A FRENCH " WFIITAKER."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Six,—In the Spectator of January 12th you review the " Almanach Hachette," and you say on p. 55, "It is worth noting that in the English volume Egypt figures as a `Foreign Country,' in the French, Tanis, which France is under treaty to evacuate, is quietly ranked with Algeria." The impropriety of ranking Tunis with Algeria is not so apparent from a Frenchman's point of view, for was not Algiers occupied in 1830 under a verbal assurance given by France to Great Britain that the occupation was only temporary ? It is true that England subsequently assented to permanent occupation, but only "provided they did not extend their conquests to Tunis on one side or to Morocco on the other." See Spencer Walpole's " History," V., pp. 509-10, citing Wellington's Despatches and Ellenborough's Diary.—
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