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Mr. Westbrook’s Petition to the Court of Chancery--Date of Hearing--The _Edinburgh_ Reviewer’s Strange Misrepresentation--Lord Eldon’s Decree--Arrangements for Harriett’s Children--Lady Shelley’s strange Mistake touching those Arrangements--Lord Eldon’s Justification--Mrs. Shelley’s Regard for Social Opinion--Shelley’s keen Annoyance at the Chancellor’s Decree--Delusive Egotisms of _The Billows of the Beach_--Shelley’s Pretexts for going to Italy--His real Reasons for withdrawing from England.