17 DECEMBER 1898, Page 16

BISHOP WILSON IN THE ISLE OF MAN.

[TO TEN EDITOR OP TIM " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—I think it is in Traill's "History of the Isle of Man" (a work commended and quoted by Sir Walter Scott) that there is a description of the horrible submarine cell or dungeon of a castle on the coast of the Isle of Man in which Bishop Wilson imprisoned some unfortunate Dissenters, or, as he put it, heretical opponents of the Church of England. Since reading this description I ceased reading Bishop Wilson's books. Is there good evidence to prove Train was

wrong in his statement ?—I am, Sir, &c., INQUIRER.