Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1869-12-11
the BYRON SCANDAL.
True Cause Of she Poesss sepRFs
Rtlon RFOm his wife.

The new number Of the London
Quarterly review contains an able
analysis Of the controversy raised
by Mrs. Beecher Stoves alleged
discovery and revelations. The
following is a summary of the rela-
tons Of Lord Byron with his wife
aud Of the circumstances that led to
their separation, as related by the
Review:
Moore, who had the best possible
Information and was the best quail
flied to interpret any doubtful al
lusions In the journals and letters,
says: with respect to the causes
that may be supposed TO have led to
this separation, 1t seems needless,
with the character Of both parties
before our eyes, to go In quest OF
very remote or m Mysterious reasons
to account for It." This was, and
Is the only rational and consistent
theory. The case Of this ~ill-assort-
ed pair was u clear, undeniable, in
evitable one Of incompatibility.-
Each had fixed habits and modes
Of thought which neither was
disposed to give up. They were
both accustomed TO have their own
way. Eeach possessed no common
amount of self.cOnsciousness and
selt-esteem. His was the genuine
poetic temperament, which re-
quired soothing aud could not bear
the argument or contradiction. II
was impossible for him to get ON
with q reasoning, strictly reasona-
bic wife, who made no allowance
for the caprice or waywardness OF
genius and was resolved on being
always In the right. Granting that
In the minor differences which pre-
coded the decisive one, she was al
ways In the right, this does not
mend the matter. II was not the
less evidence that II, instead of
making the beat Of the situation,
she aggravated II by demonstrated
or repr0ach, a catastrophe was in-
evitable sooner or later. There
was some domestic sparriag, no
doubt. But there is an ample evil
demce in his familiar letters that he
was much attached 10 her and that
lie accepted the with his notions
and habits) uncOngenial part of
husband in good faith. The un.
wOntGd restraint of the married
state become more CALLING as the
novelty wears of. lie proposes to
join Moore excursions without their
wives; he contemplates another
Journey to the East alone he part
ly resumes his bachelor habits,
his irregular hours and meals,
with solitary musings, the fits of
dependency aud gloom, by which
his wild bursts of mirlh were alter
mated through life. The time of
trial for the welded partner of his
cares was come but il she had real
ly studied and understood his char
acter she would have been prepared
for 1t. While they were living to-
gether In London, curiosity was all
alive to discover what he was do
ing in poetry, and Lady Byron (he
complained) was in the habit of
r%ummaging among his papers when
he was out, in company with u fe-
male friend. In one Ofthese voyages
of discovery they came upon some
compromising letters from q mar
ried woman to him previous to his
marriage, which Lady Byron in
closed to Byron, who threw them
into the fire, told his wife he had
done so and took no further notice
Of them. His own account of the
separation, supplied to Moore, is
that she left London on a visit to
her fathers house, where he was to
join her. "They had parted In the
kindness. She wrote him
q letter full of playfulness and af-
fiction, on the road, and immedi-
ately on her arrival at Kirby NAL
lory her father wrote to acquaint
Lord Byron that she would return
to him no more" This letter be-
gan, "Dear Duck" and ended,
'Yours, ever, Pippin," q name he
had given her iu reference to the
form of her face.