4 MAY 1918, Page 12

A CORRECTION. [To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SRS, —The

Spectator of January 19th has arrived, and in it Mr. W. O'Brien's letter, " What Might Have Been." I should like

to correct a slip in military history. George II. did not cry "Cursed be the laws that deprive me of such subjects!" on the field of Dettingen, as there stated. He used the expression on reading the despatch describing the charge of the Irish Brigade at Fontenoy, which changed a promising victory into a defeat.—I ajn,