LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
WALTER SCOTT ON THE SITUATION.
LTO TIM EDITOR OP THZ " BPECTAT014"1
SIR,-/ have come across a passage in one of Sir Walter Scott's letters which seems singularly appropriate at the
present moment, being written when England was engaged in her last great contest for all that makes life worth living. " My only ambition," he wrote, " is to be remembered, if remembered at all, as one who knew and valued national independence, and would maintain it in the present struggle to the last man and the last guinea, though the last guinea were my own property, and the last man my own son." I believe that is how we are all feeling to-day. In the same letter Scott adds : " I detest croaking ; if true, it is unpatriotic,
and if false, worse."—I am, Sir, &c., W. E. G. FLSHEE.
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