Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1853-03-05
Mtoeeuai1eoss SrEs1tter.


A correspondent Of the Home Journal
asks the editor TO state the cause of the rup-
ture between Lord and Lady Byron, and
says to do so is no easy task, since Byron
himself repeatedly declares, in his letters,
| that the cause was unknown to him. The
Journal says;
Ga the second of January, 1918, Lord
! Byron--thcn in his twenty-Seventh year
was united in marriage with Miss Milbanke.
On the tenth of December OF the same
year, Augusta Ada, their child, was born.
| About six weeks after, Lady Byron left
London on visit TO her father, in Leices-
tershire, with the understanding that her
husband should shortly join her. They
parted in Kindness, nay in tender affection.
| On the Journey, Lady Byron wrote him an
aff1ctiona,e and playful letter. lmmedl-
ately on her arrival at the paternal man
sion, her father wrote TO Lord Byron, 10
! inform him that his daughter would return
10 him no more; and the husband and
wife never met again. AT the time OF his
marriage, Lord Byron was man of fashion,
and abducted to the vices Of man OF
fashion.
Marriage was continually recommended
to Byron as an "antdote" 10 dissipation.
At length he took the prescri pton-and a
bitter dose it proved. He proposed 10 Miss
Millbanke, and was refused. They con-
tinued, however, 10 be on friendly terms
and 10 correspond. He proposed second
time and was accepted. His friends pro-
tested against his choice, for two reasons
First, because she was too ''straghta
/ ced," i. e., too good for him; and secondly
because her fortune consisted chiefly II
expectations. But, sitting one day with
friend, when refusal from another lad,
arrived, Byron said; "You see that, afte
all, Miss Mllbanke is TO be the person
will write to her." He wrote on the in
slant, and showed the letter TO his iTienC
who, still demonstrating against his choice
read the letter over, and remarked, "Wel
really, this is pretty letter; it is pity
# should not go-I never read prettier one.
"Then it shaH co." said Byron. 1t did g
$, and it sealed his fate.
!. Miss Milbanke was the pattern daughtt
of pattern country gentleman. An Ems
= lish country house, OF the pattern sort,
place where peace and plenty, order an
10 regularity have taken up their abode
< Life in it goes on in an unvarying round
duties and delights. From the master
the scullion, each inhabitant has, and knou
and keeps his place, yielding obedience
those above him, requiring respect and su
- mission from those below him. Bot Il
IT, yoke is easy and the burthen is light, b
cause respect is mingled with aftcto
and obedience is rendered with loyalty
9. Miss Milbank', as we have Just observe
was a pattern lady of her class-virtot
discreet, prudent, orderly, kind-form
to be wise mother of English children,
admirable mistress of an English home.
- She was not woman who would see an
y. thing romantic in iiaison, or anything i
he teresting in seizure of furniture by 1
er. sheriff; nor was she woman who cou
set regard the glory of the poet as a set
~ against the faults OF the man; /; on The CO
trary, she could consider-and rightly CO
- sider-that the possession of extraordina
csc talents heightens the turpitude Of mo
~ delinquency.
Nine times during the year that Lord a
Lady Byron lived together, the sherifis