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,ONDON, .111U,RSDAY EVENING, JANUARY,'24, 1828

SHIPPING, INTELLIGENCE.

LORD BYRON AND MR. LEIGH HUNT.

LIVERPOOL.

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TUESDAY,. JAx. 22.—High water 54. min. past two. 7—.
Wind W.S:W:—Arrived the James Cropper, Graham,
from New York, with 'cotton—Chariot, Pratt, from
Charleston, with cotton-,-City_ of Dublin, Mulholland,
from Dublin, with sundries--Tryal, Crowther, from Dub-'
lin, with oatmeal—Pearl, Fox, from Dublin, vvith:oara_
St. George, Heany, from Drogheda, with oats—John
M'Cann, Briggs, from Drogheda, with wheat—LLee,
Chapman, from Cork, with snadries—Arrow, Frederick,.
from Bristol, with sundries—James and Ann, Ayr, from
Ipswich, with grain—.-Dove, Lake, from Barnstaple, with
barley—Betsy, Bellamy, from Padstow, with ditto—
Eagle, Boyland, from Drogheda,, with oatmeal—Ellen,
Doyle, from Wicklow, with grain—Prince of Wales,
Homer, from Poole, with day--7-Wip. Hnskisson, Lind-
say, from Glasgow, with sundries—Henry
.Bell, Spiers,
from Glasgow, with sundries—Enterprise, Duncan, from
Drogheda, with grain—:Comet, Phillips (steamer), from
Dublin, with the Mail—Speanrzab; pirkett, from Odessa,
with wheat.—One ship aid two brigs off at a quarter past
five o'clock.

The following letter has been addresse4 to
the Editor of the Morning Chronicle

- Sir—r-I feel great reluctance in calling the public
:attention to the subjeCt of this letter; but as I haVe
no altetnative, it is, kt all events, some relief to me
to be able to do so through the medium of your
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generous columns. ,
Isneed not inform a man of letters, that the ex-
1, tracts whickheve been, sent to the .Morning Chro-
nicle and other papers, out of the work of mine just
published, were not made by myself. If they had
been, they would not have subjected:me to the con-.
elusions which have been pretended .by some, and
appear to have beets really drawn by others, respect-
ing the spirit of my intercourse with :Lord Syron. l
have been represented as a man capable of violating
the confidence of friendship, and giving an unfavour-
able portrait. of a hest who had treated me with
nothing but kindness. 4.wi1l venture, to affirm, 'Sir,
"that nothing, to a pemon of my turn of mind, could
be more impossible. No" man holds in greater horror
than I do the violation of the sub iisdem trabibus—
the sacred enclosnrsof private ..wails. I have - not
even dared,.in my time, to enjoy the delight I should
have found at more than- one table, purely because I
knew that it would be inipossible for'me afterwards,
as a public man, to hold any opinion of my host but
a gratefsil 'one:- 'lt might be expected that I should
despise an' accusation of this sort ; but people do
not despise 'half as much as is pretended; and l
confess it has vexed me, with all its absurdity. One
does not like to be:thought ill of by any body, much
less to be subjected to the hazard of it in the whole
heart of a commiinity I thought of leaving my
book . to answer for me, and not taking aay notice of
the misrepresentation, unless repeated after a sight of
it ; but thousands will have read the extracts who
wily not seethe book ; and it is on their account
that I shall trouble,yon with some further remarks.
I will put noose in illustration of my position with
Lord Byron, and shew the cruelty of it besides, as
affected by his 'character in particular. Suppose a
rich merchant invites another merchant out to set up
a joint concern with him ; and suppose the latter a
Man with a wife and large family; and at the lowest
.ebb of his fortunes, .The rich merchant advances
'the other two hundred pounds to bring him out
(taking care nevertheless to - get a 'bond for it from
a friend); and • after he 'is arrived, the loss of the
beloved friend who gave this bond forces the poor
man to accept- from the rich one farther 'sums, from
time to time, amounting in. ell'tO otke. hundred more.
The joint-concern in the meantime goes on, but is
trifled with by the invitoris even injured by him
in a variety of ways, is suffered t..') be calumniated.
and undermined by him with his friends, and finally
is abandoned by him in the course of the year for an
expeiiment in a remote quarter, and:apart from any
consideration or:the , person iitvitedlout. 'lt is true,
the rich man declines receiving his part of the profits
of the concern ; but it is only because they turn out
to be`,.nothing like what he expected; and when he
leaves it, and might still do.it.,service, and so keep
his own proposed work dive, he never has .another
NI" ord- of communication with 'the parson' whom he
invited out, and whom he had found destitute; and
left so. '

CLEARED OUT WA RDS. —The Julius Caesar, M'Mullen,
for Philadelphia.
Telegraph Office,Jan..22.

Off Point Lyres, 30 min: past one p. m. :10t1; in't.—.
One brig, homeward bound, showed no number ;_44,min.
past four p.m. two schooners, homeward bound, no num-
ber ; 50 minutes past four p.m., pilot boats, Nos 1 and
Wind S.W.

minutes past 7, a.m.—one ship, homeward
bound ; 15 min. PasC9, thitigaud eflhOoner, horUeward
bound ; 30 min. past 9, 1 gallot and 2 sloops, homeward
bound ; 40 min. past 9, pilot boats, Nos. 1 and 4 ; 20
usiu. past 10; 1 brig: and' 1 :schooner; homeward bound ;
20 minutes past 12, one brig, ditto.—Wind S.W., blow-
ing :fresh and hazy.
Great Orm's Head, 21st , 2 min pest eight; a.m.
One brig, homeward bound; 40 min. past 9 a.m. 1 Ame-
rican ship, ditto ; 12, three brigs, ditto.—Wind S. W.,
fresh breeze and cloudy ; none of the above vessels showed
any number. _ _

Qff Holyhead' on the 22d instant, at min. past
eight a.m., No. 27, the. James Cropper, Graham, from
New York.—Wind at 30 minutes past eight a.m, N.W.,
light breeze.
Great Orm's Head, Jan. 22.7—At four p.m. one ship
off Jere, homeward bound ; she did not, however, show
.her number.

This is a literal picture of the state of the case
between Lord Byron and myself ; but the worst part
of the spirit of it remains.
I had Oarcely put up under the same roof with
his Lordship. (and
,the nature of that occupation of a
floor in his house is explained in my book, and was
very different from any thing like entertained by
him as his guest) than our " host," if he is so to be
called, commenced his claims upon our delicacy by
writing disagreeable letters about us to his friends.
When I subsequently remonstrated with him on this
subject, he answered me that it was his way, and
that he had " libelled his friends all round." It is
true I did not know of these letters at the time;
but his libels of his friends were very soon manifest:
the symptom was not encouraging; and the tempers
he thought fit to try upon me in my poverty, pre.
pared further for what I had to expect. This was
almost in the very first days of our intercourse. 1
had hardly been under the roof with him at Pisa,
when a very distressing communication from Eng-
land forced me to urge him upon the subject of the
intended work, and to beg as it were, in charity, the
assistance which he ought to have come forward
within pursuance of his own proposal. He thought
it sufficient to answer, that his friends had already
been " at him," to persuade him to have nothing
to do with the work; and he was wanting enough
to his dignity to taunt me with making him a party
to certain distresses which had been communicated
to me in the letter from England, though he knew
how much they were bound up with my own, and
had had my confession that I had assisted to cause
them. This, however, is a matter which it is im-
possible to enter into, and which does not, of neces-
sity, belong to the question. I only allude to it, •
that I may shew the melancholy of my position with
him from the first, and how" sure he was to make
me feel it. In this manner his first contribution
to his own work was made to appear a sort of
forced obligation, though he was delighted to have
the opportunity of printing it; and though, in the
sanguineness of the moment, and the non-experience
hitherto of what confirmed our forebodings, we slid
our best to entertain a good,opinion of him, and to
make others partake of it.
Most calamitous was it on every account that at
this early juncture of our intercourse, my beloved
friend, Mr. Shelly, was torn from me. I was thrown
per force, on Lord Byron for his assistance : he even
offered it; and bitter indeed, for the first time in my
life, was the taste I then had of obligation. The
specimen I have mentioned in my work will suffice,
and may be repeated. My family lived in the most
economical Italian manner, and tried hard not to
force me to apply to him for much. In fact, I ap-
plied to him for little, and he put me under the ne-
cessity of asking even for that in driblets, and for
those he.sent me every time to his steward. My
cheek seems to burn against my paper as I write.—
Yes, I have to confess that I have tasted indeed the
bitterness of that prophecy of the poet's addressed
to himself, that he should know " how hard it was
to ascend the steps of another person for bread."—
Let the exquisite mortification of confessions like
these, excuse me with the happier and the more in-
dustrious—l may add, with the healthier and the
better taught : for the commonest rules of arith-
metic were, by a singular chalice, omitted in my
education. I do not agree with the writer, who
spoke the other day of the " degrading obligations
of private friendship." God forbid I should be such
a traitor to those whose friendship elevated while it
assisted me, and whom it is a transport to me, when-
ever I think of it, to have been indebted to. I see
beyond that. But I am bound to say that I have
not the less altered my practice in that particular ;
and not the less do I agree with the eloquent after-
saying of the same writer, that it is " comely, and
sweet, and exquisite," to be able to earn one's own
sufficiency. I only think, especially in behalf of
those who can enjoy leisure as well as business, that
it should not be made so hard a matter to do so, as
it very often is, by the systems of society and by
the consequences they have in reserve for us, even
before we are born, and in our very temperaments
as well as fortunes : and I think also that the world
would have been losers, in a very large way—far
beyond what utilitarians suppose, and yet on their
own ground—if certain men of lively and improvi.
dent genius, humanists of the most persuasive order,