4 LIFE OF SIR JAMES STEWART, Sept. 1 4, 



to the Britifh throne i the impreflion arifing from which, 

 added to the irritations of his controverfy with the 

 powerful painty in Scotland attached to the court, led 

 him, unadvifedly, into coianeftions with the movers of 

 the late lebelUoij In the year 1745. 



As he was by far the ableft man of their party, the 

 Jacobites engaged him to write the Prince Regent's 

 manifefto, and to aflift in his councils. Information 

 having been given of his participation in thefe affairs, 

 he thought it prudent, on the abortion of this unhappy 

 attempt, to leave Britain ; and by the zeal of Arniilon 

 he was excepted afterwards from the bill of indemnity, 

 and rendered an exile from his, country. 



He chofe France for his refidence during the ten 

 firfl years of his banifhment, arid was chiefly at An- 

 goulefme, where he fuperintended the education of his 

 fon ; from thence he went to Tubingen in Suabia, for 

 the benefit of its univerfity, in profecution of the fame 

 dutiful and laudable defign ; but in the end of the war 

 56, having incurred fufpicion of the Court of Verfailles 

 of affording advice to the Court of London, was feized 

 ,at Spa, and kept fom?time in confinement j from which 

 being liberated, after the accefilon of the prefent king of 

 Great Britain, he came private, by toleration, to Eng- 

 land, and refided at London, where he put the laft hand 

 to his Syftem of PoUtical Oeconomy, the copy right of 

 which he fold to Andrew Millar; and being permitted 

 to dedicate this work to the king, he applied for a jioli 

 profequi, which, after fome malicious objections, he 

 obtained, and had the comfort of returning to his fa- 

 mily eftate in Scotland. 



Having nothing profeflional to do during his long 

 refidence in France, the adtive mind of Sir James was 

 occupied in ftudy. His book on thePrinciples of Political 

 Oeconomy contains moft of the fruits of it. He turned 

 himfelf, in the intervals of leifure, to confider the re- 

 fources of France, that he might the better compile that 

 part of his great work y^hich was to treat of revenue and 



