APPENDIX. 93 
The Bifhop of Perersoroucs faid he had pafled the evening 
in a company where he heard it extolled above all books in the 
world. The Duke of ARGYLE is more decifive than he ufes to 
be, in its favour. I fuppofe he either confiders it as an exotic, 
or thinks the author will be ferviceable to him in the Glafgow 
elections. Lord LyTrieron fays, that Robertson and Smita 
and Bower are the glories of Englifh literature. OswaLp pro- 
tefts he does not know whether he has reaped more inftruétion 
or entertainment from it. But you may eafily judge what re- 
liance can be put on his judgment, who has been engaged all 
his life in public bufinefs, and who never fees any faults in his. 
friends. MrLxLar exults and brags that two thirds of the edi- 
tion are already fold, and that he is now fure of fuccefs. You 
fee what a fon of the earth that is, to value books only by the 
profit they bring him. In that view, I believe it may prove a 
very good book. 
“ CHARLES TOWNSEND, who pafles for the clevereft fellow 
in England, is fo taken with the performance, that he faid ‘to 
OswALpD he would put the Duke of BuccLeuGu under the Au- 
thor’s care, and would make it worth his while to ‘accept of 
that charge. As foon as I heard this, I called on him twice, 
with a view of talking with him about the matter, and of con- 
vincing him of the propriety of fending that young Nobleman 
to Glafgow: For I could not hope, that he could offer you any 
terms which would tempt you to renounce your Profeflorfhip : 
But I miffed him. Mr TowNnsenp pafles for being a little un- 
certain in his refolutions ; fo perhaps yow need. not build much. 
on this fally. 
“In recompence for fo many mortifying things, which 
nothing but truth could have extorted from me, and which I 
could eafily have multiplied to a greater number, I doubt not 
but you are fo good a Chriftian as to return good for evil; and. 
to flatter my vanity by telling me, that all the godly in Scot- 
land. 
Account of 
Dr Smith, 
