which, in the present day, stand forth with the greatest prominence and lustre. In no long time, a hundred years will have elapsed from the day when Hume told the world, what the legislature of this country is now declaring, that national exclusiveness in trade was as foolish as it was wicked; that no nation could profit by stopping the natural flood of commerce between itself and the rest of the world; that commercial restrictions deprive the nations of the earth "of that free communication and exchange, which the author of the world has intended by giving them soils, climates, and geniuses, so different from each other;" and that, like the healthy circulation of the blood in living bodies, Free Trade is the vital principle by which the nations of the earth are to become united in one harmonious whole.1 Those who, with a reverential eye, have marked the wonders of the animal structure, and discovered beauty, utility, and harmonious purpose, where presumptuous ignorance has found uselessness or deformity; or have seen the lower animals, each working in its own blind ignorance, gregariously constructing a fabric more perfect, on philosophical principles, than human science can create,—have thence drawn vivid pictures of the wisdom and goodness with which the world is ordered. May we not extend

1 In one of his epistles to the great Frederic, Voltaire says of the distribution of the fruits of the earth :

Il murit, à Moka, dans le sable Arabique,
Ce caffé nécessaire aux pays des frimats;
Il met la fièvre en nos climats,

Et le remède en Amerique.

But the policy of the earth's distribution, with many other truths not to be at once penetrated, even by the keenest mortal vision, were mysteries to the auto-theist, and being so, were therefore to his self-sufficient wisdom, absurd and ludicrous. Could that be right of which the sage of Ferney could not understand the ruling principle!

this harmony to the social economy of the globe, and say, that the spirit of activity and enterprise, harmonizing with the dispersal of the different bounties of Providence in the distant regions of the globe, are part of the same harmonious system; that the love of commerce and the desire of aggrandisement, which in the eye of a narrow philosophy assume the air of selfish and repulsive passions, represent themselves, when they are left to their legitimate course, as motives implanted in us for the great purposes of securing mutual dependance and kind offices, and their fruits, peace and good-will, throughout the great family of mankind. To be the first to teach that the earth is not doomed to the eternal curse of rivalry and strife, and to open up so wide a prospect of beneficence, may be an atonement for many errors, and in the eye of good taste may justify the brief assumption of conscious superiority, in which the subject of this memoir indulged, when he desired that the inscription on his monument should contain only his name, with the year of his birth and of his death. Leaving it to posterity to add the rest.

INDEX.

Abercrombie-General James, i. 212, | Artois-Comte d', ii. 178.

222, 311.

Abingdon Lord, ii. 185.
Adam-John, architect, ii. 174, 187,
195, 286.

William-Lord Chief Com-
missioner, ii. 174. His notices of
Hume, 439.

Mrs, ii. 174, 286.
Advocates' Library. Hume as libra-
rian, i. 367. Its extent, 373. French
works removed from, as improper,
395. Hume resigns librarianship
of, ii. 18.

Aguillon-Duchesse de, ii. 175.
Albemarle-Lord, i. 245-246.
Alembert-D', i. 94; ii. 181. Hume's
friendship with, 218, 270, 323, 345,
348, 350, 354, 355, 377, 589.
Allen-Dr., his inquiry into the rise
and progress of the royal preroga-
tive, ii. 122.
Amelia-The Princess, ii. 292.
Ancient Nations-Essay on the popu-
lousness of, i. 363.
Anderson-Revd. George, i. 425. His
writings against Hume and Lord
Kames, 428. His death, 432.
Anderson-Dr. Walter, i. 424.
Annandale Marquis of.
tion to Hume, i. 170.

His invita-

His mental

condition, 172. Hume's residence

with, 170, et seq.

Assembly-General. Its proceedings
against Hume, i. 429. Overture to,
regarding him, 430.
Association-Hume's theory of, i. 286.
Aylesbury-Lady, ii. 305, 385.

Bacon-Lord, ii. 67.

Balance of trade-Hume's opinions
on, i. 358.

Balcarras-Earl of, letter to, i. 412.
His appearance, 413.
Balfour-James of Pilrig, i. 160, 345,
ii. 192, 414, 415.

Bank-Cash credit in. Its nature, i. 359.
Banking-Hume's remarks on, i. 359.
Barbantane Marquise de, ii. 280,
309, 322, 360.

Barré-Colonel, ii. 150, 289.
Bastide-M. ii. 236, 241.
Bath-Hume's visit to, ii. 495, et seq.
Bayard-The Chevalier, ii. 441.
Beauchamp -Lord, ii. 161, 162, 171,
183, 204, 245, 268, 287.
Beauvais-Princess, ii. 497.
Beauveau-Madame de, ii. 206.
Beccaria, i. 121.

Bedford-Duke of, ii. 279, 280, 285,
290.

Duchess of, ii. 279.

Bellman's Petition, i. 315, 317.
Belot-Madame, her translation of
Hume's works, ii. 176.

Marchioness-Dowager of, i. Bentham, i. 121, 384.

185. Letter to, 203.

Anson-Madame, ii. 236.
Anstruther-General, i. 383.

Antiquaries. Their use to the histo-
rian, ii. 122-123.

Antiquity, the populousness of. Dis-
sertation on, i. 326.
Aquinas-His theory of association, i.
286. Its alleged similarity to Hume's,
287.

Argyle-Duke of, ii. 55.
Armstrong-Dr. ii. 64, 148.

Arnauld-Antony, i. 432.

Berri-Duc de, ii. 178.
Bertrand-Professor, ii. 187.
Betham-Mr. and Mrs., i. 411.
Birch-Dr., i. 416, 436; ii. 82.
Black-Joseph. Letters from, ii. 488,
514-515.
Blacklock-Thomas, i. 385. Hume's
first acquaintance with, 388. His
ideas of light and colours, 389.
Account of his early life, 390.
Publication of his poems, 392.
Miscellaneous notices of, 393, 398;
ii. 164, 454. Letters from, 399.