Is this the language of an innocent man who has been offered a fair trial under his country's laws?
or of a guilty man, to whom the very idea of public trial means public exposure?
4th, It is probable that the crime was the one now alleged, because that was the most important crime charged against him by rumour at the period.
This appears by the following extract of a letter from Shelley, furnished by the 'Quarterly,' dated Bath, Sept.

29, 1816:-- 'I saw Kinnaird, and had a long talk with him.

He informed me that Lady Byron was now in perfect health; that she was living with your sister.

I felt much pleasure from this intelligence.

I consider the latter part of it as affording a decisive contradiction to the only important calumny that ever was advanced against you.