Newstead gardens, only higher, and much in the as you may suppose; but none of them verge to same order; but the ride by the walls of the city, England. enormous cypresses. on the land side, is beautiful. Imagine four miles The Marquis of Sligo, my old fellow-collegian, of immense triple battlements, covered with ivy, is here, and wishes to accompany me into the surmounted with two hundred and eighteen towers, Morea. We shall go together for that purpose. and, on the other side of the road, Turkish burying- Lord S. will afterward pursue his way to the capital; grounds, (the loveliest spots on earth,) full of and Lord B., having seen all the wonders in that I have seen the ruins of quarter, will let you know what he does next, of Athens, of Ephesus, and Delphi. I have traversed which at present he is not quite certain. Malta is great part of Turkey, and many other parts of my perpetual post-office, from which my letters are Europe, and some of Asia; but never beheld a forwarded to all parts of the habitable globe :-bywork of nature or art which yielded an impression the-by, I have now been in Asia, Africa, and the like the prospect on each side from the Seven east of Europe, and, indeed, made the most of my Towers to the end of the Golden Horn. time without hurrying over the most interesting 44 "Now for England. I am glad to hear of the scenes of the ancient world. Fletcher, after having progress of English Bards,' &c., of course, you been toasted, and roasted, and baked, and grilled, observed I have made great additions to the new and eaten by all sorts of creeping things, begins to edition. Have you recived my picture from San- philosophize, is grown a refined as well as resigned der's, Vigo lane, London? It was finished and character, and promises at his return to become an paid for long before I left England: pray, send for ornament to his own parish, and a very prominent it. You seem to be a mighty reader of magazines: person in the future family pedigree of the Fletchwhere do you pick up all this intelligence, quota-er's, whom I take to be Goths by their accomplishtions, &c., &c.? Though I was happy to obtain ments, Greeks by their acuteness, and ancient my seat without the assistance of Lord Carlisle, I Saxons by their appetite. He (Fletcher) begs had no measures to keep with a man who declined leave to send half a dozen sighs to Sally his spouse, interfering as my relation on that occasion, and I and wonders (though I do not) that his ill written have done with him, though I regret distressing and worse spelled letters have never come to hand; Mrs. Leigh, poor thing!-I hope she is happy. as for that matter, there is no great loss in either It is my opinion that Mr. Bought to marry of our letters, saving and except that I wish you to Miss R. Our first duty is not to do evil; but, know we are well, and warm enough at this present alas! that is impossible: our next is to repair it, if writing, God knows. You must not expect long in our power. The girl is his equal: if she were his letters at present, for they are written with the inferior, a sum of money and provision for the child sweat of my brow, I assure you. It is rather singu would be some, though a poor compensation: as it lar that Mr. Hanson has not written a syllable is, he should marry her. I will have no gay since my departure. Your letters I have mostly deceivers on my estate, and I shall not allow my received, as well as others; from which I conjecture tenants a privilege I do not permit myself, that of that the man of law is either angry or busy. debauching each other's daughters. God knows I "I trust you like Newstead, and agree with your have been guilty of many excesses; but, as I have neighbors; but you know you are a vixen-is not laid down a resolution to reform, and lately kept it, that a dutiful appellation? Pray, take care of my I expect this Lothario to follow the example, and books and several boxes of papers in the hands of begin by restoring this girl to society, or, by the Joseph; and pray leave me a few bottles of chambeard of my father! he shall hear of it. Pray take pagne to drink, for I am very thirsty ;-but I do not some notice of Robert, who will miss his master: insist on the last article, without you like it. I poor boy, he was very unwilling to return. I trust suppose you have your house full of silly women, you are well and happy. It will be a pleasure to prating scandalous things. Have you ever received hear from you. "Believe me, yours very sincerly, "BYRON." "P. S. How is Joe Murray? "P. S. I opened my letter again to tell you that Fletcher having petitioned to accompany me into the Morea, I have taken him with me, contrary to the intention expressed in my letter." my picture in oil from Sanders, London? It has LETTER LXI. LETTER LX. TO MRS. BYRON. "Athens, July 25, 1810. "DEAR MOTHER, "In four days from Constantinople, with a favorable wind, I arrived in the frigate at the island of "I have arrived here in four days from Constan- Ceos, from whence I took a boat to Athens, where tinople, which is considered as singularly quick, I met my friend the Marquis of Sligo, who exparticularly for the season of the year. You pressed a wish to proceed with me as far as Corinth. northern gentry can have no conception of a Greek At Corinth we separated, he for Tripolitza, I for summer; which, however, is a perfect frost com- Patras, where I had some business with the consul, pared with Malta and Gibralter, where I reposed Mr. Strané, in whose house I now write. He has myself in the shade last year, after a gentle gallop rendered me every service in his power since I of four hundred miles, without intermission, through quitted Malta on my way to Constantinople, whence Portugal and Spain. You see, by my date, that I have written to you twice or thrice. In a few am at Athens again, a place which I think I prefer, days I visit the Pacha at Tripolitza, make the tour apon the whole, to any I have seen. of the Morea, and return again to Athens, which at My next movement is to-morrow into the present is my head-quarters. The heat is at present Morea, where I shall probably remain a month or intense. In England, if it reaches 98°, you are two, and then return to winter here, if I do not all on fire: the other day, in travelling between Mange my plans which, however, are very variable, Athens and Megara, the thermometer was al 125°!! Yet I feel no inconvenience; of course I the Morea, of which I have been making the tour. am much bronzed, but I live temperately, and never and visiting the Pacha, who gave me a fine horse, enjoyed better health. and paid me all possible honors and attention. 1 Before I left Constantinople, I saw the Sultan, have now seen a good portion of Turkey in Europe (with Mr. Adair,) and the interior of the mosques, and Asia Minor, and shall remain at Athens, and in things which rarely happen to travellers. Mr. Hob- the vicinity, till I hear from England. I have house is gone to England: I am in no hurry to re- punctually obeyed your injunctions of writing fre turn, but have no particular communications for quently, but I shall not pretend to describe coun your country, except my surprise at Mr. Hanson's tries which have been already amply treated of. I silence, and my desire that he will remit regularly. believe before this time Mr. Hobhouse will have ar I suppose some arangement has been made with re-rived in England, and he brings letters from me, gard to Wymondham and Rochdale. Malta is my written at Constantinople. In these I mention post-office, or to Mr. Strané, consul-general, Patras, having seen the Sultan and the mosques, and that I Morea. You complain of my silence-I have writ- swam from Sestos to Abydos, an exploit cf which I ten twenty or thirty times within the last year: take care to boast. "Believe me to be, with great sincerity, never less than twice a month, and often more. If "I am here on business at present, but Athens is my letters do not arrive, you must not conclude my head-quarters, where I am pleasantly situated in that we are eaten, or that there is a war, or a pesti- a Franciscan convent. lence, or famine: neither must you credit silly reports, which I dare say you have in Notts, as usual. am very well, and neither more nor less happy than I usually am; except that I am very glad to "P. S. Fletcher is well, and discontented as be once more alone, for I was sick of my compan-usual; his wife don't write, at least, her scrawle ion, not that he was a bad one, but because my na- have not arrived. You will address to Malta. I'ray ture leads me to solitude, and that every day adds have you never received my picture in oil from San to this disposition. If I chose, here are many men ders, Vigo-lane, London? who would wish to join me-one wants me to go to Egypt, another to Asia, of which I have seen enough. The greater part of Greece is already my own, so that I shall only go over my old ground, and look upon my old seas and mountains, the only acquaintances I ever found improve upon me. LETTER LXIII. TO MR. HODGSON. "Patras, Morea, October 3, 1810. "I have a tolerable suite-a Tartar, two Albanians, an interpreter, besides Fletcher; but in this country these are easily maintained. Adair received me wonderfully well, and indeed I have no complaints against any one. Hospitality here is neces"As I have just escaped from a physician and a sary, for inns are not. I have lived in the houses fever which confined me five days to bed, you won't of Greeks, Turks, Italians and English-to-day in a palace, to-morrow in a cow-house; this day with this place there is an indigenous distemper, which, expect much allegrezza' in the ensuing letter. In the Pacha, the next with a shepherd. I shall con- when the wind blows from the gulf of Corinth, (as tinue to write briefly, but frequently, and am glad it does five months out of six,) attacks great and to hear from you; but you fill your letters with small, and makes woful work with visiters. Here things from the papers, as if English papers were be also two physicians, one of whom trusts to his not found all over the world. I have at this mo- genius (never having studied)-the other to a cam ment a dozen before me. Pray take care of my paign of eighteen months against the sick of books, and believe me, Otranto, which he made in his youth with great "My dear Mother, yours very faithfully, LETTER LXII. TO THE HON. MRS. BYRON. "DEAR MADAM, "BYRON." "Patras, Oct. 2d, 1810. effect. "When I was seized with my disorder, I protested against both these assassins;-but what can a helpless, feverish, toasted-and-watered poor wretch do? In spite of my teeth and tongue, the English consul, my Tartar, Albanians, dragoman, forced a physician upon me, and in three days vomited and glystered me to the last gasp. In this state I made my epitaph-take it. "Youth, Nature, and relenting Jove He beat all three-and blew it out. "It is now several months since I have received any communication from you; but at this 1 am not But Nature and Jove, being piqued at my doubts, surprised, nor indeed have I any complaint to make, did in fact, at last, beat Romanelli, and here I am, since you have written frequently, for which I well but weakly, at your service. thank you; but I very much condemn Mr. Hanson, Since I left Constantinople, I have made a tour who has not taken the smallest notice of my many of the Morea, and visited Vely Pacha, who paid letters, nor of my request before I left England, me great honors and gave me a pretty stallion. H. which I sailed from on this very day fifteen months is doubtless in England before even the date of this ago. Thus one year and a quarter have passed letter-he bears a despatch from me to your bardaway, without my receiving the least intelligence ship. He writes to me from Malta, and requests on the state of my affairs, and they were not in a my journal, if I keep one. I have none, or he posture to admit of neglect, and I do conceive and should have it; but I have replied, in a consolatory declare that Mr. Hanson has acted negligently and and exhortatory epistle, praying him to abate three culpably in not apprizing me of his proceedings; I and sixpence in the price of his next Boke, seeing will also add uncivily. His letters, were there any, that half a guinea is a price not to be given for any could not easily miscarry the communications thing save an opera-ticket. with the Levant are slow, but tolerably secure, at "As for England, it is long since I have heard least as far as Malta, and there I left directions from it. Every one at all connected with my conwhich I know would be observed. I have written to cerns is asleep, and you are my only correspondent, you several times from Constantinople and Smyrna. agents excepted. I have really no friends in the You will perceive by my date I am returned into world; though all my old schoo companions are gone forth into that wod, and walk about there in precarious. I have lately made several snall tours monstrous disguises, in the garb of guardsmen, of some hundred or two miles about the Morea, Atlawyers, parsons, fine gentlemen, and such other tica, &c., as I have finished my grand giro by the masquerade dresses. So, I here shake hands and Troad, Constantinople, &c., and am returned down cut with all these busy people, none of whom write again to Athens. I believe I have mentioned to to me. Indeed, I asked it not; and here I am, a you more than once, that I swam (in imitation of poor traveller and heathenish philosopher, who hath Leandc though without his lady) across the Hel perambulated the greatest part of the Levant, and lespont, from Sestos to Abydos. Of this, and all seen a great quantity of very improvable land and other particulars, F., whom I have sent home with sea, and, after all, am no better than when I set papers, &c., will apprize you. I cannot find that he out-Lord help me! is any loss, being tolerably master of the Italian "I have been out fifteen months this very day, and modern Greek languages, which last I am also and I believe my concerns will draw me to England studying with a master,-I can order and discourse soon; but of this I will apprize you regularly from more than enough for a reasonable man. Besides Malta. On all points, Hobhouse will inform you, if the perpetual lamentations after beef and beer, the you are curious as to our adventures. I have seen stupid, bigoted contempt for every thing foreign, some c11 English papers up to the 15th of May. I and insurmountable incapacity of acquiring even a see the Lady of the Lake' advertised. Of course few words of any language, rendered him, like all it is in his old ballad style, and pretty. After all, other English servants, an incumbrance. I do asScott is the best of them. The end of all scribblement is to amuse, and he certainly succeeds there. I long to read his new romance. "And how does 'Sir Edgar and your friend, Bland? I suppose you are involved in some literary squabble. The only way is to despise all brothers of the quill. I suppose you won't allow me to be an author, but I contemn you all, you dogs-I do. sure you, the plague of speaking for him, the comforts he required, (more than myself by far,) the pilaws, (a Turkish dish of rice and meat,) which he could not eat, the wines which he could not drink, the beds where he could not sleep, and the long list of calamities, such as stumbling horses, want o tea!!! &c., which assailed him, would have made a lasting source of laughter to a spectator, and inconvenience to a master. After all, the man is "You don't know D-s, do you? He had a honest enough, and, in Christendom, capable farce ready for the stage before I left England, and enough; but in Turkey, Lord forgive me! my Alasked me for a prologue, which I promised, but banian soldiers, my Tartars and Janizary, worked sailed in such a hurry, I never penned a couplet. I for him and us too, as my friend Hobhouse car am afraid to ask after his drama, for fear it should testify. be damned-Lord forgive me for using such a word! "It is probable I may steer homewards in spring; but the pit, sir, you know, the pit-they will do but to enable me to do that, I must have remitthose things in spite of merit. I remember this tances. My own funds would have lasted me very farce from a curious circumstance. When Drury- well; but I was obliged to assist a friend, who, lane was burnt to the ground, by which accident know, will pay me; but in the mean time, I am out Sheridan and his son lost the few remaining shil- of pocket. At present, I do not care to venture a lings they were worth, what doth my friend D- winter's voyage, even if I were otherwise tired of do? Why, before the fire was out, he writes a note travelling; but I am so convinced of the advanto Tom Sheridan, the manager of this combustible tages of looking at mankind instead of reading concern, to inquire whether this farce was not con- about them, and the bitter effects of staying at verted into fuel, with about two thousand other un-home with all the narrow prejudices of an islander, actable manuscripts, which of course were in great that I think there should be a law among us to set peril, if not actually consumed. Now, was not this our young men abroad, for a term, among the few characteristic ?-the ruling passions of Pope are allies our wars have left us. nothing to it. While the poor distracted manager "Here I see and have conversed with French, was bewailing the loss of a building only worth Italians, Germans, Danes, Greeks, Turks, Ameri300,000/., together with some twenty thousand cans, &c., &c., &c.; and, without losing sight of my pounds of rags and tinsel in the tiring rooms, Blue- own, I can judge of the countries and manners of beard's elephants, and all that-in comes a note others. Where I see the superiority of England, from a scorching author, requiring at his hands two (which, by-the-by, we are a good deal mistaken acts and odd scenes of a farce!! about in many things,) I am pleased, and where I "Dear H., remind Drury that I am his well- find her inferior, I am at least enlighted. Now, I wisher, and let Scrope Davies be well affected to- might have stayed, smoked in your towns, or fogged wards me. I look forward to meeting you at in your country, a century, without being sure of Newstead, and renewing our old champagne eve- this, and without acquiring any thing more useful nings with all the glee of anticipation. I have writ- or amusing at home. keep no journal, nor have ten by every opportunity, and expect responses I any intention of scribbling my travels. I have as regular as those of the liturgy, and somewhat done with authorship; and if, in my last produclonger. As it is impossible for a man in his senses tion, I have convinced the critics of the world I to hope for happy days, let us at least look forward was something more than they took me for, I am to merry ones, which come nearest to the other satisfied; nor will I hazard that reputation by a fuin appearance, if not in reality; and in such ex-ture effort. It is true I have some others in manupectations I remain, &c.' script, but I leave them for those who come after me; and, if deemed worth publishing, they may serve to prolong my memory when I myself shall cease to remember. I have a famous Bavarian artist taking some views of Athens, &c., &c., for mo. This will be better than scribbling, a disease I hope myself cured of. I hope, on my return, to lead a quiet, recluse life, but God knows and does best for us all; at least, so they say, and I have nothing to object, as on the whole, I have no reason to com plain of my lot. I am convinced, however, that inen do more harm to themselves than ever the devil could do them. I trust this will find you well, and as happy as we can be; you will, at least, be pleased to hear I am o. and yours ever.' " DEAR MADAM, LETTER LXV. TO MRS. BYRON. "Athens, Feb. 23, 1811. stead dismantled by Messrs. Brothers, &c., and he seems determined to force me into selling it, but he will be baffled. I don't suppose I shall be much pestered with visiters; but if I am, you must re ceive them, for I am determined to have nobod; breaking in upon my retirement: you know that i "As I have received a firman for Egypt, &c., I never was fond of society, and I am less so than be shall proceed to that quarter in the spring, and I fore. I have brought you a shawl, and a quantity beg you will state to Mr. Hanson that it is neces- of attar of roses, but these I must smuggle, if pos sary to further remittances. On the subject of sible. I trust to find my library in tolerable order. Newstead I answer, as before, no. If it is neces- "Fletcher is no doubt arrived. I shall separate sary to sell, sell Rochdale. Fletcher will have ar- the mill from Mr. B's farm, for his son is toa rived by this time with my letters to that purport. gay a deceiver to inherit both, and place Fletcher I will tell you fairly, I have in the first place, no in it, who has served me faithfully, and whose wile opinion of funded property; if, by any particular is a good woman; besides, it is necessary to sober circumstances, I shall be led to adopt such a deter- young Mr. B, or he will people the parish with mination, I will at all events, pass my life abroad, bastards. In a word, if he had seduced a dairymaid, as my only tie to England is Newstead, and, that he might have found something like an apology; once gone, neither interest nor inclination lead me but the girl is his equal, and in high life or low fe northward. Competence in your country is ample reparation is made in such circumstances, But 1 wealth in the East, such is the difference in the shall not intefere further than (like Bonaparte, by value of money and the abundance of the necessa- dismembering Mr. B. 's kingdom, and erecting part ries of life; and I feel myself so much a citizen of of it into a principality for field-marshal Fletcher! the world, that the spot where I can enjoy a deli-I hope you govern my little empire and its sad load To drop ruy cious climate, and every luxury, at a less expense of national debt with a wary hand. than a common college life in England, will always metaphor, I beg leave to subscribe myself, yours, be a country to me; and such are in fact the shores &c. of the Archipelago. This then is the alternativeif I preserve Newstead, I return; if I sell it, I stay Portsmouth, but, on arriving there, the squadion away. I have ad no letters since yours of June, but I have written several times, and shall continue, as usual, on the same plan. "Believe me, yours ever, "BYRON." "P. S. I shall most likely see you in the course of the summer, but, of course, at such a distance, I cannot specify any particular month." "P. S. This letter was written to be sent from was ordered to the Nore, from whence I shall forward it. This I have not done before, supposing you might be alarmed by the interval mentioned in the letter being longer than expected between our arrival in port and my appearance at Newstead.” "Volage frigate, at sea, June 29, 1811, "In a week, with a fair wind, we shall be st Portsmouth, and on the 2d of July, I shall have completed (to a day) two years of peregrination, from which I am returning with as little emotion as I set out. I think upon the whole, I was more grieved at leaving Greece than England, which I am impatient to see, simply because I am tired of a long voyage. "This letter, which will be forwarded on our arival at Portsmouth, probably about the fourth of July, is begun about twenty-three days after our departure from Malta. I have just been two years to a day, on the second of July) absent from Eng- "Indeed, my prospects are not very pleasant. land, and I return to it with much the same feel- Embarrassed in my private affairs, indifferent to ings which prevailed on my departure, viz., indif-public, solitary without the wish to be social, with ference; but within that apathy I certainly do not a body a little enfeebled by a succession of fevers, comprise yourself, as I will prove by every means in but a spirit, I trust, yet unbroken, I am returning my power. You will be good enough to get my home without a hope, and almost without a desire. apartments ready at Newstead, but don't disturb The first thing I shall have to encounter will be a yourself on any account, particularly mine, nor con- lawyer, the next a creditor, then colliers, farmers, sider me in any other light than as a visitor. I surveyors, and all the agreeable attachments to must only inform you that for a long time I have estates out of repair and contested coal-pits. In heen restricted to an entire vegetable diet, neither short, I am sick and sorry, and when I have a littl fish nor flesh coming within my regimen; so I ex-repaired my irreparable affairs, away I shall march pect a powerful stock of potatoes, greens, and bis- either to campaign in Spain, or back again to the cuit: I drink no wine. I have two servants, mid- East, where I can at least have cloudless skies and dle-aged men, and both Greeks. It is my inten- a cessation from impertinence. tion to proceed first to town, to see Mr. Hanson, "I trust to meet, or see you, in town or at Newand thence to Newstead, on my way to Rochdale. stead, whenever you can make it convenient. I I have only to beg you will not forget my diet, suppose you are in love and in poetry, as usual. which it is very necessary for me to observe. That husband, H. Drury, has never written to me, am well in health, as have generally been, with the exception of two agues, both of which I quickly got over. albeit I have sent him more than one letter-but I And Dicky now for school is fil.'- Warton. My plans will so much depend on circumstances, that I shall not venture to lay down an opinion on the subject. My prospects are not very promising, but I suppose we shall wrestle through If you see him, tell him I have a letter for him from life like our neighbors; indeed, by H.'s last ad- Tucker, a regimental chirurgeon and friend of his and is a verj ices. I have some apprehensions of finding New-who prescribed for me. worthy man, but too fond of hard words. I should poor fellow among you: had it not been for his be too late for a speech-day, or I should probably patrons, he might now have been in very good go down to Harrow. 1 regretted very much in Greece having omitted to carry the Anthology with me-I mean Bland and Merivale's. plight, shoe (not verse) making; but you have made him immortal with a vengeance. I write this supposing poetry, patronage, and strong waters to have been the death of him. If you are in town ir or about the beginning of July, you will find me a Dorant's in Albemarle-street, glad to see you. What has Sir Edgar done? And the Imitations have an Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry ready and Translations-where are they? I suppose you for Cawthorn, but don't let that deter you, for 1 don't mean to let the public off so easily, but shan't inflict it upon you. You know I never read charge them home with a quarto. For me, I am my rhymes to visitors. I shall quit town in a few sick of fops and poesy and prate,' and shall leave days for Notts, and thence to Rochdale. I shall the whole Castalian state' to Bufo, or any body send this the moment we arrive in harbor, that is a else. But you are a sentimental and sensibilitous week hence. person, and will rhyme to the end of the chapter. Howbeit, I have written some four thousand lines, of one kind or another, on my travels. "I need not repeat that I shall be happy to see you. I shall be in town about the 8th, at Dorant's Hotel, in Albemarle-street, and proceed in a few davs to Notts, and thence to Rochdale on business. "I am, here and there, yours, &c." "Yours ever sincerely, "BYRON' LETTER LXIX. LETTER. LXVIII. TO MR. DALLAS. "Volage frigate, at sea, June 28, 1811. MR. HENRY DRURY. "Volage frigate, off Ushant, July 17, 1811. 66 MY DEAR DRURY, "After two years' absence (on the second) and some odd days, I am approaching your country. The day of our arrival you will see by the outside date of my letter. At present, we are becalmed comfortably, close to Brest Harbor; I have never been as near it since I left Duck Puddle. * After two years absence, (to a day, on the 2d of We left Malta thirty-four days ago, and have had a July, before which we shall not arrive at Ports- tedious passage of it. You will either see or hear mouth,) I am retracing my way to England. I from or of me, soon after the receipt of this, as I have, as you know, spent the greater part of that pass through town to repair my irreparable affairs; period in Turkey, except two months in Spain and and thence I want to go to Notts, and raise rents Portugal, which were then accessible. I have seen and to Lancs, and sell collieries, and back to Lon every thing most remarkable in Turkey, particu- don and pay debts; for it seems I shall neither larly the Troad, Greece, Constantinople, and Alba- have coals or comfort till I go down to Rochdale in nia, into which last region very few have penetrated| person. so high as Hobhouse and myself. I don't know! "I have brought home some marbles for Hobthat I have done any thing to distingush me from house; for myself, four ancient Athenian skulls, other voyagers, unless you will reckon my swim-dug out of Sarcophagi; a phial of attic hemlock; ming from Sestos to Abydos, on May 3d, 1810, a four live tortoises; a greyhound, (died on the pas sage;) two live Greek servants, one an Atheniar, tolerable feat for a modern. "I am coming back with little prospect of pleas-t' other a Yaniote, who can speak nothing but Roure at home, and with a body a little shaken by maic and Italian; and myself, as Moses in the Vicar one or two smart fevers, but a spirit I hope yet un-of Wakefield says, slyly, and I may say it too, for broken. My affairs, it seems, are considerably in-I have as little cause to boast of my expedition as volved, and much business must be done with law- he had of his to the fair. yers, colliers, farmers, and creditors. Now this, to a man who hates bustle as he hates a bishop, is a seri-you I had swum from Sestos to Abydos; have you "I wrote to you from the Cyanean Rocks, to tell Dus concern. But enough of my home department. received my letter? • Hodgson, I suppose "I find I have been scolding Cawthorn without a is four deep by this time. What would he have cause, as I found two parcels with two letters from given to have seen, like me, the real Parnassu13, you on my return to Malta. By these it appears where I robbed the Bishop of Crissæ of a book of you have not received a letter from Constantinople, geography; but this I only call plagiarism, as it addressed to Longman's, but it was of no conse-was done within an hour's ride of Delphi." quence. My Satire, it seems, is in a fourth edition, a success rather above the middling run, but not much for a production which, from its topics, must be temporary, and of course be successful at first, or not at all. At this period, when I can think and act more coolly, I regret that I have written it, though I shall probably find it forgotten by all except those whom it has offended. "Mr. Hobhouse's Miscellany has not succeeded, but he himself writes so good humoredly on the subject, I don't know, whether to laugh or cry with LETTER LXX. TO THE HON. MRS. BYRON. him. He met with your son at Cadiz, of whom he "MY DEAR MADAM. speaks highly. "Reddish's Hotel, July 23, 18/1. "St. James's street, London. "I am only detained by Mr. Hanson, to sign Yours and Pratt's protege, Blackett, the cob- some coppyhold papers, and will give you timely bler, is dead in spite of his rhymes, and is proba- notice of my approach. It is with great reluctance bly one of the instances where death has saved a I remain in town. I shall pay a short visit as we g man from damnation. You were the ruin of that • See note to Hints from Horace, p. 478. • Given afterward 1 Sir Walter Scott. ↑ In the possession of Mr. Murray. |