THE LEOPARD SPOTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4004, 10 August 1915, Page 3

THE LEOPARD SPOTS.

i>iß ROBERT REEL ON THE GERMANS. LONDON, June 22. The leopard does not clmnge ids spots, nor the Ethiopean Ids shin, and, according to a recentiy-discovored letter of the great Sir Robert Peel, the ; German war methods of to-day are j merely an accentuated form of the : Hunnism common to the troops that i fought under Blueher. Mr Charles J- j Phillips, who is compiling a certain j family history, found among the documents submitted to him an tin published letter of Sir Robert Pool, when fSecretary of the Irish Olh •©, to Lord Whitworth, at that time Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Some three weeks after the battle of Waterloo, Sir Robert Peel, with two other members of Parliament, went over to Paris to see the Allies march in, and the following extract is from a letter dated Paris, July 15, 1815: ‘•'Dear Lord Whitworth,- —As I owe my trip to Paris in great measure to the kindness and readiness with which you dispensed with my services in Irelam!. it is but just that I should give you some account of my proceedings. Croker. Fitzgerald, and myself left town on Saturday morning last, the Bth inst. Paris is surrounded by troops of the Allies, and nothing could be more interesting than the present situation of it. The streets are crowded with officers and soldiers of all nations. The English are groat favorites, tiie Prussians held in the greatest detestation ; if they had entered Paris alone, or if the crowned heads had delayed their entry, they (the Prussians) would probably have pillaged Paris; they have taken some pictures from the Louvre. . . They have demanded the payment of 100,000,000 of francs from thg,city ; and at this moment there are Prussian Guards in the house of Pengaux and some of too other principal bankers, who are held as a sort of hostage for the payment of the contribution.. “We drove to-day to the Depot- d •\rtilierie. AVe were told by the sentry that, we were welcome to see.the Salon but that the Prussians had removed everything that it contained —the KWO •d of Joan of Arc, the knife of Ravaillae, Turenne’s sword. I am sorry for this, not on account of the mortification which it will inflict on French vanity, but because I fear the return of the King will be. less popular than it would have been, it lie could have preserved entire, at least these national monuments and relics, which are exclusively French. ‘AVe paid a visit to Denon the other dav. He had some Prussians quartered'upon him, and was very loud in his exclamations against ce bet© ferore as he called Bin her. . . And: Ihv lieve me to remain, dear Lord \vmeworth, yours most truly—Robert Peel.”