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FROM TILE INVESTIGATOR, NO. 10.
With all his poetic misanthropy and unsociability,
there has ever been., studiously intermixed in his'
avowed productions, a due proportion of 'that wild
rcifnance of feeling, a devotedness of attachment and
elevation of character, in his delineation ofhis heroines,
that never fails to rivet the attention of the yosth of
both sexes, and to atone for a thousandlittle pecca-
dillos, and deviations from the strict line of morality,
especially in the female breast. We wonder not,
therefore, that Lord Byron has ever been the favourite
poet of the ladies, a 44 ball-room bard, a fools-cap
hot-press darling," as he calls himself, in sneering
derision of their folly—even of such as have advanced
far beyond the delightful intrigues and confidantships
of the boarding-school, and the romantic witchery of
their teens. But whether they will longer rermit him
to be so, the respect whick they owe to their own
characters must determine, after they shall have
perused the only characteristic delineation which our
regard to decency will permit us to extract, not of a
heroine insidiously decked out for their' amusement,
and we suspect for their imitation, with virtues and
high-toned feelings that induce them but to deplore,
where they should condemn their fall—but of the
whale sex,, as they rank in the estimation of the
Noble Libertine, who for good reason, we doubt not,
has put but his mark, instead of his name, to this
highly finished sketch :
In her first passion woman loves her low,
In all the others all she loves is love, •
Which grows a habit she can neer get over,
And fits her loosely—like an easy glove,
As you may find, whene'er you like to prove her:
One man alone at first her heart can move;
She then prefers him in the plural number,
Not finding that the additions much encumber!
I know not if the fault be men's or theirs;
But one thing's pretty sure; a woman planted—
(Unless at once she plunge for life in prayers)—
* After a decent time must be pllanted;
Although, no doubt, her first of love affairs
Is that to which her heart is wholly granted;
Yet there are some, they say, who have bad none,
But those who have, ne'er end with only one !
'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign
Of human frailty, folly, also crime,
That love and marriage rarely can combine,
Although they both are born in the same clime ;
Illarriage from love, like vinegar front wine—
A sad sour, sober, beverage—by time
is sbarpen'd from its.high celestial flavour
Down to a very homely househcdd savour !"
Don Juan, Canto 111. Stanza III.—V.

After this very intelligible avowal of his sentiments,
no one can hesitate in branding the noble author of
Don Juan (we prefix the epithet but in courtesy to a
rank which he has disgraced), as a libertine of the
most dangerous description, devoting the exalted
powers of genius with which his CREATOR endowed
him for very different purposes, to bring into contempt
and ridicule an institution on which, independent of
the Divine sanction it has received under the Christian
dispensation, the happiness of society mainly depends,
though he who has thus, traduced it—more to the
misery of another than himself—perverted its blessings
to a curse. If any such there can be,we would just add
for their sakes the following epigrammatic lines of the
eighth stanza of the same canto, and the whole of the
twenty-fifth.
" There's doubtless something in domestic doings,
Which form; in fact, true love's antithesis ;"
And oh! ye Gentlemen who have already
Some chute liaison of the kind—l mean
An honest friendship with a married Lady—
The only thing of this sort ever seen
To last—of all connections the most steady,
And the true Hymen (the first's but a screen)—
Yet for all that keep not too long away,
I've known the absent wrong'd four times a day!"
For the Ladies, we just transcribe the following ad-
ditional eulogium. on their virtues, from the pen of
their favourite poet—the " dear, charming, divine,
enchanting fellow," who has but too long been the
object of their literary idolatry. Speaking of the fa-
ther of Haidee, Juan's Grecian mistress, he says,
" No courtier could, and scarcely woman can,
Gird more deceit within a petticoat r
lb. Canto 111. Stanza XI,II.
A rare specimen of gallantry this,. and from the
favourite poet of the sex!—And again,
" One of the two, according to your choice,
Woman or wine, you'll have to undergo;
Both maladies are taxes OD our joys:
But which to choose, I really hardly know I"
lb. Canto IV. Stanza XXV.
Of his Lordship's claim to their admiration and
support, and to that of every believer in revelation,
on account of his theological creed, we have already
given ample proofs, in our notice of the first part of
`this non-descript production; but lest we should do
him wrong, we give another extract, at the risk of
being placed in the list of 'nameless prints, who have
gained a niche in his Denciad ; of the vigour of whose
vituperation we are fully conscious, whilst we can:3ot
but wish that his nervous satire hat! beitiluought into
action in a better spirit, and a nobler aide;
Some kinder casuists are pleasea to 614.4
In "luck*, Pilm-r-thai 1. isswf ne tivegtkia • .
But set those persons down wits me tq pray., .
And you shall see who hits tiiegireperest action
• Of getting into Ileaveatlie alsoiteSt.waii • - _
My. altars are the mountains tind.ille
Earth, air, stars-...ail that springti ham the lien Wine; ‘1
• Who bath produced, sad wilicessivii sole*Pi
ib. Op3to 111. Staitza CI V.
• If be leceivas that of the infidel author of these

The fourtit Canto brings.home the Grecian buc-
caneer rather unexpectedly, to the great Surprise of
the young couple, who were consoling themselves
in riotous living, for the great loss which Haider
was reported to have sustained in the death of an in-
dalgent father, soon supplanted in her affection and
her, memory by a lover, cast so opportunely in her
way. Thatlover is, however, hurried from her to
be sold as a slave; and a beautiful and touching de;
scription of her death, in consequence of a loss which
overpowered her reason and broke her heart, deli-
neated in the author's very best, style, is closed by
two lines, ludicrous as is that author's wont, in a
poem, in which he introduces feeling, and pathos,
anctlistress, but to laugh at them ; though it may be
more prophetic than he anticipates, or we could wish:
• " I don't much like describing people mad,
• F'or fear of seeming rather toucled myself!"
• lb. Canto IV. Stanza LXXIV. •

Should Lord Byron ever become permanently,
what we cannot but think and hope that he is by fits
and starts, a lunatic, we should utterly despise him,
for then no reason of repentance could arrive, which.
we yet trust but lingers, though it may not linger
long: for were the GOD whom he has insulted. and
,despised, by one stroke of his almighty arm, to de-
prive him of. the gifts he has so shockingly.ahused,
when he recovered them in another world—for even
to him death shall not always be, as he tells us it is
now, " a mystery," but shall g. confirm a faith" he
has rejected and ridiculed to the last—where will the
scoffer and blasphemer stand? It is for him, not for
u 3, to say.

The Will of the late Sir SA mum A vcoMurv,G.C.R.
was proved in the Prerogative Court on the 3J inst
by the oaths of RICHARD TYLDEN, Esq. THOMAS
GAPE MONTRESOR, E.g. and Sir JOHN MAXWELL
TYLDEN, a nephew, three of tlic executors ; power
being reserved for the sarue purpose to Sir HENRY
TUCKER MONTRESOR, WILLIAM HOW MULCASTER,
Esq. and WILLIAM TytoeN, Esq. the ne',diews also,
the other executors. It is dated the 18th May, 1822.
The personal effects are sworn tinder £60,00t1.
Amongst the bequests are a poisoned dagger that
belonged to the Sultan of Djojsentra, in Java, which
the testator has left to his nephew, Major TYLDEN,
together with his medal for the taking of that ishind ;
the silver cup presented to him•by the Committee at
Lloyd's, on the taking of Monte Video, to his nephew
General NIONTRESOR, svi!h all the portraits at Syntfale
House, Kent ; the plate presented to him by the in-
habitants of Madras, on the capture of Java, to his
nephew Captain MuccasTett ; and to his nephew
SAMUEL AUCHMUTY, all the test of his plate. To
some of these and other relatives are given pecuniary
legacies, of £2,000 or under ; and to his faithful ser-
vant, BENJAMIN MATTHEWS, the interest of MVO
for his life, the principal then devolving on Captain
MULCASTER. The residue is left to the testator's
three sisters and sister-in.law, living at his death; and
in default their several share; to their children, with
the exception of a nephew named ltonenr..
• The Will of the late Sir WILLIAM Hensel-IEL was
proved in the Prerogative Court, in Doctors' Corn-
asonsom the 3d instant, by the oaths of Dame MARY
HERSCHEL, widow (the relict), and Joan FREDERICK
WILLIAM HERSCHEL, Esq. the son, two of the Exe-
'MOTS; power being reserved to CHARLES BARRAGE,
i Esq. the other Executor. The personal effects were
sworn under 6,0001. The copyhald and other lands
and tenements at Upton-cum.Chalvey, in the county
.of Bucks, and at Slough, he decrees to his son, with
Twenty-eve Thousand Pounds in the Three per Cent.
Reduced Annuities. Two Thousand Pounds are given
.to
!his brother, Jothts DIETRICK ; and annuities of
'One Hundred Pounds each' to his brother JOHAN
ALEXANDER, and his sister CAROLINA ; Twenty
Pounds each to nephews and nieces; aad the residue
(with the exception of astronomical instruments, tele-,
scopes, observations, &c. which he declares to have
given, on account of his advanced age, co his son, for
the purpose of continuing his studies) is left sole!). to
Lady IlEasclieb. The Will is dated Dec. 17, 1818.
ROBBERIES ,THE ...I'HEATftES.—At the close of
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entrance; the robbery was effeoted
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in his small-.clothes pp:o(qt. yet he ‘'
his loss till he was, informed by a
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