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feat of swimniing across the Hellespont. She had 

 abandoned for him. husband, home, and good name 

 if there "be such a thing as female reputation in 

 Italy; and yet he is represented as speaking of her 

 in a most unfeeling manner to one of his "friends," 

 just after she had passed them on a ride : " I loved 

 her for three weeks, what a red-headed thing it 

 is!" This "red-headed thing," at the same time, 

 living with him as a wife! Believe this of Byron 

 who likes, not I. It is more likely that the reporter 

 'lies under a mistake," as Byron himself writes, 

 than that the author of Child Harold was so heartless 

 a being. 



SIMPSON. I am inclined to think that these 

 anecdotes, which give so unfavorable an account of 

 Byron, have prejudiced you against the general 

 merits of the book as a work on angling. 



FISHER Work on angling ! though you say you 

 have looked it through, you cannot have read it, or 

 you would never allude to it as a work on angling. 

 Why, there is nothing in it but what Rammohun 

 Roy, who never caught a trout in his life, might 

 have written with the aid of a sixpenny Art of 

 Angling. So far from entertaining any prejudice 

 against the book, I read on past the scandalous anec- 

 dotes about Byron, till I was fairly brought up by a 

 "Poem" at the end, about Julian and Gizele, the 

 Findarries, Zalim, Spahees, Beils, G-hebres, G-oorkhas, 

 Bringarries, &c. &c. I then fairly saw land. The 

 " thing" had been " done" expressly for the circula- 



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