II.
In addition to its appearance in pamphlet form, Gibbon's
Mémoire was reprinted in contemporary newspapers,
periodicals, and in the author's Miscellaneous Works edited
by Lord Sheffield (Norton, pp. 33, 35). As the Norton
Bibliography mentions only the Annual Register
as an
English periodical source, two additions to this category may be
cited. The Mémoire Justificatif is to be found in the
London Magazine, XLVIII (1779), 582ff., and in John
Almon's
Remembrancer; or, impartial repository of public events,
VIII (1779), 374ff. These are among the most accessible
contemporary sources of the work in this country but they should be
used with care. In both the Annual Register and
Remembrancer versions the last four pages of the original
pamphlet are transposed into the middle of the text and a half page
is omitted. This error, obviously the result of a compositor's
carelessness, leaves the text in the
London Magazine the only reliable source of its type.