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From the Edinburgh Advertiser.
LORD AND LADY BYRON

| LOkD AND LADY BYRON.
We lately took an opportunity of
expressing our opinion regarding the
treatment which this lady has met with
at the hands Of her husbands biopra.
pher. and the public press in general.
Our remarks have had the eject OF pro.
caring for Us two documents illus,ra.
tive Of the question -documents never
before printed, and which, with the
exception Of Lady Byron's letter, may
be termed the first that have appeared
on the side Of the injured and endur
ing party. Before laying them before
the public, we beg to make it under.
stood that we entertain no despiteful
feelings regarding the illustrious poet
to whom they refer: as we stated last
week, we regard him, with all his
faults, proved aud suspected. rather
with pity than with any other feeling:
pity, TO think that one possessed Of
such magnificent powers ofmind, should
have been in other respects so unhap-
PLY organized. The first document is
letter which Mrs. Leigh, Byron's
surviving alf-sister, addressed 20 Mrs.
Clermont, IN answer to letter bv that
individual. in which she had called
upon Mrs. Leigh for her testimony as
to her Mrs. Clsrmont's) innocence in
the affair Of the separation. Mrs.
Clermont is the individual TO whom
Byron alluded in the verses beginning
~. Born in garnet, in a kitchen bred. -
She was induced to call for Mrs.
Leigh's testimony in her favor, BY a
revival OF the scandal which took place
after the noble poets DEATH
ST. JANIS PAtAcr. LIST June, 1924.
My dear Mrs, Clerm0n,:
SIN answer to the letter ] have
this morning received from you, must
beg to assure you how very sorry am
Tor the annoyance you are now feeling.
owing TO the calumnies revived again 81
your character in the newspapers.
Il have, whenever opportunity pre-
sented itself, not only contradicted
them, but also done justice to the kind
iorbearanee ! have invariably observed
IN you. upon occasions the most trying
to every friend 10 Lady Byron; and
you may depend upon my continuing
to do so.
!" You are quite at liberty TO show
this letter to any Of your friends, and
to express my entire conricfion of your
being perfectly innocent Of the charges
brought against yor. in any way most
satisfactory TO yourself, except that ol
the channel of the newspapers, in
which IL would, OH every account. be
extremely painful and unpleasant "a
me to be brought forward.
"fou are. perhaps, not aware NOR
was myself till this day) that. two
days after the paragraph to which YOU
allude, and which was copied into the
English from an Irish paper, il was
coniradicted from authority in the
same paper. II can get the paper,
! will cut II out and send il 10 you. -
Believe me, dear Mrs. Clermoni, mos
truly yours, AUGUSTA LEIGH"
Our second document is an extract
, from letter addressed by lady, who
lorms one Of Lady Byron's circle o.
, friends. 60 n sentlewoman Of this town
. who has placed il 10 our hands:--
: - Mr. Dear p, when yo,
. knov as much Of Lord Byron as w
do, YOU will call him great poef. n,
I, certainly was the greatest that Eng
land has ever produced f; but cann0
= go farther with YOU. In my opinion
D MIR. Moore has lowered him consider
Y ably, even as literary man. VIVA
( are bis letters but the most coarse an,
> vulgar-fIll of oaths and foolish boast
ing OF his intempcrancc: Aud his ap
parent Iiberality and generosity is an
thing but what one - at hrst temple,
= 70 believe H. How codld a man be 3
e unjust rs 10 be giving away monc
] which was not lis TO bestOw! Fror
], whom did he take it 7 From his crcdi
}, tors. And some Of IL, which Moor
2 CLOSES over as proceeding from dee
I. feeling, was 60 silence an affair whic
i would have utterly disgraced him. vi
b own correspondence about Lady By
4 ron, shows ,hat she never bad his a
u lection and bis manner Of speakin
i about her after his marriage, az = Tins
y when all other men display some ter
y deruess, is Disgusting. IS 10 Moor,
. | have no words 20 express what fc,