diately fixed on me and one of the party, a young and beautiful woman, spoke very warmly. Lord Byron seemed satisfied, and said, they might retire. The women all slipped off their shoes in an instant, and, going up to his Lordship, each in succession, accompanied by their children, kissed his hand fervently; invoked, in the Turkish manner, a blessing both on his hand and heart, and then quitted the room. This was too much for Lord Byron, and he turned his face away to conceal his emotion." A vessel was then hired, and the whole of them, to the number of twenty-four were sent to Prevesa, provided with every comfort during the passage. These instances of humanity excited a sympathy among the Turks. The governor of Prevesa thanked his Lordship, and assured him that he would take care that equal attention should be in future paid to the Greeks, who might fall into his hands. Galt's Life of Byron, from Lake's Sketch in Galigani's edition.

Page 37, note 15.] "In the midst of his (Lord Byron's) own brigade, of the troops of the government, and of the whole population, on the shoulders of the officers of his corps, relieved occasionally by other Greeks, the most precious portion of his honoured remains was carried to the church, where lie the bodies of Marco Bozzari and of general Normann. There we laid him down the coffin was a rude ill-constructed chest of wood; a black mantle served for a pall; and over it we placed a helmet, and a sword, and a crown of laurel. But no funeral pomp could have left the impression, nor spoken the feelings of this simple ceremony." Parry's Last Days of Lord Byron.

Page 38, note 16.] The death of Lord Byron was felt by all Greece as a national misfortune. From the moment it was known that fears were entertained for his life, the progress of the disease was watched with the deepest anxiety and sorrow. On Easter Sunday, the day on which he expired, thousands of the inhabitants of Missolonghi had assembled on the spacious plain on the outside of the city, according to an ancient custom, to exchange the salutations of the morning; but on this occasion it

was remarked, that instead of the wonted congratulations, "Christ is risen," they inquired first, "How is Lord Byron?"

Galt's Byron.

On the event being made known, the Provisional Government assembled, and the following proclamation was issued.

"PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF WESTERN Greece.

"The day of festivity and rejoicing is turned into one of sorrow and mourning.

"The Lord Noel Byron departed this life at eleven o'clock last night (19th April 1824), after an illness of ten days. His death was caused by an inflammatory fever. Such was the effect of his Lordship's illness on the public mind, that all classes had forgotten their usual recreations of Easter, even before the afflicting event was apprehended.

"The loss of this illustrious individual is undoubtedly to be deplored by all Greece; but it must be more especially a subject of lamentation at Missolonghi, where his generosity has been so conspicuously displayed, and of which he had become a citizen, with the ulterior determination of participating in all the dangers of the war.

"Every body is acquainted with the beneficent acts of his lordship, and none can cease to hail his name as that of a real benefactor.

"Until, therefore, the final determination of the National Government be known, and by virtue of the powers with which it has been pleased to invest me, I hereby decree :

1st. "To-morrow morning, at day-light, thirty-seven minute guns shall be fired from the grand battery, being the number which corresponds with the age of the illustrious deceased.

2nd. "All the public offices, even to the tribunals, are to remain closed for three successive days.

I find that Mr. Moore's account says, "at six o'clock in the afternoon."

3rd. "All the shops, except those in which provisions or medicines are sold, will also be shut; and it is strictly enjoined that every species of public amusement, and other demonstrations of festivity at Easter may be suspended.

4th. "A general mourning will be observed for twenty-one days.

5th. "Prayers and a funeral service are to be offered up in all the churches.

"A. MAVROCORDATOS.

GEORGIS PRAIDIS, SECRETARY.

Given at Missolonghi,

this 19th day of April, 1824."

Page 38, note 17.] Hark to the poet's voice whispered in the "Giaour."

"Clime of the unforgotten brave!

Whose land from plain to mountain-cave,
Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave!
Shrine of the mighty! can it be
That this is all remains of thee?
Approach, thou craven-crouching slave:
Say, is not this Thermopyla?
These waters blue that round you lave,
Oh servile offspring of the free,
Pronounce what sea, what shore is this?
The gulf, the rock of Salamis !
These scenes, their story not unknown,

Arise, and make again your own,

Snatch from the ashes of your sires,

The embers of their former fires."

Page 39, note 18,

Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not

Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?

Childe Harold, Canto second, Ixxvi.

Page 39, note 19.] "Death creeps upon our most serious, as well as upon our most idle employments; and it is a reflection solemn and gratifying, that he found our Byron in no moment of levity, but contributing his fortune, and hazarding his life in behalf of a people only endeared to him by their past glories, and as fellow-creatures suffering under the yoke of a heathen oppressor. To have fallen in a crusade for freedom and humanity, as in olden times would have been an atonement for the blackest crimes, and may in the present be allowed to expiate greater follies than even exaggerated calumny has propagated against Byron." Sir Walter Scott.

Page 40, note 20.]

"Par volucer superis: stellas qui vividus æquat
Durando, membris que terit redeuntibus ævum."

Claudian de Phanice.

Page 42, note 21.] "In reviewing thus cursorily the ancestors, both near and remote, of Lord Byron, it cannot fail to be remarked how strikingly he combined in his own nature some of the best and perhaps worst qualities that lie scattered through the various characters of his predecessors, the generosity, the love of enterprise, the high-mindedness of some of the better spirits of his race, with the irregular passions, the eccentricity, and daring recklessness of the world's opinion that so much characterised others." Moore's Notices, vol. i, p. 5.

Page 43, note 22.] The last words of Lord Byron breathed the most affectionate tenderness to those whom he had loved most in life; his sister, his child, and his wife.