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London, England, 1824-09-06 00:00:00

477.41.V7'ED SCOTTISII Tn'LES.

TO Ell!TOR C:•"1111: BRITISH PIMSS.
Edinburgh: Aug. 25. 1124.
411.

ST g pears' in your PA !ter an article relative to the at.
Thin, I tic,i it prop.r. though it is said to b. hr
a PRIM .e?ly vers,l in Antitrim.an lore, la furnish you shit •
Yew virimii CA and eb.erratition upon that statement.
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Of the title of Earl Marischall, Sir Alexander Keith is Pea lobe
the rt.'pr.s .ntative ; and I earnestly bope Mat ht- !s and that he
is able to proves his di went from Icilltam, third Esrl. It is, how.
eve,. but I ',ter to arrptdut dirt respectahle lini:,•llt, that if he
punts to u nratio.l e: chat honour, he will have to prove, in the
meat expliet a:.l Alt in mtlantr, nut telly his l'eseent, lint the ab-
Kate eatir,tion uf tr.le since I I:O. who, by the t"mto of the
int--!:• or et..rer of rretui,,, would Marc been preferable to him.
(if the mt. ni Earl of it'iatorn the line of Sir George Seton of
Callems wits no timeor. at one pe.tnd, the representative, but as
the whelc mans of that brancit are new, it is understood and be.
lieved, por.e, th • representation is in if Egliaton, u Seton,
he th^ ma'e, ant! it 3:^ti•gnarery °tie by the female line. As his'
I...tuishi:n however, enjoys a much old-. Earldom and Ilritish De-
cry 'Kati he tray nut possibly think it any object to obtain this
nedition :1 (.71e.

Itll7•rrt 1)11zell of Gler.ae was the nritlnubted rem.
.7 =tire the nail of I :crawath, but it is well known he left no
ni-2c and it iv belierxl that no maim of that direct branch of
t r!c,t exist. It has i,cen tipwril, that General 11a1 e l terra
Iti lilt, rnake act dun ; and if he ean prove hilt de..ccnt (min
.7 cr sated by King (7haties /., and the extinction of all
rref-ah7e undo helm, he avay have a chtira, and way meccas at.
I '4:O

a:atm-lent mei:mint that the title of Liwtl Balfour of Bur.
WP4 rtrate:l wi:h a dcatiorion to heirs general, and of course
i'roce of R cnct is the rerete,:itative of that dignity. Unfur.
:11^ I: Ir. ito' Cy. r, the the e,:oitt of the heir of jinn, the series of
e;rltO ait on the title in Rift; was destined, is nowhere to be a:is.,
rev .17,i. creation of 311.-hael the tirat Lord appears, but no
it La of ant kind are mentioned ; so that no presurni:ti iiii in I'm.
are law cwt, in thew cirrninstancer, false to f.trour the heir general.
Neither dues It appear amt. 31ar,ar t, i.e. daughter of Allucharl thy
first fond. ever alto Baroness in her ewa right. She was
;,arried to litohert .trout, of Fernie, who yes the see and Lord Cur-
.:lo„ v;!13 wan i'rer!lent of the Pollianict t is the reign of Charlet.
the First and al.crsards, and who was succeeded by his SM. flat
i is a retain point in l'terwte law, that he ~amid not have been
letti I:ttriet.,:t sn IV!: of his wife. h., nntat hay. hel a new c-c.
stio-a; and the tortna of this, IL:11t destination of heirs being also un_
knoc.o. the heirs mate only of his hotly cent be inferred as the line
...:went. "Nr. lialf..ur, of Fernie, is that heir male t and it is
-toil:es:out! the. he, as well as 3:r. Ileum have petitioned his dla-
j.r:y her n .:ora:ion of that title. If that gractous mesistorc is se.
rc...ed to, the l'rtry (!ocncil, or pedlar. the Conimittee of
1.-ges, will have to decide on the claims of thew competitors.
The I %tithe is eertaitol obliged to yam lot the communication
you lass,. in ; but it will nut he the worse fur the preceding cor-
m:nuns, which it is rce,nertetl you will iasart. A. Z.

A private It tter la said to have been received in the City
from 1,!...b0a, swing that the King of Portugal has re-
solv,_%l to ree rvi'.ze the hidernilence of Brazil, ou condi-
tions which it is expectal will not Le obj.cted to.
The Peynis !nibble seems still to be kept up with min-,
derful pertinacity and assurance. In the Police f'toirt, the
other day, a man was placed at the bar, upon a charge of
b tving Iran fo-md the preceding night, under very Inapt-
eict..s circumstances. Ile had been in the forlorn expcdi-,
%ion to Poyaia ; and, ri.ore fortoliate than many, bad re-
tornial abet.. Since then, it would seem, be had op: net! r. cor-
rnipotwier.ce wits the heads of the new gvernment, of
which ha was a covenanted subject. lie had a letter to
prednee, signed by the Secretary of State for Home
Af.itirs, app einting him a coll:ctor of customs, at d a cor-
net in the l'oyaiaiair Life Guards; of which appointment
the fellow seemed meat enormously vain, and boasted of
'the friendship entertained fir him by his Serene Highness'
the It is singtdar that he escapist a judgeship it
the hoods of this liberal dispense r of honours, since be is
tolerably conversant with criminal law, having previously
Ito his voluntary transportation to Poyain, been retwatelly
.I.led up by the Police, for his :ngenuity in evading tlw
al distinction between ',team and twon. As there was
no tangible charge against the prisoner, 1w WAS let at liberty,
latter an admonition.—EdinburKA Übe veer.
A cosTactots l'earft Favra saws WORMS.—This
feet r raged for some time at 'foul ; it carried off numbers
in two or three days iliners ; the skin or such as had the
goal fortune to csenye peeled off entirely; the infection
was so great, that nobt:dy would venture to opot them, so-,
semi string by carrying the dead to the grave. What was
singulai in this fever was, that as many as had been early
Pllveaured, voided worms, the purple spots appearing after;
all these recovered.

SWELLED FEET.—IVIIen the feet swell It Is a sign of
debility, either general or partial, except in cases of preg-
nancy. In such capes a bandage should ba put on mode-
rately tight, from the toe upwards, giving a uniform degree
of pressure. In such cases, nine times out of ten, the di-
gestive organs will be found deranged—perhaps the liver.—
.Ifedical :Wrier.
flow 1 J CATell AND now TO COMB A COLO.—At this',
time of the year colds aro easily caught, and diMeult of
cure. The following will be found effectual :—After a'
quick walk in the evening, sit in the draft to cool ; the
consequence will be a severe cold, attended with cough;
the next day hoarseness, abort heath, and much expectors-
lion. In the evening, at seven, go to a well-frequented
tavern, and drink three or four glasses of stung puech or
cliff rum and water: stay till eleven, walk home wary,
'and go to beet You need not get up the next day, but
send for the apothecary, the following tiny for the physi-
cian, and the third day your :fiends will send for the un- ,
dertaker. You will never feel the eff.cts of an -atumnal
cold eavrwarde.—The