found: O'Leary, P. Regency editor, 1983:t.p. (John Scott) Brit. CIP (John Scott (1784-1821)) p. 173, etc. (editor of the Statesman, the London magazine, etc.)
found: Paris revisited, in 1815, by way of Brussels, 1817:t.p. (John Scott, author of A visit to Paris 1814; and editor of The Champion, a London weekly journal)
found: Oxford DNB website, 4 November 2021(Scott, John (1784-1821), journalist; born on 24 October 1784 in Broadgate, Aberdeen; at the age of eight was sent to Aberdeen grammar school; moved to London ... in 1807 appointed editor of The Statesman; moved to Lincolnshire in order to edit a new weekly newspaper, Drakard's Stamford News; returned to London in 1813 as owner and editor of Drakard's Paper (the London edition of the Stamford News - renamed The Champion in 1814); challenged Jonathan Henry Christie to a duel on 16 February 1821, at Chalk farm between Camden Town and Hampstead; Scott was hit in the lower abdomen and died on the evening of 27 February)