I-jgi, OW DR. At)AM SMITH. a6$ 



He palled the younger part of his life in a cloyftef 

 at Oxford, having been one of Snell's exhibitioners, 

 trom Glafgow college to Baliol. 



His mother was a moil: virtuous and excellent wo- 

 man, and impreired the Doftor's mind, when a boy, 

 with the mofl exalted and correct principles of con- 

 duct, which lie retained and improved to a degree I 

 thought exceedingly uncommon. 



He was aKvays of Dr. Young the poet's opinion, 

 that high worth was " elevated place ; that it made more 

 " than monarchs made, an honefl man I" 



I never knew a man mure amiable in this refpeifl ; 

 but when he met with honelt men whom he liked, and 

 who courted him, he would believe almoit any thing 

 they faid. Had he been a friend of the worthy inge- 

 nious Horrox, he would have believed that the moon 

 fometimes difappeared in a clear Iky without the inter- 

 polition of a cloud ; or of another truly honeft and refpec- 

 table man, that a profcffor of mntheraatics at Upfal had a 

 tail of fix inches long at his rump. The three great 

 avenues to Smith, were his mother, his books, and his 

 political opinions. The conqueil of him was eafv 

 through any of thefe channeh,; and this came to be 

 very foon known by the Dolphins that played in the 

 wake of his great navigation in literature. 



He approached to republicanifm in his political prin- 

 ciples ; and conlidered a commonwealth as the plat- 

 form for a monarchy, hereditary fucceflion in the chief 

 magiftrate being ncccffary only to prevent the com- 

 monwealth from being Ihaken by ambition, or abfo- 

 lutc dominion introduced by the confequences of con- 

 tending laOions. Yet Pitt and Dundas, praifing his 

 book, .-iid adopting its principles in parliament, brought 

 him down from London a Tory, and a Pittite, inilead 

 of a Whig and a Foxite, as he was when he fet out. 

 By and bye, the imprcftion wore off, and his former 

 fentiments returned, but unconnefled either with Pitt, 

 ^"ox, or any body elfe. I faw him for the laft time in 



