His writings are, 1. A Sermon, preached in the Erse language to his Majesty's First Highland Regiment of Foot, com manded by Lord John Murray, at their cantonment at Camberwell, on the 18th day of December 1745. By the Rev. Mr A. F., chaplain to the said regi ment, and translated by him into English, for the use of a lady of quality in Scotland, at whose desire it is now published. Lond. 1746.
2. The Morality of Stage Plays seriously consi dered. Edin. 1757.
4. The History of the Proceedings in the Case of Margaret, commonly called Sister Peg. Three edi tions. Lond. 1762. Another 1777.
6. An Essay on the History of Civil Society. Lond. 1767. This book has passed through many editions, and has been translated into almost all the European languages. A translation into German was published at Leipsig in 1768, under the title of Bernd fiber die Geschicide der Burgerliehen Go.
sellschafi. A French translation, by M. Bergier, was published in 1783.
7. Analysis of Pneumatics and Moral Philosophy, A German translation, by Mr Garve of Leipsig, is said to have been well executed. Edin. 1766. 55 pages 12mo.
8. Institutes of Moral Philosophy, 1769. 819 pages 12mo.-Another edition, revised and corrected 1773. 294 pages. A translation of this edition into French was published at Geneva in 1775, and it had the ad vantage of being revised by the author.-A third edition, enlarged, was published at Edinburgh 1785. 817 pages 12mo. This elementary work has been used as a text-book in several foreign universities. A
translation into the Russian language (from the Ger man) was printed at Moscow in 1804.
9. Remarks on a pamphlet lately published by Dr Price, entitled, Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, Q; c. in a letter from a gentleman in the coun try to a member of Parliament. Lond. 1776. These remarks having been addressed to Sir Grey Cooper, Secretary of the Treasury, were printed by his direc tion.
10. The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic. S vols. 4W. Lond. 1783. A translation into German wasprinted at Leipsig in 1784. It has been translated into several other modern languages, and has passed through a num ber of English editions, one of which was printed at Basle in Switzerland, in 1791.
12. Minutes of the We and Character of Joseph Black, M. D. 1801. (Published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.) 13. Biographical Sketch, or Memoir of Lieutenant. Colonel Patrick Ferguson. Edin. 1817. (This tract, though printed, has not been published for sale.) He has left behind him many interesting papers on the subjects which had chiefly occupied- his thoughts from the time of his last academical ap pointment, but a great mass of letters, and other va luable documents, had been indiscriminately de stroyed by his direction, some years before his death. (c. c. c.)