Author: Karl Friedrich Elze

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781230369891

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTE (F). CONCERNING THE ARRIVAL OF LORD STSOITS REMAINS LN ENGLAND. The following account, which appeared for the first time in the * Edinburgh Review, ' April 1871 (pp. 294-298), is itself an extract from Lord Broughton's 'Recollections of a Long Life, ' printed, but not published, in 1865. The readers of this Biography of Byron will not regret to have this touching narrative reproduced here. At a little after eight o'clock on the morning of Friday, May 14, I was awakened by a load rapping at my bedroom door, and getting up, had a packet of letters put into my hand, signed 'Sidney Osborne, ' and headed 'By express.' There was also a note from Douglas Kinnaird; and, on opening it, I found that Btron Was Dead. The despatch was from Corfu. These letters were from Lord Sidney Osborne to me, from Count Gamba to me, from Count Gamba to Lord Sidney Osborne, and from the Count to the English Consul at Zante. Besides these, there were letters from Fletcher, Byron's valet, to Fletcher's wife, to Mrs. Leigh, and to Captain George Byron; also there were four copies of a Greek proclamation by the Greek Government at Missolonghi, with a translation annexed. The proclamation contained tho details which have been often published--the ten days' illuoss of my dear friend, the public anxiety during those davs of hope and fear--his death--tho universal dejection and almost despair of the Greeks around him. The proclamation next decreed that the Easter festival should be suspended; that the shops should be closed for three days; that a general mourning for twenty days should be observed; and that at sunrise tho next morning, the 20th of April, thirty-seven minute-guns should be tired from the batteries to indicate the age of the deceased. How much soever tho