3 FEBRUARY 1894, Page 13

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1

Stn,—I hare been much interested by your quotation of Lord Lovelace's memorandum of Lord Onslow's acquaintance with a man who had witnessed King Charles's execution. Xt confirms a treasured story of mine. In January, 1863, Lord Brougham told me that when he was a lad in Edinburgh, 'his old aunt told him she had been shown a man who had stood in Whitehall to see King Charles executed. He was explaining to me how few links were needed to form a chain of historical evidence.—I am, Sir, &c.,

S. ALFRED STEMTHAL.

The Limes, Nelson Street, Manchester, January 29th.