Lady Mayne to James Beattie The subscription affair promises exeeding well. Majendie says the Queen warmly approves of it. Archbishop of Canterbury is recommending it to the bishops, but there is a party opposed to it. She understands there are also parties for and against Beattie in Scotland, but a Christian philosopher will be contented that the enemies of religion should be his enemies. One of these groups involves Hume's firends, who accused Beattie of ingratitude and rancour towards him, because Hume was instrumental in procuring Beattie's professorship for him 24 December 1773