CLXVII.

Like the fam'd dwelling of the Virgin Mary,

Which, not contented with its situation
In its own native place, flew, like a fairy

From thence to a much more believing station!
The change (good reader), was quite necessary,

Since Jews would not be Christians, (stiff-neck'd
nation);

Therefore Loretto's more obedient fane

Received the precious relic-and enjoys the gain!

CLXVIII.

So Hebrews boast of wonders done for them

Which e'en their own historian don't believe.?
What wonders have they done ?-What theorem
Have they produc'd, that we should thus receive
Their plagiaries of unnatural tales ?—They cram
Us with the wonderful!3 and so deceive

The flat credulity of this poor world,
Where superstition's banner flies unfurl'd.

CLXIX.

And to this day no traffic is too base

For these pure" chosen people" to engage in.
Our London bagnios furnish many a case

1

In point; and Field-lane handkerchiefs they trade in. "Marine stores," we to stolen goods may trace,

With other merchandize, yet more degrading;

1 At Loretto, a town of Italy, they pretend to show the Santa Casa, or "holy house" of Nazareth, in which Jesus was brought up. They say that it was carried by angels into Dalmatia, and from thence to the place where it now stands. A particular account of this house, and of the enormous amount of wealth in gold, silver, and jewels, that have been lavished upon it, may be found in the Gazetteer from which this note is taken.

2 Vidé "Josephus," who, after relating some of the Jewish miracles, says— "The reader may take this as he pleases, but it will not become me to depart from what I find written in the sacred books." Several passages in this historian's account, throw considerable doubt on the pretended miracles.

3 Believe the Jews, those unbelievers, who

Must be believed, though they believe not you."

Don Juan, canto v., stanza 62.

In eastern climes, the human race their booty,

They deal in slaves, with Turks, for female beauty.'.

CLXX.

And here, how many thousand wearied souls'
Incessant labour builds their palaces?

Their "clothing marts." Without remorse the ghouls
Feed on the life-blood of their slaves, whose faces,
Woe-worn, and fingers thin, are the mere tools
For Jewish fraud to glut upon!-Disgraces
Such as these are, Hebrews may tolerate,
But Christianity ought to abominate.

CLXXI.

And that it does not, shame on their profession :
All are not Christians who pretend to be;
Or they ere now had crush'd this sad transgression
Of the true Christian law.-They will not see
The golden precept, whose divine precession

Should lead all human beings, and make free
Th'oppress'd-the lab'ring poor-the broken-hearted,
Nor stint the hire for which worn limbs have smarted.

Don Juan, canto iv., stanza 113-116. "Voyage de N. E. Kleeman." Also Thornton's "Turkey," vol ii. page 289. "The retailers of this human ware are the Jews, who take good care of their slaves' education, that they may sell the better. The choicest they keep at home, and there you must go, if you would have them better than ordinary; for it is here as in the markets for horses-the handsomest do not appear, but are kept within doors."-Tournfort.

2 "Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do YE even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets."-St. Matthew, chap. vii. ver. 12.

3 "For the labourer is worthy of his hire."-St. John, chap. x. ver. 7. These are the words of the Christian's God and Saviour. Surely they do not mean such hire as, not only Jews, but professing Christians oblige their poor needlewomen to work for (making shirts for three halfpence each), that they themselves may live in luxury by selling cheap goods. Of course we do not ask Jews to conform to the above precepts; (we don't expect they will give the labourer his proper hire, if they can screw him down to work for less). If there were no Christian purchasers of such accursed merchandize, so many thousands of our women would not be compelled, as they now are, either to pine in hopeless misery, or accept the wages of prostitution. Our law considers "the receiver to

CLXXII.

But self, in our degen'rate day doth burke
All other springs of action, and doth guide
The conduct of the Christian, Jew and Turk,
Or swart Hindoo. May we not well deride
Th' hypocrisy of piety, whose work

Under a holy cloak, doth yet provide
"Outfitting" harpies, and their jackal "sweaters,"
Not wearing, but deserving felon's fetters.

CLXXIII.

Leave we this incorrigible race

Of mammon worshipers-They'll ne'er atone
For all the evil, mischief, and disgrace

They've brought on our poor world in ages gone.
Ne'er will the horrid blood-stain be effac'd

From their ensanguin'd hist'ry's page. Alone

They stood in terrible relief to win

The dreadful summit of all human sin.1

CLXXIV.

Patience, good Muse, 'twere better make a halt,
And rest us here; we wadna lose a smile,

be as bad as the thief." Then let the Christian purchasers of such goods (?) walk into church on their Sabbath, with the reflection that the cheap finery with which they have bedecked themselves for the occasion, has been obtained through the deep misery-the squalid wretchedness-the hopeless slavery, of the poor victims who have tacked it together! and whose destitution of any decent clothing prevents them from showing their starved faces and half-naked limbs in the church of their employers, whose well-cushioned pews are filled with "the lust of the eye, and the pride of life."

1 A perusal of the Bible will show that this is no exaggeration. Not only did the Jews attempt to exterminate every race of human beings but their own; but there were certain crimes, revolting to human nature, which there is good authority-besides that of their own books-for believing that they, and even their women, were guilty of. If they were not, why did the Mosaic law so expressly forbid, and provide against them? It is not at all likely that Moses would have made laws against offences which had never been known, nor thought of, amongst this immaculate race-this "chosen people!"

For Sir Wm. Jones's notice of the Jews, see Appendix, note C.

Though deeds revoltin' urge us to that fault,
Let patience cheerfu❜ness the time beguile,
Gi' Peg a feed an' let us take our malt.

We've wander'd far, nor thought in what strange style

We've canter'd through this Canto.-Readers dear,

We'll wait a wee, our weary souls to cheer.

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APPENDIX TO CANTO I.

NOTE (A).

"Blackwood's lies," Of all Lord Byron's adversaries none appear to slander his personal character more shamefully than Blackwood (or his writer). Two articles from that Magazine are quoted in Murray's edition of Byron's Works, 1846, pp. 581, 582. Surely the writer must have gathered up the defamatory rumours of the day, when it was so much the fashion to abuse Byron as a monster of cruelty and vice. In the first article the most infamous calumnies are showered upon the head of the Poet, against his personal character and conduct. It would be difficult for the writer of that article to point out in what part of Byron's works the foul accusations brought against him can be proved. So malignant a tissue of lying calumny and slander can scarcely be surpassed. It seems to have been written soon after the appearance of the first two Cantos of "Don Juan." The second article on Lord Byron defends him as much as the first blackens him, and was written in the year 1825, "when Lord Byron was no more," and his fame too well established to be overthrown by the torrent of invective cast upon him by critics and clerical fanaticism.

The Author of these remarks does not defend the noble Poet's errors, but with them he is equally disposed to deplore the obloquy which has been so unjustly heaped upon him. Could any of his bitterest traducers pretend to be free from censure, if their private lives were justly sifted, as they have falsely sifted, and calumniated his? Aye, probably, some of them might be found to be as deeply immersed in "immorality and vice," as they have made him to appear who has sustained the weight of their measureless, and therefore unjust accusations. "There is none good but One." Do any of them know where to find those words? If they do, they may also find it written" He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone."