The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-14
4Byron a. Judged by hi. Mistress.
NNOuNrEss eU1cC1oL1's LONG EXPECTED BOOK


hcation Of 1000 pages sent forth to crafty the
7Otened European curiosity For time, the
6OOL and his productions almost ceased to affect
ulse OF the people.
when we FAY that this is the long promised
- of the Counters Guiccioi, we should add
nut is published anonymously There is no re.
ibility assumed by anybody. The respecta-
OF the publishers is the only guarantee (pri-
'uS' conveyed) OF The book beng genuine and
ntic work by the celebrated countess (if we
80 call dOwager-msrchioness, the widow Of
HAkcentric French Marquis de Boissy, who had
FRANCne joke-an afit cied hatred OF perfdiOus
| ne frnn y But the lady herself never speaks 10
friends own person never, indeed. speaks at
-EShe is delicately suggested now aud thenin
Owls, and she once appears in full, in reference
| ~ emaTk by Byron, that if be could have mar.
be Countess Gaiccioh. he might have Sc
Will the happiness he had missed in this world,
as heretas likely to regain. Be this as it may
R,sa5e object Of the countess to prove her hero
| be n ret, as man and as poet. She leaves a few
B1Hrdws, not that she believes in them, but for
ANr.c effect. "QUelqIeS OnibreS,n as she says,
| "A EFT te pGySdge Plus beau Ct plus 6cst1nt.'
| Italian lady begins by thinking it pity By.
as born English. She contends that he vas
cottO'glish in blood, genius, tastes, mind and
Tally in external appearance; whereas, a
thorough young Englishman Of his day than
was in most OF these matters, especially in
-ure, look, and bearing, never existed. The
| CAIss cites Byrons own opinion on one of
points: My ancestors are not SaXOns," he
| they are Normans. Ny blood is all me.
Falrb't the Countess Guiccioli should maintain
| DhI tncy in love as being one Of Byr0a's char
LTAsilcs may, perhaps, excite smile; but all
| - Th considered, and a good many have 70 be
| nml' into consideration, it lie, perhaps natural
| Res be should thus uphold the fidelity OF a
| BkEht whom Jove must have laughed heartily,
eslly found lovers perjuries SO rsible
| aid to have done. But Madame la Com
for sSsas not always the key to the solution of
s, nor the necessary knowledge where TO
| TRY The love-passages between Byron aud
i aroline Lamb are told al some length, but
| e i'll told and the author not only afirms
r.. ryron had no great deal Of love for Lady
70 the me, but "he suffered too much in having to
| and youuch part as she imposed upon him, and
Of tine ereiore induced to bring her back to reason
| sense Of duty, and thought he had sue.
Il" Now, among the many useful habits of
WIN dooTgan's life may be reckoned that of not
s 5nSS,TTseserviDg every letter, by whomsoever sd
year. M 10 her, but every inclOsure, albeit the
Ing owe desired that il might be returned. The
hsllng tquant part Of Lady MOrgan's Memoirs is
psss and which the whole OF the love affairs of the
An id Lady Caroline aud the bachelor poet and
The MaHen in the brightest flush of his fame, are
It's first time, narrated in full. The nara
Ssmade by word Of mouth, as in letters ad-
by Lady Caroline to Lady Morgan, as in
| ter inclosed, written by Byron to the for.
| Money ghly impressiOnable lady. No novel, de.
| manners OF the day, has anything 10 it
artling, amusing, YET depressing, than the
iiHFon OF the fine. halt mad, angelic, demOn
! ady Caroline as she told it TO Lady Morgan,
?
| IN her journal. Its viyacty is charming in
sun more so when cOntrasted with the
Pssfe mohotonous character Of the countesss
| the Mo
Frank mere ere see the nlghty woman VINO claimed
Rogers and Spenser for her lovers. as
| ed mad TO see the new poet. some part Of
and mi, Childe Harold had just exalted her into
OF paradisaical intOXication-if there be
IN time thing. " He has a club foot and bites his
| the rivi said Rogers; "but the women were all
lars apIng their heads at him. and Lady West.
and took Caroline up to fling hers heart and |
- N The same direction. On behoding him |
-Farer, however, the eccentric aspirant muir |
INJURED, Mad-bad-and dangerous to know " |
end turned away. The words were really as ap.
plicGble 10 herself as 10 the young poet who was |
being "sufocated by the women" subsequently, |
Lord Byron called on Lady Caroline. Rogers and |
Moore" she told Lady Morgan, were standing by |
me; was on the sofa. lhad just come in from rid |
ing. Twas filthy and heated. When Lord Byron |
was announced, few out of the room to wash my. /
self. When returned, Rogers said, Lord Byron, |
you are happy man. Lady Caroline has been /
sitting here in all her DIRT with US, but, when you
we're announced, size few to beauty herself " /
Such was the beginning; and for nine months /
following II, Lord Byron "almOst lived at Mel
bourne House," which was the "center OF all
gaiety, at least in Appearance Byrsn swept |
all the habitu6s away, made the lady happy by |
his homage, and her mother miserable till tue |
connection was broken of, and Lady Caroline
agreed TO withdraw TO the paternal mansion in
Ireland. IT was on the occasion Of her departure
that Lord Byron wrote letter Gin which the fol-
lowing passages occur to Lady Caroline, who
communicated it TO Lady Morgan the preserva-
ion Of which document by the latter lady fur
nishes Us with evidence how inaccurately the |
Countess Guiccoli holds the threads OF this some
what disheveled romance, when she comes to the |
conclusion that my lOrdn did not much care for /
the love stricken married lady, and that he eXeT
ted himself to induce her to resume the path of |
reason and duty. The letter bresthes words that
burn, assurances of love made in tone the most /
likely 10 lead woman OF fierce passions and ten |
der affections, like Lady Caroline to utter ruin and
disgrace:
"lfJ Dearest Caroline-If tears which you saw,
and know / am not apt to shed-if the agitation |
in which parted from you-agitation which you /
must have perceived through the whole OF this |
most nervous affair, did not commence until the |
moment Of leaving you approsched-f all have |
said and done, and am still but too ready to say |
and do, have not sufficiently proved what my real |
feelings are, and must ever be toward you, my |
love, have no Otser proof to offer. God knows, |
wish you happy; and when | quit you, or rather |
you from a sense of duty to your husband and |
mother, quit me, you shall acknowledge the truth |
Of what again promise and vow, that no other |
in word or deed shall ever hold the place in my |
affections which is, and shall be, most sacred TO
you, til am nothing. Ishal have pride,
. melancholy pleasure, in suffering what you
yourself can scarcely conceive, for you do not
know me. Do you think now ] am cold
and stern and wilful? will ever others think 81?
viii your mother ever-tbat mother 70 whom we
must indeed sacrifice much more-much more on
my part than she shall ever know or can imagine!
Promise not 10 love your? ah, Caroline, II 10 past
promising. But shall attribute all concessions to
The proper motive and never cease to feel all that
you have already Witnessed, and more than can
ever be known but to my own heart-perhaps 20
yours May God protect, forgive and bless you
ever and ever, more than ever.
"Iour most attached BYRON"
"P. S. Is there anything 10 earth or
heaven that would have made ne 50 happy as TO
have made you mine long ago? and not less now
than then, but more than ever st this time. You
know would wi pleasure give up all here and
beyond the grave for you, and in RETAINING from
this must my motives be misunderstood! care
not who knows this.n
And this outpouring Of what is called "heart'
Is made 10 o married woman, who writes to Lady
Morgan, by way of comment, " william Cher
husband, sfterWard Lord Melbourne) g loved me
so much, that he forgave me all, and only i'm