16 NOVEMBER 1901, Page 16

THE PROPOSED GERMAN INVASION OF ENGLAND. (TO THE EDITOR OP

TUB "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The proposal of Baron von Edelsheim to land eighty or ninety thousand Germans on the East Coast, referred to in the Spectator of November 9th, brings to mind the answer of Pitt to•the French Ambassador, which I find related as follows in a family letter dated August 15th, 1761 I don't know whether you have seen in any newspaper or heard Mr. Pitt's answer to Monsr. B., the French Ambassador, who in conversation told him it would distress us much should his master land ten or twenty thousand men here ; it would indeed, says Mr. Pitt, for we have more French prisoners already than we know what to do with."

—I am, Sir, &c., J. C. F.