Rousseau at Wooton--Mr. Davenport--Negotiations as to Rousseau's pension--Origin and rise of his excitement against Hume--Proper method of viewing the dispute--Incidents illustrative of Rousseau's state of mind--His charges against Hume--Smith's opinion--Opinion of the French friends--Hume's conduct in the publication of the papers--Voltaire--Rousseau's flight and wanderings--Hume's subsequent conduct to him. 319 CHAPTER XVI. 1766-1770. ÆT. 55-59. Hume Under Secretary of State--Church Politics--Official abilities--Conduct as to Ferguson's book--Quarrel with Oswald--Baron Mure's sons--Project of continuing the History-- Ministerial convulsions--Hume's conduct to his Family--His Brother--His Nephews--Baron Hume--Blacklock--Smollett--Church Patronage--Gibbon--Robertson--Elliot--Gilbert Stuart--The Douglas Cause--Andrew Stewart--Morellet--Return to Scotland. 382 CHAPTER XVII. 1771-1776. ÆT. 60-65. Hume's social character--His conversation--His disposition-- Traditional anecdotes regarding him--Correspondence--Letter about the Pretender--Gilbert Stuart's quarrel with Dr. Henry-- Commercial State of Scotland--Letter to his nephew on Republicanism--Smith's "Wealth of Nations"--Hume's illness-- His Will--Smith appointed Literary Executor--Strahan substituted--His journey to England with Home--Prospects of Death--Communications with his Friends and Relations--His Death--General view of his influence on Thought and Action. 437 INDEX. 523 FOOTNOTES: [vi:A] By mistake two chapters have been numbered XIV. THE LIFE OF DAVID HUME. CHAPTER X. 1756-1759. ÆT. 45-48. The second volume of the History of the Stuarts--His Apologies for his Treatment of Religion--The Four Dissertations--The Two Suppressed Dissertations--Resigns his Office of Librarian-- Home's Douglas--Commences the History of the Tudors--Wilkie's Epigoniad--Hume's Nationalism--Warburton--Colonel Edmondstoune-- Dr. Robertson--Negotiations as to Ferguson's Chair--Hume goes to London--Writes letters of Fictitious and Extravagant News-- Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments--Publication of the History of the House of Tudor--General View of the Constitutional Principles of the History.