ADA. gies of character which "mark the stock she sprung from," and adorned with high attainments, but softened to that gentleness, which a careful education, and the constant and affectionate guardianship of her accomplished mother, have induced. She is expected to take her station in society this season, 1833, or, as it is fashionably called, "come out." Though tall and handsome in person, and quiet and elegant in manners, she will find herself an object of interest, beyond what it is possible for character or accomplishments to create, as the daughter of the most extraordinary man of our day, and the being with whose happiness his brightest hopes inseparably existed. She appears to have been almost the only living thing to which Lord Byron was invariable in the direction of his intense affection. She was never mentioned by him but in terms which shew that his separation from her was the chief bitterness of his life. Yet, except indirectly, intelligence concerning her rarely reached him. Four years after they parted, he says, "I have never heard any thing of Ada, the little Electra of my Mycena." If this be true, the cruelty must have been studied-it cannot be taken literally. It is to be hoped, that she is proud of the immortal distinction of her name; that she has been taught to look only on the bright side of her father's character, and to give that affection to his memory, the hope of which was almost the only cheering ray that latterly shone upon him in his exile. |