28 OCTOBER 1899, Page 15

A CORRECTION.

[TO..THE EDITOR 01' THE "SEECtATOR:] SIR,—In the Spectator of October 21st, p. 577, the following occurs :—" Has Miss \revers any authority for saying that Jeffreys watched the burning of Lady Lisle in the disguise of a labourer ? " Allow me to point out that Lady Lisle was not burnt, the sentence having been commuted to beheading on her own petition. See Hargreaves' "State Trials," Vol. IV., p. 129, where the warrant for commutation of sentence is printed. I am no defender of Jeffreys, but, as you say, it is needless to invent atrocities for him.—I am, Sir, Sec.,