Consolidation and Amendment of the Bankrupt Laws. 
other aecount than to behold the poet, a 
wish that'he found it impracticable to gra- 
tify! “Sothie of the wicked matrons of Ve- 
nieé, however, took pity on the youth, 
and engaged 'to’procure for/him, not only a 
‘sight, but an’ acquaintance, they hoped, of 
a very intimate kind with the noble hermit. 
Some little humoursome vengeance of their 
owii was of course tobe gratified at the 
Same’ time,’ but the youth consented to any 
corditions provided he could see the bard. 
“© Strange enough, the boy resembled 
Byron himself excessively, and had the 
same delicately cut features, approaching 
to beauty almost feminine. He spoke 
Italian perfectly, and a very little tuition was 
sufficient to give his tongue the peculiar 
softness, idiom, and tone of the Venetian 
dialect. In less than a fortnight he lisped 
their ‘bastard Latin’ to perfection, and 
his, Venetian tongue was reckoned by those 
best of judges as proof against detection. 
“* Thus prepared, he was habited as a 
young Venetian dame: luxuriant curls 
concealed and adorned his countenance— 
the modest dress under which foreign dames 
affect to conceal their charms, which they 
Yarely abound in, was advantageous to the 
present deceit—and richly attired, our 
youth was’ led at midnight to Madame 
Albrizzi’s, as a newly married lady, arrived 
from the Terra Firma to make her entrée 
into the world of fashion. 
“ The poet dropped in at the usual hour, 
east his mistrustful glance around, and ob- 
serving that no stranger was present to be 
a Spy upon his unbended hour, he relaxed 
his haughtiness into the easy, trifling con- 
verse, which the mind accustomed to exer- 
tion loves. From fair to fair he wandered, 
dealing to all a portion of his peculiar, ca- 
_pricious, and often satirical gallantry ; till at 
length a new face, that most rare object in 
the confined and unvarying circle of Italian 
high life, struck and fascinated his attention. 
~ “© He demanded who she was, and, was 
told a high and handsome sounding title. 
He approached at once, and entered into 
conversation with the supposed beauty, 
who, as may be supposed, spoke as little 
and as modestly as was consistent with 
keeping the character assumed. Timidity 
515, 
in an Italian female was a new attraction, 
The youth, after a time, finding his tongue 
sufficiently feminine, which it was not dif- 
ficult to be, so masculine and powerful are 
the tones of those southern females,, one 
of whom he represented, took greater con- 
fidence, and joined with less. reserve in 
conversation with the poet. sp 
** At length Lord B--— touched on the 
topic of patriotism, for he was fond. of 
awakening those feelings in the breasts of 
Venetians ; he loved even to indulge ina 
little reproof and satire, at the expense of 
the humble and submissive character of the 
living children of Venice. In rejoinders to 
a remark of this kind, he was not a little 
surprised to find his own patriotism called 
in question, or rather his antipatriotism 
alluded to. He was even asked—how he, 
who denied and reviled his country, dared 
to taunt in others the feeling which neces- 
sity enforced in them, but which caprice 
alone could inspire him with. Had a fly 
stung him with a wasp’s sting, he could 
not have been more astonished. But he 
was not without his pleas, his indignant 
defence, the being driven to which but 
pleased him the more with his companion. 
He spoke eloquently, he dropped the mask 
of gallantry and trifling, and displayed the 
feeling, passionate being that he was; and 
the young Englishman enjoyed beyond all 
that he had anticipated—the sight and con- 
versation of the immortal poet. . 
“« T wished the truth would allow me to 
have added some piquant conclusion to the 
story, but such and no more did it tend to. 
The Venetian dames ardently wished that 
he should become enamoured of his coun- 
tryman in disguise, but his lordship, though 
unable to detect the imposture, was proof 
against any false charms the disguise could 
possess; and the youth, satisfied, would 
not continue the deceit. He wrote. the 
following day, confessing the trick, and 
begging to be allowed to visit his lordship 
in his proper character—no answer was 
returned. The poet was hurt; and_ the 
cirele of the Albrizzi laughed so much at 
his expense, that he no longer affiched, as 
the French say, his antipathy to his coun- 
trymen in that society.” 
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4 CONSOLIDATION AND AMENDMENT OF THE LAW OF 
o2 .n90% 
joSEHE statute 6 Geo. IV. c. 16, after re- 
citing that. it is expedient to amend the 
Jaws of bankruptcy, and to simplify the lan- 
guage thereof, and to consolidate the same 
when so amended and simplified in one 
act, and to make other provisions respect- 
ing bankrupts, repeals the whole of the 
isting statutes (from the 34 and 35 Hen. 
Vin ¢ 4, to the 5 Geo. TV, ¢. 98, both 
inclusive) on the subject. The statute 
n proceeds to re-evact the substance of 
the repealed acts, (in most instances in 
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BANKRUPTCY. 
totidem verbis;) but with many impor- 
tant alterations and several additional re- 
gulations and provisions. The alterations 
and additional regulations and provisions 
are: 
Ist. The description of persons liable as 
traders to the bankrupt laws is enlarged, 
the statute rendering underwriters, builders, 
dyers, printers, bleachers, fullers, ‘calen- 
derers, cattle or sheep-salesmen, farmers, 
grazicrs, drovers of cattle, receivers-general 
of the taxes, and victuallers,keepersiof 
3U 2 aid sirasue Tesng Ihe, 
