MORRIS.  Virgil, Aeneids, vi. 660.  The great Twalmley might have justified himself by The Rambler, No. 9:—­’Every man, from the highest to the lowest station, ought to warm his heart and animate his endeavours with the hopes of being useful to the world, by advancing the art which it is his lot to exercise; and for that end he must necessarily consider the whole extent of its application, and the whole weight of its importance....  Every man ought to endeavour at eminence, not by pulling others down, but by raising himself, and enjoy the pleasure of his own superiority, whether imaginary or real, without interrupting others in the same felicity.’  All this is what Twalmley did.  He adorned an art, he endeavoured at eminence, and he inoffensively enjoyed the pleasure of his own superiority.  He could also have defended himself by the example of Aeneas, who, introducing himself, said:—­

’Sum pius Aeneas .....
... fama super aethera notus.’

Aeneid, i. 378.  I fear that Twalmley met with the neglect that so commonly befalls inventors.  In the Gent.  Mag. 1783, p. 719, I find in the list of ‘B-nk-ts,’ Josiah Twamley, the elder, of Warwick, ironmonger.

[607] ’Sir, Hume is a Tory by chance, as being a Scotchman; but not upon a principle of duty, for he has no principle.  If he is anything, he is a Hobbist.’  Boswell’s Hebrides, Sept. 30.  Horace Walpole’s opinion was very different.  ’Are not atheism and bigotry first cousins?  Was not Charles II. an atheist and a bigot? and does Mr. Hume pluck a stone from a church but to raise an altar to tyranny?’ Letters, v. 444.  Hume wrote in 1756:—­’My views of things are more conformable to Whig principles; my representations of persons to Tory prejudices.’  J.H.  Burton’s Hume, ii. 11.  Hume’s Toryism increased with years.  He says in his Autobiography/ (p. xi.) that all the alterations which he made in the later editions of his History of the Stuarts, ’he made invariably to the Tory side.’  Dr. Burton gives instances of these; Life of Hume, ii. 74.  Hume wrote in 1763 that he was ’too much infected with the plaguy prejudices of Whiggism when he began the work.’ Ib. p. 144.  In 1770 he wrote:—­’I either soften or expunge many villainous, seditious Whig strokes which had crept into it.’ Ib. p. 434.  This growing hatred of Whiggism was, perhaps, due to pique.  John Home, in his notes of Hume’s talk in the last weeks of his life, says:  ’He recurred to a subject not unfrequent with him—­that is, the design to ruin him as an author, by the people that were ministers at the first publication of his History, and called themselves Whigs.’ Ib. p. 500.  As regards America, Hume was with the Whigs, as Johnson had perhaps learnt from their common friend, Mr. Strahan.  ‘He was,’ says Dr. Burton, ’far more tolerant of the sway of individuals over numbers, which he looked upon