[317] Sir Walter Scott has given a good estimate of them: "Our sentiments agreed a good deal, except on the subject of religion and politics, upon neither of which I was inclined to believe that Lord Byron entertained very fixed principles.... On Politics he used sometimes to express a high strain of what is now called Liberalism; but it appeared to me that the pleasure that it afforded him as a vehicle of displaying his wit and satire against individuals in office was at the bottom of his habit of thinking. At heart I would have termed Byron a patrician on principle." (Moore, _Letters and Journals of Lord Byron_, I, p. 616.) [318] Hancock, _The French Revolution and English Poets_, p. 84. [319] _Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries_, p. 128. [320] _Ibid._, p. 1; _Autobiography_, II, p. 85. [321] _The Real Lord Byron_, I, p. 277. [322] _Letters and Journals_, III, pp. 29-31. The article was not published. [323] Nichol, _Life of Bryon_, p. 84, incorrectly gives 1812 as the date. [324] _Correspondence_, I, p. 88, May 25, 1813. [325] _Autobiography_, II, p. 85. [326] _The Champion_, April 7, 14, 21, 1816. [327] _Letters and Journals of Lord Byron_, p. 402. [328] Byron, _Letters and Journals_, II, p. 157, December 1, 1813. [329] _Ibid._, II, pp. 296-297. [330] Page 36. [331] _The Examiner_, April 21, 1816. [332] _Letters and Journals_, VI, pp. 2-3. [333] _Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries_, p. 6. [334] _Letters and Journals_, III, p. 265. [335] In 1820 Byron translated the Rimini episode of the _Divine Comedy_. [336] Trelawney, _Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron_, p. 109. [337] _Letters and Journals_, V, pp. 590-591. [338] _Letters and Journals_, V, p. 217. This passage is omitted from the letter in which it occurs in Moore's _Letters and Journals of Lord Byron_, II, p. 437. [339] _Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries_, p. 8. [340] Hunt wrongly gives Byron's date of birth as 1791. The article is accompanied with a woodcut. [341] See _Blackwood's_, X, pp. 286, 730. [342] _Letters and Journals_, V, pp. 143-144. [343] Medwin, _Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron_, p. 186. [344] Jeaffreson, _The Real Lord Byron_, II, p. 186, says that Byron through Shelley's mediation could secure Hunt as editor. [345] _Ibid._, _Letters and Journals of Lord Byron_, II, p. 626. [346] _Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron_, p. 157. [347] See p. 103. [348] _The Real Lord Byron_, II, p. 186. [349] _Dictionary of National Biography._ [350] _Leigh Hunt as Poet and Essayist_, p. 30. [351] _Life of Byron_, pp. 266-267. [352] _Leigh Hunt_, p. 37, note. [353] _Life of Leigh Hunt_, p. 154. [354] _The Sonnet in England_, pp. 118-119. [355] _Works of Shelley_, VIII, p. 255. [356] _Correspondence_, I, p. 161. [357] _Autobiography_, II, p. 59. [358] _Autobiography_, II, p. 59.