In London his appearance excited general attention.

Edmund Burke had an interview with him and held that inordinate vanity was the leading trait in his character.
Mr.Davenport, to whom he was introduced by Hume, generously offered Rousseau a home at Wootton, in Staffordshire, near the, Peak Country; the latter, however, would only accept the offer on condition that he should pay a rent of L 30 a year.

He was accorded a pension of L 100 by George III., but declined to draw after the first annual payment.

The climate and scenery of Wootton being similar to those of his native country, he was at first delighted with his new abode, where he lived with Therese, and devoted his time to herborising and inditing the first six books of his Confessions.

Soon, however, his old hallucinations acquired strength, and Rousseau convinced himself that enemies were bent upon his capture, if not his death.