[TO TUC EDITOR Or TILE " SPECTATOR."1 SIH,—I had hoped
that the correspondence which the letter from "English and Catholic" in your issue of Novem- ber 6th was sure to quote would have called attention to what appears the greatest fallacy in his inference that the late Lord Mayor of Cork was no more guilty of suicide than an early Christian martyr. The difference surely is that to enable the latter to save his life he had to commit a positive sinful act, viz., the worship of the Emperor or of heathen gods, but that to enable the former to preserve his life nothing sinful was necessary. He had merely to submit quietly to jorce mojeure, and in so doing to have followed the example of the early Christian martyrs, and of all sufferers for con- science' sake, if such he deemed himself.—I am, Sir, do.,
H. H.
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