"November 24. 1813.

"You must pardon me once more, as it is all for your good: it must
be thus--

"He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.

'_Makes_' is closer to the passage of Tacitus, from which the line
is taken, and is, besides, a stronger word than '_leaves_'

"Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease--
He makes a solitude, and calls it--peace."

[Footnote 110: Mr. Canning's note was as follows:--"I received the
books, and, among them, The Bride of Abydos. It is very, very beautiful.
Lord Byron (when I met him, one day, at dinner at Mr. Ward's) was so
kind as to promise to give me a copy of it. I mention this, not to save
my purchase, but because I should be really flattered by the present."]

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LETTER 148. TO MR. MURRAY.

"November 27. 1813.

"If you look over this carefully by the _last proof_ with my
corrections, it is probably right; this _you_ can do as well or
better;--I have not now time. The copies I mentioned to be sent to
different friends last night, I should wish to be made up with the
new Giaours, if it also is ready. If not, send The Giaour
afterwards.

"The Morning Post says _I_ am the author of Nourjahad!! This comes
of lending the drawings for their dresses; but it is not worth a
_formal contradiction_. Besides, the criticisms on the
_supposition_ will, some of them, be quite amusing and furious. The
_Orientalism_--which I hear is very splendid--of the melodrame
(whosever it is, and I am sure I don't know) is as good as an
advertisement for your Eastern Stories, by filling their heads with
glitter.

"P.S. You will of course _say_ the truth, that I am _not_ the
melodramist--if any one charges me in your presence with the
performance."

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LETTER 149. TO MR. MURRAY.

"November 28. 1813.

"Send another copy (if not too much of a request) to Lady Holland
of the _Journal_[111], in my name, when you receive this; it is for
_Earl Grey_--and I will relinquish my _own_. Also to Mr. Sharpe,
and Lady Holland, and Lady Caroline Lamb, copies of 'The Bride' as
soon as convenient.

"P.S. Mr. Ward and myself still continue our purpose; but I shall
not trouble you on any arrangement on the score of The Giaour and
The Bride