On  which  Shelley,  in  Peter  Bell  the  Third,  is  thus  hard  : —

Then  Peter  wrote  odes  to  the  Devil ; —

In  one  of  which  he  meekly  said  :

"May  Carnage  and   Slaughter,

Thy  niece  and  thy  daughter,

May  Rapine  and  Famine,

Thy  gorge  ever  cramming

Glut  thee  with  living  and  dead !

and  more  to  the  same  result.     Landor's  brevity  is  better  and  more  scathing.
THE  LANDOR- BLESSING  TON  P/IPERS.  195


VII.  Ouarto  Sheet,  PROSE  and  VERSE,  without
address,  date,  or  post-mark  ;  probably
belonging  to  i  836.
Dear  Lady  Blessington,

I  am  looking  forward  to  the  end  of  the  present
month  when  I  hope  to  have  the  happiness  of  spending  two
or  three  days  at  Gore  House.  Colonel  Stopford,  my
brother-in-law,  is  in  London,  and  I  shall  take  the  liberty
of  presenting  him  to  your  Ladyship,  as  a  most  intelligent,
brave,  and  honorable  man,  the  only  Governor  in  South
America  who  has  perfectly  done  his  duty.  He  had  the
province  of  Cumana,  and  is  come  over  to  England  partly
for  the  education  of  an  only  daughter,  and  partly  to  find
richer  men  than  himself  who  may  be  induced  to  join
with  him  in  working  the  richest  mines  in  America,  which
are  his  property.  He  is  no  schemer,  and  has  brought  with
him  authentic  documents  to  prove  the  quality  of  the  ore
and  the  facility  of  working  it.  If  you  will  grant  me  per-
mission, I  will  tell  him  to  send  to  you  his  printed  state-
ment of  these  particulars.  I  have  never  seen  him  :  I  am
anxious  to  see  him  :  he  has  invited  me,  over  and  over  again
— but  to  leave  Bath  at  this  moment  (as  at  the  past  moments)
is  impossible.
