The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-11-05

the popular charge, whfoh most exc1tea pubic
especially female. Indignation at the time was baSet
on his greenr0om IntImacIes; aud beautiful
actress Mrs. Mardyn. with whom he had never ex
changed word narrowly ESCAPED being driven OF
the stage on his account
Not content with such ordinary tangible charges tpay
M MHoFs Inc tongue q ramor was 70 process
AN z Ole C &c ps. ventures e throw gu. DARK hin.
WAS left 70 OIL ap tAe outline as he pleased.
Telling his own story Ia .efhe Adventures OF
Young AndalusIan NoDleman" "a fragment, ht
says
could, aad which could 20. 10 comm.ssd and LITTLE
ess than an aas-fa5e WAS anticipated as the result
Few who ever heard OF Lady Anne Barnard her
intellectual qualifications, and her social position.
viii deny that her report or conversations with Lady
Byron IN 1915 directly after the separation, iLs
than Mrs. Beecner Stoves account or com4nunica-
lions on the same subject thirty years afterwards.
Lady Anne wrltes:-
worid which behaved him reformed man as 10 bis habits
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IN forced to remember believe he pleased with me-
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II sJ shs a made no claim on him or any
dnced her to marry hima 'vany tho vanity Of Miss
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he wished to build As bis fortunes; both
have h Hl ss hs or
h mo,yes 20 Byron, Byron" she said "how DESC
He you'd then accuse himself Of being mad and throw
Affected oosae. snd ma anS h.
i ,s s s'sn ,, wss at that ms ssa
hna BY sSms ipSSaons not followed up by me
voluntary disclosures that attempted corrupt
principles both with respect TO her conduct and her ls
VA "a hy nssS Hs returned .ls
wretch said l. land had he no monsenis Of remorse
he sa%Ss
eamae, hat rush Of remorse seemed to como over him
he called himself asog. sister ,ca. present.
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tear M @s lowed oys9 % hs RETURN Ct
forgotten never never shall YOU hear Of Il more He
burst laughter % yea sS on
paosoPhies enperm r ns an ssd ho wshed to as
Of this prince q dnpicty except that varied were b.
lovely little chia Was BORN ana was laid beside Il.
mother on the bed and he was hs might his
mens OF torture have acquired Ia your
This, we should have thought completely diSposes
or the specific charge and must be taken with many
grains OF allowance In Its bearing on the general one
could understand him. might well have mistaken his
mystlfcanons qor which he had morbid fancy for
insanity. But the obvious course, after having been
taken III once or twice, was TO let him see that ne
was playing the fool to no purpose ana to laugh az
him. She should have gone she began, when she
toid him that he was guilty OF bad JEST She might
have said, an ola one for 1t was French r0uG OF
the ante-revOlutlOnary period, Lauzun or Richie
lieu. who said OF his wife q month after mar
rage 'If she was but another mans wife, how
fond should still be OF her ~ Byron was annoyed
at finding that the ladys maid was to travel In the
that account the reverse Of offensive, and the
presence OF the aelgail az she was present affords
Of the kind attributed to him. fcj
Again may not the ejaculation that broke from him
on the FIRST sight OF his child have been identical with
the reelection In his journal, "What torture she
may DO to me?' Or he may have meant nothing
more than what no said OF his Cousins child, sSne
Will grow up beauty and plague.n A jests pros
Byron had no taste for testing at any time, and with
oil her show or candor, did not spare him In the
lation OF her wrongs. In the case Of any other
woman she or her friends would have been
asked to explain why she kept her father
served fs paEt r p mother 70 eyen themi Why
structeds Why she pursued q course thousand
times more damaging and annoying to Lord Byron
than q direct aud open charger And above all
why she persisted In making mystery Of her spe-
cc charge until his death, his sisters death, the
destruction Of his autobiography Ga which she con-
most OF the direct evidence in REPUTATION OF III What
she must have told her parents was more likely 10
is asserted to have kept back We cannot 30 much
81 imagine nythlng that might be told TO Dr. Lush
ington and not be told TO them; and whom she says
In etrect that If the insanity had boon established she
would not have resisted reconciliation on his re-
covery, she implies that IN such contingency the
specific crime whatever 1t was would not have pre-
vented her from returning to him,
The additional information supplied to DR.. Lush
ington did consist OF facisthat Is, OF facts
new to Lady Byron. 1t consisted Of facts known TO
her when she first consulted MIN and kept back till
new light broke in upon her. II this was made
clear to Dr. LuShington, we must be permitted TO
say, with the highest possible respect for the vener
able Judge that the course he took IL utterly unac
c0untabe to minds. He ls consulted, as are two
other eminent professional men, by the mother OF
young married woman, and case carefully based
on the young womans written statement Is laid be-
fore them They give opinions which DO not sut
her views or do not justify in acting she has
determined to act; and In private interview with
him she informs him OF facts kept back from her
parents which entirely change his opinion and In.
duce him to lend the full weight Of his high author
iy private and professional to blast the reputation
II husband, one Of the three or four most gifted
men which England has produced for centuries.
Such was the intention, but such was certainly
Ll6 eHeCb OIL III. IutuluBiouo ntconu Vptiaaoh MIA
confirmed silence. fdl
II young women OF rank and personal attractions
who desire separation could always mako their
case good by the decision without inquiry or appeal
OF young counsel, many husbands would be In q
bad predicament. DR.. Lushington Was what IL
considered young at the bar In 1sl5 we are
informed that the facts Withheld from the father
and mother were communicated to young military
man at the same time; and second NINE was thus
charged with the train laid. The young man be
comes old and distinguished; he grows into hiSn au-
thory he says nothing but he shakes hts head, Ike
Burleigh In tie "Critic,n ana the snake is inter-
pretcd by his family and friends to mean something
too repulsive to be translated into words.
That their Interpretation must be larnentaoe
mistake, that Lady Byron IL one OF the most mex
plicabie OF human beings Is proved by the following
letters and extracts, addressed by Lady Byron TO
Mrs. Leigh, now published for the first time. The
lrst, not dated, was evidently written by Lady
Byron in January, 1919, shortly after she left for
Kirby Mallory, her sister-iniaw being then underline
same roof with ner. Mrs. Leigh remained with Lord
Byron In PccadIlly for several woeAs after tho de-
parture OF Lazy Byron; and only lett him when fhe
found she could be OF no further use TO ELMER
patty
You WIN think very foolish but have tried two
three times tall to OF departure with
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