build belief upon; and those who know the bard's first published from his Letters, Journals, liberal views, and not lefs liberal practice, in what and other Manufcripts, in the poffeffion of are sentimentally termed affairs of the heart-per- his Son, MAJOR GEORGE GORDON BYRON. haps because the heart has very little to do with them-will not wonder that he has a fon almost anywhere, even in the army of the United States. "The captain has a thorough acquaintance with all the details of Byron's life, as well as of Shelley, Keats, Moore, and moft of the modern English poets, and relates many interesting anecdotes that have never appeared in print. He declares that Byron, while in Spain, was clandeftinely married to a noble lady of the old family of De Luna, and that the product of this marriage was an only fon, —the captain himself, though he does not fay fo. The discovery of this union, through certain letters, by Lady Byron in England, caufed the feparation, about which so much mystery has ever refted, between the poet and his fecond spouse; the true reafon for which the proud and injured woman pertinaciously refused to divulge. "The subject of this sketch went, when a youth, to England, and obtained a pofition in the British army, and ferved as major for fome time in India. He afterward visited Perfia, and filled fome official pofition there; returned to England, and after the breaking out of the rebellion concluded to enlift in the cause of the Union; having inherited the fame love for liberty that characterized his diftinguished father, and sent him, in the full bloffoming of his fame, to die at Miffolonghi. "The captain, who is about forty-five years of age, modeft, unassuming, intellectual, and highly cultivated, but rather bizarre in manner, began to write the Hiftory of the Byron Family fome years ago; but after completing two large volumes without reaching the poet's grandfather, he fufpended his labors for the adoption of an abbreviated account, which is to be given to the world at fome future day. "So much for the captain, his statements, and the belief of his friends. His ftories are plaufible enough, and may be true, as those who know him believe they are. I give the brief history as I have heard it from various sources, thinking it would not be without intereft to many of your readers.” The Poft's correfpondent does not appear to be correctly informed concerning the literary labors of his hero. It is not as the writer of a Hiftory of the Byron Family that Byron fils is distinguished, but as the compiler of a rather dubious publication, entitled The Inedited Works of Lord Byron, now This work was commenced as a ferial, and the first number was published October 1, 1849, by G. G. Byron, 257 Broadway, and R. Martin, 46 Ann ftreet, New York. We believe that only two numbers were iffued. Number I. now lies before us, and is a neatly-printed octavo pamphlet of fortyeight pages, illuftrated with a steel engraving of Thorwalfden's ftatue of Byron. A few extracts from the Prospectus and Introduction may perhaps be amufing to the reader, and throw fome additional light on the peculiar character of this myfterious "child of love:" "Placed beyond want by the liberality of a parent, with ample means to gratify my defire of vifiting the fcenes with which the name of Lord Byron had been associated, at the age of seventeen I commenced my pilgrimage of love and affection. Wherever I chanced to find myself, his spirit feemed to hover around me, and to encourage the zeal with which I collected every relic of his mighty genius, which had escaped the research of those who had gone before. At first I had no other object in view than the gratification of the natural defire of poffeffing those memorials of my parent. I imagined, perhaps intuitively, that I fhould one day be enabled to place his character right with pofterity. I found many documents which threw a fresh light upon the springs of action, which influenced and governed the courfe of his destiny. I became the more eager in my purfuit. My collection of documents affumed, from its bulk, the appearance of importance. "I had visited every place on the Continent at which he had been; I had tracked, as it were, his footsteps through the whole funny South. England was ftill unexplored by me. It seemed the leaft likely place to meet with the treasures which I fought.. "Again I croffed the Atlantic, and returned to my adopted home amongst the mountains of Virginia. I arranged the fruits of my travels, and became enamored of my pursuit. A defire to rechildhood, the home of the Byrons, allowed me vifit the birth-place of my father, the scenes of his no quiet. I could not reft until this defire had been gratified, and on the 13th of January, 1844, found myself an inmate of the 'Sufquehanna,' about to fail for England. By these means I have been enabled to bring together fuch an amount of correfpondence and unpublished matter, both in profe and verse, that in juftice to my father's memory I confidered myfelf called upon to place it before the public." HYMN TO THE GUILLOTINE. THE evidence upon which the Hymn to the Guillotine is afcribed to Joel Barlow, is not conclufive. I have seen it attributed to John Thelwall, the noted English reformer. In the new edition of the Biographie Univerfelle (tome iii. p. 108), the following account of Barlow is given: "A fon retour en Angleterre, Pitt le fignala comme l'un des plus zélés propagandistes et l'agent des jacobins anglais fur le continent. A ce fujet on rapporte qu'après le fupplice de Louis XVI., fe trouvant à Hambourg dans une réunion d'étrangers imbus, comme lui, de It will be seen, from thefe extracts, that "Captain George Gordon de Luna Byron" did formerly claim "to be the fon of the noble English poet" whom, according to the Poft's correfpondent, he has now the filial ingratitude to deny. The following "elegant extract" from the "Major's" Profpectus may serve as a choice fample of his graceful ftyle of compofition, and alfo as a principes révolutionaires, Barlow f'était fair fpecimen of his critical appreciation of his illustrious father's genius: "What Lord Byron faid of Pope may with more juftice be faid of himself: 'He is the Poet of all times, of all climes, of all feelings, and of all ftages of existence. A thousand years will roll away before fuch another can be hoped for in our Literature: HE HIMSElf is a Literature.' Throwing afide the trammels of conventional life, in his hatred and difguft at the cant and hypocrify which fought to annihilate him on account of his youthful irregularities and indifcretions; and relying folely on the vaft power of his own mighty genius, he contemned and defied both the World's cenfure and praife. But for the very fault of his early education, the misfortunes of his youth, and the difappointments which awaited him as he merged into manhood;-but for the natural moodiness of his fpirit, and the poffeffion of affections, that longed for fomething around which to entwine;but for the want of a mother's love, and the lofs of a wife's affections ;-but for the combination of evils, which would have proftrated another, but for all these the genius of Byron might have flumbered, and been loft to us and to pofterity. 'The light that leads aftray is the light that shines from Heaven;' and this glorious light, which sheds its effulgence over every page of his writings, will be fought for in vain in the effufions of his moft gifted contemporaries. It is this lightning-flash of genius, uncontrolled and uncontrollable, that will caufe pofterity to speak of the nineteenth century as THE AGE OF BYRON." "Jam fatis eft; ne me Crispini serinia lippi Compilaffe putes, verbum non amplius addam.” amufé à parodier le refrain de la prière anglaife God fave the king, auquel il en avait fubftitué un autre appelant fur la tête des rois le glaive des revolutions." I find the Hymn given in The Balance, a Federal paper printed at Hudson, New York, edited by Harry Crofwell and the Rev. Ezra Sampfon, from which the following copy is taken: God fave the Guillotine, Fame, let thy trumpet found! When all the fceptred crew The Guillotine- S. It appears to have been published in numbers; the first containing eight and the fecond twelve pages, and ending with a Was it continpromise of continuation. ued? The author feems to have been a New York. A SWEDENBORGIAN. Notes and Queries. CERVANTES AND HIS DON QUIXOTE. I BELIEVE it is not generally known that Cervantes found his hero Don Quixote ready sketched to his hand, represented as riding about, armed cap-à-pie, in queft of man of great learning and ability. adventures, his head having been turned by the perufal of romances, yet fuch appears to be the cafe. Some years ago, the writer of this note purchased a small volume entitled Le Defefpoir Amoureux, avec les Nou- teen leading citizens of New York, at the velles Vifons de Don Quichotte, Hiftoire requeft of a meeting, fent to General WashEfpagnole. Amfterdam, 1715. 12mo. In ington an addrefs, congratulating him on the advertisement prefixed to it, the French translator gives the following account of the work: “Nous en sommes redevables aux Ecrivains Efpagnols que je n'ai quafi fait que traduire, & fur ADDRESS OF CITIZENS OF NEW YORK TO WASHINGTON. On the 26th of November, 1783, thir the evacuation of that city by the British troops. Can any of your readers inform me whether this address has ever been publifhed in fac-fimile, and where the original document can be found? P. tout à l'auteur de l'Hiftoire de la belle Floride & du Berger Philidon, avec les Vifions de Don Quichotte, dans fon Livre intitulé Homicidio de la Fi- Meffrs. PHILES & Co. have ready for the delitad, y la Defenfa del Honor, imprimé à Paris, press, and are now taking fubfcriptions for, l'an Mil fix cens neuf chez Jean Richer, & connu a reprint of The Paradife of Dayntie Deen fa Langue Originale plus d'un fiècle avant que vifes. The text of this edition is taken Miguel Cervantes, qui a donné le célébre Romans from the reprint of 1810, edited by Sir Edde Don Quichotte, ait été au monde."—"We are indebted," fays the French tranflator, "to Spanish gerton Brydges. The biographical notes writers for the histories contained in this volume, have been prepared expreffly for this ediwhich are merely a translation from their works, and tion, ufing Brydges' as a bafis, but incorparticularly from thofe of the author of Homicidio de porating much information that has been la Fidelitad, &c., printed at Paris in 1609, for John brought to light fince his edition was iffued. Richer, but known in the original Spanish above a century before Miguel Cervantes, who produced the cele- This edition will be printed in small quarto, brated Romance of Don Quixote, came into the world." in the beft ftyle of art, upon India paper, Who was the author of the Homicidio and is limited to 500 copies, as follows: de la Fidelitad, &c., and where may an account of the work be found? W. W. JONATHAN W. CONDY. 400 on small paper, at $2.00 each. 100 on large paper, at 4.00 each. At these prices, copies will be furnished to subscribers only; and as foon as they are I should be glad to learn any particulars fupplied, the prices will be raised to $2.50 of the author of a pamphlet under the fol- for the fmall-paper copies, and $5.00 for lowing title: A Letter to the Rev. Jackson the large-paper copies. Meffrs. Philes & Kemper, Prefbyter of the Proteftant Epif- Co. propofe to make this reprint of The copal Church, &c., &c., on the Subject of Paradife of Dayntie Devifes the first volhis Attacks upon the Character and Wri- ume of a feries of reprints of scarce collectings of Emanuel Swedenborg. By Jona- tions of old English poetry. The next than W. Condy. 8vo, pp. 24. Philadel- volume in the feries will be "ENGLAND'S phia, 1830. HELICON." June, 1862. Maloniana. The Philobiblion. FROM PRIOR'S LIFE OF MALONE. DR. WARTON, in his Essay on Pope, has mentioned that three of our celebrated poets died fingular deaths. He might have added Shenftone to the number. He had a housekeeper who lived with him in the double capacity of maid and mistress; and being offended with her, on fome occafion, he went out of his house and fat all night in his post-chaise in much agitation, in confequence of which he caught a cold that eventually caufed his death. Conyers Middleton wrote a Treatife againft Prayer, which he showed to Lord Bolingbroke, who diffuaded him from publishing it, as it would fet all the clergy against him. On this ground he counselled him to deftroy the manufcript, but fecretly kept a copy, which is probably still in being. Gibbon, the hiftorian, is fo exceedingly indolent that he never even pares his nails. His fervant, while Gibbon is reading, takes up one of his hands, and when he has performed the operation lays it down, and then manages the other the patient in the meanwhile fcarcely knowing what is going on, and quietly pursuing his ftudies. Number 7. The picture of him painted by Sir J. Reynolds, and the prints made from it, are as like the original as it is poffible to be. When he was introduced to a blind French lady, the fervant happening to stretch out her mistress's hand to lay hold of the hiftorian's cheek, fhe thought, upon feeling its rounded contour, that fome trick was being played upon her with the fitting part of a child, and exclaimed, "Fi donc !" Mr. Gibbon is very replete with anecdotes, and tells them with great happiness and fluency. Colonel Erskine, Lady Mar's grandfon, has a copy of a very curious letter of Lady M. W. Montague's, giving an account of a private fociety that used to meet about the year 1730 at Lord Hillsborough's in Hanover Square, where each gentleman came masked, and brought with him one ladyeither his mistress, or any other man's wife, or perhaps a woman of the town-who was alfo masked. They were on oath not to divulge names, and continued masked the whole time. There were tables fet out for fupper, artificial arbours, couches, &c., to which parties retired when they pleased, and called for what refreshment they chose. This inftitution probably lasted but a short The late Captain O'Brien told me time. Notes and Queries. It appears to have been published in CERVANTES AND HIS DON QUIXOTE. numbers; the firft containing eight and the I BELIEVE it is not generally known that fecond twelve pages, and ending with a Cervantes found his hero Don Quixote ued? The author feems to have been a promise of continuation. Was it continready sketched to his hand, represented as riding about, armed cap-à-pie, in queft of man of great learning and ability. adventures, his head having been turned by the perufal of romances, yet fuch appears to be the cafe. Some years ago, the writer of this note purchased a small volume entitled Le Defefpoir Amoureux, avec les Nou- teen leading citizens of New York, at the velles Vifons de Don Quichotte, Hiftoire requeft of a meeting, fent to General WafhEfpagnole. Amfterdam, 1715. 12mo. In ington an addrefs, congratulating him on the advertisement prefixed to it, the French the evacuation of that city by the British tranflator gives the following account of the troops. Can any of your readers inform me whether this addrefs has ever been publifhed in fac-fimile, and where the original document can be found? work: "Nous en fommes redevables aux Ecrivains Efpagnols que je n'ai quafi fait que traduire, & furtout à l'auteur de l'Hiftoire de la belle Floride & du Berger Philidon, avec les Vifions de Don Quichotte, dans fon Livre intitulé Homicidio de la FiMeffrs. PHILES & Co. have ready for the delitad, y la Defenfa del Honor, imprimé à Paris, prefs, and are now taking fubfcriptions for, l'an Mil fix cens neuf chez Jean Richer, & connu a reprint of The Paradife of Dayntie Deen fa Langue Originale plus d'un fiècle avant que vifes. The text of this edition is taken Miguel Cervantes, qui a donné le célébre Romans from the reprint of 1810, edited by Sir Edde Don Quichotte, ait été au monde."-" We are indebted," fays the French tranflator, "to Spanish gerton Brydges. The biographical notes writers for the hiftories contained in this volume, have been prepared expreffly for this ediwhich are merely a tranflation from their works, and tion, ufing Brydges' as a bafis, but incorparticularly from thofe of the author of Homicidio de porating much information that has been la Fidelitad, &c., printed at Paris in 1609, for John brought to light fince his edition was iffued. Richer, but known in the original Spanish above a century before Miguel Cervantes, who produced the cele- This edition will be printed in fmall quarto, brated Romance of Don Quixote, came into the world." in the beft ftyle of art, upon India paper, Who was the author of the Homicidio and is limited to 500 copies, as follows: de la Fidelitad, &c., and where may an account of the work be found? W. W. JONATHAN W. CONDY. I fhould be glad to learn any particulars of the author of a pamphlet under the following title: A Letter to the Rev. Jackfon Kemper, Prefbyter of the Proteftant Epifcopal Church, &c., &c., on the Subject of his Attacks upon the Character and Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. By Jonathan W. Condy. 8vo, pp. 24. Philadelphia, 1830. 400 on small paper, at $2.00 each. 100 on large paper, at 4.00 each. At thefe prices, copies will be furnished to subscribers only; and as foon as they are fupplied, the prices will be raised to $2.50 for the fmall-paper copies, and $5.00 for the large-paper copies. Meffrs. Philes & Co. propofe to make this reprint of The Paradife of Dayntie Devifes the first volume of a feries of reprints of fcarce collections of old En volume in the W |