AMERICAN VISITORS IN ENGLAND.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On March 10th you kindly printed a letter from me on the subject of registration and taxation of aliens in Great Britain, and perhaps you will allow me once more a few words in reply to Mr. E. Ellershaw's to quoque rejoinder of March 24th. Many Americans do not approve of America's policy of charging an entrance-fee (which is retaliated on us by other nations), but it is at least a logical part of her general protective policy. She neither registers nor taxes a visitor, once he is in, unless he becomes an actual resident or is in receipt of income from her sources. Great Britain does both, and seems to be the only great nation which puts a time- limit on visits and compulsory registration on visitors. No alien can complain that she does so. The gates are hers to close. But Mr. Evelyn Wrench had suggested in your pages that England desires to attract visitors and to induce them to spend their money with her rather than on the Continent ; and the question I meant to ask was whether these restrictions, which are inconsistent with that desire, are necessary or useful ?
—I am, Sir, &c., CHARLES P. KELL% 2415 Pierre Street, San Francisco.
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