LUSHINGTON.
'"Great George Street, Jan.

31, 1830." 'I have only to observe, that, if the statements on which my legal advisers (the late Sir Samuel Romilly and Dr.Lushington) formed their opinions were false, the responsibility and the odium should rest with me only.

I trust that the facts which I have here briefly recapitulated will absolve my father and mother from all accusations with regard to the part they took in the separation between Lord Byron and myself.
'They neither originated, instigated, nor advised that separation; and they cannot be condemned for having afforded to their daughter the assistance and protection which she claimed.

There is no other near relative to vindicate their memory from insult.

I am therefore compelled to break the silence which I had hoped always to observe, and to solicit from the readers of Lord Byron's "Life" an impartial consideration of the testimony extorted from me.
'A.