I mean to do that for all the Byron Beauties.' But it may be asked, Was there not a man in all England with delicacy enough to feel for Lady Byron, and chivalry enough to speak a bold word for her?
Yes: there was one.

Thomas Campbell the poet, when he read Lady Byron's statement, believed it, as did Christopher North; but it affected him differently.

It appears he did not believe it a wife's duty to burn herself on her husband's funeral-pile, as did Christopher North; and held the singular idea, that a wife had some rights as a human being as well as a husband.
Lady Byron's own statement appeared in pamphlet form in 1830: at least, such is the date at the foot of the document.

Thomas Campbell, in 'The New Monthly Magazine,' shortly after, printed a spirited, gentlemanly defence of Lady Byron, and administered a pointed rebuke to Moore for the rudeness and indelicacy he had shown in selecting from Byron's letters the coarsest against herself, her parents, and her old governess Mrs.
Clermont, and by the indecent comparisons he had instituted between Lady Byron and Lord Byron's last mistress.
It is refreshing to hear, at last, from somebody who is not altogether on his knees at the feet of the popular idol, and who has some chivalry for woman, and some idea of common humanity.

He says,-- 'I found my right to speak on this painful subject on its now irrevocable publicity, brought up afresh as it has been by Mr.Moore, to be the theme of discourse to millions, and, if I err not much, the cause of misconception to innumerable minds.