18 FEBRUARY 1871, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I do not know

if your attention has been drawn to a letter from Lord Granville, July, 1802, in Lord Malmesbury's " Corre- spondence" (vol. ii., p. 12), where Napoleon is described as ending a conversation, held " en face is la Heine et an Roi," with these words :—"Je sens qu'a l'avenir it doit y avoir une haine implacable contre nous de la part des Prussiens, mais je veux et dois les mettre hors d'etat de me nuire."

If "de la part des Francais" was put for "de la part des Prussiens," we should have exactly what the German Emperor is now saying. This passage seems to me so curious at the present moment, that I have taken the liberty to bring it to your notice.—