The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-07

Captain De B-s agent will complete the cor
respondence. II would appear from Captain De
B-s previous communication that it was fn
contemplation to ask the aid OF police magis-
trate, with what distinct object 1t Is now impos-
sible to ascertain, though 1t may not unreason-
ably be suspected that IL had reference to the
missing box of family papers-
my Dear Sir-I called on Mr.. s. on FRI
day morning, being anxious that my affairs
should terminate; and he begged that should
write and ask you to name the time when It
would be convenient for me to see and confer
with you as TO the steps to be taken, which L
would do at your office.
81 am, my dear sir, yours very sincerely
"ELIzABETH MEDoRA LEIGH.
Thursday October 12, 1S43.
Address Madame Aubin, 49, Aldenham Ter
race Old st. Pancras Road"
Thus ends the correspondence that came into
the possession of the friends and correspondents
of Captain De B, in connection with Miss
Leigh, II does not appear that the
ever made or that any reconciliation
between Miss Leigh and Lady Byron
was ever effected. Upon this subject Mr. s.,
in letter dated the oath of September 1869,
twenty-six years after the time in which these
events occurred, and forty-fve years after the
death of Lord Byron, writes:-'I did not succeed
In my endeavors, and my failure is somewhat
contradictory of Mrs. Beecher Stoves state
ment, that Lady Byron never fatered never
gave over In motherly tenderness towards the
lady whom she calls the child of SIM l ascer-
tanned at the same time QSt3), that the so-caled
secret was known TO very many persons be-
sides DIR. Lushington and Sir George Stephen,
and do not know how to reconcile this fact
with the 'dignifed and magnanimous silence
claimed as a merit for Lady Byron; for If she
did not impart the knowledge, who else can
have done SOP"
1t is possible, however, although The circum-
stance may never have come to the knowledge
of Captain de B. or Mr.. s., that at some
after-time, when Miss Leigh passed out of their
vision, she may have agreed to all the terms de-
manded of her by Lady Byron, been restored to
her favor and protection, and ended her days in
the receipt of her bounty.
However that may be- Miss Leigh, with her
sins, her sorrows, and her sufferings, aud bear
ing with her her little daughter Marie, disap-
peared at the close of the year 1843, from the
great, heartless busy, cruel world of London.
and soon afterwards sank into that benefcent
grave, where ''the wicked cease from troubling,
and the weary are at rest"
1t will be seen that Lady Byron told to this un-
| happy ''child of sin" the same story that she
| did to Mrs. Stowe, though why, even admitting
| that 1t was true, a woman of any delicacy of
| feeling could have made such q revelation, If in
| her right mind, it is difficult to understand.
| The charge against Lord Byron and Mrs. Leigh
| here, as elsewhere, rests upon the word of Lady
| Byron, while all the substantial proofs are
against her assertion. There is nothing in the
sad story we now publish to prove that Medora
was other than the legitimate daughter of Mrs.
Leigh, although her autobiography makes an
important addition to the history of this re-
| markable affair.