"P.S. I have read part of the Quarterly just arrived: Mr. Bowles
shall be answered:--he is not quite correct in his statement about
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. They support Pope, I see, in
the Quarterly; let them continue to do so: it is a sin, and a
shame, and a _damnation_ to think that _Pope!!_ should require
it--but he does. Those miserable mountebanks of the day, the poets,
disgrace themselves and deny God in running down Pope, the most
_faultless_ of poets, and almost of men."

[Footnote 9: Mr. Galignani had applied to Lord Byron with the view of
procuring from him such legal right over those works of his Lordship of
which he had hitherto been the sole publisher in France, as would enable
him to prevent others, in future, from usurping the same privilege.]

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LETTER 397. TO MR. MOORE.

"Ravenna, November 5. 1820.

"Thanks for your letter, which hath come somewhat costively; but
better late than never. Of it anon. Mr. Galignani, of the Press,
hath, it seems, been sup-planted and sub-pirated by another
Parisian publisher, who has audaciously printed an edition of
L.B.'s Works, at the ultra-liberal price of ten francs, and (as
Galignani piteously observes) eight francs only for booksellers!
'horresco referens.' Think of a man's _whole_ works producing so
little!

"Galignani sends me, post haste, a permission _for him, from me,_