racters; and certainly they are not so highly coloured as we find them in real life.

"This may be true; but the question is, what are your motives and object for painting nothing but scenes of vice and folly ?"-" To remove the cloak, which the manners and maxims of society," said his Lordship, "throw over their secret sins, and show them to the world as they really are."

Postscript.

We had intended to stop with the above - but after it was too late to derange the order of our earlier testimonies, our attention was solicited to a sportive effusion by the learned Dr. William Maginn, of Trinity College, Dublin, which appears to us not unworthy of being transferred to this Olla podrida. Every one ought to have, but every one has not, by heart Wordsworth's" Yarrow Unvisited;" therefore we shall place the original alongside of the parody.

What Tory will not

"Then hey! for Don Giovanni!”. pronounce Dr. Maginn's last octave a prophetic one, when he compares it with the time of the forthcoming of this, the first complete and unmutilated, edition of “Don Juan?” — E.]

January 30. 1833.

LETTER

TO THE EDITOR OF

"MY GRANDMOTHER'S REVIEW." (1)

[See "Testimonies of Authors," No. XVI. antè, p. 14.]

(1) ["Bologna, Aug. 23. 1819. I send you a letter to Roberts, signed Wortley Clutterbuck,' which you may publish in what form you please, in answer to his article. I have had many proofs of men's absurdity, but he beats all in folly. Why, the wolf in sheep's clothing has tumbled into the very trap!" Lord B. to Mr. Murray.]

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LETTER

TO THE EDITOR OF "MY GRANDMOTHER'S REVIEW.'

MY DEAR ROBERTS,

As a believer in the church of England-to say nothing of the State-I have been an occasional reader and great admirer of, though not a subscriber to, your Review, which is rather expensive. But I do not know that any part of its contents ever gave me much surprise till the eleventh article of your twentyseventh number made its appearance. You have there most vigorously refuted a caluminious accusation of bribery and corruption, the credence of which in the public mind might not only have damaged your reputation as a clergyman (1) and an editor, but, what would have been still worse, have injured the circulation of your journal; which, I regret to hear, is not so extensive as the " purity" (as you well observe)" of its, &c. &c." and the present taste for propriety, would induce us to expect. The charge itself is of a solemn nature, and, although in verse, is couched in terms of such circumstantial gravity, as to induce a belief little

(1) [Mr. Roberts is not, as Lord Byron seems to have supposed, a clergyman, but a barrister at law. In 1792, he established a paper called "The Looker-on," which has since been admitted into the collection of British Essayists; and he is known, in his profession, for a treatise on the Law of Fraudulent Bankruptcy.-E.]