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Who is the author of this tiny Morning Chronicle, (that most witty and amusing of all papers),
declares that the
the real author was”Lord Byron himself.” He wrote them, continuesLieutenant Hill , “at Villa Neava, near Ravenna, on the 14th of June, 1817, in our presence, and I have now in my possession, in his Lordship’s writing, the whole poem (save verse 9), and at the bottom he writes,‘When you reach Malta you may print these if you please.’I am ready to show it to any one not guided by impertinent curiosity.
Would not any man, in any ordinary case, be satisfied with this, and swear that
the question was settled? Alas! We had just finished reading Belfast News
Letter,” we will endeavour to find room on Monday. Meanwhile, we shall
content ourselves with the following paragraph from it:—
“On the 16th of April, 1817, I received
Newry Telegraph, Dublin, on reading the affecting account of Sir John
Moore’s burial, published in the
We shall deliver no opinion at present; but wait till we see whether that jocular
print, the Morning Chronicle
makes a cow-doctor of
Sir, The letter relative to the Courier, of the 3d instant, whether really written by some person to whom
that signature is applicable or not, deserves no further notice from me, than to be described
as an attempt at a gross fraud on public opinion, and the work of an impostor.