[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Many people now living
can remember Lady Louisa Stuart, the last surviving daughter of the Prime Minister John, Earl of Bute. She died in 1851, and could remember John, Earl Ligonier, Minister of War (if I recollect rightly) in her father's Cabinet, who was born about 1674, and had been Page of Honour to Louis XIV. before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. The mother of a well-known London publisher, now alive, died in 1889, and was well known to me. She could remember her great-grandmother, who was born at Gibraltar in 1708, the year after it passed into English hands. Her own earliest recollection was wearing mourning for Louis XVI. I have always heard that a very well known Somersetshire squire who died as late as 1860 could recollect as a child seeing men in Bridgwater who could recollect the Duke of Monmouth there in 1685. The Hon. Mrs. William Stuart, widow of a Primate of Ireland, who died in 1848, was granddaughter of William Penn of Pennsylvania, who was born in 1632. She was well known to many now
P.S.—Some of the other members of the Duke of Rich- mond's family will doubtless still recollect Lady Sarah Napier, who died in 1826, and was aunt of Charles Fox. Charles Fox is well known to have had another aunt who died as a child in 1656.
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