(3) The Courier, February 3, 1814
.
"The Courier is indignant," says the Morning Chronicle, "at the discovery now made by Lord BYRON, that he was the author of 'the Verses to a Young Lady weeping,' which were inserted about a twelvemonth ago in the Morning Chronicle. The Editor thinks it audacious in a hereditary Counsellor of the King to admonish the Heir Apparent. It may not be courtly but it is certainly British, and we wish the kingdom had more such honest advisers."
The discovery of the author of the verses in question was not made by Lord
Byron
. How could it be? When he sent them to the
Chronicle, without
his name, he was just as well informed about the author as he is now that he has published them in a pamphlet,