SECRET SERVICE.
1 To THE EDITOR Or THE "SreoTaTon.1 SIR,—With regard to your interesting article on " Secret Service" in the Spectator of January 9th, I beg to draw your attention to the speech of Ulysses to Achilles in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida :— " The providence that's in a watchful state
Knows almost every grain of Plutus' gold, Finds bottom in the uncompreliensive deeps, Keeps place with thought, and, almost like the gods, Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles.
There is a mystery—with whom relation
Durst never meddle—in the sou/ of state ;
Which hath an operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to: All the commerce that you have had with Troy
As perfectly Is ours as yours, my lord."
—Act III., Scene iii,, 197-208.
This was with regard to Achilles's love for Polyxena, one of
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