]
[329] "Naso suspendis adunco.
[329] "Naso suspendis adunco.
Byron
98).
To his wit, Chateaubriand testifies (_The Congress, etc. _, 1838, i.
262). At the council, when affairs of state were being discussed, the
king "would say in his clear shrill voice, 'I am going to make you
laugh, M. de Chateaubriand. ' The other ministers fumed with impatience,
but Chateaubriand laughed, not as a courtier, but as a human being. "]
[328] {567}[Louvel, who assassinated the Due de Berri, and who was
executed June 7, 1820, was supposed to have been an agent of the
_carbonari_. La Fayette, Constant, Lafitte, and others were also
suspected of being connected with secret societies. --_The Court of the
Tuileries, 1815-1848_, by Lady Jackson, 1883, ii. 19. ]
[eo] {568}
_Immortal Wellington with beak so curled_.
_That foremost Corporal of all the World--_
_Immortal Wellington--and flags unfurled_. --[MS. erased.
]
[329] "Naso suspendis adunco. "--HORACE [_Sat. _ i. 6, 5]. The Roman
applies it to one who merely was imperious to his acquaintance.
[330] [Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, afterwards Marquis of
Londonderry (1769-1822), who had been labouring under a "mental
delirium" (Letter of Duke of Wellington, August 9, 1822), committed
suicide by cutting his throat with a penknife (August 12, 1822). He was
the uncompromising and successful opponent of popular causes in Ireland,
Italy, and elsewhere, and, as such, Byron assailed him, alive and dead,
with the bitterest invective. (See, for instance, the "Dedication" to
_Don Juan_, stanzas xi. -xvi. , sundry epigrams, and an "Epitaph. ") In the
Preface to Cantos VI. , VII. , VIII. , of _Don Juan_, he justifies the
inclusion of a stanza or two on Castlereagh, which had been written
"before his decease," and, again, alludes to his suicide. (For an
estimate of his career and character, see _Letters_, 1900, iv. 108, 109,
note 1; and for a full report of the inquest, _The Annual Biography_,
1823, pp.
To his wit, Chateaubriand testifies (_The Congress, etc. _, 1838, i.
262). At the council, when affairs of state were being discussed, the
king "would say in his clear shrill voice, 'I am going to make you
laugh, M. de Chateaubriand. ' The other ministers fumed with impatience,
but Chateaubriand laughed, not as a courtier, but as a human being. "]
[328] {567}[Louvel, who assassinated the Due de Berri, and who was
executed June 7, 1820, was supposed to have been an agent of the
_carbonari_. La Fayette, Constant, Lafitte, and others were also
suspected of being connected with secret societies. --_The Court of the
Tuileries, 1815-1848_, by Lady Jackson, 1883, ii. 19. ]
[eo] {568}
_Immortal Wellington with beak so curled_.
_That foremost Corporal of all the World--_
_Immortal Wellington--and flags unfurled_. --[MS. erased.
]
[329] "Naso suspendis adunco. "--HORACE [_Sat. _ i. 6, 5]. The Roman
applies it to one who merely was imperious to his acquaintance.
[330] [Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, afterwards Marquis of
Londonderry (1769-1822), who had been labouring under a "mental
delirium" (Letter of Duke of Wellington, August 9, 1822), committed
suicide by cutting his throat with a penknife (August 12, 1822). He was
the uncompromising and successful opponent of popular causes in Ireland,
Italy, and elsewhere, and, as such, Byron assailed him, alive and dead,
with the bitterest invective. (See, for instance, the "Dedication" to
_Don Juan_, stanzas xi. -xvi. , sundry epigrams, and an "Epitaph. ") In the
Preface to Cantos VI. , VII. , VIII. , of _Don Juan_, he justifies the
inclusion of a stanza or two on Castlereagh, which had been written
"before his decease," and, again, alludes to his suicide. (For an
estimate of his career and character, see _Letters_, 1900, iv. 108, 109,
note 1; and for a full report of the inquest, _The Annual Biography_,
1823, pp.
