18 AUGUST 1888, Page 17

AN UNAUTHENTICATED QUOTATION. [To THS EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE, — Will

you kindly inform me if the following paragraph has ever appeared in your paper ?—" Grover Cleveland has done more to advance the cause of Free-trade than any Prime Minister of England has ever done."—London Spectator.—I am, Sir, &c., WILLIAM DUNN.

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[To the best of our belief, this is no quotation from the Spectator. We never, we believe, called Mr. Cleveland "Grover Cleveland," nor thought of him as a Free-trader who was at all to be compared with either Sir Robert Peel or Mr. Glad- stone.—ED. Spectator.]