Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-06-11

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precise, and a wan, unwarming spirit Il
a blue stocking of chilblained learning, s
a piece of insensitive goodness. Who y
that knows Lady Byron, will not pro-
this person, so unsutably matched TO- ;
nounce her to be every thing the
reverse Will it be believed that
her moody Lord, has written verses that
would do no discredit to Byron himself
that her sensitiveness is surpassed and
bounded only by her good sense and
that she is
BEST with n temper, whose uncouded ray
Can make Tomorrow cheerful as to-day.
She brought to Lord Byron, beauty,
manners, fortune, meekness, romantic
affection, and every thing that ought to
have made her to the most transcendant
man of genius-had he been what he
should have been-his pride and his
idol. speak not Of Lady Byron in the
common place manner of atesting char
acter appeal to the gifted Mrs. Sid
dons and Joanna Bailie, to Lady Char
emont and to other ornaments of their
sex, whether am eXaggerating In the
least when | say that in their whole lives
they have seen few beings so intellectual
and well-tempered as Lady Byron. i
wish to be as ingenious as possible in
speaking of her. Her manner, | have
no hesitation to say, is cool at the first in
tervew, but it is modesty, and not inso-
lently cool she contracted it, believe,
from being exposed by her beauty and
large fortune in youth to numbers of sui
tors whom she could not have otherwise
kept at distance But this manner
could have had no influence with Lord
Byron, for if varnishes on nearer ac-
qualntance, and has no origin in cold
ness. All her friends like her frank
ness the better for being preceded by
this reserve. This manner, however.
though not the slightest for apology Lord
Byron, has been inimical TO- Lady. Byron
in her misiortunes. Ii endears her to
heI friends, but it pi1ues the Indifferent.
Most odiously unjust, therefore is Mr..
Moore's assertion that she has had the
advantage Of Lord Byron in public opn-
ion.-She is, comparatively speaking,
unknown to the world for thou gh she |
has many friends-hat is, friend in
every one who knows her-yet her pride, |
and purity and misforunes, naturally
contract the circle of her acquaintance.
There is something exquisitely unjust in
MIR. Moore comparing her chance Of po-
pulary with Lord Byron's the poet
who can command men of talents, put
ting even Mr.. Moore into the livery of
his service, and who has suborned the
favor of almost woman by the bea uty of
of his person, and the voluptuousness of
his verses. Lady Byron has nothing to
oppose TO these fas cinatons bit the truth
and justice of Ter course.
The true way of bringing off Byron
from this qnesticn is his own way.
name y-to acknowledge frankly this
one, and perhaps the only one great en-
ror of his life. Acknowledge it, and al
ter all, what a space is still left in our
minds for allowance and charity, and G.
ven for admiration of him. All men, as
they are lrail and faIIible beings, are con-
cerned in palIiating his lault-to GER
tain degree they are concerned; though
II you reduce the standard of duty too
low, the meanest man may sympathtse |
with your apology for ii bad husband, and |
dsdan to take the BENEFIT; Of an insolvent
act in favour Of debtors to morality. |
But pay the due homage to moral prin-
clple, frankly own that the child of geni-
MS is, in this particular, not to be defend
ed-abstain from absoIving Byron on such |
grounds, and you will do him more good
than by idle attempts at justifcation.-I
Above all, keep off your sentimental
mummeries from the hallowed precincts
of his widows character. There, Mr..
Moore, you must not fish for compliments
or poach for the pathetic. Byron ac-
Quilted at Lady Byron's expense, can be
taken home to no honest hearts sympa-
thy, though there is no saying how much
the heart yearns to forgive him when
there is no sophlstry used in his defence.
You said, Mr.. Moore, that Lady By
ron was unsuitable to her Lord-the
word is cunningly insidious, and means as
muchor as little as may suit your conve-
nience.-But if she was unsuitable, | re-
mark, that it tells all the worse against
Lord B. have not read it in your book,
for | hate to wade through it; but they
tell me, that you have not only warily !
deprecated Lady Byron, but that you
have described lady that would have
suited him. If this he true ii is the un- |
lkindest cut of ALTO hold up a ford