98 HISrORT of the SOCIETT. 



Dr C s°Sh° f proceeded to Thouloufe, where they fixed their refidence for 

 eighteen months ; and where, in addition to the pleafure of an 

 agreeable fociety, Mr Smith had an opportunity of correcting 

 and extending his information concerning the internal policy of 

 France, by the intimacy in which he lived with fome of the 

 principal perfons of the Parliament. 



From Thouloufe they went, by a pretty extenfive tour, through 

 the fouth of France to Geneva. Here they pafTed two months. 

 The late Earl Stanhope, for whofe learning and worth Mr 

 Smith entertained a {incere refpecl:, was then an inhabitant of 

 that republic. 



About Chriftmas 1765, they returned to Paris, and remain- 

 ed there till October following. The fociety in which Mr 

 Smith fpent thefe ten months, may be conceived from the ad- 

 vantages he enjoyed, in confequence of the recommendations of 

 Mr Hume. Turgot, Quesnai, Necker, d'ALEMBERT, Hel- 

 vetius, Marmontel, Madame Riccoboni, were among the 

 number of his acquaintances ; and fome of them he continued 

 ever afterwards to reckon among his friends. From Madame 

 d'ANviLLE, the refpectable mother of the late excellent and 

 much lamented Duke of Rochefoucauld *, he received many 

 attentions, which he always recollected with particular grati- 

 tude. 



It is much to be regretted, that he preferved no journal of 

 this very interefting period of his hiftory j and fuch was his 



averfion 



*\ throughout Europe. His happy talent in illuftrating abftra&ed fubje&s, and 

 " faithful affiduity in communicating ufeful knowledge, diftinguifhed him as a Pro- 

 " feffbr, and at once afforded the greatefl pleafure and the moft important inftrudion 

 " to the youth under his care." 



* The following letter, which has been very accidentally preferved, while it 

 ferves as a memorial of Mr Smith's connexion with the family of Rochefou- 

 cauld, is fo expreffive of the virtuous and liberal mind of the writer, that I am 

 perfuaded it will give pleafure to the Society to record it in their Tranfadtions. 



" Paris, 



