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FRENCH PAPERS. -fFeom the Constitutionnel.) VA Darn, 0cT.21.-- , :-( Private Correspondence.) The latest letters from Lisbon mention that the -Cortes are soon to be convoked, and it is added, that in consequnce of this measure the Portu guese Agent in this capital will be recalled. A plan has been submitted to his Majesty for levy ing 37,000 men. No doubt it will be approved of, and have the same effect as •the first Deuree on the-some subject, which .produced about a fifth part of the soldiers uspected. A Decree also has bean published to prevent emigration, it being the intention of Government to hinder capi lalists from carrying their capital to, and land lords from drawing their revenue in, another country. So you see, we are returning to the -infancy of society, and even go further than those ilo desire to prevent -the emigration of work teen, and would as it sere, pea them up In that country %there they have begun their la bours. The Intendant of Police of Murcia, who Vas deposed, has been to the Escurial, and was received by his Majesty in a private audi ence. He stated that the province of Murcia was a prey to the must deplorable anarchy ; that the Royalist volunteers, under the pretext of serving his Majesty, commit all sorts of crimes; that the Clergy abuse the pulpit so much,' that one of them preached from the text—" The odour of a copse is like the breath of life to the righteous of our time." The Trappist and Merino have both been presented to the King at the Escurial, and the latter has obtained a pension of 60,000 reels,, with permission to consume it where he pleases. - The recompence intended for the former is not yet known. The Intendant General of the Po lice has sent circulars to the Intendants of Police in the Provinces, demanding lists of the persons &flown to,profess liberal opinions in their depart ments,'of those who have belonged to Secret So. 4eieties, of those who have been speekers in Na tional Societies, and of those who have purchased =flow!! land. The same circular says, that iu reserving to the Nobles the privilege of currying arms, those only are meant who have adhered to the cause of the Altar and the Throne. Thus, while they cry aloud for ancient privileges, they deprive the Nobles of one of their most ancient prerogitivvs. OCT. 22. -7-The Infanta Donna Maria Francisca has given birth to a son; the King has been god father, and the child has been named Ferdinand. Neither of these events, which in ordinary cir cumstances would be a signal for pardon and fa vour, has brought the least amelioration to the condition of the persecuted. It seems, on the contrary, that every new solemnity is regarded .as an occasion for increasing measure's of terror; of which an idea may be formed from the follow. ing decree, calling for fresh rigour in the Judges:— " Letter .from the Minister of Justice, addressed on the Slat of August, to the Governor of the Council and the Presidents of the Chancelleries and Audienrias of the Kingdom, touch. ing the dispatch of criminal cases. " Most Excellent Sir—The King has been informed of the slowness of the different tribunals in trying the numberless ,criminal cases brought before them, and of the pretext urged in suppoit of this, that they dare not depart from the road -marked eut by the laws. From this slowness and pretext, the serious Inconvenience results, that the puniihments arc neither prompt nor exemplary enough to produce the pro. per effect?hd correction, and to prevent all citizens from com mitting crimes. His Majesty does not wish that the tri. bunals which distribute justice in his name should depart from the road laid down by the laws; but he reminds them that there are means of shortening processes, either by hastening the reception of the proofs, or in omitting useless and merely .rformal citation, or by preventing the delays interposed by the lawyers, .who freqUently demand a postponement when the • prosecution is for an act of revolt or crime of this &scrip. tion. His Majesty desires, in consequence,that this nudlencia, and all the Judges within its jurisdiction, should proceed with out 'delay in examining causes, transmitting each week a de tailed account of the situation in which they find their butti ness, and, dedicating, besides the customary three hours a day, three hours more, if necessary; for extraordinary circum stances now render more, extraordinary exertions necessary on the part of every man employed under the public. His .Majesty will bear in mind those who display a real zeal in his service, and will recompense their devotion ; on the other hand, be will certainly not forget to punish with severity, and with. , out pardon or remission, those who, through caprice, weak ness or ignorance, do not contribute efficaciously to the fulfil. ment of his just intentions." This circular is said, in letters from the provinces; to have already been carried into efthet. At Leon, 22 persons have been arrested as Masons and Comminerne ; they are sentenced io be executed. Nearly a hundred respectable persons have been arrested at Santander, and similar measures have been carried into effect at several other places. In Navarre, all the officers who served under the Constitutional Government, have been arrested and sent to Pampeluna. An old Captain at Val ladulid, who.could not be reproached with any single' act, hav ing been accused of speaking lightly of the birth of Christ, has been condemned to death and executed ; his limbs have been attached to the posts at the entrance to the magnificent avenue of Ifalladolid. The official Gazdic has published a de cree, granting extraordinary rewards to those who, on March 10, 1823, Massacred above 500 peaceable citizens. They had been invited, with the whole town of Cadiz, by General Freyre, to attend at the fete for the publication of the Constitution, but the armed -soldiery in the principal streets and great square massacred a great number of the population. Such is the act of fidelity now rewarded. General Contreras, Ex-Governor of Galicia, who !Lot displayed some moderation, has been arrested. The inqui3itionJi to he established under another form. In all the provinces Juntas of State are to be created, composed of ecclesiastiee. and "lawyers. Letters from Lisbon say that a pamphlet la shard) , be published there, entitled, "A Parallel between the Conduct of John VI. and of Ferdinand VIL since their Restoration." • ( From the Jorernal des Debt*. ) :NI Ann tn, OCT. 21.—1 t now seems certain that the French army will make a retrograde movement, but it is not certain that it will retreat to the right hank of the EbrO. The Govern ment, or at least some chiefs, fear both the departure and the presence of this army . All hope of moderation is lost. We still retain one tribunal, which preserves some recollection of what it formerly was. .The Council of Castile being consulted -Ir. the King on a proposal made by the Intendant-General of t e Police to expel 4,00 f) tirade of families from Madrid, who had followed the Government to , Cadiz, the Council decided that this measure, Besides being unjust and" odious, was in di rec t opposition with the, amnesty of May 1. Perhaps sand hr remonstrances ofthe first IribunaLof the kingdom which, is the right of administering Justice,, adds that of mailing re monstrances like the ancient Parliaments, may produce a sa lutary result in other Courts of , lustice. A u o e , 21-M. Serra Cassano. the Papal Nuncio, atrived here yetsterday, and will remain here for some time. The establishment of a normal' school In the ci.tlevant monastery of St. Bartholmew at Dillengen, is resolved on. It will be opened in the beginning of November. The Bavarian Govern ment supports this establishment with considerable zeal. It is necessary, in order to form good teachers, and in order to im press on the progress of improvement one uniform march. By it, too, instruction will be made to conform to the discoveries in science, constantly made in every part of Europe. Pains, Nov. 3.—The equipages of Sir Charles Stewart, the English Ambassador, were sent off yesterday for London. His Excellency is to set out next 'week. A part of the equipages of Baron Vincent, the Austrian Ambassador, have been also sent offfor Vienna; when he will set out himself isnot yet known. (From the Etotte.) CONSTAN TINOPLE, OCT. I.—We were not deceived in our disbelief of the alleged successes of the Turkish fleets. The want of confidence and demoralization among the seamen were so great, that in spite of the superior naval force placed under the Sultan's Admirals to act against the Greeks, we may now consider the campaign to have entirely failed. OCT. 4.—Lord Strangford had Ins final audience last Sa turday previous to his departure. His Excellency was twenty. five minutes with the Reis Effendi, four or five with the Grand Vizier, and twenty-five with the Kiaya Bey. His Lordship repaired to the audience on foot. PRIVATE LETTER. PARIS, Nov. 2.---For some months past the French Cabinet has been debating whether the Army of Occupation should be withdrawn from Spain, a measure which many serious reasons render almost necessary. One of the principal was the conduct of the Spanish Government, which refused to yield to the in fluence of the French Cabinet. The deplorable state of the Peninsula, the anarchy that prevails in it, the arbitrary pro ceedings and the disorders of its Administration, the rigorous decrees of Ferdinand, convinced our Ministry and the Ministers of the Holy Alliance, that extraordinary measures were urgently called l'or to bring Spain back to a happier situation. Many proposals were made to 'Ferdinand's Ministers. An amnesty was desired which should not-be a list of proscription, a new mode of government, the recognition of a part at least of the loans of the Cortes—in short, securities for the return of a better order of things. All these proposals have been of no avail ; the influence of the Apostolic Junta which governs the Peninsula, has opposed insuperable obstacles to the re-establishment of order. The continuation of the aliodeof the French army in Spain would have been considered as a sanction given by France to the course followed by the Supreine Authority in Spain, and France could,not take upon itself such a responsibility. It has therefore been decided in the last Councils of the Ministers, that the army shall leave Spain, except 22,000 men, who will occupy Cadiz, Barcelona, and St. Sebastian. These 22,000 men will not be considered as an Army of Occupation, there will•be no General-in-Chief nor Intendant-General. These troops, except those which remain at Cadiz, being all in fron tier towns, will be provided with all they want by the French military boards, in the same manner as those in the interior of the kingdom. This measure will reduce, by 800,000 francs per month, the extraordinary expences for the army, which have amounted hitherto to two millions. All the contracts negociat. ing for the supply of the troops in 1825, have been suspended. Several expresses have been sent to Madrid to announce this important decision. It is difficult to foresee all the consequences of this event; but one of the most certain is this, that a civil war will most likely break out with great inveteracy in the Peninsula, and that the interference of a foreign army will become more neces sary than ever, for continued persecution will rouse resistance, and it-cannot be foreseen what may be the result. Mlle French Ministry is still the object of the attacks of all parties. The most decisive answer It can make is, that it still subsists; and that it is now very difficult to determine the of its duration. The King might, perhaps, have yielded to the solicitations which come from all quarters, had he not apprehended that by changing his Ministry h e s h ou ld on ly giv e se to new remonstrances, as urgent as those which have been addressed to him ever since lie has been on the throne. It cer tainly was not difficult to pull down what already existed, but to know how to replace it. M. de Villele, awaiting his destiny in his palace, smiles at his numerous adversaries. Messrs. de Corbiere and Peyronnet have made no change in the mode of their administration ; and the other Ministers, of whom nobody speaks with harshness, seems to take no interest in the war of the Journals and coteries, the result of which may, however, endanger their political existence. LAMBETH VEsTRY MEETING. Yesterday, pursuant to a Requisition signed by the Overseers of the Poor, a meeting was held at the Vestry Room of St. Mary's Parish, Lambeth, for the purpose of auditing certain accounts of that parish. Amongst others, an objection started by Mr. Falls at a former meeting, relative to a payment by the late Overseers to the parish Solicitor, Mr. Evans, was this day the principal subject of a conversation of some length and of a most desultory nature, In which it was to be regretted some ex. pressions escaped, we hope inadvertently, which induce us, act ing we trust on a sound discretion, to abstain from giving any detailed account of proceedings characterized by so much irre gularity and vituperation. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Falls this day, that he objected to the fallacy on the face of the accounts of the last year of the Overseers of the poor as to a sum of 4001. paid by them upon checques which had been held over for several days by the persons to whom they had been paid. He contended this was any thing but a compliance with the Acts of Parliament respecting the auditing of parish accounts and finally objected to the manner in which 3001. the balance of Mr. Evans, the Solicitor's bill had been settled, as being irregularly done, without beingfirst properly audited. Mr. Evaxs was about to offer some explanation, when— , Captain Tu ca begged the Chairman (Mr. Vaughan) to recol lect they were called together for an express purpose, namely, the auditory of the accounts of those ( ientlemen who had gone out of office last year. He now moved the accounts should he audited. With a view to ascertain the sense of the Meeting as to whether it would see the necessity of proceeding to business, or waste its time in desultory conversation. . This motion being seconded, was subsequently carried. Mr. EVANS entered at some length into a ustification of the conduct of the late Overseers; for his part lie was willing to submit the account lie had furnished to the arbitration of any respectable professional man. None would be more so than two Gentlemen then present—Mr. Davis, of Walcot-terrace, and .Mr. Schultz. Whatever they said he would abide by, without troubling the parish with turtherdispute on the subject. —He did so from a conviction that nothing short of' such a de finitive reference would be productive of any satisfaction to all parties; particularly as he knew some of the most active oppo nents lie had, who were then present, would not be eatiatied were he voluntarily to give up the whole amount of his bill, but would still cavil with his motives, as if somthing selfish or discreditable to him were still lurking under any proposition or concession coming from himself. A long discussion took pl ace as to whether the referees should have authority to add to the amount of separate items of charges contained in this bill, as well as diminish them ; in which Messrs. Dimes, Falls, Evans, Christy, Forest, Roffey, Schultz, Harwood, Williamson, and others, took a part. Some impa tience was now manifested. Mr. %troop, in afloat speech, congratulated the meeting . on the result of the meetin g t o - c l ay . li e saw no reason to b e un- patient. The discussion, though warm, had had some very beneficial effects. It h a d, h e hoped andbelieved, tranquilized the public. A great prejudice had prevalltal abroad, and there was something due to the anxiety of the parishioners to under stand how their funds were managed, and whether their ac. counts were properly audited. It would a p pear now t h at, at the utmost, all that could be complained of was an irregularity In the manner of transacting the public business, which had fortunately been productive of no real injury to the parishioners. He hoped they would eventually forget and forgive whatever had been severally urged, which might have the appearance of personality or ill will. Here a short, strange-looking, elderly personage, In the cos tume of the days of Louis the Fourteenth, and with an accent strongly indicative of his French 'origin, rose to address the meeting in a speech, which for peculiarity of phrase and sin u. larity of sentiment, abundantly proved that ‘. none but hirn self could be his parallel." Ile said, "he was tire, and the parish too, of hearing about this bill; Mr. Evans was tire too. He wish It all put aside; and to put an end for ever to it lie weld move, the taking any more steps to inquire further in it, and refer should for ever be sunk to oblivion."—(Laughing and cheers followed.) The worthy Speaker ceased—some one seconded him ; and whether it was intentional or otherwise, certainly very much to the surprise of many, the question was carried by an unanimous show of hands, not one man holding up his hand for what so many had been disputing for some hours. " What," said some, " and this to be done by a Frenchman." Most, however, laughed heartily, whilst the disputants lately loudest and most angry with each other were seen cordially shaking bands in dif ferent parts of the Vestry-room. One said it was it droll," another looked round doubtingly anti pronounced it " a nil. racle." For ourselves we are incompetent to dispute with such authorities. We have heard, however, this gentleman is named Dehoot, and that he is a professor of languages. If to convince and conciliate in the fewest possible words is a proof of eloquence, Mr. Dehoot is master of one language at least : for never, perhaps, since the invention of language, was such a sudden anti unexpected change produced on a public meeting by a few sentences, uttered in defiance of rhetorical art, or or nament of style. Our Gallic Friend soon after left the room, followed by all his coverts, exce . pt those few who remained to audit the accounts. LORD BYRON AND MR.MURRAY. CONVERSATION OF LORD BMW , As RELATED DY THOS. MEDWIN, ESQ., COMPARED WITH ONE PORTION OF HIS LORDSHIP'S COR RESPONDENCE. The volume of " Lord Byron's Conversations" with Mr. Med wikcontains several statements relative to Mr. Murray, his Lord ship's publisher, against which, however exceptionable they might be, he was willing to trust his defence to the private testimony of persons acquainted with the real particulars, and to his ge neral character, ilither than resort to any kind of public appeal, to which he has ever been exceedingly averse. But friends, to whose judgment Mr. Murray is bound to defer, having decided that such an appeal upon the occasion is become a positive duty on his part, he hopes that he shalt not be thought too obtrusive in opposing.to those personal allegations extracts from Lord Byron'e own letters, with the addition of a few brief notes of necessary ex planation. CAPT. MRDWIN, p. 167. " Murray offered me, of his own accord, 10001. a Canto for Don Juan, and afterwards reduced it - to 5 001. on the plea of piracy, and complained of my dividing one Canto into two, because I hap pened to say something at the end of the third Canto of having done so." LORD BYROr:l . 's LETTER. " Ravenna, February 7. 1,820. " Dear Murray,—l have copied and cut the Third Canto of Don .Irwin INTO TWO, because it was too long, and 1 tell you this before hand, because, in case of any reckoning between you and me, these two are only to go for ONE, as this was the original form, and in fact the two together are not iqngfr than one of the ,first ! so remem ber that I have not made this davtsion to DOUBLE upon YOU, but i merely to suppress some tediousness n the aspect of the thing. I should have served you a pretty trick if I hod sent you,forexample, Cantos of fifty stanzas each." CAPT. MF.DITIN, p. 160. " I don't wish to quarrel with Murray, but it seems inevitable. I had no reason to be pleased with him the other day. Galignani wrote to me, offering to purchase the copy-right of my works, in order to obtain an exclusive privilege of printing them in France. I might have made my own terms, and put the money in my own pocket; instead of which, I enclosed Galignani's letter to Murray, in order that he might conclude the matter as he pleased. He did so very advantageously for his own interest; but never had the complaisance, the common politeness, to thank me or acknowledge my letter." LORD BYRON'S LETTER. " Ravenna, Obre 4,1820. " I have received from Mr. Galignani the inclosed letters, du plicates, and receipts, which wilt explain themselves. As the poems are your properly by purchase, right, and justice, ALL MAT TERS OF PUBLICATION, Bre,, 4c., ARE FOR YOU TO DECIDE UPON. I know not how far my compliance with Mr. G.'s request might he legal, and I doubt that it would not be honest. hi case you choose to arrange with him I inclose the permits to you, and in so doing I wash my hands of the business altogether. 1 sign them merely to enable you to exact the power you Justly possess more properly. I will have nothing to do with it further, excep t in my answer to Mr. Galignani, to state that the letters, ere. c. are sent to you and the causes thereof. . If you can check these oreign pirates, do; foreign if not, put the permissive papers in the fire. I can have no view nor object whatever but to secure to you your property." NOTE.—Mr. Murray derived no advantage from the proposed agreement, which was by no means of the importance here ascrib ed to it, and therefore was never attempted to be curried into effect : the documents alluded to are still in his possession. CAPT. MEDWIN ' pp. 169-171. " Murray has long prevented The Quarterly' from abusing me. Some of their bullies have had their fingers itching to be at me ; but they m ould get the worst of it in a set to. " Murray and I have dissolved all connection : he had the choice of giving up me or the Navy List. There was no hesitation which way he should decide ; the Admiralty carried the day. Now for the Quarterly : their batteries will be opened but I can fire broadsides too. They have been letting off lots of squibs and crackers against me, but they only make a noise and* * • " Werner' was the last book Murray published for me and three months after carne ou t the Quarterly's article on my Plays, when Marino Faliero' was noticed for the first time.' LORD BYRON'S LETTER. " Genoa, 10bre 25, 1822. I had sent you back the Quarterly without perusal, having re solved to read no more reviews, goo d, bad, or indiferent ; but who can control his fate? Galignant,' to whom my English studies are conned, has forwarded a copy of at least one half of it i n hi s indefatigable weekly compilation, and as, ' like honour, a came un looked for,' I hare looked through it. I must say that upon the mune—that is, the whole of the HALF which I have read /for the other half is to be the segment of Gal.'s next week's circular), it is certainly handsome, and any thing but unkind or unfair." NUM—The . passage about the Admiralty is unfounded in fact, and no otherwise deserving of notice than to mark its absurdity and with regard to the Quarterly Review, his Lordship well knew that it was established and constantly conducted on principles which absolutely excluded Mr. Murray from all suc h i nter f erence and influence as is implied in the . " Conversations." CAPT. MEDWIN, page 168. " Because I gave Mr. Murray one of my poems, he wanted to make me believe that I had made hi m a present of two others, and hinted at some lines in ' English Bards,' that were certainly to the point. But I have altered my mind considerably upon that sub ject : 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, &c. ; besides, I was poor at that time, an d h ave no idea of aggrandizing booksellers." LORD BYRON'S LETTER. " January 2, NM, " Dear Sir,— Your o'er is liberal in the extreme and much I more than the two poems can possibly b e worth—but cannot ac cept it, nor will not. You are most welcome to them, as additions to the collected volumes, without any demand or expectation on my part whatever. " P.S. I .hare enclosed your draft TORN , f or f ear of accidents by the way. -1 wish you would not throw temptation in mine; it is not from a disdain of the universal idol—nor from a present superfluity of his treasures—l can assure you, that I refuse to worship him—but what is right is right, and must not yield to cir cumstances." NOTE.--The above letter relates to a draft for 1,0 0 0 guineas, oil'ered by Mr. Murray for two poems, " th e Si ege o f C or i nt h," and " Parisina," which his Lordship had previously, at a short interval, presented to Mr. Murray as donations. Lord Byron was afterwards i n d uce d, by Mr. Murray's earnest persuasion, to accept the 1,000 g u i n eas, an d M r . M urray has h is Lordship's assignment of the copyright of the two pieces accordingly. _ CAPT. MEDWIN, p. 166. " Murray pretends to have lost money by my writings, and pleads poverty ; but if he is poor, which is somewhat problemati cal to me pray who is to blame ? " Mr. Murray is tender of my fame. How kind in him ! He is afraid of my writing too fast. Why ? because he has a tender regard for his own pocket, and does not like the look of any new acquaintance in the sh a p e o f a b oo k o f m i ne, t ill h o h as se en old friends in a v ar i ety editions of the form er works, dont't know what would become of new faces ; id es t, disposed of a vast many of me without Douglas Kinnaird, who has always been my best and kindest friend. It is not easy to deal with Mr. Murray." NOTE.—ID the numerous letters rfceived by Mr. Murray yearly from Lord Byron (who was not accustomed to restrain the expres sion of his feelings in writing them) not one has any tendency to wards the imputations here thrown out ; the incongruity of which will be evident from the fact of Mr. Murray having paid, at va rious times, for the copyright of his Lordship's Poems, sums amounting to upwards of 15 , 0001.—viz.:— Chtlde Harold 1, 11. 111. 1575 IV 5 ' Cie:our 25 Bride nf Abydos • 525 Corsair. Zara 7OO Siege of Corinth..... ..........., 525 Partsi na Lament of Tasso 315 . Manfred Beppo Don Juan I. IL . . ---- mar. V. 1525 Doge of Venice Sardanapalus, Cain, and Foscari llOO Mateppa ... ......... Chilton.. • ....,..... ....... . Sundries 450 .R 15,455 " CAPT. MP.DWIN, p. 170. My differences with Murray are not over. When he pur chased' ' Cain,' ' The T wo Foscari, ' and ' Sardanapalus,' he sent me a deed, which you may re me mber witnessing. Well, after its return to England, it was dis co vered • a * • • • * • • • • But I shall take no notice of it NOTE.-Mr. Murray, of course, cannot answer a statement which he does not see; but pledges himself to disprove any incul pation the suppressed passage may contain, whenever disclosed.— He has written twice to Captain Medwin's publisher, desiring, as an act of justice, to have the passage printed entire in any new edition of the book, and in the mean time to be favoured with a copy of it. As this has not yet been obtained, and as the context seems to imply that it accuses him of endeavouring to take some ven for stating the following circumstances. Byron, he thinks he shall be forgi pem.curn.ialvriyurardavva;t: v g i ef n lac l c 4 id rd entally heard that Lord Byron was in pecuniary difficulties, immediately forwarded 1,5001. to him; with an assurance that another such sum should be at leis service iit a few months ; and that, if such assistance should not be sufficient, Mr. Murray would be ready to sell the copy-right of all his Lord shin's works for his use. The following is Lord Byron's acknowledgment of this offer : " Nov. 14. 1815. " Dear Sir,—l return you your bills, not accepted, but certainly not UNHONOURED. Your offer is a favour - which I would accept from you if I accepted such from any man. Had such been my In tention, I can assure you I would have asked you fairly, and as freely, as you would give; and I cannot say more of my coultdenee or your conduct. The circumstance s w hi c h induce me to pari‘with my books, though sufficiently are - not IMMEDIATELY pressing. I have made up my mind to them, and there is an end. Had I been disposed to trespass on your kindness in this way, it would here been before now, but lam not sorry to have an opportunity of de clining it, as it sets my opinion of you, and indeed of human nature, in a different light from that in which I have been accustomed to consider it. . " Believe me, very truly, " Your obliged and faitliful servant, "To John Murray, Esq." • " BYRON:" _ • _ NOTE.—That nothing had occurred to subvert these friendly sen timents will appear from the three letters subjoined, the second of them written by Lord Byron a few weeks before his death, and the last addressed by his Lordship's valet to Mr. Murray as one of his deceased master's; most confidential friends. LORD BYRON'S LETTERS. " May Bth, 1819 " I hare a great respect for your good and gentlemanly qualities, and return your personal friendship towards me. • • * • • • You deserve and possess the esteem of those whose esteem is worth having, and of none more ( however useless it may be) than " Your's, very truly. " BYRON." " Messolonghi, Feb. 25, 1821. " I have heard from Mr. Douglas Kinnaird that you state a re port of a satire on Mr. Gifford having arrived from Italy, said to be written by M E, but that YOU do not believe it : I dare say you do not, nor any body else, I should think. Whoever asserts that lam the author or abettor of any thing of the kind on Gifford lies in his throat; I always regarded him as my literary father, and myself as his prodigal son. If any such composition exists, it is none of I mine. You know, as well as any body, upon WHOM I have or hare not written, and YOU also know whether they do or did not deserve the same—and so much for such matters. You will, perhaps, he anxious to hear some news from this part of Greece ( which is most liable to invasion), but you will hear enough through public and private channels on that head. I will, however, give you the events of a week, mingling my own private peculiar with the public, for we are here jumbled a little together at present. " On Sunday, ( the 15th, I believe) I had a strong and sudden convulsive attack which left me speechless, though not motionless, for some strong men could not hold me; but whether it was epilespsy, catalepsy, cachexy, apoplexy, or what other exy or epsy, ac doc tors have not decided, or whether it was spasmodic, or nervous, lee. but it was very unpleasant, and nearly carried me off, and all that. On Monday they put leeches to my temples, no difficult matter, but the blood could not be stopped till eleven at night (they had gone too near the temporal artery or my temporal safety), and neither styp tic nor eaustic would cauterize the orifice till after a hundred at tempts. 44 On Tuesday a Turkish brig of war ran on shore. On Wed nesday, great preparations being made to attack her, though pro tected by her consorts, the Turks burned her, and retired to Patens. On Thursday a quarrel ensued between the Suliotes and the Frank Guard at the arsenal: a Swedish officer was killed, and a Suliote severely wounded, and a general fight expected, and with some difficulty prevented. On Friday, the officer buried, and Captain Parry's English artificers mutinied,under pretence that their lives were in danger, and are for quitting the country—they may. On Saturday we had the smartest shock of an earthquake which I re member (and I hare felt thirty, slight or smart, at different periods; they are common in the Mediterranean), and the whole army discharged their arms, upon the same principle that savages beat drums, or howl, during an eclipse of the moon ' • it was a rare scene altogether. If you had but seen the English Johnnies, who had never been out of a Cockney workshop before, nor will main they can help it! And on Sunday we heard that the Vizier is come down to Larissa with one hundred and odd thousand men. " In coming here khad two escapes, from the Turks, lone of my vessels was taken, but afterwards released), and the other from shipwreck; we drove twice on the rocks near the Scrophes (Islands near the coast). " I have obtained from the Greeks the release of eight-and ' twenty Turkish prisoners, men, women, and children, and sent them to Patras and Pevesa at my own charges. One little girl of nine years old, who proposes remaining with me, I shall (if I live) send with her mother, probably, to Italy, or to England, and adopt her. Her name is Mato liatagee she is a very pretty lively child. All her brothers were killed by the Greeks, and she herself and her mother were spared by special favour,and owing to her ex• treme youth, she being then but five or six years old. "My health is rather better, and I can ride about again. My office here is no sinecure—so many parties and difficulties of every kind; but I will do what I can. Prince Mavrocordato is an ex cellent person, and does all in his power; but his situation is per plexing oxutrue ill e i a t i lv o e we h v a e v r e , g mo rea r t e h Ly e p s u i b n li t c he n ew successs from of m " B plenty contest. e e xing of n 1 i quarters,for I have little time to write. one, Yours, Ire. " N. B." " To John Murray, Fig." LETTER OF LORD BYRON'S VALIT. " Messolonghi, April 21, 1824. " Sir, —Forgive me far this intrusion which I am now under the painful necessity of writing to you, to inform you of the melancholy news of myl Lord Byron, who is no more. He de parted this miserable We on the 19th of April, after an illness of only ten days. His Lordship began by a nervous fever, and terminated with an inilanimation on the brain, for want of being bled in time, which his Lordship refused till it was too late. I have sent the Honourable Mrs. Leigh's letter enclosed in your's, which I think would be better for you to open and explain to Mrs. Leigh, for I fear the contents of the letter will be too much .for her. And you will please to inform Lady Byron and the Honourable Miss Byron, whom I am wished to see when I return with my Lord's directs, and his dear and Noble remains ; Sir, y ,you will please manage, in the mildest way possible, or I am much afraid of the consequences. Sir, you will please give my duty to Lady Byron. Hoping she will allow me to see her, by my Lord's particular wish, and Miss Byron likewise. Please to excuse all defects, for I scarcely either know what I say or do, for after twenty years service with my Lard, he was more to me than a father, and I am too much distressed to now give a correct account of every par ticular, which I hope to do at my arrival in England. ir, you will likewise have the goodness toforward the letter to the Hon. Capt. George Byron, who, us the representative of the family and title, I thought it my duty to send him a line. But you, Sir, will please to explain to him all the particulars , as 1 have not ime, as the express t isnowreamydoli weltl ricotinoulanr; convinced :jio h csae i tr s doo r yb , b o oely obedient i g ewe n me e its, and to e n x i e g e h u t te ti a ll ii he m a y rr w iv i, es he i s n , London. I must, Sir,:plrary remain, m n a g i f n o ,rgst Sir, and hoping at the , ame ill very humble Servant, " W. FLETCHER. w tim hi e ch th l a a t " Valet to the late L. B. for twenty years. been(l 7 f fo r give rtla houses, ulh i en n A yo i s b i eint rie. remember lesm.dnilitgnetelo t yit he tr. odien : a i l u vio a oe n nf tity of times I taus rt P. 5, I mention my name and capacity that you may remember " To John Murray, Esq." If so rp N cree ck s Ti iid O t ti t esi l l i a e et r tn l i e loe t t t sy e e r p s ar f or r e r sicueti to i s bt t ei r el a en t esaltidmnd same h dt e .en p ol res rhal e tn n idt t ease, what has been demonstrated in many others, that desultory, ex-parte conversations, even if accurately reported, will often convey imperfect and erroneous notions of the speaker's real sen timents. JOHN MURRAY. Albemarle-street, Oct. 30, MI. P. S. CAPT. MEDWIN. Page 170. "My differences with Murray are not over. When he pur. chased Cain,' ' The Two Foscare and Sardanapalus,' he sent me a deed, which you may remember witnessing. Well ; after its return to England, it was discovered that it contained a clause which had been introduced without my knowledge, clause by which I b o u n d myse lf t o e'er Mr. M urra y alt my future i compo sitions. But I shall take no notice of it." NOTE.—The words of Italic are those which were suppressed in the two first editions of Captain Medwin's book, and which Mr. Murray has received from the publisher after the foregoing statement was . printed. He has only to observe upon the subject, that, on referring to the Deed in question, no such clause is to be found ; that this instrument was signed in London by the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, as Lord Byron's procurator, and witnessed by Richard Willi ams , Esq., one of the partners in' Mr. Kinnaird's banking•house ; and that ie signature of Captain Medwin is not affixed. 2nd Nor. J. M. TIIE LOGAN, oft ROCKING-STONE.—(EXIMCI from a letter, dated Penzance, Nov. 2.)—This afternoon, about five o'clock, Lieutenant Goldsmith succeeded in replacing the Logan Stone in its ancient position, from which he had wantonly thurst it. He began to move the rock last Thursday, and continued his efforts daily (except on Sunday) till this evening. Thousands of perms as. sembled to see the attempt to replace the rock, and every vehicle in the neighbourhood has been from Thursday to this clay in a state of requsitlon. The stone now moves or rocks as before, with the appli cation of the usual force. It is but justice to Lieutenant Goldsmith to say, that he evinced the greatest care and intrepidity in this dif ficult and dangerous undertaking, though nothing can excuse his first act—the attempt to destroy so interesting . a natural curiosity. Ills success now will be hailed by every person to this neighbourhood, as those who most lamented the removal of the rock despaired of its being replaced. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Masonic Article from Chesterfield shall appear on Thum day next, the day that we particularly assign for Masonic subjects. --40— PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ORE O'CLOCK. Bask Stock 3 per Cent. lied 9siiin New Ditto ................ .. 3 per Cent. C0n5....94 96 Obi Ex. Bills 10001. id. ...... 53 34 per Cent Ditto li d....... 51 ' 6 Ditto Iked. lBlli4 Ditto 5001. d....... •"' toer cent f Dissd. -.J. Ditto ......14d. ...... • ' New 108 74 8 Ditto Small ....d• ...... ---* B i clank Long Ann. 23 1-IGth Ditto 1 4d....... —-- Imp. 3 per Cents. Ditto Commercial .......... -- India Stock 9 904 Bank for Act. ............... -• Ditto Bond 4 99s. 100 s. India for Acct. .......... ... -- South Sea Stock Cons. for Account ......... -- PRICES OF FOREIGN Fl Austrian Bds, 5 per et. 93 Brazilian NOS, AT ONE o'CLocg. 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Deb. with (iov. .. . -- , -- 1 Pipe Water I)cb. 5 per ct Do. ........... 6 per cent. Ballast. Office Govt. Sec. 4 per ce nt. ............... { Bill s , 21 days, 7; s.l3ank Notes, 7 FOREIGN MAIt.AS. RRIVW. Dull. 1 0 Guernsey and Jersey Gottenburgh Hamburgh - Holland France .. Flanders - HIGH WATER AT LON noN BRUME TO-hlO 51"ning, 13 Ininutes after ! Evening. 310ii___,34" THE ti UN. SOLEM QUI3 DICERS FA LSUM .411104 rfi LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. ' Frankfort Papers to the Ist instant have 'aII rived this morning. The y do no t coytain intelligence of political importance. We extrac t the following articles :-- BraLim, OCT. 2.s.—According to the testimony of thc State Gazette, the behaviour of the stu dents in the last yearbot half u been excellent. No one has been expelled, nor has the confilbol aleundi been given to any under circumstances of aggra l*i , °ll : There has also been no suspicion of a secret association. ..": 7 9 s .o I i Jurisprudence, awc ic , c OCT. I 5 5 number of students increases coniderably, so that in the 1 0 ' rence. year The n G 9 ran were dD m Duke his daughter the Pri ncess 4 align .I. 16th At r l ° ' t the country seat of Cafsggiolo. The Y ell rs intended t ° the 20th for Carlaruhe . august tray l i. f N o . proceed on their • journe y to Madrid at us. vember. tvil iso le tr ,ait iL ni n Adod l phm a ir t di ed eisnlofice , ao: o , famanorrwdihvw.;:ptiof itumossoefeeotap.tthissioyroloiinylginoity:i of SWITZERLAND, OCT. 22. His Highness Prince ~ • I . sod ye t eat 0P Brunswick arrived at Lausanne on the 171 11, The Government of Soleure has addressed a the other Cantons, to acquaint them that the Convention, or, which certain innovations were made in the tariff' °f iiii ., r tiie C duties, was abolished on the Ist of Ibis month' This ~,t 01 Heavy Convention, commonly called 44 t he Cdocor; tto sa which was intended to retaliate n Frane e o l i. „ l duties imposed on Swiss produce, but which has V 1 foundv*- to answer the end proposed. Ak citf on Ross, 6.—Lord Harrowby arrive,' in 13th. OCT. • et l'O re The Mario di Romania states that, acco rd ing to s lett . 4 v oft the Consulate at Aleppo of 18th August, the Persisn 0 1 ! to taken Ti. Sulimanica, the residence of the Pacha of COP b. Ti news has been already received by other ckanne loco, The Pope enjoys very good health. The journey w oes n ot Holiness intended to take to accelerate his recovetY . . 0 the seem necessary, and his Holiness is wholly devoted:power affairs of Government. Some of the Ministers hav e le : 110 4 of circular I.etterbt; to aid the Pope in supporting this burthkn. Tiw re secte tsri two of the Chief Officers of State is spoken ors the co jinsl. Hisan(l C ounth i sstr e ngth Palatine, of State and the Cardinal High Chamberlain. V jo yea' it is true who fills the first office, is far advance VIENNA, OCT. 23.—0 n the Bth of this M onth , a ot a t bly of the States of Bohemia, convoked for this Y eer ' o f Ole Pague with the usual solemnities, under the d irect , s ., b : t eiro l l: gdow rat J..- ncip o co Majesty had appointed Baron Herman de Wise r Commissioner.- Papers, Oct' 3°4 Count not unt egFruaanlcitas Ahnistoleayl and abilities. le mieo. It has been stated the NAND, the N French ID)ti,hgeointct erdo order Gl pn o r Gove rnment n q m u i e e i t i t t h t e o 1 1 i p i i r i ° Li p s o o s f e h r .s F r : P I end likely o that it is ri 0, 09 0 0 : le: we e.. pi, ic:d n a r m n e assacres that now lg tates of revenge, a nd the CO cri nit ß l eaiy u esit ig o ttell:,ll:::btayadt and all enstfahvoooudr, otfhabtishnernstibieorulcdtt.:ooo:l, n worse than FERDINAND. The WretChed ''' °l fo ra lamentably lent of FEnunsrAND can, indeed, loon/ b e goo administered, but still, as t r y , cessor proposed has by no means a ore 18 oil; t t o l c l the dally A I td continue, t a o i l s y n i a 0: whilet 4 as a s t br e t , c ( i iii rri ,ine er P i ii r 5 : : ioo ri 0: :i 14 able character than the present des pots pa rumour °Wore, confidence can be placed in the . to. Another report, of a more probable n 5 it t is that the ALLIED Powcas are disposed t 5 ,1 to erfere between Turkey and the Greeks , ° o r Bested that in such a case the afford protection to the latter. It has be en o ia pr otecifoo w° Di be s uc h as that of Naples and or SP°l°9