, 1869-06-13
BYRON AT VENICE.
Madnne GuScciojl Taken to Tnsk.
The following letter appears In the London

The following letter appears In the London
j ithe1sauM:
~ Ircsrcs 70 learn sha. Madame G1ceioli nas
made 50 frre With nv name and orlnlous respect
Ing Lori DyEon. hope she does not also say
that enjoJed the advantage Of be. acquaintance
at Venice: for although carnot ahsollrely Say
never saw he5, can safely Assert the nc1l thing
TO It. Lord Hyron was AswAys very kind 10 me,
ana s asn ,hfes ha'es At the ,oc p Hns
frtr0 shr sta,. oBerd NE the use Of one Of then1.
Sometimes he called for me on his war therr,
one Of thefe occasions, while he vas ., nreatIast
q female croFsed the room, entering on one s1le
md leaving 1t as the opposite door, n whose NJ.
an actually took her for one Of the maids OF the
house learning only from him when she hail
passtt! that il was Madame Gaicclolt. II had
recognized her, 80 little had observed her.
~ certainly did not approve the life 1or.! DJ-
Ton led at Venice. snd a. far ns felt myset wa1-
but We were near'y Of the aAIne age, which, with
our different positions u life, would have only
him, almost Invariably found him cheerful and
good naiused; or II at moments he wns less 80, he
% for y ssys ssns as aos f9o, s.nse him
- IooI,h. lisrepu,a6le iue,' on WITCH &C.
@ be made Himself Fiaicaoas a ~ The 'V,' egss Al a1
every one, and hare little doun, II was his
disgust with the very life he WIS leatlinE which
naae HIN take dislike to Venice, and glsl Of the
formed with Madame Guicetou offered him 10 qult
1t altogether. was pretty evident to me that he
Ky may have seen tattered on seeing the impress
sion hc had male on young Ia y Of max In soci-
ety 50 different from the other women he had
known since hts arrival tn Venice: and 1t DEPEND
cd on the toes-np Of hnlf-pcnnJ whether he
would follow her to RxFsRnA or return to Eng
land. -Tp fn1H Miter step strongly Adtlscd hi11
f,rfth thn tYrN n he mo.
with therc, hntl the cnco1raHsment he received
IFnn Madame Gniectol to follow her, prevailed
over big better genius tnot meaning nyself) and
Al.xx, - ,ne ,laasater q Eoans English
he met ut Gencva, where Mntame Gulccio,!
wishes to represent hts iifc Is pattern OF moral
tiy: She VIA not BY any means an aminhie
CHILD, nor ras Mrs llorrnes or ! particularly
us, not thinking LBrr1 Hyron'N house {hc living
at the time With another woluansa rcFy proper
one either for the infant or her nurse: a young
eEce as to the c1rc OF children: She d'ed IN !
tDnytrt At RaTeuna, In which Lord BYRON placed
her when he followed Madame Guiccio!l there
the inperttnencc OF. Euclish tratelers, who
forced their way Into his house or followed htu,
With then, in general, frequently coming 10 meet
strangers Of IN evening at my ho'ise, though he
well knew when he canc there that he would not
1nd ns alone. don 7 believe taas Lord Byron was
m:santnrory that nsnres rs nart or his character
IN hiB early w1.ungs Has merely poetcal fiction.
His loTe Of pleasure and the eaGerneSs with which
he pursued 1t certainly 10 prove him to have
been OF anything but 4 melancholy dtfrost1on.
I,uytnE the Carnival at Tcnlcc he was 3 con.
stant attendant at the Rldotto kind Of masked
ball, where he witnessed scenes which supplied
him with materials for his Bcppo' he had
always . box 1t the Venice Theatre during the
aeason. He passed his evenings at one or other oI
the three hnuses occupied by Venetian la4lies,
where htyaortr1 hal m opportunity Of secina
something OF Venetian society," and he readily took
ralt In IuJ Amusement that WA offered him, IL
which he was always willing to contribute his
share. 50 far ! nn able 10 connru Madame
Gutectot!a opinion that he VAS not Of 4
n,isanshrop!cal disposition : but this h.s
nothing to do Eith the lie he lei a
venicc; md she IA decidedly wrong II
asserting that H18 bis constant companion OF an
afternoon. Unless she a1lades to our rides togetnel
on the Lldo. IS onlJ spent the evenings Eist
him when be came 10 my o~u house. OF when
ntt hn IN The visits tie paid 10 shosc Of the Ven.
ttan Indies have mentioned visited hin some
timca in his box AZ the theatre, hot thls is no
what Madame GnfccIos would wish 70 infer.
LADY H., who saw Loru Byron frequently a,
Geuua, and also Madame Gutceiol1 assured mt
she was convinced he went to Greece to get AVA,
from her. which eau we'll believe, he had tvet
ious years With her-three Iao1e than. according
to his own account, II was In Ills nature to uv.
with any wonsn r. BEl1RAvK HofFfKH."