But the intended honour was not permitted to remain. Receiving, as he considered, a fresh slight, Byron erased the praise, for the vituperative sarcasm still to be read:— “Let Stott, Matilda, and the rest Of Grub-street and of Grosvenor-place the best, Scrawl on, till death release us from the strain, Or common sense asserts her rights again.” But the poet regretted the severity, and afterwards, in his noble tribute to Major Howard, gave utterance to his repentance;— “Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine; Yet one I would select from that proud throng, Partly because they blend me with his line, And partly that I did his sire some wrong.” And of the Major he writes with rapturous eloquence:— “When shower’d The death-bolts deadliest the thinn’d files along, Even where the thickest of war’s tempest lour’d, They reach’d no nobler breast than thine, young gallant Howard.” Byron’s staunchest friend, Hobhouse—now Lord Broughton—lived about No. 7, when colleague with Burdett in the representation of Westminster; so also did Lady Ossory, the correspondent of Horace Walpole. Writing to her, on February 1st, 1775, he says:—“I hope this is the last letter I shall send you before you land at Hyde Park Corner turnpike. You will have a very good neighbourhood there; Lord and Lady Apsley are mighty agreeable people.” No. 15 in 1773 was the Duke of Athol’s; the Marquis of Titchfield, Lord-Lieutenant of the County fifty years ago, also resided in Grosvenor Place, as did Mr. Orby Hunter, a leading man in the _ton_ in the days of George IV. No. 44 is the residence of the Hanoverian Minister, and here his Sovereign stayed during his visit to London in 1853. No. 24 is the Bishop of Worcester’s, and No. 46 Sir James Graham’s. Earl Stanhope, the historian, resided some years at No. 41, but now at No. 3, Grosvenor Place Houses. The centre of these three is Sir Anthony Rothschild’s, the other Lord Harry Vane’s.