THE GOVERNMENT AND AN IRISH CONFERENCE. [To THE EDITOR or
THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR , —In your leading article of last Saturday you say : " The British public, having made up its mind to swallow a nasty leek—that is to say, to ignore murder and to treat it as though it had not happened and to deal with rebels—wants to get to business."
How far this really expresses the opinion of a British public largely engrossed with pleasure and business I am unable to say, but I am absolutely certain that many thoughtful people are intensely opposed to the moral saoliflce involved in this compromise, and that such people have most inadequate oppor- tunities for making their voices heard. As the Spectator has long enjoyed a reputation for independence and patriotism, I venture to ask you to allow me to express sentiments which too often remain inarticulate. The crimes in Ireland to which you refer have been committed under circumstances of cowardice, treachery, and cruelty, which have no parallel in modern times, except in the case of Germany. Surely sub- mission to this ruthlessness can only result in the degradation of the Irish people, and in great, and possibly irreparable, injury to the British Empire!—I am, Sir, &o.,
HERBERT MICHELL.
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