LORD OLIVE'S DEATH.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The Miss Ducarrel (properly Ducarel) mentioned in your article on Lord Olive's death, in the Spectator of November 4th, was my grandmother. She used to tell her story of the event as follows, showing, as she was wont to say, the firmness of Lord Clive's nerves. She was writing in the drawing-room of Lord Olive's house in Berkeley Square, and, seeing him enter the room, she asked him to come and mend her pen. He did so, with a penknife from his pocket; and then, going into another apartment, immediately, with the same penknife, put an end to himself. My grandmother was a woman with a strong, clear head. She lived on to the year 1834, when she was ninety-two years old.—I am, Sir, ,&e., 21 Bolton Gardens, S. W., Nov. 6th. F. J. HALLIDAY.
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