ample materials for illuftrating and confirming histheoretical conclufions.

After leaving Glafgow, Mr. Smith joined theDuke of Buccleugh at London early in the year1764, and fet out with him for the Continent inthe month of March following. At Dover they weremet by Sir James Mac-donald, who accompaniedthem to Paris , and with whom Mr. Smith laidthe foundation of a friendlhip, which he alwaysmentioned with great fenfibility, and of which heoften lamented the lhort duration. The panegyricswith which the memory of this accomplifiied andamiable perfon has been honored by fo manydiftinguilhed charatlers in the different countriesof Europe , are a proof how well fitted his talentswere to command general admiration. The efteerain which his abilities and learning were held byMr. Smith, is a teftimony to his extraordinarymerit of ftill fuperior value. Mr. Hume, too,feems, in this inftance, to have partaken of hisfriend’s enthufiafrn. 44 Were you and I together,“ (fays he in a letter to Mr. Smith,) we fhould“ Hied tears at prefent for the death of poor Sir“ James Macdonald. We could not poffibly have“ fuffered a greater lofs than in that valuable“ young man.”

In this firft vifit to Paris , the Duke of Buccleughand Mr. Smith employed only ten or twelve days*,

* The day after his arrival at Paris , Mr. Smith fent a for-mal refignation of his ProfelTorship to the Rector of the Univer-