REPRISALS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—An ignoramus will he grateful to your correspondent "J. J. M. J." if he will explain—not by " rolling off proverbs," but precisely—how a British Foreign Secretary can ensure that after the war no neutral (for instance, Sweden) shall afford an asylum to—say—Admiral von Tirpitz. Would it be by salting the [We cannot open our columns to further correspondence on this subject, but will try to answer the point. Napoleon, after the defeat of 1814, and again after Waterloo, was "wanted" by tho Allies, and though he hoped to escape to America in 1815 he failed, and had to give himself 'up to the Captain of the `Bellerophon.' Escape is not always easy. On the other hand, we have to admit that Mr. Benjamin, one of the three—or was it two?—men omitted from the American Act of Indemnity after the Civil War, did contrive to escape to England. No attempt was made to obtain his extradition, and he became a Q.C. and author of Benjamin on Sales.—En. Spectator.]
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