[150:1] This is in reference to the word _despotica_ being put in italics as a modern barbarism. [150:2] Civium quisque non sibi solum, verum et liberis, a civitate defensionem stipulatur, et omnia vitae civilis commoda. Liberis gestum est negotium utilissimum; unde citra suum consensum, ad ea omnia pro ipsorum viribus, facienda praestanda adstringuntur, quae ob istiusmodi commoda ab adultis jure flagitari poterant. Nihil autem aequius quam ut singuli, pro virili parte, eam tueantur civitatem, neque ab ea intempestive discedant, cujus beneficio diu protecti, innumeris potiti fuerant vitae excultae commodis; utque haec a majoribus accepta ad posteros transmittant. [151:1] The practice of sending young men to the continental universities, seems to have continued for a longer time in the north than in the south. Within these few years it was not uncommon north of the Grampians, to meet with elderly country gentlemen, recalling to each other the memorable events of their student life at Leyden. The practice appears to be reviving in a favour for the German universities; but perhaps it is now more frequently followed by the commercial classes than by the country gentlemen. [155:1] MS. R.S.E. This letter is printed in the _Literary Gazette_ for 1822, p. 635. [155:2] Mr. Oswald of Dunnikier. [156:1] MS. R.S.E. _Literary Gazette_, 1822, p. 635. [157:1] Memorials of James Oswald, p. 82. [157:2] Ib. p. 19-20. [158:1] This refers to the taking Hanoverian troops into British pay, warmly debated in the House of Commons on 10th December, 1742. [159:1] The Earl of Glasgow's house, on the coast of Ayrshire. [160:1] MS. R.S.E. _Literary Gazette_, 1822, p. 636. [161:1] Sermons by William Leechman, D.D. to which is prefixed some account of the author's life, and his character, by James Wodrow, D.D. 1789, i. 34. [164:1] MS. R.S.E. [165:1] Memoir, _ut supra_, p. 23. [165:2] Pneumatic Philosophy must here be taken in its old sense, as meaning Psychology. [165:3] John Couts or Coutts, a native of Dundee, at that time Lord Provost of Edinburgh. He was the father of Thomas Coutts, the celebrated banker. [167:1] The title of courtesy of the eldest son of the Earl of Galloway. [167:2] There were two Murrays of Broughton. The one had a small piece of property in Tweeddale, between Noblehouse and Moffat; and soon after the date of this letter acquired an infamous celebrity by giving evidence against the rebels, after having acted as secretary to the Pretender. The other, who was probably the person Hume had in view, had a considerable estate in Galloway. [168:1] MS. R.S.E. [169:1] Town Council Records, where he is called George Hutcheson, instead of Francis. CHAPTER V. 1745-1747. ÆT. 34-36.