HARVARD Southern District of New-York, ss. E IT REMEMBERED, That on the 13th day of December, A. D. 1824, in the B Independence of der and Campbell, of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted during a residence with his Lordship at Pisa in the years 1821 and 1822. By Thomas Medwin, Esq. of the 24th Light Dragoons, Author of “ Ahasuerus the Wanderer" With additions. In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled "An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts bi designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." JAMES DILL, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York. PREFACE. "A great poet belongs to no country; his works are public property, and his Memoirs the inheritance of the public." Such were the sentiments of Lord Byron; and have they been attended to? Has not a manifest injustice been done to the world, and an injury to his memory, by the destruction of his Memoirs? These are questions which it is now late, perhaps needless, to ask; but I will endeavour to lessen, if not to remedy, the evil. I am aware that in publishing these reminiscences I shall have to contend with much obloquy from some parts of his family,—that I shall incur the animosity of many of his friends. There are authors, too, who will |