The National Register.
London, England, 1816-04-21 00:00:00

• THE NATIONAT. nroisTEn.

While mingling truth with falsehnol--tioeers with sittitive—
A thy' el of candour with a web of wiles:
A ph in blunt show of briefly spoken seeming.
To hide her 11k:oodles,: heart's soul-hanlen'd scheming':
A lip of lies—a feet Sinnott to conceal;
And. w:thout feeling, mock at all who feel :
With a vile mask the Gorton ttouldelisown;
A cheek of parchntent—and an eye of stone.
Mark, how the channels of her yellow blond
Ooze to her skin. and stagnate there to mud,
ra.wd like the centipede in siermil
Or darker greenness of the wrnepion's scale—
I For drawn from reptiles °nit. tray we ewe
Congenial colours in that soul or faet.)-...
Look on her features ! and behold her rMnd
As in a mirror of itself delined :
Look on the picture! deem it not o'crehnrged—
There is no trait which might not be enlarged :
Yet true to •6 Nature's journeymen." AO made
This monster when their mistria. left ea' trade,—
'rhis female dog-star of her little ,ky,
Where all beneath her influence droop or die.
011! wretch without a tear—without a thought.
Save joy above the ruin thou hast wrought—
The time shall (vole, nor loot rewrote, when thou
Shalt feel fir more than thou inftiviest now
Evil for thy vile self-loving self in vain.
And turn thee howling in unpitied pain.
Mty the strong curse amulet! affection, light
Back on thy bosom with reflected blight!
And make thee in thy leprosy of mind
•
As loathsome to thyself as to mankind!
Till all thy self-thoughts curdle into hate,
klack—as thy will Sir others would el str
Till thy hard heart be calcined into dust.
And thy swill welter in its hideous crust.
Oh, may thy grave beale pless as the bed.—
The widow d couch of tire, that thou host spread!
Then, when thou fain woultrst weary !leaven with prayers
Look on Mike earthly vietin.s—and despair!
Down to the Mist as thou nest aware
Even warns shall parish on thy Inc ionic els,.
Rut for the love l bore, and still most bear,
To her thy nialire from all tier would tear—
Thy name—thy Istituto mole—to every eye,
The climax of all sawn should hang nn
Exalted o'er thy less abhorred compeers--
And festering in the infamy or.

The following letter has been addressed ,hv Sir Ralph Neel
(the fathur of Lady Byron I, to the Editor o Moraine chef).
nide, in consequence of 6011Ie observcions respecting Lord and
Ladyli) run, which have apiwart d in that paper:—

" art's Hotel, April IK, ISIS.
" observe with the e wriest dissatisfaction the woe.
MT in which you have inserted in the Months, Croaide of to-
day the contradiction 1 gave you yestardsta to",ic
paragraph ui ymirws.gner papers 1.413 existence
mea conspiracy agaMst /ar.ll &Die! tie peace. I did
not say Cart I km tr. of no consp%iraey against Lord Byron's do-
mestic peace but I told you in the nited decided manner, that
I knew no conspiracy of the kind had ever existed, that the
report was utterly false, and I gave you my word of lion cur
that the step taken by Lady Byron was the result of her own
unbiassed judgment, and that her parents and friends ints r-
fered only when called upon by her to aeon' her their support.
In the necessity of the step, indeed, her friends folly coueurree,
but in the suggestion of it tai a bad no concern. guying given
you this assurance in the twist solemn manner, I called upon
you to contradict the paragraph on my authority. You have
done so, but in a manner utterly unsatisfactory; and have to
request that you will insert this letter in your paper of to-mor-
row, in which I repeat that no conspiracy. whatever existed
against Lord Byron's dome stir peact:. You also in another
part of the conversation which ensued entirely mistook me : I
never stated that the publication iu a Sunday Journal was
' much to my disquiet and condemoatiov : but in reply to solute
observations of yours, it was asserted merely as a fact, that no
paraeraphs hostile to Lord Byron had originated with Lady
Byron or her immediate fi,cirds, or were published with their
knowledge, and that I &mid lament .ery mods the oecershy
of making this subject the theme of farther discus. in lile
public papers, which I have always disapproved of in ivies-
(ions that CO neern the relations u, prit ate We. Snell are toy
observations. 10 the pre.eat lust:vice, I cootrive thoae
cessions Its .1' ',piling Iron the pubacatiou of Lord byiores
verses' as I do not remember that the sulver was evtr cun-
t assert before; they have eertai.:iy not coiAtnated from Laity.
Byrum. " AM, Wur liamble servant,
" k ‘l.l'H NOEL.
" the Editor of the :Ilorning Chronicle."

" P.S. My friend, 1:01ond Doyle, who war present with me.
concurs in his recollection of the above having been the senti-
ments wiiich I expressed.-1 ant, Sir, your humble su rt Ant,
" It.ILPH NOEL."
To this letter the Editor has returned the billowing :Answer:
" Sttt, 'Thursday Evening, I t o'clock.
‘' On coming to sty office, I bud your letter, containing an
aniilmadversion on the paragraph inserted in my Paper, as the
result of the conversation last night ; and I should have no
hesitation in publishing it according to your desire, ill were not
morally certain that it would lead illeVitobiy to the publication
of the whole Correspondence, front Lady Maws's first letter,
dated from Kirby, to the lase document, prepared for legal pro-
ceedings, if necessary. I stop it, therefore, fbr one day, to en-
able you to reflect on the propriety of positing the :natter to this
extremity ;and, in the mean time, I beg leave to say, that I laths
fished the result of the lung conversation that passed bete, ern
us, and tint the detail, front motives of the nmst imxious concern
for all parties. 1.011 certainly said, in the first instance, that
no cutisiiiraey had ever existed against the domestic peace of
Lord Its ruin' to which you will do me the justice to reerillect I
ansvveie ' that you could speak to this only from the best of
soar own knowledge ;toil belief,' and that I perfectly acquitted
you of all participation in it; butt that 1 remained fully 1.011.
vwcvd, from circumstances within lily own knowledge, that
nothing but grist inisrepi mutation and anolignaut ailluence
could have prevailed on a wile, whose duty at WaS toe:laity to
her hoshithd, and particudarty such a wile as Lord Byron
says described his Lady to be, sir take the step which she did,
and to remain apparently implacable to as the ()verniers of re-
conciliation that have since been made. Both yotiand Colonel
Doyle acknowledged that you could cot expect we to give up
the cons ietioll of my mind ; and you api/r41141 to tat' per fecity
to acquiesce in the way that i put to it, which wus that I had
sour authority to declare that 110 conspiracy, to your
luow-
ledge, existed against the Noble Lord.
" I did not wish to aggravate the unhappy iliffetence.by go.
ing into all the conversation a Mel; took place, our state thv.
impression which war mad, ou sty teelitigs ny your declaration,
that lady separation from her hash:mil was • the result of
her OWII UlllliiASSedillthtllll:llt,'ll step %wish ,4
I,d, from ,
to the lady, I could not hare suppbsed possible ; my own id. 4,
of the conduct of a nobleenitided viutnan being so cuwrais .
and such conduct being at the battle time so iaCtalSi,i.ll; u:.h

APRIL IT.

the expressit us used by herself to the last moineut of their
domestic ititercoar.r.

.qj I had Keitei%to the whole detail, I mast have stated the
question put to you. Why no 'reply was given to the iniplicn-
tion made to your tlitail) to,speeify the elmrges tic/hist Lord
that he might have its opportnnity to vindicate himself fitiab
the calumnies vu iistinottrkally propagated against hint %--To
this )On ti;.swer, that Lady Byte!) acted in this by the advice or
Dr tositiogtoo! Whim, wife tears hermit' train the 1ni304
of her btivb.uni, and acts by the mold caution of a Lawyer ra-
ther than by the chew', of her OIN it heart ! _

" As teethe expression of the dbygtiet at and conScinnation
of the infanrms aspersions which provoked me to vindicate
the Noble Lord, 1 certainly coneriled y...n to declare that they
not only were not authorized by Lady Porron s friends, bat
that you Vl'grl•tiCll and emsdrutmed therm t trust you do not
mean to wit Mira% this declaration, or to dininbli the import
of these word:,
" !fin the course or lo..mnrrovr I +hall receive yenr instrne-
tious to print the letter, you may depend on the publication un
Matneday, together my own recollection of all that passed
between as yestet d ; and c Melt, that viol may be AstiAril
mafit4 foie 110,•A, 1 .hall be ready to eubtimit before hand to, y 4,11 If
pernial. My at m' et is, to pi c volt time breath I'l 011) b, ins tti idea
tII, MO 10 a% OM 4111 C 1,11/•1•4111(.000.u. Whirl' 1110 pnblicatieu
of your letter, and the continuance of such slanders as daily ap-
pear in Aaron. 4.1 the Papers. tarsi teed.
" I hair the !towns, In be, with perfect respect for yntirself,
" Sir, )our Servant, 411. PLHRY.
"Sir Ralph Noel, Bart. &r. Lc. strand, April td, ihl6."

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