[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—Will you kindly allow me to correct a misprint, no
doubt due to my illegible writing, in my letter on the above subject ? The Brown alluded to by M. N. should have been Burns. I have read all Dr. John Brown's books and I am quite well aware that he was brought up in a highly cultivated home and that his father was a distinguished minister of the Scottish Church and that he himself had every educational and social advantage that a man could have—also that he was one of the most charming writers that ever lived. In fact I entirely agree with M. N. except that " amusingly " inaccurate is too mild a term.
In reply to Mr. J. Macintosh I must admit that I know nothing of the Spitalfields Weavers. I am obliged to him for calling my attention to them ; I find that they were " Norman Protestant Refugees " who settled in Spitalfields in 1703. Their descendants may still be known by their Norman names. They are evidently most excellent and intelligent people, but I do not see how they can be said to represent the average English working man of the XVIII Century in any sense of the word.—I am, Sir, &e., Kincora, Lyme Regis, Dorset. J. S. N. ROCHE.
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