14 JANUARY 1911, Page 17

A REQUEST.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—In the Spectator of December 24th, 1910, one of your corre- spondents from across the seas inquired for information as to the existence of a statue of either Pym, Hampden, or Eliot. Perhaps I may be permitted to say, with regard to Sir John Eliot, that although I cannot refer your correspondent to a statue of him in the technical sense, a medallion portrait of the great patriot (martyr-patriot as I would like to call him) was recently unveiled in Truro Cathedral, Cornwall. The medallion is one of three just placed in the Cathedral, the others being of the Earl of Godolphin and Sir William Molesworth, all distinguished Cornishmen and