It is not at all likely, then, that his lordship would, whatever his admiration of the character and military genius of General Lee, have addressed him the foregoing lines, nor is it true. The lines were written by a young and gifted English poet, now no more, _Philip Stanhope Worsely_. Mr. W. was a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and died about ten years since. He gave the world in 1861 a translation of the Odyssey in the Gregorian stanza--one of the most pleasing hitherto produced--and in 1865 published a translation of the Iliad in the Spenserian stanza. A copy of this latter work he sent to General Lee, with a little poem of presentation written on the fly-leaf. It was seen by the General's friends, who requested a transcript of the verses for publication, but he would never permit them to be printed, his native modesty shrinking from the warm panegyric they embodied. Now that both poet and soldier have passed away there is no good reason why they should be withheld from the public eye, and I must express my gratification at seeing them in _The Gazette_. At the same time it is due to the memories of both that the error into which you have unconsciously fallen should be corrected, and this is the sole motive with which I have addressed you this brief and hasty note. J. LEWIS PEYTON. INDEX. Abandons the Jackson party, 11 Alexander, Dr., 53 Alexander, John, 130 Account of his visit to Kentucky, 51 African colonization favors, 79 Ablest criminal lawyer in Virginia, 84 Academy, the Staunton, 10 Adams, John Quincy, 11 Adams, Dr., 37 Appendices A, 276 Anecdote of the Fighting Major, 29 Anecdote of Gen. Peyton of Kentucky, 260 Anecdote of J. H. P. in a criminal case, 55 Allen, Judge J. J., 13, 116, 138, 132 Augusta Agricultural Society, 10 "Allen" nominates Mr. P. for Court of Appeals, 118 A bundle of miscellaneous letters, 131 Amherst Festival, J. H. P's letter, 123-5 Anderson, Col. Wm., a letter of, 236 Advice of J. H. P. to S. M. P., 132 A hero of 1776--Col. Hy Peyton, 280 Advice to Col. J. L. P., 139 Appeals, Court of, adopts J. H. P's letter to Tucker, 116 A deplorable accident to J. H. P., 125 Accident to Judge B. G. Baldwin, 101 A captain of light horse, 7 Attorney for the Commonwealth resigns, 158 A complete lawyer, 160 Allison's History of Europe, Mr. P. on, 180 Always helped the young, 179 A master spirit, 181 Barbour, Judge P. P., 9 Baldwin, J. B., 17, 46, 149, 226 Baldwin, Susan M., sketch of, 271 Baldwin, B. G. on J. H. P., 65, 76, 101, 138 Bumgardner, Capt. James' speech, 204, 210 Bowyer, m., 37 Bowyer, Henry, 126 Baxter, John, 49 Baxter, Sidney S., 208 Barton, R. R., 130 Bickle, Adam, 20 Berrian, John M. (Senator), 70 Brockenbrough, Dr. John, 37, 134 Brickley, 37 Brock, R. A., letter of, 238 Bradshaw, 48