Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-10-01

The most important evidence yet published IN
regard to the charge brought against Lord By
ron by Mrs Stowe, is contained in a letter just
furnished to the London Times by Lord Lindsay.
It was written by Lady Byron to Lady Ann Bar
nard, well known in literary circles as the au-
thor Of the beautiful ballad of AUD Robin
Gray in ISIS, in the confidential intercourse Of
Intimate friendship between the ladies.
LADY BYHox's LETTER
an a very incompetent judge of the i'm
preston which the last canto Of Childe Harold
may produce on the minds Of Indifferent readers
IL contains the usual trace Of a conscience rest
iessly awake. though his object has been too long
10 aggrayate its burden, as fit could be thus op-
pressed into eternal stupor. will hope, as you
do, that it survives for his ultimate good. 1t
was the acuteness Of his remorse, impenitent IN
It's character, which SO long seemed TO demand
from my compassion to spare every semblance of
reproach, every look Of grief. which might have
said TO his conscience, - You have made me
wretched l am decidedly of opinion that he is
responsible. He had wished 10 be thought par
tally de-anged, or on the brink Of It, 10 perplex
observers and prevent them from tracing effects
90 ther real causes through all the intricaces Of
his conduct
was, as I told you, al one time the dupe
Of hi. acted insanity, and chung 10 the former
delusilrs IN regard to the motives that concerned
me personally Til the whole system was laid
bare. He is the absolute monarch Of words, and
uses them, as Bonaparte did lives, for conquest
without more regard TO their intrinsic value,
considering them only as ciphers which must
derive all their import from the situation in
which he places them and the ends 10 which he
adapts them with such c0usummate skill. Why.
then, You WI. say, does he not employ them 20
give d better color % bic own character Be
cause be is TOO good al actor TO over-act. or to as
sumo o moral gart which il would be easy o.
strip Oh. In regard 10 his poetry eg5tism Is the
vital Trincipa Of his Imagination, which il is
difficult ior il. 10 kiEdle on any subject with
which bis own character and interests are net
identified but by the introduction Of fictitious
incidents, hy change Of scene or time. lie has Ell
yelopei bis poeticl disclosures 10 system i'm
peuetrahe except TO q very few, and his constant
desire Of creating o sensation makes him not
averse TO be the object Of wonder and curiosity,
even though accompanied rs some dark and
vague suspicious
Nothing has contributed more 70 the misun-
lerstludng Of hi. real character than the lonely
grandeur il which be shrouds il, and his afiec-
tation of being above mankind, when be exists
81 most iu their voice. The romance Of his senti-
meu;s is another feature of this mask Of state ]
Know 200 one more hatitlalv destitute Of that
ENTHUSIASM be 81 beautifully expresses, and 10
which be can work up his fancy chiefly tv con-
uEi0n 7 had heard be Wa the best of brothers,
the most generous o. friends. and ] thought such
feelings only required to Doe warmed and cher
ishel into IL Pc dlHus1e benevolence. Though