"Yes," said she; "poor Lord Byron sent them to me a short time before the separation.

I sent them back, and told him that, if he gave them away, he ought to give them to Lady Byron.

But he said that he would not, and that if I did not take them, the bailiffs would, and that they would be lost in the wreck." Her ladyship then honoured me so far as to conduct me through her dressing-room into the great family bedchamber to show me a very fine picture by Reynolds of Fox, when a boy, birds-nesting.

She then consigned me to Luttrell, asking him to show me the grounds.
Through the grounds we went, and very pretty I thought them.

In the Dutch garden is a fine bronze bust of Napoleon, which Lord Holland put up in 1817, while Napoleon was a prisoner at St.Helena.The inscription was selected by his lordship, and is remarkably happy.