6 JUNE 1891, Page 17

SIR ROBERT ANSTRUTHER AND THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.

[To THE EMITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent is substantially correct about the late Sir R. Anstruther. He did stammer,—Nrcu badly in early life, as one of his most intimate friends tells me, but comparatively slightly in later life.

I was told the story about the Duke of Cumberland by one who knew him, and who has no doubt of his deafness. But does not your correspondent mean another Duke of Cumber- land,—the blind King of Hanover ? The stammer in the one ease, however, and the deafness in the other, have nothing to do with the parentage ,of the story which I related in your