7 DECEMBER 1907, Page 31

" THE IGNORANT IMPATIENCE OF TAXATION." [To THE EDITOR OP

THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In your issue of November 30th (p. 852) this phrase is attributed to Peel. Was it not Castlereagh who used it in 1816 ? (" Dictionary of National Biography," Vol. LIV., p. 357; Spencer Walpole's "History," Vol. L, p. 336).-