, and addressed to the Princess
Charlotte
:
"The Courier is indignant 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."
No wonder the
Courier
, and every loyal man, should be indignant at the discovery (made by the republication of these worthless lines, in the Noble Lord's new Volume) that this gross insult came from the pen of "a hereditary Counsellor of the
King
! "No wonder every good subject should execrate this novel and disagreeable mode of "
admonishing