Byron was not satisfied with this assurance, and seemed, in his next letter, to be very angry.

He could not bear to have it thought that he was endeavouring to ensure a favourable review of his work in the _Quarterly_.

To Mr.Dallas he wrote (September 23, 1811): "I _will_ be angry with Murray.

It was a book-selling, back-shop, Paternoster Row, paltry proceeding; and if the experiment had turned out as it deserved, I would have raised all Fleet Street, and borrowed the giant's staff from St.Dunstan's Church, to immolate the betrayer of trust.

I have written to him as he was never written to before by an author, I'll be sworn; and I hope you will amplify my wrath, till it has an effect upon him." Byron at first objected to allow the new poem to be published with his name, thinking that this would bring down upon him the enmity of his critics in the North, as well as the venom of the southern scribblers, whom he had enraged by his Satire.