ctivity of mind and
experience of affairs, and author of respectable works on the
_Principles of Polity_, the _Administration of the Colonies_, and the
_Middle States of America_. He was one of the forty-two persons to
whom the authorship of the letters of Junius has been attributed. He
differed strongly from many of Smith's views, especially from his
condemnation of the monopoly of the colonial trade, and wrote a
pamphlet setting forth his criticisms in the form of a letter to Adam
Smith. This pamphlet Smith received in Edinburgh, just before his
departure for London, and when he arrived he wrote the Governor as
follows:--

SIR--I received the day before I left Edinburgh the very
great honour of your letter. Though I arrived here on Sunday
last, I have been almost from the day of my arrival confined
by a cold, which I caught upon the road; otherwise I should
before this time have done myself the honour of waiting on
you in person, and of thanking you for the very great
politeness with which you have everywhere treated me. There
is not, I give you my word, in your whole letter a single
syllable relating to myself which I could wish to have
altered, and the publication of your remarks does me much
more honour than the communication of them by a private
letter could have done.

I hope in a few days to have the honour of waiting on you,
and of discussing in person with you both the points on
which we agree and those on which we differ. Whether you
will think me, what I mean to be, a fair disputant, I know
not; I can venture to promise you will not find me an
irascible one. In the meantime I have the honour to be, with
the highest respect and esteem, etc. etc.

ADAM SMITH.

SUFFOLK STREET, _12th January 1777_.[280]

The gentleman who forwarded this letter to the editor of the
_Gentleman's Magazine_ in 1795, but whose name is not published,
states, in further evidence, as he says, of Smith's liberality of
mind, that "he altered in his second edition some of the parts
objected to, and instead of a reply, sent to Governor Pownall a
printed copy of this second edition so altered, and there all contest
closed." Smith, however, does not appear to have made any such
alterations. In feet, in the second edition he hardly made more than
three or four alterations, and these were confined to the introduction
of an additiona