took it to the Lanfranchi palace at eleven o'clock, (after coming from the opera,) an hour at which I was frequently in the habit of calling on him.

He had left the Guiccioli earlier than usual, and I found him waiting with some impatience. I never shall forget his countenance as he glanced rapidly over the contents. He looked perfectly awful: his colour changed almost prismatically; his lips were as pale as death. He said not a word. He read it a second time, and with more attention than his rage at first permitted, commenting on some of the passages as he went on. When he had finished, he threw down the paper, and asked me if I thought there was any thing of a personal nature in the reply that demanded satisfaction; as, if there was, he would

instantly set off for England and call Southey to an account,-muttering something about whips, and branding-irons, and gibbets, and wounding the heart of a woman, -words of Mr. Southey's. I said that, as to personality, his own expressions of cowardly ferocity," "pitiful renegado," "hireling," were much stronger than any in the letter before me. He paused a moment, and said:

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Perhaps you are right; but I will consider of it. You have not seen my Vi"sion of Judgment.' I wish I had a copy "to shew you; but the only one I have is " in London. I had almost decided not

to publish it, but it shall now go forth to "the world. I will write to Douglas Kin"naird by to-morrow's post, to-night, not "to delay its appearance. The question

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is, whom to get to print it. Murray will "have nothing to say to it just now, while

"the prosecution of Cain' hangs over his "head. It was offered to Longman; but "he declined it on the plea of its injuring "the sale of Southey's Hexameters, of "which he is the publisher. Hunt shall "have it."

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Another time he said:

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I am glad Mr. Southey owns that article on 'Foliage,' which excited my "choler so much. But who else could "have been the author? Who but Sou

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they would have had the baseness, under "the pretext of reviewing the work of one

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man, insidiously to make it a nest-egg "for hatching malicious calumnies against "others ?

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"It was bad taste, to say the least of it,

in Shelley to write Altos after his name

at Mont Anvert. I knew little of him

at that time, but it happened to meet my 66 eye, and I put my pen through the word, "and Mopos too, that had been added by some one else by way of comment-and

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a very proper comment too, and the

only one that should have been made on "it. There it should have stopped. It

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would have been more creditable to Mr.

Southey's heart and feelings if he had "been of this opinion; he would then "never have made the use of his travels "he did, nor have raked out of an album "the silly joke of a boy, in order to make it matter of serious accusation against him at home. I might well say he had impudence enough, if he could confess such infamy. I say nothing of the cri

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tique itself on 'Foliage;' with the ex

ception of a few sonnets, it was unwor

'thy of Hunt. But what was the object "of that article? I repeat, to vilify and "scatter his dark and devilish insinuations

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against me and others. Shame on the

man who could wound an already bleed

ing heart,-be barbarous enough to re"vive the memory of a fatal event that "Shelley was perfectly innocent of,—and found scandal on falsehood! Shelley

"taxed him with writing that article some

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years ago; and he had the audacity to

"admit that he had treasured up some

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opinions of Shelley's, ten years before, "when he was on a visit at Keswick, and "had made a note of them at the time. "But his bag of venom was not full; it is "the nature of the reptile. Why does a viper have a poison-tooth, or the scorpion claws?"

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