The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-01-20 00:00:00

ft EGA 4 (IF SCOT LA N

[The fullowiliz ',cry Wei-Mime commimicaiiim ha• beta
transmitted to us by a Currtspumitist of the highe►t
eminence I

It is well known that, by the Art of Union, it is
specially provided, that the Crow'', Sceptre, and
Sword of Stale, belonging to the kingdom of Scot-
land, are appointed to remain and he ',reserved in
that kingdom, and that these royal at minds were
carefully deposited in a strong chest, in presence of
the Officers of State and other personages of high
dignity, as well the Commissioners of the Earl
Alareschal, who claimed, by ancient custom, the
custody thereof, and that the chest was placed in a
chamber in the Castle of Edinburgh, called the
Conan-room, which was formally and strongly
stctireil.

Nevertheless a strong report went abrotrl, that,
during the troublesome times of 1715 or 1718, or,
as some say, so late as 1745, the regalia of Scot-
land sere transferred to London, and it is certain,
that, at the Jen el-office in the Tower, a crown lois
beet' i:xhil heal anis the other treasures. supposed
and a 1.•g..1 to be thit of Scotland. Others have
traced this report to the artifices of the Jacobites,
wl.ostt live stient at the (hum' is well known, and who
dill till they could to excite through Scotland a
feeling, that the country had been degraded and
her privileges destroyed by that tnrwuruble Treaty.
Some years since, a commission wan issued to the
Officers of Suite t I Scotland, and sillier eminent
perairiss, to opell the Cflll,ll-moot, in order to search
for cement records, which, it teas supposed, might
have been deposited there. The room was opened
uccerdnwly, nail all tliil§4,4 st emril la lie sit the
saute e Patios,, to which they might hate been left
is, 1707. The dust of a tent ury lay tot the door,
and tot the lid of au huge chest, answering the de-
sceiptiois of that to which the legal ii are stated to
Irate then deposited. It was even tearuked by ass
Oh server, • (ps.,lly acute and accurate, that the dust
(about six iliclies thicl,), presented a surface pet-
tedly uniform and It•wri, which could out have beets
the case, hail the chest been opened at any great
distance of time tiller it had been placed is, the
Crown-room, sitter, to that cage, a Loge quantity
of dust displaced from the lid of the chest must
have been lynig around it in heaps. Rut the mat-
ter teas left to cm:lecture; for the col aaaaa lasiOtt only
warraiiting a search for records, of which none we re
roomd in the Crown.rooni, the Cutuntissioistis did
taut consider it vs authorising them to tope's a chest,
which, If it cow... any thiog at all. holds not the
record-, but the regalia of our ancient kiisgelism.
The kern and militating feeling of tiatiosial jea-
Ithigly which once attached au important pout sit
Ili/4011f 111 the existence and preset. Vd tOr these
Cintelia, AS the visible and taligible sviiiltols of
Scottish independence, has been long lolled to rest
by the istergiog of our separate national costs riss
the general interests of Great Britain. Yet there
is a feeling of mysterious curiosity with %lads ne
are tempted to regard bolted' roo.ns, chests which
have been locked for cent lutes, and the fate of those
svoiabols which anciently represented the Ito ally of
Scotland. It is, thrtefore, with pleasure that We
11110f111 our 'rodeos, that the mystery attache.l to
this point of our national anal historical antiquities,
will probably soon be cleared up.
coninnsatoo, under the Sign Manual, has been
recently issued to lain Grace the Duke of Buccleuch
and Queensberry. Lord Lieutenant of Mid Lothian,
so ith the pribcipal Officers of State for Scodatid,
the respective Deeds of the Courts of Law and le-
gal bodies, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and
other Gentlemen recommended by official situa-
toms of Importance, directing 1111.111 to ',look the
Crown-room, mild proceed to open the chest in
which the regalia are said to have been drisosited,
to make search fur the same, and to report the 11.41 e
of their inquiries to his Royal Iligliness the Pria.ce
Regrist.—(Edia burgi4 l'isper.l

Extract of a Ceder from it Gentleman in Gre-
nada', elated Nov. 10, to his Brother in Dublin :
" I ssrpose your papers have hrthre this mentioned the
dreadful weather vspfriencvl in Ihis pail of the amid : the
Hoods have been wonderfully high. It began so rain ow
Tuesday week, and continued with impreeetlented violence
until Wednesday morning, alb iided u ills dreadful thunder
simian st vivid lightning ; undull, the oldest inhabitant
remembers nothing of the kind so tremendous. No accounts
have reached us (rum the lie ighbous lug island., bill the floods
ary suppose al to have her ii gruel a I is this parish (St. Andrews )
Portions of cane fields Imre given way, !cuticula' ly Oil the
declivities, whsle those WllllOl lay 111 the neighboin howl of
the rivers hare tint only been inundated, but sumo of the
finest canes I ever saw are entirely n Milked by the mountain
trees which the water brought down—some of them im-
mensely large—chose dilating into the canes broke all betbre
Own,. We have escaped tune of the best, yet our damage is
considerable ; so much co, that sissy negates and live ma-
lures will nut repair in live weeks she damage dune nor mill
cane alone. Oise estate has hail 1, acres of charming Until •
desirmed, which worthd have produced 110 or 1110 hhils.
of sugar; 01hi is have suffered its al!y the.-rime utopoe.
two.