FOOTNOTES:

[201] Adams's Works, ix. 589.

[202] Adams's Works, iii. 276.

[203] Secretary of the Royal Society. The letter was probably in acknowledgment of the intimation of his election as Fellow.

[204] Mr. Adams is Adam the architect, and Mrs. Montagu is the well-known Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu of Portman Square, whose hospitable house was a rival to any of the most brilliant salons of Paris.

[205] Hume MSS., R.S.E. Library.

[206] Burton's Life of Hume, ii. 390.

[207] Hume MSS., R.S.E. Library.

[208] Carlyle's Autobiography, p. 489.

[209] Sinclair's Life of Sir John Sinclair, i. 37.

[210] Fraser's Scotts of Buccleuch, I. lxxxviii., II. 406.

[211] Brougham's Men of Letters, ii. 219.

[212] Brougham's Men of Letters, ii. 219.

[213] Burton's Life of Hume, ii. 429.

[214] Ibid., ii. 433.

[215] Hume MSS., R.S.E. Library. Partially published by Burton.

[216] Sir James Steuart's Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy was published in 1767.

[217] Published by Professor Thorold Rogers in the Academy of 28th February 1885.

[218] Caldwell Papers, iii. 207.

[219] Wealth of Nations, Book I. chap. xi.

[220] Ibid., Book IV. chap. vii.

[221] Wealth of Nations, Book IV. chap. vii.

[222] Ibid., Book V. chap. iii.

[223] Ibid., Book V. chap. i.

[224] From the suppression of the Indian supervisorship; see p. 255.

[225] Hume MSS., R.S.E. Library.

[226] Caldwell Papers, i. 192.

[227] Rogers' Social Life of Scotland, iii. 181.

[228] Sinclair's Old Times and Distant Places, p. 9.