26 OCTOBER 1901, Page 14

THE OLD FEAR OF INVASION.

[To TILE EDITOlt OP THE "SPECTATOR."] e very

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SIR,—Y0 say in the Spectator of October 19th, 'P "the frequent fears as to invasion seem 547, that strange," Sze. One of the first things I (a woman of sixty. three) remember is being told by the wife of my great-uncle how she used to run home from school in terror of being caught by the French. Her maiden name was Fisher and she lived at Dorchester. So the fear of invasion was -rely real to her. When Napoleon escaped from Elba, my dear mother, with a generous child's sympathy for the weaker side, said she was very glad of it, and was duly scolded as a "very wicked little girl."—I am, Sir, &c., Lymebourne, Sid-mouth. TH ELIZABE F. SQUIRE.