What interest can Lord Byron have in being the poet of a party in politics ?...

In politics, he cannot be what he appears, or rather what Messrs.

Hobhouse and Leigh Hunt wish to make him appear.

A man of his birth, a man of his taste, a man of his talents, a man of his habits, can have nothing in common with such miserable creatures as we now call _Radicals_, of whom I know not that I can better express the illiterate and blind ignorance and vulgarity than by saying that the best informed of them have probably never heard of Lord Byron.

No, no, Lord Byron may be indulgent to these jackal followers of his; he may connive at their use of his name--nay, it is not to be denied that he has given them too, too much countenance--but he never can, I should think, now that he sees not only the road but the rate they are going, continue to take a part so contrary to all his own interests and feelings, and to the feelings and interests of all the respectable part of his country....