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


val; and has not been approached since
Cervan.es, in depicting manners. His
tales are my constant companions. 1t is
highly absurd his denying, what every
one that knows him believes, his being
the author of these admirable works
Yet no man is obliged to give his name
to the public, except he chooses so to do
and Scott is not likely to be compelled by
the law, for he does not write lbels. nor
line OF which he may be ashamed" Ue
SAID great deal more in praise OF his
friend. Tor whom he had the highest res
pect and regard. AZ WISH" added the
poet with feeling, +" it had been my good
fortune to have had such a Mentor. No
author" he observed, chad deserved more
from the public, or been so literally re.
warded. Poor Milton got only els for
his Paradise Lost while modern poet
has as much for stanza." | know NO,
Ut he made any allusion to himself in this
remark, but it has been said that Murray
paid him that sum for every verse Of
"Childe Harold"
Lord Byron, in reading aloud the STAN
zas OF MIR. Scott,
g For high, and deathless is the name,
Oh Hougomont, thy ruins claim!
Inc sound Of Cressy none shall own,
And Asincourt shall he unknown,
And Benheim be namoless spot
Long ere thy glories are forgot" &c.
ne exclaimed, striking the page with his
hand, " I'll be id ifthey will, MIR. Scott.
be forgotr' wv
lhere IS curious circumstance rela.
| tive to his own verses written in this scron
book, which exhibits the poets modesty
and good humour. A few weeks after he
nad written them, the well.known artist
IL. IL. Relnagle, Il friend of mine. arrived
IN Brussels, when invited him to dine
with me and showed him the lines. reouest.
ing nun TO embellIsh them with an appro-
Pirate vignette passage:-
Here his last Hight the naughty earle flew
Ihen tore. with bloody beak, the fatal plain;
rierced with the shafts of banded nations thro'
Ambitions life, and labours, all were vain
lie wears the shatter links the worlds b,oL.n
chain"
Mr.. Reinagle sketched with pencil a
spirited chained eagle, grasping the earth
with its talons.
had occasion to write to his Lordship.
and mentioned having got this clever art
Isl 10 draw vignette to his beautiful lines.
and the liberty he had taken by altering
the ACTON of the eagle. In reply to this.
he wrote TO me" Reinagle is better DO.
ct and better ornithologist than I an
eagles, and all birds of prey, attack with
their talons, and not with their beaks. and
have altered the line thus
Then tore, with bloody talon, the rent plain.
This is, | think, a better line, besides its
Poetical JUSTICE" l need hardly add, when
communicated this fiIattering .compIi-
ment to the painter, that he was highly
gratihed.
happened to have copy of the ono
Yelle AMBROSE" Of CAST, a severe satire IN
the monks, which Lord Byron had never
seen, as Its sale was prohibited in Italy. |
presented him with it, and i'm his letter tn
me from Geneva, he writes, :" | cannot tell
you what treat your gift OF CAST has been
TO me; have almost got him by heart. /
had read his Animal Parlianti,' but |
think these 'Novelle' much better. I
long to 60 to Venice to see the manners
so admirably described"
a year afterwards he published .sBep.
Po, which is certainly an imitation Of the
Novelle AMBROSE ;" and think if he
mad not read them, IL would never have
been written.
Lord Byron travelled in a huge coach,
copied from the celebrated one of Napole-
on, taken at Grenappe, with additions
Besides lit de repOS, it contained a libra
ry. Plate.chest, and every apparatus for
dining in it. have forgotten by whom
1t was built, but he told me it had cost him
SIX hundred guineas; it was most iDpeni-
ously contrived. 1t was not. however.
found sufficiently capacious for his bag.
gage and suite; and he purchased CAL
eche at Brussels for his servants. 1t broke
down going to Waterloo, and advised
him TO return it, as 1t seemed to be a cra-
zy machine but as he had made a deoos-
it OF forty Napoleons Certainly double its
yalue,) the honest Fleming would no, con-
| sent to restore the cash, or take back his
packing-case, except under forfeiture of
thirty Napoleans As his Lordsbip was
to set out the following day, he begged me
to make the best arrangement could in
the affair. He had no sooner taken his
departure, than the worthy SELLER inserted
paragraph in "The Brussels Oracle -
stating, that the noble milor Anglais'
had absconded with his caleche, value $500
francsw
need not add that my indignation was
great on perusing this rascally libel and
l lost not moment in applying to law
yer, who summoned the gentleman before
the mayor. He now began to draw in his
horns, and on my threatening to prosecute
him for defamation, he consented to take