New-York tribune., 1870-01-04

other symptoms besides those referred to Of alteration
of intellect During the last thirty have not met
lucinatonJ at ali parallel with of Lady Byrons In
my experience il Is unique. never saw patient with
| such delusiOn."
This Mrs Stowe not without show of reason de-
clares to be conclusive. We may add to it, however
almost equally explicit passage from another high
authority on the subject of mental diseases, whom
Mrs. Stowe apparently has not consulted,-whom at
all events she does not quote Dr. Maudsley, in his
Physiology and Pathology of the Mind" says:
"fhe mind is noi unsound upon point but an un:
action Moreover. when the deiusion is pro.
duced there is no power of drawing q sanitary
quarantine it preserving all other mental pro-
sesses from on the contrary e morbid m0fe,a Ss
there that at moment the most des
tainy some cases Of soealled monomania partial
deational insanity. there does appear to be hut little
ideas but such cases are generally met with in an
asylum where the patient IS removed from those par
Speeed to sSy an S Sose patients
who calm and servceabe In the asylum to return
e and to be subjected 10 the strain Of trying
circumstances or the stress OF adverse events ana ey
do NOT perperae acts of dangerous violence even In
the asylum they have now and then their bad times In
which they are morose, uncertain. and excitable."
Now there is no reason to think that Lady Byron,
in the whole course of her long life ever showed
symptom of general insanity. She certainly not
suspected of mental unsoundness, so far as have
any means of knowing. except on the testimony of
Mr.. John Robertson of Brighton who writes to The
Pail Mall Gazette that three of her friends thought
her mind was touched upon the subject of the separa
ton" because she made charges against her dead
husband similar to the charge she repeated to Mrs.
Stowe. But this is supposing the very sort
of hallucination which Dr. Forbes Winsow
and DR.. Maudsley declare TO be impos-
sbe. Mr.. Robertson's brother, the famous
IL Id,
he heard her story and believed it. Henry Crabb
Robinson, a keen -witted man and wise Judge of
character, knew her well at the period of Mrs.
Stoves famous interview, and speaks of her as a
woman of remarkable powers of mind. DR.. King,
who was her physician in the latter part of her life
and who certainly must have detected insanity if
there had been any, writes to Robinson in February,
1854:
Lady Byron quite recovered. She is always
feeble and obliged to husband her strength ana calculate
her powers but her mind is intact pure and lofty
II seems TO pour forth its streams of benevolence and
judgment from the sick bed; perennial fountain
Her state OF mind has always given me confidence In her
severest Illness"
The destruction of the halucinaton theory leaves
Mrs Stoves argument so nearly complete that
tho direct evidence which she cites OF the
crime may be dismissed with less We pro-
ceed to give very brief synopsis of 1t.
l. 1t is clear that byron was guilty of
some unusual immortality from the fact that
DR.. LushingtOn and Sir Samuel Romilly offered
to take the case into court and there make public
exhibition of their proofs and the fear of this drove
Byron to sign the deed of separation. 2 Though
| Byron declared to his intimate friends that he
courted investigation he took pains to avoid it. 3.
The crime of incest mentioned at the time of the
| separation T. Byron was evidently suffering from
some unusual and terrible remorse at the period of
the alleged Ofense-that is, between Miss Milbankes
first refusal and subsequent acceptance of him. 8.
| He was afraid of his wife, and tried to de-
stroy her reputation, that her disclo-
closures, if she made any, should not
be believed. 6. He had illegitmate child born in
England, besides AHegrd see letter to Moore, Feb 2,
1s1Sl, touching whom Mrs. Stowe has received the
following letter from England, written by person
who appears well informed on the subject of his
letter."
child OF born before, shortly before the Byron
rage The child q daughter, must not be coniGunded
year after his separation The history or less OF
that child of incest, IS known TO many for in Lady By
rons attempts to watch over her, and her from
ruin she was compelled to employ various agents at diff
| ferent times"
This agrees well enough with the story of Medora
Leigh, whO according to the narrative we published
the other day. described as being about % years of
age when she to London in 1Si3 1t also agrees
with the other statements in that remarkable story
We may add that of the minor objections which
have been made to Mrs. Stoves True Story" some
are explained ana some are not noticed. None of
them however, invalidate her statements upon the
main points at issue. She devotes great deal
of space to exposition of the Byronic con-
spiracy to blast the reputation of the injured
wife, and argues with much ingenuity that it
her duty and her right TO tell the truth since
else would do it. Here we do not purpose to follow
Nbotay ha of tba adj Of
ing this crime abroad of the moral effect of intro
ducng inquiries about incest into polite society and
of the authority of Mrs. Stowe to reveal what
after all was family secret we have
nevery doubted the integrity of her motives.
That she has been actuated in this matter partly by
an honest albeit mistaken idea that in the interest
of public purity she ought to check the influence of
Byron's poetry. or that she could do it by such
means and partly by chiyalrOus desire TO vindicate
the fair fame of an injured friend, the victim of
nearly half century of calumny, we believe
firmly that to the somewhat impassioned
introduction to her book reads like waste of words.
Whether she had any right to publish her True
StoryD at all of course fair subject of contro
versy. OF the slipshod and The Saturday RereiC
expressed it, "cock kahOop" style in which her story
was cOuched no one has spoken more severely than
| THE TRIBUNE. But the journals which have reved
a pure-minded and benevolent woman mere
hireling sensation on-monger have done an unworthy
deed for which, hope they will live to be ashamed
We must say, however, that Mrs Stowe has not con-
vinced of the propriey OF her conduct and wish
| more than ever that she had been content to hold
her peace. She has shown conclusively that Lady
Byron did make the disclosure to her in confidence.
and left her without authority to reveal it, Lady
Byron had some thought of publishing the story her
SELF and asked Mrs. Stoves advice. Mrs. Stowe
| replied:
Considering the peculiar circumstances Of the case.