THE DAILY EVENING TELEGEAPIT PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 18GD. Till IJYRON SCANDAL. Anillir VtrMon n.'llii! Mnry-Whnt Hie "IYm IIp Itnr" Nnys on lh W"li'-t The following is tho article from the 7Y, !i: Hvr mny..zino of July, 1M!!, to which reference 1ms been mnilo in connect iou with Mrs. Stoew's imper on Lord liyton in tho current nnmher of tho .Mlmdi: Monthly. It will be seen tint in their general statements the two unifies bear a decided resemblance: In a life of Lord Uyron, prelixed to a new edi tioH o nls jioetical works, in ono volume, ottered on evi ty railway olutforiu through thu country, the nutlior wlio tmpiinsus Unit Lord Byron's niutiii-il IKe was ias.se(l at Newstead informs Ids readers that the cause of the poo.'s Hepiiration from his wife is a domestic mystery; ttmt while she believed him to bo insane, there could be no hope of reconciliation, and when she was as-nred of his sanity, she held that ho was unpardonable, because the disrespect towards Iier had been intentional, lie concludes that ly kind treatment Lord Byron illicit have been certainly won to become a very loving husband, hilt Ids wife had rcaliy never loved him with that Rllct t'ion which smooths down so many of the iisperiticsof married life. That which had been so Ion;; a mystery was revealed tlironi;h the cruel lmlim-liii of Thomas Moore. Though t he par ticular (iflcnce is not, the class to w hieh it he lonjrs is known. It was not ncirlect, nor bitter words, nor adultery, that made the separation final. The cause was this Lady Byron, to use the words of her husband, hud been taught that duty both to (iod and man forhadu her to return to him. If she could hut have known the cir cumstances in which he asked her in iminiinu ! Hein" strenuouslv advi-ed by a triend to marry, nUcMiim h discussion lie consented. The next oucstion was, whom should lie choose? The triend proposed one lady, and he mimed Miss Milbanke: to w horn he had already made an oiler t niarria-e. which she had not accepted. The friend . strongly obl'-'clou to ncr, reniinuiiii; iiiiu that he could not marry without money, thai Miss Milbanke had no fortune at present, and, more over that she was a learned woman. Listening to these arguments he made a proposal to the other lad v. and was rejected, lie was sil tiiiL'wiih the triend when the rclusal came. "You Fee," lie said. "Miss Milbanke is to be the person:" and he wrote to her at the moment. Jlis triend, -tilI sironuly reinonslralin against the choice, read the letter, art! said. "This is a verv prettv letter, it is a pity it, slioiild not. u'o. I never read a prettier." " Then." said Lord Uyron, "it shall i.W li, was sent, and. in Moore" words, the "fiat ot his late was sealed. Miss Milbanke had l'ved him lor two years: she now accepted him. a i l t!u-v ivere m irried." lie wrote of her 1o hi friends, i-iu'illy perhaps, but it m.iv be with no more than beeomini; reserve. His ii'tters -how in what evaluation she was held in her own eoae'ry. anions her own people. "liy tUe w ay, my wilo cleet is per fection, and I hearot nolhiiitr but iter merits and her wo;id r. nr.il she is ,ery pretty." Her expectations, 1 am told, are ij;:vat: but what. I have not asked. 1 have not. writ li.-r these tell months.'' "I certainly did drcatn that she was attached to uk. wiii'-U il seems she h is been for some time. 1 al..o Uin.i.la her of a very cold disposition, in which 1 was ul-.o mistaken. It is a long story, and 1 won't trouble you with it. As to her virtues, eic. el''., you will hear enough of them (for she's a kind ol 'pai tern in the north), without my running into a display on the sub ject. It is well thai, one of us is of such fame, fdnee there is sad deficit in the moraU- of that article on my part, all owing to my bitch ot a Ptar,' as Captain 'f raneliniout says of his planet." "It is an old and (.though 1 did not know it till lately) a mutual attachment." lie hail been married a fortnight when he wrote, ''Address your next to .Seahani. Stockton-on-Tees, where we are going on Saturday (:i bore, by the way) to see father-in-law. Sir Jacob, and my lady's lady mother." However. Sir U ilph and Lady N'oel were very kind and hospitable, uuil their son-in-law declared tliiL he liked them and the place vastly, adding, he hoped they would see many happy mouths, and that Hell (Ids wife) was in health and unvaried good humor and behavior. Lord Wentworth. ton, her uncle, from whom she was to inherit seven or eight thousand a year, had been so very kind that Uyron hardly knew how to wish him in heaven if he could" be comfortable on earth. There were already signs that he was weary of his married life. One little month from the wed ding day he was lu-ling after the "abstraction and self-study" which he had found at Douglas Kinnaird's. He wrote to Moore: "My papa. Sir ltalpho, hath recently made a speech at a Durham tax-meeting; and hol only at Durham, hut here, several times since, after dinner. He is now, 1 believe, speaking it to himself (I left him in the middle") over various decanters, which can neither interrupt him nor fall asleep." "I must go to tea tea. I wUhTit was Kinnaird's ! iraudy, and with you to lecture me ' about it." The follow ing sentences are copied I from this letter, because they are instanced by ' Mr. Moore as a proof of Lord Uyron'is early eon- ' juRal affection: " j "Since I wrote last 1 have been transferred to my j fatlier-in-law's, with my lady and ni.v lady's maid, , etc., and the treacle-moon is over, and mil awake, and lind myself married. My spouse and I airree to unit In- -admiration. Swift suvs, "No wise man ever married ;" hut, for a fool, l i tif uk It the most ambrosial of all possible future slates, j still think one ouulit, to marry upon lease. Out am very mire I should renew mine at the expiration, llimiuii next term were for ninety and nine years. 1 wish you would respond, for I am here 'nbli. in.ib mcnriim, nb.innci intuit tt V(f.' l'ray tell Mi: what is (loin,; on in the way of mtriiiery, and Irnw the ami ropues of the upper iieniars' Opera jjo on, or rather Ko on", in or alter murriae; and who are going to liivuK. any particular commandments," Again, exactly a month later. ''I am in such a state of sameness and stagnation, and so totally occupied in consuming the fruits, and saunter ing, and playing dull games at cards, and yawn ing, and try rag to read old Animal Jli-'jistvrx and the daily papers, and gathering shells on the shore, and watching the growth of stunted gooseberry bushes in the garden, that I have neither time nor sense to say more than yours. ever." And once more, within a week: "I have been very comfortable here, listening to that monologue w hich elderly gentlemen call conversation, and in which my pious father-in-law repeats himself every evening save one, when lie plays upon the tiddlc." In these "earlier letter.-, written within two mouths of the marriage, Mr. Moore found such Bigns of strong conjugal affection and bliss as stilled the tears which had haunted him. lest the happiness ot Lord Uyron should be endangered by the lot he had chosen for himself: in other words, by his marriage with eucli a woman as Miss Milbanke. But these indications of a con tented heart soon ceased. The mention of the wife became more rare and formal, and there was observable a feeling ot innjulet and weari ness which brought back all the gloomy antici pations with which the biographer had from the tirst regarded the poet's fate, in the last letter before the separation, in which Lord Bvron an nounced the birth of ids daughter, there were longings for the other side of the Straits of Gibraltar, and lor a sight of Olympus, and a Bigh: "I have now been married a year on the yd of this mouth. Heigh-ho!" in which Moore perceived some return of the restless anil rovin" spirit which unhappiness or impatience always called up; and he knew that it was the habit of the writer's mind, under the pressure of disgust or disquiet, to seek relief in that sense of fl-ee-dom which told him that there were homes for Lint elsewhere. From his return to London until the day that his wile left him. n period of ten montlw.we have but few and far between glimpses of his domestic life. In the interval his daughter was born, and Lord Wentworth died. Of tho expected birth, the father, many months before it happened, wrote that it was a subject upon which he was not particularly anxious, except that he thought it would please his wife's uucle, Lord Went worth, and her father and mother. On the eve of the uncle's funeral he went to Drury Laue Theatre, and, Jn his private box, with 8ir James Mackintosh, clapped till his hands were skinless. His biographer, having before him Lord Byron's journals, has not thought fit to tell more of his ila.Jj iU fur a wvutli before. iina a mnh after the birth of hi daughter, than that, in the beginning of the period, ho was drunk, day after day, ith Sheridan. The in terest, he says, which the details would possess, "now" ttiat their first .cet as a subject of scandal is gone by," "would be too flight to justify me in enii riii;; upon them more particu larly. A shallow cxi use for such reserve at the very crisis of the poei's life. More likely causes might be found, and ainoni; them, that the jour nals would have eon; radletcd Mr. Moore's sto.-y of the separation. That his wife's sorrow in childbirth wao ii .".i'a .ited by his linkindness he himself benr witness. He "had breathed upon her "the breath of hiitcr words;" their child was "born in bitten. ess and nurtured iu convulsion," nnd the liitlerne s e n altogether his own; ho never bad, or con:.: 1 ivo, any renroaeh to make against her; the laul. of tho cruel separation lay with him alone. .'. ' 'ing Ids confession that he had a soul "which i.ot only tormented itself, but everybody else in contact with it:" his inti mations that," lo" .'.. ;'ig the doctrine of William of Nassau, lie ch -e logo wherever be had a mind, and never iln amed his lady was con cerned. From these revi la' i ins his w ife's wretchedness may, in some dcuree. be imagined, from her we'learn, incident illy, that (hiring the la iter part of her stay iu London she saw little of her hus band; that. lueniv-M-von days after the birth of her child, he sigiii.lert to her, in writing. Ills absolute desire that s.io should leave London on the. earliest day Hi:. L -he could conveniently !i., and that she we:;!, accordingly. And w hat mm tier of w oman v. a - -!.; to w hom the vow to love, honor, and cheri.-li had been thus kept? Let, her husband tell speaking "in the very dregs ol" the "bitter bus'nu s.," immediately after she had enforced separation, and while, "as the conse quence of the scpcir lion, he was suffering un exampled pu'wlie sua,oe, was outlawed in tho general opinion, u.- e .ile w ithout nope, w ithout pride, without alii i it .on. "1 must set you i-i .t in one point, however. The lault w.e not. no, nor even the mt-.(ortiin in in y "choice ' icnies -. in choosing at all): fori do not belie-, -. and I must say it, iu the very dregs of all this ! r, :cr business, that then! ever was a better, or vi. a brighter, a Kinder, or a more amiable and agreeable being than Lady Uyron. 1 never h.ni, nor can have, any reproach to make her while with nie. Where there is blame it. belongs to myself, and if I cannot redeem, I must bear il." Iu the "Portraits" of the Countess Albriz.i, she writes ot Lord Uyron at Venice: "Speaking of hi.-marriage a delicate subject, but one still ai'eea;.l to him. if it was treated in a friendly voice- lie was greatly moved and said it, had "been tl.e innocent eau-e of all his errors iind iill his I'l-ic-;. Of Ids wife he spoke with much respect and affection, lie said she was an illustrious 1 d.v, distinguished for tho qualities of her hcail and uuderstaudiiig, and that all the fault of their cruel separation lay with himself." As a taunt against his wife he wrote: "She was governed by w hat she called fixed rules and principles." There is a remark able passage in a id rto Murray, a letter which, cotijiled with one to Moore, shows the w ife's de liuht in sharing, a- a humble minister, in the glory of her hu-'-ah !. A lew weeks after their marriage he -cut t- Moore, in Lady Byron's handw riting, the vc-cs which begin: "There's nut a joy !'; world can give liketh.it it lakes away." Some days bet on- the day on which he ex pressed hi- absol-.it j desire that .-he should leave Ins house, he sent I t .Murray manuscripts, aiso in his wife's haiiu v. Tit ing, ol "The Siege of Corinth and i'.iri-i..a," and wrote presently afterwards: '-1 am very glad that, the hnndwrii ing was a fa vorable omen of in,- . .iiv-V of the piece; lc.it you must not tru.-l to t :ar. r-ir my copyist would wnti-;ont anything l dished i.i i,:i tin- ignorance ot innocence. 1 hope," howevci, in iliis instance, with no great peiil lo cither." How could Lord Uyron so soon grow weary of, and neglect, and. breathe bitter words against a creature so bright and beautiful, so kind, so amiable, so agree. i lc, of such exquisite purity and truth ? it might have been thought that he would lind, to bono- the words of Air. Moore, "those images ot ideal good and beauty that surround him in hU musings," rather iu the so ciety of his wile than of those w hom he sought before and after marriage. But he had followed a course of life which hardens the heart and de praves the taste, though seldom so cruelly, aud so utterly, as iu him: and marriage, if it does not purify the sensualist, does but give a darker line to his pollution. Lady Byron was no mate, for tiie man whose thoughts 6f women were such as these: Thought of Ihe stale of women under the ancient Creeks, convenient enough. Present state a rem nant of the barharism of the chivalry and feudal lines iirlilicial and unnatural. They ought to mmd home, iiinl be well fed and clothed, but not mixed in society. Well cite au-.i, too. in religion; but to read neither poetry nor pot, tics nothing but hooks of piety and eenkery. .Music, drawing, dancing, also a little gardening and ploughing, now and then. I have seen them lueudnig the roads in Upirus with good success." The sort of piety which he contemplated ap pears in Ids story of a Virago, the reigning favorite of his harem at Venice: "She was very devout." Whatever Lady Byron suffered from neglect, weariness, disquiet" disgust, or bitter ness, she concealed. Her father and mother were unacquainted, with any cause of unhappi ness. There was not a murmur abroad that the course ot her married life had not ruu smooth. Her child wa -born on the 10th of December, 1S15. On thetit'io! ihe next month she received in writing her husband's absolute desire that she should leave Loudon. She had a strong impres sion that lie was in-ane her opinion being de rived, iu a great inci.-nre, from communications made to her by ids nearest relatives and his per sonal attendant, who had more opportunities than she had of ob-.-rving him during the latter part ot her sle in London. It was repre sented to her that he was in danger of destroy ing himself. Lord Uyron allows Unit she reallv did believe him to be mad. On the stti of January, with the concurrence of ids family, she consulted Dr. Baillie as a friend. Not having the oj portunity of seeing Lord Byron, he could not give a positive opinion; but being informed ol his wish that Lady Byron should leave London, he thought her ab.-eneo desirable, as an experiment. He enjoined Unit iu her letters she should avoid all but light and soothing topics, she left London on the loth of January. That day, and the next, when she arrived at her father's house, she wrote to her inishanii in a kind and checrlul tone. She told her parents of ihe opinion which had been formed of his state ol mind, and they assured the relations who were with him in London that if he would visit them, they would devote their whole care to the alleviation of his malady. On the 17th of January Lady Noel wrote l Lord Byron, inviting him to Kirkbv Mallory. Koports which Lady Byron received from the" persons in constant intercourse with him, and from bis medical attendant, increased doubts, which had .already crossed her mind, whether anything like lunacy did, in fact, exist, hi this uncertainly she judged it right to tell her lather and mother that, if she weru to consider the pa-t conduct of Lord Uyron as that of a person ol sound mind, nothing could induce her to return to him. Until that moment they hud been ignorant of the existence of any cause likely to destroy her prospect of happi ness; and even now she withheld from them Unit something which was the necessary cause of separation. I hough she shrunk from" wounding the ear ol hei- mother, it is uot certain that she was not without counsel. They may have sought it I mm the guardian of her Infancy, the friend of her womanhood, the lady against whom Byron launched the "Sketch ,'r and whom he .-alls "the genial con fidante. However that may be. Lady Byron prepared a written statement, in which sixteen symptoms were mentioned as evideuee, either of Insanity, or, if that did uot exist, of tT,?.,?. ,.r " J" ' Lady Noel carried the s n,.10 lfdon, and consulted with Sir ffi1 1My lr Lushlngton, and Dr. wi in. t1.10 lwo liltter viKlU!(l Lord Byron, u- -rP nnllfnVl,:-r Lim of lhuir Purpose, and H'l wim;l''Ullllt 110 w"8 of wund inimt. ih?..TiWCrtt'Ml.tl,,fle,, the statement Z V,hoy Byr" Ll. d VmnA, that she was c-ntitl d to a separation, but they thouirLt re- There arc signs that he lived, always, under the fear of disclosure. The intense hatred which, whenever and wherever it could be safely Indulged, broke forth in sneer or curse against his "asrassins," will hardly allow charity to at tribute his lorbearancc, when Indulgence might have been dangerous, to a better motive than fenr. So soon ns he had agreed to separate, and while Lady Byron's lawyers recommended a di vorce, he wrote to Moore asking him not to be lieve all he heard, and entreating that no at tempt might be made to defend him, as that would be a mortal offense; and, becauso It had been represented that he endeavored to excuse himself by speaking of his wifo with disrespect, he called "upon Rogers, as oue of the few persons with whom he had lived in intimacy, to bear witness of his having declared that where there was a r'glit or a wrong rite had the right. In one of his letters written long after the separa tion, he mentions herasa "good daughter," and it is remarkable that, notwithslandiu . his abhor rence of his mother-in-law and the coarse style of his private letters when Sir Knlph and Lady Noel are mentioned, not a word of anger or ridi cule against them is to be found in anything that he cave to the world. There is no allusion to either in the "Sketch" or In "Don Juan. Ho lind probably perceived, what the event proved, that it would not be sate to insult them openly. He was torwiird to converse on the subject of his marriage, aud eager to learn what tho world paid (d the ciiu-e of separation. Notwithstand ing her absolute Mlcnee, his fears imputed to Lady Uyron a feeling of fixed hostility which would not rc.-t at his grave, but would in ike sonic discovery injurious to his memory. In one of their "few intervals of seriousness at Venice he besought Moore not to suiter un merited censure to rest upon his name alter death. From Switzerland he went into Italy, pa- sing through Milan and Verona into Venice . lie had tarnished his fame, and raise l an im movable barr'-er against the return lo domestic life. Ho now gave himself up, unbridled, to the lusts which bad brought that ruin upon him. Win n he afterwards meditated the gloomy sequestration of the old age of Tiberius, as the .-ill jeet of a tiligcdy. he 'thought that he could extract something ot "my tragic, at least." even out of the sojourn at t'a'pra-a, by sot tcning the details and exhibiting the despair which 'must have led to those very vicious pleasures. "For none," he adds, "but a powerful and gloomy mind overthrown would have had re course to such solitary horrors." On his arrival in Venice lie began to live in adultery with the wife of his landlord, a linen-draper. He grew weary of her within u year, and moved to ihe Moccnigo I'alace. on the (Iraiul anal. Not that he was constant lor a year. lie had passed but two months under her husband's roof w hen she found him entertaining her sister-in-law, al-o married, upon whom, in his presence, she bestowed sixteen such slaps that it made the ear ache only to hear the echo. A few months later he took two peasant girls, one married, the othr single, who had cried to hii.i for food. After his removal from the linen-draper's house he received into ids palace a company of poor women as "the com panions of his disengaged hours." '-The most distinguished mid at la-t the reigning favorite of the unworthy harem." the wife of a small village baker, was the terror of men. women, and children, for she had the strength of an Amazon, and used to knock down the other poor women of the palace. Being at last turned away, she threatened her master with the knile, and Hung herself into the canal, from which she was rescued. Lord Uyron writes of her: "I like this kind of animal", and am sure I should have prolerrcd Medea to any woman that ever breathed.'' Indeed, after he had well feil and clothed her, this reigning favorite was the very model woman of his imagination. With strength to plough and mend roads, "she was very devout," and, in the midst of her adultery, "would cross herself if she heard the prayer time strike." He continued iu this way of "lite for about fourteen months, from the tinie of his first arrival in Venice, and stopped when it had brought him nigh death's door. In the same month in which lie announced what he called his reformation, he met the lady with whom he lived in adultery until lie sailed for (Ireeee. The fourth canto of "C'hilde Harold'' was written at Venice, begun in June, 1817, and dedicated on the lid of January, ISIS. Certainly lie had not been wronged by his wile since March, lSlti. But he had brought himself to imagine that he had suffered mighty w rougs; and the great actor, lifting up hands, eyes, and heart to Time the aveiiger, and lo Nemesis, called upon them to awake, aud exact the ven geance which should yet be sought and found. At the same time and place he began in his private letters to write ot his wife in lan guage over which Mr. Moore has delicately cast a veil. The first instances are, "I suppose now I shall never be able to shake oil my sables in public imagination, more particularly since my moral clove down my tame." This wai written while Signora Marianna, the linendra pcr's wife, was seated at his elbow. Fifteen days afterwards. "U is only the virtuous, like who can afford to give up hus band and child, aud live happy ever after." Marianna w ns again by his side as he w rote, and told hiin that his line reflections were only good to clean shoes withal. Now, too, first of all, he discovered that when he was standing alone upon his hearth, with his household gods shivered around him, deliberate desolation had been piled upon him by his wife and her con federates. Having written himself into a rage, lie protested to Moore that he would never for get nor forgive that his desire of revenge had comparatively swallowed up in him every other feeling, and lie was only a spectator upon earth till a tenfold oifportuiiity offered. It might come yet. There were others more to be blamed than and on them his eves were lixed incessantly. Iu the sai'.ie letter he says that he had fin ished the lirst canto of "Don Juan." and describes the reigning favorite of his palace as the kind (d animal he liked, tall and energetic asa Pythoness,a woman who. if he put a poniard into her hand, would plunge it where he told her, and into him if he oftendod. It was a great change within little more than two years. Hav ing acknowledged the perlectiou ot hw wiles character, having confessed that he never had or could have any reproach to make her; that there was blame and it belonged wholly to him, and if he could not redeem he must bear ithe now accused her as the cold assassin ot us fame, peace, hope and better hie. and called heaven aud earth to bear witne.-s to his undying hate. A great change for better or lor wor.-o was sure. He mutt needs submit or revolt more and more. It may well be believed that in her parting letter, like his own "rranecsca, L'idv Bvron had conjured him. betore the cloud i.ass'cd away, to wring out the black drop, so that they might be reunited to-morrow muco it could not be io-tay. His moral lile was palsied. Insensible to the life-long desolation which she was sutlering, he would fain have persuaded himself that the too regarded his oltense as a light matter; that she had dealt treacherously, using it as a oretext, and was the author ol all the evil that had ensued. His pro'Tess from praise to invective may bo thus traced: After his wife had compelled him to consent to a separation, and while the sepa ration was incomplete aud the lawyers were re commending divorce, iu the very dregs of the bitter business, he represented her to be perteet and entreated that nothing might be said Ironi which il could be inferred that he imputed tho least blame to her. The blame was his, aud he must bear it. When the separation was com plete, aud the had given him iu a parting letter some pledge probably a pledge of silence and while the public voice against him was tierce aud unanimous, and he was accused of every crime that could be committed, he suffered two poems to be published in which he attributed to his w ife every virtue under heaven, above all truth aud terene purity, nud mourned only that she wanted the one 6wcet weakness to forgive. Ho did not pretend to be ignorant of tho cause of offense. Alter he had, unwillingly, made an offer of re conciliation, which was rejected, he wrote, but kept secret dering his lifetime, verses in which be invoked a curse upon her: "A liollow ngony which will not heal." and denounced her as a moral C'lytemnesrra, who, wilU aa WisuspuUd sword, uud a cold treason of her heart, hnfl hewn down his fame, peace, and hope, for anger and for gold had departed from her early truth, and had en tered into crooked ways, wiilklng in deceit and equivocation, nnd had "learned to lie with silence, and had acquiesced In everything which tended to her purpose. Yet still he did not pretend to he Ignorant of the cause of offense. There was now less reason to fear disclosure. The vague rumor of mysterious crime had died nway. The cry so loud and so universal In March, lSlti, w-s hushed. The "Farewell" nnd tho opening and closing verses of "Chllde Harold" had found favor. His popularity was returning. Walter Scott and Jeffrey, the Eilin hiifjh nnd the (JuarUrbi, defended him. He had lost all hope and desire of reconciliation, and wns drinking deeply of tho cup that imbrutcs the soul anil cheats the eye with false present ments. Now he began to complain publicly of Injustice, perfidy, and lies- that his name had been blighted, bis life's life lied away. Theangor suppressed Iu lSlti was poured forth in satire and execration. Yet still he did not pretend to be ignorant of the cau.-e of offense, and whilo he complained of the hand that gave the wound acknow ledged that, though unnatural, the retri bution was just. in parting with Lord Byron, it is some relief to cast a glimpse, of light upon a very dark picture. Though he continued to breathe bitter words against Lady Noel down to the time of her death, yet, for three years before hi- ow n death he seems to have ceased (a single instance excepted ) to w rite or speak unkindly ol his w ile. Tl.e lirst four and the eighth stan zas of his last bc.tttitul verses suggest that the unholy bonds which had held him were loo-cd. In the record ot the la-t ten days of his life the lady from w hem ho had pat teii at Ocnoa is not tia'nid. In the intervals of consciousness his thought turned toiler whom he ha. 1 wronged. On the day Unit he sailed from (ienoa towards (ireeee lie regrt lt'-d that he had not lirst gone to England. On the day before his death he muttered, "Why did I not go In, me before I came here? "" On the same day, when he Knew that lie was dying, he was most anxious to make Fletcher, his old servant, understand his last wishes. The servant asked w hether he should bring pen and paper to take down his words. "Oh,' no," he said, "it is now nearly over. io to my sister teU her. (Jo to Lady Byron: you will see her. and say " His voice faltered, and he continued to matter to himself for nearly twenty minutes with much earnestness, concluding, ""Now 1 have told vou all." "My Lord," said Fletcher, "I have "not under-tood a word you have been saying." "Not understood mer "' said Byron, with a" look of the utmost distress, -'What "a pity! Then it is too late: all is over." "I hope not," answered Fletcher; "but the Lord's will be done." "Yes, not mine." he said, and tried to utter a few words, of which all w ere inartieitiateexcept "my sister my child." He was most unhappy in his choice of a biogra pher. Mr. Moore was unable to perceive the injury that he inflicted upon Lord Uyron in giving a lixed habitation to his changing" fancies of anger and renior.-o without repentance, or the danger which, in the very whirlwind of his pas sion, he had always avoided, of enforcing Lady Byron to break "silence. If Sir Walter Scott, who was emphatically a man. could bae under taken the task, he would not have called up bis friend to tell from the grave, with a joyous voice, the toul sensuality of eniee: he would not have collected darts, which lav- scattered abroad and harmless, to pierce " a w oman's heart. Mr. Moore had direct authority to suppress anything that might be thought objectionable in the manuscript which he re ceived for the purpose of defending the memory of Lord Byron. He was without excuse when lie proclaimed to Lady Byron, before all the world, the tierce and bitter "things which her husband had said and written in secret when he publicly placed her name in foul contact with the linen draper's wife and the I'ythoness, and thrti-t he lore her eyes his own private opinion of her character both before and after marriage. Lord Uyron was wont to inuvoke Nemesis to avenge upon others the wrongs which they had suffered troni him. He little dreamed of the fat-j that overhung when he assigned to Moore the task of vindicating his fame. A 'onlewlel Hui'ldoiii. A HOY riVE VEAliS OLD THE CLAIMANT. An unusual incident, says tho London lhdhf Aurn, occurred in tho House of Lords a few days ago. A little fair-haired, blue-eyed boy, live years old, presented himself at the liar of the House, and their Lordships, sitting in tlio Committee of Privileges, were nsked to pro nounce him Earl of "Wicklow, and virtually to decide that ho is heir to tho extensive estates of that earldom in Ireland. A rival claimant for the vacant peerage contended before the committee, over which Lord Keilesdalo pre sides, that the child was illegitimate or sup positious; that he was not tho lawful offspring of the member of the "Wicklow family through whom he claims to inherit the title and prop erty; anil the unsatisfactory proceedings in the House of Lords, arising from tho sus picious absence of a most important witness, show- that the case is invested with gave difficulties. It r.ppenrs to be conceded that, if tho child is the lawful son of the late "William George Howard, he is entitled to tho earldom. The barony of Clomnoro wns created in 177H in favor of ltalph Howard, M. 1'. for "Wicklow, who had largo estates in the county, and was a scion of tho Howards of England, llis wife wns created Countess of Wicklow in 17!i:, and at her decease, in 1S07, her son became lirst Earl of "Wicklow. The last possessor of the earldom died without nialo issue, and tho present dispute is between collaterals. Tho story told by tho widow of William George Hoy. aril at tho bar of tho House of Lords is simple enough. Sho snys that early in life she was a governess. In lsil' sho met Mr. Howard, who was tho nephew of the Archbishop of Armagh, at tho great exhibi tion of London, being introduced to him by a mutual friend, Mr. liordenavo. Theiuti- I miiey thus commenced led to a marriage in lsii.'i, at Kensington Church. Tho child was born in lsill. Airs. Howard states that tho event occurred when she was about to go to Ireland to lind her hu si mud, in tho hope of weaning him from bad associates, with whom ho appears to have been connected. When about to set out on tho journey sho was mid den ly taken ill, nnd compelled to return to her lodgings, where a doctor was summoned, but bet ore his arrival tho child was born. This evidence is directly continued by Miss liosa Day, the sister of tho person who kept tho lodgings. She says that tho infant was taken from the bed in which Mrs. Howard was lying aud given to her, nnd that the child was brought up by hand, and was for a long time under her observation. Thise witnesses have, however, been sub jected to a cross-examination of unusual severity, in the course of which it appears that before the knew her husband she had been acquainted with Bordenavo, and that after tho mnmngo she had at one time occu pied lodgings in tho same house with him during her husband's absence. Bhe denied : nil familiarity with him before tho decease of Mr. Howard, but admitted that since that i event her " line of conduct" towards Horde- nnve had been changed, and she had resided in the same house with him for the last two or three years. The mystery wns consider ably increased by the secrecy observed in the communications between the married pair during Mr. Howard's lifetime. The widow deposed that her husband kept the marriage secret because he was in great pecuniary diffi culties, and afraid of his creditors. When asked why a certain doctor had been engaged to utUpd her ill lier confinement, she replied. that her husband hnd engaged him, and had rroiuiped him X10,(H)() if he would keep tho birth of tho child a secret for a time. The Committee of Privileges evidently was not prepared to give implicit credence to this story, and the lady was interrogated in a par ticularly Fcaiching mnnner.. The solicitor for the Wicklow family deposed that dotectives hnd been employed to watch her, at the insti gation of her husbnnd, with a view to obtain evidence for a divorce. It is conceded that if tho child produced before the House was born in lh(!l, and was the fruit of the marriage of Mr. nnd Mr.i. Howard, he is the lawful Earl of Wicklow. Of course, tho strong legal presumption is that a child born in wedlock is legitimate; nnd this presumption cannot bo rebutted without powerful positive testimony. f-ir John Coleridne. the counsel for tho little claimant, adverted to tho peculirr difficulties which beset tho case. Mrs. Howard was not well born, and she wns naturally exposed to tho dislike and enmity of n noble family, who nmst liavestroii'dydisapproved of tho allianci Her husband was n sellish prolligato, who had for years pursued a vngnbomi disreputable cniter, leaving tho wife to a forlorn friendless lite, there were, however, letters extant which showed that tho in;urir.-:o had boon at lirst one of iff'ection- and this view was stii ugly corroborated by M r. 1 low.ird's will, lniiile in Mil. the year of the child's bir! h. This document had been carefully prepared by a solicitor, nnd was entirely in tho wife's favor. Tho obvious inference was, that the was, cinj.loynu.-nt of detectives Hov.anl i.nd collect proofs to watch Mrs. of her Mipno.-ifd delinquency could not have had her husbands Millet lull. While tl.e invi stigntioti is thic':ly beset with difficulties, it involves questions which nie of the utmost interest to the wholo coun try, since they bear on the law and evidence ol succession, ainl on tho very constitution of the peerage. At present it would bo idle to f.ttcmpt imy opinion on the controversy; but it lies befoie a tribunal pre-eminently quali fied to solve even thoso dark and intricate problems with spotless impartiality and tho highest judicial skill. 'fi'tte (kOvcrnor siik! tin Attorney. i'lum the Snin!ay Jirjinlilie ioh i-Jiti. Mr. Hrewster's appointment from tho beginning wns obnoxious to tho earnest and influential workingnicn of tho State. He was iu Europe during the Guber natorial campaign, w hile others equally de serving of promotion were helping the cause. Moreover, his political record is such that lcaiiing Senators were almost inclined to cxpe-t his nomination. The fact that ho was prominent in truckling to tho South during tho p.-huy days of the Lemocrney, amongst other (hi::gs having almost n monopoly of tho fugitive-slave eases, nnd employing his talents to force back into a loathsome bondage the struggling wretches who occasionally managed to escape their thrr.ldom, and desecrating the free soil of Pennsylvania by making it tho hunting ground for human beings, llis action at tho National Hall meeting in Philadelphia, just prior to the rebellion, when the nomocracy endeavored to join Pennsylvania to tho pro posed Confederacy, and his action towards Mr. Van Uuren iu the JSnltimoro Convention, were also remembered. Mr. Van Uuren had a clear majority of the convention in his fa vor, and, in order to kill hini off", it was necessary to introduce what is called the two-third rule that is, requiring the can didate to receive the votes of two-thirds of the delegates to make him tho nominee of the convention. Of course this rule could not be made by a minority, and, therefore, it wns necessary to induce some of Mr. Van Uuren 's delegates to join with tho minority, or nnti-Vau Uuren men, in making this change. Mr. Urewster was a Van Uuren del egate, and he, with others, whilst voting for Van Uuren, also voted for tho two-third rule, which they knew was intended to defeat him. It is noticeable that in this same convention Mr. U. wns loud in his Van Uurenisni. The result is known. Mr. Tolk, who had never been mentioned in connection with tho office, was nominated and elected Pre sident, and Mr. Urewster was appointed Cherokee Commissioner. Entering upon his official duties under these auspices, tho "first law officer of the commonwealth," instead of making friends by a strict at tention to his duties nud an avoidance of factional quarrels, was charged with immedi ately engaging in a series of manteti vres against some of tho most prominent men in tho Slnto. Uesides this ho has Been almost continually ubsent from his post, nnd Secretary Jordan has been frequently obliged to give advice which should have come from tho Attorney-General. The opposition to Mr. Urewster, therefore, in stead of decreasing, became steadily aug mented, and as the time for nominating the Governor approached, this opposition took shnpe, nnd wns transferred to tho Governor, who retained this obnoxious official. Mr. Urewster wns aware of this, and should have relieved the Governor. Failing to do so, however, the Governor was obliged to request his resignation, which ho did shortly after hi.-i renonjinatioii, through a mutual friend. Tho Attorney-General, however, refused to resign, and then it became necessary to take further notion, which, however, has not yet produced n change. The Governor endeavored to accom plish the necessary result without wounding the feelings of tho Attorney-General, but as ho seems to have no delicacy on tho subject, it behooves tho Governor to remove him. The public demand this, und tho sooner tho Gov ernor selects some good man to till Mr. Urewster's place the better. Tho spectacle of a confidential adviser holding his appointment (liti-in; pliiix'tre, being suff ered to remain in t'ffico by tho Executive after the public has been uinde aware that his resignation has been asked, is anomalous. It is necessary, for the harmony of the part y, that Mr. Urew ster should forthwith retire to private life. 1. T. EA8TOV. J. M'MAHON. ISA 'V O 1 & HI c M A II O .X . li sifjrriMi at f-oi.w.s.vo.v mbkvuaxtip No. 2 UOKN'I I I S KM H, Nnw York. No. IS SOUTH WH ARVKS, I'liiludelphi. No. 45 W. 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We are prepared to warm Dwelling and Uuildinn of all claaaea with our Patent-improved J LOW BTKAM APPARATUS, Which, for ttiuivncy ajul economy, rival all aimilal method. H. BKLFIRLD A f)0.. tana f9. tivnh IHWU finest. SHIPPING. fN FOn LIVEItrOOLAN -tT'C.1 " N-"""n Line of M K--rrVl..wii ,iijr,M i arm, rtatiiriin. siuffuro ap,, at 111 A. M 4 City of Urooklyn, iSat.uriUy, Snpttnubnr 4 at I P M ' toy of r.allinioro. via Halifax. TihmIhv, SimiL 7at i P I And ach i eiiccoeilma hatorday and alternate 'luesa. from Plor 46, North Kiver. HATKH OF PASHAOK. , BT IltK MAU, UKAMKIl 8AH.1M1 KVKHT RATmm ' r ifeJW: . 8TK?M l o Utnlon l,.f, To lndon .' Pana Hal To Pari. .. ( rAKHAOK. I1T THK TVEHU.-.T 8TEAMKH, VIA RaiVs-aV HHKT OAIIIN. HTk?IIA.i,i . Payable Inlield. Pnyabln . . " I I.t'-rpool " Curro Mali ax.. 2U-Halifax.... hi. John ,N. 1-., ..IKt JuIib', v j by llran. li Steamer.... by 1 ranr'h N'' ) PasiM.ni.-ra forwarded to II L..' - 1 Halifax......... iW-Halifax.. "' etc. at n ilm-ed rate. ' "urn, lirenia Tick. -IB can bo IhiukM ho.n at irrdor.t, -,,. . f eons wtsliina toni-nri lor their friend, a I te" b' P or U'llDNXK . A KAI.I K V N- r ,CK AF? LESTON, S. c THE WUTLI AND SOUTH WEST. EVKKY TIIIKSDAY. The StenniHliips PI.'OM KTllEt'x, Vwnu, i .1. W. liVKHM.iN, (',i,,', i "i Vv 3y !U! 'rue sti-inii.-.iiip ri:;.M:.i iti- s Jiu N,E- ' 'I iiruutrli bills (if l.nlii:;; Klcn in , vini n A s. r. j.-. h. to !;(;tt, i t!;-t. j:,,,1,', , aw,4 liiHurutiri- nt lowest riiii-M. l...o.u r .. "whU . ! as by any other route. l,r f,-,-,!. aH ,0 j 2 v?2t r It. A. SI IT lll. ij, .. r.r. K sn. KKT wiia.Yf. XLY ' ,:K'J'1:1:' E TO FRANCE lo;. .wUiiW VOKK AND JvliK.a1 ("niTnenr V W'",,'- Saturday. ' lV,rth over, ever in Kold (inclndinrTK A'K TOItKISTOU HAVBif 1 l list uinm ,.lld .s,.cud Cabin fine ..dm ra.luny ticket furnished on board.) 1 : !-Mo i .Second Uabin cue at camera do net carry t ,.P . ... . first i I heno at camera do net carry t,.P ..'. "... Medical attendance free of charse """"""K0- J Amcrii an travellers tfniiii i ()r ,,'. , .. i tincnt of Kin-ope. bv takir tl from the onJ umuces-ary risks from tiausit bv knJii.i. i "nea0't crossing tlia channel, bes L wl "'1 ,8,h " TS and pense. :(! K M AUKFXZ? V A ' 8X-i For p.,. ,. VliAt? ' Company, to ' ac f xpres -i icnj PHLADEI-.PIUA, RICMMOVn iafelSa&THK NOl TH A 1) W Ks'l NK 10 KVKKY S A T;i( Y K.ree,n0n' frm "lltS'1' .W MARKET, W'Pin.a in N(lrtll So,h PoriH,.,u Wist, via npinia an, Tern lowee Ai'r I m niB;Iun'1 th i urn H.-itiMllo Hi.i'ro.oi. L""0!,M", A,r 1'iuo und Kicum-j ' T-'roiirlit t( Will Lll !)F"n iwl. I KATKS THAN ANY iri'HKR l,TK ntI'OWri '1 lie ri-Kulai-iiy. safety, and chonpnese'of thi mt ,J mend it lo the public as the moil desiral.li r 0OI1 rryin every de.cn, .tirn , i"ir, t ae81rHble trier0 'r eo,um"io driWe. or any expense Steamship injured nt tho lowest rates l reiuht received daily. WPffi T. P. VHOWKiT:AK zrjr LOKILLARD'S STEAMSHIP flr r?" LINK FOR rwsrs-i NEW VnRir - . Suilinjr on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. RI-.DUCTION OF RATKS. Freight by this line taken at 12 cents per I(0 pounds cents per foot, or 1 cent per gallon, ship's option Ad vance charges cashed at olKce on Pier. Freight rooeived at ull times on covered wharf, JOHN K. Ollt,. 2 Pier 111 North Wharves. N. li. Fxtra rates on amnll packages iron, metal, eto. . fT7, NEW EXPRESS LINE TO UPT '"tV Alexandria. Ceorsntown. and Washinirton D aVBscflC., via Cho-apeako and llelawara Canal, With couiieciimiB at Alexandria I nun the most direct route for KoutiiwesT' stu1, Knojmll. Nushvillo, Ualton, undithe Steamers lmivo reeiilarly nvery Saturday at noon from th fjr-,t wnart above Market street. X-might received daily. VV1M.TAM P. CLYDK A CO.. HVnK TVf K0,ii'lTlh ttn,a h.m" Wharves, vi 7viiu f Tm x ' Ate.nt.',l ;eoiotown; M. F.l.l'hllM.K 4 CO., Awnts at Alexandria. 61 NOTICE. FOR NEW Y h ic via lie t'HKA PF.KT and OPH'K KS1 ...t.-V. tion botween Philadelphia anil New York. Steamers leave daily from first wharf bnlow Marks street, Philadelphia, and loot of Wall street, Now Yorl Coons forwarded by a II 1 he linos running out of Ne 1 erk. North, I-.ust, and WeM, free of commission. 1-roiKht received and forwarded on accommndatiii terms. WIM.IAM P. CI.YDH & CO, Agents, No. 12 S. DELAWAHK Avenue, Philadelphia. JAJIKS HANI), Agent. 5 3? No. llll WALL Street, New York NOTICE FOR NEW YORK. VIA 1 i I'"'WMro and Ruritan Canal, KWIFTSITRR n- TRANSPORTATION' (u I l PA v v niu l ,i 11,11 AMI SWll'TSCRK LINK. Tho business by these lines will be resumod on and after the Hth of March. For freights, which will bo takou on accommodating terms, upply to W. M. RAIRD A CO., 825 No. 132 Sou lb. Wharves. COAL. 1 Ml'ORTANT TO COAL CONSUMERS Save 20 per cent . in t lie cost of your Fuel. liny Broad Ti p SKM1 11ITU.M IN'Ol SCOAL utifcti'4 to 7 porton, in stead of paying for Anthracite. In Kurope no other than BITUMINOUS COALS uro used, and in Pittsburg; und tho West soft coals are used exclusively. fJ inn trhy rnnV ire tin tl.e knuie fit Ai7.,i,7;,i,a f Broad Top Coul is u free burning SF.MI-BITUMINOIT8 COAL, and is admirably aduptod for STIC AM PUR. POSTS, and for tho CRATK, the FURNACK, tho R A N( . K, and the STO V I'.. Is it not your duty, therefore, to lay aside ;-.)'', with Anthracite at its present KX OLBITAN'I RATH, und THY if you cannot use Broad Top and other similar good coals, and thus save at least 12 per ton iu the cestui your luel ? Buy tlio Lump size, iiutl when necessary bre.-.k it as required. Broad Top I oi;l i-i, n bo had ot i lie undeiv itfned. and uk st nt' tho other Coal dealers. Be sure uud nk for the Broad Tup Coal POWKLi U.N COAL AMI IRON ill)., S. V. cor. Front uud Wuluut. S. C. FOB I) 4 CO., Reading Railroad and Second street turnpike. OrOKOK A. HF.BF.RTON, ( liesniil and Thirty-third streets. R. li. V ItiTO.V. VValnut street, below Dock. KF..M BALL CO A I. .t I RON CO., No. tlj" Walnut street. 7 stuth lra4p Ol-Ulio I . Al r.Al!, No. Wuinut street. CARRIAGES. GARDNER & FLEMING, No. 214 South FIFTH Street. BELOW WALNUT. A Large Assortment of New and Second-hand C A. R- 1 T O E Hs INCLUDING Rockaways, PhrctonB, Jenny Units, Buggtel Depot WagouH, Etc Etc, 3 'a tilth For Salo at Reduced Prices. fJORWY'S T A S TELCSS Fruit Preserving Powder, Is warranted to keep Strawberries superior to any known process, as well as other iruit, without being air-Utiht. Price, 60 cent, a package. Sold by the grocer. ZANK, NOUN Y fc CO., Proprietor. 5 BH4r No.J3o North 8EOOND Bt PhiuwJ, COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVA8, of all numbers and brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk, and Wagon-cover Duck. Also, Paper Manufacturers' Drier relts, from thirty to seventy-!- inuhe wid Paulina. Bolting, Sail Twine, etc. . . JOHN W. BVKRMAN. Br-?? I )
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