5;
Smith's political distrust of, 379

Sheridan, Thomas, elocution class at Edinburgh, 119

Simson, Professor Robert, influence on Smith, 10;
Smith's opinion of, 11;
his club, 96;
his Greek and Latin odes, 98

Sinclair, Sir John, his treatise on the Sabbath, 342;
conversation with Smith on Burgoyne's surrender, 343;
letter of Smith to, on _Memoires_, 343;
letter of Smith on the Armed Neutrality, 382;
Windham's romantic attachment, 394;
Smith's opinion of Sinclair, 418

Skene, Captain David, 243

Smellie, William, printer, on Smith's books, 329

Smith, Adam, W.S., Kirkcaldy, 1

Smith, Adam, Collector of Customs, Alloa, 2

Snell exhibitions at Oxford, 16

Society, British Fisheries, Smith on, 408

Society, Glasgow Literary, 94
Smith's paper on Home's Essays on Commerce, 95

Society, Select, 107;
Smith's opening speech, 108;
its economic discussions, 110;
its work for improvement of Scots arts and manufactures, 112;
its dissolution, 118

Stage-doctors, 276

Stanhope, Earl, friendship with Smith at Geneva, 191, 193;
consults Smith about Chesterfield tutorship, 266

Steuart, Sir James, economist, acts in school theatricals, 5;
on free trade among Glasgow merchants, 61

Stewart, Professor Dugald, on Smith's mathematical tastes, 10;
on Smith's judgment in art, 74;
on Smith's travelling tutorship, 217;
on Smith's being styled "Mr.," 234;
on Smith's conversation, 269, 270;
on alleged revolutionary character of free trade doctrine, 292

Stewart, Professor Matthew, college friend of Smith, 10;
Smith's taste for mathematics, 10;
Smith's opinion of, 11

Strahan, William, printer, letter from Smith to, about new edition
of the _Theory_, 149;
friend of Franklin, 151;
Hume's literary executor, 298;
Smith's letter to, on Hume's illness and death, 304;
letter on Hume's _Dialogues_ from Smith to, 305;
letter from Smith to, 308;
proposes publication of selection of Hume's letters, 309;
Smith's reply, 310;
correspondence of Smith with, on Commissionership of Customs, 321

Stuart, Andrew, W.S. and M.P., candidate for Indian
supervisorship, 255;
withdrawal from contest for Lanarkshire, 391;
letter of Smith, 392

Sugar, Smith's fondness for, 338

Sunday schools, Smith on, 407

Sunday suppers, Smith's, 327

Swediaur, Dr., on the Oyster Club, 334;
on Smith, 334

Swift, Jonathan, Smith on, 367

Tassie, J., his medallions of