28 JUNE 1902, Page 31

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' "] SIE,—Your correspondent, Mr. R.

J. Westropp, and others who have written on the' topic (Spectator, June 14th and 21st), will be amused to find that the " mystery of the British military

uniform " has attracted long since the attention of a philosopher. The letter from which the following extracts are derived was written in 1746, during the campaign of the Young Pretender, by Bishop Berkeley, "the Idealist," whose abstract metaphysics seem to have been compatible with

robust common-sense.--I am, Sir, &c., H. C. F.