§ MR. GRIEVEasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether there has ever been a case in Scotland (before the present case of Paterson) in which the Treasury has retained and appropriated the whole estate of an intestate bastard, when there has existed either a written statement of his intentions regarding the disposal of his estate after his death, or persons who, had he been legitimate, would have been his blood relations?
§ Mr. W. H. SMITH,in reply, said, he was not aware of any such case having occurred. It was not the case with the Paterson estate. There was no statement of the intentions of the deceased, nor had the Treasury retained the whole of the estate.