Chapter XII: Book IV: , on Rates of Interest. “Adam Smith, after having read the

letter upon _Projects_, which was addressed to him, and printed at
the end of the first edition of the _Defence of Usury_, declared to
a gentleman, the common friend of the two authors, that he had been
deceived. With the tidings of his death Mr. Bentham received a copy
of his works, which had been sent to him as a token of esteem.”

INDEX

A
Alembert, 132, 139.
American colonies, 163, 176-9.
Aristotle, 6, 24-6, 37, 53, 74, 194.
Armaments, 172-4.
_Astronomy, History of_, 16-18.

B
Bacon, 5, 74 _n._, 118-19.
Bagehot (quoted), 204.
Balliol College, 9-12.
Banks (in Scotland), 101.
Beauclerk, 160-1.
_Bee, The_, 21.
Bentham, Jeremy, 12, 184, 216;
his _Defence of Usury_, 231-2.
Black, Joseph, 83, 96-7, 99, 208, 231, 233.
Bordeaux, 123, 141.
Boswell, James, 19, 161, 164.
Brougham, Lord, 14.
Buccleuch, Duke of, 111-14, 131, 135, 150, 153, 157, 163, 213.
Buchan, Lord, 21, 99.
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 63, 64.
Burke, Edmund, 20, 30, 47, 49, 67, 75, 112, 160-2, 171, 174,
221-3, 226, 235-6.
Butler, Bishop, 12, 51, 54.

C
Calas, Jean, the case of, 124-5.
Cannan, Edwin, 71, 78-9, 90 _n._, 169;
the _Lectures_, 182.
Carlyle, Dr. Alexander, 101, 104, 105, 151, 226.
Clubs—the Poker, 107-9;
the Literary, 160, 161, 212, 216;
the Oyster, 216-18, 230.
Cobden, Richard, 78, 175, 184, 189-91.
Cochrane, Andrew, 101-2.
Colbert, Abbé, 121-3.
Colliers, 76-7.
Colonies, 145-9, 175-80.
Condorcet, 133.
Cullen, Dr., 26-7, 157, 226.
Customs, 88 _sqq._, 196 _sqq._, 213-15.

D
Dalkeith House, 150-1.
Dalrymple, Sir John, 21, 95, 99, 101, 104-5, 216.
Degrees, medical, 157-60.
Descartes, 17, 55.
Douglas, David, 213, 234.
—— Jane, 213, 223, 229.
—— John, Bishop of Salisbury, 9, 160.
Drysdale, John, 3.
Dundas, Henry, 201, 228.
Dunlop, Alexander, 4.

E
Eden, William, 199, 201-20, 227, 237
Edinburgh, 4, 78, 100, 103, 105 _sqq._, 153, 206, 213 _sqq._
_Encyclopædia_, the, 118-20.
England, wealth of, 139-42.
Enville, Duchess of, 128, 131.
Epictetus, 55, 56.
Excise, 88-91, 191 _n._
Exports, theory of, 86 _sqq._, 190 _sqq._

F
Ferguson, Adam, 128, 216.
Ferney, 127-8.
Foulis, Robert, printer, 21, 95, 97-9.
Fox, Charles James, 174, 212, 221-2.
France, 86-7, 118 _sqq._, 188, 235.
Franklin, Benjamin, 108, 161-2.
Free Trade, 88, 142, 176, 188 _sqq._; (chapter x.), 220.

G
Garrick, David, 130, 160, 212.
Geneva, 126-8.
Gibbon, 12, 13, 131, 157, 160, 164, 212, 216, 229-31.
Gladstone, W. E., 165, 193.
Glasgow, 4-9, 11, 23, 27, 78, 95 _sqq._, 100-3, 222.
—— University of, 3-9, 94 _sqq._, 229.
Glassford, John, 101.
Grotius, 5, 71, 73, 92.

H
Hamilton of Bangour, 21.
Helvétius, 132.
Hobbes, Thomas, 36, 51, 71.
Holland, 90, 139, 172, 192.
Home, Henry (see Kames).
—— John, 103, 105.
Hume, David, 6, 11, 17, 20, 22, 26, 30, 36, 38, 43, 46 _sqq._, 51,
60 _sqq._, 73, 95, 96, 103, 106, 110-11, 113, 129, 130,
136-8, 150 _sqq._, 163-4, 181, 194, 205-11, 233, 235.
Hunter, Sir William, 157.
—— John, 227.
Hutcheson, Francis, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 30, 31, 36-8, 51, 57 _n._, 62,
64, 73, 97, 181, 229.
Hutton, Dr., 216, 217, 233.

I
_Imitative Arts_, 16, 17, 19-20, 33, 67.
Imports, theory of, 86 _sqq._, 192 _sqq._, 220.
Ireland, 200-3.

J
Jardine, George, 30-31.
Johnson, Samuel, 19, 109-10, 165.
Johnstone, William (see Pulteney).
Jurisprudence, 69-72, 78.
Justice, 68 _sqq._

K
Kames, Lord, 18, 19, 77, 103.
Kant, 40, 58.
Kirkcaldy, 1-3, 16, 76, 150-6, 205 _sqq._
Kraus, Christian Jakob, 185.

L
Labour, division of, 81, 194-5.
Languedoc, 124-6.
Law, international, 71, 92-3.
List, Friedrich, 185-6, 189, 196.
Locke, John, 5, 25, 73, 235-6.
Logan, John, 226.
Logic, chair of, 23, 30-3.
_Logic and Metaphysics, History of_, 18, 23-8, 31-3.
London, 78, 156 _sqq._, 227-8.
Lowe, Robert, 187.

M
Mackintosh, Sir James, 50, 132.
Malebranche, 25.
Malesherbes, 184.
Manchester School, 189-91.
Mandeville, 36-7, 53-4, 62.
Mathematics, 7, 8.
_Maxims_ of Rochefoucauld, 54.
Mercantile system, 85-8, 197-8.
Metaphysics, 26, 32-3; see Logic.
Mill, John Stuart, 165, 186-7, 196.
Millar, Andrew (the publisher), 46-8, 138, 144.
—— John, 31, 33, 37, 68, 74, 99, 222.
Milton, 21, 36, 67, 184.
Mollien, Count, 143, 184-5.
Monopoly, 159, 220.
Montesquieu, 68, 73, 76, 215, 235.
Morals, Chair of, 26 _sqq._, 116-17.
_Moral Sentiments, Theory of_, 31, 37-9, 46 _sqq._, 232.
Morellet, 132, 142, 220.

N
Navigation Act, 4, 190-1.
Necker, 131-2.
Newton, Sir Isaac, 8, 17, 36, 235.
North, Lord, 199, 200, 212, 213.

O
Oswald, James, of Dunnikier, 3, 18, 22, 104.
Oxford, 9.
—— University of, 11-15.

P
Panmure House, 213-14.
Paris, 129 _sqq._, 136-9.
Peel, Sir Robert, 193.
_Physics, History of Ancient_, 18.
Pitt, the younger, 184, 188, 200, 222, 227.
Plato, 24-5, 37, 194.
Police, lectures on, 68-72, 78.
Pope, 13, 19, 56.
Population, 76.
Price, Dr. Richard, 161, 230.
Protection (see Free Trade).
Pulteney, Sir William, 19, 104, 154-5.

Q
Quesnai, 68, 71, 134-5, 142, 169.

R
Rae, John (quoted), 14, 28, 94, 101, 106, 111, 114, 129, 211, 212,
226 _n._, 228.
Raikes, Thomas, 228.
Ramsay, Allan, 105, 110.
—— John, of Ochtertyre, 38, 44, 96.
Religion, 183.
_Review, Edinburgh_, 109.
Revenue of France, 141-2.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 160.
Riccoboni, Madame, 130.
Richelieu, Duke of, 123, 127.
Rochefoucauld, 129, 131, 133.
Rockingham Ministry, 146-7.
Rogers, Dr. Charles (quoted), 155.
—— Samuel, 9, 127, 133, 230-1.
Rousseau, J. J., 65, 136-8, 150, 224, 235.
Ruskin, 183.

S
Saint-Fond, Faujas de, 127, 223-6.
Schmoller, Professor, 180.
Schools (public) in England, 12.
Scotland, 9-10, 139-41.
Scott, Sir Walter (quoted), 217.
Shaftesbury, 31, 36, 51.
Shelburne, Lord, 144, 148, 184, 188.
Simson, Robert, 4, 8, 96.
Smith, Adam (the elder), 2.
—— Margaret, 2, 8.
Snell Exhibition, 9, 10, 15.
Society, the Select, 105-7.
Spectator, Impartial, 56-60, 182.
Spain, 86, 87, 145, 175.
Stamp Act, 146, 147.
Stewart, Dugald (quoted), 2, 5, 13, 14, 21, 68, 102, 105, 131,
132, 139, 151, 214, 234.
—— Matthew, 7, 8.
Strahan, William, 61, 144, 164, 206 _sqq._, 226.
Strathendry, 2.
Sympathy, doctrine of, 57 _sqq._

T
_Taille_, 142.
Tax, Land, 89, 142;
the French, 142.
Taxation, 88 _sqq._, 170-2, 176 _sqq._
Theology, Natural, 7, 37.
Tocqueville, 125.
Tooke, Horne, 124.
Toulouse, 124-5, 144.
Townshend, Charles, 48-9, 104, 111-15, 135, 147-8.
Treaties, Commercial (with France), 200, 220, 227.
Turgot, 68, 71, 125, 126, 129, 132-4, 142, 184, 219, 235-6.

U
Union, Act of, 4, 36.
Uztariz (quoted), 90.

V
_Vingtième_, 142.
Voltaire, 20, 44, 48, 120, 125, 127, 128, 139, 224, 235.

W
Wages, 140.
Wakefield, E. G., 165-6.
Walpole, Sir Robert, 91.
War, 172-4.
Watt, James, 83, 96-7.
_Wealth of Nations_, 2, 12, 15, 22, 32, 33, 63, 69, 81 _sqq._,
139, 144, 156, 158, 161-2; (chapter ix.), 163 _sqq._, 213.
Wedderburn, Alexander, 19, 47, 109.
Wilberforce, William, 228-9.
Windham, William, 226.
Wordsworth, 20, 21.

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