelled him to tly to London.ItOme time with his mother at Bath, and She however pursued him, and they ,,"c. to

proceeded with her to Nottingham, where soon reconciled. About the first of Novem.ne took ladgirigs, Newstead being fbr that her his first collection of poems was put inEeason let to Lord Grey de Ruthven. Here pre81 at Newark by Mr. Ridge, a bookleller~e cultivated an irtimacy with Mi88 Mary f that place, and about a hundred copieaAnne Chaworth,; \.l whom he had been circulated among his friends. All tiJetlepreviously introduced in London. She re- however, he immediately recalled, and in'Ided at Annesley, in the neighbourhood 0 the January following printed for private,q-ottingham. They were distantly related, distribution a llecond collectMI, omhtina'jje third Lord B.non. who succeeded to the many pieces which had appeared in the fiAt

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It WIll enti~ "PoelDl Oil variOUI Occa- dred and thirty-lix miles from IAndon.;sions," and the author's name was not given. four on this side Mansfield. Though sadlyIn May, or June, after numerous alteratioas falleo to decay, it is still I"ompletely an .abbey,and additions, the work appeared in ita pub- and moet part of it is standing in the sameHshe.t shape, with the title of " Hours of state as when it was fiJ'llt built. There areIdleoess, &'c." and ita second edition wall two tiers of cloisters, with a variety of cellsdedicated to his guardian, Lord Carlisle. and rooms about them, which, though notIn the present colleotion, see this volume, inhabited, nor in an inhabitable state, mightpage 992, the reader will find all the poems easily be made so; anu many of the origi­whi.:h were originally suppre88ed, and no- nal rooms, among which is a fine stone hall,tices of the variations of the diHerent edi- ore still in use. Of the Abbey Church onlytions. He also wrote previous to, and about one end remains; and the old kitchen, willithis time, several occasional verses, not in- a long range of apartmenta, is reuuced lc) aeluded in any of his publications, which heap of rubbish. Leading from the Abbeyhave been collected since his death, and are to the modern part of the habitation is •now published, from page 467 to page 488. noble room, seventy feet in length and twen­The minor Reviews, such as the Critical, ty-three in breadth: but cvery part of theMonthly, Antijacobin, &C. gave the "Houts house displays neglect and decay, IIllve thoseof Idlene88" a very favourable reception, wlrich the present Lord has lately fitted up.but the appearnnce, in the spring of 1808, "The house and gardens are entirelyof the article 10 the Edinburgh Review, surrounded by a wall with battlements. In(see this volume, page 417,) satirically and front is a large lake, bordered here and thereseverely criticizing it, destroyed for the With castellated buildings, the chiefofwhicl.moment all hill hopes offame, humbled his stanus on an eminence at the farther extre·ambition, and wounded his pride to the mity of it. Fancy all this surrounded withqaick. Yet to this article may be traced hleak and barren hills, with scarce a tree to.11 his future literary eminence. The very be seen for miles, except a solitary clump orreaction of his spirit against what he deem- two, and you will have some idea of New­ed oppression, roused him to a full con- stead.ICiousne.iS of his own powers, and to a " Ascend, then, with me the hallstep8, thatconcentration of them all upon one objer.t. I may introduce you to my Lord anj! hillThe criticism has been generally attributed visitants. But have, a care how you pro­to Mr. Jeffrey, the ostensible editor of the ceed; be mindful to go there in broad day.Review, although there is no positive cer- light, and with your eyes about you. For,tainty from' who9C pen it emanated. ,He, should you make any blunder,~ouldyouhowever, in his character of editor, neces- go to the right of the hall stepe, you are laidsarily sanctioned it, and upon him, in par- hold of by a bear; and, should you go toticular, Lord Byron for a long time poured the left, your caae is still worse, for you runIhe vials of his wrath. full against a woln-Nor, when you have

PrevioUB 10 this, and since his depar- attained the door, is your danger over; forture from Harrow, Lord Byron had pa88ed the hall being decayed, and therefore stand­his life between the di88ipations of Cam- ing in need of l'f'rair, a bevy of inmates arebridge and London, and had obtained no very probablY '/leng:ng at one end of it withother distinction than the college reputation their pistols; 80 that if you enter withoutamong his fellows of being a clever, but a giving loud notice of your approach, yOIlcareless and di88ipated student. His most have only escaped the wolf and the bear tolDtimate a880Ciates were Mr. Matthews, Mr. expire by the pistol-shots of the merryHobhouse, Mr. Scroope Davies, and a few monks of Newstead.other young men of his own age and habita, "Our party consisted of Lord Byroawhnm he occasionally invited to Newstead, and filur others; and waa, now and then,whicll he had slightly repaired ami fiueIi increased by the presence of a Deighbollri~

up as a temporary residence. The follow- parson. As for our way of living, the order109 extract of a leUer from Mr. Matthews to of the day was generally t~is :-For break.. lady of his acquaintance, written from fast we had no set hour, bilfo.each suited hisI..oOOon llOOn after this period, contains lWl own colWenience,-every thing remaininK

. Il'teresting and amusing description of the on the table till the whole party had dOIJll ;Abbfoyand ita inmates. though had one wished to breakfas1 8.t the

.. NeW8tcad Abbey is situate Ollt' hun- early hOllr of ten, one would have, beUD

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"ther lucky to find any of the servants up. popu..anty, aoc. rather indiil'erent merit; toOur average hour of rising. was one. I, ODe of which Lord Byl'Oll contributed tMwho ~nerally got up between eleven and chllpl.er included in thiI collection, pagetwelve, was a1ways,-even when an invalid, ~71. He was related by marriage to-the first of the party, and was esteemed George Byron, then an ottu:er in the Bri·a prodigy of early rising. It was frequently tiah navy, the cousin of the poet, and hiapast two before the breakfut. party broke successor in the title. One of the objectslip. Then, for the amusements of the of Lord Byron in visiting London at thi.morning, there was reading, fencing, single- period was to take his seat in the House oCltick, or shuttlecock, in the great room; Peer&, previous to going abroad. He had fOrpractising with pistols in the hall; walking several months made arrangements for a-riding-cricket-ailing on the lake, play- voyage to India, and had applied for infor.109 with the beer, or teazing the wolf. Be- mlltion relative to his royte, Itc. to thetween seven and eight we dined, and our Arabic profe880r at Cambridge, and tskeaevening lllllted from that time till one, two, other steps with a similar intention ;' hut heor three in the morning. The evening di- finally abandoned thiI project, and resolvednrsions may be ellllily conceived. on visiting Greece. Before the meeting of

.. I must not omit the custom of handing Parliament, he wrote to his guardian, Lordround, after dinner, on the removal of the Carlisle, and reminded him that he shou.dt.loth, a human skull filled with Burgundy. become of age at the commencemept of the.After revelling on choice viands, and the session, in the hope of being introduced by!lnest wines of France, we adjourned to tea, him personally into the House. He re-­• here we amused ourselves with reading or ceived, to his great disappointment, n coldimproving conversation,-ellch according and formal reply, merely pointing out the\0 his fancy,-and, after sandwiches, Itc. technical mode of proceeding in such cases.retired to .rest. A Bet of monkiah dresaes, Thia so excited his indignation that he in­which had been provided, with all the pro- stantly eTlllled from the Satire several cou·per apparatus of CI'Ol8e8, beads, tonsures, plets c:,mplimentary to Lord Carlisle, andItCo often gave a variety to our appearance, inserted the biLter lines, and still more bitterand to our pursuits." . note, which now stand in it. On the ISth

It was at Newatead Abbey, in the early of March he took hia Beat in the House ofpart of September, that he began to prepare Lorda, placing himself on one of·the oppo­hia Satire, the "English Bards and Scotch sition benches, and continued a steady ad­Reviewers," for the preBS. Although its herent of the Whig party till his death.immediate preparation was evidently has- Hia Satire appeared on tile 18th or !lOth oftened by the critique in the Edinburgh March, and met a ready and rapid sale. HeRe\iew, yet, IlII appears from hia letters, it then returned to Newstead, where he spenthad been projected a long time previous, between two and three months in preparingand three or four hundred lines of It written. a second edition for the press; and aboutHe had the proof· sheets printed from the the 11th of June, left London for Falmouth,manuscript by Ridge at Newark, and in the with his friend Mr. Hobhouse, on their waybegmning of the next year took them up to to the East.London for publication. He had then (Ja- They embarked at Falmouth, in thenuary, '1809) become of age, and ltlund his Lisbon packet, on the 2d of July, and ar­estates greatly embalTllllBed, IlII well by the rived in four days at Lisbon, from whenceIUlprovillence of his immediate ancestors as they journeyed on horseback to Seville andby hia awn pecuniary supplies during hia Cadiz, and sailed from the latter place forminority, which he had been compelled to Gibraltar, in the Hyperion frigate. On theborrow at an exorbitant interest. Heavy 19th of August, they left Gibraltar forineumbraflCell remained for many years after Malta, having first sent home two of Lordupon hiapro'perty, and distresaed him ex- Byron'allervants, Murray and young 'usb­ceedin~. Hia Satire was put in preaa by ton, the "Yeoman" and "Page" of theCawthorne, the London publisher of the "Good Night" in Childe Harold, the lat­"Hours ofldleneB8," and its publication was ter being unable, from ill health, to go on.npermteDdecl by Mr. Dallas, to whom he Hia valet, Fletcher, remained with them.had·maae a present of the copy-right. Mr. At Malta he formed an aequaintsnre willtOallaa was professionally a man of letters, Mrs. Spencer Smith, the " Florence" of hi6ud.the author. of leveral DOve" of limited poetry, and was on the point of figbtinlt • III

LIFE OP LOBO BY:IlOft.

"Byron. Joanoina in AlbaDia,Begun October 8lat, 1809:

Concluded Canto !!d, Smyrna,March 28th, 1810.

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i,lIue: with aa officer of tIM' garrison, butatie&ctory explanations having heeD madeea the ground by the friend of his anta­BOnist, the affiUr was amicably adjusted.They ailed in the brig Spider on the19th for Preveea, which they reached onthe 19th. having touched at Patras on their The Salsette frigate then lying at Smyr­way_ From Prevesa they joumeyed to na, had been ordered to Constantinople forJoannina, the capital of Albania, the aD- the purpose of conveying to England Mr.r.ient Epil'Wl, and from thence to Tepel~, Adair, the English ambasaador at the Porte,at nine daya di8tance, for the purpoee and Lord Byron and Mr. HobhoU8e tookviaiting Ali Pacba, the tl.en chiefofa great passage in her on the 11th April. Theportion of Greece, and one of the moat next morning they landed at Tenedos, andeel.ebrated Viziers of the Ottoman empire, the day after left the ship, with a pany 01'by whom they were received with marked officers to visit the ruins of Troae. On thecivility and attention. They were among 14th, they anchored in the DardaneUes,the earIieat English travellem through Al- where they lay for nearly three weeks.bania, a country at that time hardly known While at anchor there, Lord Byron withto the rellt of Europe. The letters of Lord Mr. Ekenhead, a lieutenant of the fiigate,Byron at this period, published in this 001- accomplished the achievement of which heIeclion of his works, together with the text was through life partioularly proud, that ofand notes of the first and second Cantos swimming from Sestnl to Abydoa. Theirof Childe Harold, and many of his other first attempt waa made on a day in the latterpoema, notes, &'c. contain suoh numerous ptu1 of April, and failed, owing to the cold­.detaila of their various adventures dJlring ness of the water, and their ignorance of t11flIhis and their 8ubRequent journeys and nature of the current. On the lid May, theyvoyages in the Levant, as render a par- made a second attempt, and the we:\therticular description in this sketch UDDeceI- being warmer, aucceeded. The Salsetteaary. arrived at Constantinople on the 15th May,

On the lid of November they returned and remained there about three months,fiom Tepe~ through Joannina to Pre- during which time Lord Byron wall pre­Yes&, and on the 15th, attended by a guard sented to the Sultan, and made an expedi­of forty or fifty Albanians, they traversed tion to the Black Sea and the CyaneanAearnania and Etolia to Miaaolonghi, Symplegades. On the 14th of July, t,eeroesed the gulf of Corinth to Patraa, and left Constantinople in the same frigate. iDproeeeded from thence by land to V08tizZa, company with Mr. Adair and Mr. Hob­where they obtained a tirst view of-Mollnt house. The two latter gentlemen pro­ParlUUlllUS. They aailed to the oppoeite ceeded in her to England, but Lord Byronlbore of the gulf in a 8mall boat; rode on was on the 15th, at his own request, landedhorseback from Salona to Delphi, and after at the island of Zea, with two Albanians,travel1ing through Livadia, and visiting a Tartar, and his English servant, Fletchel',~bes, &.c. arrived at AtheDII on the 15th from whence he sailed to Athel1ll; andof December. reached there on the 18th.

At Athens, they resided for two or three At Athena he met an old acquaintancemonths, making oceuional excumioDII in ita and fellow collegian, the Marquis of Sligo,'Deighbourhood. They lodged in the house and in a day or two left there in companyof Theodora Macri, a Greek lady, to wbole with him for the Morea. They parted Iteldest daughter, the lines on page 184, Corinth, the Marquis going from thence to" Maid of Athens ~re we part, &te." were Tripolitza, and Lord Byron to Patraa.addreased. On the 5th of March, 1810, During the two following months he madethey embarked in an English sloop of war the tour of the Morea, &e. and, aftera longtor Smyrna, where they remained, with the and dangerous illne811 at Patras, returned ttlexceptio~ofa few daya employed in a visit Athens in pecember, and there fixed histo the ruins of Ephesua, until the 11 th\of head quartem during the remainder of hittApril. The first two Cantos of Childe stay in Greece. Hi. principal companion ItHarold were completed at Smyrna, as ap- this time was Lord Sligo, and he was also iii.peara from the following memorandum pre- timatewith Mr. Brucc,afterwardloelebrated/Ixed to the originel maDUICript. lor the part he took ill the romantic eecape 01

&he FreIIflh General Lanlette from prison, perusing the poem, II onee appnlClIateli itaand with Lady Hester Stanhope, the eccen- merit and anticipated Ita SUccetlll, but it wu\ric cbieftainesaofthe Bedouin Arabs. He BOme time before he could overcome Lord.va, employed in collecting the materiala Byron's real or allUmed repugnance to itawhich form the notes to the 2d Canto of publication. The" Hinta from Horace"Childe Harold, and in the words of Mr. was his especial favourite. He was veryMoore, " as if in utter defiance of the 'ge- desirous of having it printed without delay;nius loci,' " he there wrote his" Hinta from and it was accordingly handed to Caw.Horace," a satire which, impregnated as it thome, the publisher of the" English Barchis with London life from beginning to end, and Scotch Reviewers," for that pllrpoae.bears the date, "Athens, Capuchin convent, Mr. Dallas, however, finallypreVlliled uponMarch l!l, 1811." him to suppreSs it at the moment, aud

His pecuniary affairs while abroad were although Lord Byron always dwelt upon itgreatly embarrassed, and the want of re- with pleasure, and subsequently took painsmittancea probably prevented him from a't ~riou. times to prepare it for ti,e prellll,undertaking a voyage to Egypt, which in it never met the approbation of hi. book­the month of March he had contemplated, sellers or their literary censors, and did notand no doubt hastened his return home. He appear until after his death.went to the island of Malta in May, where The publication of Childe Harold beinghe suffered severely from an attack offever, determined upon, the manuscript was placed10 which he seems to have been colJlititu· by Mr. Dallas, to whom the copy-right hadtionally subject, being three or four times been presented, in the hands of Mr. Mur­while in the Levant, reduced by similar at- ray the bookseller, and was immediately&licks to almost the IS8t extremity. On the put in preae. The" English Barda andad of June, as lOOn as his health permitted, Scotch Reviewers" had previous to thiane set sail from Malta in the Volage frigate tiJne pa88ed to a Iburth edition; a fifth wasfor England, and reached London on the now iaaued with. various additions, after14th of July, having been absent a little which that work wassuppreaaed, Rnd everymore than two years. copy BO far as W8I practicab:.; cal:l:d in and

The day after his arrival in London, Mr. destroyed. In America, however, anll onDallas called upon him, and in the course the Continent, where the English lav. ofof a brief conversation, Lord Byron men- copy-right could not be enforced, it conti­tioned having written the " Hints from Ho- nued to be published with the other wornrace," which he said he considered a good of ita author.finish to the "English Bards and Scotch On the lId of July, Lord Byron wroteReviewers," adding that he intended to put to his mother, who was then at Newitetd.it in press imJnediately, and requesting Mr. stating that he was detained in town 'byDallas to superintend ita publication. Mr. lOme law affairs for a day or two, but shouldDallas took the manuscript home with him, visit her as soon as possible. The nextand on perusing it, was, to use his own morning he received intelligence that shewords, " grievoualy disappointed." He re- was dangerously ill, and instantly startedtumed it the next morning, and though for Newstead, but did not reach there untillinwilling to apeak ofit as he really thought, after her death. Her last iIIneaa is said tocould not refrain from expressing BOrne sur- have been rendered fatal by a fit of rageprise that ita author should have produced brought on by reading her upho!aterer'.nothing else duriIJJ! his two years' absence. bill. She is described as a short, corpulentLord Byron told him that he had occasion- penon, exceedingly fretful and impatient inally writtl'n short poems, besides a great her disposition; and her conduct lowudaJIlIlny stanzaa in the measure of SpenllC1", her BOn from his childhood appears to haveand added, " they are not worth troubling been alternately indulgent and abusive, anriyou with, but you may have them all if you without the least judgment or self-command.like." He then took the manu80ripta of She undoubtedly loved him to the extremeChilde Harold from a small trunk, and of fondneBB, and was ambitiously proud ofgid they had been read but b~ one person, him, yet BO ungovernable were her palSiOlll,(probablY Mr. Hobhouse,) who had found that she, at times, treated hie with a cruelty.very little to commend and much to con- and even brutality almost beyond belief:demn, and that he himself waa of the ..me He IBid to Lord Sligo, in reference to herDluion. Mr. Dallaa OD the contrary, on while in Greece, "Look there," pointing to

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-hi. fOot," it ill to her false delicllcy at my to be matched among ClOntemporaries inbirth I owe that deformity, and yet as long any age or country."a. J can remember, she haa never ceased to Mr. Moore, in aUuding to this meeting.taunt and reproach me with ito" In a pas- thua describes the impressioDII left uponsage in his suppressed Memoirs relating to him, by this his first interview with LordIlia early daye, he is said to have described Byron... What I chiefly remember to hu.y!!the horror and humiliation which came over remarked was the nobleness of his air, hillhim when in one of her fits of passion she beauty, and the gentleness of his voice andcalled him a "lame brat," and the opening manners. Being in mourning for his mo­of .. The Deformed Tranalbrmed," indeed ther, the colour, as well of his dress, as oftIle whole drama itself, was 100 evidently his gi088y curling and picturesque hair, gave•.ceasioned by that painful recollection. Yet more effect to the pure, spiritual palenelllhOtwithlltahding the aufferings her unhappy of his features, in the expression ot" which,temperament had caused him, he uniformly when he spoke, there was a perpetualpaid her the greateat courtesy and personal play of lively thought, though melancholynospect; and the manner in which he Ia- was their habitual character when in ",­meDted her 10811 proved the unimpaired in· pose." ,tewity of hia affection. The following further extracts from Mr.

Besides that of his mother, he was com- Moore'll Notices, will give the reader an ae­pelled to mourn at this period the death of curate general idea ofLord Byron's person'llDO less than six of his relations and inti- appearance. .mate IrienJs. Among the number were "Of his face. the beauty may be pro­\Vingfield, one of his Harrow favourites, nounced to have been of the highest order,Eggieston, his proto~ at Cambripge, of as combining at once regularity of featureswhom he was romantically fond, arid Mat- with the most varied and interesting exprea­thews, a young man of extraordinary pro- sion. His eyes, though of a light gray,mise. "In the short space of one month," were capable of all extremes or meaning,be says, in a note to Childe Harold, " I but it wall in the mouth and chin that thehavt" lost her who gave me being, and most great beauty as well as expression of hisof thoee who made that being tolerable;" countenance lay.and hill lettera, for a long time after, are "His head waa remarkably small,-euwritten in a IItyle of melancholy reckless- much so all k) be rather out of proportionDeSIl, indicative of habitual gloom and de- with his face. The forehead, though a lit­lpondency. tIe tOll narrow, wasltigh, and sppeared more

He remained at Newstead until late in 110 from his having hill hair (to preserve it,the autumn; and, after a visit to Rochdale, all he said) shaved over the temples; whilein Lancashire, on business connected with the g10811y, dark-brown curls, clustering liver1m estates in that quarter, returned through his head, gave the finish to ita beauty. WhenCambridge to London the latter part of to this is added, that his nose, though hand­October. About this time he became inti- somely, was rather thickly IIhaped, that hismate with Mr. Moore, the poet, afterwards teeth wen! white and regular, and his com_bia biographer, and one of his few firm and plexion colourless, as good an idea perhapsfaithful friends, and wi th Lord Hollnnd, both as it is in the power of mere words to COl.

:tf whom he had violently attacked in the vey may be conceived of his features."English Bards and Scotch Reviewers." " In height he was, as he himself has in.The origin of his acquaintance with Mr. formed us, five feet eight inches and a half,A!.X're was a note appended to that satire, and to the length of his limbs he attribute.1and the lIingularly curious and characteristic his being such a good swimmer. Hill hanlhcorrespondence which followed it is contnin- were ,"ery white, and_ccording to his owncd in this volume, page S6, "c. That notion of the size of hands as indicntill@correspondence led to an introduction at the birth_riRtocratically small. The lalnf".boWIe of Mr. Rogers, the author of " Hu- ness of his right lhot, though an obstacle tuman Life," kc. and on the day it took place, gr.1ce, but little impeded the activity of h'sMr. Campbel~ the author of the "Plea-, movementll; and from this circumstance,lUres of Hope," Lord Byron, and Mr. as well 81 from the skill with which the footMOOn!, dined with that gentleman, forming, waa disguised by means of lqng lroWller&,

sa one of Lord Byron'lI biogr&pl.ers .,ery it would be difficult to conceive a defect otjlWtly observee, .. a poetical groupnC" easily this kind leaaobtrl!c1ing ilself'as a dcformny

un LIFE OF LORD BYRON.

while the diffidence which a constant con- intervals of ntiremcnt, until his separalJoftlCiousnell8 of the infirmity gave to his first from Lady Byron.approach and address, made, in him, even In August he went to Cheltenham, where.Iamenell8 a source of interest." at the request of die Managers, through

On the nth of "'ebruary, 1812, in a de- Lord HoUand, he wrote the Addresll spokeDhate on the subject of the Nottingham at the opening of the new theatre, Drury(t'rame-breakers, he made his first speech in Lane. He alllO there wrote the poem onthe House of Lords. He had previously" Waltzing." It was published anony­prepared himself, not only by composing, mously; but u it created no senaation, atbut writing it beforehand. It was Batter- least in comparison with Childe Harold, heingly received, but obtained no permanent thought proper to luppreBB it, and even topopularity, and his after efforts as an orator contradict, through Mr, Murray, iUl pubwere generally considered failures. In liaher, the rumour of its being his. "TheApril following, he spoke a second time, in Curse of Minerva" had been printed alaofavour of the claims of the Irish Catholics, anonymous·y, and for private circulatiohand, in June, accompanied the presentation only, soon after hia return from ttoe EIl8t.of a petition in behalfof Major Cartwright, Its immediate object, an attack on Lordwith BOrne introductory remarks, which Elgin, relative to the statues, &c. sent by::Iosed htl parliamentary career as a speak- him from Greece, was more fully accom­er. His display, on the second and third plished in the notea to Childe Harold, whichoccasions, was less promisin~ than at first. contained the substance of the poem. TheHis deiivery was mouthing and theatric.ILl, opening lines were af\erwardll made to Ihrmand in a kind of chanting tone, which iSll8id the commencement of the COl'Bllir. Neitherto have alllO -iisfigured hill recitation of the" Waltz," nor the" Curse of Minerva,"poetry. Wll8 included in any English collection of

On the JirstofMarch, Childe Harold ap- his works during hia Hfetime.peared, and "the imprell8ion" says Mr. The first edition of the Giaour Wll8 pub­Moore, " which it produced on the public, Iished in May, 181l1. It was materiallywas 8S inatantaneous as it has proved deep improved. and gradually enlarged throughand lasting. The fame of its author had various subsequent editions, the fifth beingnot to wait for any of the ordinary grada- announced in September. In the beginningtions, but seemed to spring up like the pa- of December, it was followed by the Bridelace of a fairy tale, in a night." The re- of Abydos, and in January, 1814, by theception of the poem, indeed, was such, that Coraair. The latter poem created Jilr thethere was no undue extravagance in the moment a greater excitement with the pub­memorandum made by Lord Byron himself lic than even Childe Harold, and met I\·ithin his suppreBBed Memoirs, " I awoke one an unexampled sale, fourteen thousandmorning and found myself famous." The copies being disposed of in ICIl8 than a week.first edition was immediately disposed of, The Ode to Napoleon was written in April,i1nd numerous editiona followed ;n quick and the Hebrew Melodies about the samelIuccession. time. The lines" To a Lady weeping,"

Previous to this period, notwithstanding alluding to Geor~ the Fonrth, then Princethe advantages of his birth and title, Lord Regent, and his daughter, the Princ('fISByron had noL mingled, te, any great extent, Charlotte, were originally printed in a news­in the gay world ofLondon, his companion- paper, and attributed to Mr. Moore; butlhip having been mostly confined to hill eol- their appearance among other small poemslege and travelling acquaintances, and to a in the same volume with the Corsair, fixedlew intimate friends; but the univel'Blll ac- their authorship upon Lord Byron, and inclamation with which his poem was now connexion with the "Windsor Poetics(bailed, and the mystetioUB interest it at- then for the first time reported to be his,tached to his personal character, together brought down upon his head a violent storm.with his youth, his beauty, his rank, and of invective and abuse, froIT! the ministerial,t.is more than promise of extraordinary i;D- partisans, which uniting with other CllU&ell

tellectual power, forced him inatantly into of disquietude and apprchenaion reJati~

the highest faahionable circies, among whose to his political career, inducE"d 111m aboutnlOllt illustrious crowds he became the dis- the first of May, not ouly agkin to repeat'WlgUished object, IUld with whom hI'MD- his determination expressed ill tile prefacetlDIJed to move, with oceaaioU;L.•".\.r'lltr\ tA' flle Corsair, of wr;ting DO more for

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Yean; but to attempt porchui. back the fumonable m.upaUon, and behiDd thecepy-righta of all his worb, 10 far al they BceaelI of Drury LaAe Theatre, of which hebad been diIIpoeed of; and supprelling every bad in June been chosen one of the Ma­&De he had written. In pursuance of this nagiDg Committee, in COMpany with Lordre.olution, he wrote to Mr. Murray, en- FAaex, Douglas Kinnaird, Mr. Whitbread,dosing the amount paid for Childe Harold, and othera. By the month of November,the Corsair, kc. and ordering the unlOld his pecuni:uy difficulties had increued 10

copies destroyed; but, on being answered ch an alarming degree that he WBI notthat snch a proceeding would be deeply in- only under the neceB8ity ofselling hia libra­jurioU8 to Mr. Murray, he abandoeed his ry, but an execution WRslevied on his fur­project, and allowed the publication to pro- niture, and his very beds were seized byceed. bailift&. His privilege as a member of the

Lara appeared in Augullt. It was at Upper House of·Parliament exempted lUIbnt publiahed in the .me volume with pel'llOn from arrest.Jacqueline, a poem by Mr. Rogel'll; the On the tenth ot' December hill daughteJ;Il&mell of both authors being omitted. Ada AugtJ8ta Byron, wall born; and, aboutWith the exception of the Ode to Water- the first ofFebruary following, a separation100, Napoleon'. Farewell, and other occa- between Lady Byron and himself took place••iooo poeml, he did not come before the She had left London a few days before onpublic 811 an author between this period and a mit to her father in LeiDel'ltershire, andthe publication of the Siege of Corinth Lord Byron was to foUow her as lOOn as heand Pariaina, in the apring of 1816. could make lOme arrangementa of his m0-

On the lei ofJ8n1llll'1, 1815, Lord Byron ney affairs. They had parted in kindneBLwas married to Anne AnbeUa Milbanke, She wrote him on the road a letter in adaughteT of Sir Ralph Milbanke, afterwards style of the most playful fondnea imagina­Noel, of Seaham, in the county of Durham. hie, but immediately on her arrival at KirkbyShe was nearly connected by blood with the Mallory, the Beat of her family, her fallll~r

families of Lord Wentworth, Lord Mel- wrote, informing him that abe would notbourne, and others of the English nobility. again return. They never afterward! met.Her immediate tOrtune was abollt ten thou- The particular causcs of thia eyent.tillBand poundl sterling, but on the death of remain in obscurity. The reader will findher father and mother, which took place a Lord Byron's views of the subject detailedlew years after her marriage, 8he became in many of hil letters, and elsewherepoI8ClI8Cd of'eatatea 10 a very large amount. throughout his writings. Hil Lady, onLord Byrou had addreaed her about a year the appearance of Mr. Moore's Biography,previOUll, and although his suit was at that in 1830, caused a letter to be published,time rejected, yet her refusal was accom- exonerating her fat.'ler and mother frompaWed with eyery U8Urance of esteem and charges conneeted with it, of which theyregard, and a friendly correspondence was had been accused, but throwing no fartherkept up between them. A accond applica- light upon it.tion in September proved successful. The current of popular opinion was, at

The disastrous result of the marriage the moment, fearfully strong againn Lordappears to have been anticipated by her Byron. He was immediately 8hunned, ifhusbend even at the bridal altar. The not still more harshl.y treated, by almost all.. coming eventa cut their shadoWll before." clas8el, especially by those who had pre­His prose account of the wedding, in his vioUllly courted hill intimacy. Lady Jer­supprelllled Memoirs, is said by Mr. Moore 114:y, and two or three others, were theto have agreed closely in all ita circum- only ladies of dilltinction in London whostances with hie poetical delCription of it in adhered to hill fallen fame, and dared to at­" The Dream." tempt his defence. Except in their circles,

Towards the c10Be «lfthe month of March he was virtually banished from society.he took up his residence in London, where Every species of reproach and obloquy wasbe lived during the eucceeding year in a heaped upon his head. Exaggerated state­Iltyle of great eplendol1r and expenae, far menta ofhia private conduct, and dark hintsbeyond hIS meome or his expectations; and vague insinuations of the IIlUlIt criminalIIJld ll'OOn became deeply involved in the pro8igacy, were circulated and believed.IDOIIt dlStreBSIDIl pecuniary embarra.menta. "In every form of paragraph, pamphlet,ail time was paSICd in the whirlwiDd and caricature," .Y' Mr. Moore. .. both

LIFE OF LOBD BYRON.UlV------------:----------_.biB person and character were held up to the lit Canto or Don Juan ill Septell108l.odium; hardly a voice was rai8ed, orat leut, The latter was originally dedicated tolistened to, in his behalf; and though a few Southey in some prefiltory vel'Bel, IIIlid tofaithful friends remained unshaken by his have been very able and very bitter; butside, the utter hopelell8nen of stemming the on Mr. Murray'. refusal tc publish thetorrent was felt as well by them as by him- poem except anonymoualy, Lord ByroDKCIf, and after an effort or two to gain a fair auppresaed the dedication. alleging aa ahearing, they submitted in silence." This reason hiB unwillingneea to attack Soutbeycould not be long endured. On the !6th o( "under cloud of night."April, 1816, he left England for Ostend. About tW. period he became acquainted

Immediately previous to his departure, with the CounteaB Guiccioli, to whom, inthe lines to his sister, Mrs. Leigh, beginning the Italian character of" cavalierservente,""Though the day of my destiny's over," he devoted himself for several succeedlDgand the first stanza to Mr. Moore, "My years, and by whose future movements hillboat is on the shore," were written. The own were almOlt exclusively governed du­" F'are thee well," intended for Lady Byron, ring the remainder ofhie residence in" Italy.and the" Sketch from private life," alluding They appear to. have been mutually andto a Mrs. Charlton, her govemetl8, had ap- pasaionately attached to each other, andpcared about the first of April. the um-, however reprehensible, had the

From Ostend, he journeyed to the Rhine, good effect of weaning him from still morevisiting Brussels and Waterloo, entered disreputable attachments. She wu a Ro­Switzerland at Basle, and proceeded by magnese lady, the daughter of Countthe route of Berne and Lausanne to Ge- Gamba, a nobleman of high rank and an­neva. He removed in a few weeks to Dio- cient name at Ravenna, and had beendata, a villa about three miles from Geneva, married at aixteen or Ileftnteen, withoutwhere with occasional voyages on the Lake, reference to her choice or affection, to theand excursions to Coppet, Chamouni, the Count Guiecioli, an old Rnd wealthy wi­Bernese Alps, &c. in company with Mr. dower of that country; whose gJ'4t opu­Hobhouse, Mr. Shelley, and ODe or two other leDee had rendered his otherwise WOI1l(.

intimate acquaintances, he passed the than indifferent reputation respectable. Shesummer. He there wrote the third Canto was on a visit at Venice with her husband,of Childe Harold, the Monody on the Death when Lord Byron was introduced to her.or Sheridan, the stanzaa "To Augusta," She was then about twenty, but appeared"The Fragment," "The Prisoner of Chi1- much younger, with a singularly fair andion," lItc. delicate complexion, large, dark, and Ian-

In October, he crossed the Simplon to guishing eyes, and a profusion of light au­MilDn, and on the 10th of November took bum hair. She proceeded with her hup·up his residence at Venice. He soon after band to Ravenna about the middle of Apri~commenced the study of the Armenian ~SI9, and in June, Lord Byron visited herJ.mguage with the brothers of a monastery there. The Lines to the Po, alluding tonear that city, and in March following, her, were written on his journey. They(1817,) tranalaled the Two Epistles, page returned through Bologna to Venice, in!99. "Manfred" was finished at this time, October. At Bologna he wrote the letterllnd sent to London. The Third Act, as to Roberts, the Editor of the British Re­originally written, is included in this col- view, and the Sonnet relating to the heir ofleotion of his Poems, page 470. It was Lord Edward Fitzgerald.altered to \ts present state in June, and the He received about this time, at Venice,dramll was published in July. In April a visit from Mr. Moore, in the course ofhe left Venice for Rome, visiting Ferrara, which he presented to that ~ntleman awhere he wrote the" Lament of Tasso," large manuscript volume, which he called~nd passing a day or two at Florence on his his .. Life and Adventures." It appearsway. He returned from Rome to Venice not to have been a detail of the events ofear"ly in June, and in July began the 4th his life in a regular series, but a rollrctionCanto of Childe Harold; which was gra- of various journals, memorandR, lite. Atdually enlarged until its publicatioR in Lord Byron's request, the onpy-righ W&8

March Hns. Beppo, Mazeppa, and the immediately disposed of for Mr. M"ore'sOde to Venice, were written in the COUJ'll!' benefit, to Mr. Murray, for two thousRnd'lfthe Aprin~ lind 8ummerof that yrart and KUineDs, with the undel'8tandinv. thRI thl!

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WOK ... DOt to be publilhed until after the In consequence of the death of Lulyauthor'l death. When that event took Noel, the mother of Lady Byron, whickpIaee, Mr. Moore repaid to Mr. Murray took place in the early part of the year ISfl,the money advanced, Ind placed the manu- he Il88Umed the title of Noel Byrou, and teICl'ipt at the disposal of Lord Byron'l liB- most of his lettera, lite. written after this pe­ter, Mrs. Leigh; at whOle request, and in riod, that signature is affixed.accordance WIth the opinion of many of the At Pilla he remained until the middle ;JI

friends of her brother, and of other parties May. He then pell8ed a few ween 81

interested, it was destroyed. An unwilling- Montenero, a villa near Leghorn, returne Iness to wound the feelings of many 01' the to Pisa in July, and in September removedpersoD8 mentioned in it, is said to have to Genoa, where he remained till his finalbeen the only motive ilr its destruction. departurefor Greece, in July ISiS. During

In December, Lord Byron again len this period were written Werner, 'fhe De­Venice for Ravenna, where he ('unlinued to formed TraDlIformed, The Illand, The Agere.ide during most of the two succeeding ofBronze, and the last Cantos of Don Juan.•yeara, He there wrote the Sd, 4th, and IThe Lord Chancellor had, in a case broughtSth Cant08 of Don Juan, the Prophecy of .before him in the year 1SIll , refused to pm.Dante, the translations from Pulci and teet the copy-right of Cain, on the groundDante; the Letters relnting to tbe Contro- of its suppOlled irreligious tendency. Forveray with Mr. Bowles; the Letter to the this, and otber unexplained reasons, Mr.Editor of Blackwood's Magazine; Ma- Murray had long declined or delayed d,erino Faliero; Sarlianapalus; The Two publication of several worn forwarded toFoscari; Cain; Heaven and Earth; The himbyLordByron,whichappearatohaveoc­Vision of Judgment, and other smaller calioned for a short time a personal eIItrange­poems. Having disposed of Newstead ment between them. The works in quell­Abbey, and secured, after a long Chancery tion, together with those above named, were1Ui1, the possession of his Lancashire es- accordingly handed,atLordByron'srequesl,tates, his pecuniary affairs had now be- to another bookseller, Mr. John Hunt, bytOme in good order, and lie was enabled to whom they were lOOn afterwards published,.lve in comparative splendour. Of hisyearly The Vision of Judgment, the Translationincome. (nearly £4,OOOsterling,) he devoted from Pulci, the Blues, Heaven and Earth,a great portilln to charitable purposes, and aDd the Letter to Roberta, appeared tn thewas much belOVl:ll and respected in Ra- .. Liberal," a periodical work printed invenn.'l, particularly by the poorer c!asael, London by Mr. John Hunt, but conductedby whom his residence there was deemed a principally by his brother Mr. Leigh Hunt,public blessing. He himeelf was strongly then in Italy. With the exception ofLordattached to Ravenna. He preferred it to Byron's contributions, and one or two fromevery olher part of Italy, and intended to Mr. Shelley, it contained little or no merit,bve made it his permanent place of abode. and was abandoned after the fourth number.But the Romagnese authorities, suspecting Lord Byron's motive in connecting himaelfhim, and certainly not without reason, of a with it, as well in a literary as in a pecuniarypoliticlll connexion with the enemies of tbe point of view, was solely to aid Mr. Leighexisting government, took measures which Hunt, who wall at the time suffering in. ill­1ndi~tJy compelled him to huten his de- health and poverty. His only reward Beeml

p:lrture. Count Gamba, and his son, Count to have been a querulous murmuring on thePietro Gamba, the father and brot.her of the part of that person during the life of his be­Counteu Guiccioli, were, in July IS!lI, bs- nefaetor, and an ungrateful volume of thebIBbed from the Roman States. They were mOllt pitiful and perfidious calumnies afteraocuaed of a participation in the revolution- hill death.&1Y projects of the secret societies which, It appeara from a statement published byuDder tIle name of the Carbonari, had long Mr. Murray, thatduring the life-time or'Lord~n organized throughout Italy. The I' Byron, he paid for the cory-right of hieCoUDtesa, who had the preceding year ob- poems, &c. as follows :-tained trom the Pope a decree ofseparation CbiIcIe Harald, C... ht and Id. .c108&om her hUllband, on condition that sheI. . . Sci • IS'7.Ihoolld in tbture reside witt her falher, ae-,!' • • 4th, • 1100

' • .J the p. h . h N Graour, • lI!6compaD~ m to lBa, were, In teo- Bride ot Abyd08 lI!6rembr.r ~lIo.jnq, Lorll Byron joml'd tl.em. 'Ccnair _

xxvi LIFE OF LenD BiRON.

Lara •• •s"'P at CoriJIlh •ParioinaLament atT_Maahd •Reppo. • • • •Don Juan, Cam.. lit and td •

.. .. ScI, «II, u& Ida •I10p rl Venice • • •~anlut&paIl.. Cain, and F-=ariMazeppa. •('Moner at Chilloa~.

700 deman,) Doctor Bruno, (an Italian surgeon,'• ~ and eight servants. After t.ouching wr·:lIi supplies at Leghorn, where they remained

SUi a few days, they sailed for Cephalonw, aDd• W reached Argolosti, the chief port in that::: island, on the i1st of July.

• 106Q He there determined to Walt for such iD­.1100 formation from the Greek governmenta u:: should enable him to decide as to his future

• 410 proceedings, and despatched messengers to- Corfu and Miseolonghi, the latter the then

1116,466 seat of government of Western Greece. inthe hope of obtaining it. During their ab-

He afterwards purchased the copy-rights seooe he visited Ithaca, where he conm­01 all the other works, including thoee pub- buted largely to the relief of a great num·lisheu by Cawthorne, the Huntll, &c. at an ber of distreslled families who had fied thi­expense of nearly £10,000 more. Severa) ther from Scio. He oontinued on boanlof the above were presented by Lord the Hercules iR the harbour of Argol08ti forByron to Mr. DaIlu, and the later Cantos more, than six weeks, but the ad,'erse in­of Don Juan to Hunt. tercst8 and contradictory statements and

While at Pisa, Lord Byron received requests of the various rival factions, stillintelligence of the death of his natural rendering uncertain tJle best method Pi'daughter, Allegra, a loss which distret!8ed benefiting Greece, he finally look up hiehim at the moment, almost to madnen. She abode on shore in a small village calledhad been sent to him from Switzerland to Metaxata, about seven miles from Argo­Venice in September 1818, then nearly two 10000i.years old, by her mother, an Englishwoman. At length, the arrival at Missolonghi ofand had continued with him until a sht)rt a Greek fleet which had been long expected,time previous to hie leaving Ravenna, induced him to 'believe that tJle time hadwhen he placed h~r in a conve,nt not far arrived when his presence there could befrom that city, to commence her education. useful. He accordingly on the 19th ofShe died of Ii fever in April 18'l1. His December embarked in a small Greek ves­friend, Mr. Shelley, who had been for IOmc sci, called a Mistico, Count Gamba, withtime reRiding at Pisa, and with whom he the horses and heavy baggage following inblld renewed the lOCial and literary inter- a larger ship. The latter W88, the nextcourse previously formed in Switzerland, day, brought to by a Turkish Irigate, andwas a few months after drowned in a via- ea rried into Patras, but in an mterview withlent storm in the Bay of Spezea, near Leg- the Paeha of that place, Count Gsmbahorn. succeedeci in procuring her release, and

On the ISth of July 181S, Lord Byron reached Missolonghi on the 4th of January.lell Genoa for Greece. His preparations The Mistico, with Lord Byron and hi.for a visit to that country for the purpoRt' suite on board, touched at Zante, whereof offering his personal meaRS and services they received a quantity ofspecie, and pro­to assist the Greeks in their struggle for ceeded for Mis80lon~hi. On their way theJfreedom, had been for lIOme time going on, narrowly escaped capture from the friga"la corresppndence with several of their above mentioned. Fortunately the Turkllcluefil, ana with the Greek Committee in mistook the vessel for a Grt'ek brulot crLondon, having been commenced the pre- 6reahip, and were in consequence afraid toceding April. He had obtained, through fire. With difficulty they eluded her, andthe aid of his bankers ill Genoa, partly by reached Dragomestri, a small seaport 011

anticipating his income, and partly from the coast of Acamania in safety, whereother resources, an advance of a large they were detained for some time by a vio­sum, and had chartered an English brig, lent gale, and did not arrive at Misso.ongh;the Hercules, for the voyage, and loaded until the 6th of January.hel with armtl, ammunition, and hospital Lord Byron was received by Prince.tores. His luite consisted of Count Pie- Mavrocordato, at the head ofthe magistrac1tro Gamba, (the brother of the Countess and the whole population civil and mlli­(iuiccioli.) Mr. Trelawny, (an English ~en- tarv. with dilltinguished honours, and every

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lolLen or gratitude and delight. Rut the healthy, anll the military quarters where hepleasure derived from 8ucb. weleome wall resided were comfortleas and expoded. On100 IIOOn embittered. He found all things the evening of the 15th of February, thein a wretched Btate of diaorganization, the day af\er the abandonment of the expeditionchiefs divided into numerous and confficting to Lepanto, he was suddenly aeized with apartie&, eacb desirou8 ofenlisting him in its convulsive fit wbich· deprived him for Be­Aeparale vieWB, anll the soldiers and inhabi- vera! minutes ofhis Benses, distorting for thetant.8 imagining tbat be and he only could moment hi. features in a mOBt fearful man­quiet their unhappy dissensions, and unite ner, and leaving him exhausted and unablethe efforts of all against the common enemy. to move for many daYII.He immediately employed himself day and He was, however, gradually recoveriugnight in effecting thiB object, and partially until the 9th of April. In the interim he4ucceeded. He formed and equipped at his had occupied himself in repairing the for­'lWD expense a corps of Suliotea, a part 0 tifications at MiMolonghi, and in the forma­wbom be had previously collected and armed tion of a brigade with a vie", to I)fFensive orat Cephalonia. Their number was now defensive measures, as events might require.stJgD1ented to between five and 8ix hundred, He had also made arrangements for visitingof whom, on the first of February having Salon, there to meet a congress of till!

preVIOusly received a regular commission a8 Greek cbiefs, in the hope that his presencea.n officer in the Greek service, he assumed might aid in putting an end to u-eir CUII­the commanll. They were brave and hardy tinual and fatal diaBenaions. But on themountaineer&, but undisciplined and unma- morning of the 9th of April, immediatelyoageable; and by their riotouB conduct anll af\er his return home tram a long ride with!lava.ge Ileportment, as well towards the other Count Gamba, during which they had bet>nmilitary bodies as the inhabitants, kept the overtaken by a heavy mower, he was again~rri90n in a continual 8tate of alarm, anll 8eized with a convulsive shuddering, fol­their leader in a fever of annoyance and mor- lowed by fever and violent pain. The nexllification. To bis command was also at- day he was better and rode out as u8ual,ta~hed a corps of artillery, the necessary but on the 11th he was confined to IJi14supplies for which arrived in the early part chamber, and his disorder continued to illef Febnrary, under the care of Captain crease in IIlrength and danger hourly ull theParry, an English officer of engineers Bent 17th, when be was prevailed upon to COII­

by the Greek Committee from London. An Bent to be bled, to which he had at all Urnes8t..aCK on Lepanto, then in the hands of the befon: decidedly objected. A consultationTurks, had been for some time contemplated of his pbysicians wall held in the afternoonby Lord Bvron, and on the 14th of Febru- ofthe 18th, and it wall then evident alike 'nary the artillery corps was perfected, and all them and to Lord Byron' that his end wuthing'll inreadine88 lOstart the following day, futapproaching, He endeavoured in a COII­when a 8udllen and fatal dispute with tbe venation with Fletcher bis EngliBh senllnl8uliotes took place. They broke out into to express to him his lut wilhes, but hisopen mutiny, demanding increue ofpay and voice was 80 faint and low; and his languab"Cemolument&, peculiar privileges of military 80 incoherent, that but little he said could herank, and various other exactioDB. SatiBfied understood. The names ofLally Byron, Jfthat no reliance could in peril be placed bis daughter, of his sister Augu8ta, anll aupon them, and at the same time that with- few others, were alone distingu:shabl".out their aid the Greek force was ill- Early in the evening of that day, he IIUIII.

fufficient for the attempt on Lepanto, he into a slumber, in which he lay with IIC­

'fer,V reluctantly abandoned the expedition. oasional struggles from suffocation durilll{His health had for II long time previous the next twenty-four hours. At a fl"\Y

10 this period been greatly impaired. While minutee past six o'clock in the evening 0"at Drngumeatri he had imprudently bathed the 19th he was observed tn open his eye.after a day of violent exertion. A severe and instantly elose them. The physiciallscold was the consequence, and the inces- felt his pulse, He had expired.'lllnt labour of 'mind and body to which he Immediately after his death, the' followinlldevoted himselfatMisaolonllhi,render'edhim proclamation was issued by Prince MavrOorrom day to day m<Jre feeble and feverillh. cordato, and similar honours were paid toThe elimate of that place is extremely un- his memory throughout Greece•

uviii LIFE OF LORD BYRON•

.. PJWVISIONAL GOV-g-RN-M-E-NT-O-F- T--=T-h-fi-----------WESTERN GREECE e uneral ceremony took place in the

• church of Saint Nicolas, at Missolonghi,.. The present day of festivity and re- on the 22d. The coffin was a rude chcs\

joicing has become one of sorrow and of of wood, covered with a black mantle. Itmourning. The Lord Noel Byron departed WDl! .carri~d on the shoulders of the office"this life at six o'clock in the afternoon, after of hiS bngade, relieved from time to hmean illness of ten days; his death being hy othe,:,; and followed by all the troovs ofcaused by an inflammatory fever. Such the gam90n, and the whole population. Inwas the effect of his Lordship's illness on the church a helmet, a sword, and a crownthe public mind, that all classes had for- of laurel were placed upon the bier. Aftergotten their usual recreatione of Easter, the ~reek service for the dead waR over, iteven before the afBictiog event waa appre- n:ma1Ded guarded by a detachment of ~"I­hended. diers, and surrounded by crowds, who

" The 1088 of this illustrious individual is thn>nged from all quarters, to pay their lastundoubtedly to be deplored by all Greece; look o~ trihute, ~ntil the night of the 'lSd,but it ~ust be more especially a subject of when It ~as privately carried back to hisIamentaUon at Missolonghi, where his ge- house. by his own officers. On the 2d ofDerosity has been 80 conspicuously dis- May It was emharked under a morning sa­played, and of which he had even become lute from the guns c.f the fortress, on boarda citizen, with the further determination 0 a transport sent by the public authoritiesparticipating in all the dangers of the war. from the island of Zante, and on the 25th

"Every body is acquainted with the of~ay th~ Florida, an English armed ship.beneficent acts of his Lordship, and none received It, under the charge of Colone.can cease to hail his name as that of a real Stanhope, one of his coadjutors in thebenefactor. Greek cause, and sailed from Zante to

II Until, therefore, the final determination England. Two days, the 9tJI and ](){h ofof the National GO\'ernmcnt be known and July, the body lay in state in Londofl, antiby virtue of the powers with which i; has on Friclay the ]6th of July, was placed inbeen plllased to invest me, I hereby cler.ret'. the vault of his family, and next to the

"1st. To-morrow morning, at day Ii~ht, coffin of his mother, in the parish church\hlrty-seven minute guns will be fired Ii-om of Hucknell, a small village near Newsteadthe Grand Battery, being the number which ;Abbey. Over the chancel of the churchcorresponds with the age of the iIIustriuus IS a. tab!et o~ ~hite marble, hearing the fol-deceased. luwlllg IDscnptlOn :

"!d. All the public offices, even the tri-bunals, are to remain clOlled for three suc- I" TID: YAULT BI£JBATB,Ce&sive days. WK..RE irA"" or Kg AlICElTORI A"D Bli liCIT'"

AIlE BUBJED,

"Sd. All the shopll, except those in which LIE THE IlEllIAIIfI orprovisions or medicines are sold, will also GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON,be shut; lI.nd, it is strictly enjoined, that LOIlD RYIlO", or 1l0CHDALE,

every species of public amusement, and I" THE COUlfTV or LA "CUTER,• • • TIlE At1THO. OF II CBILDJ: HAaOLD'. PlL8:aJ1iU..8.'"

other dtllllODSlrattOns of feStiVIty at Easter, lIE WAI BOD II' LOIfl>O" 0" THE ltD orshall be 8uspended.. IAlWARV ]788.

"thA • ,4,. general mourning will be ob- BE DIED AT 1II110LO""HI, I" WUTU" GUIEcm,

lerved for twenty-one days. 0" THE ]9TH or APRIL, ]8U,.. 5th. Prayers and Ii I' E.GAGED I" THE GLORIOUI ATTltIIPT YOa unera lervtC8 are BltITOU: THAT

to be offered up in all the churches. ...,.." YO AlI'CIltIlT lIlLEltDOII AIIII

(Signed) --.II A. MAVllocoaDu'o,cc Gzoaft PaAJDII 8eeretay•

.. Given at Missolonghi,hia 19th lIay of Apr:, 1114.1

LETTERS.

LETTER IlL

TO IIIU PIGOT.

LETTER L

TO KIll PI8O'l' or IOV'l'JIWWLL.

mother hu laid m. UDder pat ClbhpIIoM, and you,with the reot oflourfamUy, meritmy_thub.your kind CODDl_ at my ....... 10m 'Mn. Byrae

&Burpr~, Augoet!9th, 1804. jvrlt»a.'·11...m.dthe ........ mydearMiaPicot,aDdamy.ry 'Ob! for th. pen of Arioeto to rebearse, in 'J'ie,the

...obIspl to you for the trouble yoo haye ~llD. It~ of that flIMII4IIIIoua -,....or rather,lel me inYOke• ~e I obouId haYeany Dull to find WIth them. the lbade of Dant6 to in8pire me, for DOD. but the ....The~t of the dlawiogw gm.. me~ pleuure fOr a thor ofth. 'lJ1ftnW could properly pn8i. oyerlUCb uslIoahIe reuoo,-iD the lint place, they will ornament my ,ttempt. But, pertsap., where the peD might fail, theboob, in the DeII, they CODYince me that you haye not pencil would neceed. What a group!-Mrs. B. thetmlireIy j'ergollm me. I am, howeYer, rorry you do not principal figure; you c:nunmiDg your ears with ...... urelIa'DSOODe1",yoobave a1J'eadybeenpean""". Ipe... the only antidote to totaldealbe-; Mrs.--mna.haps may bave taken my departure ror LoDdon before yoo endeaYOUring to. midgale the wrath of the u..- robbed....,. back; but, bowever, I will hope not. Do not of ber whelp; and lut, though DO,/. leut, Elizabeth aDdoftriook my watcb-ribboo and pone, u I wioh to cany Wma1cy~ to rJau!--both depriYed of theirthem witn me. Your DOle wu gWen me by HarTy, at parla of epeecb, and bringing up the rear in .........the play, whither I attended Mia LyOll aud. Doctor m.bmeDt. How did S. B. receiv. the int.lli~18--; and DOW I have "'" down to ......er It beQn How manyptIfU did be utter on 10f~ an event f1 go to bed. If I am at ~weDwhen yOl1 retmIIt- III~ DOt inform me on thia point, and wbat ezcuaeand I .mcereIy hope you will IOOIl, lOr I very~ you 1IlIId. to A. You are probably by thia limo lind of"'Ifelyour aI-nce,-I .haD be happy to bear you emg lIeeipbering thia bierogIyphicallener;-like TOllY LI1lDJ'"my layourite, •The Maid of Lodi.' "!'ly mother, to- Idn, you will proaouoce mine to be a cJ-.d up Utdf:lICber with myself; deeine to be a1feettonately retIletD- down hand. AU Southwell, without doubt, is m"",ed inLend to M ... PigoI, IUld believe me, my dear Mile amazement. Apropoe, bow dOOl my blue-eyed nl1ll, tloePigo«, I remaiJt yoar a1fec:tioo&te friend, &ir * *1 i..be 'robed mItlNo garb of1JJtJ l'

• BYKOIf. • Here I remam at 1_ a week or ten daY"; preYiou.& P. B. If you think proper to lend me any answer to !" ~y departure you abeD r~in my~ but what

Ibi., I ebaI1 be extremely happy to receive it. Adieu. It WIll be I bave not detennmed. lVJy lodgmge must~• P. S.!d. M you eay yoo are a DOYice in the art kept .acrel from M ... B.; you may preeent my ~JlI!­

kDitting, I !tope it doo't ,m,you too much trouble. Go mente to ber, aud .y any attempl to~e~ will fail,lID ....."" bot lIOl'tlIy. Once more, adieu.- u I haye taken m~ to, retreat 1IDlDediatoly to

Portmtouth, on the lint mhmatloo of ber remonl fromSouthwell. You may add, I bave now proceeded to"friend'. bOUle in the COO¥'try, there to remain a fortoigbt.

LETTER II. "I have DOW bIDIted (I m_ I10t .y written) a com-TO ... PJ8O'r. plete double lcner, and in relurn .hall expect a__

. btuild. Without doub!, the dam.. of Southwell~&18 Picr.adiIIy, August 9th, 1808. .bate the pemicioua example I baYe MOwn, aud lnImbie

"liT DEAll PJ80'1', •• lest their IxJJa Mould diaobey their maudatee, and quit'M~ thanka for y~r amuomg.lUlITlltive of th,e last in dudgeon their mammu on any grievance. Adieu.

omceedmge of my amioble.4ltdt>, wbo now. begms to When you begin your next, drop the 'lon1ehip,' aud poll"-I the e/f'eetI of her folly. I baYe Just recesved a po- I Byronl in Ita place. Believe me youn, &c.IIiteaIial epistle, to which, apprehensiYe of punmit, I 'BTKOllbaye deapatcbed a moderate llllSWer, ,,;tb a Itind ofpr~ •mde to return ma fOrtnight ;-tit;" bowever, (entre """",)( DeYer mean to fUlfil. Her 10ft IDtIt6Iinp IIl11It baYeddighted ber auditors, ber ~1Jer notetl being particularly---.and on a ealm IIlOODlight ...ening would be boardto &reat adnntage. Had I been p.....enl ... a epeeta- • London, Aaguel 10th, JIIIttor, lIOlhing would baTe p1eued me more; but to baYe • lIT DE..... IIKJDQI:T,

lllMM bward Be one of the •dramatis pertlorue,'-Bt. • A. I han already troubled your brother...u. IllDYe

J>oJmioic Wend me fioom euch a ecetle! SerioUllly your than he will find pleuure in decspberittg, JOG are " .., IlllD to whom I ebaII ..go the dilIicolt emplo:nnenl 01

------------------I~thield epiltle. You will pereeiTe fioom ny I.,.Ir'~' .. - - '" -... Md__ ..... that 11Q idea ai Mre. B.'. arriYaI bad di8turbod _ t' tl,e

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TO lII1l. PllIOT.

LETTER VL

LETTER VII.

TO MR. PIGOT.

• LETTERS,.ll106.

lime it wu written; &f 10 -;: p...-nt, .ince the ap-Jlut-ban-tling-·--w-ould--co-in-cid-·-e-...-'th-IIlIDe,-·--bu-t-it-wu iln­

pearanee of a note &-oni the i/lutrimu =- of my nuJ,. po.ible 10 give it any olher garb, being fOWlded aaftM18,.....~ hllll driven the 'nlltura! mby from my My .tay at Worthing wi1J not ezeeed three weeb, lAdcheeb,' and COOlpletely blanched my w<>-begone coonle- yoo may poMhly behold me again at SoothweIJ the~Da1lCe. Thill gunlM>wder intimation ofher arrival, (COl>- die of'September.,ound ber ""tiYity!) brellthes 1_ of' terror and dillnay • • • • • • • ..tl,,,n you will probllbly imagino from the vu/;;mt;c tern- • Will you dMire Ridgete ouapend the priIldng ofn.!i"'rame.· ,f her I,vlgwf', and concludes with the corn- poem8 till he belLI'll further &om me, IIlI I have de~furtaLl" ....urance of all prrN:tllnwtUm being preyented mined te give them a new form entirely. Thill prohibioloy the iatigue of ber journey, for which my bleMityp.... tionodoe. not Ulend te the IlUIt two pi"""" 1 bave Senldue to the rough roadI and r..tive quadmpedl of hill ma- ft. my t.tt.n te you. Y OIl wiD IlXCUIe the dIdl I ani~

1"'1'1 highway.. A. I have not the amaU..t inclination of thi. epistle, IIlI my brain ia a c1uloI of abeurd inllLg'"w be chllllBd round the country. 1 aball e'en make a merit and full ofbuainetll, preparatio.... and projoct&.01 nee"';ty, and since, liko Macboth, I Tbey 've tied me "I aball expect an answer with impatience ;-beliBYe.to the lllake, I cannnt fly,' I .hall imitate that nIoroua ID'/I there ia nothing at thia moment could give me "....tflf

tyrant, and 'bear-like fight the courae,' all escape being delight than your letter."IJl'eCluded. I can now engage with letII diaadvantage, .haYing drawn the enemy &-om her intrenchmenl8, though,like the prutotiJpo 10 whom 1 have compared mYIe~ with'" ucellcnt chance of being knocked on the bead.Howeyer. 'lay on, Macdlllf, and d-d be be who lint TO lII1l. PllIOT•

.... hold, enough.' • London, Angt·'If, 18th, lllO6."I Ihall remain in town ~, atI~ a week, and e~ "l_jultOll the point ttLlIBttiIIg06Co.. Worthing, and

peet ~ he... &-om you beCore Itl exptra~. I p~ write lDUI'Cly te request you wiD eeDd that~ -.ire.Ibe pnnt:er hllll brougbt you the otr.pnng of' my~ ""-'- [hill J'tb ~. ediateI· tell him......u.. Remember. in the fint line, 10 read 'T.tl the 1--.... .~ ~Ledmyb L__ IIDID "-:........ histl'" d f'round,' h'ch ;L_. b1-"'_L_~ am exce......y pro.... e not made hill appea'"..~.... w .e, mltea o. w I u.... UCALI...... anee befOre, or wriuen to me of lite ClUIIe ofhiIRIdge haa mserted by ml~e, and mak.. nODle"" of delay, put>cuJuly as I ~ed him with IIIOIleY Cor hieIbe whole......... !dd.o.-Now to encounter my journey. On .... pretext ill be te po.tpooe hiII--m OIH'U,.,.. YOurl ever. day longer,BDd if; in obedience to the otJP"it:oI ofM... B,

(who, I p....me, ill again "Preadinc dll801abon tbrooghher httIe lDfII18l'Cby,) he tbiBkI proper to dilreganl m]pooitiYO 0Yd...... I aball not, in Cuture, COIIIider hi!!! lIS mwIerYUlL He mtlBt bring the -roo'. bill with hini,wluch I wiH diocharge inuoediately on receiYing it. Nor

• London, Sunday. midnight, AugtWl 10th, 1808. can I conceiYe the rBUOn of bia not acquainting FI'lIJIk.• DEAR PIGOT. [hill YaI..r,J with th.e ltate ormy unfortunate quadruped..

• Thia aMtmi.m..8 packet wiI~ doubtl.... amaze you, Dear Pip!, lOrgiYe tbiI~ efIUaion, aDd attribute ilbut haYing an idte hour tbia evening, I wrote the enclooed to the idle conduct oftbat pneitIu I'IJIOlIl, ..he, inotead atIlanZIIlI, which I request you to deliver to Ridge, to be obeying my injunctions, ill oauntering through the atree..printed st:par'ate from my other compooitions, IIlI you will of that po6tit:al PcmdeIn<mium, N ottingbam. Presentperceive them to be improper for the pems:LI oC ladiea; myreme~ to your 6uuily ud the LeacrofiB, and..rcourae, none of tbe femalea of your family muat oee believe me, &c.~em. I ~er a. tbouaand apologJea Cor the trooble I h.-ye "P. S. I delegate to ytIU the unpleuant task of' delP"eD you In tbiaand other 'nMancea. Youn tnJIy. lpatching him on hill joome:r-Mra. B.'. erde.. to th.

eoatrary are not to be attended to; be ill to proceed fi""to Loudon, and then to W ortbiog, without delay. Eye.,

LETTER V. th;nglh.....~ ...aotbo!oenttoLoudlJll. MyPoetiuyOflro lII1l. PIGOT. will pat:1c "fl C... the ..me place, and not _ reaerTe •". . copy Cor yOUllllllC BDd oioter. IIlI 1 am about to po. them

PiceadiIIY. AUgtIIlI8th, 1808. an eIIIire lI8IO farm: when they ...... complete, yeu aball"I eatlIlOl exactly ..y with C"",ar, 'Veni, Yid~ vici~ haye thejirlt.frvits. Mrs. B. on no account ill to .. or

.howeyer. the moot important part oC hia laconic accoont touch them. Adieu."of IIUCCeBII applies to my p......,nt lituation; for. thoogbMrs. Byiou t'Ol<. the I10tJJk of ' ........8' and,~•• yetyuur humble lIe,yant proYed the vidor. After an ot.ti­

,aa!e engagement of lOme bouro, ID which we dered.OIIIlIiderable damage, from lbe quicknella of the enemyo'-. they at length retired in confttIion, leaYing behind thellItiIIery. field equipage, IUld lIOItte prisone.. : their defeat ":LitUe Hampton, AuguR 16th, lsoe•.. deciaive oC the preaent campaip. To apeak m,,", iJ>- "I tbia mornin~ received your epiatl.., which I ..IeI1i@ibly, Mra. B. retorno immediately, but I proceed, obliged te ..ad for to Wortbing, whence I haye re"", edwith all my laurels, te Wortbing, on the Su..." cout; te thia pllL('e, 011 tho BllDIe coai, about eight mil... dialalll10 which place you will add.- (te I.e let\. at the poat- Iiom the former. You will probably not be diapleuedoIIice) your nezl epistle. By the encloaure of a 2.1 with tbia'lelter, whon it informa you that I am SOj)OOl.if. of r/rg1M, you wiD probably conee;ye my m..... to richer than I was at our parting, bavingjufi received D­be ".,aly proIi/i<:; ber inoerted production w.. brought teUigence from my lawyer that a callie has heeD gainedMrtb a Cew ye..... ago, and Cound by accident on Thuro- at Lancuter lIIIIiz..,... which will be worth that aum by.y among acme old papa... I have recopied it, and, the time I come ofage. M ... B. is doubtJe- acquaintedwiding the proper dale, requeat it may be priIlted with oftbia acquisition, thoogb not apprized ofi\.l euct Il<JIIII,..... rei! of the family. I thought your oentimenll 011 the of wbich .be had better be ignorant; Cor her behaYiour

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· .. _olt-, __• I....It_r..... ""...... ol "'1lAIdadUo~

LETTERS, 180'7.

LETTER X.

'" any sudden~ orfaYOUnLble int~igmce is,if~ alliair must end. Whether we rene'" Ql'" ill';,u··"r mble, more ridicuIouI than her detestable conduct on the not is of very trivial cOllSequellce....- trifting circumetane. or an unpleasant nalllre. • My time hu lately be.n much oceupitd with vNyYou may gift my complimenlll to her, and.y that her dilI'erent pursuits. I have been trllMpl1rlin~ a lIervant,'det~my MnaDt'e tbiDge eba1J onIylengtben my~ who cheated me,-rather a dieagroeable ovent· p""..nee; for om- they are illU'OOdiately d""patched to forming in private theatricals.; publishing a volume oC16 Piccadilly, toge~ with tboee which have been 10 poelD3, (a.t the requeet or my friende, lOr thcir portJlla1;).....2 delayed~ to lllyeel~ Ibe .ha11 never again making love, and teking phymc. The last two am........ooId my ....... _illuminating her gloomy menll have not bad the best ofFect in IM.-.ld; lOr myManI>OIl. If they ..... .-t, I may probably appear in attentione have been divided among 10 mutyfaird.omxll,!eM thaD two yeere &om the dete of my preeent epie!Ie. and the drugs I nva1Iow are ofll\lCh variety ill th.ir coon-

·:'detrical 0IIftIrm- ;. an ample ...ward fN my position, that between V.nue and .lEIICU1IP'.... I 1m....... ; you. .... 0IMl or the few votaries ofApollo who harassed to death. How.ver, I haft etiIJ leitun> to de­llDite the acieDc:.- onr which that doity preeid.... I vote 80m. hoo.. to the recoDectione of put, regrettedwUh you to .-I my poeme to my lodging> ill London fri~. and in the internl to teke the advantage 01immediately, ... I haft .....ral alterations and oome ad- the moment, :0 aaure you how much I am, and eyer willd,u..... to makA; -'Y copy must be IOnt, U I am aboat be, my deAreet Clare,10 ..-.d th.m, and yoa abaJ' loon behold them in all "Your t"1Iy attached and sincere~~I~you~~~~~~ "B~·Iree, that~" to the ora, M ... B. E7llre """",-yOll_v expect to_ me IOOIl. Adieu. yo.... eyer."

TO lUI. PIOOT.

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"SouthweI~ March II, 11m.

LETTER XI.

TO liB. WILLIA. BA"U••

L1!:TTER IX.

TO JUU PIlIOT.

LETTER VllL

TO '1"IIE ...... OJ' OL......

"Southwell, Jan. IS, 1807." I ought to begin with -.dry apoIogi.., for my OWJI

negligence, but the variety of my aYOCatiOll8 in pro. UIlI••,. DE"~ Jl....DOET, . __ mUS: plead myexculO. With thie epistle yoa wit

"I ha... ooIyJU3t dismountedf~ myp.~~hich receive a Yolume 0I'a11 my JuverriJiD publi&ed Iince ro­~ prevented me from deecend,~ to plain proee m an departure: it is 01'COII8iderably greater me thu the tJt1PJ~pistIe ~greater length to your fau IOU: You reerelted ill your r--ion, which I beg you willdeetrof, u the~ a bmer Ieuer, that m.1~ were not more e.tten- ~t ill much more eomplete. That....w" poem teDYe; I DOW lOr yaur oatiefactiOD announce that I have my poor Marvt hu been the ca... or oome animadr_"'*": dOlIbled them, partly by the discovery or ""'!Ie I eioD &om 10k. in yean. I have not prinled it in thieetIIlCeIYed to be I-, and partly by .ome new prndueuone. eoIIection, in collllllljl1ellet 01' my being pl'OllOllJle6d •We lIball m~ on Wednesday next; fiR ~en, believe moet projli~ ........, in Ibort, a '~ Moore,' by..., yoare alfecuonately, BYJlO". -, your. • • friend. 1 believe ill peral

"P. S. Your brother Joim ie eeized with a poetic they h....e been /ll~rably r""eived, ll!'~ ,aurely the ......... and ie IIOW rhyming away at the rate of three w- 01' the.,. aothor wiD preclude oevere <:nUeo.IDL The ad­,.,. ........... much lOr ilupirolUm! Adieu!" ,."nturee 01' my life &om .ixteen to nineteen, and the m..

oipation into which I haye been thrown in London, hay.ginn a YOIuptuoue tint to my ideu; but the occuioM.which called fOrth my muee could hardly admit any othercolouring. T hie volume ;. VtUI1y correct and miraco-Iouely chute. A propoI, taJking 01' Joye, • • • •

"Ifyoa can find 1eiau... to anewer thie f&rrago of _connected lIDII88nae, you need not doubt what gratific:a....wiD aoerue &om your ...ply to yours eYer, &e..

"Southwell, NottB, February bib, 1807.• MY DJO..JlE8T CLoUl"

·Were I to mu.e an the apoIogiee-rr to atOIMlfor Illy late~e, you woold joatly .y you bad "'"eeiyed a pedIion inetead 01' a letter, U it would be filledwith prayers for forgiveDeR; but inetead or this, I ..,11~e 1111 .... at once, and I true! to yaur frieDd­obip aad poerooity rather than to my own llXC\IlIlllI.

1'bou«h my health ;. not perfectly r~liIbed, I amUUl of all danget', and haft _ered every thing but my "DE..... llAna,

epirits, which are ouhject to depr....... You wiD be _ • YOW' critiquet ;. .....hJable lOr many re&IOII.I: in theInniebed to hear I haye lately written to Delawarre, for first place, it ie the OIl1y OIle in which llattery h... borDethe purpose orezplaiDing (.. /llr u ro-ibIe, withOllt in- 10 alight a part; in the -. [ am olDged with inaipiol1'O\Yiog 80IDlI old ftimtU of mine in the~) the compliments. I han a better opinion of)oo.r jtJdgmemellJMe or my bebaYiour to him during my last remence at and ability than you~ftMiftp. Accept my mOllt IiDce...Harrow, (nearly two y..... ago,) which you will reeoIIect thanb for your kind decieion, not 1_ welcome, because...... rather ' .. CtZt1tI&r.' SiDce thAt period I h..... m. totally unexpected. With regard to a lDO... exact eeli­covered he was treated with injuetiee, both by thoee who mate, I need not remind you how row 01' the bee poem.."'epr_ted his conduct, and by me in llOIIMCJU6I'C" 01' in our language, willotaod the teet of mittute or wW!heir~. I ha,.. therefOre made all the repar&- criticiem: it can therefore hardly be expected the </fu­lion m M) power, by IfIoIoIizinIIOr my miatake, though llions of a boy, (and _ 01' tb_ piceee haye been 1'.....with veryfaiat hopes oreucee-; indeed I never expected duced at aD """'y period,) can derive much marlt either.y_, but de8ired 0Il0 lOr lOrm'e aake; I10at bu &om the Illbject or comp<Mlition. Many or them were.,. yet aniftld,and _ probably neYerwill. How_. wriU8D under great dep...-ioo oflpirite, and durit«_I have.-l ray own by the atoaement, which

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it baoDIiaIiD« -&b to or my di8poGtion, y. I • RIo -. I'raaIreooId _ ha... 1I1ept IIati8fiedwith the reflection ol"haYiDg, t ,..." tIoc7" ~n _~ .... _ _ of~, _

..... "";,...,IIIiao*"" iDjared any indmdual. I haye done ..... JIa,y" at_n, Tho - -.",~ •

.. tbal-.Id be doae to repeir the in,juJy, ud tiMn the "'r~~~:m.::::.~ ----......•

.LETTERS, l8OT•

TO 1Ol. PIOOT.

LETTER XIII.

TO 1Ol. r ALKJIEJl.

LETTER XIV.

LETTER XV.

• Adieu.-Bolieve me yours vory lrU1y,·B'·BOII.

·P. S. 1 bGpe Miss F. ia in a stale orrefX).....,.·

• Southwell, April, Il1O'1.• KT DItAll PIGOT,

• Allow me to congratUlate you 011 the IUCC8BII ofya.fint euminatioo-J~.. mOD amL' The title ofDr.will do wooden with the dan18eIL 1 ahall moet probll.bly be in E_x or London when you uri,.e at this d-4place, where 1 am detained by the publication of mlrhymel.

• P. S. Since we mol, 1 have reduced myself byriolent exercilJe, """'" physic, and hot bathing, from 14Ilone 6 lb. to It stone 7tb. In aliI have loot 27 pwadLBr81'o !-what say )"O~ 1·

LETTER XII.

....... indiBpoldtion; heDce the gloomy tum of the ideu. be~ and ot:hen lIUhod:ituted in their plar.e.We coincide in opinion that the 'JH*ia botiqwi are the The whole will be~e~yenlarged, and ~pear theffi,,,t oxceptionabl.e; they were, howenr, gratefbl to the latter end ofMay. This 18 ~ hazardous llXJMlI'UDent; buttkiti.., on whose altars they were olI"ered-<nore 1 seek want of better employment, the llDCOlII'&gemeDt I hanln<l\. met with, and my own ftIIity, induce me to8tand the te.t,

• The portrut of Pampows* ..... drawn at Hamnr, thoogh not without -.dry poIpUaIiona. The b.>ok willanor a /mr.g~; thill llCCOUJlta for the ..-mblance, or circUlate faat enough in thilJ country, from IDllI'lI curioIity,rath•• tho oarioanorD. He io your meDd, he ........ ..... wbat 1 priD--*11> inP-for both our akeo 1 shall be oiIent on thi8 head. * • * • • * • •The colhpw. rhymes are not penooal; one of the notes,lIay 'ppear 00, but could not be omitted. 1 haft littlenoubt they will bed~edIy~; a just puniobmentfc,r my unfiIiaI_t of80 excellent an Alma Mater.f sent you no copy, lest IDe should be placed in the .rtua-tlon of Gil Bku and the~ ofGrenada: though • aB,running some hazard from the experiment, 1wished your • The YOIume* of little pi_ wbi<-.h 1ICCODlpam.verdicC to be unbiaaled. Had my 'I.ibtJJui been p..... this, would have been p....eD!ed bero.", had 1 DOt beealented previOUl to your letter, it would have appeared a apprshenave that Miss Fallmer'. indisposition mightopeci81 ofbribe to purchue eomplimenL 1 feel DO hesi- render.uch trilIea unwelcome. There are lOme orrantaLion in laying, I .... more anzioua to hear your f7 .;que, of the printer which 1 have not had timo to correct in thehowever .evere, than thel'raUee of the millioIa. On the eolIection: you have it thua, with 'all ita imperfectionllaame day I ..... hODoured with the encomilllll8 of1It!- on ita head,' a heavy weight, when joined with tJ:e faultaunzU, the celebrated author of the 'Man of Feeling.' of ita author. Such' Juvenilia,' .. they can clnim noWhether hU approbation or you..- elated me -,1 can- great degree of approbation, 1 may ,.enture to hope, willnot decide. alao eacape the Be,.erity of uncalled for, though~

" Yon will receiYe myJ~ at 1_ all yet pub- ftOC undeserved, criticiom.fished. 1 ha,.e a large volume in manllllcript, which • They were .mttm on many and various occasiOllll,lDay in part appear hereafter; at p.......nt I haye neither and are now puh1ished merely for the perussI of alIme nor inclinatiOD to prepare it for the prMS. In the fii....ny circle. Beliew me,' sir, if they alford the.j>ring 1 shall retuno to Trinity, to diBmantie my rooms, slightest amU88D1ent to yourself and the reat ofmy ....omd bid you a final adieu. The Cam will not be much readers, 1shall have gathered all the bay. 1 ever wish 10Increaaed by my tearI ou the occesioa. Your farther r... .oom the head oflnarka, how8Vlll' caruIic or bitter to a palate Yitialed with • y ...... ,.ery tnJIy,the ..- of~ will be or lIlll'vice. Jobll8Ol1 has • Bno••lbown us thlt no p<Jf!II'y is perfect; but to correct minewould be an Herculean labour. In fact 1 UO'Vllr lookedheyund the moment ofcompoaition, and publiahed merely~I the request ofmy friends. Notwithstanding 80 muchhu been said concenUng the •GeDUi irritabile ntum,'we .hall never quarrel OIl the subjecL Poetic fame illb,. 110 m_ the 'acme' of my wish811. Adieu.

·YOUI1I ever,"BYllo••-

TO JOLo WILLIAM • ..unu.--[nuO.EKT.]

" For my own parr, I have suffered severely in the de­cease ofmy two greatest fiiendlr, the only beings I everloved, (females 8J:cepted:) 1 am therefore a solitaryanimal, miserable enough, and 80 perfectly a citixen of theworld, that whethor 1 pass my days in Great BritaiD orKamschatka ill to me a matter of perfect indiII'erence.I cannot evince graater respect.for yoor alteration thanby immediately adopting it-thill .hall be done in thenext edition. 1 am Barry your remarks are not morerrequen~ .. I am certain they would be equally beDefi­cial. Since my lasr, 1 have received two critical opi­oions IrolD Edinburgh, both too \Iattering for me to do-lail. One is from Lord Woodhoualee, at the head of the TO MIS. PIOOT.!>coteb literati, ami a moot voluminolu writer, (his last • JlIDe 11th, ISOYwork, is a lifo of L.ord K&;im8l;) the oth~r trom Mo.o- • DEAJl ~UEE"......' •

keosle, who IeDt his doclSlon a s"?,,nd t1'."o, '."ore at "SIJIlllIWOlIghtl.Obeimm<Jrtal:-thoughDotathorovgh­lenglh. I nm not personally l.C'lualDt~ W1~ ellhor of brt:d bull-dog, he is the finest ruppy I 0'Vllr laID, and wiUthese gentlp.men,.Dar ever.~uested the1l' ""numen~ on an..."" much belter; in his great and lMIIifoid kinch.eaBthe aubJect: tho,,: pratde IS voluntary, and transmltled he h... aIread bitten my fingers, JtId diaturbed thet1,rottgh the mec:I,,,m of a friend, at whose house they gravity of old L...-ain, who is &""-"Y~mati the producllorl8. , . I wish to be inlbrmed what he ..... his ""'l'""M> h.llte.,

• vontrsry 10 my former mtenbon, I am now~re~ that 1 may indemnify Mr.G-. My thanka are allA volume f(lO' the public at large: my amatory p'eces will 1 can pe lOr the trouble he has tak..... make a """

'TIlo_fl_

LETTERS, Il!01.----_._--------...,. --------- ---- --.,-Jt, and CtlIIclude 11 with 1 2 S 4 Ii 6 7.. 1 am OUI /.,,, and be fotgotten by ti,e puople ofSonthwell if. aliIpractice, lID tkpuIiu you ..Legat~would upire to!_ do in._r coocerning !heP~which 1p..-!hi. ........ the .... tome upon a BvlL Ye>UnI,

• Buo.... LETTER XVlL• P. S. I write in bed.. TO JII.. PlGOT.

TO III.. proOT.

I.ETTER XVI.

•

·110....-to.. oddfiuooy ... lridra(lllo ·_.. _......ror~.~_I0~ IJ2UII1." 1--------------------...:.~n.~,.::... flI ;:.:.:.:.: ~':'IdJneM,.....; •-..... 8M LIU.- ..

• Trin. Coli. Camb. July 5th, IIlO7•• Since my IlUIt letter I haYe detennined to re8id.

anetMr year at Granta, .. my roolJlll, &c. &c. are fiuilhedin great style, seyeral old friends come up again, andmany new acquaintsnces mode; COI1lItlIJuently. my indi-

• Cambridge, June 90th, 1807. nation leads me forward, and I shall return to eollege ill•• Better late than neyer, Pal,' is a Dying ofwhich you October, if still 1Ilive. My life here hu been one co...

kJ>ow the origin, and .. it is applicable on the present QOo tin..... routine ordiuipation--<lUt at dill"erent places eyer,cuion, yoa will excuse illl ClIIIIIpiClJOlS place in the &oot day, engaged to more dinners, .s.c. &c. than my ....,ofmy epistle. I am a1JD011tsuperannuated here. My wouldpennitmetofulliL Atthis moment Iwritewitll&old friends, (with the exception of a very few.) all de- bottle ofclaret in my head, and,...... in my '!I"; for I haveparted, and I am preparing to follo'v them, but remain till just parted with my ; Carmaan,' who spent the eveningMonday 10 be present at three Oratoriot, two CtIrltJt:71A, a with me. As it was our lut interview, I postponed myFczir, and a BaIL I find I am not OIlly thinnar but ttrlIer engagement 10 devote the honrs of the SuhbaIh to friend­by an inch .iIIce my last visit. 1 was obliged to tell every ship :-Edlelloo and I hay. separated for the present,body my~ nobody having the least recollection of and my mind is a chaos of hope and oorrow. To-mor­my llioa&w or person. Even the hero or my C......aan,f row I set out for London: you will add.... your anawer(wbo is now mUing ~vis, relding a volume or my to 'Gordon'. Hote~ Albemarl&-stree~'whue 1 tJ<iovmp..me..) passed me in Trinity walks without recognising during my visit to the metropolis.me iu the least, and WIUI thunderstruck at the alteration • I rejoice 10 hear you are interested in myprougt: hewhich had taken place in my coUDtenance, &c. &c. has been my tJlnwS ""nottmt uoociate Iince October,Some a.y I look beIW, '>thers """..., but all agree I am 1805, when I entered Trinity College. His voics fintal­~ I do not require. I haye lost! lb. in my tracted my attention, his count.7UJ1U:e fixed it, and hisweight linee I left our CIIrIetl, rIetatabk, and abJurrrtd ............. attached me to him for ever. He departs forabode or «aIltiDJ, where, excepting younelf and John a meroatIlik IrouM in town in October, and we ahall pro­8<:<:11«, 1 eat'1l not nthe whole race wero consigned to hably not meet till the expiration of my minority. when Ithe Pit ofAc1wr<m, which I would 'l'isit in person rather Bhall leave to his decision either enterint; sa a part1ttttthan COIllaminatc !II)' oan.dtlU ,,·ith the polluted dust of through my interes~ or residing with me altogether. 01Sauthwell. St!riatulg, unl... obliged by the."."o- of COlIIH he would in his prMellt frame of mind prefor themy I"'ne toreMt Mrs. B~ you wiII_ me no more. '-,bulhe may alter his opinion previous to that period;

8 On Monday I depart for London. I quit Cambridge -howey.., he shall have his choice. I certainly loy.with little regret, because our IIJt i.re l>II7lUhed, and my him more than any human being, and neither time nor-amlprtJU,e before mentioned has left the choir, and is distance have hod the least effect on my (in general)Ilariooed in a mercantile house ofconsiderabl. eminence changeable disposition. In shor~ we shall put Lady E.iD !he metropolis. Yau may haye heard me observe he Buller and .11-£.. Prnutmhg to the blush, Pylilda andis exaetly, to an hour. two years younger than mysel£ 1 0reriIa "ut ofcountenance, and want nothing but a ea­round him grown couideIably, and, as you will suppose, tastrophe like NUlWJ and EvtyabJ&, to give JarlDlJoan andyery g1ad to ... his fonner PIIIrfm. He is nearly my David the 'go by.' He certainly is perhaps more al­beij(ht, yery thin, yery fair complexion, dark eyea, and tached to "'" than even.I am in return. During thelight locks. My opinion of his mind you a1resdy know; whole of my reaidence at Cambridge we met every day,-1 hope I shall DeYer have occasion to change it. Every summer and winter, without passing Oft, tiresome II>l)o

body here OOIIceiVOll me to be an inm/id. The uniyermty ment, and separated each time with increasing reluo­II present is very gay, from the te1e8 ofdivers ttinds. I lance. I hope you will one Jay see til together, he isId!'IlCd out last night, but oat (or ate) nothing, sipped a the only being I esteem, though I like many.'"~e ofclaret, went to bed at ! and rose at 'l. I have • The MIU"JWs or T ....istock .... down the other day ;COlIIIIIflDCed early rising, and find it agreea with me. I supped ,vith him at his tutor'.-entirely a whig party.The Masters and the FeDows all Yery poUIe, but look a The opposition mUllleI' Btrong here 1IClW, and Lordlittle ~n't much odmire 1GlnpoonI-truth al- Huntingdon, the Duke of Leinster, &c. &c. are to join us..ys disagreeable. in October, so every thin@ will be oplendid. Th. m"';"

• Write, and leU me how the inhahitanlll ofyaur_ is all over at p...,..,nt. Met with another.~­prie go on, and if my publication~ 'l8'well: do the upset a bullel'oboat in the lap 'If a lady-look'd very bluqlladrupedsplJlDl? Apropos, mybull-dog is deceased-~ grinned-'cune 'em!' Apropos, lOrry to•FIeeh both orcur and man is grass.' Address your an- Bay, been dnmIc every day, L">d not quite ...beT yet-how­sIVer to Cambridge. If I am gene, it will be fOrwarded. eYer, touch no meat, ""thillll but fish, 1OUp, and vegeta­Bad ....... just arriYed-RlI8ians~ bad lei, eat bles, coMequently it doea me no harm-.l dogs aIIth.no<hing but oi~ eomequently must melt before a hardfirs. CarrtrJl>&. Mem.- ""''''' to refonn next January. '1'1,;"I get awkward in my academic habiliments for want or place is a "''''''''''''Y of -u- ......cty-hke it-batepractoCe. Got up in a window to hear the oratorio at SL SGuthweU. Has Ridge sold well? or do the ancientBMaJI .. popped down in the middle of the Meaiah, tore demm? What ladietl have bought?· • '" •a WIfIjWl reat in the back of!ll)' best blaclt silk gown, and • Saw IL girl at St. Mary'. the image ofAnne • '" "'.damaged an egrep- pair of breech... Mem.--fleyer thought it WIllI her-all in the WI'OIlf-lhe Isdy urad, ...tDlllble from • church window during •.mee. Adieu, did I-I 1lltu/wd, so did "'" the Iady~ thing-wWlldear. • •• ! do not remember me to any body:-to women hod more mDdtJIity. Tallring ofwoufen, puts ...___________________ Iin mind ofmy terrier Fann:r-how is ahe? Got a h_io

ache, m..t flO to bed, up early in the morning to trawL

8 LETTERS, 1801.

Mypr~ bnUf'uta with me; puting lIJlOiI- my app.~ &om SouthwelL Mem.-l1l1a~... Y..iin,le."

LETTER XIX.

TO IIlU "8OT•

TO IIlU PI4IOT.

LETTER Xvm.

•

, • Auguat Id, 11107.• Loodan 1legm. to cIiIcorI" illl coateaw-toWD ia

empty-ccllllequently 1 CUl IICribbIe at leisure, aa DC'·...

patioo8 are 1_ DumeroUS: 10 a fortD1Jlht 1 .hall d.wpart to fulfil a COlIDtry engagement; bolt e:rpoet Iw..

"GordoD'a Hotel, July 1Stb, 1807. epiatJN &om you previou8 to that p"riooL Rltlge du".• You write DIOBt e:rcel\ent epiatJ_ fig for other DOl proceed rapidly in N ott.-Ydl')' possible. In 10\\ n

IOi 'NpoIldenlll with their DomeDSicaI apoIogiN lOr thinp wear a more promioiDg aapeel, aDd a man .. hoo."~ **''''~ iI,'-you MlDd me a delightful works are praiaed by~ admirtlll by dult:hr-.,budget. I am h_ in a perpetuol1'Ol'tllJ: or diaipation, and IIOld by every hookoeller or the metropolis, due. 1101(yery pleuant for all that,) and, ltraDge to tell, I get dedicate Dauch conDderatioo to "..,;., rotIIkn. I ha"ethiDner, being DOW below 01_ Rooe cooaiderably. I\OW a ",view btdi>re me, entitled' Lite rary R ocr"a! iOIl<,!Itay in town a -... perhapa liz weeb, trip into E-.:r, whe", my bartJMip is applauded liar beyond my desl'rt<.and then, aa a fiLyour, inutli<Ja SouthweD for~ days I know nothing 0{ the critic, but think hi", a v"ry ro..with the light 0{ my COCIIl~ce; b~.Dothing oholl ceming gentleman, and myot{(a de'ri1ish ckI,.,.~.lIO\••eYer make me n>aide there agam. I poemnly nllum to Hia critique p1_ me paruca\arly beeallse It IS ofrlambridge in October; we are to be UDCOmmon1~gay, great length, and a proper quantum of. ceDSure is adOli­orin truth 1ohould cut the University. A~ e:rUaord!"ary Di.tered, just to give an agreeable relUJi to Ihe prllise.circullllllaDce occurred to me .at Cambridge, a girl 110 You know I hato inaipid, unqoalified, colD=lIplnr­Yery like * * * made her appearance, that no~ing bolt compliment. (fyou would wish to.ee il,order Ih. 13";,the moot ",;",g, ivpeecion cou1d have undece'Yed me. Dumber o{' Litorary Recrealioll8' fOr the laat mollth.

wiah I had asked ifMe had ever been at H * *.'. 1 a.uuru you I have Dot the moot di8taot idllll of the-What the devil would Ridge haYe1 Is not fifty m a writer of the artic1~t ie prinled in a periodicalp,,!>I;'

lOrtnighl, hefo", the adyertiaemeau, a sullicient we1 I calio........'" though I have written a paper, (a ",vi.w ofnear many 0{ the LondoD booksellen haye th...... aod Wordswotth,*) which appears in the l&OIe ..'Ork, I aIDCroeby haa sent copies to the principal wale""fplaces. ignorant of ""ery other perllOD concerned in it-evenAre they liked or not in SouthweD 1 *. * ": the editOl, whOle name 1 haye not heard. My cousi"( wish Boatswain had~ Damoo! How 18 Lord Ale:rander Gordon, who J'elIided in the llllJIle hot~~Bran1 by the immortal gods, Bran ought to be a Cooaol lold me hie mother, her Grace ofGordon, requested h~O{the HolV Rtmtan Emprre. • * * . would introduce my poe&ol Lordohip to her Higlm....

"The intelligence ofLoodoa eaooot be interelltlDg to aa ohe had bought my volume, admired it e:rceetiiD~ly illyou, who haye I'IIIIliceted aU your lif~e aooaIa 0{ common with !lie reo! of the faahionab1e world, alldrouts, riots, bal", and bozing-match... cards aDd crim. wished to c1aim her relatiooohip \lith the author. Ieoll8~ parliamentary diac.-ion, political d~~ mu- waa unIuekiJy engaged OD an e:rcunion for some dsysquerad... meehlUllCll, Argyl_t loatitulion aod afterward, and as tho dutch... waa OD the eve of de .aquatic rac~ love and lottori~ B~ka's and BUOD.... parting for Scotland, J have pootpooed my Inlroductionparte, ope.-.mgen aDd oratonos, WIDe, .women, ~- till the wiDter, when I shall favour the lady,~ IasU 1worb. aod weathercoc:b, can't ac:co"" WIth .your~ Mall not tJUptm, with my moot sublime and edifying con­IaIed id.,.. ofdecorum aod other Mlly apr- not ID- venation. She ia DOW in the Highlands, aDd Aleulld'rooerted in ...,. f1Of:OhtJ.ary.. took rna departu", a few days ago, for the aame w-l

"Oh! SouthwelJ, Southwell, bow I rejoice to haYll left seal of 'darl< rolling IDinds.'!bee, aod how ( cone the heavy houn I dragged a1CJ11ll, • Crosby my London pub1iaher, h.. dispoeed of rnalOr 80 many montho, among tb;e Mohawka who~t aecond im':"rte~ aDd has sent to Ridge ~or a third­

')'OW' kraaIa !-However, ODe thing 1 do not ",greI, which at l....lllO he lIllyo. 10 every boobeDer'a window ( _iaha~~ 'IIa lIUIIi~tq~tity.of'lIeoh~ enable my Dum """'" and MY "Dlhi"If, bUI enjoy my fame in se­IDe to aliI' ~to 'an eel okio, and fte WIth the.1/im be&1Ut en>L Mylaat reviewer kindly requcsllI me.to oller my0{ modern lmles; though, I am -r:r to .y, II seems to determin¢oo 0{ writing no m~ and. 'a Fnend .to t,hebe the mode amongg~ to growfat, &ad I am told Cause or LiteralUnl' bdg. 1 WID patify the pub& WIthr am at leut (41b. below the fashioD. However, I 1M- IIOme Dew work I at no yery distant period.' Who..... instead of enlarging, which is eztraon!inary, aa would DOt be a bard 1-that ie to oay, if'a11 critics wouldoiDlsnt e:rercise in London ia impnu:ticabIe; but 1 attri- be so polite. Howe,..r, the othen wiD pay me oll; I doubtbu.te the~ to our~~ al (l?bJie and Dot, Cor this~ encouragement. . If 00, have at.'em lpmate parlJes. I heard &om RIdge this mOl'lllOlt (the By.tho-by, I haYll wrillen at my mterYa1s ~ I_ore,14th, my lettor waa begun yesterday:) he says the aner two in the momiog, thnle hundrlld and eighty liD"POOD18 go on aa weD aa can be wished, the IIeYllIIty-five in blank verse, of Bosworth Field. I hun lueklly gotseot to town are circulated, aDd a demand lOr fifty more Huttoo's account. 1 ohaD e:rteod the Poem to eight ..complied with, the day he dated hia epiatle, though the :'0~ aod .haII have finiahlld it in a yeu:r. Whetheradvertiaemenll are DOl yet halCpobIiahed. Adieu. it will be publiahed or DOt muat depend on cireumotanc...

• P S Lord C·":·'- . . P I, So much lOr qolUm! My launU have turned mlllraJ-.• • ---. on receJY1Dg my oeme, - . acUU of forth . criticisma in

hefo", he opened Ihe book, a.toIe~ly~.e.I~ I ~th~me t'l modulI. cODlllli .. pro--I have not heard &om ~ ~e. Hia opuu<JIIIl ( "~th eO· damned place-I haye done with it-DSlth.... 1aJow nor care about; if'he 18 the 1_ ioIIOIeo'.I w__18_a _.baD enroU· him tvith BIIIlt:r* and the other worthi....

He ill in Yorbhire, poor mao r and yery iIIl He laid he •..i.e~~~~'= ~~ ~':I: k~:::::~:'- 3"~,":..jnad not time to read the coa~ but !boucht i~!,~ ==,bIo~~~n~~~='::";.'::J.=:IVY to acImowledge the reeelpl 0{ the YlI1U1Dll immecJi. For __ I-li".-........ bof b,l'" AulllOr III t.1PkaIuely Pethapa the earl a-. tie brvIA.- ..- tJy Bolloda, •••II...loa wbidl boo DOl " 11, O>ot wi'" •~

~Jt:1(~ I will make Ilia «Jt:pIr. totLer ia Ia& "-da. :::.~~~~~~:cr':~.=~=~~~~~·Adiell ;=~:d':;I'::~:: ITrl~~';I~h~I~:~II~.,.:~r~:~~~:>twt::~

------------------lrurrMr '~-I•• mlLll' "'. th&! pnem. V"....... n•.I.... okllU.l'·••·, ac.*t"..• Dr. Du.... Iloo t.ou.XI. ~r.

LETTERS, IllO'l'. 7

TO IUD praOT.

LETTER XXL

TO 10. nGOT.

LETTER xx.

·P. S. Remember .... to Or. P."

at leut in .a prabahdiIy: ezc:eplIIIIyOlll'llllll;1.-- remm the _ JJicht, "'1UJl with ... aM 10~ doe110 ... within itlI precinct-. You were my OIl1y .. _ ~ KinptoDArma;' my iDa...... CGIIIpUion; aDd in plaiD truth, I·bad more ..pect "AdiOU'1O"n ....b 10111 tblUll the wbaIe Iln" with wt-e foihle. I amUBed "Bu.. •...,..If in compliaDee ,nth their preYailiDg propenmti.....YOQ pft youneIf'_ trouble with me aDd mylDUllJo8Cripc8 tblUll a u-.d .-u. would have daDe. Be­liIrre -. I haft DOl '-'Iott- yoor good-Datunl iD tItU~ at... UIlI one day IIrmt I Ibal1be .we to m­lIlY p-atilude. A.diH, y-., k. "Trinity College, Cambridge, Oct. 18th, ItlO'7.

-lIT DE.&.•••••J

"Fatigued with sitting up- tiD lOur m the IIlOI'1lIDI f'oIthe lut two da)'1l at hazard, I take up my pen to inquirehow your highn_ and the rest of my female IlCOjII&iDt.ance at the ....t of archiepiBcopaJ grandeur go on. 1Imow I d_"e a ICOIding lOr my negligence in DOl~ling more frequently; but racing up aDd down thecountry for these Iut three montho, how.... it poaible

8LoDclcm, AuguBt 11th, 1807. to fulfil the dati.. ofa correspondent1 Fixed at Iut lOr-OIl s..day _ I .. otf for the Highl""",,.. A I~ wee..... I write, u thin .. eYer, (not haYing gained lUI

liiead at IDine aceolIlfIllIIi- me in my carriage to Edin- ounce since my reduction,) aDd rather ill beUer h\llDOU1' ;barp. Then .... abe\J leave it, UIlI proceed in a _ -but, aner aJl, Southw.n was a deteatable reeideDCll•... (a 8pllCi_ of open carriage,) through the ..eatom Thank St. Domimce, 1 have done with it: I have beea..- to 1Jmlrary. where we aIWl pun:hue Mrltia, to twice within eight mil.. of it, but could not prevail 00

.-hie .. to 'lie.. pIaee. inaeceaible to wAic:ular...... m,...,l( to~ in i'" heavy ab.-phere. To place

....... On the eout we ohaI\ hire a v-' and ....t ;. wretched enougb-a rillanoua chaoe of din and drunk­!be _ nmIarkahle of the Hebridea, and, if we h.... enn.., nothing but hazard and Burgundy, hlDltinAlime aDd faTUUrable weather, mean to Ail .. far ... Ice- mathematics and Newmarket, riot and racing. Yet il1aDd, OIl1y three hwadred milea /Tom the northern ... is a paradise compared with the eternal dum- 01lnIlJIily ofCaledonia, to peep at H«14. Thil Iut inton- Southwell. Oh! the miaery of doing nothing hut mak~tico you wiD keep a oecret, .. my nice -.. would 1bve,......aa, and _.imapIe I on a Voyage of~ UIlI raiN the "Ne.n January (but thill ia."".. -. aroly, and ....,&iCCUltomed ...........",.. let it be eo, or my maternal penecutor will be throw...,

"Lut week I ewam in the Thamee from Lambeth her tomahawk at any of my curio.... project8) I amdarough the two bridpr, Weslrnin8ter and BIacldHan, a golD« to ..... for four or live montho, with my couoin.dDtance, including the dift"erent turm and tacka made Capt. Betteaworth, who commands the Tartar, the finee'OD the _y, of three mil",,! You _ 1 am in excellent frigate in the navy. I have oeen moet &cenes, and wiah

• tI'ainin« in cue ofalqllllll at..... I mean to collect all 10 look at a DOm life. We are going probalJly to thedie E .... traditioos, poe.... &c. ~, and tnulIIlate, or Mediterranean, or to the Weat Indieo, or-to th~ ~:

expand the ..mject to liD a YoIume, which may appear and if there ia a poaibiJity of taking me to the IaUer-1JIriDA under the denomination of 'TIle H'8hland Beuesworlh will do it; for be hal received (0lIJ'0and­lIarp,' or -. title equally~ Of Boeworth twenty wOllllda in dift"erent p1acea, ana at thi8 DIOmeoIYIIlid, - book ia finilhed, another jOlt begun. It will poa_ a lettor. from the late Lord N el.on, atatinllie a work at three 01' lOur yean. and moet probably BeU_Drth .. the only officer in the navy who had1181'11I' -a.M. What would you lay to MlIDe ltanzu more woundll th8Q hiI08elf.·OD Mount Hecla 1 they wou\d be writtea at leut with "I have got a new friend, the /ineal in the worW, a.... How;' the innortaJ Bran 1 aDd the PbalIIix '- bear. When I brought him here, they uked meeanine qoadrupedII, Boat.wain 1 I have lately pur- wbat I meant to do with hitn, and my reply ..... I he... a ~bred huI~og, worthy to be the co- IiwuJd lit fflf" G ftll.tnuhip.' Sherard will explain theIldjutor atthe WreAid celeam1e-11il1 DUDe;' s-t!- meaning of !be aentenCD, if it ia ambiguous. To aDo·

•bear it, ye breezea, lJI1 yoor 6al1nJ winp.' ower delighted them not. We bave ..veraJ partiea" W rite to me before I eet oft; I conjure you by the bere, and thia evening a larlle IUIIIOrtment of jocke,...

6ftb rib of yoar grandfather. Ridge goea 011 well with gamble... boxe....autho... p........ and poet&, IUp with!be I>ook.-I thouPt that wurthy bad not dOlle much in me,--. preciouo mixture, but tbey go 011 well together:die COODtry. III town they han: ..... yery ouceeeeful; and flIr me, I am a.p;". of every thing except a jockey;Carpe8t« (MOOI"ll'8 pabIiaber) told me a few da)'1l ago by-th....by. I waa diamounted :again the other de,.!beymid all thein immediately, and bad ...vera! ioquiriea 8 Thank your brother in my name for his tnoatiee. I-.Ie oince, which, from the boob being gone, they have written 114 peg'" of a DOvel,-one poem of sao=ouId not eupp!y. TbeDuU of York, the Man:bionea Imea,t to be published (without my name) in a .....at HeedIOrt, the Dutch... of Gordon, &c. .!tco were weeka, with notes,-66O linea of Boeworlh Field, and 160among the purcbaaen, and Croaby oaY8the eircu1AtiOll lin.. of another poem in rhyme, beaid... half a dozeIlwill be otiD more extensiYe In the winter; the BUmmer smaller piecea. The poem to be publiabed ;. a Satire__ being very bad lOr a we, .. moet people are abo .4.propoo, I ha... been praiaed to the aki.. in the Critica...., from Lood.a. Ho..e....". they have gone oIf ex. Review. and abuoed greatly in another publicatioa. So!reDlely "en altogether. I abaD pus very near you 00 mucb the hetter, the, teD me, for the sale of the book; it••y jonrne:r through Newark, but cannot approach. keepe up CODtroverwy, and preven18 it bei"ll 1OrptIea.Docn lel1 this to M ... B, who 81lpposee I tnvel a d.if. Beaidea, the r.rot men of all ages have had their ........fereat road. If you have a leiter, order it to 8e \eft. at nor do the bumbleet lIICllp8._1 bear it like a p!Wo­Rid;c..•• ahop, w~ere I aball ealJ, or the poIIMlffice, N.... lopher. It ia odd two oppeaite criliquea came out 011

wk, IlIIoat S or 8 in the ....eaintl. If your brolher would the lIUI\Il day, and out of fiye para of abuae my C8IlIIOrIide _, I ohouJd !)e devilioh glad to _ bim-be CUI 001, quol.. two iiiie' from dift"erent poemo, in aupport 0'

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LJ: TT E R 8. 1808

8 Dorant'.. January list, 1808.

TO Mil. DALLAl.

LETTER XXUL

TO IlA. DALLAL

LETTER XXII.

·P. So Write, write, write!!!"

8 Dorant" Hote~ Albemarl....street, Jan. 10th, 1808.

b" oplllioa. Now the proper way to .." "1' ie to quolfltone pa-agee, and make them ""pear absurd, bec'l\_limple aIIegatioa ;" DO proof. Oil the olher hand, th.......are ....en pap or prai.... and mora lilllJI my m«Iatywill aIIowoaid on the IUbjec:t. Amen. "11a,

• Wheneyer .~ioure and iDcIiDatiOll pennit me thep1..-.re or a YEt, I IbaJl feel truly gratified in a perIIOnaI acquaintaDce with 0118 wboN miIICi hu been 1011Iknown 10 me in hie writiDp.

"You are 10 far correct in your COIIjecture, that 1 a...a member 01' the Uninnily of Cambridge, where I shaUtake my degree. 01' A. M.~ term; but were reuouing,eloq~e,or nrt~e the ~JecIa or my aearch, GrUlla isnot the.. metropolill, nor .. the place or her situation an•EI Dorado,' I&r 1_ a Utopia. The intellecla or her.11" c:m~dren are u Illlgnant as her Cam,· and their PurlUltl

"Your letter was not receiyed till thismo~ I pr.... hauled to the church--ilot of Cnt, but 01' the IKllU'eII

lume from being addreBled to me in N olta, where I have benefice.not resided since last JWlfI, and as the dale is the 11th, "All? my reading. I believe I may aYlOr, without hy.you will ezCllll8 the delay of my UlIWer. perboIe, II hu~toIe~lyeztelllliye in the historical;

• If the liltle volume. you mention has given pleuure 10 that few natrona ezwt, or have ezioted, with whOle10 the author of Pt:rt:tWl and .Auhng, I am lufficiently records I am nol ~ lIOII1e degree acqU~inled, from H....repaid by his pre- Though our periodical C8llllorll rodotu. down 10 GibbOll. Of the clusi.,., I know abouthaye beft1 uncommonly lenient, I con(ea a tribule from u much as most -=boo! boys after a discipline of tIUrte.a man or acknowledged genius is still more lIallering. yee",; ofl~ law of the land as much as enables me toBut I am afraid 1 should forfeil aD claim 10 candour keep 'wuhm the llalule'-!O use the poacher'1 voc~j( I did not decline luch praise as I do Dol dOlerve; lary: I did study the 'Spiril or Laws' and the Law fiand this is, I am tJOrrYlo say. the cue in the p.......nt in- Nations; bul when I saw the latter vielated everystance. mOllth, I gavc up my allempta at 10 useless an accom-

"My compomt;ons lpeak for themselv.... and Ibust plishmenl;-of geography, I hayo leen more laud 011

Bland or faU by their own worth or demerit: tJua f.zr I ma~ than I Ihould.wish to traV8nle on fool ;-ofmath....litlll highly gratified by your favourable opinion. BUI matres, enough 10 gIve me the hea.dache withoul clearinemy prelensiOlllIo virtue are unluckily 10 fe,y. th~ though the p.ut affected ;-of philOlOOphy, astronomy, and meta.I should be happy 10 merit, I cannol accept, your apo phy...,., ~ore than I can comprehend; and of commouplause in that .....pect. One pusage in your leIter sense 10 little, that I mean to l..ye a Byronian prize at~ me forcibly: you mention the two Lords Lyttl.... each or our •A1IIIlIl Ma.lreI' for the Ii';'l disc~ery.­ton II!' a manner they respectryely dOle"e, and will be thong.h I I'lIther fear that or the Longilude will pre­lUl'JlNed to hear the penlOn who is now addreaing you cede It.!Iu beek fl""Juently compared 10 the latter. I know I "I once thought myself a philosopher, and talked nOll­am injuring myoelf in your esteem by this arowel, bul -- with great decorlDll: I defied pain, and preached~ oin:uonslance wu 10 remarkable &om your observa- up equanimi.ly. !i'0r some time ~ did yery well, forlion, thaI I.cannot help relating the fact. The events of no ?De ~u m pam for me bul my fnends, and nene lOllmy short life.bave been of 10 IIinguIar .: nalure, that, the.. patr~ bUl my h~. ~t last, a fall flom mythough the pride commonly called honour has, and I trusl horse convinced me bodily Alft"ermg wu an evil; andever wi1~ prevent me from diagracing my name by a the wo",t of an argument ovenetmy muima and mymean or cowardly action, I have been already held up as t~mper at the lIlUIle moment, 10 I qUItted Zeno for An.the YOlIry oflicenti.,..,_, and the disciple of infidelity. trppus,an~conoeive that pleuureCODIltitutes the TO ul...How far justice may have metated this accusation I In morality, I prefer Confucius 10 the 1'., Command­cannot prelend 10 say, but, like the pnIleman to whom menta, and Socrates to St. Paul, though lbe laUer twomy religious friends, in the warmth of thelt charity have agree in their opinion of marriage. In roligion, I favouralready devoted me, I am made wo.... than I realiyam. the Catholic emancipation, but do nol ar.knowledge theHowever, to quil myseU; (the WO"'1 theme I cou1d pilch Pope; and I hav.e ref~ to take the. S~~ent, I­ul""'t) and retrtrn 10 my Poerno, I cannOlllUfficiently ex- C&IM8 I do nol think eating bread or drinking WIDe &om"..,. my lbanka, aod I hope 1 shaJI lOme day have an the hand of an earthly Yicar will make me an inh8literOpportunily of rendering them in penon. A """OM edi- or h..yen. I hold virtue in general, or the virtues ­tion is now in the P...... with lOme additions and consi- veraDy, to be ooIy in Ule dispositiooc each afetJlin8, not ad~e "",ismOlll; you. will allow me 10 presenl yon ~Ie. I belieye ~ .the prime attribute of lbeWIth a copy. The CriucaI, Monthly, and Anti-Jacobin Deity.; and death an elemalsleep, at1_ of the body.

, Reriews have been very indulgent; bUl the Eclectic You have here a briefcompendium of the senUmenUl 01'hu pronounced a furiotll Philippic, not against the booIc th? IlJicIuId !Jeorge .Lord Byroa; and, till I gel a newbul the 11IIt1rtr, where you wiD 6nd all I have mentioned 1Ult, you will percmYe I un badly clothed. I remain,-.ted by a rnerend divine who wrote the critique. • Youra very truly.

" Your name and connexion ..ith our &mily haYe been " BYROll."IclIIg known to me, and I hope your penon will be nol... 10; you will find me an ezcellent compound or a LETTER XXIV.I Brainl..... and a I Stanhope.'t I un afraid you wiDhudly,be able 10 read this, for my hand is almost as bad TO ... m:..1' J)·l1Ill'·tas my cbaracteo-, but you will find me, as legibly as • 8Dnru1t's Hotel, Jan. 15th, 18lJtl........ 8111' n..... lIB,, • I Your ob1iged and obedieat servant, • ThOUJh the stupidity ormy serftDta, or the porter of

• Brao••- the house, in not showing you up oWn, (where I should

'-.11I__...._....- • ...E.B.ud •• 1I. .....~ III Jlocw Dnr7. IMd __..__IlL lion..

LETTERS, 1808;

'-'n .....ne<! you direel1y.) I'rtr/ented me tilt pl.........e tlf the perusal of Q\aIIy or yOll13 compoeitions and _raJ~n~ you yestent..y, ( hoped to m""t you at some pub- other circcllJllRUlCell very pI.......t in their day, whida 1lie place in thr e.......ing. However. my Itars decreed will nol force upon y. memory, but entreat you to be­IIIhwwiM, II thfoy pner:illy do, when 1 have any favour Iieve me, with mueb regret at thell Ihort CODliDuaDM.10 ""JUfIlIl of them. I think you would have been au.. and a hope they are DOt irrevocable, yo.... very sinoprised at my figure, lOr, oinc:o our lui meeting, I am roo cerely, &c. " BYRo. •..... ~ _ in ..ei«\1t. 1 then weighed Ii>urteeD_a....,.,n pound, and now only lela.... ....a II half. Iha.... diIIpooe<l of myouperJluili- by meaDlI of han! exe.. LETTER XXVT_ and abstineDco. * • *

"Should yoor Harro.. en,..nagemeJlts a110.. you to TO lIa. RAJUfEu.-[raAlllOlfT.)ftIIil town betwoeo this and February, 1 ahall be - "March 1808haPflY to _ you in AIbemarI_"",t. If 1 am not 10 " ' "5>rtunate. 1 shall endeavour to joiD you for an afternoon We both Beem perfectly to recollect, WIth a mIXtureat HIIITOW though, I rea. your cellar will by DO means of ple..ure and regret, tho hou," we ()Ilca paoaed to­00IIIribate to my cure. AB for my wortby proceptor gether, and 1 IIS8Ure ~ou most BIO~erely th~y are n~m­Dr. B., our eneoontor would by DO means preveDt ~ berod among the ~PPI,est ~my bnefch~cleof enJoy,.,.-z~ he and 1were WODt to lav. OD each ment. I am DOW K"UUtg .nto yean, that, IS to Bay, 1 ~...ocher. We have only opokeD once linea my departure twenJy a month ago, and another yea.. will lend me OltofioomHarrow in 1806, and then he politely told Tatersal1 the w~d to run my career of folly With the reat. 1 w...1 was DOt a proper uaociate fOr ru. pupa.. Thia.... theD J'1"I f"urteen,-rou were a1~08t tho fint, of mylong befOre my ancturell in v...... : bot, in plaiD pr-, Harrow fneDd!, certam!y the jim m my eote~m, If Dot In

had I beeD oome years oIder,l should have held my date; but an absence ,from Harrow,for lOme tun~ Mortl). ton,,- on his perfections. But being laid OIl my back, ~er, and Dew CODDOXlODO OD your ~Ide, ~d ti,e dJiforenca

when that schoo1boy thing wu ..mtten-or rather eli.,. 10 our conduct (an ad~tage dacld",!l! In yo~r favollr}_J _ " h ,. b' from that turbulent and notousdlspooltlOnofmme, ..hid•.

•a..'....-e:tpeebDg to.- DO 1IKlre, my P}'SlCl&ll aY1Dl!' lied ail " ' of 'ch,~r_11 thraken \WI aUtoenth foe, and I his pr-=ription, I could '~ e ID 0 eV,ery Bpacles mlS. ':"" .....not quit this earth without leaving a memento ol my clrcu"!"taneee combmed to ~......oy an mtunacy, wbu:h<:nns\.IUIt attaebment to Buder in titude for his mani- Alfecbon urged me to c?ntmue, ~d Memory cOIIl1"'1IUtI good officea. gra me to rer-et. But there .. not a ClrcuDlStance allendlD,G

"I m_t tobaYO been down in July; but thinking my that, pened, hardly a so:ntence ~e exchanged, "Inch ..~ immediately after the public:&tion, would be not lmpressed.oo my mmd at thlB mom~nt: 1 need notcoostrued into an m.uJt, I directed my ate... ebJewhere. oay R!<?"e,-thlS usuran~~ alone must convlDce yOl~ hadBeaid"", I heard that ..,..,., of the boy8 bad got hold of ~ COIlSiderod them .. trl'na~ they would have been I"".m.y LJbeI1os, CODtrary to my wishes certainly, fOr 1 never :OOelibl~. ~ow well ~ recollect t?e perusal of yourlransmitted a single copy ti1l October, when I pve ODe first flights. There, IS another clrcumotance you .Ill

to a boy, .mee gone, after repeated importunities. You not know ;-the.flr" linu 1 ever attempted at HarrowwiI~ I truat, pardon thia egotiBm. A8 you had toucheci were ~dr~ to you. Yo~ w~re to bav~ Been tllrm;an the aubjoct, I thought lIOIDtI explanation D..-..y. but SlDclau: bad the copy 10 1119 POlSe8S1OD wheD weDeGmce I IiIa\J Dol attompt, •Hie mnr... abeDeus eeto, went home.-and, OQ our retw:n> we were 1trtJn~ trI.

ail '...:L:I _...... '( Lord Bal"--- 'd, Tbey were deatroyod, and certa.inly no great I"",,; btl tCOII!OC\fIl .....-.... .. OIl .. ~'""''' a.. '11 '&0 thia' , .

1m m. trial Cor a rape)-1 have been 10 long at Trillity you WI percetve m circumstance my opmlODO alto iJrgel tho coocI ' oftho lin • but, though 1 an age wbeD we cannot he hypocrItes.

~. e_'-L ~......:::::mI-=" Ie, __J can-"I have dwolt longer on thia theme than I intended.~ WJIOIII my ..-_..... WUI my etter, auu entreat you __ J 1 _L_" lud·th ha I h h L_to belie _,.';'Il.. aDd doct' 1 It ..... ...... DOW eooc e WI w t oug t to ave...,.

ve me,"'-J IODate y, c. guo. We were once friends,-nay, we bave a1waYB

"P. S. I win Dot Jay a tall 011 your time by requiring bee~' eo, C~ our IOparation was the elfact of chance,. nolan _or, lest you oay, .. Butler said to Tatenal~ ~ ~...eldlOll. I do Dol know ho~ far our d~unauon.(wben 1 bad ",rilteD his revereDce an impudent epistle m,liCe. may throw ... together. but if opportwuty and m­.... the exprtlllSit>n befOre mentionod,) viz. • that 1 wanted c1inalioo a110w you to wute a thought aD ouch a hare­... dna... IWn illr.o a correspondence." braiDed being 811 myooU; you will find me at leut sincere,

and DOt 10 bigoted to my faults .. to involve othe.. in theconsequences. Will you IOmetimes write to me1 I doDot uk it often, and, ifwe meet, let us be wbAt we .-..ul

LETTER XXV. be aDd ..hat we .....•

TO Ma. BAIUfUII.

"Dorant'.Hoto~ AIbemarle-8\nlot, Feb. II, 1808. LETTER XXVII."lIT DI:AR BARna, •

"As I had DO opportmaity of returning my verba1 TO .... Bl:CBJ:JL.d>aDb. I lrU8t yoo will ac:eept my written acImowlodg-~ lOr tho comp\imeDt you ..ere pleued to pay aome "Doran!'. Hote~ Feb. Ill, 180S~ fA my unlucky mUM laot November--1 am "MI' DI:A. Bl:CBJIlR,

iDdueed to do thiI Doll... &om the pleuuro I feel in the II • * .• • Now for Apollo. I amprai80 of an old aehooJle1low, than from juatioe to you, bappy that you IIIiJl retain yonr predilection, and that thalOr I had heard the 8Iory with IIOIIUl 8light variatinnL public allow me lOme ohare ofpraiae. I am of.. muchIndeed, wbeD we met thiI morning, W uagfieId had DOt impoRance that a IDOIt violent attack is prepuing for meundece:ved me, but he will tell you that I ch8pIayed DO in the Dext Dumber olthe Edinburgb Reri~w. Tbia I.-ent in mentioning what 1 had heard, though I had &om the authority of a frieDd who baa aeon the proof...... not wrry to di8cover the truth. Perhape yoo and manuscript aCthe critique. You know the .,..­hardly rewIIect _ yean ago a Mort, though, lOr tho of the Edinburgh geDtlemeo ill onivenal attack. Thoylime, a wann lHendship between ..1 Why it wu not praiae DOIII. aDd Deither the public nor the author lS­

o( t-ger duration, 1 know DOt. 1 have ati1l a giA of peete praiae from them. It;" howe...r, 1OIDetbin« to be,....,.. in my JlOII*8ion, that mlWl alwaY"' prevent me noticed. ....buy prof_ to ..- j"dgn~tooIy O? worlal&- Fxpuiq it. 1&110 remember beina favoured with requirinl !10 public: attantioa. You wiD _ t\tilI, wbC:ll

2

10 LETTERs,. 1-.

LETTER XXIX.it _ out;-it i.. I lDIenlud, rL the_ .-rcil\dn.criptaoa; but I lUll ........ rL it, aDd hope,.. will DOlDe ban by _erity. • TO JIll. uc:nclI•••

- Tell M Byroa not 10 be out rLb.- with them, •IlDIl to JII'IIIIU'II b. miDd fOr the ...- boIItility GIl. N. A. NottB, Sept. II, 1101.tb..ar put. II wiD do no injury whale""" aDd I InIIIt bIIr • ~.ul ncJr, .mind will Dol be ruftIed. TheydeCeal their objllCt by I wiIIh "00 would inlbrm DIll what hu. been~ 1IyincMcriminAle abuse, and they oo..er prai8e, _pI the Jeky~ No. 40, SIoan&4quare, CCIrJCIIr1JmI the pOlly.partizaM rL Lord HoIIaDd aDd Co. It ia DOlhing to be re~um u .-ound. .~ ..bllD Southey. Moon, Lauderdale, Strangford, I haft Uo .to ':"'IlJIIR you will cell On Louch atand P.yne Knight ...... the __ faIII. B~ and ~mre ..hat the deTii he - bl

• I am IOrr)'-but 'Childish RlICOIIlICtioas' must be -dine ouc:h ~ inIIoIen~ letter to D1II at Brighton; andIIlIpprMBlld during tbie editiclo. I haft allerlld, at our at. the IIIUIMl bmII tell him I by no .- can complyouggNlion, the ......... alluIicJu in the sixth .wJ. of =.charp be bu lDlUIe for things Jll'lltIIDded to be

m1 1ast ode. - Ambroee beba~And DOW, my dear Becher, I must return Ifty ""-t ..~ _lICUIdalOUlly about the pOll)'.wno..ledgmentalOr the intereat you ha..e taken in me ~ may:11 J-rll. if he doea ~ refund the money. Iand my poetical bantlinp, and I .haII e..er bi. proud to put . e~ mto my ~wyer. baDdII. Fi......and­Iho.. how much I esteem the adt1ice and the odviIer. ~~ty~.: IOUDd pnc:e lOr • J.'CIIIy, aDd by---..BelieTe me molt truly, &c.. It COIIt DIll ft undred~ .1 will make ut exam-

. !,Ie of Mr. Jekyll, and that tmmediatel)', tml_ the cub.. retumed. - Belieft me, dear Jack, &c.-

LETTER JGtVlll.LETTER XXX.

TO Mil. BEC:1D:1l.

TO IIIL BECREL

TO MIl. JACItIOK.

LETTER XXXI.

LETTER XXXlL

-Ne'lntead Ahbey, N.rtto, Sept. 14th, 1808.• IrIY DEA.. BEeBE.,

- I am much obliged 10 )'011"" )'nor inqmnew, aDd Khallprofit by them acc:ordingIy. 1&111 P"I to rt up a play

-Dorant's, Marcb!8, 1808. -N. A. Notls, Oct. 4, 1808• I ha..e lately recei..ed a copy of the ne.. edition - You will mak.e ..~ • bargain u poaible with th.

tom Ridge, and it ill high time for me to return my best Muter J~yu, if be .. not a gentleman. If be 11 •thanb to you for the trouble you have taken in the IlJo~~rm me, for 1 Iball take ..ery differentperintendenCII. Thill do mOlt .incereJy, utd only.... step', If be IS DOt, you must r>t what you can at thegret that Ridge h.. notlllcooded you .. I cou1d ..ilI11,- money, fOr I ha..e~ much bUllU1_ on haDd at JII'IIItlntat lout, in the bindings, paper, &C. of the copy be IIInt to commeace ut action. Besides, Ambroee ill the mento me. Perhaps thOle for the public may be more.... who ought !? ref\md,-but I have done with him. YOII.pIICtab1e in lOch articllll. c~ settle with L. out of the balaDce, and dilIpoee of t1",

_You have seen the Edinburgh Review at'l:OUlH bidets, k u you best can.I regret that Mn. Byron ill 110 much U1Doyed. For m; . -I .h~ldhe very glad to II1II you ~ere; but the m..­own part, these 'paper bullelll of the brain' haft only IS ~Ied with ..orkmen and IDldergomg a thorough ro­taugitt me to lland fire; ute!, .. I h.ft beton lucky ~. I hope, bowe..er, to be more fortunate b<!foreenough upon the whole, my rllp0111 utd appetite .... not many DI01ltha h...e elapsed.diIcompOled. Pralt, the gleaner, authOl', poet, Jtc. &c. -Ifyou ItlII Bold Webster, remember me to him, utdaddr_ed a long rhyminc epilltle to me on the oubjllCl, tell'~ I haTe.to regret Sydney, who hu perilite<!, Iby way ofconsolation; but it .... not well done, 110 I do f~ar, ID my rabbIt~n, for we haTe - nothing ofnol lend it, though the name rL the mau might make it him for the Iaat fortnIght.go down. The E. Ro. haft not performed their tuk • Adieu.-oBeJieve me, ......well t-at leut the literati teU me this, and I think 1could write • more IUCUtic critique on "'!J""lf than anyr.et publiahed. FOI' instance, iJIItead of the remark,­,lI-nalurod enouch. but nol keen,_bout Mac PherllOn,[ (quoad reviewen} could h.Y11 1liiie!, I AI.., this imita-tion only proves the lUItlI'tion rL Doctor Johnso!'. that -N. A. Notls, Dec. I!, 1808.many men, women, and c/rildreft could write IUch Poetry -MY DEA. IACIt,u Ossian's.' -You will get the greyhound from the owner at wy

- 1 am IMa and in uereiN. During the Ipring or price, and u many more of the laDle breed (male 01' r....mmmer I troll ..e.baIl meet. 1 hear Lord Ruthyn male)uyoucutcollect..leavlll N ewstead in April. ••• AI ooon u he - Tell D'Egville hill drea Ihall be retumed-I amquito it for ever,I willa muc:b you ..ould take a ride over, obliq<! to him fOl' the pattern. I am I18rry you .hould,"rvey the mansioa, and giYe me your candid opinion on have 10 much trouble, but I .... not aw.... of the~the mOlt advilable mode rL proceeding with regard to culty of procuring the utimall in qullltion. I lhall havethe....... Ewtro -.. I am cunedly dipped; my finished part of my lDUl.lion in a few weeka, utel, if youdeblll, evety thing inc:IlIIiYe, will be nine or ten thOUlUld can pay me • Yioit .t Cluia~ I.hall be very glad toI,cdlwo [ am twenty-onci. But I havp reason to think ItlII you. - Belieft me, k"my property ..ill turD out beller thut general eXpllCta-Liub may cOllceiYII. OfNewllead 1 have little hope orcare. but Hamaa, my agent, intimated my LlIIlCUhireproperty w.. worth three N ewlIteadL I belie"e wehave it boI\o.. ; though the derendanll are protractinithe ourrender, if pc8ible, till after my majc.rity, for thel'urpclItl of forming _ arrangemenl with me, thinkin«[ Ihal\ probably preNr • 10m in halld to a re.enion~N ,'WItftd I may IllJ ;-perhllJlS 1 will not,-though11,," more _ [will rome down in Mayor June.• • • • • You"" mOIl truly, !le."

LETTER XXXV. '

LETTER&. 1M.I -

......... 1M baIJ wiI~ a _ admirable theure.' • After aD, 100 must own my project is not a bad one.I haft ...uJed 1M draa. pen. IUId CUI do witbout Iadiee, IfI do not lraTel now, I _81' obaII, and all men abou1d.. I haft _ young IHeDda who wiD meke tolerable ooe day or other. I ....e at preeeot no COlIDe.xiona II'.......... b femal...,' and we oaty want three male keep me at home; Dll wiftl, or unpl'll'Fided oilrte... b_charact..... t-ide Mr. Hobhouee IUId m~ lOr the the.... "c. I IbaII take care ofyou, and when I retlUll Jpea,. we haft med on, which will be the Re'Fenge. may poaibly become a poIiticiaa. A few yca:n/ mo...Pray dired Nicho1lloG the carpetller to COIIIO OYer to me ledge ofother couDlri... than our Own wiU not incapam­immediately, and iUJnD me wbat day 100 wiD dine IUId tale me fur that part. If we ...e no nation but our own... the nicbt here. • Belien me, "c.' we do not giYe mankind a fUr chance-it is &om "'"1'"'""

~ nol boob, we ought to judge of thfllll. There IIIIOthing like~ IUId lrUlIting to eur own _

• Youn ...,. truly,LETTER xxxm. •By.o....

'1'0 TIDl BO"~"" ..... 111'.OJf. ••• N ewatead Abbey, N oltll, OcL 7th, 1808.• DI:A& JUD.ur,

"I haft DO beds lOr the H .... or Uly body else atpr-. The H •• I oleep at Mu.6eld. I do not • A few .... &10 1 wrote to· • ., to reqUMt bebow that I r_mhIe Jean JacqUllll Ro.-eau.t I have~ recei..e~ 8M ofa~~Londoa, waU kDowa110 amhitioo to be like 10 iIIl1l1lrioUl a madman-but thil to me, u a pupil; the family haVlDll been part>cuIariyf know, \bat I ahallli..e in my own manner, and as much ~d~~e short time 1 wu with them induced meoJoae u~ When my roolDl are ready I.haU tothi..p~lIon.. Now,nw:t<what~~De glad to -100' at preoent it would be impropel' and body sublimely aaith. On this day am.... an e~oIDC<IIJdOnah:e to~ parti.... You can hardly object I~ed. *.•,~ not, ~ smallest reference toto my rendering my maDlIion habitable, notwithslUldmg tw~~ ,or Ifttai~on, but a 1;'"l'bon for Robert G~plD,ofmy departure fOr Persia in March, (or May at farthest,) pugi1I1t1C no~nety, 110.'" In bondajre fOr ~ertain paI~aince you will be IeIlIDll till my return; IUId in cue of~ IlerIing, ~ liable to take up his e..erIullniUl1 accident, (fOr I hoOn already arrutged my will to be abode In BLDCO RegIS- Had the letter been from Ulydrawn up the moment I am twenty-one,) I have taken of my It'!f acquaintanee,.os, in~ &om any penon butcare you sbal1 have the house and manor for ufe, besides the gentleman woo...~~ It bears, 1 .houId !la-:ea su8icit-nt income. So you _ my improvement5 are marveDed noL I~ ~ ,* • II lenous, I congratulate ptagl­DOt entirely ael6sb. A. I have a friend here, we will go 111m 011 the &cqWl1bon of such a pata;oo, and .h.~ bero the 1DIirmary BaU on the J!th; we will drink tea with ~ happy to ad,nnce any lumD~ !Or the libeoMn. Byron at ei«hl o'clock, and expect to see you at rallon ~ the capll..e Gregson. But I corllllDly hope tothe ball If thallady will aUow 118 a couple of rooms to be certified &om you, or lOme reapectable houseIteeper,~ in,"e ahall be highly ~dl--ifwe are at the of the fact, before I write to * • • on ~e IUbJecLbaD by ten or eleven it wiU be time eoougb, and we shall When I ..y thef..." I mean of the letter bemg wnt*return ro N e-.d .'lout three or fOur. by • *.•,not haYing any doubt u to the autheolicity oot

II Adiea. Believe me, the IlatemenL The letter is DOW before me, and 1 &"1'• Yours very truly, it b y"" peruaaI.'

• BYRO...•

LETTER XXXVI.LETTER. XXXIV. 'l'O .. c. DUoJ..u, -.

TO .... l11'an... • Reddish'l Hotel, Jan. t4, IlIOI.lIM1' DE.... II"

" NeWllead Abbey, Nov.!d, 1808, liMy only reason lOr not adopting lour Iines* ill be-·DE.... MOTHE" cauae they are ytNr lin.... You will reeoUect~

·lfyoa pIaue, we willlOrpt the thinga you mention. Lady Wortley Montague said to Pope: 'No'lOIOchinIloI bave DO desire to remember the-. When my I'OOIDI for the good will be given to you, and the bad attributedIn fiDiahed, I IbaII be happy to _ 100; as 1 teU '- to me.' I am determined it shaU be aU my"bwn, ezce,.the lnIIb, 100 will not _poet me ofevuioa. I am (ur- IUCh alterations as may be a,,"oIutely requisite; but IaiabIDg the hoI.e IDOI'G lOr you than myseJJ; and I IbaII am much oblijred by the trouble you have la1ten aDd-.bIish you in it before I sail fOr hldia, which I expecl your good opinltln.",do in March, ifnothing particularly obstructive occun. • The couplet on Lord C. may be .cratcbed out, aDdI .. -liuin« up the"- drawing-room; the red 101' the lOUowing inserted :a~ and Iile~ ovar as a1eeping-nIoma. .._'_1_,............They will be _ COIIIpleted ;_tleut, I hope 10. lI"

.1 wish 100 would inquire of Major Wa_ (who is Thill wiD anawer the purpose ofcOllceaJmenL Now,.. old bdiau) what thingl will be~ 10 pIO'Fide fOr .~e.couplell on Mr.c~ which you may pIact!lOr .y wyqe. I han already procured a fn-! to after Gilford, Solhaby, M'Noil •...... to the Atabie proSoaaor at Cambridge lOr __ in- .. T.... be ... '"7 bt .-.....- da,., ....

""-tioD I am anDoua to procure. I can euily pt "I am sorry to dift'er with yon with regard to the title.Ieaen from p_-.at In the ambuaadon, .-.Is, kc. but I mean to retain it with this addition: 'The EIIIUh- aIao to the govemon at Caleutta and Madras.. 1 Bards and Scotch Reviewers ~ and, if we caIlk amall JII- my JlI'lP"fly aDd my will in ~ haada Salin, it wiD obviate the objection, as the bardIo'__ till my ........... uri I __ to appomt 100 oae. were WalIh.. • • •FIUI1I HaMor. I have beardnothinf-when 1"100 lIY_yery~slaaJI have the particuJan. • B1'IUlJf.'..on-..- 70 .., IMII .".... boo< _ "7 t14Ik to • Mr. Dana. had WIIu__ 11_••011",- 1.-.1 ",ow .."

~;:=....... 2Il. ~'~::~Tb:u.=~~-: ~~t=.:=-=~

12 LETTERS, 1BOt.

lETTER XXXVIL.TO .. C. DALLAS, .,Ill.

~lJIIofV_. TbeHD.wiDcome ....n ialftdlthe COIIpI_ ooacenaiDg Naldi IUId C.Ja1&n.i•

·Yountruly,"Bl'lIOJI"

"Feb. 7th, 1808. • Feb. lid, 1IlOl."

TO JIB. 114JU<1:&1•

LETTER XXXIX.

LETTER XXXVlII•

.OTI:I TO .... DALLAL

","""""dllIoo .henow'd_

..... AclItr&Ill1I""', ud Illik. JOUr 0....·

u·lA& oI.IILh....... IIl....nat \0 ....t, l:olocm'

"Ill' DEA. ua,

"Suppooe ..e have thia coupleI-... TIooooP_IIoo_IllI_.~_·._..... .lcbIJ&1,.,1'1, aDd ItrtU JOUr OW_I

"Believe me, .c.• Feb. 15, 1809."

2,

• Feb. II, 1809."I wilIh you to call if poaible, u I have lOme &Iter&­

tiaaI to 8U£IOIl u to the part about Brougham. "B."

• Feb. 1!tb, 1808." "P. S.

I I wilIh' you much to c:aII on me, about OM, DOl later, Wms."if coavement,.. I ha.. lOIDe thirty or bty IineI Coraddition.

• 8, St. Jamee'...lret't, March 8th, 1809•"DEAJl MOTIIEa,

.Somuch fOr youradmonitiollll; but mYllOleol"notee,t "My last letter .... written under great depr1*ion 01.1' lI01itary pUll mUlt not be given DP--o, rather Ipiridl from poor Fa1Idand'l death,. who hal left without

a IhiIIing four childrA &nd his wife, I bave been en­deavouring to aaist them, which, God knowI, I C&IlDOldo as I could wish, from my 0"" em.........ento, &nd

come against me: my annot&tion mUll Il&nd. the m&ny claims upon me from other quarten•• W" Iball never ...Ua tboUl&nd; then why print 10 "What you ...y ill &II very true: come ..bat may

_y' Did you receive my teeterday'l note' I am l!'lItDIIUad and I """" or fall together. I ~ve no,"Iroa!lIiDA: you, but 1 am apprehensive some of the Iinee bved on the opot, I have fixed m:r heart upon It, &nd noare omitted by your young &lll&nlllllllia, to ..OOJU, 00.... prellllJre, present or future, lhall induce me to barter the_, I am infinitely obliged. lilt v~ge~our !,nheritance. I have. that~ewithin

"Believe me, yours very trul~ me ..hich will ena'tle me to lIUJlporl diliculn.... I can" BYKo~." endure privatiODl; but could 1 obtain in excb&nge for

Newste&d Abbey the first fOrtune in tbe country, Iwould reject tbe proposition. Set your mind at _ onthat 1lCOI'e; Mr. HlUIIOn taIka like a man ofbulin.... ontbe subject, I feel like a man of honour, and I will DOtsell Newatead.

"I IIh&Il get my _t lJII the returll of the affidavillfrom Carbais, in ComW&l~ &nd ..i11 do IIClIDeIhing in theHOI\Ifl soon: I must dub, or it ill all over. My Satire

"~thatrouble, but I bave added two Iinee which must be kept secret for a month i after that you may oayare DlIClla&ry 10 complete the poetical character what you please on the subject. Lord Carlisle hal nse<!Lord C&rtillo. me infamously, &nd relUed to state &ny particulan of

.. , • , • • , • • , • \a bI'... my family to tbe Ch&ncellor. I have laMed him in nlYBlo_ h.ddamn'd ..ralalllnr .... ' rhyro.., &nd perhapl hill Lordship may regret not bein~..' __ r rIod, 'haId,moupl' more concilia&ory. They tell me it will bave a sale; IN... dnIg'd _ w111l1loo 1nIl' .... hope eo, for the booboU.., hal behaved well, as far as

"Youn, &c. "B." pub1iabing ..en gotlL"Believe me, yours truly.

Yon IbalI have a mortgage lJII lJII8 of the

•• ........... oIllI ..... p._

.. ·OIlI __........... lIIIeowllh.-rlv-.l"

• ... _ objedad Ie die1_.. ootctaoD, _ •II 'I'NMladoa'.1In'iIt won AI. ........ dI ,AI.dQldl AcbUa·.m 1Dcoartt-' t,

t ..1lot\I* -.. oIllI P. GIl.

• Ecce itarum Crilpinua!-I IeDd you lOme IineI to "8, St. Jamen--t, March 18th, 1809.be placed after 'Gurord, Sotheby, M'Neil' Pray c:aII "There .... Do Deee.ity for your : if you!o-JDOml" &ny time Wore two, and believe me, &c. have time and incIin&tioo to write, 'for ..bat receive,

"B." the Lord make .. tha.nJdW.'-If I do DOl b from you," P. S. Print lIOOCI, or I Ib&Il OYerfIow willa more I COIIIOie mYler with the idea that you are much more

rhyme. • agreeably employed."Feb. 18th, 1809." "I I8Dd down to you by thia poll a oertain Satire

lately publillbed, IUld in retum for tha three &nd Iixpeace• I eocloH lOIDe linello be inIerted, the Iix first after, expenditure upon it, only beg that if you Ihou1d gueeI

'Lords too are buda, .c.' or rather immediately follow- the author, you will keep !iii name HerOt; at least, foring the line: the p......ut. London ill fWl of the Dulce's buain.....

Tbe COIDIIWDI have been at it th..." last three nigb..and are not yet come to a decilion. I do not know iI

The four next will ..-ind "I' the panegyric on Lord the aII&ir will be brought belin our House, lIJI1_ in theCutillo, and coope after '!raP' ltuft' shape of &n impoachment. If it mak... ill appearance

"Youn, truly, ·B." in a debatahiefOrm, I beIi"ve I IbaII be tempted to ...y.. Fab. 19th, 1809." something lJII the lIIIbject.-I am glad to bear you ~

Co.mbridge: fintly, 1lecI.t.- to know that you are happy'.A eut at the opera-Ecce lipum! from lut ni@ht'l ill pI_t to one "00 ..... you aU pouible IUbiunary~ &nil iDueadoeI against the Society for the enjoyment; and, lOCOIJI!Iy, I admire the morality of the

.....timent. AJ- M........ to me irfjtuIa_: &DIithe old Beldam only gave me !!Iy M. A. degree beca...

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LETTER XLIIL

ahe could Dot aTOid it.-You lIDo.. what a f&rce a DObIe contiJmed him in IIlY...rnce. H be cIoea DOl !lebaveUaDtab. muat perfOrm. well abrolId, I will aeDd him back in a ttaoupart. I bu"

-I am p..g abroad, if JIC*ibIe, in tha IIpriDr. and a GenMoIllerY&Dt, (who hal been with Mr. Wi1bnbamLclwe· I depart I am coIIec:tiD« the picturea .. my _ in Penia befOre, and .... otroagIy recommended to IDA

iIIItimate achooIl1lIJowa; I ban already a "", aDd Iball by Dr. Butler ofHarrow,+4Robert, IJId William; they_ yoan, or my eabiDet will be iDcompI_ I ban COII8titute my wboIe ute. I ....n leuera in p1eDt»­eupIoyed ...... the lim miDiature-paiDtera of the day you oboII bear &om me at the dilFerent porto I tour.hto take them, of. c:ourae at my own espeDIIll, u I Dever upoo; bot you mUlt Dot be a1anned if my letten m;'"aDo.. myacqlWll_ to incur the Ieut e.r:penditllre to carry. The continent io in a fine otate-an ir.urree­plify a whim ofmiDe. To mentioa thio may _ in- lion hal broken out at pan., and the AllItriano HOI

delicate; bot when I teD you a Iiiead of 0Uf8 lint re- beating Buoaapute--the Tyrol..... bue risen.bed to lit, under the idea that be .... to dioburoe OIl K Tbere io a picture of me in oil, to be oent dowD to!be occuioa, you will _ that it io aee-ry to Itate N8WlItead aoon.-I wish the Mia Pigoto Bad _m- preiimmariea to prevent the rec:urreneo of any !hint better to do than carry my miniatureo to N~lIimiIar miotake. I oboII _ you in time, and will carry bam to copy. Now they bave doae it, you may ukyou to the a-. It wiD be a to on your patience for them to copy the othero, which are greater favourite8a week, but pray UCU18 it, u it io JlOIIible the reoen>- than my 0WJl. AI to money matte.., 1 am ruined-atbIaDce may be the ooIe trace I lbaD be able to pnoerve lout till Rochda1e io ooId; and if that doeo Dot tIIra out0( OW' put liieudship aDd p..-t acquaiDlIJIce. JlIIIt weD, I obal1 enter into the AllItrian or R.-ian -meDOW il_ fool.. enough, bot in a few.y....., ..hen -perhapo the Turlriob, if 1 like their _ Th<._ 0( .. are dead, aDd othera are separated by inevi- world io all betOre me, and 1 leave England without reo­tahIe eirt:ulMtancee, it will be a kind of ..tiofaction to gret, and without a wiob to revioitlJly thing it eootaino,retain in th..... imag811 of the living the idea of our ezeept yownelf, and your preoent f8IIidenee.limner aeI...... ud to eootemplate in the reoemblanee of . • Believe me, youn ever oiDeerely.thedead,aDthatre~ofjudgment,leelin~andahoet "P. S. Pray teD Mr.Ruohton bio lOll • well, and0( pumooa. But all thio woold be dull enough lOr you, doing well· 10 ia Murray indeed better than 1 ever laW

ad~~ night, ad to end my ebapter, or. rather my him; be..in be back in~t a _tb. I oucht to addloomiIy, believe me, d_ H. yoara moot ll1feetlODately. the leaving Murray to my few regrelll, u bia • perhap-

• P. S. I do not kno\Y bow you and Alma Mater will prevent my _ing him again. Robert I take wilbagree. I wu but an untoward cblld myoe~ and I be- me· I like him, beeauoe, like myoell; be _ aliilllldIieve the good lady and ber brat were equolly rejoiced .'animaL"_ben I ...&1 weaned; and, if I obtained her benedictioneI partinc, it wu, .t beat. equivocol.•

LETTER XLIV.

TO XL _iraI' Da~J'.

LETTER XL.

LETTER XLI.

"FallllOUlh, JllDe 16th, 1809.TO .. C. l"ALLAo, O:lll. "MY Do:.... D.O.Y,

" ApriUoth, IllOt. "We oail l&omorrow in the Liobon packet, bavincDI:4. IJlI, been detained tillllOW by the 1ack ofwind, and other re-

"I am juat arrived at Batt's Hote~ Jermynoetreet, St...-rieI. Th...... being at lot procured, by this time t~

Ja-'s, from N ewotead, and obal1 be very glad to _ morro.. evening we obaD be embarked on the vide,.... whf'D COIIYemont or agreeable. Hobhouae io OIl hio tlOrid of ttatero,1lOf all the oorld like Rom.- Crusoe._y up to towD, full of printing reooIution, and Tbe Malta .-l not oailing for 8OIJ1e wee"" we banapiDst criticism. determined to go by way of Liobon, and, u myoervan14

"Believe me, with great omcerity,yOllfB trnly, term it, to eee 'that there Portingale ~ thence to Cadiz"BYaolr." ad Gibraltar,and 80 on OW' old route to Moita and

CODItaDtinople, if 10 be that CapteiD Kidd, our gallantcommander, anderatando plain oailing and Mereator, andtakeo \II 011 our yoy. all aeeording to the chart.

.0 HJl. WILLJ... M Jl4IfKEI. "Will yoo tell Dr. Butler that 1 bave taken the trea-• T_Ive o'cIoek, Friday night. lIUnl of a oervant, Fri..... the notive of PfllIIia Proper,

"MY DLl.. JlAlIIEI, into my aerviee from hil reeommendatioo. He bao" I bave jllIt received your DOle; believe me, I regret been all among the Worohippera ofFire in Penia, and

- oineerely that I WIll DOt fOrttmale tlIIOUgh to _ it hu leon Peroepolio and all that.IoefOre, u I need DOl repeet to you, that your eoovena- "Ho~hal made ..oundy preparations for a booktioIl fOr balfan hour would have been mncb more agree- on bio return ~100 penis two gaDooo of japan ink, andable to me than gllJDbling or drinkin~, or any other _ra: oo1umeo of best blank, ia DO bad provision Ibr aIosbionabIe mode of puoing an evening abroad or at diaeeming public. I have laid down my pen, but bate.......... I reaDy am very oorry that I went out previouo promioed to contribute a cbapter on the state of a>oraIo,to the arrival of your de&paleb: in tiJtnre, pray let me &c. &c.barfrom you.before m, ODd whatever my en~ementa ... ;::,,:::.::.m-.~y be, I will oIwa~ pootpone them. Believe me, And .... DO ......-0....'./ aq,...~.with that deference which I bave oIwayo from my ch~d- ".. •IIood put to your tDlaU, and with ""me...hat a uetter Adieu. Believe me, &c. Ite.apinioo 0( yeur heart than I bave hitherto entertained,

"YOlIn ever, &e."

TO Ma. RODOIOIr.LETTER XLn.· "Falmouth, ]lDle 16th, 1809.

TO .......".011. ·11'1' DEAR BO»OIO_.

"Falmoulh, JUDe ltd, 1809. "Before this reach... you, Hobhouae, two ofIir.era-DJU1l MOTRD, wiveo, three chi1dren, two waiting-maitm,ditto ouboltenw

-I UIl about to oail in a few day"; probah1y before1------------------1hIa.-:a. y_ Fle~begedIOhanL that I baft a:s:-~:--sT_ol..... Good NJaII&," III'" _0-00

14 LBTTERb. If'09.

LETTER XLVI.

TO ilL 800010".

LETTER XLV.

...CIoIldo llaroicL CuIO I. _ UlIlo....

lOr the troope, threeP~ -ruins and d..-i"", tIwl England, and I am infinitely am--' with 11I1~oft aR nineteen lOaIo, will have Iail.... i.a the Lisbon grimage u far u it hu gone.pIlcket, with Ihe IIObitt Captaia Kidd, • pllaot com- • To-DIOml1V 1Ve 8lart Ie ride ".. near 400 ..ae. ulIIlIDder u lIVer ....ugll!ed an anchor of~ N anlZ. far u Gibraltar, whote we t'lJlbartr lOr Melita aM B)

• We ere going to Lie!IPn lint, bee.uee the Malia zantium. A leUer to Malte will find 1IIe, <1r to be lb­packet hu 1IILiIed, d' ye .... 1-from Liaboe to Gibralter, warded, if I am went. Pray erobftce the Drury _Mella, Cooetentinople, and 'all that,' u Orator Henley Dwyer and all the EphOlliane you etlCOlBlter. I elntaid, when he put the Church, and I aU thlll,'ln danger, writing with Butler'e donative peooi~ l'hidI mu. Df

° Thia town of Falmouth, as you will partly conjecture, bad hand wonNl. E:rctJBe illegibility. • • •U1DOgre&tway.fromtheeea. ItiadeAmdedontheeea- °Hod«-! eend me the ne.., and the death.., andlido by tway c~les, St. MI." ucI Pndeonie, e,.. defeat&, and capital crimea, 8Ild the miri>rtunee of one'eIremely we~ calculated for annoying every body except Mende; and let .. hear of literary matte.... and the con­an erl~my. St. Ma_ is prriaonod by an ebIe-bodied troveniea and the oritlcilma. All this will be pI_l­!"'''''''' uffourscore, a wido...er. He bae the who'->- 'Sua.,e man magno,'ltc. Talking of that, 1 have beennwrd and 001. managoment or IIiJ: IOO8t lDIJIWIageable -.ick, and lick of the _ Adieu.pieeeo of ordnllJlCe, admirably adapted for the deetnlo- • Youn faithfully, A:c.»lion of Pendennia, a like tower of .trength e. the oppo-lite Iide of the Channel. We ha.,e .... St. M..... butPendennio they ,viII not let \IS behold, ..ve at a di8laDee,oocauee HobhOUlle and 1 are euapected of hamag aI- TO XL 80DllIO".

roady tek~n St. MI..... by • coup de main. °Gibralter, Aapt 8, 1809."The town conte;"" many quak~ .nd nit fis!-he .1 ha.,e just uriYed at this place after a journey

..,.tera have. tasle or copper, owmg to the IIOil of a through PortugeI, and • pert of Spain, of nearly IiOOmining country-the wumen (b1....ed be the Corpora- mil... We left Lisbon and lraYelled on horseback tnlion therefor!) are Bogged at the cut" tei1 ...hen they S.ville and Cadi%, end thence in the H yperion fiigate topick and .te~ U happened to one of the mil' 8llJ: yeeter- Gibraltar. The h~ are excellent-we rode &evenl\,day nOOll., She was pertinaciouo in her behaviour, and miles a d.y. Eggs and win. and hard bode are all th~

damnod the mayor. • • accommodation we found, and, in .uch torrid ...eather• Hod,,"80n! remember IRe to the Drury, and remem- quite enough. My health ill better than in En~IlJIQ

her me' to-younell; when drunk :-1 am not worth a * • •eober thought. Look to my Satire at Cawthorne'., • Seville ie a fin. town, and the Sierra Morena, partCockspur-otreet. • • *.. . or which we croeaed, a very sufficient moontain,-bU:

° 1don't know wh~n 1 can ":l'1te agam,~~. It de- damn description, it is al....,. disgusting. Cadiz, ....eelpende on that eap,menced naVIglLlor, C.ptam Kidd, and Cadiz :-it ie the firat epat in the creatioa. • • *the 'stormy wiade.that (don't) blow,' at this IOUOD••1 The beauty of its otreets and mallllions is oaIyexcellecllea.,. EDgland WIthout re~t-I shall return to It bv the lo\·elin.... or ita inhabitants. For, with all ns­...ithout pleuure. 1 a'!' like Adam, the first ~vict, ti-;"'a1 prejudice, I must confess thew~ ufCadiz are_"",cOO to tn.Mportabon, but I have no Eve, """ have as far superior to the Engliah ...omen m beauty u th.eaten DO apple but what ...... lOUr U a crab t-«Dd thUi Spaniards are inferior to the Engliah In every qualitJenda my &rat chapleo'. Adieu. YOUI'lI, A:c.' that dignifies the nam. or man. • * • Justul

began to know the principal~ of til. city, 1 WIUlobliged to .ail.

• You will not expect • long letter after my riding 00

far 'on hollow pampered jadee of AJiL' Talking ofAsia pUla me in mind of Africa, which is within fi"..mileo ofmy preeent rOIIidence. 1 am going over before

° Lisbon, July 16th, 1809. 1 go on to C~tinople."Thus far haft we~ed our·route, and - all " • * • CadiE i. a complete Cyth_ Many of

IOl1lI of marYeBoue lights, paIacea, COIlVenta, &c.- the grandeee who have left Madrid during the trouble.which, beiIItl to be heard in my friend Hobhouee'. fOrtb. rOIIide there, and 1 belieYe it ia the pretti... end cleanestcoming Book of Tra.,ela, I ahall not anticipate byamug- town in Europe. London ill filthy in the comparison.Cliog any account whatsoever to you in • priftle and. • • The Speniah women are all ali1<e, their edOoclandeotine manner. 1 must joet oboerv. th.t the village eatioIl the eeme. Th. wife ofa duke ia, in infonnation,ofCintra· in Estremadura is the moat beautif~perhape, as the wife ofa peuant,-the wife of. peuent, in man­in the world. • • * ner, equal to a dutch.... Certainly, th.y are fuc;inat..

• 1 am .,ery happy here, becauee 1 loves orangeo, and ing' but their minds have oaIyone id.... and the buain_talk bad Latin to the monka, who IBlderatand it, u it is of their live. ia intrigue. • • •like their own,-e.nd I goeointo eociety, (with my pocket "I have .... Sir John Carr at Seville and Cadiz, andptalOla,) and I .wims in the Tagua all acroea at once, like Swift's barber, have been down on my kn_ to be~.nd 1 ride. on an ... or a mule, and swears Portugueee, he would not put me into black and white. Prey reoend have got • diarrhma and biteo from the mUllljuitoea. member m. to the Drurya and the Davi.... and all ofBut what of that? Comfort must not be ezpected by that .tamp who are yet eztent. S.nd me a letter IlJlllfoUuo that go a pleasuring. • • • n.... to Malta. My next .pistle ahaU be from Mount

• When the Portuguese are pertinacious, 1 .y, I C.... Cauca1U8 or M-.t Sinn. 1.ha11 retum to Bpam be­racbo!'-the great oath of the grand....., that very .....u lOre I _ England, for 1 am enamoured of the CllUDtnsupplies the plac. of I Damme,'-and, when diasatiafied Adieu, and bolie.,. IIIllo A:c.'with my Deighbour, 1 pronounc. him 'Ambra di merdo.' __With th~ two phrase.. and • third. 'AYr& BouIo,'which aigmfieth 'Get an ....' 1 am Dniveraally under- LETTER XLVII.atood to be a perea" ofdegree and a muter oflenguagee. TO THE RO•• _. anD".

Ho... merrily ...e lives that trav.llers be !-if'we had food 0Gibralter, Aug. 11th, 1808.aM raiment. But, in lober aedn.... any thia« ia better • DU. IIOT8o,

·1 ha.,e been eo mncb occupied aince my departure&om EnsiaDd. that tiD 1 could addrese you at 1Iq"b, J

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"ETTERS. 1808. 1&"IN bbone writmg altogether. .&. 1 hano DOW .-de, I _ a Fat merebant, a Mr. Genba 01 Beoto...... tluoutlh Portugal, and a ee-iderable put 1aDd, who _ mnmely polite, and fa9UUl'8ll ..with 1MBpaa. and hanoleiaure at this~ I IhalI MkIea'fOUf inspection of hw vaulta IUIIl~!JIat I~ IIto .... JOI1 a obort detail " my·__ta. We the fouDlaiII beaG.BUled &om FaImoottb 00 the td orJuly, readled LillboII • Cadiz,* Cadiz, ill the _ detiptral I.-n )..a YeryiiLYOUr&hIe ,-ge at lOur daY" and a laal~ _ beheld, vt!1r'f diAnat &om our Eapm eitiee iaad took up oar abode in that city. It hu CJftea beea evt!1r'f""'l""'l. ellcepl eIeaaIiMu, (aDd it is u deu uIi-=ribed without being worthy at cI.-riptioG; for, ea- Loodon,) but IliD beautifid and fbII at the fiDl'8t _capt the view &om the Tagua, which is beaalilW, IlDd in SpaiD, the Calia bel.. beiag the L-mro witdIu_ line dum:'- and eonYellts, it eoataia little but at their 1aDd. Just u 1 wu intnldueed, aDd hegan tAliithy~ and more fiItbJ inhahitanta.* like the grIlDd...... I wu forced to leave it fOr this cun«I

• To make ameada fOr this, the viIIalle atCintra, about place; but before I mum tAl EIII!and I will visit itlifteen 1IIiI... &om the eapital, io, perbapll in every re- apia. The night helOre I left it, I oat in the boll at theIp«t, the -.t delightful in Europe; it containe beau- opera with Admiral Cordova" fiunily; he is the COllI­tie. ate...,ry d.".,.,ption, natural and artificial. Palaceo mander whom .J.ord SL Vineent defeated in 1m, lindand prdens riBing in the midst at rocb, ca.tanLcts, and hu an apI wiIil aDd a fine daughter, Senorita Cordova;precipicee; oonventa on lltUpendOllS height.-a distant the girl is very pretty in the Spanish Ityle, in mT opiniol.new .. the lea and the TagtIlI; ,.00, besid... (though by no meana inferior tAl the Eng1iloh ·in ehanne, and cw·that ill a oecondary ccmsideration) is remarkable u the tainly ouperiOl' in 1Ucination. Long black hair, cIarIlocene atSir H. D.'I Convention.t It unit... in itself&ll languilhingey.....- olive complelliooo, aDd foons_Ibe wiIdne8B or Ibe weetem highlandll, with the verdure graceful in motion thlD can he co"'....ived by ID Engliah­rJf the South of France. N ear Ibis place, about ten mu uaed to the drow"" 1istI""" air of hil countryw.-,..we. to th.. right, is Ibe palace or Mati'&, the bout added to Ibe most becoming dr.... and, at the same time,PootugaI, u it might he ofany country, in point of mag- the moo deceot in the world, render a Spanish beautyaiIicence without elegance. There ill a connont an- irreaistible. 1 heg leave to oo.e"e that intrigue here illDelIed; the monb, who p- large re"'o...... "'" the buain_ or life ; .when a woman ID&rries abe thro__ enoogh, and undlll'lt&nd Latin, 10 that we had oIf aU feotraint, bUt I believe Ibeir conduct is cbutea ~ conversation: they have a large b"brary, ud enough before. Ifyou make a proponl, which in Kog.~ me if Ibe EnglWl had any boob in their country. land would bring a boll 011 Ibe oar from the meeklllt ..

• I IeDt my baggage and part at the ""~ta' by lea Yirgino, tAl a Spanish girl, obe thanks you lOr the honourto Gibraltar, and !ravellcd on honeback from A1dea you intend her, and repIi.... I Wait till I am married, aDdGalheda, (the 6nt Ilage from Lisbon, which ill only &Cl- Ilhall he too happy.' Thil is IitorallyaDd Mrictlytrue.""AibIe by water,) to Seville, (00ll of Ibe moo fiunoua M" C. aDd her little brother underotood a little Framcla,cities in Spain,) where the government caUed the Junta aDd, after regreuing my ignorance of the Spanish, ohei. naw held. The distance 10 Seville is nearly four hun- propooed tAl become my preceplrelll in that 1&Dguage.dred miles, and tAl Cadiz al'llOSt ninety mil.. further to- 1 could only reply by a low bow, aDd upre811 my "'pelwvdo the coast. 1 had orders from the government, and that I quitted Cadiz too 110OO tAl pennit me to make the.......,. possible accommodation on the road, &I an Eng- progrea which wOllld cIoubt.lelll attend my Itudieo underlish oobleman, in an English uniform, is a very reepecta- so channing a cIirectreu. I .... .w.ding at the backbIe p<"r.lOD&ge in Spain at present. The hones are re- of the boll, which .....emb.. our opera boll.... (the theatnmarkably good, and the roada (I ....ure you upon Illy is large, and 6Dely cIeeorated, the mlJllic &dminbIe,) iahooour, lOr you will hardly helieve it) very IiLr IUperior the manner in which ED«!i8bmen geueraIIy adopt, forto the best British roads, without the om&lles! toU or fear of incommoding the IadiM in front, when this fairturnpike. You will BUppoee this when 1 rode poet to SpaniArd disJ>oo-ed an old woman (ID aunt « aSenna in four dayo, through thio parching cOlDltry. in duenna) of her chair, and commanded me to he oeatedIbe mid1d of IUIDDI...., without filtigue « annoyance. nen h......1t; at a toterabIe diotanee from her malDlJl&.s..iDe is a beautiful town; though the l!Peeta are oar- At the cIolIe at the performance I withdrew, and '01&1

row they are cl......t We lodged in the house at two 10000ging with a party of men in the passage, when, ...SpaniIIh unmarried ladi.... who r- .... ho..... in p'-.l, the lady tamed round aDd c&1Ied me, and I hadSeville, and gave me a <:lIMua opeeimen of Spanilh the honour orattending her to the admiraI'l lD&DIion. Imannen.§ Thcyare women ofcharacter, and the eldlll have an invi1atiOll on my ",tum to Cadiz, which I IhaIla fine woman, the youngest pretty, but not 10 good a accept, if [ repuo through the country on my returDfigure as Donna Jooeph&. Tbe freedom at manner from AoiL .which is general here, utoniahed me not a liUle; and in • I have met Sir 10hn Carr, knight err&IIt, at Sevillothe cour.e of further observation I find that """,rYe ill not and Cadiz. He is a pl_tman. I like the Spaniardathe characteristic at the Spanish beU.... who are, in ge- much. You have hoard of the battle near Madrid, IUIIl......t, very handsome, with large black ey.... and very in England they c&1I it a Yictory_ proUy victory! toOline lOrtn.. The eldeet honoured your VIUDt1I't/ry lOll oflice.... and /j()()() men killed, aU English; and thewilb yery particular attention, embracing him wilb great French in u great force u ever. 1 lIhould have joined1AlDd...... at parting, (I \VlLS there but three da,.,) after the army, but we have no tilDe tAl loea hefore we get upcatting olr a lock at hio hair, and presenting him with the Mediterranean ud Archipelago. 1 am going Over_ ofher own, aboat three feet in length, which I send, to Africa to-morrow; it is only lix mil.. from this f_Ull! beg yoa will retain till mt return. Her Iut wordl lreIlI. My Dlllt ltage io Cagliari in Sardinia, where I........ 'Adi,,,," tu hermOlO! me guJIlo mucho.'-' Adieu, ohaII be ~ted tAl hio majesty. 1 have a most_, ... pretty feUow, yoa pleese me much.' She offered a perb uniIOnn u a court Mea, indispen&&ble in Ira-.... at her apartment, which my virtue induced me to veiling. •decline; abe 1alJbhed, and 8aid 1 had lOme Eng1iloh Aupil IStIa.-1 have not been tAl Afioice:; the wind io'amante,' (loYer,) and added that Ihe wu going to he cootrary; but I dined ylllterd&y at Algesiru, with Lad,-.ned to an officer in the Spanish army. W ...tmoreIand, where 1 met Genenl Cutanoo, the ce-

• I left Seville, and rode on to Cadiz, throngh a beau- lebrated Spanish leader in the late and pre8lDt "'ar: 10

ti!iII eaantry. At X.... where the aheny..,. drank ill day I dine with iIim; he hu oIfered me Jette... to Te­-.n in Barbary, b- the principal MOOI'I; and 1 am w

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hare the booN lOr a few cia,. at ODe at the Kreat -. bad KUCeIy aDy other ~puDoa. I have fbuDd ..which W&II interlded for Lady W. wboN bealth wiD not very pretty, ~ery accom~ Uld ex~ly_nlrie.permit her to cr.- tho Str&i1L BUOII&p&l'tlI • O'I'OD DOW 80 iDceDaed &pUIlIt her, that..~ IIIth.-I could DOt diDe with C..-,.... tifo would be in ....0 daaget' if .110 w_ lakeD ....-­

clay, but thi. aft01'llOOll I bad that hoDoIIr; he ia pi-I, a MCOIId time.Uld for aught I know to the contrary, c1e\'1ll'. I llUIDOt You bave _ Murray &Dd Robert by tIoiI time, aDdKG to Barbary. The Malta packot..w.loomorrow, and received my letto~tt1o baa happened lince that cIate.mytlOlf in it. Admiral PurN, with whom. I dined at ~ ba:,! toudlecI at Capari, in Sardinia, and at Girpnlo,Cadis, p ..e me a pa-e;: ;0 a IIipte to Gibraltar, but m Sicily, &Dd OIIIbuk loomorrow lOrP~ &om whODCOwe have DO lbip of war cilmined for Malta at JIIWODt. I proceed to Y &Dina, where Ali Pacba holds hia Court,Tho padtelll oaiI fUt, and have KOOd accommodatiOll8. 80 I lIhaIllOOD be lUIlOIIll the M.-Imans.You Iball hOlU' from me OIl our roule. Joo Murray d.. - Adieu. Belie..e mo with .meerity.livera thilt. I heve aoat him and the boy hack; pray - Yours 0\'111'

aow tho IacI o..ery kindJl-, u he ill my great ra..ourite. - Byao.I hope thia will lind you well.

- Bolio... me, 0'I'0f yOUI'll linceroly,-Byao••"

TO JUl. aVIBTO••

LETTER XLIX.

LETTER XLVUL

TO TJD: BOJrot7UJlLJO ..... Jlno••

- P. 8. So Lord G. ill married to a rustic! weD done! TO IIU. JlYaO••

If I wed, I wiD bring you home a Sull&Da, with half a -PrOYua, NOY.I:I, 1809.dozen citi.. for a dowry, and reconcilo you to an Otto- _IIr DE.a IIOTIBJI,mao ~t_m.law with a bushfJI of~ DOt larger _I ..... DOW beea lOme time in Turkoy: thi. placeth&D oelrich eggw or smaJler than wab>ul& ill OIl the cout, but I he..e travoraed tho mterior at tho

pl'Ol'ince at Albania ou a Yisit to tho Pacha. I loftMalta in tho Spider, a brig of war, on the 2ht of Sop­tlllDber, and arrived in oiAht cia,. It ProVO8&. I thonce •havo been aboutlliO mil.., u far u Tepalen, his high-n..... country paIaee, "hero I steyod throe clays.. Tboname oftho Pacha ill~ and be is considered a man of

- Gibraltar, AuguR 16th, 1808. tho &rat abiJiti.. : ho govet'DI tho wholo of Albania, (theIlia. atllBTOR',. ancient Illyricum,) Epirue, aDd part ofMacedooia. Hill

- I ..... IIOIlt ~obert bome WIth Mr. Murray,~... &do, Vely Pacha, to whom he baa gi..en mo lett.....the ~try which I ':lD about to tra:rol through III m a 1l0vorDI tho Mor.... aDd baa great inJIuence in Egypt; inIt&te which rondera It 1IDIIIfe, particularly for 000 10 short, ho io OIle of the moe! powertbl mOD in the Otto­yoang. ~ allow yo.u to deduct fi.....aDd-t..e.nty pouncH a maD empire. When I roached Y&Dina, tho capital,JOIU' for hia edueabo~ for three y~ provided I do DOt after a journey at throe cia,. over tho mountains, through~tum befo~ that Im!e, and I dr.stro he may be coo- a country at the moe! picllJr-Iue beauty, I found thatoidered as m my sernce. Le& evory care be taken Ali Pecha W&II with hia anny in Illyricum, besiegioghim, &Dd let him be sent !",1IchooI: ~ cue of'!'y ~eath Ibrahim Pecha in tho casllo at Borat. He bad beard( have proYided enough m my wiD to render hun ind.... that aD Engli5hman of rank W&II in his dominions, &DdpendODt. Ho baa heha~ extrem?ly well, &Dd bu tra- had left orders in Yaninl with tho commandant to pro­nIlOli a great d~ for the. time of htl abRnce. Deduct vido a houe, and supply me with overy kind of noc_tbe expense oChis educallon &om your rODl. sary gratia. and, though I ha..o beea allowed to maJ.o

-BraD••" preeenlll to'tho slav.... lite., I have DOt been JM:rmilted 10

pay for a lingle articlo of hOUlehoid COIISWJIpbOO.- I rode out 00 tho vizier'1 horses, &Dd saw the pal&C<ll

at himself and ~andftons: thoy are splendid, but toomuch ornamented with .i1k and gold. I then wont overthe mountaiol through Zitz:l, a villago With a Greek

- Malta, Sept. 16th, 1809. monastery, (where I Ilept on my relum,) in the mosl• DE4IL MOTHER, . • beautiful oituation (always excepting Cintnl, in Portugal)

-~hoag~ I bave a ..ery ohort blDO to IIJ',l"'OJ ~mg to I ever beheld. 10 nine days I reached Tepalon. OurlUI immediately for Greece, I caDDot &'FOld taking aD journoy WlIlI much prolOlllled by the lorrenlll that ha.lopportunity at le/l~ you that I IIDI woo. I .have .beOD faJJeo from the mountains. and intel'locted theroads. Jill ~a1ta a ohort Ome, &Dd ha!e found. the mh&:bltan~ .hall n....er rorllet the lingular oceno OD eOlenng Tepa.boepltable and pleUllJlt. T~ letter tI eommJtted to Ion at five io the afternoon, u the lun wu gomg down.tho charlle of a very extraordmary wom~ whom you It broullht to my mind (with some chanll.0 ofdrtA" ho,,:­ha.... doubtless hcardot;Mra.Spencer Smith,· ofwhoee ever) Scott'. delcriptioo of Braobome Cull. m hisllIICIq>e tho Marquis de S~..o pUblish",! a narrative a lAy, and the feudal .ystem. The Albanians,.in. the••rew years ago. She hu IIDce been .hlpwrec!'ed, Uld dr-.... (the most magnificoot m tho world, cons15lmg 0(her lifo ...... ~en from its. commencement so fertile in re- a long tDhiU kilt, goId-worked cloek, crimwc>n v~l.et gold­~arkable mcidents, that m a roman~o they ~ould appear laced jacket and waioteoat, .i!ve,:"mOIJDled pllltois andImprobable. She was born at Constantmople, where dagllOrs,) the Tartars with thetr h'llh caps, tho Turk. mher father, Baron Horbert, wu Austri&D ambusador; their vut pelil1eee and turbao.s, the IOldiers &Dd blackmarried unhappily, yet hu nover beea impeached in lIa.... with tho horaes, the former in ll""'P"" in an im­point at~cter; exci~ the~ofB~ moose large open pllery in fronl atthe paIaee, the !all'"by a pnrt m some COIIsplr&cy; lO'I'eraI~.. riII<~ her placed in a kind of cloioter below it, two hUlldroc! ItoedJIre; and ill not yet twenty-liYe. She tI hero m her reedy eapariooned to move in a moment counen en­-y to England, to join herh~ being .~ed to leriog or JlUIioll out with deapateheo, the .kettle-druml'eave Trieete, where Ibe WlIlI pa)'1Jlll a ....t to her beatio& boys caI1iog tho hour &om the mmaret of th.tmothor, by the approach of the Freoch, &Dd embarb m~ue,a1tollether with the IinguIar appearance 01" lbeIIUOD in a .hip of war. Since myarriYaI here, I have building itself;~ a new and deJilhdW .lpCCtarle to t

• The II FlonDeI" ., ....... III WI ..n.r..... ; IIDd al10dId 10• CIlIlolo_, Culoll._" • lIoo CblIdo-.CuIo 11._11.

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1Il'NIgW. I _ eondueted to a '"'ry haDd80me apart- COIl8II1'., with three doon wide open, no lire, or fl9ea~....m,·1IDd my health iDquired after by the Yizier'. aecre- plac4 in the hoWlll; except for culinary purpoeea.tlLry, • h-la-mode Turque!'· a To-day I aaw the remaina of the town of Actianl,.

a The JIeXt day I wu introduced to Ali Pacha. I ntllU' whicb Antony lost the world, in a .maIl bay, where_ d.......d in a full auit of IIlalF uniform, with a very two friph,. could berdly manmuvre: a broken wall iamagnificent aabre, ate. The l'izier received me in a the aole remnant. On another part of the gulf 8IAIIliIlarge room paved wilh marble i a fOuntain'" wu playing the ruine at Nicopolie, buill by AuguatUB in honour <IIn: _Ie centre; the apartmenl ..... eunounded by _riel bia victory. Lut niJ!ht I was at I Greek marriage; hut'>ItomaIIII. He rece"ed me ltending, a wonderful com- tbio and a thouaand tbing10 more I beve neither Lim.. I.'•

..ria...t from a M IIlIIIu1maD, and made me oit down on epace to deecrihe.!WI • band. I bave a Greek interpreter for general "I am going lo-morrow, with a guard of fifty men, I(-. but a phymeian of Ali'.. named Femlario, who UJ>o P&tru in the Morea, and thence to Athen.. wbere 1dentandJI Latin, acted lOr me on tbio occuion. Ria.hal1 winter. Two da}'ll ago I Wal ntllU"y loot in a6r.<t q.-ion was, why, at 10 early an age, I len my Tum.b lhip of war, owing to the ignol'llDo.·e of the cap­coontry'1-(the Turks have no idea of travelling for tainandcrew,thoul!hthelllormwunotviolent. Fletcb..a"lllJ$etD6llt.) He then said, the English mini.ter, Cap- yeUed after hi" wife, the Greek. called on aU the Ilints,tain Leake, had tnld him I ..... at a ;;real fiunily, and the MUOIul"",nl on Alia; the captain burel inlo waredesired his respeeW to my mother; wbich 1 now, in the and ran >,,,low deck, wiling us to call on God; the 5,,;11

name at Ali Pache, preeenl to yon. He aaid he was were ald.!, Ihe mainyard ehivered, the wind blowinl!certain I ..... a man of birth, because I had .mall ears, lieoh, lI1e night letting in, and all our chance was tocurling hair, aod bllie white hands,t and expreeoed bim- make Corfu, which is in pass....ion ofthe French, or (...oeIf pleased with Illy appearance and garb. He told me Fletcher pathetically termed it) •a watery grave.' I didto COIIBider him as a father wbile I "'lUI in Turkey, and what I could to console Fletcher, but finding him incor­>aid be looked on me u biuon. Indeed, be treated me rib"b1e, wrapped myeelf up in my Albanian capote, (anlike II child, sending me eImonds and eugared sherbet. immense cloak,) and lay down on deck to wail the wont.litIit aDd Iweelmeato, twenty limes a day. He begged I beve learned to philooopbize in my travels, and if 1 hadme 10 visit him onen, and al nIght, when he WII al lei- DOl, complaint wu useless. Luckily the wind abated......... I then, after coffee and pipee, retired for the firet and only drove III on the COllI ofSul~ on Ihe·main land,time. I saw him thrice afterward. II ie singular thaI wbere we landed, and proceeded, by the help of the na­the Turks, who have no hereditary dignities, and few tivee, to Prevesa again; bul I .hail not trust Turkishgreat famili.,., excepl the Sultans, pay so much r""peel eailore in future, though the Pacha had ordered one of10 birth; for I fountl my pedigree more regarded than his own galliots 10 take me to Patras. I am thereforemy title. going as far DJI Missolonghi by land, and there bave only

a Hia highnesa ie oizty yeare old, very fat, and nol tal~ to r,roee a email gulf to get 10 Palras.:lot with a fine feee, Iighl blue eye.. and a white beard; a Fletcher'. next epistle win be full of marTele: weWs manner is vcry kind, and al the same time he po&- were one night 100 for nine hO<ire in the mountains in a....... that dignity which I find univereal among the thunde.....torm, and .ince nearly wrecked. In bothTurb.-He has the appearance of any thing bUI his cues, Fletcher WDJI eorely bewildered, from appr~hell­

real character; for be is a remoreel... tyrant, guilly of mons of famine and banditti in the firllt, and drownillJ ID

the mool horrible cruelties, very brave, and so good a the .econd instance. His ey.. were a little hurt by thernerallhat they call him the Mahometan Boonaparte. lighlning, or crying. (I don't knO\v which,) bul are no\ONapoleon has twice offered to make him king of Epiru.. recovered. When you wrile, addr... to me al J\lrbat he prefers the English inter"",, end abhors the Strant!'.. English consu~ Patr.., Morea..French, ae he bimselftoltl me. He is of 10 much con- a I could leU you I know not bow many!ncweu"""Iuence, that h~ '" much courted by botb; the Alba- thaI I think would. amuse YOl~ bul they crowd on Ill!nians being the molll warlike subjects of the Sultan, mind as much as they would oweU my poper, and I canIhough Ali is only nominally dependenl on the Porle. neither IfrlLllge them in the one, nor put mem down onHe bu been a migbty warrior; but is u barbarous II the other, except in Iho greatest confusico. I like th~

~e ;. euccesofW, routing rebel.. lite. lite. Buonaparte Albanians much i lhey ""' not aU Turks; .ome tribt·•....t him a snulFbox, with his picture; he aaid tho mull'- are Christians. But their religion make. little dif.box wu very well, but the picture he could exeuee, II he ference in their manner or conduct. Tiwyare e.teemedaeitbel' liked it nor the original. His idcu ofjudging of the best troope in the Turkish .ervice. I lived on mya man" birth from eare, banda, lItc. were curious enough. route two day. al once, and three day" again, in a bar­To me, be "'Ill, indeed, a father, giving me leUers, rack at Salom, and never found .oldiers .0 toIernble,~ and every pooaible accommodation. Our next though I have been in the garrisons of Gibraltar an~CODTe!!IIllio.;s were of war and travelling, poliUCI and Malta, and Been Spanish, French, Sicilian, and BritishEngland. He called my Albanian soldier, who attend. troopl' in abundance. I have had notlling stolen, andme, and told him to protect me al all bazard. His was always welcome lo their provision and milk. 1'\ot1l&ID6;' Viscillie, and like all the Albnniane,he is brave, a week a.go 1lJ' AlbanillJl chief, (every Tillage has ,arigid.Iy bonea!, and litithful; but they are crue~ though chief, who is caUed Prirnate,) after helping us out of the_ treacherooa; and bave eevoral vices, bul no mean- Turkish galley in her distress, feeding us, and lodging my".,.... They are, perb~ tho m~beautiful roce, in suite, consL'ting of Fletcher, a Greek, two AlheniMsr~:nt af countenance, in the world; their women are a Greek priest, and my companion, Mr. Hobhouse, r..eometim.. h~e also, bul they are uea.ted like fUlled any compens"tion but a wrillen paper naling thr./..v~ beatm, and, in ebort, complete OOutl at burden; I was well received; IlJld when I pressed lum to acceptthey plough, dig, and sow. IIOund them carrying wood, a few leqUins, 'Nn,' he replied; 'I wish you to love meanot actually repairing the highway". Tbe UlIlD are all nolto pay me.' These are his words.aoIdIero, and war and the chace their sole occupation. • It is astonishing how far money goce in tbia cOllDtry.The ..._ are the labourers, which, L'er aU, is no While I was in the capital, 1 had nothing to pay, by thoveat bard.llll' in 80 delightful a climate. Y6lI\erday, Vizier'1 order; but .ince, though I have generall) bad,!be Utll af November, I bathed in the _; to-ia1u ia mteen horeel, and generaUy.iI or eeven meo, the _.. 1IlIt lhat I am writing in a eIwly room of the EogIish PO" bu nol been half II much U Nyu.. 0lIl1 tJtroo.

.... Doa J.... CanI4 V. _1IlI, ucI_t /bIcL_t.. ucI_

3.... CIAIo Boraid.c.-n._"

LETTERS. Ulta.

LETTER LII.

TO THE RD..... BT.Olf.

• Smyrna, April 10th, 1810.

II Youn. wmeereiy and alI'ectionately,I BYRn••-

"",ella 1ft Malta, tbough 'SIr A. Ball, the ~V"""'" ,ave lhe flu1lIer I go the IIIOI'll my~ iDcr«.-. ud UI)me a hOU8lllbr lIOthing, and rhad only om aerv<UIl. 0,. aveman 10 ...uer-wri!ing becomee mare coufu_d. Itho-by, I expecl HlLIl80Il 10 remil r~gularly; for I an. nol have wrill~n 10 no one but yOUl'8lllf and Mr.Hu_about to ,tay in this province for ever. Let him write and th..... are comlJlllllicaliou or bau- aad dUly ...10 me at Mr. Strane'., Englioh r.onlu~ Patru. Tbe lher than 0( iDclinatioll.ract iI, the fertility of the plains ia ",onderfu~ and lJIllCie Fletcher iI very much diaguIted with hia fa!lg'_• oearce, which makes this ~marltable cheapn_. 1 though he bu undergoae nothing that I bave nol abared.a", going 10 Ath~1IlI 10 study modem Greek, ,,'hich He is a poor creature; indeed EnsJioh ...rYUlla ar~ d...differl much from the """,enl, thougb radi :ally llimilar, tOlltllhle tra..,lle,.. I have, besicI... him, two AlbanIan(bavo no desire to relum 10 (o:n~land, nor abaD I, unl_ lIOIdien and a Greek interpreter; alI excellent in theircompelled by absolule _nl, and HlU1lIOlI'l neglect; but way. Greece, particularl,y in the vicinity 0( Athena, illt ,ball not enter into A,ia for a yenr or two, as I have delightllt1; cIoudI_ ,Id. and loYely land.capew. Rulnuch 10 ..... in Greece, and I may perhaps C1'DII8 inlo I must ......rve alI account 0( my advenll1l'Oll till weAfiica,. at lea.ort the Egyplian part. Flelcher, like aD m""t. Ikeep no joumal, but my wud Hobhouae wril...Englishmen, ia v~ry much dissatisfied, though a liltle .... inc_tly. Pray take care or Murray and Robel"ltCODl:iIed lo the Turks by a I'l'OlIcnt of eighty piaslr.. and tell the boy it iI the mOIl lOrtuJIale thing for himlrom Ihe vizier, which, if you collllider every thing, and that be did not accompany me 10 Turkey. Considerthe value of epeeie here, is nearly worth len guinea this as merely a notice 0( my .rety, and believe me,Engli.'lh. He h... lIlllfered nothing but from cold, hllll, ·Youn,&c.. &c..and venn.n, which thOlle wbo lie in cottages and C1'DII8 • BYIlO. IIDOUDtaim In a cold country must underro, and ofwhichI bave equally partak~n witb himeelf; bot be i, notmanl, anr! iB afraid of robb<!.. and tempelllll. I haveno ODe to be remembered 10 in EngllUld, and wilh 10bear nothing from il, but thai ,VO"l are well, and a leiteror two on b~in.... frum HIU1!lnn, ...hom you may tell 10wrile, 1 will write whon 1 can, and beg you 10 .....Icve me.

• DEA. MOTREa,

• To-morrow, or tbiJI evening, I Illil for CODItantinopie"Yollr alI'ectionate IOn, in the S_tle frigate, of thirty-liz guna. Sbe returllll

• BuoJf, 10 England with our ambaador, whom abe .. going u~

on purpoee 10 receive, 1 have written 10 "'" IIhort• P. S. I have some very magnifique' Albanian leUeri from AtI:oertI, Smym.. and a long one from AI­

dreues, Ihe o~y expellllive article in thiB country. bani&. I have not yet mustered eoun.ge for a IIcconJThey caet 60 gwneas each, and have 10 much gold th,ey large epistle, and you must not be angry, lince I lake allIrOU1d caet 10 Eng~and two hundr~. 1 have been Ill- opportnniti... of apprizing you of my .rety: but eVeDtroduced 10 HUII'~ Bey and, Mabmo~t Pach.. both lhat .. an elf0l"lt writing moo irksome. I have been tra­little boyw"grand-children of AII,.at YanlOL ;rhoy!"'" verPinll Gre«e, and Epirul, IDyrilI, &e. Itc. and yOllIotalIy Wllike our lad., have patnted complexlOOS like lee by my date, have got inlo Alia. I have made butrouged dowagerw, large black er....~ feal~res perfectly one excurwioo lately, 10 the ruinI of Epblllll8. Malia iaregular. They are ,the pretueol little an~a1lI 1 ever the rendezvous 0( my letterw, 10 addreolIlo that wand..w, and a~ broken 1010 the court ceremon.llS already. Mr. HWlIOII has nol written, thoop I wiohed to hear clT,he TurIUah salule iI a llight in~nation of the h~ad, the Norfolk sale, the Lancuhire laWllliI, &c.. &c. Ionth the ~ 00 the breast. Inumat... a1>nY' k~ am anxioUllly e.tpecting freah remittanc.... I believeMabmout ~ ten ye~ old, and hopes. 10 Ille me ag~1D. you will like N ottinghamohire, at leut, my abare of iLWe are nndl WIthout underltandlng each other,like Pray acc~pt my good wiIbllI JD lieu ofa long leller, and._y athOl lOIb, though from a dilferent cause. He believe me,baa given me .. letter to hiB father in the Morea, 10 whom" have aleo letten &om Ali PachL-

-,-LETTER LI.

LETTER LIIL

TO THI: ROlfllll Mal. BYB.OW.

10 lOll. BY.OIl. "SallIette Frigate, offthe DardaneU..... AI/ril17, (810.• Smyrna, March 19, 1810. ..DEA. MADAM,

"Dn. MOTHEa, • • I write at anchor, (in our _y 10 Comtantinople,) 011.. I cannot write you a long lou01', but as I know you the Troad, which I travened two daY' •• AU the reo

...m not be sorry 10 receive any intelligence 0(my move- mainl of Troy are the lomhl or her dllltroy...... am"ng'm81tw, pray accept what I can give. I have traverBed which I ..... that of AntilochDll from my cabin wind.)w•.... pateot part of Greece, besicI... E pi..... &c. &e. re- These are large monndl of earth, like the banOWl of Ihelided ten weeks at Athens, and am now on the Asiatic Dan... in your iBland. There are lIOvera1 monumeut.,lide on my _y 10 ConatanhftOl'le. I have jOlt returned about twelve mil... diltanl, of the Aluandrian Trou,·from VIewing the ruinI 0( Epheeuo, a day', journey from which I a1Io examined; but by no meaDllo be compared1Imyrna. I presume yuu have received a long letler I with the remnantl of Atheos and Ephlllllll. Thill wiUwrote from Albania, with an account of my reception by be sent in a ,hip of...... bound with deopatchel f.,r,tbe Pacha of the province. Malta. In a few daY' we Iba1l be at CQDltalltinol'l.\

• When I arrive at COOIIaDtinople, I ahaD detennine barring acciden~. I ~ve also ~len &om Smyrnn,vohether 10 proceed inlo Pema or return, which latter I and lIbalI, from lime 10 lime, lraaIm1t short accountl ul..., not wish, ifI can avoid it. But 1 have DO intelligence my rno\'llD1llDtw, bat I feel totally unequal 10 loeg letten.from Mr. HanllOG, and but one letter &om youne1£ I • Believe me,Ihal1l1tand in need at'remiUUlCllI whether I proceed or .. YOQIII very Iineere\y,........... 1 have wriUen 10 him repealedly, that he may • Brao".-

.1101 plead ijptorance of my IltUation for negleeL I can • P ,S. No &cceuntl fromH~ ! Do not oompiaiDII" you DO lICCODDt of any thing, for I have not time 01' of I<bort letterw, I write to nobody 1lut yOIIl'Il8If and Mr~. lite tiipta I&iIin& immediately. IDdeed, liaMoa.

LETTERS. 18'(, 1.------------,.------------

LETTER LV.

LETTER LtV.

TO ~ BERRY navay.

ft no BOlO..... \lYtlOIO.

are ItiIl eminently beautifu~ particularly Iftlphi andCape Colonna in Attica. Yet these are DOthing to parlaof rupia and E pirul, where places without a 1WIIe, andrivera not laid down in Mal"'> may, one day, when m"'"

I ee--tinople, May 18th, 1810. ..... be ju.tly e.teemed superior .ubj~ for theI I~ .AD~JI, .. pencil and the p"o, to thc dry ditch of the I1issns aDd

1 arrinld ... 1ft aD EngI_h fiigate &om :'l~yma, a the bogs ofBreotia..... claY"~~ ....y e~ts worth mentlonUlg, - • The Troad ;" a fine field for conjecture and lIIlipe­apt land:ag to -.- th, l'!ain' of Troy, and Afte~.. ebooting,"and a good sportsman and an ingenious acholarwhen we were at anehcr ~ ~e ,Dardanelleol,._~ n..., excrcise their feet and faculti... to great advantage&om Seat08 t'> Abydoe, lD imItation of M08lIIeur LeaD- upon the spot ;-or, if they prefer ridin,!, lose their W8'

der, ...hoee otory yon no ~bt know too well for me to (as I did) in a cursed quagmire of the Scall'ander, whoadd any~ on the aubject, ex~ept that I croued .the wriggl6ll about as iflhe DardaD virgins .lilI ulfered theirB~tW1th~ut..,~ a mollve f~ the Ullder1akm~. wonted tribute. The ouly ve8ligo of Troy, or ht!! de­A. I am Just~ to VIIlt the Captam Pacba, you WIll .troyers, are the be.rrow. 8Uppolled to contain the car­__ the breVIty of my letter. When Mr. Adair CllSlletl of Acliin.., Anlilochuo, Aju, &c.-but MounllaUe leave l am to see Ihe.Sult~ and the moequ.... &C. Ida ;. slill in high feather, though the shepherds are

Believe me, 100lll ever, no....a.day. not much likc Ganymooe. But why shouldo BYROI'r." I oay more of theoe things? are they nol written in the

Bolra of Gtll1 and h.. not H. got a journal ? I keepDOne, .. I have renounced eeribbliug.

• I see not much difference belween ourselvetl and theTurko, save that we hsVl. ., and they have nOD&­that they bave Ioni dr........ and we sbort, and that w.

I Salette Frigate, MaySd, 1810. talk much, and Ihey liltle. • • • • • Tbey-MY DEAR DRURY, are .ensible people. Ali Packa told me be was sure I

• When I left England, neuly a year~ you reo wu a man of rank, be<-aU16 I bad I7II41l eara and 1lalodlI'l"ested me 10 write to you-I wiD do 10. I have and curlinK hsir. By.the-by, I speak the Rcmaie, orcrossed POrtllga~ tT1lversed the south of Spain, visited modem Greek, tolerably. It d... Dol dilI"er &om theSardini:>, Sicily, Malta, and thence passed into Turkey, ancient dial~t8 80 much U you would conceive; but thewbere I ,u,., still wandering. I fir« landed in Albania, pronunciation is diametriceJly oppo8ite. or verse, e"t~" aocienl Fopin.., whe,., we penelrated .. far as Mount cept in rhyme, they have no idea.Tomarit-t'l,'ellently treated by the chief Ali Pacha; "I like the Greeks, who are p1a..mle raecals,-wlthand, afler jOl1rneying through lIIyna, Chaonia, kc. all the Turk;.b vices, witbout their courage. However,cn-ed the gulf ofAClium, with a guard oflifty Albani- some are bmve, and all are beautif~ very mucb r0­

ans, and passed the A ch..lous in our roule through Acar- sembling the bUlts ofAlcibiades~e women not quiteDlltlia and .Eloli"" \Ve Slopped a short time in the 80 handsome. I can .wear in Turkisb; but, except 011OMorea, croeoed th. ~If Df Lepanlo, and landed al the borrible oalh, and 'pialp,' and 'bread,' and 'water,' Jbot of Parnassus; ..w all that Delphi retai.... and so have got nO great yocabulary ID that langu"ll"- Theyon to Thebes and A'henr, at which Isat we remaioed are extremely polite 10 strang""' of any ranJr, properlyleu weeks. protected I and as I have two servanla and two IOldiers,

• His majeaty'. ehip Pyladetl brought 118 to Smyrna; we get 00 with great eclat. We bav.. been oeeaaionaDybut not before we bad topographized Attica, indnding, in danger of thiev.... and once ofshipwreck,-but a1war-ofcoone, Marathon and the Sunian promontory. From eacaped. ,Smyrna to the Troad (wbich we Nited wben at anchor, • At Malta I fen in love with a married woman," andb- a lOrtnight, olflhe tomb or AntilochUl) our next challenged an aid-de-eamp of General'" • (a rudeMage; and now we are ill the Dardanell wailing fOr fellow, wbo grinned at 8Omething,-I never rigbtly knewa wind '" proceed to Constantinople. wbat)-but be 6llplained and apologized, and the lady

I ThiaIDOrniog 1-... from 8estoeto~. The embarked fur Cadiz, and so I escaped murder and erim.immediate di8tance is Dol above a twIe, but the current eon. Of Spain I oent lOme account to our Hodgson,....odera it hazardolls ;-.l mucb 10 that I doubt whether but haYe subsequently written to nO one, Bave noletl 10

Leander'. conjugal affeclion mtlllt fIt\t have been a little relalions and lawyers, to keep them out of my premiaca.chilled in his puaage to Paradiae. I attempted it a I mean to give up all connexioo, 00 my relurn, withweek al(O, and failed,-owing to the D'lrtb wind, and the many of my betlt fri..oo-s I supposed them-and to-.oaderfitI rapidity of the tide,-tbough 1 have been .narI all my life. But I hope to bave one good-hu­/'rom m,. childhood a strong lI'IVimmer. But, this mom- moured Isugh with you, and \0 embrace D..,.er, ar.:ling being calmer, I lIUCCeeded, and croeaed the I broad pledge Hodgson, before I commence cynicism.Helleepoot' in an bour aod ten minute.. • Tell Doctor Butler I am now writing with the gold

I Well, my dear Bir, I have len my borne, and leen pen be gave me befure I left England, wbich is the rc..part of Mrica and Asia, and a tolerable portiou ofE... son my ",,","will more unintelligible than UlUai. I bav.I'Op6. I have boon with flOtIeraIa and admirala, prineee been at Athens aDd seen plenty of theae reeds tor oenb­aod pacbu, governors and ungovernabl....,..-but I have bling, lOme ofw~ch b,refused to boetow upon me, be­not time or Jl&Il"r to expatiate. I wiIIb to let YOU know cause topographic Gell had brought them from Atticathat I live with a friendly remembrance of ,;,... and a ~ut I will O?t ~eeeribe,-no-you mUlt be satisfied wi'hope to meet you again; and, if 1 do this u obortly u 8lmple detail lIll my return; and then we will unfOld thepoaeihle, at:ribUIll it 10 any thing but f0'1"tfuJn-. f100dgaletl of colloquy: I am in a 56~ frigate, go~g

oGr-, ~!leient and modern, you know too well to up to fetch Bob Adair from CooataDlJDOple, who wiDrequire deeeriptioo. Albania, indeed, I have .... more hawe the hOllour 10 carry this letter.ol thea any Engliahman, ('""copt a Mr. Leake,) fOr it ;. • 0 And 10 H.'. bo1uJ is out,t with some 1OIl~18la ooantry rarely vieited, from the lavage character IIDI"BODg of my own ~ ~ up,-and bow~ It take,!be naIiv.., tIIongh abouDdirag in more natural beauliee eb 1 and where the devil .. the IIeCODd editi08 ol.,.... 1Ite cboaicaI reciono of Greece,-wbieb, howllYer,I-----------------

• ..~ml...... Letter_.I H_', MIoceu....... 10"._ ~alLanlB7"O.'..IIl...

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LETTER LVII.

70 THE HONOmU,JlLI: IOU. JlYaol'l.

LETTER LVI.

TO MIL. HOOO.OII'.

"Conataotinople, May 14th, 1810.• DEAa MOTHEa, .

• I wrote to yllU very shortly the other day on my a _n.al here, and aa another opportunily .vaile, take up my...." ..~ain, that the frequency of my lettera may alonofor u...u brevity. Pray did you ever roceive a picture 01

"Salsette Frigate, in the Dar.jan..Joes, 011 ill' in oil by Saoukr.. in V'ago-imul, London? (a notedAbydos, May 6th, 1810. IImne' .\ if not, write for it immediately; il was paid (or,

"I I1DI on my way to Constaotinople, after OL lour except the &ame, (if frame there be,) before I left Eng­through Greece, Epirua, lice. and part of Asia Minor, land. I believe 1 men'ioned to you in my last, that mylOme particulars of which I have just communicated to only notable exploit, lately, haa been .wimming fromour friend and host H. Drury. With those, then, I shall 809t08 to Abyd08 on tho third of this month, in humhlenot trouble you; hut, as you will perhaps be pleased to imitation of Lmndu, of amorous memory, though I h.dhear that I am \vell, &c. 1 lake tho opportunity of our no Hero 10 receive me on the other .hore of the HeU....ambassador's return to forward the few linea I have time pont. or CODBtantinople you have, of course, read finyto deapatch. 'Ve have undergone some inconvenionces, descriptions by sundry travellers, which are in generaland incurred partin! peril., but no events worthy ofcom- 80 correct, that I have nothing 10 add on the .ubject.munication, unless )·ou ,,;II deem it one thaI two days "When our ambas1lador t8k.... his leave, I .hall ao­ago 1 swam from Sestos to Abydoa. This,-with a few compnllY him to .ee Ihe sultan, and aftorward probablyalan". (r"m robbers, and .ome danger of.hipwreck in a return to Greoce. I have heard nothing ofMr. Han90n,Turkish galliot six months a"uo, ( visit to a Pacha, a pas- hut one remittance, without any letter from that gentle­O\On for a married woman at Mnlta, a challenge to an man. If you have occasion for any pecuniary supply,officer, an allnchment to three Greek girIa at Athe.., pray use my fund. as far aa they go without reserve;"lth a great deal of I",ff"onery and fine pr""Pocts,- and, lest this .hould not be enough, in my next 10 Mr.form allth..t h"" t1i.ringui.hecl my progress since my Hanson I "iU direcl him to advance any awn you maydoparlllro &om Spain. wan~ leaving it to your discretion how much, in the pre-

" Hobhouse rhymes andjoumalixea; J.tare and do no- sent state ofmy affairs, you may think proper to requiro.IhillJ'-unICllll smokjn~ can be deemed an active amuse- I have already seen lho most Interesting parte oi Turkeym~nt. The Tnrks tRke too much care of their women in Europe and A.ia Minor, but sh811 not procoeJ lit.rtherto pennit them to be scrutinized; but J have lived a good tiU I hear from England: in the mean time I ahaJI 0­deal WIth the Greeks, whose modern dialect I can con- peet occasional .uppli.... according 10 ciNumstances,....,. ~ m enon~h for my pm pos.... With the Turks I and aha11 pass my summer among my JiieDda, the!IIi." alBa .ome male acquamtan~es-female .ociety is Greeks oftbe Morea.

Satire, with addiDon.? aDd my name OD the title-»Bi"? out of the quntioa. I have baeD v.., ..ell treated byIIDd mOre Iinel tagged to the end, with a new exordium the Pachu aDd GoYemon, aDd baye DO complamt toaNI ..hat not, hot &om my anm before I cleared the make of any kind. Hobbo",", will ODe day inform youChrmnel1 The Mediterranean and the Atlantic roll of all our adnntlJJ'ellj-were I to attempt the recitalhOIween me and criticism; aod the thundOl'll of the H y- neither III§ paper DOl' yow patience would hold Oulpc, borenn Review are deafened by the roar ol the during the operation.nellespo"t. "Nobody, save yourseJt; baa ..ritten lome since lien

• Remember me to Claridge, if not translated to col- England; bllt indeed I did DOl requeal it. 1 except mylege; and prosent to Hodgson assuraocea ofmy bigh con- relaliOllll, ..ho write quite u ~ u I wish. .~ Hob­>i<leration. Now, you will ask, what .haIl I do nut1 hoU8e's volume I know nothmg, except that It .. oQt;nntl I answer, I do not I.;now. I may retum in a few and of my BllCOnd ediuon 1 do DOl eyen know tJuu, andmonths, but I have intents aDd projectll after vimting certainly do not, at thia distaoce, intere8t myself in theCon.lantinople.-Hobhouse, bowever, will probably be matter. • • • • I hope you and Bland roll downhack in September. the .tream ofsa1e with rapidity.

"On the !d of July ,ve have left Albion one year- "or my return I cannot polIitively .peak, but t!.ink it'''''litu. meorum obliyiscendu. et illis.' I wu siel< of probable Hobhouse "ill precede me in that respect.my own country, and not much prepossessed in favour of We have been very nearly one year abroad. I should.any other; but I 'drag on' 'my chain' without 'length- wWt to guo away another, at 1...., in thele evor-greenening it at each remove.' I am like the JOlly Miller, climatel; but I fear busin..... law bu.in..... the worst ofcaring for nobody, and not cared for. AU countries are employment-, will recall me previous to that period, ifmuch the .ame in my eyes. I .moke, and .tare at not very qWc:kly. If..., you.haIl haye duo notice.lIJountains, and twirl my mustacbioa very independently. " I hope you wil find me an alterN! personage,-I doI miss no comforts, and the mosquitoes that wrack the not mean in body, but in manner, for I begin to find outmorbid frame of H. have, luckily for me, little effect on that nothing but virtue will do in this d-d world. I ammine, because I live more temperately. tolerably aiek olvice, which I have tried in its ,,«roeable

"I omitted EphOBUB in my catalogue, wbich I visited varietie.. and mean, on my return, to cut aU my dissoluteduring my sojourn at Smyrna; but the Temple baa al- acquaintaoce, leave oIf wine and carnal company, aDdmost perished, and St. Paul need not trouble himself to betake myaelf to politics and decorum. I am veryeplatolize the present brood of Ephesians, who bave .eriousandeynica~andagooddealdispoMdtomoralize:

converted a large church built entirely of marble into a but, fortunately for you, the coming homily is cut off bymnoque, and I don't know that the edifice looks the default of pen and defoction of paper."'''''''' for it. • Good morrow! If you write, address to me at

• My paper is full, aDd my ink ebbing--good aftemoon! Malta, whence your letters will be forwarded. YooIf )'ou addreaa to me at Malta, the letter will be for- need not remember me to any body, but believe me....rded wherever 1 may be. Hobhouse greets yoo; he • YGUn with aU faith,"inos for hie poetry,-at lout, BOme tidings ofit. I a1- • By.ul'l."_ forgot to teU you that I am dying for love of threeGreek girt. at Athens, siatOl'lI. I lived iri the .amehouse. Teresa, M nriana, and Katinka, are the namesof these divinitiea,-aIl of them under 16.. " Your nn........"'S d~es,

" BYRCII'."

LET'1'Ens. !SlO,-,- 21

• You wilt <W'flCt 10 MalIa, whore myleUers ..... for- or COllJltanlinople. I belteve he paid them .ce, bu-Ued, aDd believ.. me 10 be, that goes fur nothinl!, u it was an annuity•

.. 'Vith great sincerity, .. ( wish you would write. I have heard &om H~.OII" You", ever. frequently. Malta is my poot-office. I mean to be

"P. S. F1etehor is well; pray take 0 ..... of my boy With you by next Montem. You remember the las~·-Ir:tobert, and the old man Murray. It is fortunate thoy hope ilr IIIch another; but, afler having swam across therf:tnrned; neither the youth of the ono, nor the age of the •broad HeU""J'OIlt,' I disdain Datchett. GOO<i aftemo,m I

lIIher. wouW have suited the~ of cIimato and fa- "I am yOUl"ll, very IOincerely,...... of traveUing." .. BVlIO","

LETTER LVIII.

TO .... HE,nY DRU&Y.

LETTER LIX.

TO THE D01'f. Ma•• BYBON.

·COIIlIlaDtinoplo, June 17th, 1810. • Constantinople, June 28th, (810.• ThougII I wrote 10 you so recently, 1 break in upon • MY DE4& MOTHER,

1'>0 a,...un to congrarulate you on a child being born, as a ." I regret 10 perce.ive by you; lut Ietter, that ""veral of~tter &om Hodgson apprizes me of that evont, in which ml~ ~ve not amved, parlJculllrly. a very long ono,I rejoi<:e. wrllten In November 1....1. from Albania, when I Will on a

"I am just come from an expedition through the Bee- via!t 10 the ~acha of that province. Fletcher hll9 alsophorus to the Black Sea and tho Cvanean Svmplogades, w!",tten to his spo~e pe':!"'tuallr' M~. Hobhouse, whoup which !a..t I scrambloJ at IlO pt a risk'u ever the ..111 forw~ or deliver this, and,s on his return to Eng­ArJoaauu O<CILped in their hoy• You remember the land, can ~rm you of our difforent movemen.ts, but lambepaing of the nurse'. dole in tho Medea, of which I be very unCertaIn. Ill, 10 my O\~." return. He will probablyyoutotakethefollo...ingtranslation,doneonthe um 't

gbe down to Notts, lOme lime or other; but Fletcher,

• nu. whom I send back sa an incumbrance, (English servants"~~I~i=:~~-;':=rp: are sad travellers,) will lupply his place in the interim,

Who. "m"nk'"",b'd I G...w. dacb, and describe our travels, which have been tolerablve!-Rod 'd tho .b rocb I tenlive. I have written lwice briefly from this capita~But DOW I r be.- trip will bo. from Smyrna, from Athens, and olher parts of Greece i»O-'d b I... ." MiooModea,.t, • .t.. from Albania, the Pacha of which province desired hili

•• it vt:ry' nearly wu to me;-lOr. bad DOl this aublUrIll respoelll 10 my mother, and slUd he WIiB sure I WIlB a~e been in my head. I sbouId never have dreamed man of high birth, because I had 81uall earw, curling hairoi ascending the said rocb•• IUId bruiaing my carca81 in and white hands! ! He WIiB very kind to me, .!Jogged meIIOOOUr of the ancienlll. to consider him lUla futher.and gave me a K"ard oflOrtv

.. I bave now 1&1 on the C,.-.... awam fron' Soetoe soldiers throu~h the fO.....ts ofAcarnania. But of this andlO Abyd08, (ul trumpeted in my Jut,) and,after JllI8Iing other cireumslances I have written 10 you at large, andIhl"lJllih tho Morea &«&in, ahaU set aail fOr SanIa Maura, yet hope you will receive my letters.alld 1_ m)....lf fram tho Leucadian promontory ~lJI'o • I remember Mahmout Pacha, the grandaon of Alinving which operation. I ahaJl probably rejoin yoo in PIlch&, at Yanina, (a lillie fellow often years ofage, withEngland. H ....ho will doliver this, is bound Btraight lOr large black eyes, wmch our ladies would purchue at anyIh..., R"t1s i and sa he i. bursting with his travol•• I ahaD [>rico, and thOBO regular f""lures which distinguish theDOl anticipa'p hi. oarrativea. but merely beg you nol to 'rurks,) asked me how I CllIIle to travel 80 young, ...;v,outbeli....e one word he sa,., but fOlJOrVe your ear fOr me, if' any body to talce care of me. This question w"" put byfro have any desire 10 be acquainted with the trutiL :he little man with ell the gravity of threeacore. I cannot• • • • • • • • • DOW ...rite copio""ly i I have only time 10 tell you that [

e [ am bound fOr Athena once more, and thence 10 the have paased many a lktiguing, but never a tedioUi mo­Morea; but my ...y dependa so much on my caP"ce, ment; and that all,[ am,.{raid of is, that I.hall contracilhal I ClCI aay nothing ofilll probable dllJ1ltion. I have a gipsy-like wandering disposition, which will make homebreD out a year already, and may uy another; but I am tirll80me to me: this, I am told, is very common with menqulCksilvOl; and say nothing poeitively. We are all very in the habit ofperegrination, and, indeed, I feel il 80. On..-:h occupied doing nothing. at present. We have seen the third of May, I swam from S-. to .A.b~. YouMery thing but the moa<iuos, which we are~ view with a know the Itory of LellIlder, but I bad no Hero 10 reewve6nnaD OIl Tueaday next. But <:A t"- and other!1UI- me at landing.dries let H. relate, with this proviao, that 1 am to be re- • I also p....-l a fortnight in the Troad: the tombs oflenod to fur authenticity; and 1 beg leave to contradict Achillea and Esyetes still enst in large barrows, IInlllar

all thc»e things whereoa he lays particulllf sir..... BUI, to th""" you have, doubtl_, leen in the North. Thprf 110 -... at any time, into ...it, I give you leave to lip- other day 1 was at Belgrade, (a village in these envirens,)p1aud, because that is nec-nly stolen frum his fellow- 10 see the houae built on the aame site as Lady Marypilgrim. TeU'Dariea that H. haamado excellent u. of Wortley'!; by-tho-by, her Ladyship, as far as I canbio beat jokes in many of his majeaty's obi"" of war; but judge, has lied, but not half so much as any ether womauadd, also, that I alway. took CIlre to restore them to the would have done in the same lituation. I have been inright 0WDuI"; in """""'luence of which he, {Daviea,j ill no all the principal mOBqllCll by the virtue of a 6rman; U';"_ tamous by wllter than by land, and reigns unrivolled is a favour rarely pernutted to infidels, bul the ambasaa­m the cabm, sa in tho •Cocoa Tree.' dor's departure obtained it for \Ia. I have been up the

G And Hodgson has been publishing more -r-I Bosphorua into the Black Sea, round the walls of thewish he would send me hia •Sir Edgar.' and •Bland's city, and indeed I know more of it by sight, than I do ofAntboIogy' to Malta, where they will be forwarded. In London.ay laat, which I hope you received, I gave an outline of I hope 10 am.- you some winter's evening with theu,., groaod we have covered. Ifyou have DOl been eoer- details, but at present you moo excuse me; I am no'IaIten by thi8 doapatch, H.'. tongue is at your service. able 10 w~te long !etre", in June. 1 return to spend.m,.ilCll8Dber IDlI to Dwyer, who OWee me ele"en guineas, IU1tIIDlIr In Greece. I shall not proceed further mlO'reD hila to put them in my banker'. haods at Gibraltar AlIia, liB I have viaited Smyrna, Eph....,. and the Tro&d..___________________ 11 write often, bnt you moo not be alarmed when you de.. QIIItIo-.c..-IV. _1111 ...__ ",_100. DOt receive my lettora; c:ooaider we have DO repjar JIOIl

12 LETTERS. 1810.

TO ~,. IIY.OK.

LETTER LX.

"Athens, July !.5, 1810.

tbrth~ Malta, where I beJ you will in l\Jture HDd IP. B. I opeoecI my leber apm te tell you thatJOUr leue.., and lICIt 10 thi8 clly. Fletcher ill a poor Fletcher ha?ing petilioned 10 ..,.,.,."puty me 0.10 thecreature, and requi..... conOOrta that I can w.p- with. M........ I have taken him with me, contrary to the InleaHe is V<JrYBicit ofhi8trave!l, but you mustMt believe hia tioa~ in my I_r."account of the COUIJtry; he. lOr aI"I and idIenea, uda wif~ and the deYil Imcnn what be.ide8. I haYll DOtbeen disappoinled or disgusted. I have lived wit~ thehighe.1 and the Icwest. I have been fur ~,. m aPacha', palace, and have paa<!d many a night m a C01\••

hou.e, and I find the people iDoIfensive aDd kind. I havea1so I'll-' lIOIIle time with the principal Greeks in the I DE.&.. IIOTHE.,

Morea and LiYadia,and, though infilrior 10 the Turb, "I have urivedbere inlOurda,.fromCOIlotantino!'.I\they are belter than the Spaniards, who, in their tum, which is conaidered u ,ingularly quick, par".icullrly r. rexcellbe Portugueoe. Of COllOtanlinop1e you will find the "'HOn of the year. You northern ~entrJ can ha..nnny descriptions in dilFerent travels; bul Lady Wortley no conceptioa ofa Greek 'ummer; which, however, i, ..em strangely when Ibe my"> ·SI. Paul', would cut a perfecl tr- compared with Malta and Gibrallar, wherestrange figure by SL Sophia,," I have been in both, I repoeed myoelf in the lhade Jut year, af,er a genllelUrVeyed them illlide and oul allentively. SL Sophia's gallop of lOur hundred mil.., withoul intermiasion,is undoubledly the IIIOlIt intel'llllting &om its immense an- through Portugal and Spain. You see,. by my dale,liquily, and the cil"Clllllllance of aD the Greek emperoro, thaI I am at Atheu again, a place which [ thlDk Ifrom Justinian, having been crowned Ihere, and IOveral prefer, upon the whole, Ie any I have ...en. * * •murdered at the altar, beeid.. the Turkisb ouItans wbo " My next movemelll is ~monow inlo the Morea,attend II regularly. But it is inferior in beauly and size where I Iball probably remain a month or lwo, and lhenlO BOnte of the 1IIOlIIjUea, particularly •Soleyman,' &c. relurn to winler here, if I do lICIt chaDge my plana,and not to be mentioned in ti,e n.me page with Sl. Paur., which, however, aro very variable, u you may sup","",;(Ilpeak like a Cocbey.) However,l prel8r the Gothic bUl nono of them verge Ie England.cathedral of Seville to SL Paul'.. SL Sophia'" and any "The Marquis of Sligo, myoid fellow-collegian, illreligious building I have ever lCen. here, and wioheo to accompany me into the Mo......

"The walls ofthe Seraglio 1l1"\' like the walis orNew. We shall go together f... thaI JIUI1'OR. Lord S. ",IIslead ~ens,only higher, and m~cb in the lame ~rdp~; afterward puroue hia _y to. the capiUll; and. Lord B.Dul the nde by the walls of the Clly, on the land side, III having ICeD all the wooden m that quarter, will leI >·oube~liful. Imagine four mil.. of imm_ triple batLl... know what he doeo next, of wIrieh at preeenl he ia notments, covered with ivy, IlUmlOUOted with tI8 tow..., and, quile certain. Malta is my perpetual J'O"l-oIIice, fromOIl the other lide of the road, Turkislh burying-runds, which my lettero are lOnrarded to all pal'ts of the habi'a­(the loveliesl spoil ... eartb,) /WI of enormOUl ey- ble globe :-by-tho-by, 1 have now been in Alia, Africa,pr_. I have~ the ruins of Athens, of Eph--, and the east of Europe, and, indeed, made the mOllI 01and Delphi. I have travened greal part of Tl1~ey, and my time, withoul hurrying over the _most intereltingmany other parta of Europe, and lOme of AlIa; bUll ICenes of the ancienl world. Fletc:iler, after bavmgDever bebeld a work of nature or art which yielded an been lOUled, aDd routed, and baited, and grilled, andIDlpreaion like the proepecl OD each lide from the ealen by all -'" or creeping lhiup,~. Ie phil,...,.Seven Towen to the end of the Golden Hom. phize, is grown a refined u well u reBJgIIed charat·.....,

• Now for England. 1pm glad 10 hear of the pro- and promisee at his relurn to become an om_enl to~ of •Engliah B~~ Btc.--of coune, ~~ ot.erved his own parish, and a very prominent p81'llOll in Ihel have made greal addiuoOl to the new edibOn. Have fiIlure family pedigree oi the lo'lelchen, whom I take to,ou received my picture &om Sande.... Vigo-Iane, Lon- be Gotluo by their accompliohments, Greeb by theirdon 1 II ..... finished ~~ for long before ~ left aculen.... and ancienl SasOOl by their appetil~. HeEngland: pmy, send for It. "\ ou 188m Ie be a mighlY (Flelcherj bego lea"" 10 IOnd half a dozen nghs l~reader of maguineo: wbere do you pick up all this in- Sally hia spouae, and wonden (though I do not) thaI hi,lel1igence, quotations, &c. &c.1 Though I w.. happy ill ..ritter. and wone spelled lettero have never come toto obtain my &eat without the aaiotanee ofLord Carlisle, hand' as for that maller, there is DO great I... in eitherI bad no meas~ 10 keep with a man who declined in- of ou~ letters, laving and escept thaI I wiob you tolerfering .. my relation on thaI occuion, and I have know we are well, and warm enough at thill preoenldOlle with him, though I regrel distreaing Mn. Leigh, wriling, God knows. You mUll nol expeclloDg letlenpoor thing !-I bope Ibe is happy. al present, f... they are written with the oweat of my

"It io my opinion that MI. B ** oughl to marry Miso brow 1 asaure you. II;" ra.ther IinguIar thaI Mr. H ....R • *. Our first dUly is nOllo do evil; but, aIu! thaI son itas not wrilten a oyllable aince my departure."' imp"""ible: our next .. 10 repair it, if in our power. Your lelters I bave momIy received, u well u otben;Tbe girl .. his equal: ifsbe we", hill inferior, .. 10m of from which I conjecture thaI the man of law is eithermoney and provi'ion for the child would be some, though angry or busy. •a poor compellAlion: .. il is, he Ibould marry her. I "I trust you li1le N eWllead, and~ with yourwill haYe DO gay deceiv.... OIl my tlIlate, and I &ball not neighbouro' but you know you are a t.iam---iI not Ihalallow my tenants a privilege I do lICIt permil myoeIf; a dutiful a~peUation 1 Pray, take care of my booJ....,I!lIll ofdebauching each other'1I daughten. God kno..... and """eral box.. of papers in the handI of JOBepIl;~I have been guilty of many ex.-; but, u I have laid pray leaYll IDe a few belLI.. of champa~e10 dnnk, furJ.~WD a ~lution 10 reform, and lately kepI it,.1 expecl I am very thirsty ;-but I do lICIt in,i.t on the IUI.rtiel.·,LIn'. Loth.Rno 10 foll~w the example, and begm by re: withoul you like it. .1lUppooe you ha~e your hOlm fWIIlonDg this gtrl Ie BOC1ety, or, by the beard of my lather. of lilly women, prabng IlClU\daloUi thl. Haft)OIIIte IbaIJ bear of it. Pray take IOIIICl DOlice of Robert, ever received my piclure in oil from SaDden, LoDda.G twho will misI hia mUler: poor boy, he wu very IID- It bu been paid for th... sixteen monthl: why do '11Q

trilling to returD. I trust you are well and happy. II not gel i.' My Illite, OOlIIisting of two Turka, twlIlI1II'be a pleasure 10 hear &om you. Greeka, a :.utheran, and the nondeocripl Flelcbe" ....

"Believe me, yourovery liDcereIy, ~ "0 much noise thaI I am ~Iad to~m'"·BTUII. .Youro, Ite.k

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LETTERS. 1810. :as

TO .... BODOIO••

LETTER LXIII.

LETTER LXI. JII"i-I. DOl' indeed have I any COIIIpIamt to 'makltt ...,.,you have wrilteD &equenl1y, for which I tbanIr. y"; but

'1'0 JIllI. anOlf. I very much 0lJDdemu Mr. Hauoo, who hu not taken

- Patru, July so, 1810. Ibe .maDeat notice of my man?, lette""! DOl' of m~ fl>.,,~ JUD.ur, quea belOre I left EJIIIud, which I IlliIed &om OIl lIUI

• Ia bJr cia,. m- COMlUItinople, wilb a favourable wry t1tItI fifteen monw ago. ThUi OIle year and •wiDd, I arrived ill the &ip1e at the ia1and of C..... &om quarter have pu.ed away, withoul my receiVlll« the~ I took a boat to Athena, where I met my friend leut inteJlirace on the 8lale of my alfain, and rbey.... Marqma ofSJirl, who espreaed a wiIIh to proceed were not ill a ......... to admit of J1<lIIect, and I do CUll'

with me u fU u C..mth. At Coriath we aeparated, c:eive and dec:la.re !hat Mr. Hansoa hu acted negli­be "" Tripolitza, I g Patru,where I had..,.,., businea genlly and culpebly in not apprizing me of rna pnx:ee<\.with the~ Mr. StraM, ill wboee house I now iDp; I will aIao ~ un~y. Hi.lette,., w~e thenwrite. He bu rendered me every aervice in hie power ~y, could not euily mwcarry: the commUDIcalJonl8inco I quitted Malia .. my way to CODllaDtinople, WlIb the Levant are alo", bUI tolerably aecure, al 1_Iri>aIce I have writteo 10 you twice or thrice. In a few u fU u Malta, and there I Jell directiona which I knowda.... I visit the Pacba at TripoIil2a, make the lolIr of would be "'-....ed. I have written to you eevenltlM M ....... and rellB'1l apin to AthllllS, which at preaenl ~... liom Constantinople and Sm~L You will 1"''''.. mY beadquarIera. The heat is at preHnl intenee. "",ve by my date I am retumed mto the M ..... 01In EJlIluId, if it .....m... ISO, you are all OIl fire: the which I have been making the lour,~ visilinfl ~o!hel' day ill travelling between Athens and Megara. Pache, who gave me a fine hone, and paid me all~the u-m:.u- wu at 1i5O!! Yet 1 feel DO incon- ble ~onoura and ,,:ltention. I have. now. _n a good'IllrIience' of-. r am much lrroozed, but 1 live tem- portIOD of Turkey m Europe and Alia Mmor, aDd IhaI1pen1ely ~ never JOYed better health. remaiD al Athena, and in the vicinity, till I hear froIr

a~ I left C.-antinople, I IIlLW the Sultan, (with E~Iand. 1 have punctually obeyed your injunctioae.oIMr. Adair,) and the interior of the mosqu.... thinglI wnung frequllIllly, but I IIhaIl not pretend to deecribewhich ~y happen to traveDe... Mr. H"""'-e is ~ntr'eI which ~~e been already amply treated oi. Ipo to England: I am in no hurry 10 return, bul have !",heve before thia tilDe .Mr. Hobhou... wtll have.amvecno particular commUllicationa fOr your country, except ,n E~ and he brinp leuera. frGID ~e, wntten atmy suvpr;. at Mr. Hanson" Iileoce, and my desi:" ~onatanunople. In ~- 1 mentIOn havmg .eeD th<that be will remit regularly I IUpjIOBll eome arrange- lSmlan and the ..-q...... and Wt I _am &om s.too_ hal been made with' regard to Wymondham and to!bydoe, an exploit.ofwbich I take CU'eto~Rochdale. ~alla ill my poel-ollice, lW to Mr. Strane, I am here on bu.in_ at preoeDl, but A';h- ...myc:oosuI-~ Patru, MlWOL You complain of my beadq~e.... where I am very pleuanlly muated m 8

-w--I haye..mu- !Wealy lW thirty timea within the FfUIC~ CO!'vent. . ..lut year: never lea thm twice a month, and onen Believe me t: be, WIth great .~Iy.~. If my letten do not amve, yoo muat not con- Yours, very alfecUonILteIydude !hat we are eaten, lW !hat there ill a ...... or a pest>- • Bya"...Ienee, or famine: neither _ you credit aiUy reports, • P. S. Fletcher is weD, and d*'ontenled .. --.I ....hich I dare 8&y you have in NoIIa, U usual. I am hie wife don't write, at 1_ her acrawls have not .,.....,. well, and neither more nor lea happy than I uaualJy rived. YOII wiD address 10 Malta. Pray have you.... ; except that I am very glad to be ODce more alone, Dev.... received n,y picture m oil &om Sanden, Vito­wI ..... oick ofmy companion,-oot !hat he wu a bad 1aDe, London 1"'IDe, but bec:auae my IlatUre leads me to aoIitude, and~t every day adda to thia d;.po..ition. If I chooe,"'"' are many men who would _II to join m&-Olle"uta me to go to Egypt. another to Asia, of which I.......,~ lIIIOUgh. The greater part of Greece ill al-ready my own, eo !hat I .haIl only go over myoid • Patrao, Morea, October ScI, 1810.(lound,~ look upon my old ac:as and mountaina, the -A. I have just escaped from a physician and a fitv.OD~V acquamtancell ev,:", IOund Improve upon ~e. which confined me five days to bed, you won't ezpeel

I havc a toI~e IUIle, a Tar!":",~ Albanl&na, an much •allegrona' in the ensUIng leller. In this p1MceDUefJ"":ler.~~ Fletcher5 but ~ thlll country th_ Ihere is an indigenoua distemper, which. wnoo the WUJdare euilY.IDlUIlrained. Adair ree.81ved~ woodnrfWJy bIo... from the gulf of Corinth, (as il doea Ii...e IIlODlha.-n, and indeed ~ have no compl~ts ag&lllllt anyone. out of oix,) attacb great and amal~ and makes ....IiH08p~here • neceaaI'Y, for mna are DO~ I have work wilb 'fiaiters. Here be aIao two physiciana, one tilhved. m the h~ of Greek.. T~ Itahane, and whom trDolI to hie gem... (never having lUldied)-theEngl~ym a pelace, t~m,,",?w In a cowbolUe; other to a campaign of eighteen mODtba against the .dthis day WIth the Pacha, the Dext Wllh a shepherd. I of Otranto, which he made in rna youlb with great&haD continue to write briefty, but frequently. and am dect.C~ to hear &om you; hot you ~ your lell.... with • When I .... eeized with my diaorder, I proteeteGthiDp from the JllIPllrS, U if Englis~ pepera were not against hoIh the.. USaB8UIII ;-bul what can a ~(,lpI-.5>und all over the world. I have at th. moment a dozen feverish, tOUled-and-watered poor wretch do 1 r...piwb«c.n; me. Pray take care ofmy books, an~ bIllieve me, of my teeth and tongue, the Eng(;'h consul, my 'rartar,

• My dear Mother, youn very faithfully, Albani..... dragoman, IOrced a physician upon me, ud• Buo••" in three days vomited and gly81ered me to the bot~

In thia Il&lI! I made my epitaph-take it.

LETTER LXU.

YO TJIII BOlf....... avao••

- Patru, Oct. !J, 1810.

.. ToatIt, NatON. and nIMdac lei"­T_1loop .,1oaIp '"......,...... IBUI RolDUllllli ... 10 Moo&,.It. r...t. aU lh~__.od 64.. i' nt,

• DJUA ....D.ur, But Nature and Jove, being piqued at my II...... dJd,alt .. ..,.. aeveraI .-the Iinee I ha.... nteeived any fact, at Iut, beat RomaneU~and here J &IIl, ..oiI I..,

__ .....tioa &om TOIl; bat at thia I am not ...,.. weakly, at your 1W'fioe.

24 LETTERS. 1811.

TO Mltl••V.Olf'.

LETTER LXIV.

.Sjpce 1. left Constantinople, I bave made a IAIar of in appevanee, if'not in roaIit.y; lUId iD IUCbex~rbe Ift'orca, and vioIited Vely Paeha, who paid me great I remain, &c.honours and gIlve me a pretty .tallion. H. is doubtleam England hefore even the date of this lette.-..he bearol\ d""Plltch from me to your bardshlp. He wntes to mefrom Malt:!, and requcsl. my journal, if I keep one. Ihave none, or he should have it; bllt I have ~plied, in aconsolatory ann «hortatory epi.tle, proying bim to • Athens, January 14, 1811.abate three and sixpenoe in the price of bs next Boke, • IIY DEAR IIADAM,

.....in~ that half a guinea is a price not to be given for "I seize an occasion to write as usua~ sbortly, butany thing "ave an opera-ticket. frequently, as the arrival oflette.... where there exists n"

• A. for England, it is long since I have heard from it. regular communication, IS, ofcouroe, very precarious. IEvery one at all connected with my concerns ia asleep, have lately made several small tours of .ome hUDdr",. orand you are my only correspondent, agents eltCepted. two mue. about the Morea, Attica, &e. as I haveI have really no friends iD the world; though all myoid finished my grand giro by the Troad, Constantinople,school-companion. are gone (,rth into that world, and &C. and am returned down again to AtllCDS. I belie,".walk about .there iD monstrous disguises, in the garb of I have montioned to you more than ODce, that I ."'RIII~tlardsmen, lawyers, parsons, fine gentlemen, and sucb (in ,mitation of Leander, though without his lady) ac",""nther masquerade~_. So, I here shake hands and the Hellc.pont, from SeslOll to Abydos. Of tllis, andcut with all these busy people, nOlle of whom write to !\II other particulara, F. whom I have sent home with'me. Indeed, I asked it not ;-and bere I am, a poor papers, &c. will apprize you. I cannot lind that he istraveller and heathenish philoeopher, who bath peram- any lou, l.eing tolerably masler of the Italian andbulated the greate.t part of the Levant, and .....n a modem Greek languages, which last I am tWo studyinggreat quantity of very improvable land and sea, and, with a mMler, I can order and di.course more than1l11cr all, am no better than when I set out-Lord bell' enough for a relUlOnable man. Besides the perpetualme! lamentations after be,!f and beer, the .tupid, bigoted con-

"I have been out lift...... months this very day, and I tempI for every thing foreign, and in.urmountable inea­believe my concerns will draw me to England soon; bUI pacity of acquiring even a few words of any language,of this I will apprize you regularly from Maha. On all rendered him, like aU othor English servants, an incum.point", 110bhotl,"" will inform you, if you are curious as brance. I <10 assure you, the plague of speaking for'0 our adventures. I have seen .ome old Enl(li.h pa- hin~ the comforla he reqmred, (more than my.elfby far.)p<"rs up to the 16th of May. I sec the I Lady of the the pilaws, (a Turk;,.q dish of rice and meal,) which b.Lake' advertised. Of course it is in his old bollad could not eat, the wines which he could not drink, the bed!.Ityle, and pretty. Aner all, Scott i. the best of them. where he could not 8leel~ and the long list of calamities,The end ofa1locribblement is to amme, and he eertaioly s"ch as stumbling horses, want of tea! ! ! &c. which a..IUCC-W there. I long to read hi. new romance. sailed him, would have made a lasting .ource oflaughter

"And how does 'Sir EdglU"'1' and your friend, Bland? to aspectalor, and inconvenience to a master. Afler all,I loppose you are iDvolved in lOme literary squabble. the man is honcst enough, and, in Christendom, capableThe only way is to despise all brothe. of the. quill. I enough; but in Turkey, Lord forgive me! my AlhamanIUPI-" you won't allow me to be an author, but I COD- .oldie.... my TarlarR and Janizary, worked for biOI andlemn you all, you dogs !-I do. us too, as my friend Hobhouse can te.tify.

• You don't know 0-.. do you 1 He had a fuce " It i.s probable I may Bteer homewards in .pring; bur.ready fOr the Blage before I lc/\ Rngland, and asked me to enable me to do that, I must bave remittances. Myfor a prologue, which I promised, but sailed in such a own funds would have lasted me very well; but I washurry, I never penned a couplet. I am afraid to ask obliged to ....ist a &iend, wbo, I know, will pay me ; but,.fler his drama, for fear it should be damned-Lord for- in the mean time, I am out of pocket. At present, I do~ive me for using .-ch a word !-but the pit, air, you Dot care to venture a winter'. voyage, eVen if I wereI,now, the pit-tbey will do those thilll!"t in .pite of otherwise tired of travelling; but I am so coOlinced ofruerit. I remember this farce from a curiOu.. circum- the advantage. oflooking at mankiDd instead of reading<'ance. 'Vhen Drury-lane was burnt to the ground, by ahout them, and the bitter effects of .taying at home.""eh accident Sheridan and his son lost the few re- with' all the narrow prejudices of an ialander, that I:Illuning shiUingo Ihey were worth, what doth my friend think ther. should be a law among us, to set our youngLJ-- do? Wby, before the fire WBll our. he write. a men abroad, for a lena, among the few allies our Wllrl

""te to Tom Sheridan, the manager of this combustible have lefl us.,-"ncern, to mqmre whether tIus farce WIlB lIot converted • Here I .ee and have conversed "ith French, Italian.,'"10 fueL with about two thousand other tlMctable Germans, Danes, Greeko, Turks, Americans, &c. &0n"~nUSCrtpuo, which of course were in great peri~ if not &e.; and, without losing .ight of my own, I can judge Doactually consumed. Now, WIlS not this characten,tic? the countries and mlL'"lllcrs of others. Where I Bce the-the ruling passions of Pope are nothing to it. 'Vhile .u;>eriority of England, (which, by-tho-by, we are a good,he poor di.tracted manager was bewailing the loBS of a deal mistaken about iD many thing-,) I am p!ea.ed, andbuilding only worth 5OO,OOOl. together with BOrne twenty where I find her inferior, I am at least eD.lighten"d.thousand pounds of rags and tinsel in the tiring roomo, No,", I might haye .tayed, .moked in your town., orBluebeard's elephants, and all that,....4n comes a note fogged in your country, a century, without being SUre 01from .. scorching author, requiring at lui hands two acts this, and without acquiring any thing more u..eful orand odd _n"" of a farce !! amusing at borne. I keep no jolll'Dlll, nor bave I any

"D..... H. remind Dnuy that I am bis well-wisher, intention of scribbIiDg my travcls. I have done withand let Scrape Davie. be well affected towards me. I authorship; and it; in my last production, I have cen­look forward to meeting you at N eWllteed, and renewing vinced the critics of the world I wu somethin~ moreour old Champagne evenings with all the glee of antici- than they took me for, I am satisfied; nor will I hazardpatioo. I have written by every opportunity, and ex- tJuu rr:pulation by a future e1forr. It is true I have Bomept'cl resro- as regular as those of the liturgy, and othen in man...-ipt, but I leave them for those whoWOIJIowbat longer. A. it is impossible for a man iD bis come after me; and, if' deemed worth publisillng, tlley_ to bope for happy days, let ua at least lookfmay _ve to prolong my memory wben I myself.hallWwvd to mony ones, which come Dcarat to the other ceue to remember. I have a ramo... Bavarian arUBI

LBTTBR&. 1811.

~ ...... ""'" of AUMm, Itc. Itc. f... me. Th. forget my diet, whieb it • "er'! n8CllI8IlIT lOr me to <Ji>.will bd better thaD mb~. w.e- I hope myat'lf BerTe. I am well ill health, .. I have generally been,ClIII'Cld of. I hope, OIl my retuln, 10 lead • quiet, reclUM with the lUcepticla or two~ Ir'.h ofwhich I quickly.... bal God kDowa and dOllll '-t f... I. all; at least,.. got over.!bey .y.and I ha"e nothing 10 object, u,oa the who/e,1 "My plana will 10 much depend on circuamanr...IIaYe DO no..- 10 complain of my IoL I am conYinced, that I shllli not nnture 10 lay down an opinion OD lI:ehlnnrre'f. that men do more harm 10 thelJlllOlv... than lubject. My p"'"pC"'" are not very promisiDg, bUI I...... the deYiI could do 10 them. I truat th. wiD find IUppose we shan wreltle through life like our Deighbouro;,.... well, and .. happy .. we CUI be; )OU wiJ~ at Ieut, indeed, by H.'I lnat ..Jyjc.... I have lOme apprehen<iollS.... pIea-t 10 bear I am." and yourt' ever." of finding New.lead d.mantled by Me....... Brolh.....

&c. and he leems detenruned 10 fOrce me inlo selling it,bel he will be batl\ed. I don't IlIpp"",, I Ihall bo muchpeslered with viRilers; but if I 1lDI, you mUlt receive

LETTER LXV. Ihem, for I am delennilled to have nobody breaking inupon my retirement: you know that I never was fOnd of

TO liRa. BYROlt. society, and I am I.... 10 than before. I have brought• Athena, Feb. t8, 1811. "ou a 8h"wl, and Il qUlll'lity of allar of roses, but th""e 1

• DEoLa MADAK, must Imug~le, if possible. I trw<t 10 find my Iibrarv in• A. I baye received a firman for Egypt, &e. I sbaIl tolemble order•

...-ed 10 that quarter ill the spring, and I beg you will • Fletcher ill 110 doubt amvl'<!. I Ihall Icpanlle theate to Mr. Ha.- that it is D6C6ISary 10 further r~ mill from Mr. B • .'1 farm, for his 80n is too gay a do­miu.-. On the lIlIi!iect of N6Wlltead I answer, II ceiver 10 inheril both, and place Flelcher iD it, who h..befOre, ..0. If.I. n....-ry 10 seI~ .eD Rochdale. se.....d me failhfully, and whose wife is a good woman;Fleceher will have arrived by thio time with my leuers 10 t><:sidco, it i.. Dec~llry .to .oo.,r young Mr. B *.•,or heth.I purport. I will leU you fairly, J have, in the first will people the. pan"!' Wllh ~ards. In a word, ,rho ~adplace, DO opinioo of funded ('roperty; il; by any partie... ~uced a dairymaid, h•. ~gh~ have found .lOmethlJl3Iar circulDl!aDcel, I shall be led 10 adopllUch a deler- like an arolo;o'; ~t th? gtrl IS hi;' equal,~ m hIgh lifemiDatioo, I wiU, at alIe"eoll, paa my life IIbroad, II my or low life re~l1on .. made m luch Clrcumllllnc68.~ly lie to England is Newslead, and, that once goDe, But.1 shall not mtenere ~~er Ihan (hke B~al>arle)Il6ither interest DOl' iIlclmatioo lead me northward. by dL.membenng Mr. H. I~o.... and er6CtJn? part 01Compe_ in yourCOUllIly • ample wealth ill the east, it mto a principll.lity fOr fi~ld-mllrshal Fletcher! I horeIUCh is tbe dItrereDce in the value of money and the you govern my lillIe emptre and 1IS sad load of nallonal.buudaDce of the n....-rie. of life; and I feel myse oebt with a wary hand. To drop my metaphor, I beg... much a citizen of the world, that the lpot wncre I can leue to lubscnbe m}...I~ yours, &c.eIljoy a delicioUl climale, and eYery luxury, lot a 1_ ex- • P. S. This let!e~ WIlS wrillen 10 be lent from Porl!­peo8I' than a comJDOll coU~.. life ill England, will al. mouth, bu', on amvmg there, the squadron --:as urtle~edwa,... be a country to me; and .uch are ill fact the 10 the N ore, from whence I .•hall forward It. ThIS I__of the Archipelago. This theD i. thellltemative have n.ot done befo~e, lu~pomng you lIughl be alarmed-if I preserYe New.tead, I return; if I lell it, Ill&y by the mle"a1 menuoned. m ,?e leller bem~ long"r 'han.way. I ha"e had DO letters lince yours of JUIlO, but I expected betweeD our arnval m port and my Ilppearancebave written l6Yeral tim.., and .hall continue, II usual, at Ne_cad."00 the _ plan.

TO lIB. HOneIOlt.

LETTER LXVIl.

LETTER LXVI.

• Volage fiigate, atae8, June 29th, 1811."10 .. week, with • fiUr wind, we shall be at Port..

mouth, and on the Id cL July, I lhall have compleled (to• dlly) two years cL peregrination, from which I 1m _

tummg with as little emotion as I seloul. I thlr.k uponthe whole, I was more grieved al leaving Oreece thanEngland, which I am iml>aliunt to 160, limply because Iam tired of a long voyage.

·Volage fiigate, at I..., June !Sth, 1811. • Indeed, my prospoctl are not Yery pleasant. E ....·01:... MOTHER, hll.....-d in my private affairs, indifferent 10 public,

• TIns letter. which will be forwarded "n our arrival at lOIitary without the nh to be social, with a body" littlePortsmouth, probably about the fourth cL July,. bel!'m enfet.bled by a IUcc....ion of fevers, bet • Ipilll, I trwt,a!Joot tWeDly-three days after our departure from Malt.. yel unbroken, I am returning IrtnM without a hope, udI haTe JUSI been tWo years (10 a day, on the lecond a1moat without a desire. The fint thing I shall have toJuly) ah<ent (rom England, and I relurn 10 it with much encouDter will be Il lawyer, the nen a creditor, then!"" _ feeliD~ ...hi~h prevailed on my deJl&rture, viz. collie.... farmers, l1I"eyors, and all the "llf'l6'Lble attach­indiIfereDC6; but w.thm that apalhy I cerlamly do not meDII to eslal61 out of repair and conlmed cOIlI.pitacomprise yoursell; as I will prove by e"ery meam in my In shOI't, I am lick and sorry, and when I h.n • little re­power. Y011 WIll be good enough 10 get my apartmenta paired my irreparable affairs, away I Iball march, eith...readyllt Ne1'tlltead, but don't disturb yotneJr on any 10 campaign in Spain, or back again to the East, where I&eaJUDt, particularly mine, nor consider me in any other can .t least have cIoudl_ IIkieII and a C6llltion fromIi~t than .. a visiter. I mUll oDly infOrm you that lOr impertineoce.a I.tg time I han been restricted to an entire ngellhle • I trust 10 meet, or _ you, in town or at N--<I,diet, neith« 5sb DOl' flesh coming withiD my regimen; 10 wbcme...... you can make it CODnnieat.-1 IUJ'l'O"" yOllI ex!""" • powerfullloek ofpotatoes, greens, and biscwt; are ill loft and in poetry.....uat. That hUlband, H­I cIrinIt DO WUl.l. I h."e two IerVaIlII, middl~aged men, Dnny, hal De"er written to me, albeit I have ICDt himand both Greeb. It is my intention 10 proceed first to lIllII'6 than 0061_~ I dare .y the poor _ ...lmrD, Ie see Mr. Hanaall, and thence 10 Newatead, on • fiomiIy, and of _ all his cares are conliDed 10 ...., _, to Rochdale. • ha"e 0D1y to bee you willllol ein:Ie.

4

• Believe me, yours eYer,·By.olt.

• P. S. I shall _likely 166 you in the COOrI6 of the_, bet, ofcourse, at IUCh .. distance, I canDOt~at.. any particular month."

LETTERS, llll_

LETTER LXX-

LETTER LXIX

TO TIlE ROlf. 1Ill8. BY.O••

TO IlL DALLA..

LETTER LXVllL

....... pt, _where deUh baa and a 1II&Il"- d.__M11My_1lr_ .....·-W.- You __ tbe ruin ..that poor "Ilow.-. you:" had i&

U 1f1IJ _ him, tell him I haye a leIter for him from DOt been b m. patroDI, Iae mipt no~ haye been in YerfTudter, a regimental chirurgeon and mend .. hio, who pld fIl.tgb~ aboe (~ -) making; ~ ~ ha.......,me.t for me, * * * and i8 a yery worthy aw;te him immortal with a .....,..-. I WIlle tw., ......"Ill, but too Condor bud worda. I abouId be too late pomag J-!rY"patroaap, and ~g w.aten to have beoab a apeecb-day or I ohould probably 10 down to Har- !he ~eath ..him. 1f~ are IB town m or abou,l!he t>.row' plIIIIII .. July, you will find _ at DonIIt'. mAl....

.* • * * • * * * ~t, glad to _ you. I have an l...u.a- .,[ regretted very mucb in Greece having omitted to carry HrxoctI• .be 'If PoSry~y~~a~ but cIon't leIthe Anthology with me-I moan Bland and Merivale'L that doter you, b I shan t iWIict. ~ upon you. Y~• * • * * * • * know I nover read my rhyaaea to YWtel'L I abaII qUitWhat hili Sir Edgar done 1 And the Imitation. and town in a rew ~Y' Cor N au., and '!'enc:e to RocbdaIe.Trana1atiOM-where are they 1 I euppeeo you don't ~ ehall IOnd th.. tba--.... arnve m barbour,!hal..ean to let Ibe public off 80 easily, but charge them II a ........ hence. Y eincoreI'MIme with a quarto. For me, I am •lick .. "'" and .. oure ever •~ •!M"'8Y and prale,' and ehall leave the •whole Cutalian 'ftate' to Bura, or any body else. But you are a senti­lIleDtaI and ..,neibiiitOWl person, and will rhyme to theend .. the ch.pler. Howbeit, I bave written .omo 4000Im., oC one kind or another, on my travels. TO ilL BElOoW' DJlUllW'•

.. I need not repeat that I .hall be happy to lee you. • Volar Crigale, ofl"Uohant, lu1y17th, J811.I abaII be in town about the 81h, at Dorant'l Hotel, in I JoIY DEAl DRUIY,

AlbemarJo.sttcet, and proceed in • Cew daY' to Nolll, • After two yeari absence (on the second) aJIIi_aH thence to Rochdale on buaineas. odd days, I am approaching your country. The day of

~ I am, here and there, yours, lItc.' our arrival you will Ille by the outaide d.le .. my letter.At present, we are becalmed comCortably, c10ae '" BreatHarbour; I have never been 80 near it since I loft DucIl

Puddle. * • * * • * .. *We left Malta thirty-Cour daY' aga, .nd have hid a~dioua pusage or it. You will either see or hear ("0lIl or.. me, loon after the receipl .. this, as I ~ d,rough

• Vol~e frigate, at lea, lune 18th, 1811. town to repair my irreparable afFairs; and thence I wanl• Allor two ~eara absence, (to .• d.y, on the !d .. to go to Nons. and raise rents, and to Lanes. and.ell

luly, before which we "'all not amve at Portsmouth,) I collieriee, and back to London and pay debts; for itam retracing my way to England. I have, III you know, aeoma Ilhall neither h.ye coala or comI"ort till I go downapent the grealer part .. that perind in Turkey, excep. 10 Rochd.le in person.two months in Spain and Portugal, which were then ae- • I have brought hon.. lOme nmrbl... lOr Hobbooae;cable. I ~.ve loon every Ihing most remark!""le in Cor mY'etr, four ancient Athenian Ikulls,· dug Ollt ol'Turltey, particullrly the Troad, Greece, ConatanlJDople, Sarcophagi; a phial ..attic hemlock;t Cour live torto_;and Albania, into \vhicb lut region very Cew h"'e pen~ • greyhound, (died on the puage;) two live Greek 8eJ'o

trated iii) higb as Hobhouae and mY'el£ I don't know vants, one an Atheninn, t' other a Yaniole, who canthat I h.ve done any !bin« to di8tinguiah me (rom other lpeak nothing but Romaic and Italian; and myaolf, as""yar.... unI_ you will rockon my swimming from MOIel in the Vicar of Wakefield 1Iys, llily, and I maySeatoa to Abydoa, on M.y ScI, 1810, a tolerable Ceat Cor • • y it too, for I haye u little came to bout ..mye~......... lion u he had .. his to the fair.

• I am coming back with liltle proapect .. pleasure at • I wrote to you &om the Cyanean Rock!, to teD you Ihome, and ..ith a bod~ ~ little lhaken by one or two had swum Crom Sestoa to Abydos; have you received myImart leyo.... but a apJnt I hope yet unbroken. My letter 1 * • • Hodgoon, I IUppoae, is Ibar~.... it -ms, are col\ll,iderab\y involv~ and mud! derp by this time. What would he have given 10 havebuIIin_ IDlI8l be done WIth 1."'Ye.... coIhe farmers, leen, like me, the real PI11TUJINI, where 1 robbed theand creditorL Now thie, to. man who hat buatle as Bishop oCCrisslIl"a book oCgeography; buuhi8 I onlyhe bat... bi8hop, is a aerloua concern. But 0D0Ugh .. call plagiarism, II it ..... done within an hour'I ride of.y homo department. Delphi.'

I I find I have beeD IICl>ItIin« Cawthorn without •..... u I Cound two pan:e-la with two leUttrl liom youc. my retum to Malta. By th_ it appeara you h.ve_ received a 10Ullr &om COIIItaDtinople, add..-l toLoaK-n's, but it wu or DO coneoquenc:e."M) Salire,it-...,isinali>ur1hedition,a~rather I Reddiah" Hote~ lu1y!Sd, 1811,....e lhe middling run, but DOt much Cor • producbon • St.lamee',,"treet, London.which, &om ill topiea, m.- he temporary, and oC course ·MW' DEAJl MADAK,lie oucceeafuI at fint, or DOt .t all Al this period, • I am only detained by Mr. Han.on, to lign -".!teD I can think and act more c00iiy I regret that I copyhold papa.... and wiD give you umely notico .. myhave writton it, though I ehall probably 6..d it l"orgou.en approach. It is wit/.! ",,"I relUCtance I remain in town.•"1 all ncept thooe whom it baa oft"euded. I ahall pay a ohort VlIIIl III we go on to Lancashire on

• Mr. Hobhouae'l Mi.celIany hu not aueceeded, but Rochdale buain-. I ohall attend "" your directiou, 01bo u.eIf wnlelac good hu.MJndly OD tbo oubjoct, I coune, and am, .don't kDow whether 10 \auF or try with biIII. He met • With great~ youra ever,with~ IOU .t Cadiz, ..wham he apeake higbly. .•Buo..

I Yom and Prall" JXOI" Blackett !he cobbler,. i8 ·1' ..8. You will conaider ~~WI~ead u your hou8c,~ .. apita orhia rbylllllll, and if probably 0D8 .. the JDo - -; and me oalJ u • YJlder.

------• Ol_aft IoIirWal.._.t .. Il1o 0(... _ ••

LETT•••• 1811. 27

LETTBR LXXL

'1'0 DL PlaoT.

~ that it may be got read, ill a obex1 time, aud ila'"the hoaour to be,

• Your .... obedient humble eervanl,• By.o•••

...~-

'1'0 ... IOaO'" D....yIE••

LETTER LXxn.

LETTER LXXIII.

a Newpcwl Papal!, Aueu-t I, 1811•..... D&.Ul DOOTO" • Newetead Abbey, August 11th, 1811.

"My poor maUler died yeeterday! aud I am on my ·DUlECTlO•• J'O~ THE COBTI:RTI OJ' A. WILL TO

_y fiooIII towD to alIead her to the fiunj)y vao1L I BE D.....If 1TP IJlXEDIATELT.

Mwd _ dayol her in.-, the IIIiIC ol her death.- • The _ 01" NeW8le&d to be entailed (subject t"Tbuk God ber Jut -.rata ....re moat tzanquiL I.m certain deductions) on George Anson Byron, heir at law,1llId _ in little pain, aud not aware ofher oituatioo. or whoeyer may be the heir .tlaw on the death of Lord-1 ""I the truth ..Mr. Gray" oiIMrntion, I Thai B. The Rochdale property to be sold in part or the... eaa OIIIy ha... _ lIIOlhero'-P_ b" with her! I whole, according to the deblll and !egad"" oI"the presenl....4 to tbanI\ you for 'fOOl e:rpreaione ..regard, and as Lord B.ia oiJ: weeka I obaII be in LaDcuhin on bo8ine., I III&Y • To Nicolo Giraud 01" Athens, subject of France, bulutend to LiYerpooI aud Chester,.-al leaat I ohal1 en- born in Greece, the amn 01" leYen thollllUld pound. sterdeay._. ling, to he paid &-om the sale of IUcb parts "Rochdala

• If it will be tmy eatilfiu:ticm, I hava to WorlD ylMl N e_ead, or elsewhere, as m.y enable the laid Nicok"Ibat in N_ber Daxl the editor olthe Scourga wi~ be Giraud, (resident.t Athens and Malta in the )'ear 1810,)tried fOr two dift"llI8Ilt libels on the late M nI. B. and to reeeiyo the ahoYe .um on hill .ttaining the age 01myselt; (the deesM ..Mn. B. makes no difl"erence in twenty-one ye.n.the proc:eodings,) aud as he ill guiltv, by his very lOolish "To William Fletcber,Jll8eph Murray, and DemetriusaDd unfounded U88rti0n,"a breach ol privilege, he will Zograft"",. (naliye ol Greece,) eervants, the .um oI"fiftybe pro84lCUted with the IIIJIIOSt riglMIr. . pulllldl per ann. each, for their natural lives. To W"

• I inform you .. this, u you _m mterellted in tho Fletcber the mill at N eWltead, 011 coodition that h.dair, which ill DOW in the hands .. the attomey-ge- p.yeth the rent, but not IUbjeet to the caprice .. the.-aI. landlord. To R' RlIIhlOD tha IIUI1l .. fifty poundl per

·Ilball ramain at N ewstead tha graater part ol thil ann. for life, and a further 11Im of 0D8 tboUBaDd poUDda-th, wbere I shall be haWY to hear from you, after oo.ttaining the ar 01" twenty-five Y8arl._two yeanaJ.ence in tha EasL • To JO H...... Eoq. thelUmoltwo th~potmds

• I am, daar Pigot, sterling.• Youn very truly, • The clailm .. 8. B. Dan.., Eoq. to be Ialiafied .,.

• BUOlf.· proYing ¢a~t .. the __• The body ofLord B. to be buriad in the nuk of the

garden l1C Ne.mead, without any CClfeIDllII7 or buriaI­eemoe whateyar, or any iDlIcription, laya hill name ....1age. His dog not to be remoYed &-om the aald null.

• My library and furniture l1C evary description to DIy·N....tead Abbey, August 7th, 18Il. /Heodl JO Cam Hobh...... E"'I. and 8. B. Davies, Eoq

• MY DE....J:IT DA"I:I, my exeauton. In cue ol their deceaee, the ReY. JSome cone hanga OYer me and mme. My mother Bacber ol SoathwelJ, Notts, and R. C. DalI..... E"'I. 01

:ie8 & corpae in this houle: one of my beat friend. is MortIake, Surrey, to be executoh.drowned in • ditcb. Wh.t can J "'y, or think, or do? a The produce olthe sale 01" Wymondham in N orfOIIr,, reamed a letter from him the day herore y...terday. and the Iue Mn. Bo'l Scotch property, to be appro~

My dear Scrape, if you can spare • moment, do come ated in aid oI"tha payment 01" debta and legaci...•....... to me. I want a mend. M.tthe..... last leller --...... written 011 Friday,-on S.lurday he was noL In • Thil is the Iut WIll and t8lWlleDt 01" me tha Rt.ability, who .... like M.lthe.... ? How did we all HonWo Gaorge Gordon Lord Byron, Baron Byron 01shrink before him? You do me butjuetiee in nying, I Rochdale in t1iecounty of Lancaster.-I desiro that mywonld haYa mad my paltry oxiltanee to have p.....,rved body mly be buriad in tha null 01" the garden of N.­m... Tbia very eYaning did I mean to write, inviting stead, Wllhout any ceremony or burial181'vice whateYerhim, .. I in,"ita you, my yory dear friend, to visit me. and that no iDlcriptioo, nve my nama and age, be writtenGod IOrgiYe • • • lOr his apathy! Wh.t will our poor on the tomb or tablet; and it is my will that my faithfWHobhoase reel! Rio letto", breathe but or Matth....... do~ may not be relDOYed /'rom the aald nulL To thaCome to me, Scrope, I am almost dosoJata-left almoet performaDCO of thil my particnIar desire, I rely on the__ in the world-I bad but you, and H. and M. and attentiOll of my executon hareiDafter named.'\o>t me "'1ioY the aurviVorl while I can. Poor M. in his ·11 iI ItIImtitUd It> Und ByrMi~ IhiI dnue ,.".Iettea- ..Friday, speakl oI"hil intended cont8llt fOr Cain- laliw Ie IM.fimen>l1lad n« bdt6 be omilUd. Tho ouh­M;dp, and a ~y journey to London. Write or ~'lfit_bep-ift/JWwfrom1rillordoJUplt>1M

,-.but coma ifyou CIID, or <me or both. ......".,., <atd IJ<lI:D1lI1l'II 1M wOlf; <atd tJw will may• Yonn ...,..' ItaIe IJuIt 1MJ-all1ttJl be P"forwt«! ift nu:It ............ /JI

1riI larrU/rip may by ktW dir.... and, in r¥'ault 'If tJftyou<:A letkr, "- at 1M~ 'If1riI fM1ClIlarI.'

·'t m\llt stand. ·B."• I do hereby specifically order and direct that all

TO -- BOLTOX, U/l. the cllliml ol the aald S. B. Danes upon me Iball beaNe.me.dAbbe~AIJIUR l!th, 1811. fully paid and ntiIfied U 100II .. conveniently may be

.IDI, • after my deceue, on hil pnmng [by youcho,.,., or othor-

I llDdoeo a rough draft ol my inte'.'ded. wiD, which I •• II "'" popon 110 _,t"lIIob """ _1Iy do,) 1lomoUi.. Z.. •bet! to haft dtawn up as 100II as JXlIIIIble UI the finne8l .,..so 0( A....... 1a at 'he ....d 0( 'ho AllliInllUI r;{' of ,be a .... lnocr

....... The alterations principally made ill eon- r:.~ ~~=7~~~1'..'it=...~:':~h':'812~:, ~:

..- ol the death .. M Byron. I h.ve only to ~=:,J;;l.·'18~~~.r:~:~:..~":-4~lw":~':: .prWac lUA; tllt. clrc~""'''. if.t.wo .. (rAM ...tsl.....aaed MU,**'" ~'I ~Ibe_bI~I'­IG.J_

LETTERS, 1!11I.

TO .... DA.LL.....

TO .... RODOSO".

LETTER LXXVL

LETTER LXXVn.

.... CIIIIdo-._I.... we-I.

The two following letters contain further instructionsflU the lame subject:

LETTER LXXIV.

"Newatead Abboy, August!!d, 1811."You may haye beard of the sudden death ofmy me-

LETTER LXXV. ther, and poor Matthe.... which, with that of Wingfield,(of which 1 wu DOt lUlly aware till jolt before 1 Jell

TO .a. 80LTOl'l. town, and indeed hardly beUeved it,) h... made a sad" Newltead Abbey, August to, 1811. ch&IID in my connwons. Indeed the blows followed

"Ila, each other 110 rapidly that J am yet stupid from the"The witn_"'I Ihall be provided Irom among my 1Iboek, IlIId though 1 do eat, and drink, and talk, and

tenan~ and 1 IIbaII he happy to _ you on any day mOlt eVeD 1&"3h, at tim~ yet 1 can hardly. persuad~ myaelfconvenient to yoursel£ I forgot to mention that it must that 1 am awake, did not every momn>: ~VlDce mebe lpecified by eodiei~ or otherwise, that my body is on !'Iournfully to the eontrary.-I shall now waive the sub­no accountlo be remoYed Irom the 1'&ult where J have di. Jectrthe dead ""' at rll8t, and none but the dead canreeted it to be placed; and, in cue any of my WCC08IIOI'II be so. .~thin tho entai~ (from bigotry, or otherwise,) might "You wiD ~eel. for ~ Hob~ouse,-Matthew. waslIiink propev to remove the r:arca-, such proceeding shall the I god of his idolatry; and if mteUect ~ould exalt.Itbo attended by forfeiture of the elitat8, which, in auch man above his folio.... no one could refuNe him p""""l\}ocue, .haII go to my sister, the Honble Augulta Leigh nenee. _1 knew him most inumately, and valued himand hev heirs on similar conditiona. 1 have the honouv proportionably, bul 1 am recurring-eo let us talk of lifeto be, sir, "Your very obedieut, humble sert'llDt, and the Uving.

"B1"ao"." "If you Ihould feel a dispooition to come here, you

..;~~ ....::-wonIe-:-:-h....-~pl:-.cod-:-.,..be-;:_-.--:-_--...-,-:Lar,.-d-=-B,....--dn-.- ~e~~=~~t~-;c:e ~e~re:~~~.::

lo~,I~h~.:tti:re::di:~~Jlln~le;:rr:t~n~~~~::~e: Englishman or DOt, I cannot tell, but probably ODd of_, aad Lon! B,...., ....100« Glled up .11 bu' ,hat 0( D.II.., wrlL.. 1a ,he them.-Let me know when 1 may expect you, that l..,.,n-II I ...1 lb. I hrl.lIan name of D~II:U-CUL him oul." H. may teD you when I go aDd. when retum..-I have DO'::.~ :.~b~~ih~~.;u:t:r'.;.bl;:~~p:a':.~': yet been to L&IICL. • • • • •:; ":..t~~::'-,:~~~~~~~~~~..=ro~~~ DaYiee hu been here, LDd hu invited me to Cambridgep....t.:.1 hie dece_nd bequea'hed 'h...... (ex_ hie wi.. and for a week tn October. 110 that, peradvonture, we ma,.pbn.... IIqu.n) ,. hie rrleads. the .. ieI J. C. Hobll.... 8. B. Dnl... gI to ..l... '0;_ (d---.LUK! l'rarKiI HodvGn.lhelr utGulon, I:e. to be equall, dl.kIf'd be\weee encounter .... 6--.n.M gayety oaw CIlJID\":Ilea r... thol••6ft ... ,......d be bequea'loed hla _ and .pln'..... mar it) bu done me service; but, aIlev afl, OlIn was a~~.;J~~:aJj:d~~ hi~~~D..:.~ra=-~e:~J~~ hollow laughter.Hobho..-, s. 8. Va.,iea, F. Hodpon, .ncl J. B«btr, .-pec:tlYelJ,1o1---------------------;c:~l:\':""-....taJoood, ... u... raopeetIlOlr,u._o(

,,-ise, to the Illtiaf&ctioo of my e_ors hel'Clnafter,lUDec!.) the amount thereofand the correelne. of the-.me.-

•q Mr. DatO.. AM tmy tmIt!Ul«l t:UJiJu "1"'" lArdByrrm, thIIl~ if" .......... for hU noC beinK ap- • N....tead Abbey, Nolt!J, A"Iut 11, 11111.pao1IUd ..-:ulDr; fIQt:/a......."". havin,rr 4" apporturUtg of • Peace be with the dead! Regr"'t _ wakef'tWiwK hiruelf hU _ debt lI1ilJImIl~ hU.... them. With a sigh to the departed, let _ rewme the-.wtora." dull basin_ of life, in the certainty that we lIball aJ.o

»So much the botter-ifposaiblo, let him bo an e.ec... have our repoee. Besidee her who gave Die being, Itor. • B." haye loet more than one who made that beiJU! tolerable.

-The best mend ofmy mend Hobh_, Matthe,.., aIn aending a copy of tho wil~ framed on theee in- man of the first talfJDt8, and also not the worat of my

tllructions, to Lord Byron, the solicitor accompanied narrow circle, hu perished mmerab!y in the muddyoome of the cia..... with marginal queries, calling the at. wav,", of the Cam, a1waya ~ta1 to ge.ni~~y poortention of his cUent to pointa which he conaidered inex. achoolf~lowWinJlfield, at COlmb.--...thin a month,·pedient or questionable: one or two of the claUlJee are and while I had heard from all three, but not.a•.en "'"bere inserted in full, with the respective queriee and an- Mallhewa 1VI'Ote to me the very day before his death;lIWen annesed. and though 1 feel for his fi.te, 1 am .till more an.~0\111 for

Hobhou.... who, 1 very much foar, wiD hardly retain hisIOnaee; hillollera to me since the "",,t have been moelincoherent. But let !hie I'-"'e Ihall all one day(1lI8II along with the reot-the world is too full of suchthings, and our t'Ory -arrow is lelfish.

TO JOL. 1I0LTOl'l. "I reeeiyed a letter from you ,,·hich my late occupa-"Newatead Abbey, Al1pI8t 18th, 1811. tiona prevented me from duly noticing,-l hope your

-11a, friendo and family will long bold together. 1 Ihall be·1 have anllWered the queriel on the margin.t 1 glad to hear from you, on buoineao, on commool'lace, or

_h Mr. Daviee'l claims to be moot -fuDy allowed, and, My thing, orno~utdeath-I am already too fa,.Ibrdu.r, that he be one of my e.ecuto.... 1 wish the will miliar with the dead. It is Itl"U\ge that 1 look on theto be made in a manner to preveut all di'IC.-ion, ifpoai- lIkulls which IItand beeide me (I ha... a1wa,. hadf­ble, aIler my dec_; a.nd this 1 leave to yon, u a pro- in my study) without emotion, but 1 cannot Itrip th.fessional gentleman. features of tIlC*l 1 h&Ye known of their fteshy covering.

• With regard to the few and simple direetiona for the even in idea, wit/lOut a hideou. lenlation; but thedisrooaI of my ear-, 1 must have them implicitly ful- worms are less eeremonioue.-Surely, the Romana didfilled, u they~ at lout, prevent trouble UK! expense: weD when they burned tho dea.d.-I .naIl be happy 10

-and (what would be of little cona"'Juenee to me, but hear from you, and am "Youn, Iul..may quiet the C<lMCience of the survivOl'll) the garden iscollMCl"lJUd ground. Thoso direetiona are copied verba-tim Irom my former will; the lIherationa in other partshave arisen Iron. the death ofM .... B.

"I haye the honouv to be," Your moet obedient, humble sert'llDt,

"B1"ao".·

LETTERS, 1811. 29

TO M.. DALLAl•

LETTER LXXX.

LETTER LXXIX.

TO )lB. DALLAl.

LETTER LXXVIII.

°YClll wiD write to me lam lIOIitary,and 1_ poetry,prNelltpoverty,udpoethumouooblmon. ClUe!&lit ooIimde m....e befOre. Your &Miety about the patroaage! to ruin a IIIoU\ at bi8 calliDg; bot then he IS aeriIique t'D • "s book ;'1.IDU8ing; as itw~ anonymous, diYine oubject tor subocription~~tograph!; and Prat..--. it wu .. little ~uence: I _h it had pro- who makes the moet ofhisd~~~~~ibed them.ced a bttIe more confusion, being a lover <:L hterary volume to no 1_ than~ &uniliea of d!"bnctI~n.malice. .Are,.... doing notbin« 1 writing O'>thing 1 • I am o«ry you don't like Harry White; with a grelltpriatiDg nothing 1 why not your Satire 011 MethodWm 1 des1 ofcant, which in him .... oincere, (indeed,. it IriIlrdthe oubjeet (supposing the public to be blind to merit) him as you killed Joe BI~eu,) certes, there 10 ~"Y

would do woad....... Beoides, it would be as weU for a and geniuo. I doo't say this on account of my lIUIIiledeotined deacon to-prove his orthodoxy~It reaDy would and rhymes~ but IIUnIly he. was beyond aU the Bloom.pe me pIeuure to see you properly apprecillted. I 6eIcIs and Blacketts, and their ~teral eobbl~ wh~,msa. nolly ... beinc an author, my humanity might be Lolft and Pratt ha,", or may kidnap from their callUlJ~ into the snYice <:L the trade. You m_ eXCUllll mylh!,

• BelieYe me, dear H. youn alwayo." paney, fur I am writing I know not whal, to escape &ommyself. Hobbouoe is gone to lre1aDd. Mr. Davies hasbeen here on his wny to Harrowgate.

• You did not know Mr. Matthews; he ..... a man ofthe moM astonishing powe.... as he IUlBciently proved a1Cambridge, by carrying oII'more prizes and feUowshipo,against the ablest eandidateo, than any other graduate 011

. • Ne~telUl, August 21, 181~. ....cord; bot a moM decided athei8t, indeed, noxiously 00,o Y OlD' letter gtVelI me credIt for more Rellte feelmp for he proclaimed hill principles in aU IIOcieties. I Imew

than l'~"; fur ~ough I. feel tolera~ly mL,erable, 'yet him well, and f&el a lou not easily to be llUpplied to myI am at the same time IUbJ8Ct to a kind of hysterlcal oelko Hobhouoe lWt'er. Let me hear from you, andmerriment, or rather laughter WIthout memment, which I Believe me, &to "I can neither account for nor conquer, and yet 1 do notfeel relieved by it; but an indifferent person would thinkme in esceUent spirits. •We must forget these tbingo,'aud bave recourse to our old oelfish comforts, or rathereomfurtable selfislmess. I do not think 1 shall return to TO MR. IItTJUlU'.

LODdon immediately, and shall therefore Recept freely I NewsteadAbbey, Notts,AuguatIS, 1811what is oII'ered courteously-your mediation between " 81"

me and Murray. I don't think my natne will IUlSwer • A domMtic calamity in the death of a near relationthe purpese. and you must 00 n\Yare that my ~Illgtly h.. hitherto prevented my addreeing you on the ...bjectSatire will bring the north and south Gru~streetsdown of this letter.-My frillDd Mr. DaIIaa has placed in yourupon the •Pilgrimage ;'-but, ne\·ertheless,. if M~rray hando a manuscript poem written by me in Greece,mak83 a point of i~ and JOu coincide with him, I Will do which he tella me you do not object to publishing. ButIt daringly; so let it be enbtled, •By the Author of he also informed me in LondOll that you wished to ItlndEngliili Bardo and Scotch Reviewers.' My remark. the MS. to Mr. Gilford. Now, though DO one wouldIlI1 the Rom&ie, &te. once intended to .accompany the feel more gratified by the chanoe .. obtaining hill oboerHints from Horace,' shall go along WIth the other, as vatlons 011 a work than myeeU; there is in ouch a proceed­

being indeed more appropriate; also the smaller poems ing a kind of petition for praise, that ....itber my pride­IIOtI' in my po...,,";on, with ~ few selected from those or whatever you p1_ to call it-will admit. Mr. G.;mbiisbed in Hobhouse'. MISCellany. I have found is not only the first satirist ofthe day, but editor <:L one ofamoog my poor nwther's papers all my letters from '!'e the principal RBYiews. As o..ch, he ;. the last manEast, and oo.e in particular ofoome length from Alban.IL whOOB c8llllure (howlIVer lllIiler to avoid it) 1 would de­I'rom this, j{n~, I can ,work up a note or two on precate by clandestine mea.... You will therefore re­that subject. As I kept no Journal, the letters wntten lain the MS. in your own =0, or, if it must needs beau the spot are the best. But of this anon, wheo we shown, Itlod it to another. Though not very patient 01!Ill... de6niti..e1y arranged. cellBure, 1 would IiUn obtain fairly any little praise my

• Has Murray shown the work to anyone 1 He may rhym.. might deserYe, at all e..ents not by extortion and--but I will have no tra!'" for applause. Ofeourae there the humble IOIicitations ofa bandied"6bout MS. I am...... little thinga I would wish to alter, and perha!", the lure a little consideration will convince you it would betwo stanzu ofa bulfoooing cast on London:s ~und~y ~e wrong. .•• weU lell out. I much ."1.h. to aVOid id~otifYlng .lfyoudetermineonpublication,IhavellOlJl8~"Clalde Harold"s 7h~lcr WIth nune, and tha~ In ,IIOOU-, poelllO, (""..er publisbed,) a few no'.es, and a short,d_r­.. my second obJectIoo to my name appeanng lD the lation on the literature of the modem Greeks, (wntten altit~ep,,!!e. When you have made .arrangementl as to Ath....,) which will come in at the end ofthe volume.­t,.noe, ~lZe, type,,8tc. favour me Wlt~l a reply. I am And if the present poem should lueceed! it is my in~en.!l'ywg you " uruverse. of trouble, which thanks cannol lion, at some subsequent l",riod, to pubhsh some .e,ee­a:OI1e for. I made a kind of pr05e, apology for mY,lkep- tiOIlB from my first worlt,--rny Sanre,-another nearlyticilnn o.t the be~ of the MS. which, on recollccuon, IS the same len~th, and a few other things, with the MS.00 mach more like an attack than a defence, t11a~ ho.ply, now in your handa, in two volumeo.-But of these here­i! might better be om!tted ':4"'rpend, pronoUDCO. After aIler. You will ..pprize me of your detennination. I&!I, I fear Murray will be III a scrape With the orthodox; am, sir, • Your very obedient, &:c 'bill I co.nnot belp it, though I wish him well through it. 'As for me, 'I have supped full of criticism,' and I don'tthink that the •most diBmallreati'e' will stir and rouselIlT 'feU <:L hair' till 'Birnam-wood do come to Duns>­~..'

• I shall continue to write at interval.. and hope youtn!I pay me in kind. How does Pratt get on, or ratherset off Joe B1aeItett's posthumOtlS stock 1 You killrdlhat poor man amoog you, in 'Pite of your Ionian frienducI m,..If; who would have Aved him &om Pratl,

10 LIr: TT E R 8, 1811.

LETTER LXXXn.

TO a. c. D..LL.... "8Il.

•

Itaya. I _ ....... 1IOI1Iuy. IlIId do IlOt ....pect my land. Did )'OIl ever '- <:A him a.t his'~ ,'I."",t to~y _to RocboIaIe ....lOre the MClOIId I think .... plan (the mIlD (dou't ....) bord....... theweek in Sept__, a delay whicIt J>llI1IIea- me, a I IUblime; thou«b. perbape, the 1ID\idpation <:A Ihe •LMtwilh the b...m-cmw, Md oboaId at poweot welcome Day.' (1lCCOIdiDg to you Nuareneor,) inlittietooclariDc:Clmplnyment. I _t you~ _ationa, k lOr at leut, it 100b like teUing the Lord wbat he ia to ...the forthcoming quarto, if qualto it .. to be; ud I also and IJIicht remiDd ... ill-aatlll'ed JlCII'*Rl<:A the Ii­have written 10 Mr. Murray my cbjection to _ndingthe MS. to JUYfnal, but allowing him to ahow it to anyothers <:A the calling. Hobbouae ia among the typN aI- " But I cIoa't mean to cavil, OIlly other follul wiII, and .ready; 00, betwllllD bi8 p...... ud my v........ the world may bring aU the 1aaIh.. <:AJ~~ Bebmen~tbi8 ......will be docently dnLwn upon for ita paper_y and~ H~we~,.I~ he 'Irill brio« It to a coocI..oo, thouKbtieDCll. &8tdea aU uu., my 'Imitation <:A Horace' ia Miltoo. III hi. _yof!1UII>in« for the p- at Cawthorn'.. but I &Ill beatatiag "Write to ...-1 dote on g<*ip--&Dd make a bow tou 10 the iItIID and the ""-. the ...,Ie or the double, the Ju-," and abaIte Georll" by the band for me; but, takepl'e5Cot or the future. You muat ucuae aU thia, lOr I care, for be bu a &ad _paw.h"ve nothing to 8&y in thia 10118 DWMion but <:Am~ • P. S. 1. would uk George here, but I cIoa't Imow bowand vet I would willingly ta1k or think ofauPt .... to amuae bim-eIl my"'-'- were IIOId wbeD I left E..,.

• What are you about to do 1 Do you think <:A perch- land, and I have not had time to replace them. NeYer'­iIl~ in CumberlaDd, a you opiDed wheo ( WIllI ia the moo theleaa, if he will come down and Ihoot in September. hewpolis 1 If you __ to retire, wby not occupy Mia 'Irill be very welcowe; but he mUBt bring a gun, b I• • "a 'Cottage <:A Friendabip,' late tho aeat <:A O~ gave a_yaD mine to Ali Pacba, and other Turb.bl.... Joo, for wboae death you ud olben are &lIB..... Doge, a keeper, and p1ettty <:A game, with a very large~b1e 1 His' Orphan Daughter' (pathetic PnLtt!) wiI~ manor. ( bav_ IaIte, a boar, bouae-room, IlIId ..oerleO, tun. out a aboomaking 8appbo. Have you no ..u.u.•rernona 1 I think tho.t elegant addreu to Mi.. DaUusbould be inscribed OIl the CODOtapb which Misa" " "nll,ana to otitch to hio memory.

• Tbe newspapers _ much diappoinled at hi.lIl&j-.y'o not.dying, or doing IOmetbing better. I pro-IUmeit itI almost over. Ifparliamenl meebl in October. • Ne-....i Abbey. Sept. ... 1811.I ohaD be in town to atta. I am abo iMited to Cam- • MY DI:... 0111,

oridge for the beginning <:A that month, but am fintlo • I am at presenl anxiouo, a Cawthorn__ to wi"'tjaunt to Rochdale. Now Matthews is gone, and Hob- i~ to have a omaD editioo of the • Rinbl &om Horaee'bouse in Ireland, I ha... hardly one left there to bid me publishod immooiately; but the Latin (the _ difficultwelcome, except my inviter. At three...oo-twenly I poem in !be language) renders it necessary to be veryam left alone, and what more can we be at seventy 1 It particular not only in correcting the proo& with HOIVeis true, ( am young enough 10 begin aguin, but with 0P'-n, but in adapting the panLUel paaagea of the imit&­whom can I retrace the laughing part of life 1 It is odd tion in ouch placea to the original .. may enable the rea­hb,,· few of my mendl have died a quiet death,-I mean, der not to )000 sight of the allusion. I don't know whll­in thOlr bed.. But a quiet life il of more COIllIll<Juence. ther I ought to uk you 10 do thio, but I am too far oft" toYet one loves aquabbling and joWing bettor than yaw... do it for myoelf; and ifyou can condescend to my school­:oz. Th. hut IIlOnl admooioheo me to relieve you from boy erudition, you will oblige me by oetting thU thing

"Y0lII'II very truly, &tc." going, thougb you will amile at thn importance I attacbto it. " Believe me, ever you....

" Byao••"

LETTER LXXXI.

TO'" D..LL.... LETTER LXXXIn.

TO"'~I'.• N e-..ad Abbey, Aupot n. 181I.• I .... 00 oincere in my note OIl the late Charles 'NeWBtead Abbey,Notta, Sept. 5, 1811.

Matthe.... and do feel m)'HM" 10 tolaIIy unable to do • Ita,justice to hi. taIenta, that the..-go muat Oland for the • The time oeemo to btl put wben (as Dr. JohllOOllnry reason you ~ri~ apinot it. To ~im all the m.en I said) a man wa certain to I hear the tnJlh from hiaev~ knew were pagnues. He .... an IIlteU~tualgtant. bookseUer,' for you have paid me 00 lIWly cOlllplimenta,[t .. true I loved W. belter I he WIllI the ....heat and the thar, if I was not the veriest ocribbler on earth, I obouldde~ a.nd one <:A ~e r.:~ OIle~ ne~er repent of feel drooted. Ao I accept your complimenta, it is huthaYIng loved; bul m abilicy-h. you did not know fair I should give equal or greater credil to your obj...,.Matthews! tions, the more In, u I believe them to be ..ell fOllnd.d.

··Childe HamId' may ~t and wel~.~ are Witn regard to the political and metapbysical parts, 111mnever the wone fOr delay m the publication. .So. you wid I can alter nothing; but I have high authority forhave got our b..... George .\Moo Byroo, Ilnd his lISter, my elTOl'll in that point, for even thCl .lEneUl was a~WIth you. cal poem, and written for a pobtjcal purpoee; and u to

" .. .. " .. .. .. .. my unlucky opiniona on oubjecta <:A more imporlance, I" .. " .. .. .. " .. am too sincere in them for recantation. On Sponish

·You may say wbat you pi........ but you are oae <:A alIaJn I have laid what I 8&W, and every day COllfirrM

the ~,of B~ett, ,,?d ye~ y~ w':"l't aDow me in that nOlion of the relu1t formed on the lpot; andHarry While 0 g~DIUL Settmg ~e h.. ~~try, he I rather think honest John BuD is beginning to cornelW'e1y rIlDko nellt to Chatterton. It II atonialung how round again to that oobriety whi"h Massena'o retr"11/little be was known; and. at ~ambridgeno ODe th~bt had begun to reel from ita centre--d1e lIBuaI COIlIIoqueuceor beard of ouch a man, tiD hia death rendered a1lool1ce of_usual IUCCllS!l. SO you perceiye I cannot alter the--- For my own. part, I obou~ have~ lI;'oot sentimenta; but if there are lIDyaiterationll in the ot.ruo­lII'OUd <:A ouch lID aoquamrance; bill yery prejudices ture <:A the venilic:ation you wou1d wiab to be made, 1Wllnt ro8JI"ClAbIe. Tbere is a aueking epic poet at . _Grant&, a Mr To...-l,P""4d <:A the late Cumber- • ,...-.-..,.•••_.

LETTERS. IBll. 4J

TO ••• IIt1JLJl...Y•

TO •• C. D...LL...., I:.~.

LETTER LXXXV•

LETTER LXXXVI.

TO IDl. D"'J.Lll.

LETTER LXXXIV.

..,)J tag mymee and tum staJIZalI "" much .. you JII-. in Wingfield • &ieRd oaIy, bat _ wbona I ooIIid haYeAs lOr the 'ot1lwxlDz,' let .. hope they wi. buy, on pur. willbed to have~ed ill bia .... joumey•...- to abuse-you willlitrgive the one, if they will do • Maube_ was indeed an~-. i it huIiIe other. You are.ware th.t any thing InJm my pen not entered into the heart of' ••tranger to conceive .....b_ expec:l no quarter, on manv aecoonw i and "" the • mIIII i there wu the lltamp of iramortality in all ho said~t pubbcation .. of...ture very cliflereat IiuD the or did i and now wbat .. he7 Whea we .ee .uch men'-mer, we must not be 1IIIJ>lllIine. ... .....y aDd be no IIIClre-IIIeII, who seem created to

"You bave given me no answer to my qlle8lJOR-teD dioplay what the Creator t:tNld -a hiJI cre.turea, ga­me WrIy, did you show the MS. to lOIRe ofyour corplI1 thered into corruption, before the matunty of'mirJda th.t-I sent an introductory ltanza 10 Mr. Dalla.. to be fOr. might have been the pride rA p<*erity, what .re we I"

wvdedtoyou; the poem else will open lou abruptly.· conclude7 For my own partl.m bewildered. TomeThe ItanZ&s had better be numbered in Roman charac- he was much, to Hobbouoe every thing.-My poor Hob­ten. There is a disquisition on the literature of tl... house doted on Matthews. For me, I did not love quil..IDOdem Greeks, and some IIl1llller poems, to come in at 80 much as I honoured him ; I was indeed so seOOble of!be eo.e. Th""" are now at N eWBtcad, but wiD be oent hi. infinile oupenority, that though I did not envy, I stoodill lime. If Mr. D. hulost the IIl.anZa and note annexed ill .we ofit. He,Hobhoo»e, Davieo, and my.ol~ fonnedto it, write, aDd I ..ill oend it myoelf.-You tell me to add • coterie of our own at Cambridge and elsewhere. Da­two Cantos, but I am about to visit my colliuies in Lan- vies is a WIt and man cK the world, and feels "" much ascubire on the 15th mst. which is 10 IDlpoetical an em- .uch a character can do; but not "" HobhOOle bu beenpIovment that I need say no more. I am, ojr, affected. Davi.... who is not • ouibbler, has always

.. Your m08l obedient, &c." bealen u. aD in the war of' wordo, and by his colloquialpowers at once delighted and kept DB in order. H. BDdmyself always had the worst of it with the other two; andeven M. yielded to the dashing vivacity ofS. D. But Iam talking to yOll of men, or boy-, .. ifyou cared aboutmch beings.

"I expeel mine &rnt down on the 14th to proc:-J to"Newstead Abbey, Sept. 7, 1811. Lancubire, where, I hear from aD quarte.... lha.t I have

• As Gifford has been ever my 'Magnu. Apollo,' any a very valuable property in coals, &c. I then intend totpprobation, such as you mention, would, of coune, be accept an invitation to Cambridge in October, aDd .hal~

IDOnl welcome than 'aD Bokara'. vaunted gold, than all perhapa, run up to town. I have four invitatioM-torhe C""'" ofSamarkand.' But I am sorry the MS. was Wale.. Doreet, Cambridge, aDd Cbeeter; but I mUll be.bown to him in such a manner, and I had written to a man of' businetlll. I am quit.. alone, as the.e longMurray to say .. much, before I was aware that it was letters Illldly tlllltify. 1 perceive, by referring to yourtoo late. . . .,., Jetter, that the Ode is from the author; make my thanks

• Your obJect~n to the eXJlretlSlo~ central hne, [can acceptable to him. His muse is worthy a nobler theme.only~t by ''''YlJ1g.that,~fore Childe Harok! left Eng- You will write, as umal, 1 hope. 1 wish you a goodIaad, .t wa.. h.. filII .ntenUon to traverse Pers,a, and reo evening, • And am, ~c.'tarn by India, which he could not bave done wilhoutpusing the equinoctial.

• The olher errors you mention, I must correct in theprogre;oII throu"ah the pre!lll. i feel honoured by the wishofoo>ch men lhat the poem ""ould be continued, bot to do\bar, 1 must return to Greece .nd A.ia; [ mUllt have a "New.tead Abbey, Sept. 10, 1811warm sun and a bluo sky; I cannot deocribe .con,," 10 .. DE...... oa,dear to me by a sea-eoal fire. 1 bad projected an add.. • I rather think in Olloe of the opening .tanzaI ofChildeIional Canto ...hen 1 was in the Troad and Collltantino- Harold there is this w._pic; and if [ saw them again, it would go OD; b"t under " , "1'10 _ .. _1Ioo..u. _ .....Id ........eDoting circtJJDlllanceo and IeIIItJticmr, [ have neither. . •harp, 'hearf nor voice' to proceed. I feel that !If1U IITfl Now, • line or two after, I have a repeUUOD of thefill tipIlu t~ the metaphysical part. but I also feel that epithet '...a.m reverie ~ 10 (if it be 110) lot us have,10m Ilincere, and that if I am only t~ write, 'ad captan_ '.peechl_ reverie,' or 'mIent reverie i' but, at aD eveD'-t""'"~' I might .. woll edit • magazine at once, or do away the recurrence.spin CIlJW)Dettas for V...w.aII. " YDUrI ever, "B--.

• • • •. • • •• "P. S. Perhap8, u 'reverie' impli,,"~ of itlelf;• My work mDBI make ill way as well "" it can; I wayward, downcast, gloomy, Wlinlding, joyl.., may be

bow I have every thing against. me, angry poe," and hetter epither••"prej~; but if the poem is a poem, it will .urmoUDtIheoe obetacl... and if IIGt, it deoervea ito fate. Your61end'. Od~ [ have read-it .. no great oompliment toprODOUnce it fur Sllperior to S ,. .'. on the .ame mb­ject, or to the merits of the new chancellor. It is evi-dently the production of a man of lUte, and a poet, ".m," Ne...lead Abbey, Notto, Sept. 14, 1811thougb 1 should not be wiDing to say it waa fully equal to..bat might be expected &om the a"thor of" Bore IrmiMt.' • Since your IOrmer letter, Mr. Dall.. inform. me t~tI tbBnk y"" for It, and that is more than 1 would do lOr the MS. has been .uhmitted to the perusal ofMr. mlfonl,

Od ofth moot contrary to my wish.... u Mr. D. could have ex-_yother e e present day. .. d, d I did,' Ii pi .

"I am verY sell9ible of'your good wisheo, and, indeed, ",~...e an "!' my own ~lt~ to you m act, ex ~I bave 11I1""1'of them. My whole lite has been at vari- WI!.. my mouves .for objecting ~ IIICb a proceeding.• _ with propriety, not to _y decency; my circum- Some late dOlllC8UC evento, of~ you are prob.~y'ItaDceI are becume involved i my frienelll are dead or aware, prevented mr letter &om be.ng -.~ before, JDo

eotraDged, and my existeDce • dreary void. In Mat- deed, 1 !,-rd~y COnceIVed you would 110 hutily tbru8t mytbewa 1 ba-e 1081 my 'guid~ philOl:opher and friend" ~roductlODl mto the~of. otranger,~ho could be as___ ~ },.little pleued 111 receJVUJg them, as thear &UIllOI' III at

• Tho..-.__.........__ their being olfered in oueb. DIUIIIet', and to.....b ._

at LETT~R8, 1811.---------------.----------------

II I BlDu, .....,ftJ1 oft by lat.,,. _1Utl..MIne,l:c.'

TO Ida. DALLAS.

"I am yours, &0.'

LETTER XCII.

LETTER XCI.

TO a. c. DALLAS, J:8~.

• N e....tead Abbey, iel't. 17, 1811."DEAJt Sla,

°1 have jll8t discovered 80me page. of obo..,rvatiollS onthe modem Groeka, written at Athens, by tre, under thetitle or 'Noct.. Attic..! They wiM do to cut up intonot.... and to be cut up aftorward.. which is all thaI nOCMare generally good for. They were wrillen at Athew.,as you will see by the date.

"YOUl"leVflr. "R-

" Newstead Abl>ey, Sept. !I, : 811·1 haYe shown my reapeet for your IUggestiOlll ilJ

adopting them; but I haye made many alterations m 1Mlint proo~ over and above; as, f", example:

al'Oh"Maoa,1a R.1lMdMlD'dor _'eol' ......1:0.1:",'

TO .. C. DA.LLA" J:B~.

'1'0 Jt. C. DALLA" E'~.

T.ETTER LXXXVII.

LETTER LXXXVIII.

II. L'UDhwn .......~debN,k'

• My addreM, when I leaye Ne-..d, ..ill be 10 frequent inYUiolw 011 your attention, becllllSll I baft ~RoehdaIe, Lancubire t but I baye not yet unci the tbia mom..t IIOlhiDg to intel'JlO"'l between you and mY

day of departunl, and I will apprize you when ready to epiatl....let oil. '.I CUIIIOl teUle to any thiD& and my daya .......ilL

• You haft placed me in a yery ridiculoua aituatioa, the uceptioa of bodily exerc:iae to 80me extent, wllh un'·but it ill put, and nothing IDOnl is to be aaid on the 1U1!ect. bm indolence, and idle insipidily. I haye been u­You hinted to me that you wiahed lIOIIIe alteratUx. to be peeling, and &till expect, my agent, "'hen I shall havemade; if they baye nothing to do with politic. or reIigioa, euough 10 occupy my reOeetiona in bu.incsa of no v~..,

I will make them with great readi_. pl.....ant upect. BelOre my journey to Rochdale, you• I am, air, Ite. &c." aha.II bave due notice where lo...ddr_ me--I belieye al

the poortol6ce of that townahip. lo'rom Murray I re­ceived a oecond proof of the lI&IIIe pag.,., which I re­queated him to show you, that any thing which may haVlrIIlIC&jllld my observation may be r1~'"",,,d before the prin­ter laya the comer-etone ofan tlTrttbJ column.

"New.lead Abbey, Sepl. 16, 1811. "I am now not quite alone, having an old acquainlllllee"IIY DEAR Sla, and achoolfellow with Ille, 80 old, indeed, that we hue

• My agent will not be here for at leut a week, and nothing lIe1D to say on auy .ubject, and yawn at eachoven afterwards my letters will be furwlll'ded to Koch- other in a 80rt of quiet ittqvUbule. I hear nothing fromdale. I am aorry that Murray ahouJd grotIJI on my~ Cawthorn, or Captain Hobhouse, and their quarto-Lordcount, though /hal is better than the anticipation of ap- haye mercy on mankind! We come on like Cerberusp1ause, of which men and books are genera1ly diIoap- with our triple publicatiOOll. A. for mysqf, by myoolf, Ipointed. must be aatisfied with a comparison to JrmMII.

"The notes IlI8flt are muffil17UIUer to be divided,.... a I am not al all pleased wilh Murray for showing theranged, and published far nola hereafler, in proper MS.; and I am certain Gifford mll8t see il in the sameplaces; at p....nt I am too much occupied with earthly liplt that I do. His praise is nothing to the purpo",,:"..,..., to waste time or trouble upon rhyme, or its modern what could he say 1 He could not spit in the face of oneindi8pensabl..., annotations. who had praised him in every poesible way. I must

a Pray let me h_ from you, when at leisure. I haye uwn that I wish to have the imp..-ion remoyed fi'Om hlBwritten to abuse Murray for showing the MS. to Mr. mind, that I had any concern in such a paltry transae­Gifford i who must certainly think it was done by my tiOD. The more I think, the more it disquiets me; so 1nil, though you know the contrary. will .y DO more ahoul it. It is bad enoueh to be a

• Beli~ve me, yours eyer, acribbler, without having recour.. to luch shifts to eXlort" 8-." praise, or deprecate censure. It ill anticipating, it is

begging, kneeling, adulating -the deYil! the deyil! thedeYil! and all without my wiah, and contrary to my ellorr- deaire. I wish Murray had been tied to Paynnneck when he jumped into the 1'addington Canal, and 80tell him,......IJiaI is the proper receptacle for publishers.

aN_ad Abbey, Sept. 18, ISH. You baye thoughts of seltling in the country, why not• DEA. SUI, try N otis 1 I think there are places which would IIUit

"I leod you a ...-* you in all points, and .hen you are nearer the metropofu.But of thit anon.

TO lOt. DALLAl.

"Newstead Abbey, Sept. 17, 1811."I CUI -ty exm-e your not writing, as you baye, I

IIope, lIOIJlething better to do. and you md panlOII my "'Vol","" 1'.._dbyIH_ril;'

..... U ChlI40 IlanJld,U :....l1O~ So I bavo got rid of Dr. Lowtb, ADd Ic!nulI

LETTER LXXXIX

LETTER XC.

TO lOt. Kt1Jt1tA.Y.

If net too long, I think it will suit the book. The p_&age is from a French volume, a great mvourite with me,which I picked up in the Archipelago. I don'l think itia ..ell known in England. Moubron is the author, butit is a worIr si.tty years old. Good morning. I won'ttake up your time. • Yours eyer,

• Byaotf.'

"Newstead Abbey, Sept. 18, 18H.• I return the proal; which I should wish to be shown

to Mr. Dall.... who undentands typographical arrange­menls much belter than I can pretend to do. The·printer may placo the notes in hia OlDI'lIDOY, or any IDOY,80 that they arc out of "W "'tI!/; I cal e nothing abouttypea or margins.

"If you havo any communication to make, I lIhall behere at least a weel< or tllll day" longer.

·1 am, air, Icc. Itc..

L ETTBRS, 1811. 33

"NeWllead Abbe,.. Oct. 10. 1811.

LETTER XCV.

'l'O a. o. DALLAl, Dll.

I have altered it u lOlIowlIl-

LETTER XCllL

ID boot, and very £lAd I am to .y lIO. I have aleo lIU1­Ieai2led !he line as heretoi>re, and in short have been....te coa&lrmab:e.

.. Pra,., wriie; "011 ohaII hear ..hen I remove to Lanes.I have brought you and my friend Juvenal Hodpon UJK>l1lIlY holck, on the ICOI"8 0( revelation. you ..... fervent,~t be is quite~; and if he takee half the pains to_Ye his own soul, which he volunteen to redeem minecreu win he hi. reward hen..ner. I honoor and thankroo both, but am convinced b,. neith.r.· Now for notel.Be.ides tltosc I h&ve ....t. I shaU eend the oheervatiOllllOIl !be Edinburgh Reviewer'1 remarks on the modemGreek, an A!bAnian song in the Albanian ("'" GTeJr.) lllDoC'JI4O, opecimens of modem Greek from their NewT-.nenl, a comed,. or GoIdoni'l translated, __,

a proepectus of a friend'1 book, and perhap. a song Ortwo, .Jl in R .....ic. besides their Pater Noster; III th.rewill he enoagh, ifoot too much, with what I have already-. Haveyou received the 'Noctes Ani... ?, I sentalso an aDIlOlatiOll on Portugal. Hobhollle is aleo forth­caminc·"

• hJI rr-Iho bout of !"F'. doIIolooo~ _....... ol.. tbe ....lta~~....

" IfyOll wiD point out the 8tanzu on Cinlra which yau..iBh recut, I will ""00 you mine aDlWer. Be goodenoogh to addl'888 yoor letten here, and th.y will .itherbe forwarded or saved till my return. My .,ent eom.to-morrow, and we oban ""t out immediately.

II The pr.- IDIIIt not proc.ed of COlIlll8 without Ill'

seeing the proofir, as I have much to do. Pray do yoUthink any alterationl ohould be made in !be IItulzU OIl

V URn 1 I obould be sorry to make any impropera11l11ion, as I merely wish to adduce an example of_ted ..eaIth, and !be reflection ..hich _ in lumly­ing the IDOIt deeolate lIW1Iion in the moet beautiful spotI ever beheld.

II Pray keep Cawthom back; he .... not to begin tiQN ovemhct-, and even that will he two mooths too eoon.I am 10 sorry my hand is uninteUigihle; butl can nei\hflrdeny y'lU1' IICCIIIation, nor remove the~ of it .-It isa .d ""ra..l, certes.-A perilolll quantity ofannotationhath beoln lent; I think almoot eMUgIo, ..ith the lpeci­mens of Romaic I mean to anne&.

II I will have nothing 10 say to your~ysi.., aDd'1'0 .... DA.L~. alIegori.. of rocks and be...,h.. ; we ohall all go to !be

II N-..d AJ>bey, Sept. IS 1811. bolt:"" together, 10 'I.t us ~at and drink, for to-mo.:row,.. LiItIJoa is the Partogueee word, COII8eqw:..u the &tc. 1 am as comfortable m my creed as oth.n, \IllIlO.

ft1r1 best. uw..ipont is pedantic; aDd, as I bave ko/Uu m~ as it is better to s1~op than to bo awak.. •IIDd Erotl DOt long Wore, th.re would he IlOIII8thing like I have~ nothmg of Murray; I boJ:'e he •us all'ectation of Greek lenni, ..hich 1 ..iBh to aVf)id, as~amed ~hiDweIf. He I8Dt lilt' a vlllltly com.pli.mealary...... 1 sbaIl have a perilous quantily 0(--" Greek in epistl., "lth a ~uestt~ ":It.r L'Ie two, and.finUIlI anothermy _. as specimena or th. tongue; therefOr. Lisboa canto. I ""nt him as CIvil an answer .as if I ~ *'_,. keep it. place. YOIl are right about the ' Hinla;'~ to ~late by the obed, declined altermg any!he,. mlllt DOl precede the •Romaunt;"'but Cawthorn thlDfl m IIelltimeDl, ~t oft"ered to tag rby.-. and III8Ildwill be savage if they don't. however keep ..... heck them as loog as he liked.and Iti.. in good m.-: if ;"e can but d not let h" "I will write from Rochdal. when I arriv•• ifm,. aIIiUn"";ioh. ,,0 IDI ~ow me; but I shall he 10 busy and sav.,e all !be lime,

"I have adopted, I bolieve, _ of ,.oor BUgg8ltiOllll, Wlth;h. whol. ""I, that my letten ..ill he as pettish as.... Lishoa' will be an exception, to prove the rule. I mysel£ If 10. la)' !be hlame on coal and coU-hcaven.have _ a quantity of DOtes, and ohall continue; bin Very probably I IMy proceed to town by way or New­pray let them be copied; DO devil can read m,. hand.~~ my return from Lan... I mean to he at Cam­S,..the-h,., I do not moen to excIiange the ninth veree of bridge m N?vember, 10 'that at all evente ..e oha!l heIbe 'Good Night.' I have 110 reason to III m nearer..I will not apologlZC for the trouble I have gtVOll.do( heuer than his brother hrula. mankind;~~ and do gtv. yOll! though. I ought to do ... ; hltt I have... kDow to he a fable. • The' ComtopoIite' _ an IIA> worn out my ~oltlellt penods. and can onI,. oay that I amlpIioiIioo &broad. [do DOt believe it is to he found in very much obhged to yo~; .England. It is an amuling little volume. and fu1I of Belteve me, YOUllI..always, ..FreucIt ftippaoc:y. I read, though I do not speaI<, the Boo•...........

[will he angry with Murra,.. It _ a hoobeIling,beduIbop, P&lel'llOm"'row, paltry pr'OtI/lCding, aDd if theapeta- had turned out as it d..crved, (would haveraised all Fleet-street, and borrowed the giant'. mtrjfrom SL Dunstan'1 church, to illDllOlate the helra,.... of__ I have written to him as he never wu wriuen to "DEAB Ita,hebe by an author, J'R he lIWOm, and I hope you will .~ Stan..... U, 26, !II, though ..-oued, mUll""" withlIIIlplify my wrath. tiD it hall an e6'ect upon him • You tell th?". alt..-. The other tJns are cut out to VOla'

me alwa,.., yon h&ve much to write ahouL Write it ..Ish...• We mual, howev.r, have a repetitioa.J tho­but let III drop metaphysicll:-an that point we shali proof, which is the IiI'llL I will write -._ "1'8"- (am duB and ciro...,., as usual. I do no- " Youn ever, " R.

tI,,"C. and UV8ll that nothing fatigues me. Adieu.", " P. S. y ..\erda,. I rctunted &om Lanea!'

LETTER XGIV.

TO A. 0. DM.LU, -.

"Newaead Abbey, Sept. II. 1811.g XI" J)EAa 81a.

• .. a 8lIUIZa 1O""Brlb the ODd 0( oanto lint there is, iD.... 8OIIduc1ing line, .

....biUa'batlbM,ap. ....'... .,.. .......

... r-15I-6

XXIV.

Behold the haD where chltor. went law c.a.....Ob. doo_ da.pleula. unto Bridlh 878J

-~I~~6::~t~~~~r:;~n~:-'Then liu lu parch.... robe arr..;;:J, ud. bJ

W~:.::;::=~ =:~~~""'Iw-='~a:':t;x~~=~~:ua ........

LETTERS. Hm.

LETTER XCVI.

TO 1lB. DALLAl.

• Newotead Abbey, Oct. 11,1811.• I have returned from Lancs. and ucert&ined that

my pruperty there may be made very valuable, but nri·t.us cil'\.~umltancel vory much circuntSCribe my exertionsat p"""ent. I shall be in town on business in the begin­mill .eN_ber, and perhap" at Cambri~before theend of thia moDth; but of my movemeDla you shall be

XXV.1"/':rldtJn ebarac-teol"l, richt well d_1coed,

'I1le~rs:.~~eoIL~~::l:~:~hnr:~~ ~~n;~d':'lWbkh rn1rDe l:olm.,eU.lh me to pIau below.)

DuD ric:l~ I bd'!:ed by. YlUXIuilhed (oe,Whredled hy cpu,. 101l,UM o( laurala d_.

Slaod,wonh, oI'eadI other, In .. tP'W

81" Arthur. HarTy. aud the ddaard H....D~,....,. Wi.&ilL, lOre dupe \Jr totbor \lw.

XXVI.

C~::'~I:u.:~ ~a~t:'M-:ri~r.~.dome:brbraifM jifbr:1usl l~l had) he them ~iledt

And lumMi a nalion • ,hallow joy La i9oom.For well I wot, wtwg ftf1l\ the ne'" did come,

That Vim_a'i ftdd by Gaul ...1_;For pant,....1h IW ,Htper Ko\rte had room,

In8{;~~rll:I,'~~C~~~:~r;::{e~~'~~~~~=-k..XXVII.

Bllt .hra Coo~:_llou .nt hi. hancJ,. ....on,!leoa, toUlI:llf!_, lGet, "DIll, combined I" wild apraf' I

" ...or, Aldermen. Il.l.ld duWII th' uplifted fork i'rt.e beoeh of 1ii,1101" b.lf roJ'R:lX to Wlon:

8unI Cobbett, ..-110 for 0111' whole wt-I!k forbore

.tZfp1~1~~~ld:,,~I~~~tq,:I':I(:::~~::t~'.:~napon 1a&pt,Whh flJof: ,uch t'"11 nucl" Ihould be kept,

Tbfotl lHJnt L1le blatall'- beut, and roared aDd"', aDd--IJ.pl IIIXXVIII.

Thus unLO heut'n alJllUle-1 Lb~ people; henlll,Which kl." t~ h~(e' of 0111" .,..uiou. till',

Decl"lled that err OUI' «enera1. ""ere (orai'f'tO.,laqaJr1 ahoultt be heh1 .bout 1he Lh1nc.

a.t mercy cloaked Lhe babel. ~th her wiq iA.nd as Ihe1'va~ our (on so 'var~ we Lbem,

{Where wu the- fill' of our .l~ (Ot' Byn.l>tVe' b ...., nul IdllX.....hotlld the I"w coudernn.

Then UYe yt', pllauL knicbu I and ble.. your J\ldpI' pblqm..XXIX,

But...,. ainee that mull..: lIJTlud I'Mt,Britannia .laWA. t:latn I at thy name;

~:Iti~n~d"~I~.U~t:h.~:;t~ld,forIbunt.Bow .111 pow.erlJ.y tbe dt'cd Jo'I"e'CLaim I

Will DOLour own Ind fellow aatioUlllDeer,To mw Lbeee championl r.btilled oltht'ir f ...

8y roe. In lII,bt o'erthrown, yet Yieto'" h ,WhI... KOru bar ftopr palata l.hrouCb man1a ~IDl1M.r1

Ort&IullY, the "IiUll' 'PflCI!," .nd II ,eoman," orCbtlde Harold,"A1IlO I. WOnt lnLroduud m Lhe foUowiDI lLaDlU, wblcb ......n.r._oruod,

And ot'hUi train there "I'. h~DcbrDalllJ*II

~Jd:r-:.t~ltJW~;;::.:.:em;::re:;:~ChUd. Borun·. ear whdl. hit proud heart dillawellWlth ...llen LhouCh~ thal hfo dl-elilin'd to leU.

~R:~: ~~(~m~~i~o~:;~i~~tiym;~~'TIM atoom1 11m (rom Ha.roId'. ey" becuI1cd.

~~=lc:':.r;:~o:~~~u:~k:f:t.:=~.~~~~I ~:~(::~..:~~ lab,Ensoona hll lillie heart. t:al mt'rril".Wltb hope or fotelfn DltMma to blhoil1,

~r"'hki?~~~U:Wl"tt::;a:.: lOll\,r- _win. . . • . . •.,... _ ..... .., omItlsd :

Ye, who wOlUd o:ere of8paln aDd l!Ipu:~... bow.illcbta••lntl,ant.qo_, .rts, llDeCdotn. aact war,--.ct, hie 1e hence 10 PJLtarno.ur·ro... _

~~~ht~,:'n~.K!,~~ ~nDt~~:~=-~~ ~~:'"K1~C 1&&1'."hen lu.teJl, r~ad.~, 10 the M..... or Inlr,Ur-r whal he dul ••nd ~,.ht, 'lOCI wrote aCariAll ltww "re cool'·d within on~ Iolu.rto'. brlnlr.

Thit bot"roW'. aLbl. (don'L buY,J Dnd teUIi' • bat,ou tJdDIr.

If.·..~ :=.=-~r'~:~f~~~~A~ :~!~I~~I: ~~o~-=~tllm." in £.00, b1unate enoulh, \.he Ulultrlous mollilllT, hi" nutr"eD~.

1 Bythb query It III not -.nt d...t our rooUah pnenl. "'ou1<1 h....been alUM., but tbal BYRI aUp.t hue been ,pal"M1 i tbooIh thl! one 'Illl'tr~eel .ad tM 0........ au.pad, probIIblT fIJI" Candidll" reuon, II pour mcou-

''''''a':.-::;-~·.n&IDllI U RobID" and II Ruplrt." had beeD nc:cn­....J, _ lion udlCft'-'" apia.

regularly apprized. Your objectiOllll I ba,e in part doneaway by alterations, which I hope will sullice; and Ihave sent two or three additiooal .tanzu for both•FyUd.' I have been again shocked with a deatIl, UIdhave loel one very dear to me in ha'ppier time8; but • Ihave aImo.t fOrgot the lUte of griet;' and 'suppei full 04horrors' till 1 have become callou., nor Mve I a t"lr leftfor an event which five years ago would bave boweddown my head to the earth. Itsecms u though I wereto experience in my youth the greateat miBcry of age.My friends fall around me, and I shall be left a lemel,

Tbo -.I .......pIlla ,he ............aricllI&1l' thus,

";I~-=,=~u:.-ft~I:U'U:~='I~~.:taci',~r~~~Q"wr Lbe .u.plclon ot'ha.,.lnc drawu I from 11I,...1(.' Tb.l bea:lea."e oncerOf' ..1I to wld.lm. I wanted a chlract.er to II" IIGfDe connu:lool to thepoem, aDd the one adupterd .ulted my purpoae .. ""tllI u an, olher. Inaome d:1o,.triYill particulars, .nd thaw muely local .. th~ miaht be=:... M~,::..e:'1I1b:'~':.:~~~D:~ ~~l~~ apc~b:::OWD perIOD, be ..........er1 dil't!reDt toM from tbat 01

• The dlHrI.. thlD,,1ha IDILII without a friend,'

aL ...... tU1 death had rlepriud him or bl. Dtlarnt connesiODll,

~1.::;:J:~lra~u~~iu~oli~~~~~~ from my wUh to dill-

Tbe Doc.. ID C&QW I. .taoaa 21, wulD the manUKl'ipt .. follows:II la the ,.e... 1809. it ls 1\ well.lm.own (~ct, that the .......iDl\tm. y

the ItnteU uf t.ialJtMr and U.. vicllllly, we,.. DOt confiDed by the I'o.-LQ.rue- ID their eounlr1men ; but En,1i.hmnl were daUT buLd.ered, aadso f:v fronlthe IIl,,'IYOn oot.1n1fll .....dreu, they were requested' not. to

::U::l~~:r.:~yi~i::et~~~~:=r:~~w~:~d::tt;:.~.·:t-=t~~r:,e;"~:f~~~~I':~:~.~~~~:~d~.~I::i~lt~h:nf~~:~~;=of our tJllMI ; and bAd w. oot fortunately been &rI'IK'rl, I baTe r.ut thlI..... douht w, Ihould b,,"'e • Idorned .. talc,'loatead oftellfll~ if. 'We

=::: li:~:~:='lt~u~~ r;:r~lJr~':t \~~~~II~~::: fi~;::;r';uwe... w,III' They mUlt ~t a veat man, hou" I by Shre....buryclock,' bern", lhe number of their alaln eqLlala that or our counlryrnenbauhH'td by theM: kind ueatl.lrts, now mec..morphoaed 1010 • Caca·dol'l!l,' and wh.t not. I merety.tlte & r&ct not. c.opl1ned l.o Port\leU,(or in Sldh- anti M&1I& WI an knocked on the bead .t a hIUld..,.utorqe olihtly. and not .. Sicilian or Mallne t. e"'er punit.btd ~ 1 benqlect of protrctinn i. di.crucefuJ to our coycrnmcnl and l""trnora, (orthe murden are II notoriOUI" the mOOn thlt Ihl.nu upon them. and

~~-.r~~t~i~i~~r:~~J:;,IT~~~~::·c~~~~~~~o~bra.e. Oike the ",.t of Lhelr kind, in .. comt-r,) pl"aylet them til-'pl&y it...But th'l"'IIl. a subac.riplion for LheM! • """crl elAov,' {they pe.J not be

~~i:~~';mi~~~l..:,:c:.:!~;J~~i~~: ~~j~~:.~~I:~rll:1~ht•.C~frpm 'an admirer of ,..Iour,' .re in requisition for lhlllUsts.t Lioyda,.lbe honour o( British benevolenee. 'Wrll. we hllVe fUII,ht And .ub­acribed, and beeloWl!'d pl!'t'tII.pI, and buried we killed by our irimdlaad roe. i and lo! all lhi. i. to be dooe o.er IIpin I Lib I Yount:"MuI.' (In Ookl.mU.h·. CHiMa ollhe World. I .. we • VO.· ulder, w.II"O'W ne.er the better.' h would tw plf....nl to le&rn who will 11Gb-

='~~J :~o~;~:~~ ~r.:~~ ~~C:~~~l~:~~~ld~~~~~aca:1n (In the lrilh fuhioa ttftt. out or 'A) in the bed ofhonoul". whidl,

~~~~~"~"';h:n~c:;ra:~~1a~::~~:'~~en::i~V:::0( DOlI Perce~.I,' aod pn.roual, I)dCOW the ~'- o( tl)e well aDIIIIwidely po~nted ~ullrtO to n!luUd tM I lJlld~,.od and tbe I C.,vlfIpte.'or furnWb new kilLs f(1f'the b.lf.-routed HI,hIltllderli. l.on.i WcUi....

::~:i:..":r~·~o:e·r~~le:o:~~k~=h;:~~I~ll~ii,C"~~'~~~I~~r;;~:aSpaniah, a,"r lialAnma-0 the lpeech of a patriotic cobbler of ".dil,,,

:~::,n~~~"':'~;ri'b~L~~~toli~11~i~: ::~Ilr:.~':,ftei;~':;"'e puuled bow to di.pOfte of Ihat ...me victory or TAtnera : ..ad &.kl.orJ' it IUrely .... lomewber., for eYery bod" c1l\imec.l iI,. "ha :':pa~

=\~I=~bjati: ..:r:I~II~ ;::::;,.:.~~,I ::;~e~~ ~~~~:~~~a Frencb c:onauillopped m. moutb In {]1"l!CU With I pll.lilent I .ris li..qtte. 1m .. I bad killlHI &baatlana liD lluck....m.' And King JM-I pb Sa• Kendal JNen," and we han ng( yet. delennined tcAn.1 to CAli II, Of'

...,0.... !or c:erteI it w•• nOlle o( our 1"I.'n. Howbeit, M....u& '. ntrt'.a.t.l. &Ireat comrort, and &. we ha.., OOt Ilt'm in the habit of pursulng (,%IOIDIl yn:n put, DO"'ondeT we II"' I little ....kw..rd It ftnt. No doul'4

=JI:-=~~~~~ ~;:e~11 10 f.&ke &0 our old wa1 of No

The following DOte to Canto II .•t&rta. 8, wu In tbe orfllnal IDIDb•Kript. but omlu.ed in Lht pubHcallon: •

II JD LbJ. a.p of bi,rlltry, whf'1I tht' puritAn and Im.t h• .,. C'hahltdplacn. alld the wreLCI.ed ratholic ill "j,jL..,1 Wilh tiN: ' 1i,,1 or hi, £alben.••en unID pMrallous (nr be7.0tld till' pale or lhr, eommandmt'·u \1M: c"'"of opinion Ulth.- stanUll ..t1ldOllbll~·... meet "'lth mAnY a CIIo>ernJllU~I'

anathema. Bllt let it he relllembered, that the IlIpint tilt") ;-I"'eJthe '.

~~~~~~'=~~~'=t:~~17r::}o~~~;~~;~he7;1~~::~':C:O:;0t.~e=Y-;;:~Ol~bll~~~~~;:Io:nno~~:l~?d'~~:i~~::I~~~=~~:O~~~e~w~=::.:d~:e\~o:L~~ ~::~: :d~ron~ ;';:~I~~~.r::r~:,;":u'Jonmo-~ O~~~~I~. it"::~~.::l~:-nea:li ht~~;::'t=='~u:~' ~:~ =~~r:~~tia~-~i~~~ -::le.~~ir~~~r~~ac:hltlrnt.tlci. Tbft Tum 111I1 Q,ulkrn Are Lbe me.t IOltl"llnl. If lin ...Idtl P"'" hi. hen-tlk 10 the fCIMMr, he maT rn., bow, when. and ...heN..pluw. ; UJd tbe mlkl un,...••Ddde~ollt~rol the laU•• DIU•&beir U... Uae~ 00ID1DM1.&rJ .... lbe SerIMD 011~ Mwal

LETTER&. 181•• 36-------------.-----_ .._--------

"B.

LETTER XC VIU.

TO .. O. D...LL..... U'lo

"October 14, 11111

.T.lJfU IL

, Tberw, UIDa I-wbo. ......e aDd ute loCtthar W,Ban Wt ... bere \0 Jar••OO U•• 1n ..... :­

Twtaed wlt.b my beatt, and cao 1 dN.. ..- ......'When bu, m.lDOf'J o'",my bralDl

W.u.-I wW dream l.ba\ Will , IDIet .....ADd .00 the YisiOD. to my ftCaDl br__ :

n aochl of JOWl remembrar.c. u... ...-alaBe •• It ...,.'Wbay'. t.IdI PuUIril" ....i.,...-......,...

Pw _ '__.-... .. - uv- opIrtt IItnlt'

"n".... out,"Stanza 9, fOr Canto U. lIOIIHIwhat allered, to awoid a

recurrence in a former 1ItanU.

LETTER XCVII.

IrOC hebe I aID 'lII'it'-ed. Other IDOD can alwaY" take HoIlaDd. I bave al_,. bad a great respect for bis....... in their fiuniliee; I bave DO resource but my own taloots, and fOl' all that I have bcard of his cbaracter;relIec:tioas, and they~t no p~ here or bere- but ofme, I ""lieve, he kno_ nothing, e~cept that heaftcoo. eD:ept the ...u;"b aatiofi&ction or lurviring my bet.- heard my mth-form repetitiOlll ten montho together, at....... J a", indeed very wretehed, and yOlO wiJl mrCUBe the average of two lin.. a lOoming, and those n.....r per­"':" -ymg lIO, as you know r .... not al,t to ClUlt or"""- feet. I remembered him and his 'Sla•••' as I pu»edaibihty. , between Capes Matapan, St. Angelo, and hio 1o1e of

" Instead of tiring YOUl'llelC with "9 concems, I ohouId C.riga, and I alwayo bewailed the abeence of the A 1>­lie glad to bear ywr p11l1ll1 of retirement. IlIUppooe thology. 1 suppose h. will DOW translate V onde~ Iheyou would not like to be wholly abut oul of lOCiety' Dutch Shak.peare, and •Gyobert van Arnstel' wiJl ealilyNow Ilmow a large village 01' IDIIa1Itovrn, about twelve be accommodaled to our stage in ito pre.ent .tate; andmiles 011; wbere your family would have the advantage I pr..um. he saw the Dutch poem, where the love ofill very gente.1 society. without the hazard r.f being an- Pyramua and Thiobo io compared to the pruBion <ifaoyed by mercantile ~uenoe; where you would meet CIvWt; also the love of Lucifer for Eve, and other va­WRb men of information and independence' and where r rietiea of Low Country htenuure. No doubt you willlave Uiendo to whom r .hould be proud to introduce think m. crazed to taik of sucb things, but they are allIou.. ~e are besides, a coIfee-room, aaembliea, &c. in black and white and good repute on the banko ofevery&c. whiCh bring people togeth.r. My mother bad a canal from Amsterdam to Alkmaar."'- there 90me years, and I am well acquainted with • Yours everthe.-xuy of Southwell, the name of tm. little com- '.......eaIth. Laotly. you will DOt be very remote from • P. S. My Poe")' ill in the hnndo of ito various pub-1116; and though 1 am the very worot companion for liahero; but the 'Hinto from Horace,' (to whicb r ha...young people in the world, thio objection would not subjoined some IllYage 1m.. on Methodiom, and f.n,apply to.9""> whom r could see frequently. Your ex- ciano notes on the vanity or the triple Editory of 11>..pelIIIeS too would be such ao belt mit your inclination.. Edin. Annual Register,) my 'Kmu,' r "y, .tand oti11,more or 1ess, as you thought proper; hut very linle and why 1-1 have not a mend in the world (but youwould be requisite to enable you to enter into all the and Drury) who can conolrue Horace'. Latin, or my(ayelieo of a country life. You eOIIId be as quiet or English, well enougb to adjuat them for the pr.... or tobustling as you liked, and certainlyao welliituated as on correct the proolil in.~aticalway. So that, unleathe lakes or Cumberland, unI... you have a particular you bav. bow•• wh.n you retum to town, (1 am too far.-ish 10 be pi<turaque. ofF to do it for my.elJ;) this ineffable work will be loot to

"Pray, is your Ioni.. friend in town? You have the world for-I don't know how many ......u.promWed me an introduction.-You mention having eon- • 'Childe Harold'. Pilgrimag.' mUlt wait till MurraY­oulted some frienda on the MSS.-b not Ihis contrary ;" _bed. H. io making a tour in Middleaez, and isto our uoual WilY 1 lnolruct Mr. Murray not to allow to return -.oil, when high matter may be expected. H.his shnpman to call the work' Child of Harrow. Pilgri- _ to hay. it in quarto, which io a cnroed lIII8lI1.abIe""'l:" ! ! !!!' as he has .Ione 10 some of my astonished Ilize; but it is peatilent long, and on. mUllt obey one',bod.. who wrote to inquire after my -uty on the oe- bookaeIler. I tnt" Murray will pase the Paddington...ioo, u well they migt.t. J hllve heard nothing Ca.na.I without being -weed by Payne and Mackinlay'lMurray, whom 1 ocolded hearllly.-Muot I write more .nmple,-IIllY Payne and Mackinlay, auppoeing that_1-Are there DOt enough 1-Cawthom moat be the partaerohip held good. Drury, the villain, baa notkept back with the 'Hir.ta.'-I hope he ia getting 011 wriuen tome; 'I am nev.r (ao M.... Lumpkin illY. towith Hobbouse'aquarto. Good ....ening. Tony/to be gratified with the 1I1OIIIter', dear wild

• Yoara ever, &0.11 DOte8•• So you are going (going indeed!) inta ord.ro. YOll

"'Ull!. malt. your peace with the Eclectic Reviewe..­they~ you of impiety, I fear, with injustic.. 0..­metri... the 'Sieger of Citi...' is here, with 'Gilpin

TO JIlt. &onolO.. Homer.' Th" painter is not nec........y. as the portraibl• Newstead Abbey, Oct. IS, 1811. he already painted are (by anticipation) very lilt. tha

". • new animala.-Write,and eend me your 'Lov.Song'-You....n begin to deem me a moet Ii~ral corra- but I want •paulo majora' from you. Make a daah be­~; but ao my letter8 are free, you~ overlook fore you are a deacoa, and try a dry publisher.their freqU6llC}'. I bay. """t you lUl8Wem In proee and • Y al 11 B.11

v....... to all your late communications, and though I am aura -yo,invading your eue again, I don't know why, or what toput down that you are not acquainted wlth already. Iant~__ (how you will laugh !)-but it ;"lNe,..-really, wretcbedly, ridieuloualy, fine-ladicaUy..­....... Your climate kiIIo me ; I can neither read, write,....... alllUlMl myweU; or any on. else. My day. are liot.­iees, and my nighto reatleu; I hay. very Beldam anylIOCiety, and when I have, I nm out of it. At' this pre­..nt writing,' there are in the n.xt room three Iadiu,and [ bave lIIoIen away to write this grumbhng I.tter.­I don'tlmow that I .ha'n't end with insanity, for I lind awant ofmethod in arranging my thougbto thllt perpl.xeame Blrangely; but this loob moro like IIiUin""" thanmadness, u Scrape Daviea would facetiOUllly remarlI: in.. COII8OIwg manner. I muet try the hartohom ofyourClIIDJIUIY; and a.esaion of Parliament would Buit me....n,.ny thing to cure me ofconjugating the accul'8ed9lerb.~..

"When aball you be at Cambridge1 You haveIUat«!, I thmIr, that your friend Bland ;" returued from