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FIIO3I LLOYD'S LIST.

PLTMOVTR, SPPT. :la—Arrived the Madeira packet, Wit-
Hams. from London, with lser rudder damaged.
COWL, SE rr 23.—Arrived the Governor Brooks, Bishop, from
.1/xviinnali, in 47 days ; and the Resolution, Dyer, from Alexandria,
lit 22 days.
Poursuotror. SEPT L'9.—Arrived his kfajesty's ship Al.
kerine, Iron the Mediterranean I his Majesty** slfp Thetis, lion
the Gout of Africa; Mary, Al•Clure ; and Alexander. hymen,
them Jamaica; Lstona. Patterson, (rout Riga (:eats.
Inure the Downs, tor Africa, with loss of foretop-mass—Sai.• d N:4
:‘..aje,:y's ship Blonde, herd Hymn, with the remains yf the late
King and Queen of the ;sandwich Islands, for Roo Janet!» and the
Sandwich Islands ; also his 31ajesity's ship Niemen, to the West-
ward. Passed by, the Asia, stead, for Curk and New South
Wales, with whitely.
Dort', Siter. 210.—The new Dry Dock is now ia a intfectly
fit state to receive shipping.
DEAL, Steer. 29.—Attived and sailed for the river, the Faith,
Forster, from Honduras; Catherine, Younger' from the Smith
.6tais and St. Helena; Fanny, Taylor, from Gibraltar; and Essex,
Appleton, from Quebec; also arrived, the Jooepli, Veda, hoes..
Petersburilt. for Liverpool.
OE•VESENII, SEPT. 29.—Arrived the Oporto, Cover, from
Oporto; and Llnyd,, Antrim. from Honduras—Sailed the St.
Domingo, Eves, for St. Domingo 1 and Flora, Christie, for Sr.
stile.

eallTr•Or NA Dt COLONtIIA. Attu. I.—The Afriseine, Jot.
lan. Jailed front hence un the 4.71 h tilt. for Havre, and raturord the
34hh, having struck on the salntadina Shoats off this harbour, and
hint her rudder and false keel.. A heavy gale prevailed along mut
coast front the 15th to the 13th ult.

The Sans Sour 4, from ( ette to Rouen, was driven on shore, 23,1
ult raw Almcire.

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The Ain.e-, Bucket, from Bayonne to Auray, is totally kg ;
pan of the cargo eapeoeed to be mired.
The Alexander, Ilarrison,arrivrd at Portsmouth from Jamaica;
sailed Ist ultimo, in company with the Melpomene, Canadian,
and Marquis of Anglesey; parted wilt the two latter on the
Ilkh ult., and from the. Melpomene and tt,e Isabella, Simpson.
• n the trwl ult., through the Cul?. • Spoke the Bristol, liarvey, of
Bristol, oa she %Lit ult. of Cape Fl olds. the Lady llawkessionh,
;ruin llondurr, on the 22d in%tant, in I:tt. 4. long. dd., and thr
Golden Spring, fio n Jama.ra, 16th imaant, in lat. dtL long. 21.
VESSELS SPOKEN IrlTll,—Nona 6cnti.t, LiVell.o(.l, N.S. for
Trinidad, 28th Aug.; OM. Thalia, London, for fla!ifait, ;
and 12th, George, -Liverpool, for llirainiehi, by the LIME, arrii,e I
at Liverpool. Clarendon, Jamaica, fur Liverpool, 10th Aug. off
Cope Antonio; and Bth ult., Experiment. Clyde. for ilititeburto,
by the Agnes, arrived at Liverpool. William, Liverpool, for St.
Juba's, Neer Brunswick, ult., George Canning. of Whitby.
fur Aliramichi ; and Princess Elizabeth pukes Falmouth, tut
New York, by thi arrived at Liverpool. 'Der's, from Li-
verpool, 21th Aug. all well, by the Argent. Gibson, arrived at
IlulL l'rinee of Mexico, for Itavannaii, on 22t1 .lug. in the Gulf
of Florida, and waliin twelve hours sail of her port ; Sept I Ith.
brig Harmony, of Newcastle, Limerick, for :Bina-nicht ; 11th,
Cy e, of Scarborough, in a heavy gale of wind; and on 2L.h.
brig Fortitude lnereited, by the Faith, ranter, arrived in the
]town.

HULL
HCLt, SEPT. !S.
Arrived the Armetiong, Cook ; litargnretha Cherlorta, Nielson ;
zr„d Orion, rumble; from Wyburg; Clisabeth and Stash. Pe-
tersen; hell, Euens; Catharine, A tiOnstp.; and Rebecca, Hart,
from Petershurgh; Formby, Wt'c. and tame, Strafford, frerne
Archangel; Enegkeit, Nieman; John, „Campbell; 31aria,
Ifaty-
lop; Rmshopßlaize, Draper; Chance, Nicholson; Stade Aliona,
Maack; (food Design. 1. rer ; Ebenezer, Bible; Stamforditanz,
Wharton; (Jure HofFnung, Haase; Mathilda, Hoop; %Finish's,
White; Guard, Adam ; Vintage, Frame; Gough, Cu/mince; Al-
tingvel, Worms; Rochdale, Scarborough, from Harnburph ;
Vruuw, Knelsina. de Jorge, from front Sondersberg ; Anna bli-
tArth, Berg, from Seidwestborn ; ;rally, Brown ; Friends, Haslet ;
and Hermes, Roxby, from Nana; Content, Lowry ; Hopewell,
Chapman; Ann, Morrison; M'elt.m, Reimers; Unanimity, Mu..
day; Uairm,titewarki and Ann, Charlton, from Riga; Voila-
tiegung, Zahe, from. Lubeck; Cinisaiana Christie, Tennis, and
,)urge Arne' Citherina.,. Petersen, horn Altos e; Brtry
fimn Flensherg; Thornton, Prigliam, from Pernau ;
[huh ; Walker, %Fright; l'auT, Maass; Diana, Kasten; Spe-
culation, Schultz; Nepttinus, ; Catharine' Christina,
Christire; St. Elias, hasten; flora, Jackininn ; and Gate Hon'.
unng, Badman, front Memel; Fire Sodsketide, Bubo, and Brig.
heden, Horraltlsen, from Dram; Gry Reventlaw,_ Lunen, trim
Kragcroe; Norge, Croger, from Holmstrand Frau Elizabeth,
/Lambert, from ltrunshull ; Margarita Detaches, Hinter., from
Chtetndore ; Frau Margarita, Lowsa, from 011ehburg ;
Fenwick, from Stockholm ; Bethel, Hall; (Rthatine, Stege ;
Aquatic. Cruddin t and 1./ellight, 'Willingham, From Hotter:lam ;
Twee Gebrodent, Monier; and Vruuw Jong:, from,
Amsterdam; %Fillielmina, Jounhagen, from Uetersen ; a ocirra,
.Tiegs. from ()Amex; Fairfield, ; and Albion. Ce.:11;,
from Queve ; Frau Christina, KR ae-, farm Leer; Frau hi u.,:w-
retfia,loakring, trot,, Brake; Vier Genruders, Campers, front Pry-
burg; Heffnung, Ahrens, from 'Wismar; Jupge Tobias', 1.11 b!.
from Lus:cr Siel ; Freunesehaft. Jurgenc. faun Carolinen Sid;
HtifFnung, Schaade. from Beak Ski ; Laura, Weatergren, from
(tete ; Kragetoe, Known, from liragerui; Catharina Mari r,
Frelluichsen; and .lunge Elizabeth, Rohn, from Cepenher:on ;
flute floffnung, Ballots; and Mercurius, Dirk, (min Bremen;
Zany lichruiler, }lrk, from Altenbroch; Frau El:gib:lli, Sebes
',tibial, from Munn" ; Chino, I'anderford, frcat Phiholelf33;
.lames anti Ann. Lough, from Dunkirk; Argo, Martin, from
Oporto ; unge Johanne. (Amami, hum Hook Ziel; Enigheden,
Boys; sad Johanna „Maria, Anderson, flan Assent; Jarnbiner,
Dogger, front Freahrirca ; Jorge Heinrich* Fess, from R'gre
Maru„ Orris, from hamburg; Genriette, Kuhn, tram Mining;
Sovereign, 11111.1, from (!.laic; Regent, Gibson, front Arch-
angel; Chase, Thompson; Sll.llOl Gee, Clark; Milo, Old, from
Petershurgli Glenduw, Taylor- from Quebec.
FOIE10:1 S•ILTD.—The Margaret, Clark; and Kingston,
Hardy, fbr Wyburg; !louden*, Ortken. for Hook Sid; Neva,
I Donaldson ; Exmouth, Munroe; and Ebor, Denim's. for Peters-
burgh ; St. Lucas, Giorke, for Stralsund* Minna, Curtis; and
! Mary, Durant, fur Riga; Thetford, Rickaby, for Rottordam ;
Telemachus, 'Wright; and George Thrift, tier Memel; Britannia,
(Rumen ; and (/sway, Garbutt. for P,llau ; Vrow Ahda, Jonker,
foe Amsterdam; Vyt lichroeders, Roelfsems, for Antwup;
George, Bondi ; and Christian, Henderson, fur Hamburgh ;
Hercules, Becker, for Elsar.cur ; Petrus, Dull, for 'l'orurberg ;
)lenriette, Kraemer, for Dantrie ; Fanny Vosse, li!stcr, her
Oporto; Brothers. Potts, for 'Go Janeiro; Hope, Fair and
Brunswick. Aries, her andiurei!lopel, Winsten, for tile:burgh ;
Abram, Jackson; and LTC' Ash, for Peteraburgh ; Iran
Gartman, Tionnerninrin, fur apenburgh ; Fowicr, -Bird, for
Memel ; Concordia, (Men, for Odle; Eagle, Brewia, far Peters-
burg),; Radar' and Ann, Newham, for Stockholm; Vier Ge-
broeder, Prins, for Amsterdam ; Helen, Wlison, for Hamburg!' ;
Rubrics, Anderson, fur Ruterilam ; and Tha-p Arnold, Hint,
for Elaine:o.

MEETINGS OF CRIWITORS
AT TEI IBASINGILILL-TZEZT,

70-LOtiOR.

Twat) NEElixas.
Barlow, U. Claremmt.ptace:, Neer-rosJ, bill-broter .

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Curter, J. 11owning.streat, 11'esttuirstir, victualler
Duncombe, .1. jun. Little Queen-street, Holborn, hoc ha 'ler
/11atiley, I). southsropton.row, Ituisell-Attsre, wine-nterthoust 13
Pennau, A. ltstann.street, Lituehou.e, noi.ler.mariner - II
. . le
lk. S. stationer - • me

SrIOND MEFTINGI.
Barron. 1.. Stratton-round, Westmittter, linen.draper . 19
llouldca, R. Lensington, coal-merehant . . • . 1.
liewect, J. Mitcham, Surrey, butcher -
11)de, N. Nassau-street, Soho, jeweller - 10
klardull, W. Water-lane, Tower-street, brandy-nnrclutr.t . 11/
Woonett, J. Quceses Ilead-low, Southwaik, Sur.ey, tav-rt-
ke. per . 11

TIOST MEETINAI.
Admit, 1.. Darard.atreet, Soho. piethre4ealer - •iJ
South, JAL North Audles-street. Grosrenor-squsr . :,:to:ittrrr to
Wren, J. Won Titchfiela, Portland.nlace, C - Id
DIVIDENDS.
Alfre7, W. Cloak-lane, lkorgate-Lill, arehoutcman - . le
Alaxnelti, T. Salisbury, linen-alrapee •
Parsons, It. Swanks, Glamorgan, aron•rnastee

Quteg Pa saoz.—lre ate informed by a G. ntleunut
who vu a passenger, that the Hibernia at...on-packet.
Captain Price, 400 tons bnrtlten, 140-horsz power. on di.
Bristol atul Dublin station, left Kingstown on Satmday
last, ■t half-past nine A.M.. anal arrived at Bristol the fol-
lowing morning, at a quarter before eight, thus performing
a distance of 240 miles in twenty-threetwurs and a quarter.
although the latter part of the voyage was effected by the
effect of steam oulv.

Bataan and C.O. ire the Contractors foe the present
popular Lotterv. The Scheme, to be drawn next Tuesday,
contains Four Prises of Twenty Thousand, and thirty-four
other Capitals, all to be dui/in CM that day, when the ins-
Inc suns of 200,000/. wilt be distributed to the puhhe in
a frit hours: there arc no Blanks, every nunslrr brim, cu-
.,
titled to Flee I'oauds. Ila?ard and Co. sold Thrt., Te easy
Thousands last Lottery. and all Three in Sliares. at their
old-established offices, Royal Exchange Gate;
hill ; and 324, Oxford-street, end of Regent -s
and Co. hare agents in all the principal couni

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exert. Hutrd
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PIRs'ONAL CHARACTER OF LORD BYIRON•

Lord ilyton's addreriVen the most affable and courteous
p. 01114 ever seen ; his manners, when in a good humour,
stet divining of being well with his puest, were winning—
fascinating in the extreme, and tbOugh bland, still spirited,
and with an sir of frankness and generoaity—qualities in
svpich he certainly was not deficient. lie wait open to a
elinractcristie probably the remit of his fearlessness
and indepenikrice ul the world ; but so open was lie, that
his friernts were obliged to lire upon their gum! with
lie was die Melt person in the world to confide a secret
to; anti if any charge against anybody was mentioned to
him, it was probably the first communication lie made to
the person in question. lie hated scandal and tittle-tattle
—levet! the manly straightforward COUTLe ; he would har-
bour no doubts, and never live with another with suppl-
e:on. in his bosoili--out came the accusation, and lie called
open the individual to stand clear, or be ashamed of him-
self. lie detested a lie—nothing enra7;xl him so much as
he; he was by temperament and education excessively in i-
table, and ft lie completely unchained him—his indignation
knew. no bounds. lie had considerable tact in ileteethe;
untruth, lie world smell it Out almost instinctively ; he
avoided the timid driveller, and generally chose his corn-
! anions among the lovra and practiurs of sincerity
and candour. A man tells the false and conceals
the true, leiveure lie is afraid that the declaration of the
411.111 Ne IN it is will hurt him. Lord Byron was above all the
fear of this sort ; he flinched from telling no one what he
bought to his face ; from his infancy he bad been afraid
of no one ; falsehood is not the vice of the powerful ; the
Creek slave lies, the Turkish tyrant is remarkable for his
adherence to truth.

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Lord Byron was irritable (as 1 have said), irritable in
the extreme; and this is another fault of those who have
teen aremmined to the unmurmuring obedience of obse-
quious attendants. If he heti lived at h and held un-
&muted sway over hired servants, led captain', servile
apt/therm it v, and willing county magistrates, probably he
might liner passed through life with an unruffled temper,
01 at least los escapades of temper would never have been
beard of; but he spent his time fn adventure and travel
amongst friends, rivals, and forrignets and doubtless, he
Jiall often reason to find that his curly Whet, unfitted hint
for dealing with men on an equal footing, of Cur submitting
to untoward accidents with patience.
vanity was excessive—unless it may with greater
propriety be called by a softer name—a milder term, and
perhaps a jester, would be, his love of fame. Ile was
vitorlistantly desirous of being the sole object of interest ;
ashetlwr its the circle in %hick he war living, or in the
wider 'Thereof the world, he could bear no rival ; he could
not tolerate thoopetsim who attracted attentim from him-
self; he instantly became alli tt sated with a bitter jealotsy,
and hated. for the every greater or more celebrated
titan than himself : he carried his jealousy up even to Mena-
pute ; and it was the secret of his contempt of IVelling-
ton. It was dangerous for his friends to rise ill the world,
It they valued their own fame snore than Isis friendship—
he hated them.

Before he went to Greece, he imagined that he had
grown very unpopular, and even infamous in England ;
When he left Afiii ray, engaged in the Liherni, which Was
Etrttectssful, published with the Hunts, he fancied, and
dauhtless was told so by some of his aristocratic (rim's,
Vitt he had become late, that the teller English thought
him Quint fashion, and voted him vulgar; and that for the
licentiousness of Den Juan, or for vices either practised or
turpected, the public had morally outlawed him. This
was oat of thedetermining causes which hal him to Grieco,
that he might retrieve himself. lie thought that his
name couplol with the tirrek cause, would sound well at
prone. When he arrived at Cephalonia, and found that he
Was in good odour n ith the Authorities—that the regiment
stationed there, and oilier English rcridents in the island,
rytmrrit him Wi.4l the highest consideration, he was grafi-
fed to a host extiavvant pitch ; he talked of it to
the last with a perseveranee, and in a manner which
showed how anxiimit hie fears had been that he was lust
• silt the English people. • • •
Lord Byron emmot Iv said to have lien perninnlly vain
in any sattioirilinary degrees--that not WWII more than
men usually are. ile knew the power of his countenance,
and he to L care that it should always be displayed to the
gandr,t advantage. ric never failed to appear retsturkatle ;
end no 11l ton, whether from the beauty of the expression
of His features, the magnificent height of his forehead, or
the singularity of his dress, could ever pass him in the
street It ithout feeling that he was passing no common
permit. Lord Byron has been frequently recollected
when his portraits have been shown. " Aimr the spec-
win has exclaimed, on either picture or engraving being
aeon, "I met that liersou in such or such a place, at such
or such a time."

1111 lameneso a slight mal-formation of the foot, did
not in the least impede his activity : it may, perhaps, ac-
count in some 1/11.1111UrC for his passion for riding,
and swimming. lie nearly divided his time between these
three exereiwa : he rode from four weight bannerol day
when he was not engaged in boating or swimming. And
io these exercises, a.) carefld was he of his hands (one of
these little vanities which sometimes beset men) that he
cute glovoi even in swimminr.. . .

He in another practice, which is not coosidervil
Enclaini gente.l—that is to it is not just now a
t.ishion with the ulirct classes in this country—he cl.,L•ed
1,410cr0 to wane client.

At times. too, he was excessively given to drinlinq ; but
this is not 10 In Ilia passage from Chime to
I '..phnlonia he npent the principal part of the time in drink-
-1•::, with the Captain of the vees.d. He eculil bear an int-
ee•tr • quantity of liquor without intesication, and a an by
1: tne.ins particithlr either in the nature or in the Okla of
tlec fink he imbibed. I le was by no means adrinki•r
sin; ly. er, inutile: word*, a drunkard, and could, bidet
h :0 abstentious as any body ; but when his passion blew
• way, he drank, as he did every thing else, hi erects.
Thin was, indeed, thespirit of his life—a round of pen-
indulg •nee, and satiety.
No tvi o uteri wire ever more unlike than Lou Byron
es. till wet Lord Byron in the ordinary state of calm. 1111.
in., ',d. about him used to call it inspiration; and when
of their stamp talk about inspiration, there must
no common change take place. When excited, his mai-
n c•ie woe noble, his ideas grand or beautiful, his language
rit :a end enthusiastic, his views elevated, and all his feel-
er that disinterested and martyr-like cast a Melt marks
the great mind. IV heti in the usual dull tuned which
ever, body wearies their friends mile hours out of tell, bra
'leas were gross, his language crane, his sentiments not
eertaie!y • but sat a low and sensual kind; his mood
sneering acd satirical. unless in a very good humour,
which indeed lie often. I may say generally, WAS. This in,
bowevcr, the a tong side of the picture in Lord Byron : he
ihay be soil here to be taken at the worst. Without being
t•ltat 1 have called exeileJ, his conversation was atm very
iie lightfnl, though almost always polluted by grossness-.
yl 'se:es of the very broadest and lowest description, like,
saving again, like almost all his class--
do not live either in the fear of God,
-eic. His grossness, too, had the a+
fertile lancl, and such subjects ws•re the rearq
•••• kind of ezeirement ; the forbidden words,
ies, the concealed actions of our nature.
es of society, stimulated his imagination,
,c loved, and may be said at times to have
!Willy did permit his fancy to feed ou this
• now and then, indeed, even here be
rrl ; but so dirty a pearl, few would be at
ring it for all its price.
ras not ill-tempered ner quarrelsome, but
difficult to Lvt• with: he was capricious,
apt to be offended, and wilful. ii'hen
and he travelled in tireece together, they
mile asunder, and though some of his
him off anal on a long tunic% (Trellis ney,
...as not without serious trials of temper,
affection. He could makes great point often
it and most triduig thing imaginable, and ad-
apose with a pertinacity truly remarkable,
iihiceountable. A love of victory might sonic-
littledisputes and petty triumphs, others
and always unworthy of his great go.
have said, he was only a great genius now
lacitcd wheu out sot Lc 1131 SClLvtitua

little in his conduct, and in hi. writings dull, or totally
destitute of all powers of production. Ile used to boost of
an iniliikrence about his writings which he did not feel,
and would 'mark with pleasure that he never saw them
in print ; and never met with anybody that did not
know nirre about themthanliiinself._

Ile left very little behind him. Of late he had been too
much occupied by the Greeks to write, and, indeed, had
turned his attention very much to action, as has been ob-
served. Dos Juan he certainly intended to continue; and
I believe that the real remora for his holding so many con-
ferences with Dr. Kennedy in Cephalonia was, that he
might master the slang of a religious sect, in order to hit
off the character with time verisimilitude.
ilia religious principles were by no means fixed; habis
tually, like most of his class, he was en unbeliever; at
times, however, he relapsed into Christianity, and, in his
interviews with Dr. Kennedy, maintained the part of a
Unitarian. Like all men whose imaginations are much
stronger than the reasoning power—the guiding and deter-
mining faculty—he was to danger of falling into fanati-
cism, sod some of his friends who knew him well, used to
predict that he would die a Methodist ; a consummation
by no means impossible.
From the same cause—the preponderance of the ima-
gination—there might have been some ground for the fear
which beset his later moments, that he should go mad.
The immediate cause of this fear was, the dealt impression
which the fate of Swift had made upon him. lie read the
life of Swift during the whole of his voyage to tlreece, and
the melancholy termination of the Deans life haunted his
imagination.
Strong, overruling, and irregular as was Lord Byron'a
imagination—a rich vice which inspired him with his
poetry, and which is too surely but the disease of a great
mind—strong as was this imagination—scnaitive and sus-
erptible as it was to all externs! influence, yet Lord By-
run's reasoning faculties were by no means cif a low order;
but they had never been cultivated, and, without cultiva-
tion, whether by spontaneous exertion, or under the guid-
Inlet! of discipline, to expect a man to be a good reasoner,
even on the common aTairs of life, is to expect a crop
where the geed has not been sown, or where the weeds
have been suKred to choke the corn. Lord Byron was
shrewd, formed frequently judicious conclusions, and,
though ho did not reason with any accuracy or certainty,
very ofteu hit upon the right. lie hail occasional glimpser,
and chap ones too, into the nature of the institutions of
society and the foundations of morals, and by his expe-
rience of the passions of men speculated ably upon human
life ; yet withal he was any-thing but logical or scientific.
Uncertain and wavering, he never knew himself whether
lie was tight or wrong, and was always obliged to write
aid feel fur the monwnt on the supposition that his opinion
was the true one. Ile used to declare that he had no fixed
principles ; which means, h. knew nothing scientifically.
In politics, for instance, he was a lover of liberty, from
prejudice,, habit, or some vague notion that it was generous
to be so ; but in whet liberty really consists—how it ope-
retta; for the advantage of mankind—how it is mitt ob-
tained, fecund, regulated, he was as ignorant as a child.
Lord Byron was noted fur a kind of poetical misanthro-
py, but it exigual much more in the imagination of the pub-
lic than in reality. lie was fond of society, very goo&
natured when not irritated, sail, so far from being gloomy,
was, on the contrary, of a cheerful jesting temperament,
and fond of witnessing even low huffionery ; such as set-
ting a couple of vulgar fellows to quaint making them
drunk, or disposing them in any other way to thew their
folly. In his writings he certainly dwelt with pleasure on
a character whirl, had somehow or other laid hold of his
fancy, end consequently undo- this character he has ap-
peared to the public • viz. that of a proud and scornful
being, who pretende:l to be disgusted with his species, be-
cause he himself had been guilty of all sorts of crimes
against society, and who made a point of dividing his time
between cursing and blessing, murdering and saving, rob-
Wog and giving, hating and loving, just as the wind of his
humour blew. This penc4aqt for outlaws and pirates
might naturally enough flow from his own character, and
the els curnstances of his life, without there being the slight-
est resemblance between the poet and the corsair. Ile had
a kind and generous heart, and gloried in a splendid piece
of benevolence ; that in to say, the dearest exercise of power
to hint was in unexpectedly changing the state of another
front mis-ry to happiness,: he sympathised deeply with the
joy lie was the creator of. But he was in great error with
respect to the merit of such actions, and in a greater still
respecting the reward which he thought awaited him. Ile
imagined that he was laying up a great capital at compound
interest. Ile reckoned upon a large return of gratitude
and devotion, and was not content with the instant recom-
pense which charity receives. They who underatand the
prineiples of human action know that it is foolish in a be-
nefactor to look further than the pleasure of' consciousness
and sympathy, and that if he does, he is a creditor, and not
a donor, anifint.st be content to be viewed as creditors are
always viewed by their debtors, with distrust and uneasi-
ness. On this mistake were founded most f his charges
against human nature; but his feelines, true to nature.
and not obeying the false direction of his prejudices and
minims opinions, still made him love his kind with can
ardour which removed hint as far as possible from tnisan-
'loopy. • • • Another cause of Lord Byron's lois-
antlitopical min of writing was his high respect for him-
self. Ile hal a vast reverence for his own person, and all
he did and thought of doing, inculcated into him, as into
other lords, by mothers, governors. grooms. and nursemaids.
When he observed :moth' r man neglecting his wants for
the sake of some petty gratification of his own, it appeared
to him very base in the individual, and a general charge
against all mankind ; he was positively fillr.l with ittiligoa-
tion. Ile locutions somewhere in his works with L coming
scorn, that ens: of his relatives accompanied a female friend
to a milliner's, in preference to corning to take leave of him
when he was going abroad. The fact is, no one ever loved
his fellow-man more than Lord Byron ; he steal in conti-
nual need of his sympathy, his resoect, his affection, his
attentions,. and he was proportionably disgusted and de-
pressed when they were found wanting: this was foolish
enough, but he was not much of a reasoner on these paints :
he was a poet.
When thing. he tlid net know his situation till a very
short time before he fell into the profound lethargy from
which he never awoke ; and after he knew his danger he
could never speak intelligibly, but muttered his indistinct
directions in three language*. Ile seems to have spoken of
his with and his daughter—chiefly of the latter ; to this
child he was very strongly attached, with indeed an intense
mental feeling ; his wife 1 do tint believe he ever cared
much for, and probably lie married her front mercenary
motives.

I shall net attempt any summing up of the desultory ob-
servations which I have thrown towther, in the hope of
superseding the cant and trash that has, and will be said
and sung about the dun teeter of this great man. All that
is necessary to add by way of conclusion, may be con.
doused into a very. few words. Lord Byron was a Lord
of very powerful intellect and strung passions ; these are
almost sufficient dela for a moral geometer to construct
the whole figure ; at leatt, add the following sentence.
and sufficient is given : whether by early romantic ex-
perience, or by a natural t amine sensitiveness to ex-
ternal impressions, it was, of all his intellectual facul-
ties, the imagination which was chiefly developed. Put-
ting diem together, we may conclude, as was the &et, that
he was irritable: capricious, at time* even. childish, wilful.
dissipated, infidel, sensual; with little of that knowlvdt.7o
which is got at school, and much of that acquired after-
wards: he was capable of enthusiasm: and thou:tit in-
tensely selfish. that is, enjoying his own sensatimis. he was
able to make great sacrifloes ; or. in other words, he had a
taste for the higher kinds of selfishness, i.e. the most use-
ful and valuable kinds : he was generous, fearless, open,
veracious, and a cordial lover of meekly and of conviviality ;
he was ardent in his friendships. but inconstant ; and.
however generally fond of his friends, more apt to be
heartily weary of than than purple usually are.
No more epithets need be heaped together : ell that met:
have in general, he had in more than ordinary force ' • some
of the qualities which men rarely have, he possialsed to a
splendid degre.: of perfection.
Such is the personal character of Lord 'Syron, ati I base
beets able to draw it from having had access to peculiar
sources of information, and front being placed in a situa-
tion bast calculated, as I think, to form an impauial
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