[409:3] Milman's edition of Gibbon's Life, p. 216.
[410:1] Deyverdun had (in a letter, MS. R.S.E.) acknowledged himself to be the author of an attack on Rousseau, which the latter attributed to Hume.
[411:1] MS. R.S.E.
[412:1] Life of Gibbon.
[413:1] Stewart's Life of Robertson.
[414:1] The "Philosophical Essays" were not written by Sir David Dalrymple, as here hinted, but as Sir Gilbert explains, by James Balfour, who has already been mentioned, (see vol. i. p. 160, 345.) The Essays were mainly directed against Kaimes' "Essays on Morality and Natural Religion."
[415:1] Minto MSS.
[416:1] MS. R.S.E. I can find no light on the meaning of the words "love affair."
[417:1] Mr. Home was a very cautious farmer, and carried his dislike of novelties and innovations to the unprecedented extent of declining the higher rents he might have obtained from enterprising tenants.
[418:1] Minto MSS.