[5] Private vices public benefits.
[6] Electrical batteries.
[7] Bred a printer. This was written long before Dr. Franklin's death.
[8] Dr. L., Bp. of C., is probably the person here alluded to. He was a zealous materialist.
[9] He resolved Perception and Thinking into vibrations, and (what he called) vibratiuncles of the brain.
[AA] "I have been assured by those who were intimately acquainted with both, that of the two brothers, Montagu was in many respects the superior."
Bower's Life of Beattie, 1804, p. 210.
[AB] James Hay Beattie had a scientific knowledge of music, and, with the assistance of the Rev. Dr. Laing, had superintended the building an organ for himself. In one of our author's letters, 8th June, 1791, is the following passage:
"The organ of Durham cathedral was too much for my feelings; for it brought too powerfully to my remembrance another organ, much smaller, indeed, but more interesting, which I can never hear any more."
[AC] See, too, Beattie's letter to Blacklock, p. xv. of this memoir.