13 MARCH 1897, Page 16

THE YANKEES AND CHARLES M.

PTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Mr. Hay Hay-Cooper's story, from a book of which he has forgotten the name and author, is obviously a myth. Scott told Washington Irving that, in the Stuart papers of 1778-79, was an offer to raise the Royal Standard in America. Lord Stanhope could not find the document, nor could I. There is also a story that a French minister found Charles intoxicated at a political interview about 1772. It is in Ewald. The two stories have been mixed, with the Americans in the "public billiard-room" in Florence, for result.—I am, Sir, &c.,