27 FEBRUARY 1904, Page 16

WHEN WE SAVED CHINA.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1

think your correspondent "E. D." in the Spectator of February 6th must submit to a further criticism. If the Forbes he alludes to was Charles Stuart Forbes, then, so far from being one of Gordon's men, he was second in command of Osborn's flotilla. I am inclined to think that he did see Gordon once, in camp at Quensau. In after years I saw him (Forbes) at Pekin, when he was head of the lighthouse branch of the Imperial Customs, under Sir R. Hart, whipse friend he was. He was a Commander R.N., and a most capable officer.

Late H.B.M. Consul, Newchwang.

Long Hyde, near Evesham.