[396] _Ibid._, VI, pp. 119-120. Hunt's view was quite different. Byron was, he thought, intimidated "out of his reasoning" by his children and their principles. (_Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries_, p. 28.) [397] _Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries_, p. 32. [398] _Ibid._, p. 30. [399] _Letters and Journals_, VI, pp. 157, 167. [400] _Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries_, p. 64. [401] Medwin, _Conversations of Lord Byron_, p. 58. [402] Monkhouse, _Life of Leigh Hunt_, pp. 64-65. [403] II, pp. 145-146. [404] _Autobiography_, II, p. 24. [405] _Correspondence_, I, p. 188, July 8, 1822. Letter to his sister-in-law. [406] _Letters and Journals_, VI, p. 97, July 12, 1822. [407] _Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron_, I, p. 174. [408] _Correspondence_, I, p. 192. October (?), 1822. [409] _Letters and Journals_, VI, p. 160. January 8, 1823. [410] _Ibid._, VI, pp. 171-173. [411] _Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries_, pp. 50, 63. [412] _Ibid._, p. 48. [413] "_Blackwood's Magazine_ overflowed, as might be expected, with ten-fold gall and bitterness; the _John Bull_ was outrageous; and Mr. Jerdan black in the face at this unheard-of and disgraceful union. But who would have supposed that Mr. Thomas Moore and Mr. Hobhouse, those staunch friends and partisans of the people, should also be thrown into almost hysterical agonies of well-bred horror at the coalition between their noble and ignoble acquaintance, between the Patrician and the 'Newspaper-Man'? Mr. Moore darted backwards and forwards from Cold-Bath-Fields' Prison to the Examiner-Office, from Mr. Longman's to Mr. Murray's shop, in a state of ridiculous trepidation, to see what was to be done to prevent this degradation of the aristocracy of letters, this indecent encroachment of plebeian pretensions, this undue extension of patronage and compromise of privilege. The Tories were shocked that Lord Byron should grace the popular side by his direct countenance and assistance--the Whigs were shocked that he should share his confidence and councils with any one who did not unite the double recommendations of birth and genius--but themselves!" (Hazlitt, _The Plain Speaker_, II, p. 437 ff.) [414] _Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries_, p. 52. [415] Galt in his _Life of Byron_ says: "Whether Mr. Hunt was or was not a fit co-partner for one of his Lordship's rank and celebrity, I do not undertake to judge; but every individual was good enough for that vile prostitution of his genius, to which in an unguarded hour, he submitted for money." (P. 244.) [416] _The Literary Gazette_ of October 19, 1822, was one of the notable opponents. [417] _Life of Byron_, p. 239. [418] _Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries_, p. 52. [419] _Ibid._, p. 53. [420] Byron, _Letters and Journals_, VI, p. 183. [421] _Ibid._, VI, p. 124. [422] _Ibid._, VI, p. 174, p. 182. (Letters to Mrs. Shelley.) [423] _Ibid._, VI, p. 124.