Sir William Grant

Your correspondent R. says that "*Sir William Grant*" was one of the few Scotchmen who had freed himself from the peculiarities of the speech of his country. Frank Horner is another." If R. means to include the *Scottish accent*, he is mistaken as to Sir William Grant, who retained a strong Scottish *burr*. If he means only correctness of diction, then I should say the number was not *few*. Mackintosh's and Jeffery's English was, I think, quite as pure as Horner's; and Lord Brougham, with much idiosyncrasy, had no *Scotch peculiarities*, at least—*me judice*—infinitely less than Sir William Gr…