The night is still, and the moon hath set- To dwell on the cares that must come to-morrow, Rest in peace, while hurrying Time You may mark the Lover, with sigh sincere, To the form of love o'er his fancy stealing:- Or reposing deep in the coral grove, Where the herds of the ocean delight to rove :- INTELLIGENCE. RETURN OF CAPT. LYON'S EXPEDITION. Are the scenes of slumber his footsteps greet; The stormy feelings of man are at rest, My heart would stamp on this page some thought, more expedition, are attributed to stormy and That is worthy of Him, who such wonders wrought-found to make so little progress, that the Of Him, whose wisdom and might divine It is sweet to think, on a lonely night, Yet oft doth the spirit of those who rest as 299 but brought up again with three anchors ahead, in quarter less four fathom water. When the tide fell, the sea was so heavy that the rudder continually struck the ground, and was lifted almost out of the gudgeons. This was on the 1st of September. On the weather moderating, the Griper proceeded up the Welcome, but a northerly gale of wind springing up, the ship was driven into Hudson's Bay. However, by perseverance, and taking advantage of every favourable breeze of wind, she reached Cape Fullarton, the larboard entrance of Wager River, and within about sixty miles of the spot (Repulse Bay) where she was intended to winter. The coast on the American mainland was found so rocky and extremely dangerous, that she was obliged to stretch off for Southampton Island, whence she endeavoured to make for Repulse Bay, but was driven by the tide directly to the southward and westward, against what was supposed to be Wager River. Here strong breezes and a heavy snow-storm set in, which made it necessary that the ship should be broughtto with three anchors a-head and made snug. The sea rose rapidly, and broke over the ship with tremendous force, forming thick coats of ice in an instant, so as to connect the shrouds together half way up the rigging. The snow also fell so fast that the men had much difficulty in keeping the decks clear. The ship all this time pitched so dreadfully, that the cables came over the bumpkins, one of which was thereby broken. During the night, a large stream of ice was discovered coming down upon the ship, but, most happily, it parted before it reached her, and some small portion of it struck against the bows, which did no damage. The wind continued to increase, as well as the snow; at five o'clock in the morning the starboard cable parted, and, on the ship swinging to the other three anchors, she was struck by a sea and parted from them all! Her situation at this time was the most perilous that can be imagined: every individual momentarily expecting that she would drive on shore. Means of preservation, however, were not neglected; the trysails were got on her, though it was so dark that no object could be discerned, and they did not know so much as which way the ship's head lay, from the compasses having ceased to act, the ship being, as it is supposed, directly over or near the Magnetic Pole. Snap, her provision tender, was frequently obliged to take her in tow. From Cape Chudleigh, the Griper was obliged to stretch to the northward, to Resolution Island, the field ice prevented progress up Hudson's Straits; they were, however, enabled to make slow advances to the Westward, close to the Savage Islands, until they made Salisbury or Nottingham Island, but which place could not be ascertained, from the impossibility of making observations off the Upper Savage Islands. Some canoes of natives came off to them, who appeared to be of the same description of Esquimaux with which our navigators were before acquainted. They were dismissed with liberal presents, and appeared much gratified. From Salisbury Island, the Griper proceeded to the south point of the Southampton Island, in which they were assisted by a strong current setting down Fox's Channel; but on their sounding Southampton Island this current, which then came down Sir Thomas Rowe's Welcome, (up which they wished to proceed,) was directly against them, and nearly caused their shipwreck. Southampton Island was found to be laid down with tolerable accuracy. Off the southwest end of the island, the Griper was obliged to anchor, in consequence of sudden shoaling her water: in a gale of wind she parted one anchor, Whilst presuming, in this distressing dilemma, that the wind had shifted off the land, as the water deepened, a sight of the sun, and subsequently of the other celestial bodies, was obtained (of which they had no view for some days), and the ship was found to have been drifted out of the Welcome, after having attained lat. 65° 30'. There was at this moment no anchor left in the ship. Notwithstanding, it was determined, if possible, to winter about Chesterfield Inlet, or even to the southward of that spot. The persevering efforts of all on board were accordingly directed to gain the American shore, but finding that the ship in the hope of communicating with the got into the shallows of Hudson's Bay, they state we have described. Though little has been effected towards solving the geographical problem of a northwest passage by this voyage, yet some most interesting elucidations of the deviation of the compass have been brought to light. The compasses began to waver and contradict each other when abreast of the Savage islands; and, as the ship got to the westward, the compasses got unsteady and useless. Whilst the ship was in Sir Thomas Rowe's Welcome, they frequently would not traverse at all, but stood in whatever position the card was placed. Should a passage be discovered by Captain Parry through the Prince Regent's Inlet, it is considered more than probable, from the irregular movements of the ice, that it may never be entered again. The Griper spoke several whalers, all of which had been unsuccessful in the fishery; no ship had more than two fish, and many none whatever. From the Captain Phenix whal own accord, one thousand pounds a canto for Don Juan, and afterwards reduced it to five hundred pounds, on the plea of piracy, and complained of my dividing one canto into two, because I happened to say something at the end of the third canto of having done so." Lord Byron's Letter. “ Ravenna, February 7, 1820. "DEAR MURRAY,-I have copied the third canto of Don Juan into two, because it was too long, and I tell you this beforetween you and me, these two are only to go hand, because in case of any reckoning befor one, as this was the original form, and in fact the two together are not longer than one of the first; so remember that I have not made this division to double on you, but merely to suppress some tediousness in the aspect of the thing. I should have served you a pretty trick, if I had sent you, for example, cantos of fifty stanzas each. Captain Medwin, p. 169. The Griper is ordered to be paid off, and sold out of the navy. A vessel better adapted to the peculiarities of the service, will, no doubt, be provided for Captain but it seems inevitable. I had no reason to "I don't wish to quarrel with Murray, Lyon and his meritorious officers and crew be pleased with him the other day. Galion the opening of the season, for further gnani wrote to me, offering to purchase the investigation. Captain Franklin, we understand, is to leave England, on his land copy-right of my works, in order to obtain an exclusive privilege of printing them in expedition, in February next. France. I might have made my own terms, and put the money in my own pocket; instead of which I enclosed Galignani's letter to Murray, in order that he might conclude the matter as he pleased. He did so, very advantageously for his own interest; but never had the complaisance, the common politeness, to thank me or acknowledge my letter." LORD BYRON. The European press is teeming with publications, occasioned by the death of this distinguished character, in the form of elegies, monodies, biographies, recollections, &c. &c., and he has even been already made the subject of fiction. Somebody has published a "Narrative of Lord Byron's Voyage to Corsica and Sardinia in the summer of 1821," full of events as remarkable and as well authenticated as those of Sinbad the Sailor, Baron Munchausen, or Lemuel Gulli ver. ray, Lord Byron's Letter. "Ravenna, 9bre 4, 1820. "I have received from Mr Galignani the enclosed letters, duplicates, and receipts, which will explain themselves. As the poems None of these publications appears are your property, by purchase, right, and to have excited more attention than Med justice, all matters of publications &c. &c. are win's Conversations of Byron; and it would for you to decide upon. I know not how far seem that they have been proved to contain my compliance with Mr Galignani's request a good deal of either accidental or wilful might be legal, and I doubt that it would not er, Captain Lyon heard that Captain Par- is reported to have stated certain facts not with him, I enclose the permits to you, and misrepresentation. In this work, Lord Byron be honest. In case you choose to arrange ry's Expedition had been seen, in the middle of August, in latitude 71°, beset with very honourable to his publisher, Mr Mur- in so doing, I wash my hands of the business ice. On the whole, the season has been the manner in which he had been treated you to exert the power you justly possess and to have made some complaints of altogether; I sign them merely to enable more boisterous, and, consequently, the sea by him. Mr Murray has thought proper to more properly; I will have nothing to do less clear, than it has been known for thirty circulate a small pamphlet relative to these with it further, except in my answer to Mr years. It was very questionable if Captain statements, in which he shows the utter Galignani, to state, that the letters, &c. &c. Parry would be able to reach Lancaster groundlessness of every syllable imputed to are sent to you, and the causes thereof. If Sound. Had the Griper effected a winter- Lord Byron, and refutes most completely you can check those foreign pirates, do; if ing at Repulse Bay or Wager River, or every particular item of these injurious not, put the permissive papers in the fire. I Chesterfield Inlet, Captain Lyon with a and scandalous insinuations. Mr Murray's can have no view nor object whatever but strong party, would have made a land jour-pamphlet is very honourable to him. It to secure to you your property. ney to Point Turnagain, near the Copper- labours at no reasoning, but simply states mine River, a distance of seven hundred miles; for which expedition they were fully equipped. Captain Parry, if he succeed in passing the Lancaster Sound and getting to the southward down Prince Regent's Inlet (by which Captain Lyon was next year to communicate with him), he will send a land expedition, if possible, in the same direction, as well as to Repulse Bay, Note by Mr Murray.-Mr Murray derived no facts, and produces Lord Byron's own let-advantage from the proposed agreement, which it, ters to confound Lord Byron's Conversa- by no means of the importance here ascribed to it tions with Captain Medwin. As these are into effect: the documents alluded to are still in his and therefore was never attempted to be carried of very considerable interest, and illustrate his lordship's character and life, we think it worth while to insert them entire. possession. Captain Medwin, pp. 169, 171. "Murray has long prevented the Quarterly from abusing me. Some of their bullies “Murray offered me [Lord Byron,] of his have had their fingers itching to be at me; Captain Medwin, p. 167, (Eng. Ed.) nexion: he had the choice of giving up me or the navy list. There was no hesitation which way he should decide: the admiralty carried the day. Now for the Quarterly: their batteries will be opened; but I can fire broadsides too. They have been letting off lots of squibs and crackers against me, but they only make a noise and * * * "Werner was the last book Murray published for me, and three months after came out the Quarterly's article on my plays, when Marino Faliero was noticed for the first time." Lord Byron's Letter. "Genoa, 10bre 25, 1822. "I had sent you back the Quarterly without perusal, having resolved to read no more reviews, good, bad, or indifferent; but who can control his fate? Galignani, to whom my English studies are confined, has forwarded a copy of at least one half of it, in his indefatigable weekly compilation, and as, like honour it came unlooked for,' I have looked through it. I must say, that upon the whole,—that is, the whole of the half which I have read, (for the other half is to be the segment of Gal's next week's circular), it is certainly handsome, and any thing but unkind or unfair.” Note. The passage about the admiralty is unFounded in fact, and no otherwise deserving of nozice, than to mark its absurdity; and with regard o the Quarterly Review, his lordship well knew hat it was established and constantly conducted on principles which absolutely excluded Mr Murray from all such interference and influence as is implied in the Conversations. Captain Medwin, 168. "Because I gave Mr Murray one of my poems, he wanted to make me believe that I had made him a present of two others, and hinted at some lines in English Bards,' that were certainly to the point. But I have altered my mind considerably upon that subject: as I once hinted to him, I see no reason why a man should not profit by the sweat of his brain as well as by the sweat of his brow, &c.; besides I was poor at that time, and have no idea of aggrandizing booksellers. Lord Byron's Letter. "January 2, 1816. "Dear SIR,-Your offer is liberal in the extreme, and much more than the two poems can possibly be worth; but I cannot accept it, nor will not. You are most welcome to them as additions to the collected volumes, without any demand or expectation on my part whatever." "P. S. I have enclosed your draft torn, for fear of accidents by the way. I wish you would not throw temptation in mine; it is not from a disdain of the universal idol-nor from the present superfluity of his treasures-I can assure you, that I refuse to worship him; but what is right is right, and must not yield to circumstances." Note. The above letter relates to a draft for one thousand guineas, offered by Mr Murray for two poems, the Siege of Corinth and Parisina, heard that Lord Byron was in pecuniary which his lordship had previously, at a short inter-difficulties, he immediately forwarded fifteen val, presented to Mr Murray as donations. Lord hundred pounds to him, with an assurance Byron was afterwards induced, by Mr Murray's earnest persuasion, to accept the one thousand that another such sum should be at his serguineas, and Mr. Murray has his lordship's assign-vice in a few months; and that if such assisment of the copy right accordingly. tance should not be sufficient, Mr Murray would be ready to sell the copy right of all his lordship's works, for his use. The following is Lord Byron's acknowledgement of this offer: Captain Medwin, p. 166. "Murray pretends to have lost money by is poor, which is somewhat problematical to my writings, and pleads poverty; but if he me, pray who is to blame. "November 14, 1815. "Mr Murray is tender of my fame. How "DEAR SIR,-I return you your bills, unackind in him! He is afraid of my writing too cepted, but certainly not unhonoured. Your fast. Why? because he has a tender regard present offer is a favour which I would acfor his own pocket, and does not like the cept from you, if I accepted such from any look of any new acquaintance in the shape man. Had such been my intention, I can of a book of mine, till he has seen his old assure you, I would have asked you, fairly friends in a variety of new faces; ID EST, and as freely as you would give; and I candisposed of a vast many editions of the for-not say more of my confidence, or your conmer works. I don't know what would be- duct. The circumstances which induce me come of me without Douglas Kinnaird, who to part with my books, though sufficiently, has always been my best and kindest friend. are not immediately pressing. I have made It is not easy to deal with Mr Murray." up my mind to them, and there is an end. Note.—In the numerous letters received by Mr Had I been disposed to trespass on your Murray yearly from Lord Byron, (who was not kindness in this way, it would have been accustomed to restrain the expression of his feel- before now; but I am not sorry to have an ings in writing them) not one has any tendency to- opportunity of declining it, as it sets my wards the imputations here thrown out; the incon- opinion of you, and indeed of human nature, gruity of which will be evident, from the fact of Mr in a different light from that in which I have Murray having paid, at various times, for the copy right of his lordship's poems, sums amounting to been accustomed to consider it. upwards of fifteen thousand pounds, viz.— Childe Harold, I., II. Sardanapalus, Cain, and Foscari 6007. 1575 1100 525 525 400 15.405 "Believe me very truly your obliged and faithful servant, "To JOHN MURRAY, Esq." "BYRON. Note. That nothing had occurred to subvert these friendly sentiments, will appear from the three letters subjoined, the second of them written by Lord Byron a few weeks before his death, and the last addressed by his lordship's valet to Mr Murray, as one of his deceased master's most confidential friends. The first and last of these letters we omit; the second is dated, "Missolonghi, February 25, 1824." "I have heard from Mr Douglas Kinnaird, that you state a report of a satire on Mr Gifford having arrived from Italy, said to be written by me, but that you do not believe it; I dare say you do not, nor any body else Captain Medwin, p. 170. I should think. Whoever asserts that I am "My differences with Murray are not the author or abetter of any thing of the When he purchased Cain,' The kind on Gifford, lies in his throat; I always Two Foscari,' and Sardanapalus,' he sent regarded him as my literary father, and myme a deed, which you may remember wit-self as his prodigal son. If any such comnessing. Well; after its return to England position exists, it is none of mine. know, as well as any body, upon whom I have or have not written, and you also know, whether they did or did not deserve the same. So much for such matters. Note. On referring to the deed in question, no such clause is to be found; but that this instrument was signed in London, by the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, as Lord Byron's procurator, and witnessed "On Sunday, the 15th I believe, I had a by Richard Williams, Esq., one of the partners in sudden and strong convulsive attack, which Mr Kinnaird's banking house; and that the signa-left me speechless, though not motionless, ture of Captain Medwin is not affixed. for some strong men could not hold me; but Mr Murray adds, that having accidentally whether it was epilepsy, catalepsy, cachexy, 1 apoplexy, or what other epsy or exy, the "On Tuesday, a Turkish brig of war ran on shore. By Wells & Lilly-Boston. By Munroe & Francis-Boston. 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