The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-09-03
@isreIIanepns SeIsttians,
The TrUe story Of Lord By
rOm's Crime and Lady
BYrOm,s Trials.

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ByrOn's Trials.
The Aaantic Monthly for September con
tains very remarkable paper by Harrie
Beecher Stowe, in which is told what pur
ports TO be the true story of the relation
between Lord and Lady Byron, freed from
the falsehOOd and mystery with which tn
Igenius of Lord Byron succeeded in sur
rounding it. The publication of the stOrl
after these long years Of silence is provoket
by the recent book of the Countess Guiccio
Ii, in which Byron is again lauded and hi
wife slandered. The article is very lon
and we can only give synopsis of it. Mrs
Stowe says: Re
No person in England, We think, would
as yet, take the responsibility of relating
the true history which is to clear Lady By
ron's memory. But by most singular con
currence of circumstances, all the facts o
the case, in the most undeniatle and au
thentic form, we're at one time plsced in th
hands Of the writer of this sketch, witt
authority to make such use of them as sh
should judge best. Had this melancholy
history been allowed to sleep, no public us
would have been made of them, but the ap
Pearsnce of a popular attack on the charac
ter of Lady Byron calls for vindication
and the true story of her married life viii
therefore, Row be related. ,.s,r a,rs 81
Lord Byron has described, in one Of hi
letters, the impression left upon his mind By
a young person whom he met one evening
in society, and who attracted his attention
by the simplicity of her dress, and a GER
tain air of singular purity and calmnes,
with which she surveyed the scene arounC
her. ~ adf so.ss4arf
On inquiry he was told that this youn,
person was Miss Milbanke, an only child
and one of the largest heiresses in Englsad
The result Of Byron's intimacy with Mis-
Milbanke and the enkindling Of his .noblel
feelings was an offer of marriage, which she
though at the time deeply interested in him
declined with many expressions of offriendshiI
and interest. In fact she already loved him
but had that doubt of her power 70 be Il
him all that wife should be, which woulc
be likely to arise in a mind so sensitiyety
constituted and so unworldIy They how,
ever continued correspondence as friends
on her part the interest continually increas.
ed, on his the transient rise Of better feel.
ings was choked and oyergrOwn BY tbs
thorns of base and unworthy passions.
From the height at which he might have
been happy as the husband Of noble wo.
man, he fell into the depths of secret
adulterous intrigue with blood relation, 90
near in consanguinity that discovery must
have been utter ruin and expulsion from
civilized society. fs 54u oef 81
From henceforth, this damning guilty
secret became the ruling force in his life,
holding him with morbid fascination, yet
filling him with remorse and anguish and
insane dread of detection. Two years after
his refusal by Miss Milbanke, his various
friends, seeing that for some cause he was
wretched, pressed marriage upon him, aud
in an hour of reckless desperation, he sat
down and wrote proposals to two ladies'.
One was declined, The other, which was
accepted, was to Miss Mlbsnke. The world
knows well that he had the gift of express
sion, and will not be surprised that he wrote
a beautiful letter, and that the woman who
had already learned to love him fell at once
into the snare. 'ao4 s.i@- aRi 1'.
Her answer was frank, ,outspoken ayow-
al of her love for him, giving herself to him
heart and hand. The good in Lord Byron
was not SO utterly obItsrsted that be could
receive such a letter without emotion, or
practice such unfairness on loving, trust-
ing heart without pangS of remorse. He
nad sent the letter in mere recklessness he
lad not seriously expected 10 be accepted,
md the discovery of the treasure of affection
which he had secured was like a vision of
ost heaven TO 4 soul in hell.
When he went to visit Miss Milbanke's
PARENTS, as her accepted lover, she was struck
With his manner and appearance; she saw
lin moody and gloomy, evidently wrestling
nth dark and desperate thoughts, and any
hing but what happy and accepted lover
hould be. She sought an Interview With
i'm alone, and told him that she had obserg-
d he was not happy in the engagement, and
added that, if on review he
ound he had been mistaken in the nature of
lis feelings, she would Immediately release
lim and they should remain only friends. |
Overcome with the conflict Of his feelings, |
sord Byron tainted away. Miss Milbanke |
vas convinced that his heart must really be
involved in an attachment with reference TO
which he showed such strength Of emotion,
nd she spoke no more of the dissolution of
be engagement. ,-s5.sr .-
There is no reason to doubt that Byron !
7as, as he relates in bis Dream, profoundly
gonized and agitated, when he stood before
Iod' Is altar, with the trusting young creature
vhom he was leading to fate so TaWfullyt !
rsgic; yet it was not the memory of Mary
jhaworth, but another guilty and more
aiming memory that oTershadowed that
our. g., ...-.a -s--.y. .-1tiI
The moment the carriage doors were shut
pon the bridegroom and the bride, the par
xysm Of remorse AID despair--unrs peut.nt
.uorse and angry desDair-br,ke firth m. 1
o her gentle head. 5000
=" You nighs }sve saved me from this
lad am you had all in your power when 1
Z red mySef to you H'R. Then you
lisht have ma g me what you eassd
ut now yOu,will find that you have mar.
ed DsuV!'' r 1878 fe5
In Miss Martineau's sketches, recently
ublished, is an arc 'unt Of the termination
{ this wsSding journey, which brought
aafa.Irl1E 81 q. .itr-