You will hear, however, more of public news from plenty of quarters: for I have little time to write.
Believe me, yours, etc., etc., N.BN.
The fierce lawlessness of the Suliotes had now risen to such a height that it became necessary, for the safety of the European population, to get rid of them altogether; and, by some sacrifices on the part of Lord Byron, this object was at length effected.

The advance of a month's pay by him, and the discharge of their arrears by the Government (the latter, too, with money lent for that purpose by the same universal paymaster), at length induced these rude warriors to depart from the town, and with them vanished all hopes of the expedition against Lepanto.
Byron died at Missolonghi on April 19, 1824, and when the body arrived in London, Murray, on behalf of Mr.Hobhouse, who was not personally acquainted with Dr.Ireland, the Dean of Westminster, wrote to him, conveying "the request of the executors and nearest relatives of the deceased for permission that his Lordship's remains may be deposited in Westminster Abbey, in the most private manner, at an early hour in the morning." Dr._Ireland to John Murray_.

ISLIP, OXFORD, _July_ 8, 1824.
Dear Sir, No doubt the family vault is the most proper place for the remains of Lord Byron.

It is to be wished, however, that nothing had been said _publicly_ about Westminster Abbey before it was known whether the remains could be received there.

In the newspapers, unfortunately, it has been proclaimed by somebody that the Abbey was to be the spot, and, on the appearance of this article, I have been questioned as to the truth of it from Oxford.