AN INGLORIOUS ALLIANCE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If the account of the horrible treatment of Royalist prisoners by the Portuguese Government be correct, is it not rather humiliating to reflect that it is the British fleet which stands in the way of foreign interference ? Surely the time has come when we should repudiate an alliance which, what- ever it may have availed us in the old days, can now bring us nothing but shame and dishonour. Our fleet should have something worthier to do than to bolster up a decadent and slave-holding community; and it cannot be too strongly insisted that we must either terminate our treaty engage- ments with Portugal or be reckoned as virtual participators in her offences against civilization.—I am, Sir, &c.,
SCARLET PIMPERNEL.
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