WILLIAM III. AND PAUL POTTER'S BULL. [To THE EDITOR OF
THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Your reviewer of "Lady Granville's Letters," in the Spectator of April 14th, has not read them very carefully. Had he done so, he might have disliked them less. But it is for King William reputation that I write. Your reviewer imagines that he drove to The Hague with Paul Potter's " Bull " in his carriage. I doubt whether there would have been room for it, even in a King's coach ; but if he will look more carefully at the letter, he will find that it was "a Gerard Dow, the most perfect thing of the kind I ever saw," which the King took with him from London. Certainly a pleasanter travelling companion.—I am, Sir, &c.,
S. A. THOMPSON YATES.
43 Phillimore Gardens, London, W., _April 14th.
[Here is the passage (written from The Hague) : "Paul Potter's famous bull, and a Gerard Dow the most perfect thing of the kind I ever saw. It was given to Charles II. when he left Holland. On William 1II.'s first visit to his native land, after his accession to our throne, be brought it back here in his carriage, where it has remained ever since."— ED. Spectator.]
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