[Footnote: It was said that Keats was killed by this brief notice, of four pages, in the _Quarterly_; and Byron, in his "Don Juan," gave credit to this statement: "Poor Keats, who was killed off by one critique, Just as he really promised something great,...
'Tis strange, the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an article." Leigh Hunt, one of Keats' warmest friends, when in Italy, told Lord Byron (as he relates in his Autobiography) the real state of the case, proving to him that the supposition of Keats' death being the result of the review was a mistake, and therefore, if printed, would be a misrepresentation.

But the stroke of wit was not to be given up.

Either Mr.Gifford, or "the poet-priest Milman," has generally, but erroneously, been blamed for being the author of the review in the _Quarterly_, which, as is now well known, was written by Mr.Croker.] The same number of _Blackwood_ contained a short article about Hazlitt--elsewhere styled "pimpled Hazlitt." It was very short, and entitled "Hazlitt cross-questioned." Hazlitt considered the article full of abuse, and commenced an action for libel against the proprietors of the magazine.

Upon this Blackwood sent Hazlitt's threatening letter to Murray, with his remarks: _Mr.Blackwood to John Murray_.
_September_ 22, 1818.
"I suppose this fellow merely means to make a little bluster, and try if he can pick up a little money.

There is nothing whatever actionable in the paper....