A SLIP CORRECTED.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of April 22nd, when noticing Lord George Hamilton's speech, you repeat what seemed to me on reading it, a slip of the tongue. You say :—" He showed what the Catholic Party did after the battle of the Boyne, when it got for a time the control of Ireland, and confiscated the property of 2,445 persons in one Act of Attainder." By which, I presume, he referred to the Great Act of Attainder (vide Macaulay's "History of England," Vol. II., chap. xii.), passed by James's Parliament in Dublin, 1689, some months before the battle. Immediately afterwards, James fled to France, and William's authority at once made itself felt in Dublin.—I am, Sir, &O., Seafield, Sligo, Ireland, April 25th. E. F. PRIDES.
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