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lost half her family in the war) is, as I said, of good would not act with him, or any other, whether nacharacter, and of mature age, so as to render her tive or foreigner. respectability not liable to suspicion. She has "If Lord Guilford is at Zante, or, if he is not, if heard, it seems, from Prevesa, that her husband is Signor Tricupi is there, you would oblige me by no longer there. I have consigned your Bibles to presenting my respects to one or both, and by telling Dr. Meyer; and I hope that the said Doctor may them, that from the very first I foretold to Colonel justify your confidence; nevertheless, I shall keep Stanhope and to P. Mavrocordato, that a Greek an eye upon him. You may depend upon my giving newspaper (or indeed any other) in the present state the society as fair play as Mr. Wilberforce himself of Grecce might and probably would tend to much would and any other commisssion for the good of mischief and misconstruction, unless under some Greece will meet with the same attention on my part. restrictions, nor have I ever had any thing to do "I am trying, with some hope of eventual suc- with either, as a writer or otherwise, except as a pecess, to reunite the Greeks, especially as the Turks cuniary contributor to their support on the outset, are expected in force, and that shortly. We must which I could not refuse to the earnest request of meet them as we may, and fight it out as we can. the projectors. Col. Stanhope and myself had conI rejoice to hear that your school prospers, and siderable differences of opinion on this subject, and I assure you that your good wishes are reciprocal. (what will appear laughable enough) to such a deThe weather is so much finer, that I get a good deal gree that he charged me with despotic principles, and of moderate exercise in boats and on horseback, I him with ultra-radicalism. and I am willing to hope that my health is not worse than when you kindly wrote to me. Dr. Bruno can tell you that I adhere to your regimen, for I do not eat any meat, even fish.

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"Dr. **, the editor, with his unrestrained freedom of the press, and who has the freedom to exercise an unlimited discretion,-not allowing any article but his own and those like them to appear,and in declaiming against restrictions, cuts, carves, and restricts (as they tell me), at his own will and pleasure. He is the author of an article against monarchy, of which he may have the advantage and fame-but they (the editors) will get themselves into scrape, if they do not take care.

Believe me ever, &c. "P. S. The mechanics (six in number) were all pretty much of the same mind. Brownbill was but one. Perhaps they are less to blame than is imagined, since Colonel Stanhope is said to have told them, that he could not positively say their lives a were safe.' I should like to know where our life is "Of all petty tyrants, he is one of the pettiest, safe, either here or any where else? With regard as are most demagogues, that ever I knew. He is to a place of safety, at least such hermetically-a Swiss by birth, and a Greek by assumption, having sealed safety as these persons appeared to desider-married a wife, and changed his religion. ate, it is not to be found in Greece, at any rate; but "I shall be very glad, and am extremely anxious Missolonghi was supposed to be the place where for some favorable result to the recent pacific overthey would be useful, and their risk was no greater tures of the contending parties in the Peloponnese." than that of others."

LETTER DCXXVIII.

TO COLONEL STANHOPE.

LETTER DCXXX.

TO MR. BARFF.

"March 24.

"If the Greek deputies (as seems probable) have “ Missolonghi, March 19, 1824. obtained the loan, the sums I have advanced may "MY DEAR STANHOPE, perhaps be repaid; but it would make no great dif"Prince Mavrocordato and myself will go to Sa- ference, as I should still spend that in the cause, and lona to meet Ulysses, and you may be very sure more to boot-though I should hope to better purthat P. M. will accept any proposition for the advan- pose than paying off arrears of fleets that sail away, tage of Greece. Parry is to answer for himself on and Suliotes that won't march, which, they say, his own articles; if I were to interfere with him, it what has hitherto been advanced has been employed would only stop the whole progress of his exertion, in. But that was not my affair, but of those who and he is really doing all that can be done without had the disposal of affairs, and I could not decently more aid from the government. say to them, 'You shall do so and so, because, &c., &c., &c.'

"What can be spared will be sent; but I refer you to Captain Humphries's report, and to Count Gamba's letter for details upon all subjects. "In the hope of seeing you soon, and deferring much that will be to be said till then,

"Believe me ever, &c. "P. S. Your two letters (to me) are sent to Mr. Barff, as you desire. Pray remember me particularly to Treawney, whom I shall be very much pleased to see again."

LETTER DCXXIX.

TO MR. BARFF.

"March 19.

"In a few days, P. Mavrocordato and myself, with a considerable escort, intend to proceed to Salona at the request of Ulysses and the chiefs of Eastern Greece, and take measures offensive and defensive for the ensuing campaign. Mavrocordato is almost recalled by the new government to the Morea (to take the lead, I rather think), and they have written to propose to me, to go either to the Morea with him, or to take the general direction of affairs in this quarter-with General Londo, and any other I may choose, to form a council. A. Londo is my old friend and acquaintance since we were lads in Greece together. It would be difficult to give a positive answer till the Salona meeting is over, but I am willing to serve them in any capacity they please, either commanding or commanded-it is much the same to me, as long as I can be of any presumed use to them.

"As Count Mercati is under some apprehensions of a direct answer to him personally on Greek affairs, I reply (as you authorized me) to you, who will have "Excuse haste; it is late, and I have been sevthe goodness to communicate to him the enclosed. eral hours on horseback in a country so miry after It is the joint answer of Prince Mavrocordato and

of myself, to Signor Georgio Sisseni's propositions. To this offer of the Government to appoint him Governor-General of You may also add, both to him and to Parruca, that Greece, (that is, of the enfranchised part of the Continent, with the exception I am perfectly sincere in desiring the most amicable of the Morea and the islands,) his answer was, that "he was first going to termination of their internal dissensions, and that have no difficulty in accepting any office, provided he could persuade himself I believe P. Mavrocordato to be so also, otherwise I that any good would result from it."-Moore.

Salona, and that afterward he would be at their commands; that he could

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the rains, that every hundred yards brings you to a first time that you had placed them in similar cirNeither Mr. Hesketh nor myself ditch, of whose depth, width, color, and contents, cumstances. both my horses and their riders have brought away could imagine that you were in bed, as we had been many tokens."

LETTER DCXXXI.

TO MR. BARFF.

"March 26.

assured of the contrary, and certainly such a situation was not contemplated. But Mr. Hesketh had positive orders to conduct you from your quarters to those of the Artillery Brigade, at the same time being desired to use no violence, nor does it appear that any was had recourse to. This measure was adopted, because your landlord assured me when I proposed to put off the inquiry until the next day,

that he could not return to his house without a

"Since your intelligence with regard to the Greek loan, P. Mavrocordato has shown to me an extract from some correspondence of his, by which guard for his protection, and that he had left his it would appear that three commissioners are to wife, and daughter, and family in the greatest alarm, and on that account putting them under our immebe named to see that the amount is placed in proper diate protection. The case admitted of no delay. hands for the service of the country, and that my As I am not aware that Mr. Hesketh exceeded his name is among the number. Of this, however, we orders, I cannot take any measures to punish him, have as yet only the report. but I have no objection to examine minutely into "This commission is apparently named by the his conduct. You ought to recollect that entering committee or the contracting parties in England. into his Auxiliary Greek corps now under my orders, I am of opinion that such a commission will be at your own sole request and positive desire, you necessary, but the office will be both delicate and incurred the obligation of obeying the laws of the difficult. The weather, which has lately been equinoctial, has flooded the country, and will probably country as well as those of the service. retard our proceeding to Salona for some days, till the road becomes more practicable.

"I have the honor to be, &c., &c.,

"NOEL BYRON.'

LETTER DCXXXIII.

TO MR. BARFF.

"You were already apprized that P. Mavrocordato and myself had been invited to a conference by Ulysses and the chiefs of Eastern Greece. I hear (and am indeed consulted on the subject) that in case the remittance of the first advance of, the loan should not arrive immediately, the Greek General Government mean to try to raise some thousand "There is a quarrel, not yet settled, between the dollars in the islands in the interim, to be repaid citizens and some of Cariascachi's people, which from the earliest instalments on their arrival. What has already produced some blows. I keep my peoprospect of success they may have, or on what con

"April 3.

ditions, you can tell better than me: I suppose, if ple quite neutral; but have ordered them to be on their guard. the loan be confirmed, something might be done by "Some days ago we had an Italian private soldier them, but subject of course to the usual terms. drummed out for thieving. The German officers You can let them and me know your own opinion. wanted to flog him; but I flatly refused to permit There is an imperious necessity for some national the use of the stick or whip, and delivered him over fund, and that speedily, otherwise what is to be to the police. Since then a Prussian officer rioted done? The auxiliary corps of about two hundred in his lodgings; and I put him under arrest, acmen paid by me, are, I believe, the sole regularly cording to the order. This, it appears, did not and properly furnished with the money, due to them weekly, and the officers monthly. It is true that please his German confederation: but I stuck by my text; and have given them plainly to underthe Greek government gives their rations, but we stand, that those who do not choose to be amenable have had three mutinies, owing to the badness of to the laws of the country and service, may retire; the bread, which neither native nor stranger could but that in all that I have to do, I will see them masticate (nor dogs either), and there is still great obeyed by foreigner or native. difficulty in obtaining them even provisions of any kind.

"I wish something was heard of the arrival of "There is a dissension among the Germans about part of the loan, for there is a plentiful dearth of the conduct of the agents of their committee, and every thing at present."

an examination among themselves instituted. What the result may be, cannot be anticipated, except that it will end in a row, of course, as usual.

"The English are all very amicable, as far as I know; we get on too with the Greeks very tolerably, always making allowance for circumstances; and we have no quarrels with the foreigners."

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"Since I wrote, we have had some tumult here with the citizens and Cariascachi's people, and all are under arms, our boys and all. They nearly fired on me and fifty of my lads,* by mistake, as we were taking our usual excursion into the country. Today matters are settled, or subsiding; but about an hour ago, the father-in-law of the landlord of the house where I am lodged (one of the primates the said landlord is) was arrested for high-treason.

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They are in conclave still with Mavrocordato; and we have a number of new faces from the hills, come to assist, they say. Gun-boats and batteries all ready, &c.

"SIR, "I have the honor to reply to your letter of this day. In consequence of an urgent, and, to all appearance, a well-founded complaint made to me yesterday evening, I gave orders to Mr. Hesketh,* "The row has had one good effect-it has put to proceed to your quarters with the soldiers of his them on the alert. What is to become of the fatherguard, and to remove you from your house to the in-law, I do not know; nor what he has done, ex seraglio, because the owner of your house declared himself and his family to be in immediate danger from your conduct, and added that it was not the

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actly; but

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• A corps of fifty Suliotes, his body-guard.

as the man in Bluebeard says and sings. I wrote to to maintain, and the campaign is apparently now to you upon matters at length, some days ago; the open, and as I have already spent thirty thousand letter, or letters, you will receive with this. We are dollars in three months upon them in one way or desirous to hear more of the loan; and it is some other, and more especially as their public loan has time since I have had any letters (at least of an in- succeeded, so that they ought not to draw from inditeresting description) from England, excepting one viduals at that rate, I have given them a refusal, of 4th Feb., from Bowring (of no great import-and-as they would not take that,-another refusal ance). My latest dates are of 9bre, or of the 6th in terms of considerable sincerity. 10bre four months exactly. I hope you get on well in the islands here most of us are, or have been, more or less indisposed, natives as well as foreign

ers."

LETTER DCXXXV.

TO MR. BARFF.

"April 7.

"The Greeks here of the government have been boring me for more money. As I have the brigade

"They wish now to try in the islands for a few thousand dollars on the ensuing loan. If you can serve them, perhaps you will, (in the way of information, at any rate,) and I will see that you have fair play, but still I do not advise you, except to act as you please. Almost every thing depends upon the arrival, and the speedy arrival, of a portion of the loan to keep peace among themselves. If they can but have sense to do this, I think that they will be a match and better for any force that can be brought against them for the present. We are all doing as well as we can."

EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL,

BEGUN NOVEMBER 14, 1813.

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"IF this had been begun ten years ago, and faith-[rating a romance, or rather a tale, in prose ;-but fully kept!!!-heigho! there are too many things I what romance could equal the eventswish never to have remembered, as it is. Well,-I have had my share of what are called the pleasures of this life, and I have seen more of the European Et quorum pars magna fui.' and Asiatic world than I have made a good use of. "To-day Henry Byron called on me with my little They say virtue is its own reward,'-it certainly cousin Eliza. She will grow up a beauty and a should be paid well for its trouble. At five-and- plague; but, in the mean time, it is the prettiest twenty, when the better part of life is over, one child! dark eyes and eyelashes, black and long as should be something—and what am I? nothing but the wing of a raven. I think she is prettier even five-and-twenty--and the odd months. What have than my niece, Georgiana,-yet I don't like to think I seen the same man all over the world,-ay, and so neither; and, though older, she is not so clever. woman too. Give me a Mussulman who never asks "Dallas called before I was up, so we did not questions, and a she of the same race who saves meet. Lewis, too-who seems out of humor with one the trouble of putting them. But for this same every thing. What can be the matter? he is not plague-yellow-fever-and Newstead delay, I should married-has he lost his own mistress, or any other have been by this time a second time close to the person's wife? Hodgson, too, came. He is going Euxine. If I can overcome the last, I don't so to be married, and he is the kind of man who will much mind your pestilence; and, at any rate, the be the happier. He has talent, cheerfulness, every spring shall see me there,-provided I neither marry thing that can make him a pleasing companion; myself nor unmarry any one else in the interval. I and his intended is handsome and young, and all wish one was-I don't know what I wish. It is odd that. But I never see any one much improved by I never set myself seriously to wishing without at- matrimony. All my coupled contemporaries are taining it and repenting. I begin to believe with bald and discontented. W. and S. have both lost the good old Magi, that one should only pray for their hair and good-humor; and the last of the two the nation, and not for the individual;-but, on my had a good deal to lose. But it don't much signify principle, this would not be very patriotic.

"No more reflections.-Let me see-last night I finished Zuleika,' my second Turkish Tale. I believe the composition of it kept me alive-for it was written to drive my thoughts from the recollec

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what falls off a man's temples in that state.

"Mem. I must get a toy to-morrow for Eliza, and send the device for the seals of myself and ** ***. Mem. too, to call on the Staël and Lady Holland to-morrow, and on **, who has advised me (without seeing it, by-the-by) not to publish Zuleika;' I believe he is right, but experience might have taught him that not to print is physiAt least, even here, my hand would tremble to write cally impossible. No one has seen it but Hodgson it. This afternoon I have burned the scenes of my and Mr. Gifford. I never in my life read a compocommenced comedy. I have some idea of expecto-sition, save to Hodgson, as he pays me in kind. It

'Dear, sacred name, rest ever unreveal'd,'

The Bride of Abydos.

is a horrible thing to do too frequently;-better print, and they who like may read, and, if they don't like.

you have the satisfaction of knowing that they bitter diet! Hodgson likes it better than the have, at least, purchased the right of saying so. Giaour, but nobody else will,-and he never liked "I have declined presenting the Debtor's Peti- the Fragment. I am sure, had it not been for Mur tion, being sick of parliamentary mummeries. Iray, that would never have been published, though have spoken thrice; but I doubt my ever becoming the circumstances which are the groundwork make an orator. My first was liked; the second and third it heigh-ho!

-I don't know whether they succeeded or not. "To-night I saw both the sisters of; my have never yet set to it con amore; one must have God; the youngest so like! I thought I should have some excuse to oneself for laziness, or inability, or sprung across the house, and am so glad no one was both, and this is mine. 'Company, villanous com- with me in Lady Holland's box. I hate those likepany, hath been the spoil of me;'-and then, I nessess-the mock-bird, but not the nightingalehave drunk medicines,' not to make me love so like as to remind, so different as to be painful. others, but certainly enough to hate myself. One quarrels equally with the points of resemblance "Two nights ago, I saw the tigers sup at Exeter and of distinction. 'Change. Except Veli Pacha's lion in the Morca,

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"Nov. 17.

-who followed the Arab keeper like a dog,-the "No letter from **; but I must not complain. fondness of the hyæna for her keeper amused me The respectable Job says, 'Why should a licing most. Such a conversazione! There was a hip-man complain?' I really don't know, except it be popotamus,' like Lord Liverpool in the face; and that a dead man can't; and he, the said patriarch, the Ursine Sloth' hath the very voice and manner did complain, nevertheless, till his friends were of my valet-but the tiger talked too much. The tired, and his wife recommended that pious proelephant took and gave me my money again-took logue, Curse-and die;' the only time, I suppose, off my hat-opened a door-trunked a whip-and when but little relief is to be found in swearing. I behaved so well, that I wish he was my butler. The have had a most kind letter from Lord Holland, on handsomest animal on earth is one of the panthers;The Bride of Abydos,' which he likes, and so does but the poor antelopes were dead. I should hate to Lady H. This is very good-natured in both, from see one here-the sight of the camel made me pine again for Asia Minor. 'Oh quando te aspiciam?'

whom I don't deserve any quarter. Yet I did think, at the time, that my cause of enmity proceeded from Holland House, and am glad I was wrong, and wish I had not been in such a hurry with that confounded satire, of which I would suppress even the memory; "Went last night with Lewis to see the first of-but people, now they can't get it, make a fuss, I Antony and Cleopatra. It was admirably got up, verily believe, out of contradiction. and well acted-a salad of Shakspeare and Dryden.

"Nov. 16.

"George Ellis and Murray have been talking Cleopatra strikes me as the epitome of her sex-something about Scott and me, George pro Scoto, fond, lively, sad, tender, teasing, humble, haughty, and very right too. If they want to depose him, beautiful, the devil!-coquettish to the last, as well I only wish they would not set me up as a competiwith the asp' as with Antony. After doing all tor. Even if I had my choice, I would rather be the she can to persuade him that-but why do they earl of Warwick than all the kings he ever made! abuse him for cutting off that poltroon Cicero's Jeffrey and Gifford I take to be the monarch-makers head? Did not Tully tell Brutus it was a pity to in poetry and prose. The British Critic, in their have spared Antony? and did he not speak the Rokeby Review, have presupposed a comparison, Philippics? and are not words things?' and such which I am sure my friends never thought of, and words' very pestilent 'things' too? If he had W. Scott's subjects are injudicious in descending had a hundred heads, they deserved (from Antony) to. I like the man-and admire his works to what a rostrum (his was stuck up there) a-piece-though, Mr. Braham calls entusymusy. All such stuff can after all, he might have as well have pardoned him, only vex him, and do me no good. Many hate his for the credit of the thing. But to resume-Cleopa- politics,-(I hate all politics;) and, here, a man's tra, after securing him, says, yet go'-'it is your politics are like the Greek soul-an sidodor, besides interest,' &c.; how like the sex! and the questions God knows what other soul; but their estimate of about Octavia-it is woman all over. the two generally go together.

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"To-day received Lord Jersey's invitation to Mid- Harry has not brought ma petite cousine. I dleton-to travel sixty miles to meet Madame de want us to go to the play together; she has been Staël ! I once travelled three thousand to get but once. Another short note from Jersey, invitamong silent people; and this same lady writes ing Rogers and me on the 23d. I must see my octavos and talks folios. I have read her books-agent to night. I wonder when that Newstead like most of them, and delight in the last: so I business will be finished. It cost me more than won't hear it, as well as read. ******* words to part with it-and to have parted with it! "Read Burns to-day. What would he have been, What matters it what I do? or what becomes of if a patrician? We should have had more polish-me?-but let me remember Job's saying, and conless force-just as much verse, but no immortality sole myself with being a living man.' -a divorce and a duel or two, the which had he "I wish I could settle to reading again; my life is survived, as his potations must have been less spir- monotonous, and yet desultory. I take up books, ituous, he might have lived as long as Sheridan, and fling them down again. I I began a comedy, and and outlived as much as poor Brinsley. What a burned it because the scene ran into reality; a novel, wreck is that man! and all from bad pilotage; for for the same reason. In rhyme, I can keep more no one had ever better gales, though now and then away from facts; but the thought always runs a little to squally. Poor dear Sherry! I shall never through, through......yes, yes, through. I have forget the day he, and Rogers, and Moore, and I had a letter from Lady Melbourne, the best friend passed together; when he talked, and we listened, I ever had in my life, and the cleverest of women. without one yawn, from six till one in the morning. "Not a word from **. Have they set out from "Got my seals * * ***. Have again forgot a**? or has my last precious epistle fallen into the plaything for my petite cousine Eliza; but I must lion's jaws? If so-and this silence looks suspisend for it to-morrow. I hope Harry will bring her cious-I must clap on my musty morion' and to me. I sent Lord Holland the proofs of the last hold out my iron.' I am out of practice, but I Giaour,' and the Bride of Abydos.' He won't won't begin again at Manton's now. Besides, I like the latter, and I don't think that I shall long. would not return his shot. I was once a famous It was written in four nights to distract my dreams wafer-splitter; but then the bullies of society made from. Were it not thus, it had never been com- it necessary. Ever since I began to feel that I had posed; and had I not done something at that time, a bad cause to support, I have left off the exercise. I must have gone mad, by eating my own heart- "What strange tidings from that Anakim of

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servers, when the war broke out in 1803, he has "To-day, great news,-the Dutch have taken been a Heros de Roman' of mine, on the conti- Holland,'-which, I suppose, will be succeeded by nent; I don't want him here. But I don't like the actual explosion of the Thames. Five provinces those same flights, leaving of armies, &c., &c. I have declared for young Stadt, and there will be am sure when I fought for his bust at school, I did inundation, conflagration, constirpation, consternot think he would run away from himself. But I nation, and every sort of nation and nations, fightshould not wonder if he banged them yet. To be ing away up to their knees, in the damnable quags beat by men would be something; but by three stu- of this will-o'-the-wisp abode of Boors. It is said, pid, legitimate-old-dynasty boobies of regular-bred Bernadotte is among them, too; and, as Orange Sovereigns-O-hone-a-rie !-O-hone-a-rie! It must will be there soon, they will have (Crown) Prince be, as Cobbet says, his marriage with the thick- Stork and King Log in their Loggery at the same lipped and thick-headed Autrichienne brood. He time. Two to one on the new dynasty! had better have kept to her who was kept by Barras. "Mr. Murray has offered me one thousand guineas I never knew any good to come of your young wife, for the Giaour' and the Bride of Abydos.' I and legal espousals, to any but your sober-blooded won't-it is too much, though I am strongly temptboy,' who 'eats fish' and drinketh no sack.' Had ed, merely for the say of it. No bad price for a he not the whole opera? all Paris? all France? fortnight's (a week each) what?-the gods know-But a mistress is just as perplexing-that is, one, it was intended to be called poetry. two or more are manageable by division. "I have dined regularly to-day, for the first time

"I have begun, or had begun a song, and flung since Sunday last-this being Sabbath, too. All the it into the fire. It was in remembrance of Mary rest, tea and dry biscuits-six per diem. I wish to Duff, my first of flames, before most people begin to God I had not dined now! It kills me with heaviburn. I wonder what the devil is the matter with ness, stupor, and horrible dreams; and yet it was me! I can do nothing, and-fortunately there is but a pint of bucellas and fish.-Meat I never touch, nothing to do. It has lately been in my power to-nor much vegetable diet. I wish I were in the make two persons (and their connexions) comforta- country, to take exercise,-instead of being obliged ble, pro tempore, and one happy ex tempore,-I re- to cool by abstinence, in lieu of it. I should not so joice in the last particularly, as it is an excellent much mind a little accession of flesh,-my bones can man. I wish there had been more inconvenience well bear it. But the worst is, the devil always and less gratification to my self-love in it, for then came with it,-till I starve him out,-and I will not there had been more merit. We are all selfish be the slave of any appetite. If I do err, it shall and I believe, ye gods, of Epicurus! I believe be my heart, at least, that heralds the way. Oh in Rochefoucault above men, and in Lucretius, (not my head-how it aches!-the horrors of digesBusby's translation,) about yourselves. Your bard tion! I wonder how Bonaparte's dinner: agrees with has made you very nonchalant and blest; but as he him? has excused us from damnation, I don't envy you

"Mem. I must write to-morrow to 'Master your blessedness much-a little, to be sure. I re- Shallow who owes me a thousand pounds,' and member last year, **said to me at **, Have we seems, in his letter afraid that I should ask him for not passed our last month like the gods of Lucre- it;-as if I would!-I don't want it (just now, at tius? And so we had. She is an adept in the least), to begin with; and though I have often text of the original, (which I like too;) and when wanted that sum, I never asked for the repayment that booby Bus. sent his translating prospectus, she of 101. in my life-from a friend. His bond is not subscribed. But, the devil prompting him to add a due this year; and I told him when it was, I should specimen, she transmitted him a subsequent answer, not enforce it. How often must he make me say saying, that, after perusing it, her conscience would the same thing? not permit her to allow her name to remain on the list of subscribers.'

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"I am wrong-I did once ask *** to repay me. But it was under circumstances that excused me to Last night, at Lord Holland's him, and would to any one. I took no interest, nor -Mackintosh, the Ossulstones, Puységur, &c., required security. He paid me soon-at least, his there I was trying to recollect a quotation (as I padre. My head! I believe it was given me to ache think) of Stael's, from some Teutonic sophist about with. Good even. architecture. Architecture,' says this Macoronica Tedescho, reminds me of frozen music.' It is somewhere-but where ?-the demon of perplexity must know and won't tell. I asked Moore, and he said it was not in her; but P -r said it must be hers, it was so like.

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"Nov. 22, 1813.

"Orange Boven!' So the bees have expelled the bear that broke open their hive. Well,-if we are to, have new De Witts and De Ruyters, God speed the little republic! I should like to see the Hague and the village of Brock, where they H. laughed, as he have such primitive habits. Yet, I don't know, does at all' De l'Allemagne,'-in which, however, I-their canals would cut a poor figure by the memothink he goes a little too far. B., I hear, contemns ry of the Bosphorus; and the Zuyder Zee look But there are fine passages;-and after all, awkwardly after AK Degnity.' No matter,-the what is a work-any-or every work-but a desert bluff burghers, puffing freedom out of their short with fountains, and, perhaps, a grove or two, every tobacco-pipes might be worth seeing; though I preday's journey? To be sure, in Madame, what we fer a cigar or a hooka, with the rose-leaf mixed with often mistake, and 'pant for,' as the cooling the milder herb of the Levant. I don't know what stream, turns out to be the mirage,' (critice, liberty means,-never having seen it, but wealth verbiage ;) but we do, at last, get to something like is power all over the world; and as a shilling perthe temple of Jove Ammon, and then the waste forms the duty of a pound (besides sun and sky and we have passed is only remembered to gladden the beauty for nothing) in the East,-that is the coun

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try. How I envy Herodes Atticus!--more than Pomponius. And yet a little tumult, now and then, "Called on C She is is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a very beautiful, to my taste, at least; for on coming revolution, a battle, or an aventure of any lively home from abroad, I recollect being unable to look description. I think I rather would have been Bonat any woman but her-they were so fair, and un-neval, Ripperda, Alberoni, Hayreddin, or Horuc meaning, and blonde. The darkness and regularity Barbarossa, or even Wortley Montague, than Maof her features reminded me of my Jannat al homet himself. Aden.' But this impression wore off; and now I "Rogers will be in town can look at a fair woman without longing for a for our Middleton visit.

soon!-the 23d is fixed Shall I go? umph? -In

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