Note 191 — 174.
Reading edition
David Hume, who was now living at Edinburgh, was, from 1763 to 1766, Secretary to the Embassy at Paris under the Earl of Hertford. The description is quoted from Mason's satire (published in 1773), An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers on his Book of Gardening—
"David, who there supinely deigns to lie, The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty, Though drunk with Gallic wine and Gallic praise, David shall bless Old England's halcyon days."