ERRATA. 



In page 3, line 13 from foot, after and insert it. 

 9, 7 from foot, for guides 

 17, 7, for 1769, read 1762. 

 ,, 18, 9 from foot,/or sixty read a hundred. 

 ,, 23, ,, 11 from foot, for regne dans 1' read commande en. 

 ,, 39, ,, 3 from foot, for ses read son. 

 ,, 46, ,, 13 from foot }< /br pardonnez read pardonne. 

 50, ,, 9, for of the, read of this. 

 ,, 60, ,, 19, after consequence insert and one. 

 ,, 128, ,, 9,/br avons tort read nous trompons. 

 ,, 163, ,, 3 from foot, for fonder raw/fondre. 

 ,, 172, ,, 4 from foot,/or ont read sont. 

 290, 18,/or Henry VIII. read Henry VII. 

 ,, 296, lines 1, 27, and 34, for Irvine read Irving. 

 ,, 316, line 21, for him read to him. 

 ,,355, ,, 18,/or settled read living. 

 ,, 360, ,, 11, after and insert he. 

 ,,378, ,, 15,/or 1834 read 1829. 

 ,,381, ,, 17, before a little insert which were. 

 383, ,, 1, after he insert has. 

 __, 4, for he read Mr. Watt. 



I have been favoured with the following Memorandum from the 

 Foreign Office. The correspondence of 1763 and 1765 I examined, 

 and have alluded to at p. 225. 



" A search has been made in the offices of the Secretaries of 

 State and in the State Paper Office for the correspondence of Mr. 

 David Hume when Under-Secretary of State with Marshal Con way ; 

 but although letters have been found addressed to Mr. Hume in 

 1767-8, no letter signed by Mr. Hume can be found in any of the 

 entry books of the period during which Mr. Hume was Under- 

 secretary of State ; nor can any such letter be found in the books 

 of the same period in the State Paper Office. 



" It would appear from the postscript of a letter from Mr. Carroll, 

 dated at Dresden, April 13, 1768, that Mr. Hume's retirement 

 had then been spoken of. 



" There are some letters in the State Paper Office in Mr. Hume's 

 handwriting while Secretary to the Earl of Hertford, at Paris in 

 1763 ; and also his own letters when left as Charge d' Affaires in 

 France, from the 28th of July tehthe 13th of November, 1765. 



" FOREIGN OFFICE, April 8, 1845." 



