e's 'Life of Byron,' vol. vi. p.275):--

'I have disregarded various publications in which facts within my own
knowledge have been grossly misrepresented; but I am called upon to
notice some of the erroneous statements proceeding from one who claims
to be considered as Lord Byron's confidential and authorised friend.
Domestic details ought not to be intruded on the public attention: if,
however, they are so intruded, the persons affected by them have a
right to refute injurious charges. Mr. Moore has promulgated his own
impressions of private events in which I was most nearly concerned, as
if he possessed a competent knowledge of the subject. Having survived
Lord Byron, I feel increased reluctance to advert to any circumstances
connected with the period of my marriage; nor is it now my intention
to disclose them further than may be indispensably requisite for the
end I have in view. Self-vindication is not the motive which actuates
me to make this appeal, and the spirit of accusation is unmingled with
it; but when the conduct of my parents is brought forward in a
disgraceful light by the passages selected from Lord Byron's letters,
and by the remarks of his biographer, I feel bound to justify their
characters from imputations which I know to be false. The passages
from Lord Byron's letters, to which I refer, are,--the aspersion on my
mother's character (p.648, l.4): {70a} "My child is very well and
flourishing, I hear; but I must see also. I feel no disposition to
resign it to the contagion of its grandmother's society." The
assertion of her dishonourable conduct in employing a spy (p.645, l.7,
etc.): "A Mrs. C. (now a kind of housekeeper and spy of Lady N's),
who, in her better days, was a washerwoman, is supposed to be--by the
learned--very much the occult cause of our domestic discrepancies."
The seeming exculpation of myself in the extract (p.646), with the
words immediately following it, "Her nearest relations are a---;"
where the blank clearly implies something too offensive for
publication. These passages tend to throw suspicion on my parents,
and give reason to ascribe the separation either to their direct
agency, or to that of "officious spies" employed by them. {70b} From
the following part of the narrative (p.642), it must also be inferred
that an undue influence was exercised by them for the accomplish