Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1828-09-06

up 10 his writing desk. deposited note =,
saying word, immediate ely disappeare,
ne look up the note smiling, and band;po !,
10y companion, with whom he was on term, of III
S.oseat and kindest intimacy, observed. with !,
G-.r eNctement OF vanity, that this was IN
fourth of the kind he had received that r,orn;.
out that 1t was the only one which had been h.a
W t' own writer. They were all verv ,edur,;y
mutations to better acquaintance: and the mo,
page VINO had interrupted US by cominr vii
| '"e las, was 4 married lady. then much d;.,;,,
gu'sneH Tor her beauty i'm the fashionable yorli
ALL byron was not proof against this species O
"te'y' ana 1t may reasonably be considered =
i",,. encouraged. IT 1t did not create, the YER
'oo.e morals IN which he afterwards inJulqod
mere stood upon his desk large China en-
LOT lea, and one of those celebrated bowls. formct
| rom the human skulls, he had dsin tered NJ New
e'e"o hpoey lie prOfessed to live almost soIeI,
upon tea and toast; to be Indifferent when he rc
urea 10 sleep, whether it was day or night: and
todrca'n with extraordinary vividness. He thouph
Tea 'huch more exalting to the Imagination than
| whc ana declared that one of his finest rbanso
DIES had been written down. word for word ,ro,
De'h9 composed during a dream under the excite
nent o' that beverage. His bowl was lined with
SILVER, with broad edge Of the same metal and
SO much trimmed, that. although il was imno,s;hio
10 mistake the bony character Of the main portion
I've co"u easily hit 1t without exposing his aris-
'oCraica' hand' to any communicating contact
Lord byron resided i'm the neiphborhood
though in the same street. with nj, book SELLER
Murray My lodgings were, as phadelphians
calculate, about four squares of. lie was 50
much the object of courtship and curiosity. tina.
mH rarely found 1t necessary to % return visit -
o the greater proportion of his acquaintahccs.
ms rank was 4 Justification for what else would
nave seemed lnc'llity. Although myself disposed
10 pay every homage to his great genius, certain
vent relaxation OF the known forms Of social
courtesy Alter the call to which | have refer.
req, aostained scrupulously, though eaten un
with anxiety to see and hear more of him. Ar
the end of abou, a fortnight, found that duino
my absence ne had enqui,ed for Inc at my own
lodgings, and had left several copies "the cou
pigments Of the a"thor." of his last two poems
MS sort OF ProP,tiaion explained to me on
the following morning. The friend by whom
had been introduced, having repeated his visits
several times. was, at last, asked by Lord Byron.
why that republican had not been to see him A.
gam = lie replied instantly, that in using the
word republican, his lordship had answered his
own question. "l beg PARDON" was his exclama-
ton, the fault shall be atoned for without de-
lay: mad forgotten that to him was only a
gentleman
When he afterwards advcrtcd to the poen,s he
had recently published, and wanted to know how
they would be liked in America, short CONVEX
SatIop ensued, which seemed to wind him up into
lit oil eXtravagant enthusiasm. remember tell
ing him that, in my opinion, his permanent fame
would depend more upon the United States than
upon Great Britain that he had more admirers in
the ft ner than in the latter for that thee were
five readers this side Of the water to one on his
/" This IS capital, said he; it is anticipating the
Judgments OF posterity for the people of Ameri.
ca Judge without bias; they know me only as a
poet, with an utter ignorance or disregard of nv
iordship lie then mentioned a project which
he had once formed, and had not vet entirely
abandoned, of crossing the Atlantic and added
the truth is, am naturally, and by taste, a re.
Pnn''Ean socially, and by birth, an aristocrat
shall not wonder at finding r.vsef one of these
days, citizen Byron, chasing Buffalo over one
oil your western rrairies. How | should like TO
stand for an hour at the foot Of the Falls of Mao.
ara"
have never made up my mind as to the char.
acter OF Lord Byron. Good and evil were. &C
cording to my own actual observation, SO MINGLED
I'D his composition, that in reviewing them, it was
impossible to say which had the ADVANTAGE At
one moment his high and bright virtues would
shine ont dazzlIngly, extortng unqualified pane
gyric; at another, he seemed to fondle with vice
as II he loved it as parent lores his offsDriuo-
Had he come to America, he would have becn
saved from the corrupt associations by which he
was dragged mpetuously downward or. had he
HVed long enough TO be SatIatcd with the yanities
of this lie, his effulgent mind must have ultimately
dsspated all the vapours Of sensuaIity, and found
ITS way to true glory. His last hours in Greece
are said to have indicated this rising Of the moral
sun Upon the clouded heights of his intelligence
and feeling. TROS.
TIE VOTE OF Pennsylvania. Binns has re-
published tie jackson estimate of majorities in
the different counties Of the state to which he has
SUI lined an estimate of his own, which gives Ad
| ans majority of 1850. A more absurd and ri.
diculous document never was presented TO the pub.
| lie. Take specimen of the rest Warren
| county. In the most animated election contesr
| that ever agltated the state, that between Mr.
Shnlzc the present governor, and Mr. Gregg, this
| county Ppllcd 352 votes, viz 1862 for Shuize, and
| iso tor Mr. Gregg. In his estimate, Binns has
tho ignorance and folly to give Mr. Adams 400
mUoriiy, being exactly D more uotes than the
county ever gave to all the candidates running
What little political character Biuns has remain.
ing must be destroyed by this silly estimate
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