To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian.

Sir,—I hope all your readers will have noticed the courageous statement of the British Ambassador to Russia at the complimentary dinner given to him by the United Russia Societies Association. So, the Emperor Nicholas was faithful to the last. He may have held erroneous ideas as to the benefits of constitutional government, but now we have it on record from Sir George Buchanan, that he was not a traitor. He never would have betrayed the cause of the Allies, and was always the true and loyal friend of this country.

To this testimony may now be added the Paris telegram of the 2nd instant, giving a copy of the letter from Nicholas II. to M. Poincaré.

Let us hope, therefore, that whether in regard to his own initiative or to his imputed tendencies under (still unascertained) influences, all doubt as to our ex-Emperor’s good faith may now be dispelled, and that the libel may therefore be finally consigned to that limbo of malicious falsities where it should henceforth and for ever lie dead and buried.

I write in the name of many friends, both Russian and English.—Yours, &c.,

OLGA NOVIKOFF.

4, Brunswick Place, London.