19 FEBRUARY 1916, Page 13

THE UNSEEN BOND.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPUTA-MR..1

Sra,—In your last issue you state that it was " Sir Edviard Seymour who threatened to interpose his ships between Admiral Dewey's Fleet in Manila Bay " and the German ships. Our men-of-war wore commanded by the late Captain Sir Edward Chichester when this opportune service was rendered, to which Admiral Dewey often gratefully referred. Sir Edward Seymour would be the last person to wish the honour misplaced.—I am, [We are glad of the correction of an error due to one of those strange aberrations of memory for which there is no accounting. —ED. Spectator.]