The National Register.
London, England, 1816-11-25 00:00:00

VEMBER 211."

LORD BY RON,

AND HIS CONTINUATION OF CHILDE HAROLD,

There 4 a degree of interest attached to this extra.
ordinary young Nobleman which makes his proceed-
ings matter of curiosity to the public. We apprehend
few works were ever sought after with a more eager
expectation than the additional Canto to Char Harold,
which his Lordship has just sent forth. Lord Byron

is an original in his genius, his character, and his
tastes ; and the great charm of his Poems is that they
detail these with accuracy. He lets us into the secret
of his own feelings—and this is enough to make his
works interesting, because his feelings are of no ordi-
narykin I. Our readers are well acquainted with the
unhappy circumstances under which he quitted Eng-
land in the early part of the summer. The present
Poem is not very descriptive or, very narrative, but still
it furnishes some lights as to his proceedings since that
time. He took his course by Brussels and Waterloo

(the last of which gives birth to some noble stanzas in

his Poem) to the Rhine, and following its course, and
visiting the striking scenes on its banks, he arrived at
Lausanne ; and has remained, we believe, to the pre-
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sent time occupied in exploring the beauties of the Lake
and the grandeur of the adjacent scenery. He tells us
he made a voyage round the Lake in July, visiting
Vcvai, Metllerie, Chilton, and all the spots which to a
mind like his are consecrated by the descriptions of
Rousseau ; and ha mentions with pleasure the coinci-
dent.* of having made precisely the same promenade tur
tear, which' Rousseau makes St. Preux and Madame
de Wolmar take to gain the shore in a storm. He
laments the havook which monkish avarice and Buona-
parte's ambition have made in several of the scenes of
the Ilekise—the Prior of St. Bernard has cut down
Julie's bosquet—and Buonaparte has run a most anti-
romantic turnpike road along the top of the Rocks of
Meillerie. Lord Byron says he cannot agree with a
remark he heard made, that " (a route void mice: que
let souvenirs."

The present Canto, we think, surpasses the former
parts in nerve of thought and powerful delineation of
feeling. There is not much description, and what
there is, is of the best sort—not mere landscape paint-
ing and details of the well-known beauties of the scenes
his Lordship has visited, but the description of the ope-
rations of these scenes on the sensibilities and senti-
ments of the Poet. We give a short extract from his
Lordship's reflections on the field of Waterloo, in which
he pays a tribute to the memory of his relative Major
Howard, the son of Lord Carlisle, the guardian of Lord
Byron, and one of the objects of his satyre in the
English Bards and Scotch Revie:vers. The stanzas are
replete wick twenty and feeling.
There hay,: jeen tears and breaking hearts for thee;
And mine itAre nothing, had I such to give :
But when filitood beneath the fresh green tree,
Which living waves, where that' iliAst cease to live,
And saw around me the wide field revive,
With fruits and fertile promise, and the dpring
Come forth, her work of gladness to contrive,
With all her reekless birds upon the wing,
I tnrn'd from all she brought to those she could not bring.
I We'd to.thee, to thousands; of whom each,
And one as all, a ghastly gap did make,
In his own kind and kindred; whom to teach
Forgetfulness wete mercy for their sake.
The Art hangers trump! not Glory's— mist awake
Those whom they thirst for—though the sound of fame
May for a moment soothe. it cannot s ski
The fever of vain longing; and the name
8o honour'd bet assumes a stronger bitterer claim.
They mourn, lint smile at length, and smiling mourn—
The tree will wither long before it fall—
The hull drives oil, thongs mist awl sail be tom—
The rooftree sinks, but inoulders on the hall
In massy hoariness—the ruin'd wall
Stands, when it's wind-w urn wittiements are gone—
The bars survive the captive they enthral--
The day drags on, though !norms keep mat the sun,
And thus the heart will break, awl brokenly live on.
Next week we may, probably, give a few morc
stanzas.

COURT MARTIAL.-...At a General Court Martial held
at Cambray, in France, on the 231 September 1816,
and continued by adjournments to the 26th of the same
month, I...ieutenant the Hon. Augustus Stanhope, of
the 12th Regiment of Light Dragoons, was arraigned
for having, with another person, engaged Lord Beau-
champ, a youth of sixteen years of age, to play at a
• rime of chance, at which Lieutenant Stanhope won
80001. of Lord B. and the other person 70001. for
which sums Lieut. Stanhope and his comrade male
Lord Beauchamp give promissory notes payable in three
years. Lietiten Int S. was filund guilty, and most tle-
erve3ly sentenced to be discharged from his Majesty's
service, and the Prince Regent has comarmed the sen-
tence. Lord Beauchamp is the son of Lord Yarmouth,
by his wits furnicrly Madam Faguiani.