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 88 THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL his daughter Henrietta. Lord Micldethwait, however, died before the testator, and Garyan refused to act owing to the intricacy of the affairs, and the want of any provision empower- ing the executors to compromise the unsettled suits in a summary or amicable manner. This diculty was overcome by a private Act of Parliament, 1735 (8 Geo. II., c. 10), ' for the better execu- tion of the last Will and Testament of Richard Cantilion, Esquire, deceased.' A recital in the Act' states that the deceased left 'Issue only one Daughter, Henrietta Cantilion, who is now an Infant of about the Age of Six Years.' The will was proved May 21, 1735, and the widow, who had hurried to England with her daughter after the tragedy, returned to Paris. Soon ater- wards, however, 'His Excy. the Rt. Honble. Horatio Walpole, Esq., then Ambassador and Plenipotentiary from the Crown o! Great Britain in Holland, acquainted the Rt. Hon. the Earl o! Scarborough that the Governor or Resident of Surinam had thence sent advice to Holland of several papers having there been found relative to the affairs of Richard Cantilion, and supposed to have been carried thither by one of the Assassins and Robbers of the said Richard Cantilion, amongst which was described to be a Codicillary or Testamentary clisposition together with an inventory of all his effects.' These papers were transmitted to the Foreign Oce by Robert Trevor, Esq., secretary at the Hague, in 1736.  The new will, dated April 11, 1734, appointed William Sloper and Francis Garvan executors. The Act now became a nullity. Sloper was dead. Garyan renounced. And adminis- tration was granted (July 6, 1737) to the widow, who had married her maternal cousin, the Honble. Francis Bulkeley, afterwards a general ofcer in the French army. Cantillon's daughter and heiress married, in her sixteenth year (July 1743), William Howard, third Earl of Stafford, who died in 1751. In 1759 the Countess married Robert Maxwell, first Earl of Farnham, and died two years later, leaving, by the second marriage, one child, Lady Henrietta. This lady survived until 1852. She married the Right Hon. Dennis Daly, and was mother of the first Lord Dunsandie, whose descendants are the direct representatives of the economist. The 1%incess of Auvergne, whose name has shed the glamour of romance around him, was the well-known Olive Trant, 2 daughter of the Sir Patrick Trant, Bart., whose extensive estates in Ireland were confiscated when he followed James II. into France. Sir Patrick See also Hist. MSS. Comss., 10th Report, i. 488. Histoire ?onOalojne du lirc Anselre, 3rd ed., Paris, 17'28, iv. 54'2.