27 JUNE 1903, Page 30

PRUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sr11,--The following quotation from a letter written by Baron Taube to Count Axel Fersen on September 9th, 1791, is not without interest at the present time :—" We know that Prussia has never made a treaty in favour of any one without turning it to good account, and getting leg or wing from her closest allies (for as yet none of them, except England, have failed to be her dupes)." All of this, except, alas ! the final sentence, might be written with perfect truth at the preaent moment.—