I have reason to think that my advice had some weight in suppressing that disclosure.

I gave that advice under the impression that the Byron controversy was a thing for ever passed, and never likely to return.
It had never occurred to me, that, nine years after Lady Byron's death, a standard English periodical would declare itself free to re-open this controversy, when all the generation who were her witnesses had passed from earth; and that it would re-open it in the most savage form of accusation, and with the indorsement and commendation of a book of the vilest slanders, edited by Lord Byron's mistress.
Let the reader mark the retributions of justice.

The accusations of the 'Blackwood,' in 1869, were simply an intensified form of those first concocted by Lord Byron in his 'Clytemnestra' poem of 1816.

He forged that weapon, and bequeathed it to his party.

The 'Blackwood' took it up, gave it a sharper edge, and drove it to the heart of Lady Byron's fame.
The result has been the disclosure of this history.