With unfeigned regret we ...
With unfeigned regret we announce to our readers that Lord By ON is no more. A courier arrived yesterday with the intelligence from Missolonghi, where the fatal event took placeon the l9thult. His Lordship'sdeathwas the conse- quence of an inflammatory cold, which, after only ten days' continuance, carried to a premature grave the most remark- able Englishman of his generation. We know not how many of our countrymen may share the feelings with which this news has affected us. There were indivi(luals more to be approved for moral qualities than Lord BYnoN-to be more safely followed, sr *nore tenderly beloved; but there lives no man on earth whose sudden departure from it, under the circumstances in which that nobleman was cut off, appears to us more calculated to impress the mind with profound and unmingled mourning. LordBYRoN was doomed to pay that price which Nature soiinetimes charges for stupendoas intellect, in the gloom of his pmagipation, and the intractable energy of his pa Rions. Amazing power, variously directed, was the m; rk 1y which he was distinguished far above all his co temporaries. His dominios was the sublime--it was iis natilve hone; at intervals he plunged into the lowerI itmosphere for amusement, but his aiy was'-bmief.$I- was his proper nature to ascend but ont the summit of his ilevanion, his ieading passion was to evince his superiority, by launching-his melanchuly. scorn at mankind. That` nobist of eftlerprises, the deliverance of Greece, employed tlhe. -*hole of JFord BYBON's latter days-of his pecuniary Xesotirces, and of his masculine spirit. It was a cause worthy of -a poet and a hero; and it is consolatory to find, that the people for, whom he would have devoted his life seemo to have felt tihe full value of his exertions anid his sacyifices. The affe&tioiitte veneration in which our de- ceased countrypan was held, appears as well from the pri- vate letter of MAVROCOYnIATO, as from the deep and uni- versal mourning wlhiclh was observed at Missolonglii from the hour at wliich his death was made public. Had he but died in batt.le against slaves aind infidels, for a Christian people struggling to be free, his own fame would have re- ceived its full consummatieni, aml his wishes, as is well un- derstood, their complete fulfilment.