[153] Bk. ii. ch. x.

[154] Boswell’s Account of Corsica, p. 367.

[155] The correspondence between Rousseau and Buttafuoco has been published in the Oeuvres et Corr.  Inedites de J.J.R., 1861.  See pp. 35, 43, etc.

[156] Boswell’s Life, 179, 193, etc. (Ed. 1866).

[157] "Je suis tout homme de pouvoir vous regarder avec pitie!" Letter dated Jan. 4, 1766, and given by Musset-Pathay as from a Scotch lord, unnamed.  Boswell had the honour of conducting Theresa to England, after Hume had taken Rousseau over.  “This young gentleman,” writes Hume, “very good-humoured, very agreeable, and very mad—­has such a rage for literature that I dread some circumstance fatal to our friend’s honour.  You remember the story of Terentia, who was first married to Cicero, then to Sallust, and at last in her old age married a young nobleman, who imagined that she must possess some secret which would convey to him eloquence and genius.”  Burton’s Life, ii. 307, 308.  Boswell mentions that he met Rousseau in England (Account of Corsica, p. 340), and also gives Rousseau’s letter introducing him to Paoli (p. 266).

[158] To Buttafuoco, p. 48, etc.

[159] Corr., vi. 176.  Feb. 26, 1770.

[160] It may be worth noticing, as a link between historic personages, that Napoleon Bonaparte’s first piece was a Lettre a Matteo Buttafuoco (1791), the same Buttafuoco with whom Rousseau corresponded, who had been Choiseul’s agent in the union of the island to France, was afterwards sent as deputy to the Constituent, and finally became the bitterest enemy of Paoli and the patriotic party.

[161] Corr., iii. 190.  To the First Syndic, May 12, 1763.

[162] Grimm’s Corr.  Lit., iv. 235.  For Rousseau’s opinion of his book’s companion at the stake, see Corr., iii. 442.

[163] Streckeisen, ii. 526.

[164] There appears to be no doubt that Rousseau was wrong in attributing to Vernes the Sentimens des Citoyens.

[165] Corr., iv. 116, 122 (April 1765), 165-196 (August); also Conf., xii. 245.

[166] Note to M. Auguis’s edition, Corr., v. 395.

[167] Corr., iv. 204.

[168] Conf., xii. 259.  This lapidation has sometimes been doubted, and treated as an invention of Rousseau’s morbid suspicion.  The official documents prove that his account was substantially true (see Musset-Pathay, ii. 559.)

[169] The fifth of the Reveries.  See also Conf., 262-279, and Corr., iv. 206-224.  His stay in the island was from the second week in September down to the last in October, 1765.

[170] Corr., iv. 221.  Oct. 20, 1765.

[171] Ib., iv. 136, etc.  April 27, 1765.

[172] Streckeisen-Moultou, ii. 209, 212.

[173] Ib., ii. 554.