FOOTNOTES:
[75] Southey's Life of A. Bell, i. 23.
[76] Oswald had just been appointed commissioner for trade and plantations.
[77] Correspondence of James Oswald, p. 124.
[78] Burton's Life of Hume, i. 375.
[79] Mr. Burton thinks the Society mentioned in this paragraph to be "evidently the Philosophical Society" of Edinburgh, but it seems much more likely to have been the Literary Society of Glasgow, of which Hume was also a member. Of the Philosophical Society he was himself Secretary, and would therefore have been in the position of giving warning rather than receiving it; nor would he have spoken of sending that Society a paper which he would be on the spot to read himself. Whether Smith was Secretary of the Glasgow Literary Society I do not know, but even if he were not it would be nothing strange though the communications of the Society with Hume were carried on through Smith, his chief friend among the members, and his regular correspondent.
[80] Burton's Life of Hume, i. 417.
[81] Carlyle's Autobiography, p. 275.
[82] Burton's Scot Abroad, ii. 340.
[83] Minutes of Select Society, Advocates' Library, Edinburgh.
[84] Ibid.
[85] Scots Magazine, xix. 163.
[86] Burton's Scot Abroad, ii. 343.
[87] Scots Magazine for year 1755, p. 126.
[88] Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, vi. 32.
[89] Scots Magazine, xxvi. 229.
[90] The Bee for June 1791.
[91] Tytler's Life of Lord Kames, i. 233.
[92] Life of John Home, p. 24.
[93] Burton's Scot Abroad, ii. 343.
[94] Douglas's Select Works, p. 23.
[95] The Bee for 1791.
[96] Burton's Life of Hume, ii. 16.
[97] Professor of Logic.
[98] Burton's Life of Hume, ii. 45.
[99] Fraser's The Lennox, p. xliv.
[100] Carlyle Correspondence, Edinburgh University Library.
[101] Wealth of Nations, Book V. chap. i.
[102] "Memoirs of Black," Transactions, R.S.E., v. 113.
[103] Carlyle Correspondence, Edinburgh University.
[104] Small, Sketch of A. Ferguson, p. 23.
[105] Kames, Sketches of Man, Book II. chap. ix.
[106] Campbell's Lives of the Lord Chancellors, vi. 28.
