The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-11 00:00:00

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eessomorester. She asked me to try and
discover this rare aria Sr her. I knew exactly such a COTI
In Nottinchainehlre, who wee at the same titre thoroughly
honourable, ti mita orthy, and fond of teaching At I.er
earnest request. I prevailed on him to give up his then
comfortable position and accept her Off.m. For a time he wan
everything in her nice that a man and a schoolmaster could
he. 9 e was continually sneaking of him when we
met in the most cordial terms. But in the comae,
as I remember, of two or three years, the poor fellow
wrote to nie in the utmost distress, saying that
Lady Byron, without the slightest intiniation et being b.
any win dissatisfied with hi or with his management of
m,
the school had elven him to to quit He had entreated
her to let him know what was the cause of this sudden dis-
missal. She refused to give any, and he entreated me to write
to her and endeavour to remove her displeasure. or ter as-
certain Its cause I felt, from what I had seem .1f Laity
Byron before, that It was useless. I wrote to him, •. lt,•mom-
tor Lord Byron ! If L.My Byron hos taken into her head
that you shsll go, tithing will tore Brr- Go Yon must, an,
you had bettor prepare for it." And the poor lellow, with •
ramify of about fire shildren, and his old situation filled up
tuned out into the wo Id to comparative ruin.
Mr. Howitt asks his readera to apply these facts to Lady
Pyron'a separation from her husband, and to her stneequent
C toduct. He comments stronaly on the ii, stru.ttion of Lord
Bvron's panes in vindication of Women, • 01 argues that
after that Luly Byron had uo right whatever to say airy.
thing against his memory.

Lnrd Lind ay sends to The Time, an extract from
the vrivate amily metnoirs id the late Lady Anne
Barnard, auth.n rat if " Auld Robin Gray," who bad
known Miss MiHunks (row intauvy, and maintained
the most intimate and confi elitist relaidno
her after she became Lady Byron. Lady Anne's
affectionate regard fdr the latter was accompanied with
a vroporthinate antipathy to the poet. Lord IA dsay's
theory, therefore. is that these memoirs present tie
case against Lord Byron in its blackest form, and that
the absence of any anus' to the dre.,dful intrigue
spoken of by Mrs. Stowe must h, regarded as strong
evidence of its non-existence. It must be remelt,
bered, however, that Lady Byron did not inform her
father and mother of certain particulars which she
disclosed to Dr. Luehmgton' and which led him to
declare the inustsitibility of her ever returning to her
husband, and it is scarcely probable that she would be
more confidential with Lady Anne Barnard than with
her own parents. The following, in a somewhat
abridged form, is Lady Anne's narrative, which, it
will be observed, with the exceptions we have men.
timed. coincides with Mrs. Stowe'e description of
Ryeron's behaviour :
I heard of Lady Byron'. distress [this wag when she re-
turned to her father's a-ter the birth of Ada): of the p tilts
he took to give a harsh imprcastott or nor character to Ito-
world I wrote to her end entte dad her to come ah
let m• are and hear her, if she conceived my synipatht
or co,unei could be any conifort to her. She came
hut what a tale was unfolded by this Inters, ting young
creature who had so loudly hoped to have made it
young icon of Janina and rOnitince (as ahe suenosed
happy ! They Lad not been au hour in the carriage ,
which to riled them fr m the church wino., breaking !
Into a malignant sneer, "On! what a dupe you hive been to
sour imagination ! flow is it palatine a woman ot your I
smile could firm the Wild hope of ref...ming me_ Maur
are the tears you will have to shed ere that plan is &mom I
plished, IL is enough for me that you are my wife for me to
hate you if you were the wife of te.y other maul own you
might hate charms," di, i who listened, was simonishmi.
"line could )ongo on alter this," said I, " sly cit,r? Why
did you not return to your father's?" " Bre ,use I had not
a conception he was in earnest; because I reckoned it a bad
jest, . id told him so—that my op,nions of him were very
different from his of Intusel/ ; other else he would not tin,
toe by his elite Ile laughed it ever when he saw me appear
hurt. anti I forgot what had passed till forced to remsmber
it I believe he was pleased with we, too, for a little while
I suppote it had escaped his memory that I was his "
But she described the happiness they rtij.)ett to have beet,
lin. qua and perturbed tier "Amato. In a shirt
time might have entlthd her to some timdenn iss,
she made r 0 claim on him for any lie
reproached her for the motives that had Induce" her
to marry hitn—all less •• vanity," the vanity of Men
Milhanke caroling the point of is orrning Lard Byron ! lit
al or .yn knew her ii,duinements: her pride slat ner eyes to
his; he wished to build up los character end bin fortunes;
notn were somewhat deranged ; she hail a high name and
would have fortune worth his Wiention,—let her look 5.
that for his nmtivest" Byron, ny/ ho," she said,
'• how you desolate me !'" He would then ',cruse himself or
being road. aunt throw himself OTI the 001111.1 in a frees..
which she believed was affected to conceal the cold
liens and Malignity of he nowt—an off .c.avon winch a,
that time never I wled te meet with the tenders'
coo.mi•eration. I moild dud ha Some iniplic Alone Wi,
tollimed itchy rrie Imtatie mt.ht have el. oem,,,dti, sa.if atm-.
wards for her involuutary ..1-cimures, that he Soon ,e tempted .
to 'Orr upt her prancitles both with respect to her oWlic 1111 l
it'd tier latitude for hie. She saw true precloied on which
she &tinsel, and kept her sister with her os much as Isslidnc
lir returned In the eveoings from the Mounts of vice, whet.
Item ohs her understand he had been, with mantle." so proill
gate ! "0, the west, h!" said I, •• and had he Tot
of. remorse I" "Sometime* he appeared to have tom.,
one night, coming home from one of hi. lawless parties, he
saw me so collected slid bearing all with
vletermitied calmness, that a lush of relliorw Fier hicd townie
oat r hirer he called himself a ni oister, th.iugh his sister was
present, and threw himself hi agiany at in, feet. 'I
Silt, no, I could not forgive him such Mimi." Ile had I -at
ttie tor Aytonisbeil at the retuin of virtu my teal s
I believe, flowed over hia lace, and I sat i, ' 11,roit, all l-
folgotten ; never, nevsr. shall you hear of it more
lie started up, wild, folding his arms while he looked
al me, hurst into lough or • Whit iii you mean I' I
Oily a phil,isor teal experiment, that'. all.' sdd he; • I
wisned to aseertaill the value of your resolmi 1111 l .'" I need
no.. say more of the of dopil y, except Ore ratio,
were his methods of rendering her wretched, even to the
Met When her lovely hole nint was horn, awl it was laid
snide its moth-r inn the bed, and he was informcd "he
might si e his lisuahter," after gazing at it it ith at, vaitltli,
so, to, this was lb- 1-lAOIIOIOII that broke from hun. " On •
hut alt i•nplemmit of tortui• hare I ace in en] ii, y
Mien he rehttereil it hy his eyes and manlier. Seeping her in a
perpetual alarm fur its safely whet. in lits presence.
I ady Anne appends a letter frdm Luiv Byron
written 110011 after the publicathri it " Chinle Harold,"
in which she spedks mt her husbatto'si "acted insaMty.•'
egotism, and mdrtild bet, cd sensation. Di one e
ii-
nei cc, not without Ha ance, she untie it wee-
hi Lime she °duel .ereti bets-If si,ll Byrousa fnietiul the'
'she silenceti accusatiotie by which her own coutlnc..
might have been more fully justified."