29 SEPTEMBER 1900, Page 18

THE WHITE ROSE.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:]

Snz,—In your interesting review with the above title on Mr. Lang's " Prince Charles Edward" in the Spectator of Septem- ber 22nd there is a mistake, which it is perhaps worth while to correct. It was not Squire Western who expressed delight at the landing of the French, but another (unnamed) Jacobite squire. The passage is as follows (" Tom Jones," Book XI., chap. 2) :—" And soon after arrived a famous Jacobite 'squire, who, with great joy in his countenance, shook the land- lord by the hand, saying, All's our own, boy ; ten thousand honest Frenchmen are landed in Suffolk. Old England for ever ! ten thousand French, my brave lad ! I am going to tap

away directly."—I am, Sir, Ste., W. SNOW. Windermere.