Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-29
MR. EVERETT's REMEMBRANCEs OF
LORD BYRON. .

Mr.. Everett writes US august 3, 1859:
Having at a very early age begun to feel a
great interest in modern Greece, that feeling was
was raised to enthusiasm by the two first cantos of
Childe Harold, which appeared the year after !
college. Determined to visit Greece myself, l
felt on that account especially DESTROYS, on my ar
rival 10 London in the spring of 1915, Of making
the acquaintance of Lord Byron. was offered an
Introduction to him by more than one friend-par-
ticularly by Richard Sharpe, Esq, better known
in society as Con v~ersation Sharpe" Delays,
however, took place, and my youthful i'm patience
led mt somewhat to ovcrstep the bounds of strict
propriety. l addressed a note to Lord Byron,
sending a copy of a poetical trihe privately prin-
ted by me some time before, in which he was men
toned, and asking the honor of his acquaintance.
/ received a most ~obliging answer from him she
next day, accom- panied with O set Of his poems in
four volumes, (rendered doubly valuable by mar
giuAl corrections in his handwriting,) and appoint,
ing an hour when be would see me. His reception
Of me was most cordial. Intercourse between the
two countries was just reopened after the war OF
l8l2-Sll4, and l was the first person from the
United States whose acquaintance he had made.
lie expressed high satisfaction at the account !
gave him Of lis transatlantic fame. Our con.
v%ersalion vas principally on the state Of education
and literature in this country, and on Greece, tc
which he said be was SO much attached that, but
for family considerations, he should be disposed
to pass his life there. lie offered me, without go.
l~icitation on my part, letters to his friends there
and, among them, to Ali Pacha, Of Albania.
The state Of public affairs was then very criti
cal. Napoleap, recently escaped from EIba, was
advancing rapidly to meet the PIussian and Eng
lish armies in Belgium. The probable result oil
the impending conflict was discussed with walmth
by Lord Byron. "NapOleGn," said he "will at first
no doubt, drive the Duke of Wellington. That ]
sh all be sorry for l don't want 10 have my coun.
,rymen beaten. But | will tell you what / do
want. / want to sec Lord Casiloreagh's head cal
ried on a pike beneath that window" This feeling,
widen: as it is, seems to have been pretty deliber-
stely cherished by Lord Byron. 1t lie expressed
in his conversation with Mr.. Ticknor a few days
later, after the battle of Waterloo had been fought;
aud IN a letter to Moore written a day or two be-
fore ! saw Lord Byron, he says, "Of politics we
have nothing but the yell for war; and Castlereagh
is preparing his head foF the pike. on which We
shall see it carried before he has DONE"
Lord Byron at this time in the enjoyment of
his reputation as the chief Of the modern British
Parnassus-had laid aside entirely the nissan
thropic tone and eccentric manners with which he
returned from the East. lie was a great favorite
in society, and happy, to all appearance, at home.
lie had also formed friendly relations with many
of those whom he had attacked most fercely in
"Eoglish Bards and Scotch Reviewers" Mr..
Rogers gave me an amusing account Of the COM
m%encement of his acquaintance With Lord Byron
on bis return from the East. It took place in con-
neclion with the reconciliation of Byron and
Moore, Of which the successive steps are infinitely
related in Moore'S Life of Byron. Mr., Rogers
having been informed by Moore that Byron and