The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-10-10 00:00:00

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

have hat little worthy notice this month. The weather,
.thin the Ism few days, has been too dry to enable the
farmers to do any thin*, of ploughing fur wheat; but the
fine rains have induced many to make the attempt,
Nin most cases unsameasfully. The ruins have come
ipportunely for the turnip., %hick bad begun to flay
ranch, owing to abe long drought. They are, however,
tdy greatly revived, and will most probably go en to im-
a ; bet the astaebief is t►e esti:erne scarcity of plants.
liar injury they have received, and are even ow receiv-
, frost the grub. Altogether the prospect is bat very in.
Sorest ma to this crop: and Lean Stuck of all sorts are
lecimarily extremely dull of pale. We are looking forward
very low prices at St. Faith's. A good drat of corn has
throated slam harvest; indeed the farmer could do
else, with the exceptiors of carting murk un ham clover
fur the wheat crop. Priers loner thou ever—it is quite
needless to eater into particulars.
'Wooer 7th.

person in the rieigtbourhood of Wished), of
rime of WINKLEY, was taken into custody last
on a charge of sheep-strain*, whose appre-
-4011 was attended with some shrieking memo-
Ince.. A farmer had lost fourteen sheep. which
• supposed to he stolen. and suspicion falling
iis person, a warrant was issued for his appre-
mu. The farmer who had lost the sheep, at-
d a constable, called at the suspected per-
house, when his wife informed them he had

gone down the grounds. They went there in
rowel) of him, and us soon as he saw them he souk
Ai alight, but being closely pursued be threw 'Mu-
tate ■ dyke. However, limiting there was wot
sulEcieot in it for his purpose, he drew a
and stabbed himself in different parts of the
Even after they bad secured him, and were
lag dim off in a cart, he attempted again to de-
himself by thrusting the knife into his body.
.sae taken to a public-house ut Walpole. where
lies ill of his wounds. and though some of them
aerious. they are not espected to prove mortal.
vaunt was a mao of • respectable character,

. of considerable business. and among the last
Am' weelJ have been suspected of the crime of
sheep-etesling.

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FHE .KfitiG'S 'VISIT 'TO•SCOTLAIID:-

The list number of Blackwootrs f:diubutgk
Magn:ine is nearly filled with the subject of the
King's nail to lit otismi. 'lir the
.gieitt Vinery of
matter, grave and guy. real awl fictitious, is an
article entitlell a Letter frois" Coil:, continuing
Some strictures opus the costume of the Clans who
visited Edinburgh on that memorable toccasion.:—
The fnllownsyg is an extract
fart iv. !hitt irb'Seitich Prince (except tkiChevalih)
ever wore ***** Ifulvrotui before Gruige IV. himself.
Any of she Janieeen irriuldjnat as 110011 have thought of bold.
a Unart in his If.4.gowit! It was ne►er the dress of
Sedtlamt, or of the Scottish Covet. Go into the mansion of
the Doke of Argil', of of say other great Highland Chief,
and tail, if you can, a stogie firmly portrait representing
this drum! 'No mach thing. Erma these real Highlanders
were mot Alactullunisnores, and Csaterfres, awl vs forth,
when they cam► down leaf) the tow Country. litre, Sir,
they were Sri:Dish Noblens.a, hearing Volhie titles of Earl
or Baron, sad dews like die whet. who stood by their side
is prewar, of their Sovereign. Tbey are always painted le
wear, or else n the coitittiow peaceful reships 011ie time,
weet? is tartans.

The fact se, ~,,, mover, that in ►bite of all, Colonel David
Stewart (who, by the way, being a fkuart, is au ranee a Gael
then I am) ta■ allege, the Ares. shirk cut such a ititirisb
amooryou In the streets of Edinburgh, is smiting but •
faiscifil and * very modern invention. The rough Highland-
its, two or three hunched years ago, could as sums have
nisde Genoa velvet or Arras tapestry, as design and execute
all the*. amide and dazzlingly inienniagied patterns of
*stripe and cluck. They were the elo.h that woe woven and
dyed by their uwa wive. and daughters—aad who can faticy
that these 'lsere up in all theme intricacies which sow detna•d
the utmost skill of Pei.lel sod Glasgow manufacture? Ac-
cordingly, the Highlaud Chins were never dishagnished—
■nd in our kooks of I.' y these is no trace our hint rof
their lace ever haring bees so—by the pattern of their tar-
tans; his eittoey• by the b.dge they carried in their bonnets,
of heath, box, hotly, amid so ?brills. The gentlemen among
them wore plate and wail she• they could procure it, like
other gentlemen of the period—these cosmos fellows, to
he sir,, were half o.ked bvlariao., with a web of rusty
,cloth newt round their bodies, a target of bull's hide, a
dagger, and a pair of Immure.
What is the dress worst by any one of the Geodesic.* who
(gored at Holyruud? It consists of a JACIACT, is She lest
place—that id to say, of a icmimiiis COAT (a Ihiag which
England burrowed about 200 years Imo from F with
the skirts shortened—■ philibap, which we all hos was is.
vested by an Euclid' officer ibt quite 'evenly years ago,
sad a shoulder plaid. There is nothing really Gaelie here,
but the last named article. The belied plaid (which I see it
said some few appeared iu) is a shade better, bat no more.
Thew, a. for the buttons of precious stoner., the Ina shoe.
hackles, &e. he. he. why, really it is too mach to expect any
body to believe that these are inherited from • wildirace of
hunters and berdsroes. I, for one, word always to tblak it
a good joke to see John Kerahle act Ifacbills in a kill of
she 42i1 tartan—bolt, after this, what Shell we expect ?
suppose the next thing will be to equip the limiest Scots
Greys in Highland Manch', and ere them riding cloaks
made of their Colosers tarian=for a tarots be also, no
doubt, mnsfhave. being a Stewart, sad, iudeed, • scour of
the Horse of Allman's !

Prier, Charles Stuart assumed the tartan out of comple-
ment to the army he led, which consisted almost entirely of
Highlanders; bat his paternal ancenton were Lowlander:—
Him original patrimony we Rettfreft—and I venture to say,
he was the very first of all the race that ever wore any ►uch
dress. TsWats, to be stire, is a thing eel, rowed in Scotland,
and, there fore,forsigaers have beer sometimes led into the
blonder of supposing that over all Atmlied tartan was (or
is) the national dres+. I have seen • print of the Battle of
Chevy Chore, representing Hanging and Mostgoaseiy, and
so forth, all plaided and kilted. I have also seen more re-
cent paintsaga. by Turner •rd others, mpresentiog the
scenery of Lothils, with groups of tartan-clad figures. But
it was reserved Gw Ilse reseal time to me wit, the true Scotch-
men, copying these things which we all kiwis, and always
did know, to be foolish blenders, and transferring to the
*Mira +A real life the fantastic fopperies which only existed
before on the stage and on the empress.

Who, after all, are the Highlmodeis? Are they the Scot-
tish natio'. ? Is their reentry Scotland' In their I.ugeage
the Scottish language ? Is their literature (forgive the
absurdity) the Scottish literature ? Is their history the
Scottish, history ? No such Wag.

The Ilighlasiders,llmee who really ought to be called by
that name, a e the Yiuet, the origiaal Celtic iobabitants of
the soil of Scud ind, and long vineries ego driven from the
Maio. and the h ride valleys of the lood(as their kindred tribes
were out of England into Wales) into those mountainous
and desert tracts where their Celtic dialet still halters. They
art afire same rare with thou who still speak dialects akin
to theirs is Wale*, among the bogs of Ireland, io Brittany,
in Biscay, mad elaewbere. They are the deseendania of those
very Celle who were every where couquered by, sad driven
like sleep before those GOTHIC invaders, (law whom we,
TNa Seorron MATlOll,llse Foglia!' nation, the French aa.
lion, and the Spiniah satins, are all alike sprung. Bat who
ever beard before now of Hie conquerors piquing them., lye.
wpm, paltry imitation of the poor relies of the original cus-
toms of the conquered ? Who ever beard of the Freseh
Kings, the sous of the Franks, aping the Britoaa—or of tie
Spanish Rises, the ►ins of the Visigoths, sprig their Has-
quisb vainals—or of the Eoglish Kings making Taffies of
themselves ? No doubt we bare all beard of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Statistic sporting a kilt tit a tavern
dustier idles enough ; but there, if I may be permitted to
say so, there the matter might conveniently have rested.
Not oily are the Highland Gael net the Scottish ration,
bat even their own Chiefs are in very few ini.tances of the
same blond with themselves. The Duke of Gordon is pro-
prietor of mine land in the Highlands Hiatt airy other indi-
♦idual. Rest Gordo. aid Molly •re the names of two places
on Hie border of Semiarid; soil his Grace is no more a Gael
than George IV. ►imself. His family are • Gothic family
from Berwickshire; and whom did they succeed is the
Highlands?—Why, no family of Mace, but she Cum-
mings, t►e de Voorhies, to be sure, a Norman rare of chi-
yahoo. Barton. obit bad Wag before their time subjected all
Loeltaber and Badeonch to their arms. The thibertands
are Ike descendants of the CATTI, a German tribe—aid so
is all t►e clan Matteis. The names of St. Clair, de la Haye,
Fraser (de la Friaelle), and many (Mires, speak for Mem-
MAct.eorr is the representative of • Norman Sea.
Eing--wilaratt his family MAIM to this day, Tottquit. NOR-
MAN, and so forth. I have no doubt all the coast Ckiefi
might be traced to similar *.resit,; for ins those daysorrkere
was the Cehic race that could make any resietance against
either • Norman galley, or a handful of Gothic spears?
Even Campbell (de Campo Brno) is in all probability of
Norma. blood. 'f he Murray', the Doommunds, most cer-
tainly are so; as for the Mackenzie•. they are, according to
their own story, Irishmen and Fitz.Geralds—and the Fitz-
Geralds, aceording to Their own story, are Normans! Lord
Macdonald. Clanrunshl. and Glengarry, are indeed, I believe,
of Gaehe descent, and I wish them much joy of it. %Violets
of them is the true Chief, nobody known—and solsody cares
mach about the maitre. Most assuredly Santa, eoaspottere
Isles is sot within the province of any body not a High-
lander.

Aid, aN, who are the Highlanders that have dose
'web fiats, either ii arta or In arm, as to entitle thew to
lend a curb, or say Wets else i■ the shape of • distleetiwi,
to the Scottish people? Was Bryce a Highlander? or Wal-
lace? or Jsmos I.? or Sir James Douglas? or any of his
swart►y line? Was Mailroom a Highlander? or Owedee!--
or, to corm• lower down, was Abercronsby, or Moore ? or is
Hoprtous, or Lysedoci ! Where Is the historian, the poet,
tbesaire, for whom we bare to thank the Celia? No, we
are • Gable people, we speak a Gothic tongue; and we
have no store to do with plaids sad hills thee the &Wish
bare to do with t►e Wilts or Plioltinawn.

Do sot intagiae, however, Hat I hare any wlab to run
down either the Highland race or Owl; garb. Both are Bond
fa their way—the litter sayarb. ladeed, but for this simple
circumstance. that the dress Is ■ haadstrane oar. who. I
should like to bum. wouldever have heaps la it on the
street of say Christian city is lbs airieteeath century ?
The Highlander., "'halm( their remote ancestors acre,

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-Me a kW, • Nate, 'sn'ti eniaeoly resPecille reel; lailt
t►ey see a were fraction of our population, as their eeisoiry
le a mere skirl of ou► territory. And what I o►ject to is,
not their we•einn their owo dress wherever they please, and
ea they please, but the affectation of theft dress by mt. The
glens *lmolai co slung with the baggage, and, if you will,
the pipes (though errs these are but • Novelly, after all).
bet the Scottish •itioo, a Goa* race, Who have time out
of mind been riiltd by `Gothic Prisms, whose political
Cations see ill of Gothic °right, who liaVe aulhieg .h.te"P
to du with the Gaelic laggsige and waera, hove sletvlit
dhough to be proud of without botrotring t►e kilts lad MA*
if these taunotaineers.