1 DECEMBER 1917, Page 27

NELSON AND PRISONERS.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.")

Sts,—In reply to "E. G.'s" letter in the Spectator of November Nth, the letter from Nelson to Adjutant-General Lindholm is given in an abbreviated form In Robert Southey's Life of Nelson, 1813, Vol. IL, pp. 150-151. The last sentence given is " When they became my prisoners I became their protector."