THE GERMAN EMPEROR'S PLAN.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A propos of your article, " The German Emperor's Plan," in the Spectator of the 8th inst., in which you suggest that " German colonists succeed best when under a foreign flag," it has often struck me as curious that other countries, who have not all the overflowing population that we have, should go to such trouble and expense to acquire profitless colonies—just because it became the fashion, as one might say—instead of letting us do that troublesome work, and then taking advantage of our Free-trade principles to come and trade to better advantage than if the colonies had belonged to their own country ; till the explanation suggested itself that possibly foreign Governments entertain grave doubts as to the probable duration of the Free-trade notions, which— adopted in the belief that other countries would fall into line —have for so long survived among us alone.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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