Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1829-10-02

to Waterloo, and as much more for some
alterations he pretended to have made
which, as could not contradict. was n.
onged TO submit to, although my LAWYER
was desirious should resist such gross
imposition. L, however. agreed, on con.
ditioh tnat declaration should be insert
cd, at his expense, stating the true merits
Of the case.
The following week the English Cour.
'e' mad the impudencc to copy into its
vindictiYe columns the libel, without no.
ticing the explanation, the Editor adding
some bitter remarks of his own, quite I'M
called Tor. mention this as am example
ion the party spirit i'm England at this peri
I'd. Lord Byron was a Liberal, and there
lore obnoxious to the ministerial " Oracle &"
the Courier" determined. however
IN the absence of my friend, to do him JUS.
uce to the public, and wrote to Mr.. Perry
full statement of the case. He publish
ed my letter, Uer6atim, in the 4" Mornino
chronicle" with his own comments, which
nave no doubt indicated Lord Byron
entirely from the gross aspersions of the
Courier" though the Editor had rot the
honesty to make any amende. Lord By-
ron was beyond the Alps, and he though,
himself safe. from the vengeance which
would otherwise have fallen on him. [
transmitted the whole detail TO Lord By-
ron, who was much pleased with nv con-
duct In Jus,ifying him, and extricating him
ont OF the hands of the Flemish Phils-
tines.
was intimately acquainted with Lord
byron's mother from her childhood. She
lost both her parents before she was ten
years old, and lived occasionally with the
family OF General Abercromby, of Gias-
sauSh, to whom she was nearly related.
passed some weeks in her company there
when she came from school, a rompinp
comely, good-humoured girl Of sixteen. in
clined to corpulency She was fond of
running races and swinging between two
trees on the lawn; but from this last en-
ercise she was at last nterdicted, for one
OF the ropes gave way, and she had SO Sc.
we're fall that she tainted, and [ carried
her in my arms into the house, but no in
Jury occurred except that she was Obliged
to submit to the lancet, and temporary
confinement.
One OF her nearest relations, Mrs. ID
-, the wife Of the Admiral, was about
this time residing at Bath and this lady
undertook the charge of the young heiress,
aud OF introducing her into the world
She had been too long in Scotland. for she
had acquired confirmed Scotch accent
Now 1t was to be feared that some north
ern adventurer might entice her into a
ciandestIne marriage, for she had no mo-
liner or good aunt to look after her. How
Bath was chosen as an eligible residence
Tor young and giddy heiress, seems rath-
er surprising; bnt thither she went. and
was introduced. It was soon known that
she had an estate worth sixty thousand
pounds, and she consequently attracted
many admirers; among others. CAPTAIN
byron, guardsman, Tor lately one,) paid
his court to the northern constellation. A
young man of address and insinuating
manners, got into the young lady's GOOD
graz es, and persuaded her to take trip to
GretDa Green with him. This claudes-
tine step placed her entirely at his mercy
IN respect to settlements, and entailed on
ner, In lew years, the misery of depen-
dence.
Ii was with some difficulty that the no,
bic captain was prevailed on to settle two
hundred year out of her two thousand
crippled with debts, which he had preyi-
ousiy contracted, his extravaganza contin-
ueo. and, alter cutting down the timber,
he disposed OF the estate to the Earl of Alb
erdeeD, much under its value, and within
three years he had squandered every shll-
ling. Fortunately death put stop to his
career, and the poor widow Gust out Of
ner teens,) had no other provision left for
herself aud son, but the ptiful pittance
which had, by the kind intercession of
friend, been saved to her.
She retired to obscurity, but in the midst
OF her friends, to Banf, to educate her
cniid. Its singular circumstance that,
at the birth OF this boy, there we're five
males between him and the title, yet be-
lore ne had reached his seventh year, he
succeeded 10 it. On this subject his nurse
was prophetic; for on Lis mothers asking
this woman, who had been thirty years in
the family, if he was fine child cav.
madam" said she, he's bony BARN,
and he has got a dubbed foot, and he1l
surely be Lord Byron, Tor "a the Lord By-
rons ha' dubbed foot" This have
heard Mrs. Byron tell when her son was
an infant; and it was certainly true that
two OF the family had been born with this
defect
She removed to Aberdeen, when he was
hVe years old, for the advantage Of better
masters than Banf afforded, where she
continued until his succession to the title
and estates Of his relation enabled her,
with the Lord Cbancellor's permission, to
carry her ward to England.
lie was sent to Harrow; and that she