Morning Chronicle
, and which were afterwards collected into a little volume; this may, probably, be in Lord Byron's opinion, a clear title to the name of
patriot
, in which case, his Lordship has also his claim to the same honour; and, indeed that sagacious and loyal person, the Editor of the
Morning Chronicle
, seems to be of this notion; for when some one ventured to express some, we think not unnatural, indignation at Lord Byron's having been the author of some impudent doggrels, of the same vein, which appeared anonymously in that paper reflecting on his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and her Royal Highness his daughter, the Editor before-mentioned exclaimed—"What! and is not a Peer, an hereditary councillor of the Crown, to be permitted to give his constitutional advice?!!!"
If writing such vile and anonymous stuff as one sometimes reads in the
Morning Chronicle
be the duty of a good subject, or the privilege of a Peer of Parliament, then indeed we have nothing to object to Mr. Moore's title of Patriot, or Lord Byron's open, honourable, manly, and constitutional method of advising the Crown.
To return, however, to our main object, Lord Byron's