THE " EDINBURGH " ON SOUTH AFRICA.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Will you kindly allow me a little space to reply to your editorial comments on the letter which you kindly inserted in the Spectator of February 9th? The statements made in it were brought forward in the House of Commons on Decem- ber 14th by the Member for Mansfield, and neither there nor elsewhere were they disputed. In calling the gentlemen mentioned " the bitterest enemies of the Boers," I meant that the feeling between them and the capitalists of the Rand, organisers of the Jameson Raid, &c., is embittered in a way that does not apply to Englishmen in general, so the case of Northern and Southern after the American War is not applicable. I was not aware that any of those mentioned had been " prosecuted, imprisoned, or oppressively treated " by the Boers, but that, surely, would be an additional reason why they should not be given authority over them. Apart from all this, I should not have thought that the appointment of a director of several mining companies like Mr. Emrys Evans to be Controller of the Treasury would have been approved of by the Spectator.—I am, Sir, &c., M. F. G.
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