Young Mr.
Murray--then sixteen; the only person of those assembled now living [1891]--was also in the room.

The discussion was long and stormy before the meeting broke up, and nearly led to a challenge between Moore and Hobhouse.

A reference to the agreement between Moore and Murray became necessary, but for a long time that document could not be found; it was at length discovered, but only after the decision to commit the manuscript to the flames had been made and carried out, and the party remained until the last sheet of Lord Byron's Memoirs had vanished in smoke up the Albemarle Street chimney.
Immediately after the burning, Mrs.Leigh wrote the following account to her friend, the Rev.Mr.Hodgson, an old friend of Byron's: _The Hon.

Mrs.Leigh to the Rev.f.

Hodgson_.
"The parties, Messrs.