Biographical Sketch of the late Dugald Stewart, Esq. 195 



tion to the usual labours of his two mathematical courses. 

 Three days after he had undertaken this difficult task, Mr 

 Stewart commenced his course of Ethics, and with no other 

 preparation but that which he was able to make in the morning, 

 he delivered a course of extempore lectures, which displayed 

 in a remarkable degree the vigour of his mind, and the extent 

 of his general information. Before the close of the session, his 

 health had obviously suffered from the bodily as well as the 

 mental fatigues to which he had been exposed, and such was 

 the degree of his exhaustion, that it was necessary to lift him 

 into the carriage when he set off for London at the close of 

 the session. 



The reputation of Mr Stewart had now become so great, 

 that several of the English and Scottish nobility were desirous 

 of placing their sons under his superintendence ; and he ac- 

 cordingly, in 1780, agreed to receive some pupils into his 

 house. Among these were the late Marquis of Lothian, the 

 late Lord Bel haven, Basil Lord Daer, the late Lord Powers- 

 court, Alexander Muir Mackenzie, Esq. of Delvin, and the 

 late Mr Henry Glassford. He accompanied the Marquis of 

 Lothian to Paris in 178S, and on his return from the Conti- 

 nent, in the autumn of the same year, he married Miss Banna- 

 tine, daughter of Neil Bannatine, Esq. a merchant in Glas- 

 gow, by whom he had a son, the present Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Matthew Stewart, who inherits no small sHare of the talents 

 and acuteness of his father. 



In consequence of the failure of Dr Ferguson's health in 

 1784, he resolved upon giving up the duties of a public lec- 

 turer, and an arrangement was made, by which Mr Stewart 

 should receive the moral J)hilosophy class, while Dr Ferguson 

 should be conjoined in the professorsliip of mathematics with 

 Professor Playfair, and thus retain the larger salary which was 

 attached to that chair. In 1 787, Mr Stewart was left a widower, 

 and in the following summer he accompanied the late Mr Ram- 

 say of Barnton on a visit to the Continent. 

 i/ In the year 1790 he married Miss Cranstoun, (the youngest 

 daughter of the Honourable George Cranstoun,) a lady of con- 

 genial sentiment and talent, who contributed greatly to the 

 (happiness of his future years. In the tranquillity of domestic 



