Lady Byron Vindicated

test device. That the reader's mind may be clear on the points of the pro

ions for separation were pending,

ntly been subjected to the most careful and acute revision. Scarcely two lines that were not interlined, scarcely an adjective that was not exchanged for a better; sh

g that her grave should be a fiery bed, etc.; also praising his wife's perfect and remarkable truthfulness and discernment, that made it impossible for flattery to fool

ord; says she is a mean, treacherous, deceitful liar, and has entirely departed from her early truth, and become the most unscr

wants is public investigation, which has always been denied him; and daring Lady Byron and her counsel to come ou

G. Lewis's docum

ourth Canto of 'Childe Ha

t for private circulation among the 'i

for this insult to his wife by

utobiography,' with leave to show it to who

to Murray, that he may read all this 'Autob

' and himself, which he supposes written by Wilson; sends a complimentary messag

own conduct in relation to his wife, and maintaining that he never yet has had an opportunity of knowing whereof he has been accused; accusing Sir S. Romilly of takin

dd the crowning stroke of policy which transmitted this

fore Byron presented to him his 'Autobiography,' the follo

ged of his conduct; and, as this was our first opportunity of speaking together on the subject, I did not hesitate to put his candour most searchingly to the proof, not only by

knowledging that there had been in his conduct but too much to blame and regret, and stating one or two occasions during his domestic life when he had been irritated into lettin

drove him also to be unjust himself; so much so, indeed, as to impute to the quarter to which he now traced all his ill fate a feeling of fixed hostility to himself, which would not rest, he thought, even at his grave, but continue to persecute his memory as it

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hem, nor did they, especially when they had wives with them, like to cultivate his acquaintance. Still there was a strong desire in all of them to see him; and the women in particular, who did not dare to look at him but by stealth, said in an under-voice, "What a pity it is!" If, however, a

f heart and understanding; saying that all the fault of their cruel separation lay with himself. Mr. Moore seems at times to be somewhat puzzled by these contradictory statements of his idol, and speculates

the na?veté with which he shows all the process, let us a little into the secret

the dramatic talent, which have constituted th

ses, or weep away their reason. No matter what these sirens may say, no matter what they may do, though caught in a thousand transparent lies, and doing a thousand

Sir Walter Scott, and then witched his heart out of him by ingenuous confessions and poetical compliments; he took Wilson's heart by flattering messages and a beauti

tion: we shall add, that they were based on philosophic principles, showing a deep kn

c nature of man, representing her as cold

ing her with ludicrous and licentious images; taking from h

faculties, accusing her as artful,

mester his pack of cards according to the exigencies of the game. He played adroitly, ski

he masterly way in which he turned back the moral force of the whole English natio