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.
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