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painting q portrait Of Lord Byron,
from miniature painted at Venice in
1890, aud given by the poet TO Nine
do Boissy, then the Countess Guieoio.
II, and which has never before been
copied. Nine Boissy, an we are adj.
vised, prooounoes Fagoani's copy the
best portrait Of Lord Byron 10 exist
epoe The face, we learn from one
who has seen It, is very beautiful, al
though some think eiismipate tho
collar 10 turned down, and tho figure
Is wrapped in a cloak Of Gordon plaid.
Two copies Of IL have been ordered
already.
In Moors's Life Of byron numerous
references are made 10 the illustfous
poets personal deformity, and his OK.
tremo sepsitivepess upon that score.
Moore mentions that "tho lameuess
Of his right foot, though an obstacle
TO grace, but little impoded the aoti.
witty Of his movements; and from this
circumstances, m we'll ns from tho
skill with which tho foot was disguis.
cd by means Of long trowsers, IL would
bs difboull TO conceive defect Of this
kind less obtruding itself AZ defor.
nifty; while tho dillidepoo which
constant consciousness OF the iaGrmi.
~ gave to his 6rst approach and adj.
dress made, in him, even lameless
sourcs of interest"
The defect, after all, was not eth.
or very great or very perooptible con.
siderably less in fact than In Sir Wal.
ter Scott, who was lame from the hip
and, like Shakespeare, was "a hating
fellow"
The accident occurred NJ tho time
Of his birth, owing he bitterly com
planned, to bis mothers false delicaoy
on that occasion, aud consisted in his
foot having been twisted out Of its
natural position.
10 Moore's Diary, vol. 3. p. 1876,
he states as told him by DR.. Butler,
head master Of Harrow School. aud
his wife, J "his lamelesp, they both
agreed, was from an accident, being
let fall when at nurse" but IN tho
Life, three years later, no declares il
occurred Mt bis birth. In tho same
volume, year later, Moore mont
ions a conversation with Lord Sligo,
Byron's warm friend, who travelled
with him during his FIRST visit to
Greece, 10 which Lord s. said that
Que day when he was talking with
Byron on the shore Of tho Gulf Of be.
panto, Byron (who had before said
that ho would toll him some time
why he hated his mother no much
pointed TO his naked leg and foot, and
said: "Therc's tho reason IL wns
her false delicacy Mt my birth that
was tho cause Of that deformity and
yet, afterwards she reproached mo
with IL, and no, long before we part
cd for tho last time, uttered sort OF
imprscation on mo, praying that ]
might DO as Informed in mind as ]
was in body" Lord Sligo, Moore
adds, said that Byron that day bathod
without trowsers.
The advice Of the celebrated surg
con, John Hunter, was taken upon
his case, but too long after the acct.
dent bad occurred, bad various eIpe'
dents were resortcd TO in hope Of res
torting the limb TO shape. Even
when a little child, at Aberdeen, GER
tainly not moro than eight years old,
he was observed to display much an
ger IL his lamclcss was noticed I; yet
on other occasions, he would jest at
il, and there being another little boy
in Aberdeen who had similar defect
Byron would laugbingly say, some
times, "Comc and see the twa laddies
with tho twa ciub.feet going up the
broad street"
His mother, in her frequent gusts
Of vehement and angry passion, would
alternate between wild admiration Of
his handsome face and the repulsion
Of actual disgust at his lame foot. In
his memoirs, Byron strongly describ-
cd the feeling Of horror and humilia-
ton that came over him, wlen, in
one of her fits of passion, she called
him ga lame brat" In later days he
wrote "The Deformed Transformed"
the hero Of which, addressed by his
mother as n huncbback, retorts, 81
was born so, mother"
PRoFANIry. - The famous DIR.