194 Moore's Notices of Lord Byron. [FKR 



.upon my honour /" His poem, after all, was good for nothing ; but it 

 was good enough for the purpose. It produced, however, two good con- 

 sequences, the " Rejected Addresses," on the fame of which " the 

 authors of the Rejected Addresses" still put forth their performances ; 

 and the display of Dr. Busby's person haranguing from the boxes, his 

 son's person haranguing from the stage ; a display of the Bow-street 

 officers interfering with the eloquence of both ; and a week's ridicule of all 

 the parties concerned. The Dr.'s poem, beginning with 



" When energizing subjects men pursue, 

 What are the prodigies they cannot do ?" 



had the honour of a parody in the Morning Chronicle by his Lordship. 



" When energizing objects men pursue, 

 The Lord knows what is writ by Lord knows who. 

 A modest monologue you here survey, 

 Hissed from the theatre the other day." &c. 



The Address continued to be a bore to him, and to his correspondents 

 for some months ; but he at last plunged into authorship again, and pro- 

 duced his poem on " Waltzing," which being but lightly received, he 

 disowned. 



" I hear that a certain malicious publication on waltzing is attributed 

 to me. This report, I suppose, you will take care to contradict, as the 

 author I am sure, will not like that / should wear his cap and bells." 

 This, in a letter to the publisher himself, is rather amusing. 



He and Sheridan sometimes met ; the young Lord having a great and 

 justified admiration for the abilities of the old dramatist. <( Sheridan 

 was a rogue all his life long, but a delightful rogue." 



" One day I saw him take up his ' Monody on Garrick/ He lighted 



on the dedication, to the dowager Lady . On seeing it he flew 



into a rage, and exclaimed, that it must be a forgery that he had never 

 dedicated any thing of his to such a d d canting, &c. &c., and so went 

 on for half an hour, abusing his own dedication/' 



" He told me, that on the night of the grand success of his f School 

 for Scandal/ he was knocked down, and put into the watch-house, for 

 making a row in the street, and being found intoxicated by the watch- 

 men." 



" When dying, he was requested to undergo an operation. He replied, 

 that * he had already submitted to two, which were enough for one 

 man's lifetime ; having his hair cut, and sitting for his picture !" 



The biographer now comes to the Leigh Hunt acquaintance, which he 

 gets over in a tone of easy contempt. 



" It was at this time that Lord Byron became acquainted (and I 

 regret to have to add, partly through my means) with Mr. Leigh Hunt." 

 They went together to dine with Hunt in the Coldbath-fields prison, 

 where he was confined for a libel on the Prince Regent, in 1813. The 

 morning was ushered in by an epistle from his Lordship to Moore, 

 beginning with 



" Oh you, who in all names can tickle the town, 

 Anacreon, Tom Little, Tom Moore, or Tom Brown ; 

 For hang xne, if I know of which you may most brag, 

 Your quarto of Two pounds, or Twopenny Post-bag." 



The result of this acquaintance has been sufficiently known. 



