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

am not disappointed. l have seen the
pans oil Marathon, and these are as fines
Gan you tell me-" he continued. where
Fiction fell? because | have heard that
my friend Howard was killed al his side
ana nearly at the same moment"
ne spot was we'll known, and point.
ed with my finger to some trees near it
at the distance of one hundred and fify
yards: we walked to the spot. Howard j"
SAID his Lordship with a sigh, .was nv
relation and dear friend but we quarrel.
,ed' aud was IN the wrong; !, we were
however, reconciled, at which /, now re.
lo'ce. lie spoke these words with great
ieeling, and we returned to view the mon.
ument OF Sir Alexander. Gordon, a broken
column, on which he made some criticisms.
oestowIng great praise on the fra,ernal ac
iect'ons OF his brother, who had erected
| 1t. lie did not seem much interested
ABOUT the positions of the troops, which I
pointed out to him; and we got into our
carriage and drove to the Chateau Con.
mont, the poet remaining silent, pensiye
and IN musing mood, which took care
not to interrupt.
The gallant defence of this post seemed
to interest him more, and | recapi,ulated
all the particulars knew of the attack
From the bravery displayed by the hand
iul OF troops 1.-THE Guards) who defended
1t, 1t has acquired its reputation. THOUGH
they were reinforced more than once. the
number never exceeded twelve hundred :.
and notwithstanding the enemy having. BY
hatterlng down the gate of the farm.yard
and setting fire to the straw i'm it. got nos.
session OF the other works, in the evening
attack, they conld make no impression on
the s;'ong hold, the garden
F" Whose close bleach'd walks and bowers bove
been ~
Inc deadly marksmans lurking SCREEN"
They reapet no advantage by these as
sauIts; on the contrary, they sacrificed
great many brave men without any pur-
pose. 1t was most important post for
mad they succeeded in getting possession
OF 1t, and driving out our troops their
guns would have en6laded us and IVA
should have been obliged to change our
'front.'. The pompous title OF chateau gives a
little additional importance to this position.
though it is only miserable DWELLING Of
Two stories, somewhat resembling the ha
citations of our Bonnet Lairds about the
beginning of the last century. The area
OF the house is about two Scotch acres
including the garden. The clipped and
shady hedges have been long since cut
down, which takes away much ,nteres,
from 1T; and the stupid Fleming to whom
it belonged, cut down the young trees in
front Fit, because they had been wound
ed by the bullets which he was informed
=" would cause them to bleed to death ="
The nobIeman who now possesses it. has
with better taste, repaired the chateau. and
will not permit any alteration in its ap-
pearance.
On our return in the evening pressed
his Lordship to dinner, which he decliu-
ed, saying-"l have long abandoned the
pleasures of the table," He, however, pro-
missed TO take his coffee with my wife, pro-
vlded there was no party He came at
pine o'clock, and greeted her most cor
daily, again expressing the pleasure he
ielt in meeting the friend of hts mother.
Notwithstanding the Introduction, had
invited two accomplished gentlemen to
meet him; one Of them, Hanoverian in
our service, had travelled in Greece. and
being extremely intelligent, a mos. inter.
esting conversation on that classical coun-
try, now struggling for its Liberties, took
place. The poet was in high spirits and
good humour, and he charmed us with
anecdotes and descriptions of the various
countries in the Archipelago and Albania,
which he had just visited. He neither
ate nor drank, and the only refresbmcpt
he could he persuaded TO take was an ice :;
but he remained with us till two hours
past midnight. My wife exhibited her
scrap-book, in which Sir w. Scott had
few months before, written a few staDzas
on the battle. She begged his Lordship
to do her similar honour, to which he
readily consented. saying, eff she would
trust him with her book, he would insert
verse in it before he slept" He march
ed off with it under his arm, and next
morning returned with the two beautiful
stanzas which, year after, he published
in his Third Canto Of "Childe Harold. :"
with little variation.
Stop, for thy tread is on IN Empires DUST"
consider these as being highly yaIua-
bic, being the prime pensieri of the splen-
did staDzas on Waterloo.
asked Byron what he thought of Mr..
Scott's "Field Of Waterloo" Just pub
Iished-if it was fair to ask one poet his
opinion Of living contemporary. ooh"
said he, "quite fair; besides, there is no,
much subject for criticism in this hasty
sketch. The reviewers call it falling
l1; but ] am sure there is no poet living
who could have written so many good
lines on so meagre subject, in so short a
time. Scott" he added, is fine poet,