CHARLES BLACKER VIGNOLES.
rr0 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—Your very laudatory article upon this engineer's life com- pels me to say that my grandfather, General Hutton (who, as Captain Hutton, rescued Mr. Vignoles, when both his parents had died of yellow-fever, being then prisoners of war), had a very different opinion of him. I have papers which show that he repaid his uncle's kindness with ingratitude or worse, and my grandfather in after-life had good reason to regret hia connection with him.—I am, Sir, &c., IIENEY FRANCIS HUTTON, Colonel, Ashfiel41, Wrexham. late Lieut.-Col. R. W. Fusiliers.
[Colonel Hutton has a right to be heard, but his opinion must be taken only for what it definitely states,—that his grandfather thought Mr. Vignoles ungrateful.—.ED. Spectator.1
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