14 MARCH 1970, Page 29

The age of plunder

Sir: May I please put right two errors which, through some inexplicable, lapse on my part, appeared in the item 'The age of plunder' in last week's 'Spectator's note- book'? The emperor whose treasures were captured by Queen Christina should have appeared as Rudolph it; and the river down which they were transported to Sweden was, of course, the Elbe.