The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-11-17 00:00:00

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NEWSTEAD ABBEY.
The following account of this famous seat of
Lord Byron is iukrii from the Kaleidoscope, a small
weekly miscellany published in Liverpool:—
TO THE EDITOR.

Sts—The front of the Abbey is one of the most beautiful
avid clumie specimens of Gothic architecture in the kingdom,
and in the open court before it the only object fur years has
been a Nowak), discharging its waters from an antique
structure of stone, ornamented with a grotesque assemblage
of boar., bears, lions, &c. This, I know, it was in mottos-
pieties by the present proprietor, Major Toildeas*, to re.
move, and I believe it is now done. 'lle Abbey be is re.
storiag in • style of richly classical and appropriate magni.
reset. Having lived several years in the neighboarbood,
the place is familiar to me. The last time I visited it was
soon after it was sold ; sod only two domestics remained to
superiuteed the removal of the furniture.
The eushollishenent* which the Abbey had received from
his Lordship had more of the brilliaut conception of the poet
is them than of the sober calculations- of common life. I
posed through many rooms which he had superbly furnished,
but over which he bad permitted so wretched a roof to re-
main, that in about half • doses years the Faits had visited
his proudest chambers ; the paper had rotted un the walls,
mud fell, in comfortless sheets, upon glowing carpets sad
canopies, upon beds of minium and gold, clogging the wings
of glittering eagles, and destroying gorgeous coronets. From
many rooms the furniture was gone. In the estrance-ball
alone rentaired she psi smogs of his uld friends, the dog and
bear. The long and gloomy gallery, which, whoever views,
will be strongly resuitidril of Lars, as indeed a y of this
place will awaken more than one in that poem, had
not yet relinquished the sombre pierures"of its stockist rare."
In the study, which is •is small chamber overlooking the
garde., the books were packed up, but there remained a
sofa, over which busg a sword in a gilt sheath, and it the end
of the room, opposite the window, stood a pile of light
fancy steads, each supporting • couple of the feast perfect
and finely polished skulls I ever saw; nmollygobably se-
lected, aloag with she far-famed oar cooverklediala • drink-
ing cop, and iastribed with some well-knawn Nam from
aniongrt a vast number taken frost the bwriill.llllod of the
Abbey, mad piled up in the form tan sasusahldllig hot sloes
recommitted to the ground. Between 4ampftlitiwg a,gilt
creed's. •
la one corner of the servants' hall lay 'a iteardlin, is
which were fearing gloves sad fulls; acid on I wall of the
ample trot clitorises- Maws was !misted •in large lettere,
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Daring's great part of his Lardahjp'e minority the. Abbey
was in the uccepation of Lord*G-..—,-hie hounds, auildivcrs

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