The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-09-19

wife, But she described the happiness they en-.
loved to have been unequal and perturbed. Her
situation IN short time might have entitled her
some tenderness but she made no clam on him
for any. He sometimes reproached her for the mo-
''vanity, the vanity OF Miss MAbanke carrying the
point Of refQrming Lord Byronl He always knew
wished to build up his character and his fortunes;
both were somewhat deranged; she had high
name and would have fortune worth his
attention-let her look to that for his motives p
40, Byron, Byron" she said, show you des0ate
me r He would then accuse himself Of being mad.
and throw himself on the ground In frenzy, which
She believed was affected to conceal the coldness
and malignty OF his heart-an aifectation which al
that time never failed to meet with the tende:est
not followed up by me lest she might have con-
demned herself afterwards for her involuntary dis
closures that he soon attempted to corrupt her prin
cipes both with respect to her own conduct and her
latitude for his She saw the precipice on which
she stood and kept his SISTER T., with her as much
baunts or vice. where he made her understand ne
had been with manners SO Proaigatel so, the
rem0rser' sometimes he appeared to have them.
One night, coming home from one OF his lawless
parties, he saw me so Indignantly collected, and
bearing all with such q determined calmness that
rush OF remorse seemed TO come over him. he called
himself a monster. though bis sister was present,
and threw himself In agony at my feet. could
had lost me forever p Aslonishead at the
fowed over his face, ana sad, byron all IS for.
gotten never, never shall you hear of 1t more' He
me-, hurst nR' into laughter sWhat do you mean"
said l. "0nly q philosophical experiment, that's
ALL" said he; 81 wished to ascertain the value OF
your resolutions" / need not say more OF this
prince OF duplcity, except that varied were his
methods OF rendering her wretched. even to the
last. When her lovely little child was born and IL
was laid beside Its mother on the bed, and he was
informed 'he might see his daugnter,'' after
III ha broke sn om & is wsat
an implement Of torture have / acquired In your
SUCH he rendered it by his eyes and manner, .
bar a oil fort fu fotV yho0
in his presence All this reads madder than believe
he was; but she had not then made up her mind to
best to ntrust her secret with the excellent Dr. Bail
lie telling him all that seemed to regard the state OF
her condnct Bai'lie doubted 81 his deranuement
but, he did not reckon his own opinion nallible
he wished her to take precautions as II her husband
was so. He recommended her gong to the country,
but to give him no suspicion OF her intentions OF re-
naming there. and for a short time to show no
GOODNESS In her letters TIL she could better ascer
tam his state She went-regretting. as she told
mel too wear any semblance but the truth. A short
time disclosed the story the word. He acted the
part OF man driven to despair by her inAexibls
resentment, and by the arts Of a governess tonce
servant in the family who hated him. 81 Will give
you.n proceeded Lady Anne, "a few paragraphs
transcribed from one OF Lady Byrons own letters to
me- 1t is sorrowtul to think that in very little
time this young and amiable creature wise, patlenG
and feeling. will have her character mistaken by
every one who reads Byrons works. To rescue her
from this preserved her letters and when she after
should ever fall into hands to iniure him suppose
she meant by publication safety assured her that
q sacred record in her favor, unknown to hersef:-
LADY BYRONS LETTER.
am q very Incompetent Judge OF the impression
which the last canto OF "Childe Haroldn may pro-
duce on the minds Of Indifferent readers3it contains
the usual trace OF conscience restessly awake,
though his object has been too long to aggravate Its
burden, II 1t could thus be oppressed into eternal
stipor. l Will hope as you do that 1T survives for
morse impentence Of his character. which
SO long seemed to demand from my COM
to Of Which have o. said to S
conscience, 'You have made me wretched." l am
decidedly OF opinion that he Is responsible He has
wished to be thought partially deranged, or on the
brink OF it, to perpex observers and prevent them
from tracing effects to their real causes through all
at one time the dupe Of his acted insanity, and chung
to the former decisions in regard to the motives
that concerned me personally IN the whole system
words and uses them as Buonaparte did lives Tor con.
quest without more regard to their intrinsic value,
considering them only as clphers which must derive
all their import from the situation In which no
places them and the ENDS to which he adapts them
with such cOnsummate skill. Why, then, you Will
saw does he not employ them to give better color
to his own character Because he Is too good an
actor to oyeract or to assume moral Il ga arr which
egotism Is the vital principle OF his imagination,
which it isdilcut for HIM to klndle on any subject
with which his own character and1nterests are not
identified; but by the Introduction OF fictitious incl
dents, by change OF scene or time he has
impenetrable except a very few, and his constant
desire OF creating sensation makes him not averse
tHouvh accomganieI by some dark anu vague sus.
picon. Nothing has contributed more to the mls-
understanding OF his real character than the lonely
grandeur which he shrouds it, and his affectatIOn
OF being above mankind, when he exists almost in
their voice. The romance OF his sentiments Is an
more habituay destitute Of that enthusiasm be 30
beautifully expresses and to which he can work up
his fancy BY eno oa nsS heard he
and thought sucn feelings only required to
be warmed and cherished Into more, diifusive be-
nevolence. Though these opinions are eradicated
and could never return but with the decay OF my
memory, you viii not wonder II there are still mo-
ments when the association Of reelings which arose
from them soften and sadden my thoughts. But
have not thanked you. dearest Lady Anne, Tor your
Kindness IN regard to principal obect,that OF
stand my wishes, which never were to inJure
Lord Byron in any way; for though he would not
from continuing his friend; and 1t was from
considering myself as such that silenced the accu-
more fully Justified It is not necessary to speak iii
OF his heart in general; 1t is sucien that TO 1t
was hard and impenetrabe-!hat my own must
touched. I would rather represent this as my mis-
fortune than his guilt; but surely that mlsfor-
are my feelings; you win nudge how to act.
His illusions to me in "Chide Harold" are
cruel and cold, but with such semblance as to
make me appear so, and to attract all sympathy to
himself 1t Is said IN this poem that hatred OF him
will be taught AS lesson to his child 1 might ap-
and still more to my own heart, to witness that
there has been no moment when have remembered
injury otherwise than afectiOnately and sorrowfuly
II Is not my duty to give way to hopeless and wholly
unrequited affecton; but so long as live, my chief
struggle Will probably be not to remember him too
kindly. l do not seek the sympathy OF the world.
but wish to be known by those whose opinion 10
valuable and whose Kindness Is dear to me.
Among such, my dear Lady Anne, you VIII ever
be remembered by your truly affectonate
A. BYRON.
CONCLUSIONS
IL Ia thn prOyince of yOur readers (Of the London
Times and OF the world at large to judge between
the two testimonies now before them--Lady Byron's
in 1876 and 1885, and that put forward In 1869 BY
Mrs. b. stowe, as communicated by Lady Byron
thirteen years ago. In the face OF the evidence
0ven, positive, negative and circumstantial, there
can be but two alternatives the case--ether Mrs.
b. stowe must have entirely misunderstood Lady
Byron and been thus led into error and misstatc-
ment, we must conclude thai, under the pressure
Of a lifelong and secret sorrow, Lady Byron's mind
had become clouded with haucinati0n In respect
OF the particular point IN question.