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286 THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL ?11usions to Cantillon's suit that she can have thought of little else for some years. A fragment of a letter from Cantilion to Garvan (17327) shows that attempts were made to compromise the suits. ' But since his Grace the Duke of Norfolk desires to be informed of my intentions in this affair, I desire you will acquaint his Grace that if it be to be managed by him, I shall come in to anything his Grace shall judge proper in this affair, so I may-be of some certainty; for which end it is well necessary to be observed to his Grace that, though I should be brought to discharge the Family from the Debt so far as it may belong to me, yet the Bills and Notes are not to be delivered up, but lodged in his Grace's hands, and by agreement subject to any demands that may be brought against the House of Cantilion and Hughes for actions sold, &c. . . . . I am more solicitous about the certainty of my condition than the Quantum you may stipulate for me, though I have been at great expense since the former Proposal, and must make them pay something for using me so ill.' The firm had sold actions belonging to Tonson, the book- seller, during Loftus' time. But Loftus was made the scapegoat on that occasion, and Tonson left 'Mr. Cantilion to act in all this affair as he judges best, I leaving everything to be done as he would act for himself. 't Such a mark'of confidence was not, it seems, misplaced. Cantilion was much in Paris from Garvan to direct the commission to 1729 to take his 1733. He asked examination 'to the Prior of the English Benedictines, Mr. Knight, or any other of the English you may know here. Paris, 25 August, 1731.' In 1733 he was at Utrecht, Paris, and Brussels in turn (June, July), and in 1734 was in London again, his residence being then in Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. An inventory of his property, roughly sketched out about this time, shows that he had cautiously put much of it in trust. Apart from cash with bankers in London, Amsterdam, Vienna, Cadiz, and Brussels, he had an estate at Pinchbeck, in Lincolnshire, purchased in the name of Edward Wadeson; a house at Paris, purchased in the name of his friend, Edmund Gough, of Kihnanherse, and settled upon Mrs. Cantilion; a house at Asni?res in the name of M. Le Grand, and an annuity of ?1,000 a year out of the Barbadoes customs, purchased by Joseph Lord Micklethwait from the Duke of Chandos for ?17,000, and held in trust for Cantilion, who fom?d the purchase-money. There are various debts due to himself Brit. Mus. Add. MSS., 28,275, f. 150.