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London, England, 1828-09-23 00:00:00

concealing the defect in his leg and foot,'
it was necessary that his Lordship should
be present. Of course, after he had left. England,
it was impossible that it could be done ; still he
was desirous of concealing it as much as the cir-
cumstances he was in would allow, by his manner
of managing his dress, by keeping his foot under
the table, or by ally ether artifice that at the time
he could practise to keep it out of sight.
As my intercourse with Lord Byron began
before he-hid made himself much known to the
world," have been asked to say, as the inter-
course was unreserved on his part, in what light
to' me while that intercourse con-
he appeared
tinned.
was first called to him soon after the
:publication of his " Hours of Idleness." The
business on which I attended him called for
much of our attention ; but in the intervals he
talked much and freely on literary subjects ; he
.mentioned the " Hours of Idleness" as a trifle,
and added, that in one of the reviews of the day,
he was permitted to write the critique upon his
own work. He mentioned the " Edinburgh
Review," its critique upon his work, and his
determination to answer it, which he had not
then done. He gave me the idea of a youth of
high talents, who, as a man of rank, would make
a great figure in life, though nothing indicated
the course in which he
.woald engage himself..
He.expressed A settled_ determination never to
take any steps towards forming a collection of
pictures, or any other works of art ; he said, that
all dealers in pictures, &c., made a strong push
to get every young man of rank and fortune,
when he first entered into ,public life, into their
. snares, that they might:. make him their dupe,
and plunder him of his property. He declared
. his belief that all such dealers, as well as gamblers
of every kind, were complete scoundrels, whose
object was fraud, and expressed his fixed deter.
urination never to have any dealings with them :
this determination I believe he adhered to during
tle whole of his life. He mentioned his fond-
ness for, and frequent practice of, swimming ;
he said he frequently swam -from Westminster to
Chelsea or Battersea, and from either of those
places to Westminster, as circumstances might
suit. His other pursuits, so far as I was enabled
to judge by his conversation, and the appearance
of his apartments, were entirely literary.
The fact of Lord Byron being obliged to re•
linquish even the chances of being cured, be-
cause he could not publicly wear the instru-
ments which I then used in the, treatment of
such cases, or seclude himself from society so
long as would be necessary for the performance
of his cure, had its full
.effect in stimulating me
to improve my practice, so far to lay aside the
use of.all or. any instruments in most, if not all
the cases of distortion that came under my care,
and in this 1 finally succeeded, and, previous to
explaining this improvement, I will detail the two
following eases
:
A lady, whose age when I saw her, was 23
)ears, was born with one foot distorted ; no at-
tempt had been made to. cure it, and, when I
first saw her foot, it resembled that of Lord
Byron. This lady was independent in her cir-
cumstances ; she had, or was supposed to have,
great musical powers ; she assiduously cultivated
them, with a view of employing her talents on
the stage, to which her inclination led her, and
it was believed that the Powers of her voice would
shield the peculiar form of her foot from obser-
vation ; a
.trial before an audience, however,
proved that she was mistaken, and that her-de-
sign must prove abortive,. unless she could get
the peculiarity of her foot removed. . . - •
I found that her foot exactly resembled the
foot of Lord -Byron, and, like his, could cer-
tainly he cured, if she submitted to the treatment
WhiCil I had always employed in such cases ; but
I. wag told her lady occupations carried her into
such society, that it would be impossible for her
to wear any instruments, or any thing else that
would add, even in a temporary manner, to the
peculiarity of her appearance. I mentioned the de-
sign I had formed to allempi the cure of such cases
without using any artificial instruments; but though
I had great hopes, I was by no means certain of
success. he determined to give the plan a trial;
she had every motive to.try it to its full extent ;
I had the strongest motives to effect the cure if
it was possible, and she finally determined to
place herself under my care.
I derived great advantage in the progress of
this eteie, (rum the anxious wish of my patient
that he cure shouhl be perfect. She was a lady
of a very strZing.raiml, with great perseverance ;
she continually issouired what she could do to
promote her own cure, -when my treatment was
not going on, which it could Only do when I was
present. lam satisfied that, during the whole
time (eight months) she was under my cat e, she
never made a single step in which she did not
endeavour to place and use her foot in the most
advantageous manner. Although she had always
been encumbered with this foot, she bad, in early
life, learned to dance, as other young ladies did ;
she nciw practised her dancing strenuously, more
especially the minuet, and from which She derived
great advantage. 1 sav this decisively, and in
eontempt of the censures-of miserable quack,
who has written to censure. the practice of danc-
;rig, as injurious to the, female, because I know,
if its really understooithy.these who teach, and
those who practise at,
it is one of the most ad-
vantaaeoil4
practices
that can be adopt.to d .
prove the forn: and action of young persons it
is greatly beneficial to this lady.
who
(We have not room for the case of a boy w
was likewise cured by the writer.)

•
CoNNExteN, The
MET/TODI:iT
Conference of the Methodist New Connexion, at their
la.s.t meeting,- in the Staffordshire passed an ad-
-1 Potteries,-
her of resolutions expres.
dress to His Majesty, and a nim
.ive of their approval of his Ministers as regards their con-
duct ,with respect to the. repeal of the
eTeese_tve7l.neror_r_raf_tti)o_n
Laws. The following lettei has been r foie:
to ,f.
his Grare the Duke of WEtTIIVITON, WWI. t
Damson., Esq., Liverpool :
Sir,—l have had the honour of receiving your letter of
the 12th inst., enclosing a resolution, passed by the minis_
ters and laymen representing the Methodists of the,
ett
Connexion, at the annual conference, respecting £L' ("'"P"
duct of his Majesty's Government in the late discussions ou
:he repeal of part of the Corporation and Test Acts.
1 beg to assure you that nothing ran ha more gratifying
to me than that the performance of my duty to his Majesty
ZIA the public should have proved satisfactory to those most
nterested M the result of those discussions. •
i have the honour to be, Sir,
Yonr most obedient humble servant,
.1.. Robinson, E4q. WELLINGTON.'
His Grace. has fallen into the popular error that the Me-
thodists are Dissenters ; the Methodists Were nut
personally
affected by the. Test Acts.
LEINSTER NlFETiiNikCien-•—"ny, areT.h
efprgieagnetdisilf:fmCakiivnigl
and Religious Liberty in K
the preliMinary arrangements for the cruder Meeting, to
he held in that City on the approaching 27th of October.
From the exertion of which the Secretary, Mr. COSTR.F.Ibt,
is capable, we anticipate a convocation of Nobility and
Gentry in Kilkenny, which will throw ClonTel in the
shade. There is a preparatory meeting to be hel.,. lin the
Diocesan Chapel on to-morrow, Sunday, ut which there
vill be an attenlaace of all the Catholic Gentry of County
arni City. We have seen tl:e
several influential names,