SCOTTISH RULERS AND BRITISH SENTIMENTS
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If Mr. Hugh I. Dutton will be good enough to make further research he will acquit me of having "fallen into a very serious error" in stating that in Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman's Cabinet "no representative of a Constituency South of the Tweed held a seat." To be absolutely accurate I should, perhaps, have said English representative and still further strengthen my contention concerning the unwise and unfair boycott of Englishmen. True, his choice was limited, but that is another phase of the situation.
I would remind Mr. Dutton that Berwick, for which Sir E.
Grey sat, is situated North of the Tweed ; that Mr. John Burns, President of the Local Government Board (I believe but am not quite sure), was not a member of the Cabinet at the time of its formation, but subsequently attained Cabinet rank on the reconstruction of this Department ; that Mr. Herbert Gladstone is a " typical " Scot, born of a Welsh mother ; that Mr. Lloyd George (Carnarvon) is a Welshman; that Lord Aberdeen was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland ; and that Mr. Bryce, an Ulster-Scot, was Chief Secretary, not Mr. Birrell, who later on succeeded him in that office.—I am, Sir, &c., HOWARD RUFF, Hon. Secretary.
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