“Raith, 25th October 1818.
“My Dear Sir,— . . . I am glad to see from the
Scotsman
to-day, that those assassins of Blackwood’s have been made to feel some
of the pangs which
Sir John Leslie (1766-1832)
Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh University, author of
Experimental Enquiries into the Nature and Properties of Heat (1804), and
contributor to the
Edinburgh Review.