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will love to mortify a Scotchman, and to applaud a man 

 that has refused a pension from the King. It is not un- 

 likely, too, that they may pay him very well for having 

 refused it, and that even he may have had in view this 

 compensation. Your old friends here wish you not to write 

 the Baron d'Alembert, Madame Eiccoboni, Mademoiselle 

 Eiancourt, M. Turgot, &c., &c. M. Turgot, a friend every 

 way worthy of you, desired me to recommend this advice 

 to you in a particular manner, as his most earnest entreaty 

 and opinion. He and I are both afraid that you are sur- 

 rounded with evil counsellors, and that the advice of your 

 English literati, who are themselves accustomed to publish 

 all their little gossiping stories in newspapers, may have too 

 much influence upon you. Kemember me to Mr. Walpole, 

 and believe me to be, with the most sincere affection, 



" Ever yours, 



"ADAM SMITH." 



" P.S. Make my apology to Miller for not having yet 

 answered his last very kind letter. I am preparing the 

 answer to it, which he will certainly receive by next post. 

 Remember me to Mrs. Miller. Do you ever see Mr. 

 Townshend ?" 



After his return to Kirkaldy, and when engaged in his 

 great work he thus writes 



" MY DEABEST FBIEKD, KIRKALDY, June 7th, 1767. 



" The principal design of this letter is to recommend 

 to your particular attention the Count de Sarsfield, the best 

 and the most agreeable friend I had in France. Introduce 

 him, if you find it proper, to all the friends of your absent 

 friend, to Oswald and to Elliot in particular. I cannot 

 express to you how anxious I am that his stay in London 

 should be rendered agreeable to him. You know him, and 

 must know what a plain, worthy, honourable man he is. I 

 have enclosed a letter for him, which you may either send 

 to him, or rather, if the weighty affairs of state will permit 

 it, deliver it to him yourself. The letter to Dr. Morton 

 you may send by the penny post. 



