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Byron. That was true, and they never circulated any eatioir
against him.
There is equal injustice in thcallusion to Lord Byron having tree:,
ever sutrounded by spies. What spy was near him ? The m.iv
person denounced in that odious capacity by Lord Byron himself
I was Mrs. Clermont ; and what was the (act with regard to her? It
Mrs. Clermont was a spy, surely the last person in the world to
have acquitted her would have been Mrs. Leigh, the sister of land
Byron; but I have in my possession the authentic copy of a letter
from Mrs. Leigh to the same Mrs. Clermont, earnestly acquittieg
her of the calumny, and offering even public testimony to her ( sits.
Clermont's) tenderness and forbearance (I copy Mrs. Leigh's words)
under circumstances that must have been trying to any friend of
Lady Byron. Another unworthy expression of Mr. Moure's is, that
of calling Lord Byron " a descried husband." Let him read Lady
Byron's remarks' and blot out this absurdity from his volume. Dr.
Lushington, versed in the harshest cases of justifiable separation,
and bound to admit none of a slight nature, thought that it was im-
possible she could live with him.
You should have paused. Mr. Moore, before you compelled any
friend of Lady Byron to bring out this truth.
It is a farther mistake on Mr. Moore's part, and I can prove it
to be so, if proof be necessary, to represent Lady Byron, in the
course of their courtship, as one inviting her future husband to cur-
respondence by letters after she hail at first refused him. She never
proposed a correspondence. On the contrary, he sent her a message
after that first refusal, stating that he meant to go abroad, and to
travel for some years in the East; that he should depart with a
heart aching, hut not angry ; and that he only begged a verbal as-
surance that she had still some interest in his happiness. Could
Miss Milbanke, as a well-bred woman, refuse a courteous answer to
such a message ? She sent him a verbal answer, which was merely
kind and becoming, but which signified no encouragement that he
should renew his offer of marriage. After that message he wrote to
her a moat interesting letter about himself—about his views, per-
sonal, moral, and religious, to which it would have been uncharitable
not is have replied. The result was an insensibly increasing corre.
spondence, which ended in her being devotedly attached to him.—
About that time I occasionally saw Lord Byron, and though I knew
less of him than Mr. Moore, yet I suspect I knew as much of him
as Miss Milbanke then knew. At that time he was so pleasing,
that if I had a daughter with ample fortune and beauty, I should
have trusted her in marriage with Lord Byron
Mr. Moore at that period evidently understood Lord Byron better
than either his future bride or myself ; but this speaks more for
Mr. Moore's shrewdness, than for Byron's ingenuousness of cha-
racter.

It is another improper insinuation, when Mr. Home hints at a
resemblance between the first wife of Milton and the widow of
Byron. The parrallel is disgustingly unfair. Of Milton's ma.
tied life we know not much ; but, upon the whole, it is clear that
his wife could not have got two honourable men to justify her de-
parture. She went away from him, to all appearance, in rashness,
and returned, for her own convenience, in repentance. Lady Byron
acted no such part. Produce on Mrs. Milton's part a Dr. Lushing-
ton to speak for her, and we will meet you in the parallel ; but be-
ware of the ploughshare !
It is more for Lord Byron's sake than for his widow's that I re-
sort not to a more special examination of Mr. Moore's misconeep-
dons. The subject would lead me insensibly into hateful dada
sures against poor Lord Byron, who is more unfortunate in his rash
defenders than his reluctant accusers. Happily his own candour
turns our hostility from himself against his defenders. It was only
in wayward and bitter remarks that he misrepresented Lady Byron.
He would have defended himself irresistibly if Mr. Moore had left
only his acknowledging passages. But Mr. Moore has produced a
Life of him which blame on Lady Byron—so dexterously
that more is meant than meets the ear. The almost universal
im-
pression produced by his hook is, that Lady Byron must be a pre-
cise, and a wan, unwarming spirit—a blue-stocking of chilbLuned
learning, a piece of insensitive goodness. Who that knows lady
Byron will not pronounce her to be every thing the reverse ? Will i
it be believed that this person, so unsuitably matched to her moody
Lord, has written verses that would do no discredit to Byron himself
—that her sensitiveness is surpassed and bounded only ny her good
sense, and that she is
Blest with a temper, whose unclouded ray
Can make tomorrow cheerful as to-day.
She brought to Lord Byron—beauty, manners, fortune, meekness.
romantic affection, and everything that ought to have made her to
the moat transendant man of genius—had he bees what he should
haw been--his pride and his idol. I speak not of Lady Byron in
the common-place manner of attesting character ; I appeal to the
gifted Mrs. Siddons and Joanna Baillic, to Lady Charlemont, and
to other ornaments of their sex, whether I am exaggerating in the
least when I bay that in their whole lives they have seen few beings
so intellectual and well-tempered as Lady Byron. I wish to be as
ingenuous as possible in speaking of her. Her gnawer, I hare no
hesitation to say, is cool at the first interview, but it is modestly,
and not insolently cool. She contracted it, I believe, from being
exposed by her beauty and large fortune in youth to numbers of
suitors whom she could not have othet wise kept at a distance. But
this manner could have had no influence with Lord Byron, for it
vanishes on nearer acquaintance, and has no origin in coldness.
All her friends like her frankness the better for being preceded by
this reserve. This manner, however, though not the slightest apo-
logy for Lord Byron, has been: inimical to Lady Byron in her mis-
fortune.. It endears her to her friends, but it piques the indifferent.
Host odiously unjust. therefore, is Mr. Moore's assertion, that she
had the advantage of Lord Byron in public opinion. Shc is, com-
paratively speaking, unknown to ti e world ; for though she has
many friends—that is, a friend in every one who knows her—yet
her pride, and purity, and misfortune', naturally contract the circle
of her acquaintance. There is something exquisitely unjust in
Ur. Moore comparing her chance of popularity with Lord Byron's;
the poet who can command men of talents putting even Mr. Moore
into the livery of his service, and who Was suborned the favour of
almost all women by the beauty of his person and the voluptuous-
neu of his verses. Lady Byron has nothing to oppose to these fasci-
nations but the truth and justice of her cause.
The true way of bringing off Byron from this question of his con.
jugal unhappiness would be his own way, namely, to acknowledge
frankly this one, and, perhape, the only one great error of his lit.
Acknowledge it, and after all, what a place is still left in our minds
for allowance and charily, and even for admiration of him I All
men, as they arc frail and fallible beings, are concerned in palliating
his fault—to a certain degree they are concerned ; trough if you
reduce the standard of duty too low, the meanest man may justly
refuse to sympathize with your apology for a bad husend, and
disdain to take the benefit of an invelvent act in favour of debto.s
to morality. But pay the due homage to moral principle, frahley
own that the child of genius is in this particular, not to be ildend.d
—abstain from absolving Byron on false grounds, and ycu will do ,
him more good than by idle attempts at justification. Above all,
keep off your sentimental mummeries from the hallowed precincts
of his widow's character. There, Mr. Moore, you must not fish
for compliments, or poach for the pathetic.—Byron acquitted at
Lady llyron's expettse, can be taken home to no honest heart's synte
pathy, though them is no saying how much the heart yearns to for.
give him when there is no sophistry used in his defence.
you said, Mr. Moore, that Lady Byron was unsuitable to her
Load—the word is cunningly Insidious, and may mean es much or
as little ss may suit your convenience. But if she was unsuitable,
I remark that it idle all the worse against Lord Byron. I have Lot
read it in yo,:r bosh, for I hate to wade through it • but they tell
me, that you have not only warily depredated Lay Byron, but
that you have described a lady that would have suited him. It'
this be true, it is the unkindest cut of all—to hold up a florid des-
aiption of a woman suitable to Lord Byron, as if in mockery over
the forlorn flower of virtue, that was drooping in the solitude of
sorrow. But I trust there is no such passage In your book. Surely
you must be conscious of your woman, with her " virtue loose
a'.otd her, who worth! haw suited Lord Byron," to be as iota-
fA7rlacry a being as tie woman without a hcad.—A woman to suit
Byron ! ! !—Poo ! poo! I could paint the woman that
could have watched hint, if I had not to Fay as little as
possible against him.
If Lady Byron was not suitable to Lord Byron, so much the
worse for his Lordship,. for let me tell you, Mr. Moore, that neither
your poetry, or Lord Byron's, nor all your poetry put together,
ever delineated a more interesting being titan the woman whom you
have so coldly treated. This was not kicking the dead lion, but
wounding the living lamb, who was ah.aWy bleeding and shown
even unto the quick. I know that, collectively speaking, the world
is in lady Byron's favour but it is coldly favourable, and you
havenot warmed its beets Time, however, canes every thing,
and eves your book, Mr. Moore, may he the means of Lady By-
rou's character being better appreciated.
THOMAS CAMPBELL

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Mr. Dixon, an extensive builder, sonic time so obtained a li.
cense from the Court of Aldermen to employ seventy nun-freemen
ar labourers. The non-freemen were engaged, and three fret:ll.4z
were empinyed with them. For a long time a warfare ha 4 prevailed
between these privileged and unprivileged men. and the Litter made
preparations to get rid of the former. To quarrel openly would nut
answer the end proposed, so an ingenious fellow advised that a quest..
tiny of lime should be well mixed up with hot water, sod as the
three freemen inn descending a ladder, a confedetate at the top
threw down upon them the contents of the tub. If they had been
unfortunate enough to glance upwards they would, it as believed,
have positively lost their eyes. As it was, they received the white-
wash all over their clothes ; and, not kr.owing what sort of dose
they might be served with if they remained longer to try the hu-
manity of their fellow-workmen, they determined to punish the
persous who appeared to be the most active en the occasion.
The LORD MAYOR ordered four of the non-freemen who were
brought before him to find bail for the assault, which be declared
to be most gross and unmanly.
Yesterday Mr. Nobler, jun. applied for a summons against Mr.
Dixon's foreman, foe having refused to give the three freemen
work. The men raid that Mr. Dixon bad plenty of work for them,
but the most positive refusal had been given to them, and they were
turned out of the premises.
The LORD MAYOR said he had reason to believe that the licence
to employ the non-freemen had not been obtained by a very accu-
rate representation of facts. He believed that a few more freemen
might have been obtained than were engaged, and he thought the
Court of Aldermen had not been dealt candidly with on the occa-
sion. The conduct of Mr. Dixon, in refusing employment to those
three W.treated men, aggravated the ease, and showed that the non.
freemen had been encouraged to the outrage which had been corn.
mitred.

The foreman said his master would have no objection to employ
other freemen; but with those three he would hare nothing to do,
as they had acted badly, and they had been only erigaged for so
long as they should be serviceable.
Mr. Robler said be should at once petition the Court of Alder,
men for the immediate withdrawal of the license; and the parties
retired.

It was stated, as the case proceeded, that many tradesmen in the
City have been of late compelled to call in the aid of non-freemen
for work of any description.
John Williams was charged with having stolen a piece of carpet-
ing, value 101. from the premises of Mr. Ebenezer Harvey, ware-
houseman, of Bow Churchyard.
The brother of Mr. Harvey, upon entering the premises at about
half-past nine o'clock yesterday morning, missed o pit ce of carpeting
which lay near the dour, and, upon going along Boeklersbury, he
saw it on the shoulder of the•prisoner, whom he at once appro.
hended. The prisoner told hint he would go where he pleased
quietly, but, suddenly seizing his hand in his mouth, he struggkd
to get away. It was all, however, in vain, Mr. Harvey held him
fast, and lodged him safely in the custody of an officer.
The prisoner said he could not r.n•ist the temptation of a shilling
which had becu offered him to carry the carpet for a man.
Mr. nobler—Where were you to have carried it ?..-To White-
cross-street.

31r. llobler—Then you wire in the wrong way, unfortunately
fur your case. You should have made up your defence on your
way here.
The prisoner a as then committed for trial.
John Josses, a strong young countryman, was brought up, charged
with having in his possei.sion 201lat.uf smuggled tobacco.
The LOnu Maros--Well, what account can you give of your.
self ? 1 did not know I was doing any harm ; I got it honestly.
'What brought you to town ? I came hoping to by made a new
policeman.
111 r. HobltT—Well, and why arc you not one ?-1 hey wouldn't
have none of me, because 1 wasn't lamed.
What learning did-they require ?—They wonted me to riml and
write, and I couldn't do neither ; Po they said I Iva. a hignuraniup,
and they wouldn't have none of me.
GOD bless use! did they only require you to reed and write ?-1
thought they !nigh. want a little tame of the clansics.
't he prisoner was sent to the Excise. He had, it apptanti, turned
smuggler immediately upon missing the appointment i• 1 tt.e new
police, ar.d in three public-houses to which hr had bteo t•nctd there
were found packages of tobacco.

GUILDHALL.
A person named Dolby was cliasgtd with ass.uil.iiig .11iss Kelly,
the daughter of an auctioneer residing is Smithfield.
Mi-s Kelly stated that, on Thursday afternoon, the dvfindant
came to inquire after her lather, with whom he haul sine
The man told him his master was not at home, hut he would call
his mistress. Iler rmther then vent to him, and htarinv him
abu-c her violently, went to hint also, to request ht would dksot, as
a ctowd au:, collecting abtut the dcor. Ile filmed, ;.nd she thin
sent for an Officer to remove Lim, on whose arrival the again re-
quested he would so, Wilt:l hc pa- had the door against her and en-
desvourcd to strike her with his first ; and, as this was the third yr
fourat time he had ctea:ed a disturbance at the keur.e, int wished
him to find security to keep the peace for the future
Mr. Dalby said he went to Mr. Kelly** to Thquire rtspec log a
balance which was due to him, Mr. Kelly having been employed to
wall some property, and divide the twctinee among the patties. e-
ditors, of whom he was one, but he had not yetreceirld ill that was
due to him, though he had applied several time% . lie denied that
he had ever attempted to strike the complainant.
Sir ',NUN 13,11KrN41 said that if he had any modify due to him.
and that it was in another persou's hands, he would naturally feel
anxious to get it; but the law wu open to Elm, and he meld nor
be Remitted to go and annoy pewee is this asionsor. He man
And sesestitisoso hog the pesos few the &tiros
141 r. Dally hued Lail and was discharged.
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