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accounts on the part of that phonix of secretaries. As I truth in general by speaking .!! at all—and a.though that knew that you had not parted friends, at the same time know that they are trying and wishing to lie, they do no that I refused for my own part any judgment but yours, 1 succeed, merely because they can say nothing so bad of offered him his choice of any person, the least scoundrel each other, that it may not, and must not be true from the native to be found in Venice, as his own umpire; but atrocity of their long-debased national character. he expressed himself so convinced of your impartiality, "With regard to Edgecombe, you will perceive a most that he declined any but you. This is in his favour.-irregular, extravagant account, without proper documents The paper within will explain to you the default in his to support it. He demanded an increase of salary, which accounts. You will hear his explanation, and decide, if made me suspect him; he supported an outrageous extraI so please you. I shall not appeal from the decision.

"As he complained that his salary was insufficient, I determined to have his accounts examined, and the enclosed was the result.—It is all in black and white with documents, and I have despatched Fletcher to explain (or rather to perplex) the matter.

"I have had much civility and kindness from Mr. Dorville during your journey, and I thank him accordingly.

vagance of expenditure, and did not like the dismission of the cook; he never complained of him—as in duty bound -at the time of his robberies. I can only say, that the house expense is now under one-half of what it then was, as he himself admits. He charged for a comb eighteen francs,-the real price was eight. He charged a passage from Fusina for a person named Iambelli, who paid it herself, as she will prove, if necessary. He fancies, or "Your letter reached me at your departure, and dis-asserts himself, the victim of a domestic complot against pleased me very much:-not that it might not be true in him;-accounts are accounts-prices are prices;-let its statement and kind in its intention, but you have lived him make out a fair detail. I am not prejudiced against long enough to know how useless all such representations him-on the contrary, I supported him against the comever are and must be in cases where the passions are plaints of his wife, and of his former master, at a ume concerned. To reason with men in such a situation is when I could have crushed him like an earwig, and is he like reasoning with a drunkard in his cups-the only is a scoundrel, he is the greatest of scoundrels, an unanswer you wili get from him is that he is sober, and you grateful one. The truth is, probably, that he thought I are drunk. was leaving Venice, and determined to make the most of "Upon that subject we will (if you like) be silent. it. At present he keeps bringing in account after account, You might only say what would distress me without though he had always money in hand-as I believe you answering any purpose whatever; and I have too many know my system was never to allow longer than a week's obligations to you to answer you in the same style. So bills to run. Pray read him this letter-I desire nothing that you should recollect that you have also that advan- to be concealed against which he may defend himself. lage over me. I hope to see you soon. "Pray how is your little boy? and how are you-I shall be up in Venice very soon, and we will be bilious together. I hate the place and all that it inherits.

"I suppose you know that they said at Venice, that I was arrested at Bologna as a Carbonaro-a story about as true as their usual conversation. Moore has been here-I lodged him in my house at Venice, and went to see him daily; but I could not at that time quit La Mira entirely. You and I were not very far from meeting in Switzerland. With my best respects to Mrs. Hoppner, believe me ever and truly, &c.

LETTER CCCCVI.

"Yours, &c"

TO MR. HOPPNER.

"October 28, 1819.

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"P.S. Allegra is here in good health and spirits-I shall keep her with me till I go to England, which will perhaps be in the spring. It has just occurred to me that you may not perhaps like to undertake the office of judge "I have to thank you for your letter, and your combetween Mr. Edgecombe and your humble servant.-Of pliment to Don Juan. I said nothing to you about it, course, as Mr. Liston (the comedian, not the ambassador) understanding that it is a sore subject with the moral says, 'it is all hoptional, but I have no other resource. I reader, and has been the cause of a great row; but I am do not wish to find him a rascal, if it can be avoided, and glad you like it. I will say nothing about the shipwreck would rather think him guilty of carelessness than cheat-except that I hope you think it is as nautical and technical ing. The case is this-can I, or not, give him a character as verse could admit in the octave measure. for honesty?-It is not my intention to continue him in my service."

LETTER CCCCV.

TO MR. HOPPNER.

"The poem has not sold well, so Murray says 'but the best judges, &c. say, &c.' so says that worthy man. I have never seen it in print. The Third Canto is in advance about one hundred stanzas; but the failure of the first two has weakened my estro, and it will neither be so good as the former two, nor completed, unless I get a little more riscaldato in its behalf.* I understand the outcry was beyond every thing.-Pretty cant for people who read "October 25, 1819. Tom Jones, and Roderick Random, and the Bath Guide "You need not have made any excuses about the let- and Ariosto, and Dryden, and Pope-to say nothing of ter; I never said but that you might, could, should, or Little's Poems. Of course I refer to the morality of these would have reason. I merely described my own state of works, and not to any pretension of mine to compete with inaptitude to listen to it at that time, and in those circum- them in any thing but decency. I hope yours is the Paris sta:.ces. Besides, you did not speak from your own edition, and that you did not pay the London price. 1 authority-but from what you said you had heard. Now have seen neither except in the newspapers. my blood boils to hear an Italian speaking ill of another "Pray make my respects to Mrs. H. and take care of Italian, because, though they lie in particular, they speak your little boy. All my household have the fever and

ague, except Fletcher, Allegra, and mysen, (as we used to say in Nottinghamshire,) and the horses, and Mutz, and Moretto. In the beginning of November, perhaps sooner I expect to have the pleasure of seeing you. To-day i gratification of a momentary passion, which could only be a source of got drenched by a thunder-storm, and my horse and groom

Mr. Hoppner, before his departure from Venice for Switzerland, had written a letter to Lord Byron, entreating him "to leave Ravenna, while yet he had a whole skin, and urging him not to risk the safety of person he appeared so sincerely attached to-as well as his own-for the

regret to both parties." In the same letter Mr. Hoppner informed him;

of some reports he had heard lately at Venice, which, though possibly, too, and his horse all bemired up to the middle in a cross

he said, unfounded, had much increased his anxiety respecting the conquences of the connexion formed by him.-Moore.

See Letter 380.

"Yours, &c."

road. It was summer, at noon, and at five we were changed horses there since I wrote to you, after my visi bewantored, but the lightning was sent perhaps to let us in June last. Conveni,' and 'carry of quotha! and know hat the summer was not yet over. It is queer'girl.' I should like to know who has been carried off, weather for the 27th of October. except poor dear me. I have been more ravished myself than any body since the Trojan war; but as to the arrest, and its causes, one is as true as the other, and I can account for the invention of neither. I suppose it is some confusion of the tale of the Fornaretta and of Me. Guiccioli, and half a dozen more; but it is useless to unravel the web, when one has only to brush it away. I shall settle with Master E., who looks very blue at your in-decision, and swears that he is the best arithmetician in Europe; and so I think also, for he makes out two and two to be five.

LETTER CCCCVII.

TO MR. MURRAY.

ago.

"Venice, October 29, 1819. *Yours of the 15th came yesterday. I am sorry that you do not mention a large letter addressed to your care for Lady Byron, from me, at Bologna, two months Pray tell me was this letter received and forwarded? "You say nothing of the vice-consulate for the Ravenna patrician, from which it is to be inferred that the thing will not be done.

"I had written about a hundred stanzas of a Third Canto to Don Juan, but the reception of the first two is no encouragement to you nor me to proceed.

"I had also written about six hundred lines of a poem, the Vision (or Prophecy) of Dante, the subject a view of Italy in the ages down to the present-supposing Dante to speak in his own person, previous to his death, and embracing all topics in the way of prophecy, like Lycophron's Cassandra; but this and the other are both at a stand-still for the present.

"You may see me next week. I have a horse or two more, (five in all,) and I shall repossess myself of Lido and I will rise earlier, and we will go and shake our livers over the beach, as heretofore, if you like-and we will make the Adriatic roar again with our hatred of that now empty oyster-shell, without its pearl, the city of Venice.

"Murray sent me a letter yesterday: the impostors have published two new Third Cantos of Don Juan :— the devil take the impudence of some blackguard bookseller or other therefor! Perhaps I did not make myself understood; he told me the sale had been great, 1200 out of 1500 quarto, I believe, (which is nothing, after, selling 13,000 of the Corsair in one day;) but that the 'bes: judges,' &c. had said it was very fine, and clever, and par"I gave Moore, who is gone to Rome, my life in MS. ticularly good English, and poetry, and all those consolain 78 folio sheets, brought down to 1816. But this I put tory things, which are not, however, worth a single copy into his hands for his care, as he has some other MSS. of to a bookseller: and as to the author, of course I am in a mine-a Journal kept in 1814, &c. Neither are for pub-d-ned passion at the bad taste of the times, and swear fication during my life, but when I am cold, you may do what you please. In the mean time, if you like to read them you may, and show them to any body you like-I

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there is nothing like posterity, who, of course, must know more of the matter than their grandfathers. There has been an eleventh commandment to the women not to read it, and what is still more extraordinary, they seem not to have broken it. But that can be of little import to them, poor things, for the reading or non-reading a book will never *

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"The Life is Memoranda, and not Confessions. I have left out all my loves, (except in a general way,) and many other of the most important things, (because I must not compromise other people,) so that it is like the play of "Count G. comes to Venice next week, and I am reHamlet-The part of Hamlet omitted by particular quested to consign his wife to him, which shall be done. * desire.' But you will find many opinions, and some fun, What you say of the long evenwith a detailed account of my marriage and its conse-ings at the Mira, or Venice, reminds me of what Curran quences, as true as a party concerned can make such said to Moore:-'So I hear you have married a pretty account, for I suppose we are all prejudiced. woman, and a very good creature, too-an excellent creature. Pray-um-how do you pass your evenings? It is a devil of a question that, and perhaps as easy to answer with a wife as with a mistress.

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"I probably must return for business, or in my way to America. Pray, did you get a letter for Hobhouse, who will have told you the contents? I understand that the Venezuelan commissioners had orders to treat with emigrants; now I want to go there. I should not make a bad South American planter, and I should take my natural daughter, Allegra, with me, and settle. I wrote, at length, to Hobhouse, to get information from Perry, who, I suppose, is the best topographer and trumpeter of the new republicans. Pray write. "Yours, ever.

"P. S. Moore and I did nothing but laugh. He will tell you of 'my whereabouts,' and all my proceedings at this present; they are as usual. You should not let those follows publish false Don Juans ;' but do not put my name, because I mean to cut Roberts up like a gourd in the face, if I continue the poem."

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"If you go to Milan, pray leave at least a Vice-Consul the only vice that will ever be wanting at Venice. D'Orville is a good fellow. But you shall go to England in the spring with me, and plant Mrs. Hoppner at Berne with her relations for a few months. I wish you had been here (at Venice, I mean, not the Mira) when Moore was here we were very merry and tipsy. He hated Venice by-the-way, and swore it was a sad place. "So Madame Albrizzi's death is in danger-poor woman! Moore told me that at Geneva they had made a devil of a story of the Fornaretta:- Young lady seduced!--sub sequent abandonment!-leap into the Grand Canal ?— and her being in the 'hospital of fous in consequence! 1 should like to know who was nearest being made fou, and be d-d to them! Don't you think me in the interesting character of a very ill-used gentleman? [ hope your little boy is well. Allegrina is flourishing like a pomegranate blossom. "Yours, &c"

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edition, which he tells me is read in Switzerland by clergy-her to France or America, change my name, and lead inen and ladies, with considerable approbation. In the quiet provincial life. All this may seem odd, but I have Second Canto, you must alter the 49th stanza to

"'T was twilight, and the sunless day went down
Over the waste of waters, like a veil
Which if withdrawn would but disclose the frown
Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail;
Thus to their hopeless eyes the night was shown,
And grimly darkled o'er their faces pale
And the dim desolate deep; twelve days had Fear
Been their familiar, and now Death was here."

"I have been ill these eight days with a tertian fever, caught in the country on horseback in a thunder-storm. Yesterday I had the fourth attack: the two last were very smart, the first day as well as the last being preceded by vomiting. It is the fever of the place and the season. I feel weakened, but not well, in the intervals, except headache and lassitude.

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got the poor girl into a scrape; and as neither her birth, nor her rank, nor her connexions by birth or marriage, are inferior to my own, I am in honour bound to support her through. Besides, she is a very pretty woman--aşk Moore-and not yet one-and-twenty.

"If she gets over this, and I get over my tertian, I will perhaps look in at Albemarle-street, some of these days, en passant to Bolivar.

LETTER CCCCX.

TO MR. BANKES.

"Venice, November 20, 1819. "Count Guiccioli has arrived in Venice, and has pre"A tertian ague which has troubled me for some time, sented his spouse (who had preceded him two months for and the indisposition of my daughter, have prevented me her health and the prescriptions of Dr. Aglietti) with a from replying before to your welcome letter. I have not of conditions, regulations of hours, and conduct, and been ignorant of your progress nor of your discoveries, morals, &c. &c. &c. which he insists on her accepting, and I trust that you are no worse in health from your and she persists in refusing. I am expressly, it should labours. You may rely upon finding every body in Eng seem, excluded by this treaty, as an indispensable pre-land eager to reap the fruits of them; and as you have liminary; so that they are in high dissension, and what done more than other men, I hope you will not limit yourthe result may be, I know not, particularly as they are consulting friends.

"To-night, as Countess Guiccioli observed me poring over 'Don Juan,' she stumbled by mere chance on the 137th stanza of the First Canto, and asked me what it meant. I told her, 'Nothing,-but " your husband is coming." As I said this in Italian with some emphasis, she started up in a fright, and said, 'Oh, my God, is he coming? thinking it was her own, who either was or ought to have been at the theatre. You may suppose we aughed when she found out the mistake. You will be amused, as I was;-it happened not three hours ago.

self to saying less than may do justice to the talents and time you have bestowed on your perilous researches. The first sentence of my letter will have explained to you why I cannot join you at Trieste. I was on the point of setting out for England, (before I knew of your arrival,) when my child's illness has made her and me dependent on a Venetian Proto-Medico.

"It is now seven years since you and I met ;--whicl. time you have employed better for others, and more honourably for yourself, than I have done.

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"In England you will find considerable changes, public and private, you will see some of our old college con"I wrote to you last week, but have added nothing to temporaries turned into lords of the treasury, admiralty the Third Canto since my fever, nor to 'The Prophecy and the like, others become reformers and orators,of Dante. Of the former there are about a hundred many settled in life, as it is called,-and others settled in octaves done; of the latter about five hundred lines-per-death; among the latter (by-the-way, not our fellow-colhaps more. Moore saw the Third Juan, as far as it then legians,) Sheridan, Curran. Lady Melbourne, Monk went. I do not know if my fever will let me go on with Lewis, Frederick Douglas, &c. &c. &c.; but you wil either, and the tertian lasts, they say, a good while. I had still find Mr. * * living and all his family, as also it in Malta on my way home, and the malaria fever in* Greece the year before that. The Venetian is not very "Should you come up this way, and I am still here, fierce, but I was delirious one of the nights with it, for you need not be assured how glad I shall be to see you; an hour or two, and, on my senses coming back, found I long to hear some part, from you, of that which I expect Fletcher sobbing on one side of the bed, and La Contessa in no long time to see. At length you have had better Guiccioli weeping on the other; so that I had no want of fortune than any traveller of equal enterprise, (except attendance. I have not yet taken any physician, because, Humboldt,) in returning safe; and after the fate of the though I think they may relieve in chronic disorders, such Brownes, and the Parkes, and the Burckhardts, it is hardly as gout and the like, &c. &c. &c. (though they can't cure less surprise than satisfaction to get you back again. them)-just as surgeons are necessary to set bones and "Believe me ever tend wounds-yet I think fevers quite out of their reach, * and very affectionately yours, and remediable only by diet and nature. BYRON."

"I don't like the taste of bark, but I suppose that I must take it soon.

"Tell Rose that somebody at Milan (an Austrian, Mr. Hoppuer says) is answering his book. William Bankes is in quarantine at Trieste. I have not lately heard from you. Excuse this paper: it is long paper shortened for the occasion. What folly is this of Carlile's trial? why let him have the honours of a martyr? it will only advertise the books in question.

LETTER CCCCXI.

TO MR. MURRAY.

"Venice, Dec. 1. 1819. "You may do as you please, but you are abom a hope less experiment. Eldon will decide against you, were it "Yours, &c. only that my name is in the record. You will also recol "P. S. As I tell you that the Guiccioli business is on lect that if the publication is pronounced against, on the the eve of exploding in one way or the other, I will just grounds you mention, as indecent and blasphemous, that I add, that without attempting to influence the decision of lose all right in my daughter's guardianship and education, the Contessa, a good deal depends upon it. If she and in short, all paternal authority, and every thing concerning her husband make it up, you will perhaps see me in Eng-her, except hand sooner than you expect. If not, I shall retire with

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an infringement of los copyright, in publishing a purated edition of Dor. Jual

me.

It was so decided in Shelley's case, because he had writ ten Queen Mab, &c. &c. However you can ask the awyers, and do as you like: I do not inhibit you trying the question; I merely state one of the consequences to With regard to the copyright, it is hard that you should pay for a nonentity: will therefore refund it, which I can very well do, not having spent it, nor begun upon it; and so we will be quits on that score. It lies at my anker's.

Of the Chancellor's law I am no judge; but take up Tom Jones, and read his Mrs. Waters and Molly Seagrim; or Prior's Hans Carvel and Paulo Purganti; Smollett's Roderick Random, the chapter of Lord Strutwell, and many others; Peregrine Pickle, the scene of the Beggar Girl; Johnson's London, for coarse expressions; for instance, the words '* *,' and '* * Anstey's Bath Guide, the 'Hearken, Lady Betty, hearken-take up, in short, Pope, Prior, Congreve, Dryden, Fielding, Smollett, and let the Counsel select passages, and what becomes of their copyright, if his Wat Tyler decision is to pass into a precedent?* I have nothing more to say: you must judge for yourselves.

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"F✶✶✶ will already have told you, with her accustomed sublimity, that Love has gained the victory. I could not summon up resolution enough to leave the country where you are, without, at least, once more seeing you. On yourself, perhaps, it will depend, whether I ever again shall leave you. Of the rest we shall speak when we meet. You ought, by this time, to know which is most conducive to your welfare, my presence or my absence. For myself, I am a citizen of the world-all countries are alike to me. You have ever been, since our first acquaintance, the sole object of my thoughts. My opinion was, that the best course I could adopt, both for your peace and that of all your family, would have been to depart and go far, far away from you;-since to have been near and not approach you would have been, for me, impossible. You have however decided that I am to return to Ravenna. 1 shall accordingly return-and shall do—and be all that you wish. I cannot say more."

LETTER CCCCXIV.

TO MR. HOPPNER.

"MY DEAR HOPPNER,

"I wrote to you some time ago. I have had a tertian ague; my daughter Allegra has been ill also, and I have been almost obliged to run away with a married woman; but with some difficulty, and many internal struggles, I reconciled the lady with her lord, and cured the fever of the child with bark, and my own with cold water. I think of setting out for England by the Tyrol in a few days, so "Partings are but bitter work at best, so that I shall not that I could wish you to direct your next letter to Calais. venture on a second with you. Pray make my respects to Excuse my writing in great haste and late in the morn- Mrs. Hoppner, and assure her of my unalterable revering, or night, whichever you please to call it. The Third ence for the singular goodness of her disposition, which is Canto of Don Juan' is completed, in about two hundred stanzas; very decent, I believe, but do not know, and it is useless to discuss until it be ascertained, if it may or may not be a property.

"My present determination to quit Italy was unlooked for; but I have explained the reasons in letters to my sister and Douglas Kinnaird, a week or two ago. My progress will depend upon the snows of the Tyrol, and the health of my child, who is at present quite recovered: -but I hope to get on well, and am

"Yours every and truly. "P. S. Many thanks for your letters, to which you are not to consider this as an answer, but as an acknowledg-| ment."

not without its reward even in this world-for those who are no great believers in human virtues would discover enough in her to give them a better opinion of their fellowcreatures, and what is still more difficult-of themselves, as being of the same species, however inferior in approaching its nobler models. Make, too, what excuses you can for my omission of the ceremony of leave-taking. If we all meet again, I will make my humblest apology: if not, recollect that I wished you all well: and, if you can, forget that I have given you a great deal of trouble.

"Yours, &c. &c "

LETTER CCCCXI.

TO THE COUNTESS GUICCIOLI.

LETTER CCCCXV.

TO MR. MURRAY.

"Venice, December 10, 1819.

"Since I last wrote, I have changed my mind, and shall not come to England. The more I contemplate, the more "You are, and ever will be, my first thought. But I dislike the place and the prospect. You may therefore at this moment, I am in a state most dreadful, not know- address to me as usual here, though I mean to go to ing which way to decide;-on the one hand, fearing that another city. I have finished the Third Canto of Don I should compromise you for ever, by my return to Ra-Juan, but the things I have read and heard discourage all venna and the consequences of such a step, and, on the farther publication-at least for the present. You may other, dreading that I shall lose both you and myself, and try the copy question, but you'll lose it: the cry is up, all that I have ever known or tasted of happiness, by never and cant is up. I should have no objection to return the seeing you more. I pray of vou, I implore you to be price of the copyright, and have written to Mr. Kinnerd comforted, and to believe that I cannot cease to love you by this post on the subject. Talk with him. but with my life." "I have not the patience, nor do I feel interest enragh save you, and leave a country insupportable to me with-in the question, to contend with the fellows in their own out you. Your letters to F** and myself do wrong slang; but I perceive Mr. Blackwood's Magazine and to my motives-but you will yet see your injustice. It is one or two others of your missives have been hyperbolical not enough that I must leave you-from motives of which in their praise, and diabolical in their abuse. I like and ere long you will be convinced-it is not enough that I admire Wilson, and he should not have indulged himself must fly from Italy, with a heart deeply wounded, after in such outrageous license.* It is overdone and defeats having passed all my days in solitude since your depar- itself. What would he say to the grossness without pasture, sick both in body and mind--but I must also have to sion and the misanthropy without feeling of Gulliver's endure your reproaches without answering and without

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deserving them. Farewell!-in that one word is com- of literary operations led him. The gentleman to whom the hostile prised the death of my happiness."

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article in the Magazine is here attributed, has never, either then r since, written upon the subject of the noble poet's character or get 18, without giving vent to a feeling of admiration as enthusiastic as it is always eloquently and powerfully expressed.-Moore

Travels? When he talks of iady Byron's business, he talks of what he knows nothing about; and you may tell him that no one can more desire a public investigation of that affair than I do.

season itself is sc little complimentary with snow and rain that I wait for sunshine."

LETTER CCCCXVII.

TO MR. MOORE.

MY DEAR MOORE,

I seat home by Moore (for Moore only who has my journal also) my Memoir written up to 1816, and I gave him leave to show it to whom he pleased, but not to publish, on any account. You may read it, and you may let Wilson read it, if he likes-not for his public opinion, but his private; for I like the man, and care very little about his magazine. And I could wish Lady B. herself to read it, that she may have it in her power to mark any thing mistaken or misstated; as it may probably appear after my extinction, and it would be but fair she should see it, Or thus,— -that is to say, herself willing.

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"To-day it is my wedding-day,
And all the folks would stare

If wife should dine at Edmonton,
And I should dine at Ware.'

"Here's a happy new year! but with reason,

I beg you'll permit me to say-
Wish me many returns of the season,

But as few as you please of the day.

"Perhaps I may take a journey to you in the spring; but I have been ill and am indolent and indecisive, because few things interest me. These fellows first abused me for being gloomy, and now they are wroth that I am, or attempted to be, facetious. I have got such a cold and chooses, she may see the MS. Memoir in your possession. I "My this present writing is to direct you that, if she headach that I can hardly see what I scrawl-the win-wish her to have fair play in all cases, even though it will ters here are as sharp as needles. Some time ago I not be published till after my decease. For this purpose, it wrote to you rather fully about my Italian affairs; at pre-were but just that Lady B. should know what is there said sent I can say no more except that you shall hear farther of her and hers that she by-and-by. may have full power to remark on herself. This is fair dealing, I presume, in all events. or respond to any part or parts, as may seem fitting to "To change the subject, are you in England! I send you an epitaph for Castlereagh.

"Your Blackwood accuses me of treating women harshly: it may be So, but I have been their martyr; my whole life has been sacrificed to them and by them. I mean to leave Venice in a few days, but you will address your letters here as usual. When I fix elsewhere, you shall know."

LETTER CCCCXVI.

TO MR. HOPPNER.

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"With death doom'd to grapple
Beneath this cold slab, he
Who lied in the Chapel

Now lies in the Abbey.

"The gods seem to have made me poetical this day:"In digging up your bones, Tom Paine,

Will, Cobbett has done well:

You visit him on earth again,

He'll visit you in hell.

"You come to him on earth again.

He'll go with you to hell.

"Ravenna, December 31, 1819. "I have been here this week, and was obliged to put on my armour and go the night after my arrival to the Marquis Cavalli's, where there were between two and three hundred of the best company I have seen in Italy,"Pray let not these versiculi go forth with my name. more beauty, more youth, and more dianionds among the except among the initiated, because my friend Hobhouse women than have been seen these fifty years in the Sea- has foamed into a reformer, and I greatly fear, will subSodom.*-I never saw such a difference between two side into Newgate; since the Honourable House, accordplaces of the same latitude (or platitude, it is all one,)-ing to Galignani's Reports of Parliamentary Debates, music, dancing, and play, all in the same salle. The G.'s are menacing a prosecution to a pamphlet of his. I shall object appeared to be to parade her foreign lover as be very sorry to hear of any thing but good for him, parmuch as possible, and, faith, if she seemed to glory in the ticularly in these miserable squabbles; but these are the scandal, it was not for me to be ashamed of it. Nobody natural effects of taking a part in them. seemed surprised;—all the women, on the contrary, were, "For my own part, I had a sad scene since you went. as it were, delighted with the excellent example. The Count Gu. came for his wife, and none of those consevice-legate, and all the other vices, were as polite as could quences which Scott prophesied ensued. There was no be;-and I, who had acted on the reserve, was fairly damages, as in England, and so Scott lost his obliged to take the lady under my arm, and look as much there was a great scene, for she would not, at first, go wager. But like a cicisbeo as I could on so short a notice,-to say back with him-at least, she did go back with him; but nothing of the embarrassment of a cocked hat and sword, he insisted, reasonably enough, that all communication much more formidable to me than ever it will be to the

enemy.

should be broken off between her and me. So, finding Italy very dull, and having a fever tertian, I packed up my valise and prepared to cross the Alps; but my daugh ter fell ill, and detained me.

"I write in great haste-do you answer as hastily. I can understand nothing of all this; but it seems as if the G. had been presumed to be planted, and was deter"After her arrival at Ravenia, the Guccioli fell ill mined to show that she was not,-plantation, in this again too; and, at last her father (who had, all along, ophemisphere, being the greatest moral misfortune. But posed the liaison most violently till now) wrote to me to this is mere conjecture, for I know nothing about it-say that she was in such a state that he begged me to except that every body are very kind to her, and not dis- come and see her, and that her husband had acquiesced courteous to me. Fathers, and all relations, quite agree- in consequence of her relapse, and that he (her father) would guarantee all this, and that there would be no farther scenes in consequence between them, and that 1 should not be compromised in any way. I set out soon

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*I would send the compliments of the season; but the after, and have been here ever since. I found her a good deal altered, but getting better:-all this comes of reading Corinna.

• "Gebenna of the waters! thou Sea-Sodom!"

Marino Faliero.

"The Carnival is about to begin, and I saw about twe

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