“ Written by me :

“ 2d, An Account of the Life and Writings of Dugald Stewart, together with all his Correspondence. Among others, with Madame de Staël, La Fayette, Jefferson, and many other literary and well-known characters, French and English ; with Anecdotes from his Journals kept during his residence in Paris, before and at the commencement of the Revolution, and during his visits to that city with Lord Lauderdale, during the Fox Administration. All of which I burnt."

The other nine works (some of them very voluminous) written by Colonel Stewart, and by him destroyed, it is unnecessary articulately to specify. Mr. Foss, in a note, observes,- – “I believe there was no foundation for Colonel Stewart's suspicions respecting his locks having been picked.” This conjecture, I have no doubt, is correct; and should it seem strange that a man of Colonel Stewart's ability and filial veneration should, on so groundless a suspicion, have been actuated to so rash a proceeding; we may perhaps find an explanation in the circumstance, that when on professional service in India, he had suffered from an attack of coup-de-soleil; a malady which, I believe, often manifests its influence in the most capricious manner,

and long after an apparent disappearance of the affection.

It is therefore to be understood, that the Lectures on Political Economy do not appear as the Course was, by the Author, prepared for publication. Parts, indeed, as finally completed, seem by accident to have escaped the fate of the other emended Lectures and revised additions,—such as the Introduction to the Course, and the Notes upon the Bullion Report, (Vol. I.) But these shew only as exceptions, although it is not improbable that other portions, as the Lectures upon the Theory and Forms of Government (Vol. II.) are now nearly in the state in which they were left for publication by the Author. On this, however, not being able to speak with certainty, I prefer silence to conjecture, and leave the reader to his own surmises in regard to the extent and importance of the loss.

And here, the subjoined abstract by Miss Stewart, of the Contents of seven volumes, in quarto, of her father's manuscripts, volumes in which the corrected and amplified Lectures were fairly transcribed, -may enable the reader to form an opinion of how much has perished, compared with what has been preserved and printed from the older copies. It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to warn him, that in this Table the distinction of volume is altogether an arbitrary division, being determined by the extent of room which the paper of each happened to supply. In general, also, the list is printed as it was found written, though some changes might seem occasionally to be obvious.—(In reference to the prefixes within square brackets, see p. xvi.)

(VOL. I.)

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[*?] Allegiance to Government, Part I.,

Part II., .

33 (Intended for Part III. of Dissertation.) Theory of Governmentf-Introduction,

47 Simple Forms of Government,

48 Of Democracy and Democratic States,

51 Of Aristocracy,

76 Of Monarchy,

88 Of Mixed Governments,

106 Of the English Constitution,

132 [*?] Introduction to a Course of Elementary Lectures on Political Economy, 8 Part I.,

165

185 (In continuation,) Part III.,

206 + See Note t, infra, Vol. I. p. 9.] [See Note *, infra, Vol. I. pp. 21, 29.)

(See Note *, infra, Vol. I. p. 9.]

Part II.,

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PAGE 224 233 238

Of Population, .
Of Population as it is affected by the State of Manners, &c.,
Of Population as it is affected by Plenty or Scarcity, &c.,
Of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Population, considered in

Relation to each other,
I. State of the Actual Cultivators of the Soil,

258

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22

(Vol. II.) (Continuation of the Lectures on Population.) Comparative Advantages of Small and of Great Farms, Policy of Enclosures, II. Of Agriculture and Population, as they are affected by

the Distribution of Landed Property, III. Of Agriculture and Population, in Connexion with the

influence of Manufactures,

Appendix to Article III.,
What are the Effects with respect to Population of the Sub-

stitution in Manufactures of Machinery in place of
Human Labour ?-(For continuation of this Lecture,
see p. 172)

(Former part of this Lecture, see p. 104.) National Wealth,

42 79

105

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220

(Vor. III.)

I. .
II. Division of Labour,
III. Of Money,
IV. Of the relative Value of Money and of Commodities,

Continuation, .
V. Of the Real and Nominal Prices of Commodities,
VI. Of Interest,
(New Chapter, see p. ),
Appendix-Containing an Abridgment of some Chapters of

fundamental importance in The Wealth of Nations,

with a few occasional Remarks.-(A Fragment ?)
Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities, .
Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities,
Of the Rent of Land,

1 36 67 103 116 149 185 213

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228 245 248 258

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267

Part ii.-Of the Produce of Land, which sometimes does, and

sometimes does not, affect Rent, (Heads of an additional Lecture to be inserted after those on

the Economical System,)

275

1

50

52 53

56

(Vol. IV.) (The First Lecture has no title; but it seems to be on the

Practical Doctrines of the Mercantile or Commercial

System of Political Economy,)
Of Drawbacks, .
Of Bounties,
Of Treaties of Commerce,
Colonies,
Miscellaneous Observations on the Freedom of Trade,
Of the Expediency of Anti-usurious Laws,
Appendix,
Of the Corn Trade,
i.--Of the Inland Corn Trade,

Appendix,
Extract of a Letter to Mr. Stewart from Francis Horner, Esq.,

dated 6th April 1805, .
ii.-Of the Trade carried on by the Merchant Importer of

Grain for Home Consumption,

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58 81 151 155 166 266

a

270

273

(VOL. V.)
iii. Of the Trade carried on by the Merchant Exporter of

Grain for Foreign Consumption,
iv.-
Miscellaneous Observations on the Corn Trade,
Appendix to the Lectures on the Corn Trade ; quotation from

the Edinburgh Review, July 1807, Quotation from the Monthly Review, 1822,

1 28 29

64 67

70

Of the Commerce of Land, (Primogeniture,)
Appendix,
Note from M. Garnier's Translation of the Wealth of Nations,

111 115

Laws relating to the Poor,
History of the Poor-Laws in England,

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Of the Poor-Laws in Scotland,
Of Poor and Charity Workhouses,
Of Benefit Clubs and Friendly Societies,
Conclusion of Lectures on the Laws relating to the Poor,

PAGR 205 237 255 279

(Vol. VI.) Of the Education of the People, . Appendix, .

1 46

[*] Essay on the Probable Effects of the Progress of Science,

and of the Diffusion of Knowledge on the future
Fortunes of the Human Race, (intended to form the
concluding Chapter of my Dissertation prefixed to the
Encyclopædia ; [and accordingly in this edition so
arranged.])—
Section i., .

ii., .

iii., [*] Note, [*] Appendix,

56 87 114 130 134

Notes on the Bullion Report, † (sent by Mr. Stewart to Lord

Lauderdale, in February, March, and April 1811.)-
Note I.,

II.,
III.,
IV.,

V.,

138 164 182 190 222 225 257 265

VI.,
Of the Present Depreciation of the Paper Currency, I.,

II.,

([Vol. VII.] FOLIO MS., MARKED M.)

1

[*] LECTURES ON THE VARIETIES OF THE RACE. [*] Introduction, [*] Comparative influence of Physical and Moral Causes on

National Character, [*] Notes,

+ (Extant, see infra, Vol. I., p. 431, seq.]

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