unlikely, too, that they may pay
him very well for having refused it, and that even he may
have had in view this compensation. Your whole friends here
wish you not to write,--the Baron, D'Alembert, Madame
Riccoboni, Mademoiselle Rianecourt, M. Turgot, etc. etc. M.
Turgot, a friend every way worthy of you, desired me to
recommend this advice to you in a particular manner as his
most earnest entreaty and opinion. He and I are both afraid
that you are surrounded with evil counsellors, and that the
advice of your English _literati_, who are themselves
accustomed to publishing all their little gossiping stories
in newspapers, may have too much influence upon you.
Remember me to Mr. Walpole, and believe me, etc.

P.S.--Make my apology to Millar for not having yet answered
his last very kind letter. I am preparing the answer to it,
which he will certainly receive by next post. Remember me to
Mrs. Millar. Do you ever see Mr. Townshend?[170]

The deep love of tranquillity this letter breathes, the dislike of
publicity as a snare fatal to future quiet, the contempt for the petty
vanity that makes men of letters run into print with their little
personal affairs, as if they were of moment to anybody but themselves,
are all very characteristic of Smith's philosophic temper of mind; and
there is also--what appears on other occasions as well as this in the
intercourse of the two philosophers--a certain note of affectionate
anxiety on the part of the younger and graver philosopher towards the
elder as towards a man of less weight of natural character and
experience, and perhaps less of the wisdom of this world, than
himself.

Smith seems to have shown Hume's letter to their common friends in
Paris, and while deeply interested, as was only natural, in the
quarrel, they with one consent took Hume's side, the only possible
view of the transaction. The subject continued to furnish matter of
conversation and conference among Hume's French literary friends
during the whole time of Smith's residence in Paris. Hume sent Smith
another letter a little later on in the month of July, which he asked
him specially to show to D'Alembert. This Smith did on the 21 st, when
he met D'Alembert at dinner at Mademoiselle de l'Espinasse's, in
company with Turgot, Marmontel, Roux, Morellet, Saurin, and Duclos;
and on the same evening D'Alembert wrote Hume that he had just had