Lord Byron is at last gone off to the Continent, having executed the deed of separation with great reluctance, and not till after he had been threatened with a Bill in Chancery. When he had signed the instrument, he threw it away from him, and being told that he must deliver it as his act and deed, “No,” said he, “I deliver it as the act and deed of Mrs. Clermont” (the governess), and it was not without difficulty that he was persuaded to deliver it in the regular manner.
