LETTER FROM MR SPURGEON TO LOUIS NAPOLEON AND KING WILLIAM.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 741, 24 November 1870, Page 2

LETTER FROM MR SPURGEON TO LOUIS NAPOLEON AND KING WILLIAM.

In the Rev. C. 11. Spurgeon's magazine—" The Sword and Trowel" —for August, we find a racy letter from the reverend gentleman to Louis Napoleon and the King of Prussia, in relation to the present war. Mr Spurgeon writes under the sobriquet of "John Ploughman," that being the name he adopted in a small volume which he published two years ago. We quotethemost interesting portions of the composition: This comes hoping that you are better, at least hotter tempered with one another, though I am much afraid, as the saying is, that you will be worse before you will be better. I beg to send my most disrespectful compliments. Scripture says " Honor to whom honor is due;" but kings who go to war about nothing at all have no honor clue to them. So I don't send you so much as would lay on your thumb nails. Perhaps you are not both alike, and only one of you is to blame for beginning this dreadful fight; but I do not know your secret tricks, for kings are as deep as foxes, and it is safest to lay it on to you both, for then the right one will be sure to get it. I should like to give you both a month at our workhouse, and a taste of the crank, to bring your proud spirits down a bit, tor I expect it '.s your high living that has made you so hot blooded. Whatever do you see in fighting that you should be so fierce for it. One would think you were a couple of game cocks, and did not know any better. When two dogs fight one of them is pretty sure to come borne lame, and neither of them will look the b tter for it. One or other of you will get a thrashing; I only wish it would come on your bare backs, and not on your poor soldiers. What are you at? Have you got so much money that you want to blow it away in powder ? If so, come and let off some fireworks down by Dorking, and please our boys. "Or have you too many people, and therefore want to clear them off by cutting their throats ? Why don't you do this in a quiet way, and not make them murderers as well as murdered ? I don't think you know yourselves what it is you want ; but, like boys with new knives, you must be cutting something. If you must hrive a fight, why don't you strip and go at it yourselves as our Tom Rowdy and Big Ben did on the green ; it's cowardly of you to send a lot of other fellows to be shot on your account. I don't like fighting at all, its too lowlived for me ; but really if it would save the lives of the millions I would not mind taking care of your jackets while you had a set-to with fisticuffs, and I would encourage you both to hit his hardest at the gentleman opposite. I dare say if you come over to Surrey the police would manage to keep out of your way and you have a fair chance of having'it out; they have done so for other gentlemen, and I feel sure they would do it to oblige you.