I claim to speak of Lady Byron in the right of a man, and of a friend to the rights of woman, and to liberty, and to natural religion.

I claim a right, more especially, as one of the many friends of Lady Byron, who, one and all, feel aggrieved by this production.

It has virtually dragged her forward from the shade of retirement, where she had hid her sorrows, and compelled her to defend the heads of her friends and her parents from being crushed under the tombstone of Byron.

Nay, in a general view, it has forced her to defend herself; though, with her true sense and her pure taste, she stands above all special pleading.

To plenary explanation she ought not--she never shall be driven.