He fled from this exposure, and never afterwards sought public investigation.
He was angry with and malicious towards the counsel who supported his wife; he was angry at and afraid of a wife who did nothing to injure him, and he made it a special object to defame and degrade her.

He gave such evidence of remorse and fear in his writings as to lead eminent literary men to believe he had committed a great crime.

The public rumour of his day specified what the crime was.

His relations, by his own showing, joined against him.

The report was silenced by his wife's efforts only.
Lord Byron subsequently declares the existence of an illegitimate child, born before he left England.