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RICHARD CANTILLON 271 appears from a letter of Pope to Mr. Caryll, under date Jm?e 23rd, 1713: I have a kindness to beg of you that you would please to engage either your son, or some other correspondent you can depend upon at Paris, to take the trouble of looking himseft into the books of the HStel de Ville, to be satisfied if our names be there inserted for 3,030 livres at ten per cent. life rent, on Sir Richard Cantillion's life, to begin Midsummer, 1705, and again, in my father's name for my life, for 5,220 li?res at ten per cent., also to begin July, 1707. I should not trouble you with this inquia?' but for my father's ease, who by any solicitations we yet could urge cannot obtain an attested copy of the contract from Cantillion or Mr. Arthur, who lays the neglect on his cor- respondent. ? With this anay be cvmpared the following, from the Marquess Townshenri MSS.: 1715, May 10th. Nouvelles de Paris le 10 May, 1715. Milloral] Bullingbrock part pour aller faire sa residence dans le Lionnois a port?e de Genbve, muni d'une bonne lettre de cr(?dit sur le Chevallier Richard Cantellon, Irlandois, banquiet en cette ville et Chevallier de la fa?on du Pretendant. e We shall presently fi?ad ' Richard Cantilion ' describing himself as cl?evalier d'Angleterre. He most probably, therefore, received tlae accolade frona the Old Pretea?der. His family claimed relatioa?- ship with the Stuarts. On the 13th October, 1706, a Mr. Cantilion bound himself in a suan of 3,000 livres to the Freaach Government for a passport delivered to him for the ship Catherine, of Dublin, of 50 tons. Called upon for the return of the passport, Cantilion pleaded that his correspondent at Daablin was unable to furnish it'because the said ship having been convenient for the transport service of the Princess of Denmark had been taken by force.' An A rr?t of the King's Council (Versailles, 29th July, 1709), recites these facts and co?ademns Cantilion to pay the 3,000 livres, unless within three months he can produce a valid certificate that the ship was forcibly taken 'by tl?e orders and for the service of the Princess of Denmark' i.e., of course, Queen Anne, whose title was not officially recogmised ia? France until the Treaty of Utrecht, 1713. It may be areted that the Duc de Noailles was one of the ten persons who signed the Order. s On the 28th May, 1709, an Arr?t of the King's Council at Paris Pope's Works, Elwin's edition, 1871, vi. 188. Historical MSS. Commission, 11th Rel?rrt, iv. 157. Arch. Nat. E. 1948, f. 98.