I have found one just man in Gomorrah—Adam Smith, author of the Wealth of Nations. He was the Duke of Buccleuch's tutor, is a wise and deep philosopher, and although made commissioner of the customs here by the Duke and Lord Advocate, is what I call an honest fellow. He wrote a most kind as well as elegant letter to Burke on his resignation, as I believe I told you before; and on my mentioning it to him, he told me he was the only man here who spoke out for the Rockinghams.
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Gilbert Elliot, letter (25 July 1782), quoted in Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliott, First Earl of Minto from 1751 to 1806, Vol. I, ed. Countess of Minto (1874), p. 84