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 284 THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL place where all mankind sold actions, was as weak a foundation to go upon. Sllositio de lersoe was directly contrary to a solemn contract, and all this criminal sute had not furnished matter tour fouetter un chat if they had not had a mind to vex and injure me. In short Mrs. Dupe has, in my opinion, been at the bottom of all this farce; though she is now the principal person, says the Abb, who staves off the consequences and wants to be well paid for her services, since no effects of mine have been found to lay the hands of French justice upon. Thus have my adversaries, by corrupting witnesses and judges, and I suppose promising several sums out of my Fortune, been playing Law against me at the Hazard,and expense of my reputation and substance.' Two printed papers of fifty pages folio, in the Biblioh/que Nationale,  give respectively the case of Cantilion against John and Remy Carol, bankers at Paris, and their case against him. Cantillon's advocate says: 'Mr. Cantilion, an Irishm.an by birth, settled down in France (vint s'tablir) in 1716, and formed a public banking business, which in a short time became pretty flourishing. 'The famous system, which commenced to develop itself in 1719, did not seduce him as it did so many others. On the contrary, he thought proper to put himself into shelter from the storm which he foresaw. This it was which engaged him to renounce the business, wherein he saw too many dangers. ' He enclosed all his papers in a coffer, which he entrusted to the English Benedictins, and set out for Italy, after having transferred his goodwill to one Loftus,' &c., &c. Appended to this'case'is something of the nature of a certificate of character, signed by the representatives of the creditors of the late Richard Cantilion. They say that after much trouble they succeeded in paying 2.5 per cent. of the debts of the deceased, between 1717 and 1719, and discharged the estate. But in March 1720, 'M. Cantilion, who in the lifetime of the chevalier Cantilion was -knovn by the name of Richard Cantilion jtmior, graciously offered to pay all the creditors of the deceased the three-fourths which were wanting to their satisfac- tion hi full, though he was himself one of tle creditors for a large amount;. . . and carried his offer out. . . being impelled thereto by no reason known to us beyond tlat of doing honour to a person whose name he bore.' Vas this act inspired by a delicate generosity, or by conscience and a prudent fear that his  Fm. 2740, 2838, printed che AwlrO h'tapen, Paris, 1730. The records of the C! ffr hve ln nscted for ,ne through the kindness of a friend, M. I_once