CABINET COUNSELS AND CANDID FRIENDS.
[TO THE EDITOR OH THE " SPECTATOR:]
SIR,—While thanking you for your polite notice of the maga- zine-article, "Cabinet Counsels and Candid Friends," in the Contemporary Review (Spectator, October 6th), I shall be grateful if you will permit me to say a few explanatory words, with a view of preventing an idea which would be personally distressing to me, and which, to some, I think your courteous words might convey. As a journalist, I hold my province to be that of statement and comment, without any arrierelensee of partisanship to individuals, or to causes. I connected the undisputed succession of Lord Rosebery to the Premiership, with the manifold and patent circumstances that told legitimately in his favour. I conveyed no hint of Court preferences involving injustice to any other candidate for the supreme place. If I seemed to do so, it would be not in accordance with my own ideas, and pace Mr. Labouchere, would be neither respectful to a constitutionalSovereign, nor, so far as I believe, justified by the facts.—I am, Sir, &c., [Mr. Escott is mistaken. We did not impute to him the view he repudiates.—ED. Spectator.]
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