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~~ ,: , '~ , . 1 ! ~~~ ~. "''. a„ ;'. _ d;.: 'F , ( 1 . 1 i ili ,; r, ~., , r. 1 .: i 4-• 't `~ ' :3 • un' What if thy deep and ample strerot should be A mirror of toy heart, where she may read The thousand thoughts I now betray to thee, Wihl as thy wave, and headlong as thy speed? What do I say—a mirror of my heart ? Are not thy waters sweeping, dark, and strong Such at my feelings were and are, thou art ; And such as thou art, were my passions long. Time may have somewhat tamed them, not for ever ; Thou overflow'st thy banks, and not for aye ; Thy bosom overboils, congenial river ! Thy floods subside ; and mine have sunk away— But left long wrecks behind them, end again Borne on our old unchanged career, we move ; Thou tendest wildly onward to the main, And I to losing earl should not love. The current I behold will sweep beneath Hee native walls, and murmur at her feet ; Her eyes will look on thee, when site shall breathe The twilight air, unharmed by summer's heat. bile will look on thee ; I have louk'd on thee, Full of that thought, and from that moment nett Thy waters could I dream of, name, or see, IVithout th' inseparable sigh for her. Her bright eyes will be imaged in thy Stream Yea, they will meet the wave I gale on now : Mine cannot withess, even in a dream, 'That happy wave repass me in its flow. The wave that bears my tears returns no more : she return by whom that wave shall sweet , ? Bien tread thy banks, both wander on thy short ; I near thy source—she by the dark blue deep. Mut that which keepeth us apart is not Distance, roe depth of wave, nor space of earth, But the distraction of a aerial, lot. As various as the climates of our birth. A stranger loves a lady of the land. born tkr beyond the mountains, bat his blood Is all meridian, as if never fium'd By the blank wind that chills the polar flood. 111 y blood is all meridian ; were it not, I had not lift myy shall not be, In spite of tortures ne'er to be forgot, .1 rlave again of love, re least of thee. 'Tie vain to struggle—let me perish young— Live as I lived, and love as I have loved : To tins* if I return, from dust I sprung, And theta at least my heart can nc'er be mowed. -Defending the cuctoui of Gunther; Sefernti, his Lord ship says— " The Count fluicetoli, for instaiire. who is the richest man in Konaligna, acs sixty when he married Yonne. ; she sixteen. From the first they had separate apartments, and she always used to call lain air. What could be expected from such a preposterous con. flexion ? For some tine she was an Angiolimi , and he n :Marino Falter°, a good old man ; but young women, and your Italian titles too, are riot satisfied with yoar good old w e n. hove is not the Wale lull, cold, calculating feeling here as in the North. It is the business, the serious occupation of their lives; it is a want, a ne cessity. Swot:body properly defines a woman, • a creature that loves: They die of love; particularly the Romans : they begin to love earlier, and feel the passion later than the Northeru people. %Viten I was at Venice. two dowagers of sixty made love to me.— But to return to the Guicrioli. The old ;*onnt did not object to her nailing herself of the privileges of her country ; an Italian would have reconciled him to the thing : indeed for some time lie W.aked at our intim-icy, but at length made an exception against n.e, as a foreigner. a heretic, an Englishman, and, what was worse than ail, a liheral. • Be insisted--the Guiccioli was as obstinate ; her family took de part. Catholics cannot get divorces. But, to the scandal of iii Romarma, the matter was at length referred to the Pope, who urderet her a.. separate maintenance, on conilitiou that she should reside under her father's roof. All this was nut agreeable. and at ienedi I was forced to smuggle her out of Ravenna, having dip .lasal a plot laid with the sanction of the Legate for shutting her ea is a convent for life, which she narrowly escaped: " 'Tile morning after Shelley's obsequies, at which Lord B. ellight a fever, Captain M. relates, " I found him sitting in the garden under the shade of urns orange -tress, with the Countesi - . They are now always together, and he is become quite domestic. He calls her Pie,:iitima, and bestows on her all the pretty dimi nutive epithets that are so sweet in Italian. His kindness at:d attention to the G aiccioli have been invariable. A three years constancy proves that he is not altogether so unma nageable by a stnsiide woman as might be supposed. In fact 1•:44) is SO easily hd : but lie is not to be driven. - - " The influence of the Countess over Lord Byron re minded me of a remade u: Fletcher's, that Shelley once re peatral to sue as basing overheard :—"fhat it was' strange every woman should be able to manage hit Lind ship but her had :ship " lie bet her, however, when he went to Greece, and her brother Count Garnba accompanied his corpse to its last obyle in England. Of another of his amours we find the teilowing account. lie. says— '. • You may remember seeing the portrait of a female which Murray got engraved. and dubbed my • Fornsrina.' ••• Marlowe, the poor fellow who died soon after his return from Rorie, and who used to copy pictures from memory. took nip like. C. 15 when lie was at l• t. nice : and one day this frail one, who was a casual seqoatatance of mine, happened to be at my palace, and to be seen by the painter, aho was struck with her, and begged she might sit to him. She did so. and I sent the drawing butte as a saecimen if the Venetian/, and not a bail one either ; for the jade was handsome, though the most troublesome shrew and tonnage:a ever met with. To give you an idea of the lady. she used to call sae the Grur Coe &Lila Madonna. When once site obtained • footing inside my door, she took a dislike to the outside of it. tont had great dil7lCLlhr is uncolooiring her. She forced bee way bock one day when I was at dinner. and snatching • knife from the table. offered to stab herself if I did not consent to her stay. Seeing I took no rouse of her threat. as knowing it to be only a feint, she ma into the balcony and threw herself into the canal. An it was only kneo-deep, anti there were plenty of gondolas , ore of them Fie •a`• her up. This atthir made a aweat noise at the time. Some said that 1 out thrown her into the water, others that she lied dromed henself for love; but this is the real story. " • I got into nearly as great a scrape by malting !TIC court to a spinster. „As many Dowers% as emu please at Venice. hut be au" of with glazzas. • I haa been one night under her window ses-enadiaar, ant she root enconiog who should be antiounetd a: the same time but a priest and police infirm come, as I thought. either to shoot or many ate aga in,-1 dial not care which. I was disaustal aril tired with the life I led at Venice, and was glad to turn my back or. it. The Austrian tioverntuent, too, partly contri buted to drive me away. They intercepted nay books and papers, opened my letters, and proscribed my works: •• • Murray (said be), pretends to have lost money by my writings, and pleads poverty; but if he is poor, which Is some what Kato:tat:cal to me. pray who is to blame? The fault is in hishaving purchased, at the instance of his ;area: friends. during the last year, so many expensive Voyages and Travels, which all his influence with the Quarterly cannot persuade people to buy—can. not puff into popularity. The Cookery-hook (which he has got • lawsuit about), hits been fur a long time his sheet -a nchor; but they my he will have to refond—the worst of fonds. Mr. Murray is tender of my fame ! Mow kind of him ! He is afraid of my writing too fast. Why ? because he has a tender regard tin his own pocket, and does not like the look of any new acquaintance, in the shape of a book of mine, till he has seen his old friends in a variety of new Leas; Id rat, disaosed of a vast many editions of the for. raer works. I don't know what would become of me without I )(ragtag Kinnairci, who has Mom,* been my best and kindest friend. It is not easy to deal with Mr. Murray. ". Murray offered me, et his own stworti,l.ooW. a canto for Dun Jana. and afterwards reduced it to MAIL on the plea of piracy, and complained of my hating divided one canto into two, bocause I happened to say something at the erd of the third about having SIMS so. It is true mama that teaa Juita 113 A been pirated ; but whom has he to thank but Wailed ? In the that place, he put toe high a price oo the copies of the two first cantos that came out. only printing a opirato edition, at, Lithisk.,s gun:sawed a half. There was a greot demand tio it, and this induct:it the knavish booksellers to bum:oar. It lie had put John Murray on the title-page. like a man, instead of smuggling the brat into the amid, and getting Saivism, who is a printer and not a publisher, to father it. who would have ventured to question his paternal rights ? or who would Lave attempted to deprive hint of them ? " The thing was - plainly this; he disowned and refused to ac knowledge the bantling; the natural consequence was, that others should come forward to adopt it. Mr. John Murray is the most nervous of God's booksellers. When Dam Joao first canoe out, he was so frightened that he made a precipitate retreat into the country, -*hut himself up, and would not open his letters. The fact is, he priats for too many Bishops. He is always boring me with piratical edition Brom edition, to prove the amount of his own losses, and furnish proof of the extent of his own folly. Here is one at 2.5. dd. that came only yesterday. Ido not pity him. Because '1 gave him one of my points, he wanted to make me believe that I had made him a present of two others, and hinted at some lines in Reds, that were certainly to the point. But I have altered my mind coasidwahla mom that mthieet ; as I once hinted to him. I see no reason why a man should not profit by the sweat of his brain, as well as that of his brow, ire. • besides I will poor at that time, and have no idea of aggrandizing hooksellers. I was in Steit z—land whets he mode this modest request—and he always enter :Ailed a spite against Shia - icy tin making the agreement, and fixing the price, which I beiieve was not dear, for the third canto of Nara Nonfred. The Priruiter of Cailkt, Le.—l girt •2,400 f. 'amend on it he did not lose stoney—he was not ruined 'by tlis , speculation. " • Murray has long prevented Qoarierlo from abusing me. Some of its bullies have had their fingers itching to he at roe ; bid they would get the worst of it in a set.to." (Here he put himself in a boxing attitude.) •• I perceive. however, that we shall have some sparring ere lone. I don't with to 41:Eiffel with Murray, bat seine inevitable. 1 had no reason to be pleased with him the -other day. leolignani wrote to me, offering to purchase the copy right of my works, in order to obtain an exclusive privilege of print -log them fn France. I might have made my own terms, and put she money In my flea pocket, instead of which I coelosed Oak soani'adetter to ]hurray, .in coder that he might conclude the matter as he pleased. Ile did so, very advantageously for his own inte rest: but never had the complaisance, the common politeness, to thank me, or acknowledge my letter. My differences with Murray are not over. When he purchased Cabs, Vie Twa Foseari, and Sardasepelms, he sent me a deed, which you remember witnessing. Well : after its return e to England, it was discovered that • • • • • • • But I shall take no notice of it." " Some time afterwards lie said:— " • Murray and I have made up our quarrel ; at least, it is not my fault if it should be renewed. The parsons bare been at hint about Cain. An Oxonian has addr a bullying letter to him, asking him how so moral a bookseller can stain his press with so profane a book ? He is threatened with a prosecution by the Anti- Constitutional Society. I don't believe they will venture to attack him : if they do, I shall go home and make my own defence.' " " Lord Byron wrote the same day the letter contained in the Notes on Cain. Same months afterwards he said in a letter— " ' Murray and I have dissolved all connection. Ile had the choice of giving up me or the A'acy Lists. There was no hesita tion which way he should decitit ; the Admiralty carried the day. Now fur Ti.. Quarto-11A their batteries will be opened ; but I can lire broadsides too. They have been letting off lots of squibs and crackers against me, but they only make a noise and • • " In a letter dated from Genoa the sth of May, IS' a, he says— " ' Werner was the !nit book Murray published forme, and three months after came out the Quarterly's article on my plays, when Narino Faliera was noticed toe 'he tirst time, &c. •• ' 1 need not say that I shall be delighted by your inscribing your Wanderer to me; bat I would recoiontend you to think twice before you instrihe a war:: to me, as you most be aware that at present I am the ninst unpopelar. writer going, and the odium on the dedicatee may reedy on the etlicator. If you do nut think this a valid objection. of course there can be none on my part," &c. • •• • • • " On another occasion he said :—• I am always getting new cor respondents. Here are three letters joist arrived, from strangers all of them. One is front a Frenchwoman., who has been writing to me off and on for the last three years. She is not only a blue-bottle, b:t a poetess, I susptyt. Her object in .uldr;,„•ing me now, she its. is to get me to eotte on the lows vt a slasesship, the particu lars of el:kat she alt tails. " "f he ;wrond epistle is stltort, and in a hand I know very well : it is artorymnos too. Ilea? what site says : • 1 cannot longer mist withom acknnwitalling the nuuulitmus untlaigonizatg delight with v. Wei my land bums at the glowing beauties of yours.' " • A thinl is of a very illereat character from the last ; it is fr./31 a .Mr. Sheppard. inclostng a prayer made for my welfare by his wife a few days before her death. The letter states that he has had the misfortune to lose this amiable woman, who had seen we at ltamagate, many years ago, rambling amoag the cliffs; that she had been impressed with a sense of my ir.cligion from the tenor of my works, and had often prayed fervently fur my conversion, par. ticularly in her last moments. The prayer is beautifully written. I like devotion in women. She must have been adivine creatuir. I pity the man who has lost her ! I shall write to him by return of the courier to - condole with him, and tell him that Mrs. S. need not have entertained any concern fur my spiritual affairs, for that no man is more of a Christian than 1 fun, whatever my writ ings may have led her and alien to suspect." • • • • "' One of the principal incidents in The Ciao. , is derived from a real occurrence, and one too in which I myself was nearly and deeply interested • but an unwillingness to hays it considered a traveller's tale made me suppress the fact of its genuineness. The Marquis of Slip, who knew ,Le particulars of the story, reminded rne of them in Lnisland, and wondered 1 had not authenticated them in the 1'.4 1 t : " When I was at Athens. there was an edict in throe similar to that of Ali's, except that the ...aide of punishment was different. It was necessary, therefore, that all love atiliirs should be carried on with the greatest privacy. I was very fond at that time of a Turkish girl--ave, fond of her as I have been of few women. All went on very well till the Itainasan fur forty days, which is rather a long fast for lovers; all intercourse between the sexes is forbid. den by law, vs well as by religion. During this Lent of the Mus. selmans the women are not allowed to quit their apartments. I was in despair, and could hardly contrive to get a cinder. or a token. flower sent to express it. We had not met the several days, and all my thought's were occupied in planning an assignation, when, as ill fate would have it, the means i took to effect filed to the disco. very of our seem. The penalty was death,—death without reprieve —a horrible death, at which ore cannot think without shuddering ! An order was issued for the law being put into in an est late effect. In the mean time I knew nothilig of what had happened, and it was deter mined that I should be kept in ignorance of the who!? affair till it was too late to interfere. A mere accident only enahle.l me to prevent the completion of the sentence. I was taking one of my usual even ing rides by the sea-side, when I observed a crowd of people moving down to the shore, and the arms of the soldier' glittering among them. They were not so far off, but that I thought I could ovw and then distinguish a faint and stilled shriek. My curiosity was forcibly excited, and I despatched one of my followers to inquire the cause of the procession. What was my hoiror to learn that *thcy were carrying an unfortunate girl, sown up in a sack, is be thrown into the sea! I did not hesitate as to what was to be done. I knew I could depend on my faithful Albanians, and rode up to the Aker commanding the party, threatening in case of his refusal to give up his prisoner, that I would adopt means to compel hint. Ile did not like the business he rat on, or perhaps the determined look of my bnely-guard, and consented to accompany me back to the city with the girl. whom I soon discovered to be my Turkish favourite. Suffice it to say, that my interference with the chief ma gistrate, backed by a heavy bribe, saved her; but it was only on condition that I should break off all intercourse with her, and that she should immediately quit Athens, and be sent to her friends is Thebes. There she died, a few days after her arrival, of a fever— perhaps of lose.' " • • • • • • " I think I can give no stronger proof of the sociability of Lord Byron's disposition, than the festivity that presid ed over his dinners. "IYetlncsday being one of his fixed days You will dine with me; said he, 4 though it is the 2d days, " His own table, w hen alone, was frugal, not to say ab stemiens; but on the occasion of these meetings every sort of wine, every luxury of the season, and };nglish delicacy, were displayed. I never knew any man do the honours of his house with greater kindness and hospitality. tht this eventful an& v,•rsary :le wax not, however, in his usual IP* rite, and evidently tried to drown the remembrance of the day by a levity that was forced and unnatural; for it was clear, in spite of all his effort', that something oppressed him, anti he could not help continually recurring to the strhject. One of the party proposed Lady Byron's health, which he gave with evident pleasure, and we all drank in bumpers. The conversation turning on his separation, the probability of their being reconciled was catiemised. •• • What!' said he. • efts" having lost the live best Tears of our lives? Never I But,' added b •it vies no fault of mule that we quarrelled. I have made admacs enough. I had once an idea tont people are happiest in the marriage state, after the impetuosity of the passion has subsided; but that hope is all over with me !' • • • • • • " Do you think,' asked I, • that Sir Walter Scott's Novels owe any part of their reputation to the concealment of the author's name No,' said he; such works do not gain or lose by it. 1 am at a loss to know his reason for keeping up the incognito but that the reigning family could not lure been very well pleased with Waserky. Thus is a degree of charlatanism in same authors keeping up the Unknown. Junius owed mock of his fame to that trick; and now that it Is known to be the work of Fir Philip Francis, who reeds it? A political writer, and one who descends to personalities such as disgrace Junius, s hould be immaculate as a public, as well as a private character; and Sir Philip Francis was neither. ale had hia price, and was gagged by being seat to India. lie there seduced another DUD% wife. It would have been • new cape for a Judge to sit in judgment on himself, in a Crim. Con. It seems that his conjugal felicity was not great, for, when his wile died, he came into the room where they were sitting up with the corpse. and said, • bolder her up, solder her up ! lie saw his dOODIDer (TONG and scolded hey, saying. • An old hag—she ought to have died thirty yrars so P Ile married, shortly after, a young woman. Ile hated Hastings to a violent degree • all he hoped and prayed for was to outlive hun. But many of th e newspapers of the day are written as well as Junius. Matthias's book, The Porsaits of Literature, DOW almost a dead letter, had once a great fame.' " • 1 have been reading,' said 1, The Laisiod, and some of Ca. moons' smaller poems. Why did Lord Stran i gford call his beauti ful Sonnets, beu translations t' " • B.'cause he wrote,' said Lord Byron,' order to get the si. tuation of the Brazils, and did not know a ward of Portuguese when he rommenecd.' •• • Moore was suspected of assisting his Lordship,' said I. ' Was that so ?' "• 1 ant told not,' said Lord Byron. ' They are great friends and when Moore WAS in difficulty about the Bermuda strait, in which lie w.is so hardly used, Lord Strangford offered to give him WO!. ; but 3loore had too much independence to lay hintwo.f unt'.cr an obligation. I know no man I would go futtlicr to verve than Moore. ••" The Fudge mils, pleases moat:touch as arty of his works. The letter which he veractiesi at the end was given hint by Danglaa Kinnaird anti myself, and was addressed by the Life.guardsmaa, after the battle id ‘Vaterloo, to Big Ben. Witty av .Moore's epistle is. it falls short of the orti;inal. • Doubling up the Meutisccrs in biles,' is not so energetic an exprescou as was used by our hero ; all the alliteration is lust. •" Moore is one of the few writers who will survive the age in which he so deservedly flourishes. Ile will live in his /r;sh Melo dies ; they will go down to posterity with the music ; both will LIN: as loeg as Ireland. or as mune and poetry.' "• I have got Hunt with me,' said' he. I will tell you how I became acquainted with him. " • One of the brat visits I paid to Hunt was in prison. I re member Lady Byron was with mein the carriaFe, atal I made her wait longer thani intended at the gate of the king's Bench. •• • When party feeling ran highest against Inc. Hunt was the emir editor of a paper the only literary n:an, who dared say a word lin my justification. shall always be grateful to him for the part he took on that occasion. It was manly in him to brave the eWo qua of standing alone. " Shelley and myself furnished some time ago a suite of apart ments in my boos; for hint, which he now occupies. I believe I told you of a plan we had in agitation for his benefit. Iftsprinci- THE BRITISH PRESS. pal object in coming out was to establish a literary journal, whose name is not yet fixed. vehicle for some occasional poems; —for "' I have proposed to contribute, and shall problably mean to trans. make it a late Ariosto. I was ;honey advised by Tom Moore, long ago, not instance, to have any conaectioo with such a company as Hunt, Shelley, and Co. ; but I have pledged myself, mid, besides. could not now, if I Hunt's hopes. Ile has a large faintly. had ever so great • disinclination for the scheme, disappoint all ney, and undergone a long series of persecutions. has u ndertaken • long jour. " Moore tells me, that it was proposed to him to contribute to the new publication, but that he had declined it. You see I cannot get out of the scrape. The name is not yet decided upon,—lndf.a.. dun have been rejected. " Ilunt would have made a fine writer, for he has a great deal of fancy and feeling, :if he had not been spoiled by eircuinstances. lie was brought up at the Illueeoat f o undation, and had never till lately beau ten miles horn St. Paul's. Wheat Poetry is to be ex. Kau' from such a course of education ? Ile him his sehottl, how -1 ever, and a host of disciples. A friend of mine calls ftintini, mini Pitnini, and foliage, Follyage. Perhaps he had a tumble in • climbing trees in the Hesperi des !'• But Rimini has a great deal of merit. There never were so many fine things spoiled as in R;raitfi.'" • • • • • "' Since you left us,' said Lord Byron, I have seen Ilebhouse for a few days. Ilohhouse is the oldest and the hest friend I have. 'Altai scenes we have witnessed together ! Our friendship began at Cambridge. We led the saute sort of lilt in town, and ttavellol in company a great part of the years 1309, 1810, and 1811. Ile was preser,t at my mamage, and was with me in 1816, after my sepa ration. We were at Venice, and visited Borne t%vether in 1812. The greater part of my llarold was composed when we were together, and I could do no less in gratitude than dedicate the complete poem to hint. The first Canto was inscribed tome of the most beautiful little creatures I ever saw, then a mere child t Lady Charlotte Ilarleigh was my lanthe. " llohhouse's Dissertation on Italian Literature is much su perior to his notes on Cla:de llarold. Perhaps lie understood the antiquities better titan Nibbi, or any of the Cicerones ; but the knowledge is somewhat misplaced shore it is. .Sliciley went to the opposite extreme, and never made any notes. Ilobliottne has an erczilent heart : lie fainted when he heard a false report of my death in Greece, and was wonderfully affected at that of Mat:hilts—a much more able inr.n than the !invalid.— You have often heard me speak of him. The tribute I paid to his memory was a very ipad«juate one, and ill expressed what I felt at his leas."' •• • • " ' Another of the wlld freaks I played during my msther's life time, was to dress op 31rs. ---. at:a to pass her off as my bro. they Gordon, in order that my mother might not hear of my having such a letnale acquaintance. You would net think me a Scipio in Lose days, hot I can safely say I never seduced any woman. " • A curious thing happened to me shortly after the honey moon, which wan very awkward at the time, bat has since amused me much. It so happened that three married women were on a wedding visit to my wife (and in the same room at the same time), whom I hail known to be all birds of the same nest. Fancy the scene of confusion that ensued ! " I have seen a great de LI of Italian society, and swam in a gon. dole, but nothing could equal themmaigacy at high life in Log. land, esprcially that of when I knew it. ' " • There was a lady at that time, double my own age, the mother of several children who were perfect angels, with whom I had funned a liaison that continued without interruption for eight Months. The autumn of a beauty like her's is preferable to the sring in others. She told me she never was in love till she wa s thirty; and I thought myself so with her, when she was forty. I never felt a stronger passion, which she returned with equal ardour. I was fond of, indeed more attached than I ought to have been, to one who had bestowed her favours on many ; but I was flattered at a preference that had led her to discard an other who in personal attractions and fashion was fat my superior. She had been sacrificed, almost before she was a women, to one whose mind and body were equally contemptible in the scale of eves. don ; and on whom she bestowed a numerous family, to which the law gave me the right to be ealled father. Strange as it may seem, she gained (as all women do), an influence over me an strong, that I had great difficulty in breaking with her, even when I knew she bad been inconstant to me; and once was on the point of going abroad with her, and narrowly escaped this folly. I was at this time a mere Bond-street lounger; a great man at lobbies, coffee, and gambling houses: my afternoons were passed in visits, lan citrons, lounging, and boxing—not to mention drinking !if I had known you in early life, you would not have been alive now ! I remember Scrooge Davies, H—, and myself, clubbing 191. all we had in our pockets, and losing it at a heal in St. James coitrea, at chicken-Ituard, which may be called flint and afterwards getting drunk together, till H. and S. D. quarrelled. Scrooge afterwards wrote to me for my pistols to shoot himself; but I declined lending' them, on the plea that they would be forfeited u a deodand. I knew my answer would have more effect than four sides of prosing. " t Don't suppose, however, that I took any pleasure inall these excesses, or that parson A. K. or W— were associates to my taste. The miserable consequences of such a life are detailed at length in my Memoirs. 3ly own waster, at an age when I must required a gala., and !eft to the dominion of mrwassions when they Wall the strong,: with a fortune anticipated before I came into posertake of it, aria a constitution impaired by early excesses, I commenced tr: trove! , in MO, with &joyless indifference to a wand that was all beton: • " • • • • • • • " I ant sorry to find that he (Lord Byron) has become more indolent. lle has almost discontinued his rides on horseback, and has starved himself into an unnatural thhsuess; and his digestion has become weaker. In order to keep up the stamina that he requires. lie indulges somewhat too freely la wine, and in his fa vourite bev.rage, llollands, of which he drinks a pint almost every night. He said to toe humorously enough, Why don't you drink, Meslwin ? oin-Ind-water is the source of all nt inspiratirm. If you were to drit.k as is as 1 do, you would w.ite as good ve rs. ; depend on it it is the trite Ilippocrene.' " • • • • • • • The motto to his book entitled ' Foliage.' The following is Captain fctlteitt's version of Lord llyron's attack on a Lady who had " loved not wisely but too war' : .• About this time I became what the French tall un ltomme a (wanes finliares,was engaged in a /farms, and I might add a serious one. •• The lady had scritcely any personal attractions to recommend her. II er figure, though genteel, was too thin to he good, and wanted that roundness which elegance and grace would vainly stp. ply. She was however young, and of the first connections; ma reale, she assessed an infinite vivacity. and an imagination heated by novel-reading. which made her fancy herself a heroine of Co. mance, and led her labial! sorts of eccentricities. She was married, but it was a match of eamverwiner ; and no couple could be more fa shionably indifferent to or independent of one &nuttier. It was at this time that we wee:, thrown much together. She hsd never been in love, lit least where the al;ectiors are concerned, and WAS perhaps made without a heart, as many of the sex ate, but her head more than supplied the deficiency. I was soon congratulated by my friends on the conquest I had made, and did my utmost to show that I was not insensible to the partiality l,could nut help perceiving. 1 made every effort to be in love. expressed as much ardour as 1 could muster, and kept fettling the flame with a constant supply of billet-doux anti amatory verses. In short, I was in time duly and regularly installed into what the Italians call service, and soon be came in every sense of the word a ratite. It required Ito (Edipus to see where all this would end. lam easily governed by women, and she gained an acentlancy over me that I could not easily shake off. " I submitted to this thraldom long, for I hate scenes, and ssft of an indolent disposition; but I was forced to snap the knot rather rudely at last. Like all lovers, we had several quarrels before we tame to a final rupture. (Inc was made up in a very odd way, and without any . verbal explanation. She will remember it. Even during our intimacy I was not at all constant to this fair one, and she suspected as much. In order to detect m• intrigues she watched me, and earthed a lady into my lodgings, and came herself, terrier. like, in the disguise of a carman 3;y valet, who did nut see through the masquerade. let her in, when, to the despair of Fletcher, she putt ell the man and assumed the woman- Imagine thy scene; it was worthy of Vanillas. Ilet conduct was unaccountable mad tiess—a combination of spite and jealousy. It was perfectly agreed anti understood that we were to Meet as strangers. %Ve were at a ball. She came up and *died if she might waltz. I thought it perfectly indifferent whethet site waltzed or not, or with whom, arid I told her so. in atilt . ..rem terms, but with much coolness. After she had finished, a cone-tnigie scone occurred, which was in the mouth of every one. Soon after this site promised young if he , would call me out. Yet can any one believe that she should be so infatuated after all this as to call a: stn apartments--certalnly with no view of shooting herself. I was from home, but finding • Vathek* on the table, she wrote in the first page, Ifementher rue r —Yes. 1 had cause to remember her, and in the irritibility of the moment wrote, under the two words, thou two stanzas" [quoted iu the Britie.4 P, ess of Monday last.] Notts.—Getting up a play wben at Cambridge. • Nn the day of representation. one of the performers took it into his head to make an excuse. and his part was obliged to he read. llohhottse came forward to apologise to the audience. and toll them that a Hr.—... had declined to perform his part, &c. The gentleman Ilan ►ighly indignant at the • a,' and had a great iaclination to pick a quarrel with Semope Dort ics. who replied, that he supposed Mr. wanted to be called O a Mr. SO and so. lie ever after went by the name of the • ik7/l , ile When Manager at Drury-1:•oo. • •it is pleasant enough sonsetinics to take a peep behind, as well as to look before the scenes. •. • I rest:dub:it one leg of an elephant saying to another, • D—o your eyes. none a little quicker;' and overheariog at the Opera two People in love, who were so disteoifs that they made the re ponscs between the intervals of the recitative. instead of during the recitation itself. One said to the other. •Do you love me ?' dam came the sourish of music, and the reply, sweeter than the music, • Can you doubt it?' We hear that Colonel Frederick Fitzclarenu, the young wahlior whose gallantry was so conspicuous on the night of the C.tto-street treason, is to offer himself on the in dependent intern; at Dover, on the dissolution of Paths ment.—Stac. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, iATUIiDA:OCT. Before F. COX T, Esq. and a Bench of Magistrates. Rotert ITomentan, a man of respectable appearance, Wu in dicted for fraudulently . obtaining front Mrs. De Burgh, on the 6th of August, the sovereigns, under pretence that ha was sent by a Mr. 1% ilkins. hlr, De Burgh stated, that she was the proprietor of s coffee house in the Haymarket. and was :lulu:tinted with a Mr. Wilkins, an apothecary. On the 6th of August the prisoner came to her house, and said that he was sent by Mr. Wilkins, with a letter ad dressed to Mrs. De Burgh, requesting the advance of five sove reigns, on a cheque. 'B itness opened the letter and found that it curtained a cheque drawn thus:— , " London, 28th June, 1831. " On demand, par Mr. Robt. llouseman, or bearer, five pounds value received, per ittl. Curtis and Co. "J. B. Diamar.sa." The following is a copy of the letter:— " Monday Afternoon. " Dear 3latlatn,—Mr. Houseman has called on me to cash him a cheque on Sir Win. Curtis and Co., which I would willingly have done, but I have it not by me. As he particularly wishes to have the moncr to-night, perhaps you will be kind enough to let him have the Cash fur it. YOUN truly, RALTH WILZINS. " Met. De Burgh, Haymarket." Witness advanced the live sovereigns to the prisoner, and on presenting the cheque for payment received for answer, " no ac count." Mr. Ralph Wilkins stated, that the prisoner was formerly a man in affluent circumstances, end had been on visiting terms with witness. He never authorised the prisoner to take a letter to Mrs. Be Burgh, to request an advance of five pounds. He had seen the letter and cheque produced ; the former was a forgery, and he knew nothing of the latter till 11111. Dv Burgh exhibited it to him. On cross-examination, witness said he knew that the prisoner had fomted an acquaintance with a man named Irving. The prisoner addressed the Jury, and declared that he was In nocent of the offence imputed to him, and said that a treacherous friend named Irving had given the letter and ct:eque to hint to carry to Mrs. Dc Burgh, and he had been the dupe of that man. He was proceeding to comment upon the nature of the cheque, when the Chairman dissuaded him from it, as he stood iu a very dan gerous situation with regard to that document. The Jury found hint Guilty. The CHAIRMAN told the prisoner it might be mercy to him to send hint to Botany Bay for life. Prisoner—What I have stated to the Jury is the truth, and I hope for the merciful consideration of the Court. The CounT, after some consultation, sentenced him to six months' imprisonment, and the Chairman very impressively urged hint to leave oft such dangerous practices. -- • - - • • •—• Inn. Chambers, aged sixteen years, was indicted for obtaining from Mr. Perrings, a woollen-draper in St. 31artin's-lane, twelve yards of cloth, value IM, by false pretences. The prisoner had been employed as errand-boy to Mr. Wilson, a tailor, in Duke-street, St. James's, and was discharged about four months ago. During his employment be was repeatedly sent to different drapers to get cloth for his master. Oil Ale nth of September last he called at the shop of Mr. Perrllt%:,t, and said he came from Mr. Wilson for twelve yards of cloth. Mr. Peering, asked if Mr. was et home, and the prisoner said he was out of town, and he came by order of the foreman. Mr. Wilson, 'teeing no suspicion that a fraud was being practised upon him, gave the cloth to the prisoner. 3lr. Ogden. foreman to Mr. Wilson, proved that the p:isoncr had no authority to go for the cloth. Abrahams, a salesman, said that he gave 4!. 10s. to a youth nanwd Roberts for the cloth, which was produced, and 31r. Per rings identified it. Henry Roberts said the prisoner brought the cloth to him, and asked him if he would sell it for him, and he would give him half the produce. 31r. CooxE cross-examiped the witness, who admitted that he had been repeatedly in custody toe robbery, and the Learned Counsel attempted to shew that the prisoner had committed this fraud at the instigation of the witness. The prisoner received a good character from Mr. Wilson and others. The Jury found him Guilty. The prisoner wax again indicted for obtlining four goon of metal buttons from Mr. IS Miami, of St. 31artin's.lche, under similar false pretences. Tae Jury again returned a verdict of (:silly. SURREY QUARTER SEeSIONS, .SAT - 110.)AY, OCT. 23. Mary Jones Wag indicted fir stealinf a sum of CU. in silver, from the person of Alary, wife of John Laves, on the Pith of August last. . . . . ta r — Illar apao a travelling booths/Wooer, and, at the time op a booth on Monkey Hurst, where the Rom were then held, and the pnsoner had been en gag by hie wife for one day, to assist in watching dirty linen. On the following day she paid the prisoner 2s. fir the days work, and said she had no more °evasion for the prlsoner's services. The lat. ter, however, remained in the booth, till the evening of the last day olthe races, when Mrs. Eaves went to lie down for a short time on the bed, as she had bad very little rest for some days before. The prosecutor nweltc her for the purpose of getting change for a crown. piece, when she told him that he would find the change in her apron, but when he searched there he mild find none. The principal witnesses against the primner were a man who was employed by. Eaves during the races, and a NOIII3II who kept the adjoining booth. The man stated, that having occasion to pass through that part of the booth where 111 rs. Ear's was sleeping, he saw the prisoner on her knees, taking something out of :des. Eaves's pocket, and that when she found she was oietervol, she threw the corner of the blanket over Mrs. Eaves, as it with the intention of keeping her warm. The woman also swore, that in the course of the morning of the 16th, the prisoner came to ask her for credit for some victuals, say. log, she had not a farthing in her pocket ; and in the afternoon of that day the prisoner paid for what she had had, and putting lOs. in silver into the w itness's hands, desired her to keep them ull the following day. However, shortly afterwards the prisoner returned, and holding some money in her hand, ate said she must hare that which she had entrusted to the witness, as she was going to town directly, and wanted to change it into sovereigns. The witness ac cordingly gave her the money, and never saw her afterwards, till she was apprehended. The Co AIMMAN then put the usual questions to the prisoner, and on asking her whether she had any one to give her a charac ter ? she answered, she feared she had nut, as nobody knew her in this town. The CHAIRMAN observing her look round as she said this, added, " If there should be any person present who can speak in your favour, the Court will be very glad to hear him." No sooner were these words uttered, than a formal-looking gen finnan, with a weather-beaten countenance, dressed in a light blue coat, between which and his waistcoat something glittering like a japanned leather sword-bait was to be seen, rose to address the Court. The gentleman had been taking notes of the evidence dur ing the trial, and had carefully put down in his note-book, which was of ass's skin, covered with gait morocco leather, all the points which, in his opinion. seemed at all material. Opening the book, with a most solemn air, he began thus;—" Mr. Chairman, it ap pears front the evidence"— The Citainatax—What is your name, Sir ? I must write it down. Gentleman—lt shall be written down directly, Sir. (As he said this, he wrote his name on a piece of paper, which was then handed to the Chairman.) One of the (Micas of the Court, and some of the .Magistrates, who believed he wa.s about to give evidence as to the girl's charac tea, ordered the crier to swear him. 'the book was accordingly handed to him, and the complacent gentleman was about to take the oath, when the other Alahistratea said, they had better hear what he had to state in the girl's behalf before he was sworn. Permission was therefore given to the gentleman to speak, and after conning Over the first page of his neve-book, he again commenced :—" Me. Chairman, it appears tram the evidence of the woman who has last been sworn, that the girl asked her forthe money, which she accord ingly gave, and the girl then went away. Here, therefore, was a request and a gift, and no robbery can be charged against the girl for that"— The Coat Recce—Sit, are you going to give evidence as to the girl's character ? Gentleinati.sir, your words were (and here again he had re course to his note-book), " If there should he any person present who can speak in your favour, the Court sal he very glad to hear hint." Now, Sir, as 1 can speak in her favour, I oust the Court will hear me, for I think it clear. that, by the evidence of the wo. man to whom I have alluded, she cannot be charged with a felony. And who, said lie (continuing his address with such rapidity as to render interruption impossible), is the other witness--1 mean the man who says he saw her kneeling near the bca ? Who, Sir, but a man employed by the prosecutor, and one who, perhaps, has a spite against her, and, for aught we know, might have attempted to ravish her ! Here he paused to take breath, and looked with an air of ki umpliant satisfaction upon his astonished auditory. The CHAIRMAN, taking advanuo: of the opportunity. asked him who he was, and if Inc had any acquaintance with the girt? " No, Sir," said he, " I sever saw her before ; I spoke only front the result of my experience. I have a general acquaiutance with human nature." The Client MAN.—Sir, the Court cannot hear any general ob servations of this kind. If you know the girl, and can speak to her former character, or if you can disprove the facts that have been stared, the Lauri will hear you oil pleasure; if not, you must sit down. The Gentleman again attempted to address the Court, and spoke, as before, with great rapidity and indistinctness ; but he was pre vented from proceeding far in his address, by the Crier of the Coup obliging him to be silent: The girl, in her defence, denied most positively, that she had ever been at 3loulsey llurat in her life ; she said she had a mother in Norwich. The Coati:SIAN then charged the Jury, and told them, that if they believed the witnesses, they must find the girl guilty ; but if they thought there was any doubt in the case, they would give her die benefit of it. The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of Not Gui:ti. POLICE. GUILIMALIt Saturday, Andres. Smapiet, Andrew Do 7 cano, and Jacob 1101 as. all foreigners, and, according to the o ff icer s statement, all regal, : duffers, were put to the bar. Mrs. Lydia Stuckey stated that she beeps the Barley Maw pub. Ile-house, in Thames-street, and on Friday afternoon the tso tint mentioned prisoners, accompanied by a person net pro em came to her house, and went into a parl our, where the y had some. thing to drink. In a little time one of the party (the person net present) came out of the room to her, and told her be had some go a d s just limited to him, which acre then at a wharf where they No been landed, and there was some expense to pay before they mad be removed, and Waite would oblige him with the loan of td. tot a few hours to pay those expenses, he would leave in her hands a g e ld watch worth thirty guineas, anti a shawl worth 61. ; he at the sam e time showed her the watch and shawl which were those she now roduced. She at first refused to lend him tiny money, but it length let him have with which he and his companions is.. mediately went off. NVitness's son, a young man, came in ren t soon after, and she told him what she had done, and showed Mi l the watch and shawL Mr. Si'. Stuckey stated, that Ike moment his mother showed hips the watch and shawl he judged they were of very little value ; and that the party by whom they had been le ft were duffers he instantly followed them in the direction I.e was told the, b e d taken, and found them in Friday-street, and brought them b ice. On being accused of the fraud, the man who bad received the money returned it, and wanted the watch and shawl, which wi t . nets refused w give him, and sent for an officer to take the pa rt y into custody. fir the time the officer came, the man who had left the watch and shawl, and the prisoner Di mono niade off and Swappe was then given in custody. About tire o'clock in , he evening Doncano came again, bringing with him the prisoner Robes, who said the shawl was his property , . Witness initantly sent for an officer to have them apprehended, and placed himself between them und the door to prevent their escape ; seeing his ie. tendon, they bath made a violent attack on him for the purpose of getting out, hut he resisted till the officer came, when they were taken to the Comptes. The watch had since been valued at 'fifteen shillings, and the shawl at four shillings. The prisoners being called on for ditty defence—Swappe ; e t,' h. was a licensed hawker, but having the misfortune o. Lis license on Friday morning, he was afraid to sell any thing, and merely went to the public-house with Doncano and another pena l whom he had known abroad, and WAS glad to see In lingland ; but what conversation his friend had with the landlady, he kn ew nothing of. and thought it very hard that he should be taken up for what he knew nothing about. Doncano also pleaded total ignorar.ea of any conversation be. tween hii absent friend and Mrs. Steckey ; he brought Robes to the house in the evening, because he believed the shawl that was leftrhere belonged to him. Itobas said he had given a shawl on Friday morning to a pence to sell for him, and Doncano having hold him in the evening that the pesion he gave it to had left it at a public.hcuse, he went there to get it ; but the shawl produced was not his. Alderman CROMTHrit asked the prisoners to which of them time watch and shawl produced belonged ? The prisoners were all silent. The same question was put to them separately, when they sere. rally disclaimed any property in the precious articles. The Alderman then said, as it could not be proved that any of the prisoners were a party to the fraud practised by the tuisrc. sentation of the value of the articles, they could not be deain el on that charge. Swappe must therefore be discharged, but Dorian° and Robes should be held to hail to answer for the assault. The watch and shawl, bring disclaimed by all the prisoners, re. mined in the care of the officers. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Swiwnr.i No.—Saturday, Mr. t.ole, the coachmaker, of Pen. land-street, applied to the Magistrate under the following circum. stances : A short Arm since, a person who 'mimed the name of Liec. tenant Clifford, of the 14th Dragoons, sold him a chaise ; he subsequently been applied to by Mr. hest, a livery-stable keeper, who resides on the Surrey-aide of Westminster-bridge, respecting the chaise, and a demand was made by Mr. Best's Solicitor for it to be delivered up. The Magistrate was afraid he could render no assistance, and advised Mr. Cole to apply to the attorney. Mr. Cole said he had endeavoured, with the assistance of m offi. eer, to apprehend the pretended Lieutenant Clifford, but then efforts had been unavailing ; they hall discovered that he had clw mined goods from other tradesmen, who bad been satisfied upea having their goods returned to them. Lord Charles Spencer Churchill appeared at the Office, and complained of one of the porters of the White Horse, Fetter-lane, having substituted a ticket for the one he received from the Comb. Whet. whcreby he demanded It. lid. instead of 2s. 2d. for a parcel. Lord Churchill pnaluccd nearly twenty tickets, and said that all of them had been similarly altered. The moment he discovered the fraud he came to London, and now brought his servants (re ward to prove several of the cases against the ciefendant, acd ya. vent any further imposition upon the public. The defendant pleaded guilty, when he was fined twenty hogs, and in consideration of such plea his Lordship did not pros any further charges. 11.1TTON GARDEN. Saturday, Ilenry Ord, the dr:. er of the hackney-coach, N 0.731. was charged by a young lady with having stolen (rum her 24 yards of silk, in a parcel. The complainant, Ann Spearman, stated, that she, in company with a friend named Gardner, took up the hackney coach in Gracechurch.street, on Friday night, to drive to Theobald's.road, and had with her, amongst other little articles, a brown paper Nr. ccl, containing, in three several pieces, black silk (21 yards in all) for gowns, for herself, mother, and sister, which she put on the hack seat, and forgot when the coachman put her down; she immediately after noised it, and ran to the coach stand, where she recagnised the driver, who had jam drawn up. He admitted that ' he was the man who had set her down ; and said if her parcel was put into the coach, it must be there still, as he had not taken up any other fare. They then examined the inside of the coach. but no parcel was to be found, and the prisoner said she must have dropp ed it when she called him originally. A constable, who happened to be passing at the time, proposed searching the conch-boot, and raounted on the wheel for that purpose ; the prisoner immediately sprung up, at the opposite side, and endeavoured, by rummaging about in the straw, to cover the parcel, the corner of which the cor. stable at the saute time saw, anti succeeded in securing, as well as the coachman. W. Gardner, who war with the lady, corroborated her statement of having le ft the parcel in the coach, and not in the boot. The coachman s a id, that he should have taken the parcel to the Hackney-ooach Office. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. ALLEGED NI'IIIANCX.—A shopkeeper, named Damns, to. siding at No. 33, North street, was summoned by the Surrevor of the Parish for a nuisance in has iug ;.laced a board next the riding of his house, which prevented the green.grocer's shop, kept by a man of the name of Smith, from being seen by the passengers. The green-grocer declared that the board was a nuisance; and the owner of the board said it was intended to prevent the sight of the green-grocer's shop, which was a real nuisance, in °misquote of his hanging out bunches of vegetables, and scattering the learn ill front of the pavement. The Magistrate in vain recommended the parties to accommodate their difference, and on referring to the Act said, that there was a great latitude of construction in the training of it ; foe whatever the Pariah Surveyor thought to be a nuisance. was remoseable. Th e Magistrate added, that he would tete an opportunity on Monday to look at the place, and enjoined tite parties not to recognise him as he passed. Some persons in the office remarked, that these boards were com mon throughout the town, and were not generally deemed r.ut. sances ; there was hardly a public-house without them. The 31agistrate said, that however common they might be. still he believed the provision of the Act of Parliament was Imperative. Ile knew that at thcwest end of the town,Portland-place for instance, they were in the habit of putting up such boards n..at their railing*, for the purpose of protecung ladies going to their carriages from Ue severity of the north winds, which blew sometimes Pull Tiolf , "'' down that street; but he believed that on any c omplaint beir;; made, the families must be deprived of the kind shelter which these boards supplied. 'ARRIED. At Colchester, on the 2lat inst. the Rm. Thomas Parry. lateFel• low and l'utor of 'dahlia College. Oxford, to Louisa, liftli daughter of the Remy Dutton, Itei:tor of Beaumont, in the comity of Essex. Friday, at the New Church. St. Parcras. the Res. ('has. Boy. LLB. of Folkinghani, in the c,nity of Lincoln, to Strni, r‘lietot the Rev. Edward Smith. of the same place. On the 31kh inst. at St. Giles's, Camberwell. Robert, son of AS that Wilcoxon, Esii. to Lucretia, daughter of Thos. Brockeiba.A. Esq. of Deptford. On Friday morning, by special licence. at St. Peter's ChOi Dublin, by the Archdeacon of Dublin. Major Logan, of the Brigade, to Bliss Furlong, daughter of William Furlong, of AP gier-strect, Esq. At Hastings, in his VA year D , lE T D ltOmas Hulse Bragrave, EOl - Durham-place, Chelsea. At Brighton. on the 20th inst. Susannah, the wife of Sannu- Grimsdell, Esq. of Tutitham-green to her 64th year. (}n the Itith instant, at 3lalahi tie, aged !8 years. John flair- Esq. M.D. late Physician to the Forces at Cork. Thir mil, skil ful and zealous officer began his career under Admiral Sar.ders, the Mediterranean, where (although then a very young rinan) , be had sufficient nerve to inoculate the D.y of Algierw—aa operatic,: previously unknown to these send-barbarians; a race wham tor duct, in can of failure, no man could calculate on; in fact. operated with a drawn scymetar over his head! The Euiprrfe of Morocco was also his patient. Dr. Haig served his country lo the reigns of George 11. 111. and IV. and has left two most a miable children (females) behind him. Their claims on the country ige strong; but we feel certain that our wise and beneficent 31onan,f will not neglect the daughters of the skilful and the brave- , —D Y Paper. ----- MOH WATER THIS DAY AT I.ONIX)N ORIDOII - 39 min. after 3. I Afternoon 8 mil. after' or Printed at THE BRITISH PRE/S Office, by J. W. Caaaoois strand, and IW, paLliobed by R. CAN 31041, lams palm //' b~ a .