John Scott was a Scottish journalist, editor and publisher. Scott edited several liberal newspapers: The Statesman, which Leigh Hunt founded; the Stamford News, a weekly political and literary journal published by John Drakard which he later renamed The Champion. The London Magazine which he revived as a monthly is considered his most notable. "A visit to Paris in 1814" is a review of the moral, political, intellectual, and social condition of the French capital. - Summary by Celine Major