25 FEBRUARY 1893, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your interesting expos6

of Mr. Gladstone's errors as to the Irishmen who have been in the Cabinet, there are a few *missions. Two occur to me,—the celebrated Mr. George Canning, who was Premier, Chancellor of Exchequer, &c., and Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey-Fitzgerald, who was in Sir Robert Peel's last Cabinet.—I am, Sir, &c., F.

[Canning was no doubt by his father's side a member of an -old Ulster family, but he was born in England and his mother was English, and he had no political connection with Ireland -during the whole of his career.—En. Spectator.]