Sir James Denhain Steiart, a Scottish political economist, born in Edinburgh in October, 1713, died Nov. 26, 1780. He was educated at the university of Edinburgh, and in 1734 was admitted to the Scottish bar. Although of a whig family, he became imbued with Jacobite doctrines. Having declared for the young pretender in 1745, he was sent by him on a mission to the court of France, and the consequence was a compulsory absence from Great Britain for 17 years. In 1763 he was permitted to return to Scotland, and in 1771 he obtained a free pardon. While abroad he published works in French and German on chronology and money, and in 1767 produced his "Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy" (2 vols. 4to, London). He also wrote "The Principles of Money applied to the Present State of the Coin of Bengal" (1772), "A Plan for introducing an Uniformity of Weights and Measures" (1790), etc. A complete edition of his works was edited by his son, Gen. Sir James Denham Steuart (6 vols.. 1805). (See Political Economy, vol. xiii., p. 668).