Star.
London, England, 1830-12-31 00:00:00

LAST DAYS OF LORD BYRON.

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(Plok MEMOIRS IT JULIUS MILLIWOEN, JUST PURE/SHED.)
Mr. Millingen was professionally attendant on Lord Byron as
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ionfghoe;eralthiedhadpodwropPed from his lips, and con.
prey to melancholy apprehensions, and disappointment. increased by
disgust. Continually haunted by a dread of epilepsy or palsy—cam
plaints most humiliating to human pride—he fell into the lowest state
of hypochondriasis, and vented his sorrows in language which, though
sometimes sublime, was at others u peevish and capricious, as that of
an unruly and quarrelsome child. When he returned to himself, how.
ever, he would request us ' not to take the indisposed and sickly fit fo,
the sound man.' Riding was the only occupation which procured hint
any relief, and even this Tru but momentary."
Mr. Finlay and Mr. Millingen called on Lord Byron in the evening:
—" We found him lying on a sofa, complaining of a slight fever, and
of pains in the articulation. He was at first more gay than usual ; but
on a sudden he became pensive, and after remaining some few minutti
in silence, he said that during the whole day he bad reflected a gme
deal on a prediction which had been made W him when a boy, by „
famed fortune-teller in Scotland. His mother, who firmly believed in
necromancy and astrology, had sent for this person, and desired him to
inform her what would be the future destiny of her son. Having era.
mined attentively the palm of his hand, the man looked at him for a
while steadfastly, and then with a solemn voice exclaltned—' Bewareot
your thirty-seventh year, my young Lord ; beware.'
" To say the truth, answered his Lordship, I find •
it equally dit
cult to know what to believe in this world, and what not to believe.
There are as many plausible reasons for inducing me to die a bigot, a,
there have been to make me hitherto live a free thinker. You will, I
know ridicule my belief in lucky and unlucky days ; but no eon.
aideration can now induce me to undertake anything either on a Friday
or a Sunday. It would terminate unfortunately. Every one of my
misfortunes, and, God knows, I have had my share, have happened
to me on one of those days. You will ridicule also a belief in beer.
poreal beings. Without instancing to you the men of profound gent,;,
who have acknowledged their existence, I could give you the details of
my friend Shelley's conversations with his familiar, did be not apprise
me, that he had been informed by that familiar that he would end hi,
life by drowning ; and did I not, a short time after, perform on t!.e
sea-beach his funeral rites ?

" The next morning (17th) the bleeding was repeated, fur, although
the rheumatic symptoms had completely disappeared, the cerebral ours
were hourly increasing, and this continuing all day, we opened the
vein, for the third time, in the afternoon. Cold applications were hoe
the beginning constantly kept on the head ; blisters were also proposed.
When on the point of applying them, Lord Byron asked me whither
it would mower the same purpose to apply both on tit: same leg?
Guessing the motive that led him to ask this question, I told him I
would place them above the knees, on the inside of the thighs. Do
so,' said he ; 6 for as long as I live, I will not allow any one to sec ra
lame foot.'

" Here I may be permitted to observe, that it must have ben the
lot of every medical man to observe how frequently the fear of de.th
produces it; and how seldom a patient, who persuades himself that
he must die, is mistaken. The prediction of the Scotch fortune-teller
was ever present to Lord Byron ; and like an insidious poison, destroy.
ad that moral energy, which is so useful to keep up the patient in don.
getout complaints. ' Did I not tell you (said he repeatedly to me) that
I should die at thirty-seven ?'

" I was not a little surprised to bear him ask me on the 15th, ale-
thee I could not do him the favour of inquiring in the town for ;Illy
very old and ugly witch ? As I turned his question in derision, he re.
pasted to me with a serious air, '6 Never mind whether I am supersti-
dous or tat; but I again entreat of you to bring me the most Mc.
bested one there is, in order that she may examine whether this tuddtr.
loss of my health does not depend on the evil eye. She may devise
some means to dissolve the spell.' Knowing the neceuity of indulgirir
a patient in his harmless caprices, I soon procured one, who antwerec
exactly to his dtsaiption. But the following day, seeing that he du'
not mention the subject, I avoided recalling it to his memory.
" Two thoughts constantly occupied his mind. Ada and Greece
were the names he hourly repeated. The broken complaints he ut-
tered, lamenting to die a stranger to the sole daughter of his affec-
tion not only far from her embrace, but, perhaps, the objets of the
hatred which he thought had been carefully instilled into her from
her tenderest infancy, showed how exquisitely his parental feelings
were excited by these sad considerations. The glory of dying
in Greece, and for Greece, was the only theme he could fly to fo7
relief, and which would dry up the tears he abundantly shed, when pro.
nutting Ada's name. In the agony of death—that dreadful hour
when, leaving the confines of life, the soul is launched into eternity_
his parting look, his last adieu, was to Greece and Ada. I was prcaen:
when, after taking the first antispasmodic mixture, he spoke to Fletcher
for the last tittle, recommending him to call on his sister, on Lady By-
ron and his daughter, and deliver to each the messages which he Pad
repeated to him before. His feelings, and the clouds of death, which
were fast obscuring his intellect, did not allow him to continue: "You
know what you must say to Ada—l have already told it you—you
know it, do you not ?' On hearing Fletcher's affirmative, he replka,
' that's right !'

"On the 18th he addressed me, saying, Your efforts to preservemy
life will be vain. Die I must: I feel it. Its loss Ido not lamtnr, for
to terminate my wearisome existence I came to Greece. My wealth, my
abilities, I devoted to here:muse. Well, there is my life to her. On,
request let me make to you. Let not my body be hacked, or be sent t,
England. Here let my bones moulder. Lay tue in the first cor:a•
without pomp or nonsense."

ECLIPSES IN 1831.—During the next year there will be
four eclipses, viz. two of the sun and two of the moon. Those of the
former occur on February 12, and August 7, and will be invisible 4:
Greenwich ; and of the latter on Feb. 26 (partly visible), and on Aeg.
23, which will be invisible.

A letter from a member of a deputation on the truck sys-
t em, states that in the iron districts of Merthyr Tydvil. whvre that sya
tem is in operation, fifteen thousand people are intrusted to the ~.os of
one medical man.

There must be some error in the report of the Attornev-
General's speech at the Winchester Commission, where he mato that
" he did not consider that the parish cart had been used in an improper
manner ; " since it was given in evidence that old men, and boys, a'd
women,—nay, even a poor idiot, Jane Stephens,—bad superseded beasts
of burden in drawing this vehicle !
Duke Bernard, of Saxe Weimar, in his North Anieridia
Travels, mentions a circumstance with regard to Yankee kgishvort
which it may be well to quote, for the benefit of our English reformer.
who are so food of referring to Trensatlaintie examples. At Cahasha•
the chief town of Alabama, he says, he found the Legislature in Nt•
don, and the Senators, in consequence of the poverty of the place. in
entirely on salt pork, and sleeping three in a bed !
A CHRISTMAS PIE.—On the 25th inst. Mr. Roberts, 01
the Sportsman's Group, in Fargate, cut the large Christmas pie, which'
according to annual custom, had been prepared to treat his friend.
and customers. Its contents were thirty rabbits, three stones of pork.
two legs of veal, and four stones of flour. Its measurement in
length upwards of three feet, and its weight about sixteen stoner.--
Steejleld
AJOTHLR PlE.—During the last two or three days, the
frequenters of Alr. Kirk's house, the Cosa Daggers, Rotherh ou.
partaken df a Christmas pie, containing four geese, twelve rabbits, sl%
brace of partridges, three stones of veal, two stones of pod, eight fosb.
three turkeys seven pounds of sausages, four hares, four pounds et
lour. &c.—lbid.

The Marshal do Duras, displeased by one of his ions, ex-
claimed, in a rage, " You rascal, if you go on In this manner, 111 make
you sup' with the King." The young mau had twice supped at Mark,
where he was wearied to death.

BIRTH.
The 18th Inst. the lady of Lieutenant James Clayton, R.\• d 6
daughter.
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MARRIED.
At Cheahnnt, :Hem on the 27th, E. J. Lloyd, Esq. of Lircaln'r:
Inn, to Mary Anne Coffin, 'mind daughter of E. Clarke, Eml•
Cheshunt.

DIED.
The 24th inst. W. Collett, Esq. of the Accountant's Office, Fo4
India House—Suddenly, in Slosne.street, the 28th inst. Mrs. Sa
widow of J. Street, Eaq. late surgeon to the East India
sertiee.—The 28th lust. Richard, youngest son of Mr. Flezney,ot Sew
Boswell-court, Lincoln's.lnn in his 28th year.—At Northampton.
88d inst. in the 70th year of gis age, & Hult, Esq. of that tows.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
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