| Description | Thanks Glennie for his commen ts on Hume's Essay on Miracles, and asks Glennie to engage two young men to compare the edition of Hume's essays in print at the time of Beattie's Essay on Truth with the final edition of those essays. Discusses the portrait and the engraving as likenesses of Beattie. Encloses note on the epitaph of Charles Jeffreyes Symes of the 4th Regiment of Foot, composed by his widow at James Beattie's suggestion; with text of the epitaph |