31 OCTOBER 1992, Page 31

Typically backward

Sir: I should like to protest most strongly at Giles Auty's suggestion that Colonel Fred- erick Gustavus Burnaby, whose portrait by Tissot is reproduced in The Spectator, was a typical Spectator reader (Fine Arts Special, 24 October). Colonel Burnaby was forced to resign from his regiment after being for- ward with a lady on a train. I am a typical Spectator reader, and I am never forward with ladies on trains; or, I might add, any- where else.

Christopher Webb

The Groucho Club, 45 Dean Street, London WI