We have now to deal briefly--amid conflicting asseverations it is hard to deal fairly--with the last of the vexatiously controverted episodes which need perplex our narrative. Byron, in wishing Moore from Ravenna a merry Christmas for 1820, proposes that they shall embark together in a newspaper, "with some improvement on the plan of the present scoundrels," "to give the age some new lights on policy, poesy, biography, criticism, morality, theology," &c. Moore absolutely refusing to entertain the idea, Hunt's name was brought forward in connexion with it, during tho visit of Shelley. Shortly after the return of the latter to Pisa, he writes (August 26) to Hunt, stating that Byron was anxious to start a periodical work, to be conducted in Italy, and had proposed that they should both go shares in the concern, on which follow some suggestions of difficulties about money. Nevertheless, in August, 1821, he presses Hunt to come. Moore, on the other hand, strongly remonstrates against the project. "I heard some days ago that Leigh Hunt was on his way to you with all his family; and the idea seems to be that you and he and Shelley are to conspire together in the _Examiner_. I deprecate such a plan with all my might. Partnerships in fame, like those in trade, make the strongest party answer for the rest. I tremble even for you with such a bankrupt Co.! You must stand alone." Shelley--who had, in the meantime, given his bond to Byron for an advance of 200_l_. towards the expenses of his friends, besides assisting them himself to the utmost of his power--began, shortly before their arrival, to express grave doubts as to the success of the alliance. His last published letter--written July 5th, 1822--after they had settled at Pisa, is full of forebodings. On the 8th he set sail in the "Don Juan"-- That fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th'eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark,