New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-14

with carrion With but a single exception. after he
| reached manhood. his atrgues all with married
women and usually with mothers Of children. Adultery
seemed necessary spice TO tempt his appetite. One
and perhaps the notorious OF his English
bordering closely upon incest with the
law OF the woman whom he called his best friend the
aunt OF that Miss Milbank who afterwsrd became
| Lady Byron.
The one exceptional in which the element OF adu
terry on both sides did not enter has other features
scarcely less odious Within few weeks after he had
written the lines to his wife:
Fare thee WELL and II forever,
Then forever fare thee well"
he reached Geneva. There found Shelley. sccOmpa
MED by Miss Goodwin the unwedded mother of his child
and Miss Clermont the daughter o; widow whom God
win had married after the death Mary woolstonecraf
Byron had before either OF these peoples yet
1t could hardly have been week before he was engaged
In lcentous intrigue with this young woman; and
this carried under the roof OF his friend and
apprehend with the full knowledge Of Shelley and Mary
Goodwin Within less than nine months after his first
meeting with Miss Clermont she became the mother Of
his daughter allegro. Byron himself had, in the
tme abandoned her and his unborn child taken his
abode In Venice, and entered upon that infamous
OF life which he henceorth led and in which he seemed
to glory. man STEPPED to the lips In double aduteres
may well be presumed capable OF incest
But with his sister Augusta the 10 wholly differ.
emit For 80 before and for 30 years after the time
OF this alleged crimiDaydurng her whole life, except
the brief period In QUESTIONING breath OF scandal far
as we know. breathed against her What
Bvrons relations with her be readily gathered from
his correspondence and journals put forth by Moore
writer In The EewYork Tunes Aug 49, 1862, indeed,
makes this singular sta tement:
"Itis point OF no small Importance that in mono Of
except in two nstsDces The rst OF these is When writ
ing from Newsead Abbey to Mr. Dallas IslI he says;
referring On TO The alleged no Julia
ser and
birth Byron was at this time necessarily employed IN
fishing the later cantos OF 'Chde Harold He sent to
Mrs Leigh OF the first copies with the following In
friend. who has over loved me much better than I de-
tins volume Is presented by her fathers son and
most afectionate brother"
IL would be difficult within the same compass EN-.
body greater number OF in fact Byrons sister.
In the paragraph following the above cited Is said
to have been illegtiDate This is not she was born
after the marriage OF Byrons father with the Marchon
ess OF CaermaTthen with whom lie had elOped to the
Continent and married after she had been divorced from
her former husband. Her name not Julia Augusta
but Augusta Mary as is shown conclusyey by Byrons
will and by the inscription which she placed on his mon
ument. The first passage cited above relating to Au
gusa has do with her than with the Queen OF
sheba IL refers the context shows, TO Byron's
cousin the sister OF George Arson Byron who succeeded
TO the poets titles But In Moore's work there are fully
passages which Byron speaks directly and
by Of his sister. The first is IN 1904 when Byron
was sixteen years OF age and 1t shows that at this time
they had frequently met and well acquainted as
relations are ant who different parts OF the
that when IN 1911 Byron made draft for his will he d.
reoted all his property IN certain contingency; TO
the wife OF Col. Leigh. Shortly after this the
Leighs came London and Byron repeatedly mentions
the pleasure he mad IN her society refers to her. and
time that they were his guests at Newsead
Abbey In the last letter which he wrote In England ne
mentions Rogers no had just parted from his Sis
ter While In Switzerland he kept journal for her pc
rsa which he her. and from which Moore quotes
largely observe that in this there not
the slightest trace OF the readry which rune throngn
almost all hts other writings oil THIS period III is JUST
what fond brother woud write 20 an honored sister
Here also no wrote the 'Epstle TO Augusta one OF MS
Al IL had been peuned by the Santed keble. In word
there from FIRST 10 last word or phrase or alu
two beyond the pure brotherly and sstery afec
The last words which fell from his dying lips were
Ia reference 70 his slstcr -
This affection Byron for Augusta, indeed. appears
10 Us To redeemng trait In Byrons socia and
domestic fe and do not think that Mrs stowe or any
person read the brief and tender ILLUSIONS made
manner In which he speaks OF all the objects Of bis
,on-tho Guicciol only excepted-and believe for On IN
there between them the foul connection
which been charged. do not for moment suppose
hat stowe Invented this charge do not doubt
essential point OF the accusation conded
her by Lady Byron and am willing TO assume that
she believed To be true. But We have right now TO
demand proof much weIghy for it, and the details
relating IT, than sho recoiioos,on. of Mrs stowe OF
firm woman, respecting events that transplred forty
years before. We have right 20 be informed IN now
grave and demonstrabe errors In point OF TACT are
attributed To the defective recollection OF tho mar
TatOr and how far 20 the weakened memory or Lady
Byron step toward this, VIII Mrs Stowe give to
the world that memorandum OF facts aud dates which
gave any evidence. beyond her bare words as 10 the
truth Of the accusations involved Will Mis- stowe fur
nish them
He,0, York, Sept .. 1860.