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very honourably account for this solicitude inpart; and the general accordance of his line ofliterary and political feeling with that of the cele-breted Journal in question, •will readily answerfor the rest. In truth, in the end, his Lordshiphimself became a conspicuous member of the bril-liaut coterie at Holland House, which he hadbeen provoked to deride.

On his coming of age in 1809, Lord Byron ,after taking his scat in the House of Peers , wentabroad, and spent some time in the South andEast of Europe , particularly in Greece and itsislands. In the year 1811 , he returned to Eng>land, and in the Spring of 1812, published hiscelebrated «Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage ;” r— apoem which at once established his fame as apoet, and ensured the greedy attention of thepublic to every subsequent production l»y thesame hand. In the course of i 8 i 3 . Lord Byron published three other poems: — «The Giaour, ”«Thc Bride of Abydos,” and * The Corsair;”