The National Register. — London, England, 1816-04-21 00:00:00

LfIRD 1,-..11)1" We notkel in our last Paper the unhappy separation of Lord Byron and Lad!..—The two foliowing penis by his lord.hip on this subje er, ale‘ough tu , t written fur the punlic tye, hare since found their way into 0... ilea :pipers, and hit.a artai test greet pabhe notice. The Sloth pont Privale 1,1,;• has been stmairly condinnned by the Editor of the Tenv., a.; "AM souk by a Matt or milk. talents. and literary repu'atim, on an unprot:ctA, it defenceleti, and a ittp - mda it &Tette, to gratify an insatiable r ;" w!til.t on the 044. r hand, the Editor of the Mora -1-4 ( Iffenick viniliestes his Lordship; and autrts, thatif "the publi cation of al the c,nmantassees of the unhappy di.pute should breotue . . eteeTt'at) , ever) . holuirkial reader will agree with him, that nothing but the mat gross mirrttpresentation, and Inali 4 pant inthitn, e on a delicate mind, could have 4y:rated the separation that has tiara ylacw FARE 7'IIEE WELL, ,fare thee well! and if for ever— still for ever, fare Noe Teel— rt-'n though tintor n -iving, never 'Gainst thee shaft my heart rebel. Would that breast were hared before thee Where thy h a,!I so oft hatli lain While that placid sleep none o'er thee Wl,kh thou ne'er ean'at know ,I:rain; Would that breast, by thee glithe'd over, Kvery inthost thought email chew! 'filen, thou would'st at last diseuter was not well to spurn it so. `Though the world fur this commend thee...- Though it smile upon the blow,— Fret' its praises must offend thee, Founded on imother', woe. Thouh toy many faults defaced me; Could no other ;am be fottud Than the one which once embraced me I'o inflict a cureless wound? Yet—oh, vet —thyself deceive not— Imve may sink by low decay. But by sudden wrench, believe not, Hearts can thus be torn away; Still thine own its life retaincth— still must mine...though bleeding—beat, And the undying thought which pameth Is—that we no more may meet. These are words of deeper sorrow Than the wail above the dead, Both shall live—but every morrow Wake us fvom a widowed bed. And when thou would'st solace gather-- When our child's first a:cents How-- Wilt thou teach her iftsay—" Father!" Though his care she ii:stst forego% When her little hands shall i'.'ess thee— When her lip to thine is press ii— Think of him whose prayer shall bless thee—. Think of hint thy line had blcss'd. Should her lineaments resemble Those thou never more mav'st Then thy heart will softly tre:.ible With a pulse yet true to me. All my faults—perchance thou knowest 11 my molnees—none can know; All roy hopes—whereer thou; ; :o c :t— Whither—)et with thee they go. Every feeling hash been shaken, Pndis—which not a world can bow—. Rows to thee—br inee forsidum Even my roil forsakes me now. But 'tisOone—all wottla are idle.— Words front me are vainer still; the thoughts we cannot bridle Force their way without the will. Fare thee well!—thus Tore from every marer tie— Sraeti in hcart--and love and blighted— More than this I searcc can die. MARCH 50, 1816. A SKETCII FROM PRIVATE LIFE. firmest—Honest lap! " If that thou best a devil, I cannot kill thee." SIIARSPEaRE. Atilt in the garret, in the kitchen bred, l'romoted thence to deck her mistress head; Next—for small:gracious service uncxprest, And from its wages only to be guess'd— liaised from the toilet to the tahle.—where Irre wondering betters wait behind her chair; With eye unmoved, and forehead unabash'el, She dines from off the plate she lately wirdid. Quick with the talc, and ready with the lie The genial confidante, and general spy— Who c o ld, ye gods! her next employment guess— An only infant's earliest governess . She taught the child to read, and taught so well, That she herself, by teaching, learn'd to spell. An adept next in penmanship she grows. As many a nameless slander deftly shows: What she had made the pupil of her art, None know—but that high soul securest the heart, And pmtexl tin the truth it could nut hear, With longin.: breast am! undeluded ear. Foil'el was perversion by that youthful mind, Which Flattery fooled not—Baseness could nut Deceit infect not-10f ('ontagion soil— 'lndulgence wirsken—nor example spoil— Nor Inaster'd Science tempt her to look down On humidor talents wit:' a pitying frown— Nur Genius swell—nor Itesiuty render vain— Nor Eery ruffle to retaliate pair.— Nor Fortune change—Pride raise—nor Passion bow. Nor Virtue teach austerity—till now. B"rettely caret of her sex that live, Rat wanting one wect vreakiess—to forgive; Too shock'd at faults her bout can never know, She deems that all could he like her below : Foe to all Vice, yet hardly Virtue's friend. For Virtue pardon.; those she we old amend. Hot to the theme:—now laid is:c too long, The brdeful burdien of this hones song— Tho all her Milner functions are vo more, She rules the circle which she served before. If mothers—none know why—before her twake.; If daughters dread her for tile mothers' sake: If early h.bits—those false links, which bind At times the loftiest to the ineenest mind— Have given her power too deenly to instil The angry essence of her diwelly will; If. like a snake, she steal within your walls, Till the black slime betray her as she crawls; If. like a viper, to the heart she wind, And leave the venom there she did not find; What marvel that this ha,( of batted works Eternal e% it latent as shelurks, To make a Pandemoniuni a here site dwells, And reign the Hecate of doniestic hells? Skill'a by a touch to deepen scandal's tints With all the kind nientlicity of hint... • THE NATIONAT. nroisTEn. While mingling truth with falsehnol--tioeers with sittitive— A thy' el of candour with a web of wiles: A ph in blunt show of briefly spoken seeming. To hide her 11k:oodles , : heart's soul-hanlen'd scheming': A lip of lies—a feet Sinnott to conceal; And. w:thout feeling, mock at all who feel : With a vile mask the Gorton ttouldelisown; A cheek of parchntent—and an eye of stone. Mark, how the channels of her yellow blond Ooze to her skin. and stagnate there to mud, ra.wd like the centipede in siermil Or darker greenness of the wrnepion's scale— I For drawn from reptiles °nit. tray we ewe Congenial colours in that soul or faet.)-... Look on her features ! and behold her rMnd As in a mirror of itself delined : Look on the picture! deem it not o'crehnrged— There is no trait which might not be enlarged : Yet true to •6 Nature's journeymen." AO made This monster when their mistria. left ea' trade,— 'rhis female dog-star of her little , ky, Where all beneath her influence droop or die. 011! wretch without a tear—without a thought. Save joy above the ruin thou hast wrought— The time shall (vole, nor loot rewrote, when thou Shalt feel fir more than thou inftiviest now Evil for thy vile self-loving self in vain. And turn thee howling in unpitied pain. Mty the strong curse amulet! affection , light Back on thy bosom with reflected blight! And make thee in thy leprosy of mind • As loathsome to thyself as to mankind! Till all thy self-thoughts curdle into hate, klack—as thy will Sir others would el str Till thy hard heart be calcined into dust. And thy swill welter in its hideous crust. Oh, may thy grave beale pless as the bed.— The widow d couch of tire, that thou host spread! Then, when thou fain woultrst weary !leaven with prayer s Look on Mike earthly vietin.s—and despair! Down to the Mist as thou nest aware Even warns shall parish on thy Inc ionic els,. Rut for the love l bore, and still most bear, To her thy nialire from all tier would tear— Thy name—thy Istituto mole—to every eye , The climax of all sawn should hang nn Exalted o'er thy less abhorred compeers-- And festering in the infamy or. The following letter has been addressed , hv Sir Ralph Neel (the fathur of Lady Byron I, to the Editor o Moraine ch ef) . nide, in consequence of 6011Ie observcions respecting Lord and Ladyli) run, which have apiwart d in that paper:— " art's Hotel, April IK, ISIS. " observe with the e wriest dissatisfaction the woe. MT in which you have inserted in the Months, Croaide of to day the contradiction 1 gave you yestardsta to",ic p ara g ra ph ui y mi rws.gner paper s 1 . 413 existence mea conspiracy agaMst /ar.ll &Die! tie peace. I did not say Cart I km tr. of no consp % iraey against Lord Byron's do mestic peace but I told you in the nited decided manner, that I knew no conspiracy of the kind had ever existed, that the report was utterly false, and I gave you my word of lion cur that the step taken by Lady Byron was the result of her own unbiassed judgment, and that her parents and friends ints r fered only when called upon by her to aeon' her their support. In the necessity of the step, indeed, her friends folly coueurree, but in the suggestion of it tai a bad no concern. guying given you this assurance in the twist solemn manner, I called upon you to contradict the paragraph on my authority. You have done so, but in a manner utterly unsatisfactory; and have to request that you will insert this letter in your paper of to-mor row, in which I repeat that no conspiracy . whatever existed against Lord Byron's dome stir peact:. You also in another part of the conversation which ensued entirely mistook me : I never stated that the publication iu a Sunday Journal was ' much to my disquiet and condemoatiov : but in reply to solute observations of yours, it was asserted merely as a fact, that no paraeraphs hostile to Lord Byron had originated with Lady Byron or her immediate fi,cirds, or were published with their knowledge, and that I &mid lament .ery mods the oecershy of making this subject the theme of farther discus. in lile public papers, which I have always disapproved of in ivies (ions that CO neern the relations u, prit ate We. Snell are toy observations. 10 the pre.eat lust:vice, I cootrive thoae cessions Its .1' ' , piling Iron the pubacatiou of Lord byiores verses ' as I do not remember that the sulver was evtr cun t assert before; th e y have eertai.:iy not coiAtnated from Laity . Byrum. " AM, Wur liamble servant, " k ‘l.l'H NOEL. " the Editor of the :Ilorning Chronicle." " P.S. My friend, 1:01ond Doyle, who war present with me. concurs in his recollection of the above having been the senti ments wiiich I expressed.-1 ant, Sir, your humble su rt Ant, " It.ILPH NOEL." To this letter the Editor has returned the billowing :Answer: " Sttt, 'Thursday Evening, I t o'clock. ‘' On coming to sty office, I bud your letter, containing an aniilmadversion on the paragraph inserted in my Paper, as the result of the conversation last night ; and I should have no hesitation in publishing it according to your desire, ill were not morally certain that it would lead illeVitobiy to the publication of the whole Correspondence, front Lady Maws's first letter, dated from Kirby, to the lase document, prepared for legal pro ceedings, if necessary. I stop it, therefore, fbr one day, to en able you to reflect on the propriety of positing the :natter to this extremity ;and, in the mean time, I beg leave to say, that I laths fished the result of the lung conversation that passed bete, ern us, and tint the detail, front motives of the nmst imxious concern for all parties. 1 . 011 certainly said, in the first instance, that no cutisiiiraey had ever existed against the domestic peace of Lord Its ruin' to which you will do me the justice to reerillect I ansvveie ' that you could speak to this only from the best of soar own knowledge ;toil belief,' and that I perfectly acquitted you of all participation in it; butt that 1 remained fully 1.011. vwcvd, from circumstances within lily own knowledge, that nothing but grist inisrepi mutation and anolignaut ailluence could have prevailed on a wile, whose duty at WaS toe:laity to her hoshithd, and particudarty such a wile as Lord Byron says described his Lady to be, sir take the step which sh e did, and to remain apparently implacable to as the ()verniers of re conciliation that have since been made. Both yotiand Colonel Doyle acknowledged that you could cot expect we to give up the cons ietioll of my mind ; and you api/r41141 to tat' per fecity to acquiesce in the way that i put to it, which wus that I had sour authority to declare that 110 conspiracy, to your luow ledge, existed against the Noble Lord. " I did not wish to aggravate the unhappy iliffetence.by go. ing into all the conversation a Mel; took place, our state thv. impression which war mad, ou sty teelitigs ny your declaration, that lady separation from her hash:mil was • the result of her OWII UlllliiASSedillthtllll:llt,'ll step % w i sh ,4 I,d, f rom , to the lady, I coul d not hare suppbsed possible ; my own id. 4, of the conduct of a nobleenitided viutnan being so cuwrais . and such conduct being at the battle time so iaCtalSi,i.ll; u:.h APRIL IT. the expressit us used by herself to the last moineut of their domestic ititercoar.r. .qj I had Kei t ei%to the whole detail, I mast have stated the question put to you. Why no 'reply was given to the iniplicn tion made to your tlitail) to,speeify the elmrges tic/hist Lord that he might have its opportnnity to vindicate himself fitiab the calumnies vu iistinottrkally propagated against hint %--To this )On ti;.swer, that Lady Byte!) acted in this by the advic e o r Dr tositiogtoo! Whim, wife tears hermit' train the 1ni 3 04 of her btivb.uni, and acts by the mold caution of a Lawyer ra ther than by the chew', of her OIN it heart ! _ " As teethe expression of the dbygtiet at and conScinnation of the infanrms aspersions which provoked me to vindicate the Noble Lord, 1 certainly coneriled y...n to declare that they not only were not authorized by Lady Porron s friends, bat that you Vl'grl•tiCll and emsdrutmed therm t trust you do not mean to wit Mira% this declaration, or to dininbli the import of these word:, " !fin the course or lo..mnrrovr I +hall receive yenr instrne tious to print the letter, you may depend on the publication un Matneday, together my own recollection of all that passed between as yestet d ; and c Melt, that viol may be AstiAril mafit4 foie 110,•A, 1 .hall be ready to eubtimit before hand to , y 4,11 If pernial. My at m' et is, to pi c volt time breath I'l 011) b , ins tti idea tII, MO 10 a% OM 4111 C 1,11/•1•4111(.00 0 . u. Whirl' 1110 pnblicatieu of your letter, and the continuance of such slanders as daily ap pear in Aaron. 4.1 the Papers. tarsi teed. " I hair the !towns, In be, with perfect respect for yntirself, " Sir, )our Servant, 411. PLHRY. "Sir Ralph Noel, Bart. &r. Lc. strand, April td, ihl6." 121:1'1.1% '• Miran-C.; Hotel. April 19, 14111. Sta-1 cannot withilr.riv my reipitl, that ion will inxrt the loytter of e‘pisitaiiiia which I ye•terilay seut you. Yen J 1111443 ke -Ow iv.ipatpottility upon putt - Aril of whale% rr you way silit.e to polali,it, and I must ileeline any previous eons ruouication ou tAtz. subject.-1 am, Sir, your humlile semant, " RALPH NOEL.* 4 publican of liacelotielil %ta, eunsicted befure the Itaxi A . trite. en T01e:..1.y ch'uni4ht, in Inc Initigati II plini.limein of int haviii; wed grains of the bmwitig of his A few lava since four vlbsins, dressvl sr.ilors, and armed with pistols, board :it the sloop Jtrno, on of the Leeds and louttion traders, on her pussag: dnwr r artla„ while I ILig at anchor tiff ltarkinft, in Ewes, two of them six...urea Capt. Fletch whom they toA cash to a c nsiLknible amount, *ldle the od:ers kepi watch over the wen in die fore-cabin. COINERP.—A few days since, a considerable queNitz of base coin Navin, teen circulated in the wars of Kingeand end 1. %twill by a nettling Tinker :odd his wife, the l'onstables were die p atched :""alch of them, and they were traced to Stonehouse, riwr Plymouth Dock. On the tat :as arplying to Mr. Bath, a Constable of Stonchouse, he inform d them, that he thought he could ferret thtm out ; and shortly after they met with the Tinker's wife. accompanied by a boy. On r (miring after her husband, she said that she knew not where he was; but at the same me neat she said to the boy, " Tip," who dertcd off with the velocity of an arrow. The fonstabl,h, however, irwantly pun. sual, followed him to an attic, +tr.! i.,iierul the door at the panic mo ment with young " Tip," lirAng hittither, H. Stanley, and an assist. ant (Sparkes), at work oneiopenees ; a censidcw.ble ell:amity of were brought away, together with all the ituplementsoof ctaiiiw:;, the. Stauley was formerly a serjeant in the army, into which rne entered when a gypsy. taut EsTa.—Tuesday an Inquest was taken by Mr. Todd, at Old Alresford, linmpshire, on the body , o r a new-born niale child, which. 1W:13 found in a rivy.: when the dory. alter a long investigation of the e•fidenee, broug h t in a verdict of Wilful Murder against Hannah But fie toinkle woman), die mother of the inthnt, who was hum diately ap prehended on the Corantes warrant. The rrisoner was laundry-maid in the service of the lion:Colonel Ooslow. l'estenlay week an Inquest was held at the aid I.ion, (lasFes street, m the body of ?tr. Robins.. s silversmith, 'in Fleet street, wl o was found drowned in the Green lark Basin. By the evidence of his daughter it appeared, that the deceased hail been very dejected fonwany slays past, enpr.oNed to have arisen from domestic misfoi twits: that on Wechicalay he went front home, cad at night was discover e d fl o a tin g in the Basin, on the hank- of which he had been noticed walkingabout for two hours —Verdict, hound Drowned. Monday morning, at nine o'cock, as Mr. Mcor, bormicakr. of Green street, GI rranor-mpiare. wus driving a break down Green-street, the horses ran off and VVErtilt, a coach belonging to Mr. Fortnum, eon. tattling their course on the ravtinent; when Nit. Moor's head came in contact with the len p ut tie coiner of North Audlty street, acrd the broils falling with a sw k nt jerk on the post. he was thrown several yaws. and tidling on his hind, was taken up stet Chit P‘. lie only sur vived till a quarter past tight in the same evening, and then expired iu the .4fil year of his age he lost his father about seven weeks since, and was to have conducted the business for his mother and family. A ( u. roner's Inquest sat on the body, Verdict—Accidental Death. On 'lttemlav an Inquest was held at the Barley Mow, in Mount street, on the body of Mary MiCann, who met her death in the follow ing nsanner A footman in a lantily in Grosvenor-square keeps a heelt,intr.leause in Bird street, for female servants, where tlie deceased, some true back, pmettretl lodgings, saying, she had left a family at Bath ; but whiht there. she contrived to rob another young woman of sonic trinkets and a quantity of wearing apparel. I hvettscd soon after got a situation in Downing street. NVestititrister ; and on Friday week information was given at Queen-square. and a search-warrant executed by two of the officers, who Mond in her boxes not only what she wcs ac cused of stealing, but part of •her new mistress's property. She wasp then lodged in the watch-house. tee be examined next day. In the course of the night she complained of iili,cV, and the wateh-liouse keeper scat for a medical Gentleman, who ordered her to be sent to the workhouse. In the course of Saturday she became worse; anitalthough every possible care was taken of her, she expired about teat o'cloca un s on l a y m or ning. • The jury, after a mature deliberation, returr.ed their verdict—Died by the V isitation of God. On Monday J. Fancutt and T. Turner, for housebreaking. and T. Cooper, for stabbinga woman with whom he cohabited, were executed in front of hardened did the former apter.r. e.ll hi tried, that he declared to the Judge, Then since I ant to be hanged, let the Slierilfbeware ; for if I swing one minute beyond my time, I will have him ir.dicurl." This violence. however, was shortly succeeded by penitence ; and from the period of the dead-warrant timing down stronger devotion, or tirmer naignation, was never aleewn by imy crinei nish—Turner, a mere youth, also evinced, since his coi.vietion, the most sincere reper.tance.—f'ooper also became alike huiLithal and de vout• acknowledging the justice of his fate, and devotee! his Lifter hours to fervent piety. They were attended alternately by the Rev. Mr. Cotton, the Rev. Mr. Budge. and some Dissenting Clergymen. Cutler, the young man who has been respite!, itlito passed the 'ugh: a lilt them, at hes own desire, and joined most fervently in devotion. l'rein the ar rival of the She riffs, a few minutes before eight edelo..k, I onetitt was led truth his cell. lie evinces! the most unshaken tirinners while his here' w.:re taking off Vtaiper and Turner displayed hss holdness, but appeared equally resigned. At eight &ceek the awful pmcession ntoved along the dreary pas-ages to the scaffield, the Rev. Mr. Cetton re-ding a portion ed . the Burial Service. After the untiirtunate men had ascended the platform, and the fatal preparations bad been gone through, a few inoments were devoted to pray e r. Feeneutt and Turner prayed loudly and eli:voutly. Cooper appeared less resigned; but lie also prayed fervently. and expressAi much confab nee in the mace cif his Creator through the Redeemer.—The untintunatc culprits having shaken hands affeenionauily, and the fatal signal hcinggiven, they were launched intu eternity.—The crewel assembled to is iuzesa the awful c....rtn.timy was