[Footnote 3: Some MSS. have. _That Jesus might comfort the world_.] [Footnote 4: Others read, _He has not remained indifferent_.] [Footnote 5: Some MSS have, _Laid his hand, and then and all body bound in sin_.] [Footnote 6: Others read, _Believing with a pure heart_.] [Footnote 7: Some MSS. have, _Of God the Father of all things._] [Footnote 8: Others read, _They curse themselves in this thing._] [Footnote 9: Others read, _Children of the disobedient._] [Footnote 10: Some MSS. have, _That one grain falls not dry into the earth._] [Footnote 11: Others read, _But we have not only produced from seeds, but from the honourable body of man._] [Footnote 12: Others read, _The son of Ematthius_.] [Footnote 13: Others add, _Nor did a hair of his body fall therefrom_.] [Footnote 14: Some MSS. have, _Ye shall not receive other things in vain_.] [Footnote 15: Others finished here thus, _Henceforth no one can trouble me further, for I bear in my body the sufferings of Christ. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, my brethren. Amen_.] [Footnote 16: Some MSS. have, _Of the holy evangelist_.] [Footnote 17: Others add, _Our Lord be with ye all. Amen_.] REMARKS ON MR. MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON, BY LADY BYRON. "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 (vol. iii. p. 206. last line):--'My child is very well, and flourishing, I hear; but I must see also. I feel no disposition to resign it to the _contagian of its grandmother's society_.' The assertion of her dishonourable conduct in employing a spy (vol. iii. p. 202. l. 20, &c.), '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