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FRENCH PAPERS. (Front the ENO,: of Friday.] PARIS, OCT. 1.1. VlStierdSy. after nowt. his Excellency, Lord Viscount Granville, Ambassador Extraordinary end Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty to the King of the Netlietlands, presented to the King, at special audiencc,• letter from his Britannic Majesty on the double event of the Ilt.ll hor [Avis NA', I I.„ and the accession t blades X. Similar letter. were presented by Baron Uchtritz from the King of Saxony. and from Baron Spirenberg, Aid•dc-Camp to the King of AV irtemberiz. The King also gave a special andienee to Comte de Vaublanc, Minister of State aid Member of the Chamber of Deputies, end Comte de Alontlirattlt. At noon, his Majesty presided at a Council of Ministers. which continued until four u clock. The Dauphin assisted at the Council. 'rhe Due tle Beja (Prince Don M iguel,) arrived at Strasburg on the slth inst. and will remain some days. Tie squadron of evolutions under the commas I of Admiral Duperrc. has arrived at 'foulon, whence t h e two Rear. Admiral. Barons Poussin and lks lintours, set out for Paris. At 'Vonlon, of all the vestals of the squadron, none remain, except the Amason and Juno frigate.. the Zebra brig, and the Dauphinnoise and Eau. vote sloops. The Venus, Vestal, Nymph, and Themis frigatea, sailed on the 2f;th of September, under the command of Captain Cavalier, to take un board troops, to relieve the garrisons in the Antilles. (In the 28. h. Admiral Des Rotours sailed with the Trident ship of the line, and the .%rophitrite. Armida, and Ilermione, frigates. Thzite four vessels go to Cadiz, u well as the Sami Petri, which sailed on the 4th inst. After stopping a short time at Cadiz, the Sarni Petri. the Ilerrnione„ and the Trident, will go to Brest, where they will be dismantled, and the Juno will be dismantled at Toulon. VIENNA, OCT. 4. W e rece i ve , by a n e st:await:are courier, the following news from Constantimmle. of Sept. 17;— " A division of the Weeks pursued the Capital: Pacha toe the Bay of B e udroun (Stank() (c os.) A part of the Egyptian fl was also there. A tight took place September 10. According to a re. poet arrived here the 16th, the issue s to the Turks. The ()reek* were so enclosed s eenbetw the two 31us sitiman Meets. that they had no other resource but their fire-ships; they sent off 30 without effect. " The battle, it is said. lasted all the day, and the Greeks, after having taken the ship of the Patrons Bey t Rear Admiral), but after losing themselves 13 vessels. sounded a retreat." According to the same news, the Capitaii Pacha pursued the Greeks but acceording to others, be returned to his first anchorage at M itylene, to re-victual. " We must wait for more precise advice: on these last events.* Nothing positive on the movements of the Egyptian Vert is known. It delayed in the Bay of 31aeri, over against Rhodes. long before it would decide to put to sea. A Greek division, fifty vessels strong, and commanded by Admiral sliaulis, was charged to observe the Egyptians. The Captain of a foreign vessel met this squadron on the 20th August, in the channel between the Isle of Andros and Cape crOro." The French Funds on Thursday opened at 102 E 73e. and closed at I tnt . . 70c. The account closed at 102 f. VOc. ; but at five o'clock hal fallen to 14121 71$c. 73e. without any . mow being assigned. Neapolitan, 021; Ditto, payable in Parts, ; Spaniels, IN; Gueultard's, 321. Bank :::•ares, 1,273. Exchange on London, one month, 231. 3 e [l. ; three ntonths, 2211. From the Joarotal des Detats.l Pills, OCT. 14. Yesterday evening, at eight o'clock, ths Ambits:ostlers of Russia, Austria. England, and Prussia, and Lord Granville, met at the house of Baron de llamas, Minister of Foreign Affair. The con ferences lasted till half-past ten. • This reflection is very wise. We have more recent information than hi., whence we most conclude, that the present campaign is lost Cur the Turk:4 like these that have preceded of the GERMAN PAPERS. IFmm the .1/Igrameiee Zeitese of Oct 8.1 now TAT. FAMIITIERI OF MOLDAVIA, SEPT. 22. While the Horatian Ukase of August 18 announces the crania-I tion of the Principalities as having been effected, letters from Jassy state that the Austrian President, M. Von Lippe, has presented a note to the It...tinder, in which be is stated to have urged the ac celeration of this evacuation. ODE//A, SEPT. 22. According to accounts form Constantinople, of the 13th Sept. the hopes ilat the Divan has entertained for many months of the Egyptians begin to vanish. It seemed to be suspected that the art tul Mehemet Ali Paths never thought of recovering the Morea fur the Porte. The period of the departure of the fleet from Alexan dria, which was precisely during the dog-days, was enough to ex cite suspicion, and this has been greatly increased since by the luke warm conduct of Ibrahim nacho. Meantime reports had been cir culated in the capital of the dispersion of this expedition, which, however, seem to rest on no sure foundation. However, the disso !talon of the Asiatic army, at Scala Nueva, in cite of the must im portant events of this campaign, and perhaps decisive of its issue. There was reason to expect this dissolution, as some hordes had already deserted. it is the Fenian Prince, governor of her. canschali, who Ingo emitted the first hostilities against the Porte, sod occupied with his troops Sulimania, the capital of Codistan. SEMLIN, SEPT. 22. Private letters from Bitoglia, of the 10th instant, pretend that Sentakier. Dervish Pacha, has been beheaded by command of the Sultan. This would make the fifth Seraskier who has lost his life sinoe the beginning of the Greek revolution. The Pacha of Silis tria, who obstinately opposed the evacuation of the principalities, has teem suddenly called to Constantinople ; and as he has taken his harem with him, it is supposed lie is to be appointed to some other y• s ist. It is reported that the Janissaries have obtained the deposition both of the (hand Vizier acid the Reis Effendi; and if this is the case, the Fiche of Silistria, who is a great favourite with the Janissaries, is probably intended for Grand 'Vizier. CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 14. The successor of Glialib Pachs is Fotnnlu Mahomet Pacha of Silistria; Wialiis Padua retains the disposal of the little property hyper. ves, and the Sultan has allowed him to choose I 'al Naafi fur his place if exile. The fall of (Maids has made an unpleasant sen. satton. MS administration gave satisfaction. The good terms on which lie lived with the Ulemas and the Janissaries, made the pod lie attribute to the Selictar alone every thing that was contrary to the interest of the empire. The Poch* of Silistria arrived in. r-Inito, no the 12th, in the evening, and remained the whole of the 12th in the country house of the Intendant of the Marine, who Partakes with the Selictar the favour of the Sultan. The evening bctore he ass depood, Ghalib Pacha was in tile channel with the Aga Pacha; he had returned Inane very late but a short time before tie seals of opt .ce acre taken from him. _ . ... . The Ilatti Cheriff addressed by the Sultan to the new flisuld ViOn, ACC11944 Ghalib I'ache of presumption. It i. feared both the Rea Effendi, the Itiend of Gbalib, and also the Mufti, will be Toe new GraudVirier has filled various offices, hiving been successively Chief of the saphio, Capudje RlMchl, HollfundOri l'usebi at Adrianople, and lastly Poch% of Silistria, which he has governed fig several years. He is chiefly indebted to the shard foe his tartan. He is said to possess much courage and OCT. 2. The bulletin of the laws polilished to-day contains the Royal thd,r for the prolongation of the ceni.orrhip. THE GR E EKS. se CONIIIEFORT or THE VICE-ADMIRAL GEORGE SACTOCRI TO THE GREEK GoVERNMEXT. hated Straits of Dar Bortsi, off Samos, 11th (ZI) Aug " I ewe to you yesterday by the way of Tyra, and 1 transmit Yon the present by express, from the schemer of Captain Leuther% to inform you of the folloeing occurrences:— " the the 9:11(21) instant we dispensed forty transports of the eneflly. laden wi t h troops, w i th wh i ch they i. iten d c d to have td. fecu° landing on that part of the island of batons called Kari*. vast. We succeeded in gaining possession of four, and in sinking six' and the rest being closely pursued by us, were obliged, to avoid sulking, to run aground on the Cuaat of Asia. Yesterday w e "'led town.% the Straits of Dar llogasi, and cast anchor in the channel. The energy's fleets, composed of eighteen vessels of the first rank, and wh e y smaller ones, about 100, were anchored .11 the opposih coast of Asia, called St. Maria, ready to embark :worm 'viand them on the island. More than four thousand of their %sops were on the strand about to go on board. The enemy had ad pemeired us when set sail with the greater part °lbis vessels, about eight o'clock in the morning he approached us and be -Li to fire. Tone cannonading did not excite the least fear its any our vessels. and we remained at anchor with the greatest con. :opt of them; but we did not allows them to approach nearer.— ..* 'bought this, however, a convenient time, and sent off two of " '''e'''hiPa• The wind w as N.N.E. , an d consequently contrary • :hc enemy; oar fire-ships proceeded agninst thinu, and obliged W tat taelianout and to sail a wa y w i t h a ll h aste. al a fikgrare fitr those fine and large Iterates of the Sultan, ...Itch he Issasted so much about, to be put to flight by two of our It was then that the Samiots, who, horn the land, were eerrots of our movements, lifted up their hands to heaven, Mi. oar tied to showerdown his blessings on our vessels. lffe "':rut in this strait, and we will not quit it on any consideration, • ' l , ',sigh we are aware that it is a very dangerous position, fur l 'ort tow alike to know all the movements of the u:lemy, and ''C'e'ment his approaching the island. 11n all sides of the island e ,,71 1141 "'" are firmly determined conquer or to perish. They 1 `„ had, the prudence to transport to the hi g h est mounta i ns t h e i r 7wires snd aged. with the necessary provisions. As the I continueri to sail from us, we despatched four more fire to attack him ; but as he had the wind in his favour. they did 411 cFeed in reaching hint ; and it seems that he how abandoned project, as all the rest of the fleet have also taken flight, In ed an invincible fear of our tireaddp., (Signed) IiEORGE SACTOriII. Pgl di Romania—lug. 12 (24), Hal. (signed) P. O. RODIOS, See. Gen. • I • 't or Generd Panouviss, Commandant of Salons, to the Ez ecutive Hotly, Saluna. Lith (27)..1n1e. 1824. . length the eneny made yemertiay an attack on ug. The r l l .. k.gan at hall-pa.t eight, .1.31.. at Anipliani, and ended clock, P. 31. It was long and terrific. and without eels. !'owartls five o'clock the Greeks rushed on the =cull killed a great number, and took several prisoners ; after having pursued them as the wolf pursue. the lamb, and, on this °cm aion was verified the Raving, •• one p+r.•ue. a hundred, and the hundred thousands." The %Millen took much booty, and at pre. sent we have in our poasession a great quantity of arms. cannon. tents, standards. horses, aid ■ part of their ammunition. Blood Wowed in streams, ard thi• victory may he compared to that of Batimm Pacha, near Success to Greece ! Yew r obcdicnt rellow-eitizen, (Signed) P.ANOURMS. Napoli di Romania, 12th 124) Augmit, 1824. . . agreeable to r. the;wiffiral. (Signed) I'. G. AUDIOS, See. Gen. . Report of General Joanne% Commander of the Forterns of Athena. addressed to the President of the Executive Body, dated St. Luc (near Athena), 7 (19) July. 1824: For sonic days I have been endeavorting to provoke Omer Paella to risk a general engagement, but 1 did not succeed, and on that account I returned to the town, with an intention to niter my plan and to adopt different meastates. I mok up my quarters in the neighl , rurhnod of Alaratbon, at about two hours distance from the Turk.An Army, and fortified them will, as it was abso. Imely requisite, and after having annoyed the enemy with skir mishing during two days. I saw him on the 2d instant, at about three o'clock in the morning, corning towards us with fifteen hun dred Infantry, and five hundred cavalry. Their impruosity was very great; but the courage of the Greeks was still more so. 11 e were encamped on an eminence at about art hour's distance from die sea, and close to the village of Marathon, and were also in ion of a small tower. In two hours the enemy receiertr f= reinforcements, to the number of 2,000 men, and attempted many times to dislodge us, but in vain. The combat was obstinate, and ably contested on both sides. Omer Paella. in person, fired severe' times at us, taking different posi tions, and leaving an open passage, as if to invite the Greeks to fie.-. After a continued engagement of two hours, we felt the need of reinforcements, but saw none likely to conic, anti what was worse, our ammunition began to decrease. The perseverance of the Turks, who haul nearly conic up to mit entrenchments, and ' who seemed as if they intended to confine us to our position during the whole night, obliged us to call a Council of 11'ar towards seven o'clock of the saute day, in which we determined to sally out on the enemy; but about nine o'clock, we saw the brave Colonel D. Eumorphobulos approaching with 250 men. and having. after an hour's trial, eflimted an union, we ',arched with 530 men against the enemy, who were to the number of 4.000, and suc ceeded in routing him completely, anti in vanquishing him on the fish inst. to the full extent of the term, for we were Greeks and at 31ararlion, after an obstinate contest of 12 hours. The enemy had 700 killed, and an im tense number wounded (for, during the toot h.% they were continually occupied in removing them from the Heirs of battle). Ile also lost tint'. standards. Our soldiers made that day a considerable booty. We had three men killed and Aix wounded. All the (reeks shelved extraordinary courage in that engagement, but I think it my duty to name those who con. tributed most especially to our victory: they were the (hiliarthv. Joanne. Ituschi and Joannes 81antoni; and the Pentacosiarchs, Vitro Prevesaqui and Iliacono Catzuri. Inclined by their courage, and obliged by their position, they determined to conquer or die. None deserted ; all called to mind their immortal ancestors, and the spot on which they stood and they fought, in the name and for the consolidation of their beloved and revered Government' for which alone all must combat who really love and desire true liberty. Your obedient fellow.cit igen. (Si,;ned) J(/ANNES GOURAS. Napoli di Romania, 12 (24). August, 11124. Copy agreeable to the original, Signed ) P. G. RODIOS. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 16. The Russian Government store•ship Helms, Capt. Chesternff, sailed this morning with stores for Issnischatka and the Russian settlements on the west coast of North America ; as did the Potten. Hiroo. fur Sierra Leone. The Ganges, Lloyd, for Bengal; and the Charlotte, Hector, for Bombay, sailed on Tuesday. The Aurora, for 31adras, arrived this morning, from the River, to embark passengers. On Wednesday the 3larquis of Huntley transport, Lieut. Lorin, sailed fin. Cape Coast Castle, with stores and provisions for that place and the Isle of Ascension. She took out five officers and 129 privates. of the Royal African Corps. The Revenge and Naiad arrived at Malta August 13. from Al. glen: the Hind, from Gibraltar ; the Nimble, from Nice.—The Revenge atihdAugustl9, for Naples; the Sybille, for Corfu ; the Cyrene. for Bona, Tunis. and Smyrna. The Cambridge and Fly tailed from Valparaiso 27th May, for Callao ; the Briton was left at Monte Video, 2d August. MR. FAIINTLEROY. From the style of the subjoined note (says a Sunday Paper), this person appears to be conducting his own affairs like one going into a far mint. y. It appears that at the very time that Mr. F. is pressing for the settlement of his private claim, Mr. Stephenson is a considerable creditor of the Bankrupt bank. " Mr. Fauntkroy presents his compliments to Mr. Stephenson, ani begs to inform him that it is not hisintention to dispose of to him the coach-house and stables situated in the mews by Bryan_ stone-place. Respecting the amount due to Mr. F. for the party wall, vaults, itc., which was valued by Mr. F.'s surveyor. Mr. Day, and Mr. Stq,lienson's, Mr. S. will be applied to by Mr. Forbes (Mr. F.'s solicitor ) of Elv-place, to whom Mr. F. begs Mr. Ste. phenson to addeese any letters he may think necessary upon the subject. " Coldbath-fieltls, Octoberll, 1314." MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT SRI lIIAZIRUPTIV COURT, RASINGUALL-11TRIZT, TO.YORROW. VIIIST MEETING. Heeling, E., Bedford.strmt, Realm -row, painter - 12 DIVIDEND. Parker, J. G., and J. L., and Roberta, T. Birehin-lane, mer chants . . - . - . Saturday's Ge::rtie notifies, that a second application will be made to Parliament for the establishment of St. Katharine's Docks. We are informed, that there was a gentleman on board the Cortes, who is the bearer of despatches from Mexico, which have not been sufferred to transpire. lie has set out for London.—tiverpool Mercury. On Saturday morning the new sloops of war Champion, IS, Capt. Fitz-Strulert ; Pylarles, It 4, Capt. Francis Feed; and the Orestes, Is, Capt. Henry Litchfield, sailed from Portsmouth, on an experimental cruise, under the orders of Capt. Provo Wm. Parry IVallis, of his Majesty's ship Niemen, which ship, with the Algerine, 10, Hon. Mon tre..ol Stopfortl, and the Calliope brig, Lieutenant Philip Justice, accompanied them. The Algerine will after wards proceed on to the Mediterranean station. Cap tain George Wyndham ; Commanders—Edward Purcell Joseph Harrison, and George Charles Blake, R.N. and the Right Hon. Lord Yarborough (Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron,) are gone out in these ships, for the pur pose of making observations on their respective qualities, and reporting the same to the Lords of the Admiralty.— Capt. Hayes (•he Naval Architect.) is gone in the Cham pion, which ship was built according to his new scientific principles. Each of the three ships has also on board one of the superior class of shipwright apprentices, from the School of Naval Architecture, for the purpose of making observations on their working. The ships will be absent a month, if necessary, as they must be tried on all points of sailing, and, if possible, under every circumstance of weather. Admiral the Hon. Sir Charles Paget, sailed with the squadron, in his tine fast-sailing yacht, the Emerald, intending to observe their movements in proceeding down Channel. CneLTextt•st, OCT. 1 S.—Yesterday and clis day we have had most iLlightful clear bracing mornings, and in consequence numbers who were about leaving us have determined on remaining: and numerous fresh arrivals have come in within these few days. The Montpelier and the other pr ,menades were very numeroesly attended. The digging of the new wells, in the principal promenade walk of the King's old well has proceeded ninety-eight feet deep, where magnesia and saline water was discovered. So great are the improvements, and the numerous buildings which are proceeding in this highly-favoured town, that there are now between three and four thousand men employed. This morning a very novel wager was decided, Captain Wlntigart betted that he would hop sixty yards in thirty hops. The Captain hopped the sixty yards in twenty-two hops. Considerable sums depended on the event. The advantages of cheap literature to the mechanical part of the community are very strikingly exemplified in the new edition now publishing of Ferguson's Lector,., on .Ife,hquie , , the last number of which contains the history, complete, of the steam-engine, illustrated with ten cut►, price only 3d. Another work, by the same editor, entitled the Alec Amok; Gallery, furnishes an ample fund of infor mation in every depsrtment of mechanical scimec, at a si milar cheap rate ; the art of clock and watch making, for infante, being comprised in two parts, price tts. only ; thus concentrating, within a small compass, as much prac tical information as is elsewhcreonly to be olitained through several expensive volumes. THE BRITISH PRESS. CONYERSATIONS AND ANECDOTES OF LORD BYRON. The forthcoming Number of the Attic Miscellany, a new periodical, to appear every two months, contains very copious selections from ('aptainiiiedwin's " Conversations and Anecdotes of Lord Byron, ' now in the press. We snake a few gleanings. In the account of Lord Byron's addresses to Miss Mil hanke, it is related that she rejected them ; but his Lord ship adds— iler refuted was couched in terms that emild not offend me. I was besides persuaded, that in declining my offer, she was governed by the influence of her mother; rind was the more confirmed in this opinion, by her reviving the correspondence herself twelve months after. 't'he tenon of thc letter was. that although she could not love me, she desired my friendship. Friendship is a dangerous word for young ladies. It is love full fledged, and waiting for a tine day to fly. It had been predicted by Mrs. Williams, that twenty.seven was to be a dangerous age to Inc. The fortune-telling witch was right. to was destined to pe n ce so. I shall never forget it. Lady Byron (Roan he pronounced it) was the only unconcerned person present. Lady Noel, her motl:er, cried. I trembled like a leaf--made the wrong responses, and after the ceremony called her Miss Milbanke. There is a singular history attached to the ring. The very day the match was concluded, a ring of my mother's that had been lost, was dug up by the gardener At Newstead. I thought it had been sent on purpose for the wedding : but my mother's mania .e had not been a fortunate one, and this ring was doomed to be the seal of an unhappier union still. After the ordeal was over, we set off for a country seat of Sir Ralph's, and I was surprised at the arrangements for the journey ; and somewhat out of humour to find a lady's maid stuck between me and my bride. It was rather too tardy to assume the husband, and I was forced to subunit, but with a very bad grace. Put your. self in my situation, and tell me whether I had not some reason to be in the sulks. hut the details of his final separation are still more curious: -- Our honey-moon was not all sunshine. It had Its clouds; and liobhouse has some letters which would serve to explain the rise and fall in the barometer; but it was never down at zero. You tell me the world says I married Miss Milbanke for her fortune, because she was a great heiress. All I have ever reczived, or ant likely to receive, was 10,0001. My own Income at this period was small, and somewhat bespoke. Newstead was a very unprotitable estate, and brought me in a bare 1,6001. a-year. The Lancashire property was hampered with a law snit, which has cost me 11,0001., and is not yet finished. We had a house in town, gave dinner parties, had separate carriages, and lanched into every sort of ex travagance. This could not list lung. 51y wife's 10.0001 soon melted away. I was beset by duns, and at length an execution was levied, and the bailiffs put in possession of the very hells we had to sleep upon. This was no very agreeable mate of affairs, no very pleasant scene for Lady Byron to witness ; and it was agreed she should pay her father a visit till the storm had blown over, and some arrangements been made with my creditors. You may sup pose on what terms we parted, from the style of a letter she wrote me on the road. YOU will think it begun ridiculously enough, • Dear Duck,' Ste. Imagine my astonishment to receive imme. oiiuely on her arrival, a few lines from her father of a very unlike and very unafttionate nature, beginning, Sir,' and ending with saying, that his daughter should never see me again. In my reply, I disclaimed his authority as a parent over my wife ; and told hint, was convinced the sentiments expressed were his, not hers. Another post, however, brought me a confirmation, under her own hand and seal s of her father's sentence. There can be nn doubt that the influence of her enemies pre. railed over her affection for me. You ask me if no cause was as. signed for this sudden resolution if I funned no conjecture about the nose. I will tell you, I have prejudices about women, Ido not like in see them eat. Rousseau makes Julie as pea gossrnsunde, but that is not at all according to my taste. Ido not like to be interrupted when I am writing. Lady Byron did not attend to these whims of mine. The only harsh thing I ever remember say ing to her, was one evening shortly bel,re our parting. I was standing before the fire, rnminating upon the embarrassments of my affairs and other annoyances, when Lady Byron came up to me and said, " Byron, am I in your way 1" to which I replied. " Damnably !" 1 was afterwards sorry, and . reproached myself for the expression, but it escaped me unconsciously,—involunta. rily ; I hardly knew what I said. In a succeeding paragraph is contained his Lordship's story of his first love, the objectof which was a Miss Mary ' C—, the daughter of a gentleman whose estate adjoined to Newstead. He says he never wrote any poetry worth mentioning till this passion inspired him, at an age little exceeding twelve years ; and he drolly observes— She was several years older than myself; but at my age, boys like something older than them s elves, as they do younger, later to life. • • • Dot the ardour was all on my side. I was serious—she wax vola tile : she liked me as a younger brother, and treated and laughed at me an a boy. She, however, gave me her picture, and that wax something to make verses upon. During the last years that I was at Harrow, all my thoughts were occupied with this late attar. Had I married Miss C., perhaps the whole tenour of my life would have been different. She jilted me, howeve►; but her marriage proved anything but a happy one. She wu at length separated from Mr. M., and proposed an interview with me, but by the advice of my sister, I declined it. There is an account of an attachment between Lord R. and a lady of rank. The connexion, it appears, was of extreme romance and violence, at least on her part. He calls himself her I'/11m, and exposes the follies and in discretions into which her attachment to him betrayed her. This is cruel and unmanly ; but the bitterness with which he reviles her is still more so. She had written on one of his books " Remember me !" which fond expression was thus requited, by these stanzas written under it : thee ! Remember Till I.ethe quench life's burning stream ; Remorse and shame shall cling to thee, And haunt thee like a fevensh dream. Remember thee !—a e, doubt it not— Thy , too, shall think of thee : By neither shalt thou be forgot— Thou •sas to him—thou ** o * to me ! We pass over the very interesting paragraph relating to Lord II a daughters Ada, by Lady A. and Allegra, ap parently an illegitim a t e child, l e f t at Ravenna. The next is more of a literary character. ilia rarly Poems.—%lThen I lint saw the review of Howes of Idkness, I was furious, in such a rage as I have never been in since. I dined that day with (krone Davies, and drank three bottles of claret to drown it, but it only boiled the more. That critique was a master-piece of low wit, a tissue of scurrilous abuse. I re member there was a great deal of vulgar trash in it, that was meant for humour, "about people being thankful for what they could get," " looking a gift horse in the mouth," smcl other such stable expressions. The severity of the Quartrrly killed poor Keats. and neglect Kirke %Visite. but I was made of different stuff—of tougher materials. So fat from bullying me, or deterring me from writing. I was bent on falsifying their raven predictions, and de termined to show them, croak as they would, that it was not the last time they should hear from me. I set to week immediately, and in good earnest, and produced in a year The English Bards grid Sewell !l• viewers. I had gond grounds to believe that Jeffrey (though perhaps. really responsible for whatever appears in the Edinburgh, as Gifford is for the Quarterly, as editor), was not the author of that article—was not guilty of it. He disowned it ; and though he would not give up the aggressor, he said he would convince me, if ever I came to Scotland, who the person was. I have every reason to believe it was a certain lawyer, who hated me for something I once said of him. Hut there was another reason that influenced me. more even than my cool resentment againt Jeftiey, to suppress English Bards and Seetrli Bel iewers. In the duel scene I had uncon sciously made a pan of the ridicule to fill on Moore. The fact was, that there was no imputation on the courage of either of the priori pals. (Inc of the balls fell out of the carriage and was lost; and the seconds, not having a further supply, drew the remaining one. Shortly after this publication I went abroad, and Moore was so offended by the mention of the leafless pistols, that he addressed a letter to me, in the nature of a challenge, delivering it to the care of Mr. Hanson, but without acquainting him with the contents. This letter was mislaid, at least never forwanled to me. But on my return to England in 11112 an inquiry was made by Moore if I had received such a letter, adding, that partieuks circumstances (meaning his marriage, or perluips the suppression of my satire) had now altered his situation, and that he Imbed to recall the let ter, aril to be known to me through Rogers. I was shy of this mode of arranging matters—one hand presenting a pistol, and an other held out to shake; and felt awkward at the loss of a letter of such a nature, and the imputations it might have given rise to; but when, after a considerable search, it waa at length found, I re. turned it to Moore, voi:11 the seal unbroken; and we have sin ce been the best friends in the world. I correspond with no one so re gularly as with Moore. - - The following is part of the relation of his Lordship'. bitter quarrel with Southey. " Some days after a discussion on the subject (and which is detailed more at large in the Miscellany, to which we must again refer) with his Lord ('apt. M. continues. " appeared Mr. Sou they's reply to the note in question. I happened to see the Lueruee 60%eite at Mr. Edgeworth's, and mentioned the general purport of the letter to Lord Byron during our evening ride. Ills anxiety to get a si,•lit of it was so great, that lie wrote ine two notes in the course of the evening, entreating me to procure the paper. I at length succeeded, and took it to the Lanfranchi palace at eleven o'clock (after coming from the Opera), an hour at which 1 was frequently in the habit of calling on him en paufint. He had left the Coun tess Guiecioli curlier than usual ; and I found him waiting with some impatience. I never shall forget his counte nance, as he glanced rapidly over the contents. He looked perfectly awful. His colour chanced almost prismatically. II is bps were as pale as death. Ile said not a word. He read the paper a second time, and with more attention than his rage at first permitted. commenting on some of the pas sages as he went on. When he had finished, be threw' down the paper, and asked me if I thought there was any thing of a personal nature in the reply that demanded sa tisfaction, as. if there was, lie would instantly set off for England, and call Southey to an account ; muttering sonic thing about whips, and branding irons, and galls ts, and wounding the hi art of a woman—words of Mr. Southey's. I said, that, as to personality, his own expressions of cowardly ferocity, pitiful renegadoship,' &c. were much stronger than in the letter before me.' lie paused a mo ment, and said, ' Perhaps you are right; but I will con sider of it. You have not seen my Yis:on of Judgment ; I wish I hail a copy to show you ; but the only one I have is in London. I had almost decided not to publish it; but it shall now go forth to the world. I will write to Douglas Kinnaird by to-morrow's post—to-night—not to delay its appearance. The question is whom to get to print M I Murray will have nothing to sty to it just now, while the prosecution of ' Cain' hangs over his head. It was offered to Longman ; but he declined it, on the plea of its injuring the sale of Southev's hexameters, of which lie is the pub lisher. Hunt shalt' have it.' Our concluding extract is also interesting for the ac knowledgment of plagiarism which, however sportively given, it contains-- Lord Byron was devouring, as he called it, a new novel of Walter Scott's. How difficult it is,' said he, •to say any thing new ! Who was that voluptuary of antiquity who offered a reward for a new pleasure ? Perhaps all nature and art could not supply a new idea. This page, for instance, is a brilliant one. It is full of wit ; but let us see how much of it is original. This passage, tor in stance, conies from Shakspeare ; this boa mot from one of She ridan's Comedies ; this observation from another, naming the au thor; and yet the ideas are new modelled, and perhaps ticott was not aware of their being plagiarisms. It is a bad thing to have too good a memory.' I should not like to have you for a critic, I observed. Set a thief to catch a thief, was the reply. ' I never travel without Seat'! Novels,' said he, ' they are a perfect library in themselves; a perfect literary treasure. I could read them once a year with new pleasure.' I asked him if he was certain about the Novels being Sir Walter Scott's ? • Scott as much as owned himself the author of IPireeeley to me at Murray's shop. 1 was talking to him about that Novel, and lamented that its author had not carried back the story nearer to the time of the revolution. Scott, entirely off' his guard, said, Aye, I ought to have done so. but there he stopped. It was in vain to attempt to correct himself ; he looked confused, and relieved his embarrassment by a precipitate retreat. • • • He spoiled the fame of his poetry by his superior prose. Ile has such extent and versatility of powers in writing, that, should his novels ever tire the public, which is not likely, he will apply himself to some thing else, and succeed as well. His mottos from old plays prove that lie at all events possesses the dramatic faculty which is denkd on, and yet I am told that his Ilalidon Hill did not justify ex pectation. I have never met with, but have seen extracts from It. • • •• When Walter Scott began to write poetry, which was not at • very early age. Monk Lewis corrected his verses; he understood little then of the mechanical part of his an. The Fire King in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border was almost all Lewis's. One of the ballads in that work, and except some of Leyden's, perhaps one of the best, was matte from a story picked up in a stage coach—l mean that of Will Jones:— " They boiled Will Jones within the pot. And not much fat had Will." I hope Walter Scott did not write the review of Christabel, for he in common with many of us, is indebted to Coleridge. But for him perhaps The bay qf the Last alineterl would never have been drought or. The line " Jesu Maria, shield us well!" is taken word for word from Coleridge's poem. Of all the writers of the day, Walter Scott is the least jealous. He is too confident of his own fame to dread the rivalry of others. Ile does not think of good writing as the Tuscans do about fever, that there is only a certain quantity of it in the world.' The following mention of Lord Byron's Memoir, (which were burnt some time since) leads us to conclude that they could not have been so profligate and licentious as has been represented. Captain Nledwin writes thus : • I am sorry,' said Lord B. ' not to hays a copy of my Me. **Mrs to ;hew you. I gave them to Moore, or rather Moore's little boy, at Venice. I remember saying—Here's 2.0001. for you, my young friend ! I made one observation in the gift, that they were not to be published till after my death. I have not the least objec tion to their being circulated ; in fact, they have been seen by some of my friends and several of Moore's. Among others. they were lent to Lady Burghersh. On returning the MS. her Ladyship told Moore that she had transcribed the whole work. This was se pea ,foil, and he suggested the propriety of her destroying the copy. She did so, by putting it into toe tire in his presence. Ever Mote this happened Douglas Kinnaird has been recommending me to resume possession of the MS., thinking to frighten me, by saying, that a spurious or real copy, surreptitiously obtained, may go forth to the world. lam quite indifferent about the world knowing all they contain. There are very few licentious adventures of my own, or scandalous adventures that will affect others, in the book. It is taken up from my earliest recollections, almost from childhood— very incoherent, written in a very loose and familiar style. The second part will prove a good lesson to young men, for it treats of the irregular life I lead, and the fatal consequences of a life of die. sipatton. There are few parts which mar not, and none that will not, be read by women. Another time he said, A very full account of my marriage and separation is contained in my Afemoirs. After they were completed, I wrote to Lady 'Syron, proposing to send them, for her inspection, that any misstatement or in. accuracy (if any such existed, which I was not aware of) might be pointed out and corrected. In her answer she declined the offer, without assignin any reason, but desiring, if not on her own ac. count, on that o ther daughter, that they might never appear, and finishing with a threat. My reply was the severest thing I ever wrote, and contained two quotations, one from Shakspeare, the other from Dante. I told her that she knew all I had writ••i was incontrovertible truth, and that she did not wish to sanction the truth. I ended by saying, that she might depend on their being published. It was not till after this correspondence that I made Moore the depository of the MS.' LORD BYRON IN GREECE. The following pleasant and minute Narrative of an In terview with Lord Byron is an extract from a private letter, with which we (the Examiner) have been favoured, written a short time previous to the death of the patriot Poet. 6. • • • • We found the great man (Mavrocordatm surrounded by thirty or forty men, armed after the manner or the country,with richly chased pistols and atagliana, while he, on the contrary, wait in • French dress—blue coat, drab waistcoat, wide blue pantaloons, and boots, all much worn and badly brushed. His complexion is swarthy, his face rather broad, an aquiline nose, eyes large, black, and expressive; and his countenance displays intelligence and shrewdness; but from wearing his hair turned back, in bushy profu sion about his shoulders (he has nuneck) and a huge pairof ugly mus tachios, lie has a singular, and not very prepossessing appearance : his height may be five feet six or seven. • • • • The matter nut being immediately adjusted. it became necessary to fix another meeting, and I availed myself of the circumstance vo assuage my curiosity by the sight of a personage much more interesting to me than all the Greek patriots together, and whom we before missed— mean Lord Byron, who had arrived a few days before from Cephalonia. fit ell, suppose me at 3lissolunghi for the second time, and fairly ushered into the presence of the Noble Bard. I assure you it was a great treat to me, and one of the few realities which are not exceeded in anticipation. Colonel Leicester Stan hope, from the London Greek Committee, introduced us. We found :he mighty son of song in a room with Turkish sofas. and its walls hung round with arms of various descriptions, such as' carabines, muskets, fowling-pieces, pistols, swords, sabres, a clay more, and the three helmets which you may have seen quizzed in some of the Ministerial papers ; his arms are emblavoned on each : motto.," Freda Hiroo. ' By the bye, one would imagine the ladies think this to be very appropriate: it will be well it none have occasion to alter their opinion ; but really I could find many excuses for a woman forgetting her prudent or prudish maxims, were he to take any pains to upset them ; fur with all his sins and , errors on his head, he is a most fascinating man. Ile wore a dark green jacket with rough black cuffs and collar, and a profusion of black trimming, like the storm jackets of some of the ca valry regiments; a blue cap with a scarlet birder, a black waist coat, wide blue pantaloons with broad starlet stripes, and boots. He is not so tall as generally represented, being only about See feet nine inches. He stoops slightly, and is of a muscular make, especially Maim the thighs. He is full-faced, and particularly broad from the angle of one jaw to the other ; he has a fine mouth and tenth ; nose neither large nor otherwise • it is nearly straight, but hss the least perceptible rise a little ab:ive the middle of its length, and perhaps fawn this to the point inclining to hollowness; but these inequalities are very trifling; it is broad front one nostril to another : his eyes are full and light grey, or something between that and blue. His forehead is high, and grows narrower as it as cends ; it is naturally very smooth, but he frequently contracts it into deep wrinkles, and as suddenly unbends it. His hair is fine and son, as yet evincing no tendency to baldness it is divided na turally into an infinity of spiral curls, and was, fur a crop, rath e r long. !le tells us, in his writings, iet it was grey at thirty ; at present it is very generally and thickly interspersed with grey hairs, but the natural colour (light auburn) is likely to preponderate at least till fatty ; the greyness does not appear much, except when very close. Ilia eyebrows and lashes are darker than his hair, or as dark ; but his mustachios are nearly white, and by no means Improve his appearance. Upon the whole, his head is one of the finest I ever saw, although not according. in many particu- Les, with what the sculeior adopts as perfection. lie has won. derful power and variety of expression ; but while 1 hail occasion to observe him, that of gaiety was chiefl y put farth. We remained live hours with him, anti had luncheon, or rather an early dinner. Ile talked with • • • • first about several people who were known to both, from their circle of society being the same. He then went to general subjects, and rattled away in the most amusing, clilaint. and playful way, exactly as you would expect from the author Bene, Don Juan, amt raw,: .1 , •./44-,,r,./. I sough; Cu vain among his lineaments for the gloom, the grief. and despair lower over the greatest elation of his tulip pioductions. meaner to us was frank and kind, and his sninner was, as I said before, that of Don Juan—rand et issoweievii. When we et preastal our surprise (I mean so give you in ilea of his manner) that the Greeks should remain in such a state of inactivity and not endeavour to render their present insecure fastnesses by every means in their power more tenable. he laughed most iitar.ily, and said. that they depended much on the Turkish want of cntetprise. we represented how easy it would be to tort the Turkish sciv:ahois (two frigates, ts o corvettes, and four brigs), he said that that line a serious operation to them, that wou:d require months of prepris• non. Ile then went on-.-" Haninie, I asked 31avrocordato a Mahe or two ago, to go out in a boat lb the evening with me and smoke a cigvr against them" (looking quite serirws), "and would yen believe it?—he refused I" While making himself very busy to bring about the dinner, which was not a very easy task, his butler drew a bottle of wine : " What wine is that, Fletcher P" inquired his lemlship. " I don't know," responded Pitcher. " Thous away with it," rejoined he, smiling."l hate an anonsittmeSs wine." Speaking of, and looking at his arms, _led toe conversa tion upon dexterity in using them. He insiantleroduced a brace of pistols, and a. • • • • is a good shot, they red several times each at bottles. His Lordship never missed ; he even hit a small fragment of the neck of a bottle previously broken, , Plc laughed very heartily at a number of adventurers, who emus to Gtatw without a farthing, expecting high rank and high pay. and why. finding ni t ome ni rantre, were taking themselves - off .3 disgust. He says, that from hie previous knowledge of the people end conn try, he knew what he had to expect, and that it is all well enough for him by *ay of amusement. He disclaims all wish to take an, lead among them ; hut he has accepted, at 31arricordato's earnest request, the nominal command of an expedition pro,eeted ag.lintt Lepanto, which was to take place in a few days. The reason urged by blavrocordato was, that the men would obey It. Lordship better than himself; but at the same time he said, that he expected they would all desert, !are five hundred Suliotes which Lord Hymn he in his pay, at the rate of three dollars a mirth each. He has also paid their deer lately, and in fact is handing out his dollars liberally. He say; that neither Greeks nor Turks can fight without being roused, and regretted, from the clic ims.-dme of the greatest part of his giv having " run ih-ough the bowels of his household," that In ; knit but faint hopes of setting them by the ears. I couneelkYl him to import a cargo of emirage front Holland. He said he Malted he could, hut a nearer quarter would suit him better. While fining at the mark, a large Newfoundland dog, called Lion, was frisking about. I said, " that is an honest looking tyke of yours." " Oh, Ito !" he exclaimed, " I find that you are half a countryman of mine." (The writer is a waive of Scotland.) What surprised me somewhat was, that just as he began to fire at the mark, he took something out of a small box. Happening to be without snuff at the time, I was instantly attracted ; when lo I discovered its eon• tents to be not ground, but cut tobacco, of which he took out a small portion, and putting it into his mouth, munched it with great assiduity, occasionally ejecting its juice. I felt angry at hint for staining his very five and white it; h. • • • Colonel Stanhope is quite an enthusiast; he is about to establish printing presses, and has one or two along with him. L'yron says that ft the press satirizes any particular individual, if he should not b 3 able to read the libel himself; he would get somebody to do it, and that then be would come down on the poor printer, tie his press about his neck, and pitch hit: into the sea. Stanhope. who is a man of education and talent, does not relish hit Lordship's jokes, and absolutely absented himself from the house (they lira together) moat of the time we were there, on that account. By the way, as I have heard some disputes as to the pronunciation of the great poet's nestle, I may mention, that he read a document to us, in which be had occasion to speak of himselt in the third person six or eight tunes, and he always pronounzed it Hiram; time sounded in French or Italian." LORD CHARLES MURRAY: It is the proud but melancholy boast of Caledonia, that she nurn• bets among her sons the most gifted and most ennobled martyrs in the holy cause of Greek Independence. Byron, though descended paternally from a Lowland stock, was maternally, as well 35 in hid spirit and education, a son of the mountains. It was amid the wild scenes and sweeping storms of the Grampians, that he wooed and woo the most sublime muse of the age and it was from their cors• mending heights, and their invigoratiag air, that ht first caught up that daring independence, that unquenchable love of freedom, and hatred of every thing mean, tyrannical, and oppressive, whirls parted only with his parting breath. Nurtured as he was in youth. situated as he had been through life, and bold and peculiar as was the whole of his character, it was to be expected that Bymn, a vo. luntary exile from his native land, would have joined the Inhabit. tans of mountains, once free as those among whom he had spent his infancy, and whom he had visited and admired hi the ardour of youth, in their Aims to tear of the fetters of their barbarian lords. But Greece and Scotland are left to weep for another noblemen, whose love of liberty should perhaps lie more prized, as it was filmed under circumstances by no means so auspicious. Lord Charles %stray, son to the Duke of Athol--a man who, though deserving of every praise in his private character, has neser dis played or been suspected of any public leaning toward the cause of liberty—expired on the 11th of August, at liaatouni, whither he had gone a willing and devoted volunteer, to aid by his councils and his arm, in freeing Christian and classical Greece from the bondage of infidels and barbarians—to aid in rekindling in the east that holy light which, while it had begun to beam upon the summits of the western mountains, had been shrouded insight osse every land which the classic page holds dear. The spirit which called Lord Charles to this noble work, trust have been both resistless and pure. The family which he left had stricken its roots deep in the land of his fathers; it stood well with those in power, and thus commanded its share, and even more than its share, of the honours and ensolunrints which the Government at home could bestow. It had its situation, not only in a fair and fertile portion of Scotland, but in its very classic ground. The cx quiaite beauties of Dun keld, the w ide-spresd ing granotur of Blair. the endless sources of sport " by flood and field, " the far ramiliel combinations of relationship, and the dwelling among a people by whom the family were generally and deservedly adored, would hare formed &chain too endearing to be slipt, and too strong to be broken by most men. But the sped of Lord 'Charles Murray overcame them all. In spite of the beauties of the land of his birth, in spite of the admiration of a people among whom he had been educated. in spite of the attachments of numerous and fond relatives, and in spite of that Tory association, whose current stagnated—if it doe, not run the other way, Lord Charles Murray went forth a devoted volunteer in the cause of the Greeks; and, as was the case with his more illustrious but not more :_voted countryman, Byron, he ha* fallen, ere the land which lie went to aid in delivering, could profit by his devotetinent--as was the case with Byron, Greece must plant the cypress where she hoped to place the laurel, and walk mourn. fully and in tears tee him to whom she hoped to award her loli.,si song of triumph.—News of Literature and Fashion. INCLEDON'S F.4REWELL. [From the Hemp:' ee Tekgre]Ll On Friday last, the Southampton Theatre was crow de.l, in consequence of an announcement, that the above Or et.- celebrated singer was to sing four of his most popular s: rys, and to take leave of the stage for ever, in a short address. It is.not generally known, that lncletlon here trade his debut, exactly forty years ago. The late Mr. De Veulle hearing him sing a song at a public-house, was so much struck with his extraordinary powers, that he introduced him to his Theatre, lie immediately received the wannest tribute of admiration, and rapidly rose into fame. Now, after having many years survived those wonderful powers, ! which once so distinguished him, as to induce his late .Me jesty to name him " The British National Singer," comes, a weather-beaten but still sturdy veteran, to renler his last acknowledgments to those who, in W.s evn exp:t sive words, " were his passport to fame." With aft that does him credit, he confers on the town the thields honour of his last, as it has already enjoyed that of his firm appearance in public. The songs he selected on this ccea • sion were —" Black-eyed Susan," " Death of Admiral DenbOw," " Scots wha hae," the celebrated duet of " all •r Well," wi:h Mr. Balton, and " Then farewell my tries built Wherry." To criticise the singing of a man upwar.ls of sixty, who has undergone the hardships he bas, be ridiculous ; that was not the thing looked for—sufficz it to say, his ~ i nging even to night strewed what he once could do. There was, however, something very affecting, and perhaps pl. asing, in the contrast (in the duet) between his voice quiverilg, and all in want of breath to fill it, vet still manly ~'td powerful; and Mr. Bolton's, youthful and full of cadence and execution. It is unr.er ssary to ray, that he was most rapturously applauded, and the duet was encored. After the last sung he addressed the audience near iv ae fo:'.ows:— Litmus ASO GINTLEMEN.-1: is with the sincerest lettings of gratottule that I am capable of, that I stand before you this evening to return ou sty must heartfelt thanks for tlw diatirguishcd pa. tronage yen have ever conferred on me. In this town, and on these boards, I brat appeared as a singer; mkt the eteouragetnent I then received from you has proved, I may say, my passport to f ame. Ladies a e d Gentlemen, since that period I have petard throu g tt many vicissitudes—l have served his Majesty in many engage. inents--ti,cre is nut a ship in the navy, nos are there many town, in the country, that I have rut sung in; but still your ear:y libe rality has never het n effaced from my memory. It is now six year, ago sine: I left the stage, hut it by always been my wish to appear once more befitre you. Ladies and o...sidemen. age, sickness, and istiresitiot have altered me much from what I once was: but I have always done my best to please my kindest patrons, arid I re. peat it, Ladies and Gentlemen, while I live I shall neves forget she support and encouragement I have received from th! b.ha bites) ts of Southampton. A tremendous burst of applause followed, and the ve teran retired from the stage for ever. It is the intention of the Catholic Association to have their general petition ready to be pruiented by Sir Francis Burdett. on the opening day of Parliament, awl to pou: iu three or four pe:itions every week during the Session. ,I i i t i ~5 I I 1 7111,