New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-16


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youty srd ve'y spgT7--ea3isg that tscss were TIE
orIy circumstances uUday which tsas would w'ife
mon a .aiir, since he hsd 90 no back 70 England,
he cad thu, Lord Hol.aod vba bad been very kind n
hin, std Rogers, VITO tad become DIS Trend hm
t,ked him Dot 20 continue % reprint It, AID 30 be had
,UppTets ed H. Indeed be went on, 10 hsA become ol
late Acquainted with nearly al the persona be hsd
s.rizea e. Lad a hearty liking for them. espscsuy
~ they cid TOT REFUGE 10 know person who had 80
much shD,td them. He had DO longer any qusrrel
with any q them except Lord Carlisle snd as that
vss faulty dihore1ce be raid be supposed Il you'd
never be settled. On every account therefore, he ek-
pitssed h,s. gad that the book vas out Of prIt:
and vet he thosed regret when tod him th 81 /.
vss rely circulated in The United Sts'es. His poems
prbhlbsd Dung his minority be aid ne had sop
If(,-ed because they not rort5 reading; and be
wondered that 90. boz ksele's shoUId reprint them
"Wlile be Wss taking in this vsy, Sir James Blaud
BorgeF-. fourth or fifth rate poet who wrote Ine
ExC0isd with Cumberland and part Of whose Eplck
on Il cbsrd the Lion Hearted Lord Byron, in his
hints from Horace ssys he found a. Malta liong a
tIbnl-csme suddenly into the room, aud said. AL
rOpuy, Ny lord my lordl great battle has been
fought in the Low Countries, and BOnepare 10 en-
tItly defeated. But lie il true ? sad Lord Byron;
is il true Yes, my lord, II ia certainly true An
aid.de-csrp auiyed.n town Last night: he has oeen
in DowIiIg street this morning, and have just seen
him, O. be was going TO Lsdy Welhngtots lie says
he thinks Bonsparte ia now in fail retreat towards
Paris After an iDstGnt's pause Lord Byron rephed.
On id sorry for it.. Ara thsn aver anOi ;1S,
1--we 10 zee Lord Ca6terea CHE head on pCle bat L
suppofe shs'nt now And this was the first inpres-
SION produced ON bis impetuous ADD N governed ma
tuIe by the Ievs OF toe battle OF W aehoo' NO
dsy, after wsrds net him at Muuays Rooms, where
be received very gOOdbuuOredly the satrcsi con-
Rrstulstions Of Clifford and some other OF his Tory
friends the great victory bat ne did net disguise
bis feelings opinions about It, and would mol AUNT
that the Emperors was desperate even then. j
was much suTprsed az all this though less than
should fave been If had not already heard similar
feelings about the whole war OF the Hundred Days
will BOr spsTte expressed by leading Wings such as
the excellent M Roscoe at Liverpool who ofcourse
spoke ore whey and mildly on the subject, and by
Dir PER-. at Hattop, who was almost as exnsyagant
ss Lord Byron. 3,
IA dsv or two afterwards he cent me q copy OF all
his works with letters of Introduction for Greece and
Torkey-adoipg TO the one for Ali Pachs curious
pistol which subsequently returned, as | went TO
Spain instead of Greece. Two Of the letters still
po,sess; and / have just observed, by comparison
with potes that received from Lazy Byron twenty
ye.rs later that one OF them which is in very nicely
turned French, ia in her handwriting.
"On another occasion Lord Byron talked to me Of
. pian he bad once entertained of establishing hnsef
in Greece and twice he expressed to me his purpose
of visiting the United States saying the first time that
he had never envied any men more than he did Lewis
and Clarke when he read the ,count of their travels,
and that he had since felt the greatest desre TO
zee our Indians. The English Bards, to which hs
III,
country the Winter before be went to Greece at
time when there was heavy fall Of snow on the
groutd and be kept house for month, durirg which
tim be the light OF day-risng IN the even.
ing after dark and going to bed in the morning before
GAVIN The COrssir he said he wrote in eleven days
AM copied for the press on the twelfth adding that
whenever be undertook ythDg he found it necessary
to give hmseh wholly to it, For this reason he sup
posed he could never complete Cbilde Harold, which
he began at Yanina and broke off at Smyrna 1t was
40 long since he had laid it aside that ne should not
be believed, ever be able to resume it.
Gan American copy of his works, in two small and
yery shabby volumes printed, think, at Philsdel-
pbia, gave him evident pleasure. lie was glad, he
sso TO see il in go cheap form that everybody could
buy It, 1t wss in boards and be said he should keep
it So preferrng to have 1t just as !. came from Amer
leo. 10 tbis and in other ways he showed that ne
valued his American reputation, OF which he was then
just be einnng to be aware.
Above two years after this in October, 1917, as
was passing from Venice to Ferars / stopped at
Mira on the s-the Mira of Dante Purgstorio-
va.re Lord Byron was then living. 1t was eleven
O'Clock in the forenoon but he was not up Fletcher
his body servant, however remembered me- and, alter
taking my card to him. showed me into room nicely
furnished in the English fashion, where found MIR.
Uobhouse now Lord BroUghtoD) hard at work with
learned looking books, and had some very agreeable
talk with him till Lord Byron came down. Contrary
to ny expectation, he showed no marks OF the Wild
ar reckless life he had led since saw him in London
His countepance Just as fair, smooth and round
az ever His conversation, however, l thought
little different Its tone seemed to me to be more
lively, various, and decided. AS had been good
deslIn Germany he atked me if I had seen Goethe;
and fl dirg that had he put to me many questions
about bim He told me that Mr. nj. G.. Lewis had
made him an e1temporaDeous nansauon OF Faust
readirg it to him from Ger nan into English, which
accounted TO me for certain resem bance IN parts OF
Manfred to that remark able poem which had not then
been translated into English and which was aware
he could not read in the original He was curious,
too TO know about GOethes personal enemies, whose
L.. Iod Nd IN ha
when ] gave him an account Of very severe article
on Goethe in the Edinburgh Review, which To his
great annoy ance, had been translated and published
under his nose at Jena by Oxen, Lord Byron showed
az frat an amusing eageHess TO hear all about IT, but
then seeming to check himself, said, az 1t half In
esnelt though still laughing, And yet don't know
what sympathy have with Goethe except that OF
an injured author. Ard this, think was the exact
trutb for he left on my mind that morning no doubt
that he felt himself to be undeTvaued as poet IN
England.
"Both he and Mr. Hobhouse spoke with great salts
faction Of their residence in Italy Lord Byron, to my
surprise placing its attractions higher than those
of Greece. IL viii be remembered that he had then
written but had not printed the fourth canto of Chde
Harold; ard Mr.. Hobhouse, have always supposed,
was, when entered the parlor at Mira, at work on
the notes to it, which he published coon aiterward'
Mr.. Everett writes US Aug. 3, 1853:
"Hsying at a very early age begun to feel a great
interest in modern Greece that feeling was raised to
enthusiasm by the two first cantos of Chde Harold,
which appeared the year after left college. Deter
mined TO visit Greece myself, felt on that account
e,pecially desirous on my arrival in London in the
Sprpg OF 1915, of making the acquaintance of Lord
Byron. was offered Introduction to him by more
than enc friend-particularly by Richard Sharpe esq
bette known in society as 'COnVersation Sharpe
Delsys ,owevar, took place, and my youthful impa.
fierce led ne somewhst to overstep the bounds Of
strict pIopriety. addressed note TO Lord Byron,
sending with il copy of poetcal trite privately
prined by me some time before, in which he was men,
tinneA and al no the honsr Of his acduaintance.