[405] Correspondence, I, p. 188, July 8, 1822. Letter to his sister-in-law.
[406] Letters and Journals, VI, p. 97, July 12, 1822.
[407] Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron, I, p. 174.
[408] Correspondence, I, p. 192. October (?), 1822.
[409] Letters and Journals, VI, p. 160. January 8, 1823.
[410] Ibid., VI, pp. 171-173.
[411] Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries, pp. 50, 63.
[412] Ibid., p. 48.
[413] “Blackwood’s Magazine overflowed, as might be expected, with ten-fold gall and bitterness; the John Bull was outrageous; and Mr. Jerdan black in the face at this unheard-of and disgraceful union. But who would have supposed that Mr. Thomas Moore and Mr. Hobhouse, those staunch friends and partisans of the people, should also be thrown into almost hysterical agonies of well-bred horror at the coalition between their noble and ignoble acquaintance, between the Patrician and the ‘Newspaper-Man’? Mr. Moore darted backwards and forwards from Cold-Bath-Fields’ Prison to the Examiner-Office, from Mr. Longman’s to Mr. Murray’s shop, in a state of ridiculous trepidation, to see what was to be done to prevent this degradation of the aristocracy of letters, this indecent encroachment of plebeian pretensions, this undue extension of patronage and compromise of privilege. The Tories were shocked that Lord Byron should grace the popular side by his direct countenance and assistance—the Whigs were shocked that he should share his confidence and councils with any one who did not unite the double recommendations of birth and genius—but themselves!” (Hazlitt, The Plain Speaker, II, p. 437 ff.)
[414] Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries, p. 52.