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London, England, 1818-02-10 00:00:00

REGALIA OF SCOTLAND.

We Inter the pleasure to ansiouuce to the fluidic.
that the ex.irtainatinii of the Crown-moon slid chest,
supposed In COIII 1111 the regalia of Scodasid, took
place on Wednesday last, at one o'/•luck, cid was
attended with c 'doe ',access. The Cuanui,siosi-
ere present Isere—
The lord President, Lord JoeHee Clerk, Lord Chi, -
osissiuiter, Gen. Hope, Lord Provost, taw Groeral,
Mr. Wolin' Mewl, Mr. IleuryJardise, Mr. Wall. Chik, owl
Mr. Tlonaisar.

Apologies were mode fur his Grace Ilse Duke of
lloncletich, who was confined by indisposition, and
for the Duke of Gordon and the Lord Advocate,
who were absent Fr Edinburgh. The Commis-
sinners met in the Governor's house in the Castle,
and were received by the guard under arms, and
the military !amid.
After reading the Royal Commission, and other
iofficiut documents, they proceeded to the crow n-
rooming. when the King's smith and carpenter re-
-00000 wed the fast gas of two doors, the outer of
oak, and the inner composed of grates of it
after previously ascertainiti/ that they had not been
opened since the former Lommission to search fur
record* in 1794. Nothing Was found in the room
but a large oblong oaken chest, secured by two'
strong locks, for winds no ke)s hod been found.
IThe C "is.ittivers, according to the tenor of
their warrant, directed the chest to he forced open,
which teas effected with some tl:lliculty. It ass
foetid to contain the Crown. Sceptre, and Sword of
81111.! or Scullin'', eAlowerisig, its the must minute
particulars, to their desciipiiiin in the instrument
of slepositatims. 26th March. 1707. able is print-
ed in Nisbet', Heraldry, vol. 211, and more correctly
in 000000 son's late publication f he records
of the Jewel Office. There was also a silver rod of
office, of which the iwculiur ow is nut yet lacer-
seined.
So soon as the existence of these venerable and
precious relics of our national independence was as-
certained. the royal standard was hoisted, and the
soldiers cheered issoliste, which ass heartily echoed
from the Castle Hill, where a numerous crowd had
assembled, anxious to learn the recut of the search
alter tlwse interesting memorials, on the fate of
which some mystery had been ..opposed to rest. In-
deed we could not hut feel Ii sttered by she general
loitered expressed by all ranks upon an occasion so
intimately connected wills the ancient honour of
Scotland.
We are enabled to state, that the workmanship
of the crown end sceptre are highly elegant. and in
goad taste; the sword, bring a present front Pope
Julius to James IV.. is of a pattern corresponding
to the excellence of the arts of Italy at that classical
period. - Nothing else was Pound in the chest, ex-
cept a copy of the act of depoeitation. The regalia
were replaced iu the chest, which wee again pro-
perly secured.
We understand that, after some deliberation, the
COlDMissiiiiWrS have come to a resolution that they
are nut entitled again to open the crown-room, either
to gratify their own curiosity, or that of the public,
until they have wade a report to the Prince Regent.
But there can be little doubt that his Royal High-
ness, to whose direct personal instructions we owe
the gratiticatiosi we have received on a subject so
iiiterestisig, will ortler measures for gratifying the
public curiosity upon a point of such great national
interest, so snub as the necessary precaution's and
regulations can be adopted for that purpose.
714 following copy of the instrument taken by
Mr. Willilm Wilson, one or the Under Clerks of
Session, at depositing the regalia will be read with
interest, as giving a correct description of the diffe-
rent articles:—(Frosts 44 Nisiers Iflcraldry.l.
Al the Castle of Edinburgh, and withiii the Crown-room
there, betwixt the hOurs of use sod two afternoon, of the
Mb Joy of March, in the one thousand seven hooked and
seventh year of our Lord, and sixth year of the reign of
her Majesty, Auer, by the grace of Goa, (Alwyn of Scot-
laud', England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith;
the which. day, is presence of as notes irs public, anal
witnesses muter subscribing, einapeared persnoatly,winfaa,
Wilson, one of the under clerks of Session, Depute-Hernias:el,
for himself, as Promirator fur, mot in name and behalf
of William, Earl Marimhal, Lord Keith soil Allen% hc.
Great Marimbat of the Kingdom of Scotland, Heritable
Koper of the Regalia thereof, viz. crown, sceptre, anal
'moral; and there, in presence of David, Earl of Glasgow,
Lord Boyle, Ste. Lord Themurer-Depute, who, for himself,
nod in same of the mastoid Lords Commissioners of
Tlwmory„ was present to 'cerise the above regalia, the said
William Wilma, after producing and readifig sipdacuratory
granted by the said Noble Earl to him, of the mutest. there-
in, anal after-mentioued, dated soul registrant in the books of
Caroled and Session, on the 43th day of March instant, did
also product to the said Lord Thesaurer-Deputy, a schedule,
Sigurd by him, awl as Notaries Public underscribing, con.
taiiiiiitt an inventory and particular description of the said
regalia, as follows:
Tux IMPERIAL Caows or SCOTLAND-4s of pore gold, '
eariellea with massy pree stouts, &moods, pear/s, maid
carious mementoes ; its parts and specibc forms are these :
lam, his composed of a large broad circle, or fillet, which
goes round the head, adorned with twenty.two large precious
stain a, viz. limaites, amethysts, warts emeralds, rabies,
and loyarinthi, in collets of gold of variants forms, and will,
comma rommellinge' anal betwixt each of these collets mad
Moues are interposed great oriental pestle, use of which is
wasting. 2do, Abuse Ilse great circle these is another Small
Coined with tweedy ponds, salorued with the like
member of diamoods and sapphires alternatively. OW the
polish" are lopiwd with as many gnat pearls; after ,pinch
fora ere the coronets of our Lords Barons. ktitei TS, e up.
twoijoeiria•elevale taw Initiate:neat wish ten crows beery,
each bong adorned i• the centre with a grort dhow md, be-
twixt four groat pearls placed in the cross 1 aid 1; but
some of the moils are wanting, and the surober extant
upon the tippet-part art ilsorrowo, besides *bat are in the
mialer-eirrk and is the mum pater, are- tiftycnir, and
these tru.ses detary are Moira banged with other trim high
11,U04 ale 1116, all alternatively with the fuevaaid {gem rails,
nstiow which top the 'manta of time we mil small visa ie.—
Nord, This is said to be the anrieht torts of the crown of
Scotland, since the Irsgose made het aixt Arlisino, King of
Scots. and Charles the Greet of sister, Ike specific turn of
our rrwea digrriog from other lihr pyres! crowns, iu that it
is totightened or raised with crake...ea beery, alternately with
firers ale no; the crows of Erasure Is brightened only with
Ileum ale lit; mid that of Krigtoud with crosses pater, alter-
nal I% ely with beers de lia. Our crows grotia,,,i, King
James WI went to Euglaiart, lIMB been iguawanily repriaented
by heraM-paineera, efigraiicra, and odor tradasusen, after the
form cf the mown of T.oglamh with coast's peon whereas
there is taut one bat that whirls tops the oionil,laut all ecoi.es
&tory, much as we see Oh unr nW ruins, tad those which top
our old churches Oltese crowns were not opulently arched
or elaa..c. cloaks VIII. of France is said to be the bust in
Flangewho took a close crass, as appears by bas medals
conical in she year 14113 i, briag dm:mined loperalor Orleans?
Lalward V. of Englund, year 1183, caned a
(.1~ crown, as is observed by Saldess; anal our crown is
arched thus: ISo, num the timer circle proceed four arches
adorned with enamelled fignrea, which mega chose at she
top, surinuantral with a mood of cola, or releatial globe,
enaluellid Woe anal/ or puirdered nigh stars, cross cal and

enamelled sills a IJige cross palre, *Awned in the extremi-
ties with a great pearl ; smelt a erns tops Ilse Church of
Hulsroud house. and easstoneti with other four in the atigks.
In the coulee of the cross pater these is a square amethyst,
which points the ftwe part elf the crown ' • and Isehiud,
or rot the other side, is a great pearl, and beluw it,
4111 the feel of the paler mot of the cross, are these
characters, .1. ft. 6. By which it appears King James V.
was the first that Nosed the Coosa with arches, and
topped it with • satmd and cram paler. But it is evi-
dent, low. That 'the WWII" and niedals coined in the
mom of King James 111. and IV. bare • elope comes ; and it
is no less clear, that the arches of the crown were nut pot •
there from the beginniug, at at Ilse making of Ille crown : be.
cause, I ine.They are tacked by larks of gold to the am:Ws'
crows. Ode, The workmanship of the arch is Illti w ClOOll,
and there is a mall distiuetiow in the filmgoers het wist the.first
and the Lila, the last, heist' aspedhue gold, and other Mut so
exactly to that standard, whereof trial bas 'wen matte. 610.
The tire or bonnet of the crown war of purple velvet ; hut in
the year one thousand six hundred :Aid eighty-live it get
a rap of crimson velvet. ailiwned at Ir. fore with four plates
of gold richly wrought and enamelled, and is, each of
them a great pearl. half Welt in diameter, which appear lw-
I wren the fuer arches, and the bonnet is turned 1+ with er-
mine; upon the lowest circle of the crown, inignediately
above the ereniue, there are eight small holes, dispoied two Hod
two together, on the four quartet., of the crew's, in the
middle apace betwixt the arches. to a hid, they *re laced Or
tied diamonds, or precious stooges. The crown is nine hick.
broad iu dianwt. r, In ing twenty-seetie iuelws about, and in
height, from the limier circle to the top of the cruse pater.
six inches and a half; it always steads ooh a square cushion
of crsin 00000 velvrt, niloroe.l with fringes, and four mewls of
good thread !hanging down at each earner.
THU SiI'EPTRV.—Thr stalltor stein of Ow &metro being.
silver double user gilt. is two feet in of lo asp.'. f rm.=
with three lintious or Istedes answering thereto; betwixt the
Rost 'stilton and the or lii the bawdy, of hexane Gum,
furling iu the noddle, and plain. Betwixt the'seroti.l hollow
and the third, there are three sides reweave-it ; that muter the
Virgin Mary, one of the statues that are on the tap of the
stalk, is the leto r .1 ; loom the scconilaiiile, wide. St Janes,
is the letter It.; add us, the third. kr,g4. Andreo, is the
figure 5. The side betwixt .1. um' It is esigravess with roar.
tern Orors.4l...iis ; 510 da the 4.i.!f: beffsixt the seure S.
and the leiter J. are tins thistles, rontinned from one '
stens front the third Lotion to the. capital ; the Owe
sides ender the *Wine:. are plain; on the ether tb,ee
are antique esigraviuge, viz Sacraments' cups, antique
Medusa's head., and iullion foliages; upon the top of
the stalk is min atitispie capital of leaven* eintaissed; '
upon the •113f51.4 Nth`fellf arises room' the propintiv.l
stem. surromided with three statists. : First, that of the
Blessed Virgin, crowned with an open crown, loilditig
iu her right arm our blessed Saviour, and io her left baud
a m.wd Nisi:rest with a cans. Next to her, on Isle
right humid, stand* the statue of St. Andrew in an 'panto.
lical garment, and on 111114 head a bonnet, like a Scoot boo.
net, holding in his right hand a cross, or saltier, a pail
whereof is bloke uff ; and in his left, elevate. a lank open..
On the bleared Virgin's left lintel, St. Andrew's right hand,
stands another statue, seaming to ivpresesit St James, with
the like spostulical rtrissent, and an hanginz neck sup er.added thereto, and upon his bead a little hal, like to the
Roman pilenin; in his right hand, half elevate. a hook
open ; and in his left, a pastoral staff, the heed is broken off;
and above each statue, !wing tem inches and a ;calf, except.
lug the Virgin, whirls is a little, less, the blushing of a gothic
niche. Bet %fist eaclsstagne arises a rullimi, in form of • del-
phut. very distinct, in length hoer inches, foliage along the
body, their heads upward, and aft-tinted inw erd, and the tnrii-
digs of their tails ending is a rose or cinglati:foil outward.
Above these riellious and statues stands anothey hexagon but-
ton, or hunt, with oak leaves ander every coruer, god above it
a crystal glithe of tern incite's—mid a quarter diameter. within
three bars, jointed above, where it it sermonoted with six
✓ullioas and byre again, wills au oval globe, topped with
as oriental pearl, half au inch diameter. The whole acetate
in length is thirty-four inches.
Tux SWORD-4/ in length five fret; Ilieliasolle null porn.
mel arc of silver over gilt„in length fifteen, inches ; the Cont.
inch is round, and somewhat Bat min the two sidva; MI the
middle of earls there de of embossed work a looked, and
in the centre there have' been two enamelled plates, which
are Wolfe uff. The traverse or ems. of lbe mind being
of silver Herr gilt, is in length 111.1fellifell jackes and ais 'sale
Its coin is like two dolphins, their heads joinine„.and their
tails rail into acorns ; the shell is hannint down towards the
point of the sword, formed like an escalup Aoserislied, or
rattler like a great oak leaf. On the blade of the Miruiel ale
indented with ;odd-Ahem letters, Julius 11. P. The MO,
hard is of crimsou --velvet, covered .with silver, gilded and
wrought iu philierrim woik into branches of the oak tree
leave. and scorns on the scabbard are placed four round
plates of silver over gilt ; two of them neer to the cramp. t
are enamelled 'Rae, and thereto. in gulden characters.
Julius 11. Pont 'Max. N. At the month of the scabbard,
opposite to the heck, is a large square plate of silver, east-
fuelled pm ple,- ii) • rat touch azure, an oak tree eradicated
and frnetuatests or ; and alitive the card...ugh the Papal it,.
sign, viz.—.ll'uo keys sit saltier otiose, their bowls knit, 11
like roses or cinquefoils, tied with trappiugs and tassels
hangiug dawn at each side of the icartuuels. Above the keys
is the Papal tiara,. environed with three cruet's, with toss
labels turned up, adorned with crosses. Pope Julius 11.
who gifted the sword so King James IV. bad for his armo-
rial ftgaree, an oak Ire: fructaiatell, which is the reason
the sword is 'Wormed with such figures, a hill and a star;
a hick figures I hail nut on any part of taw sword ; if 144:y 113 V.
been to* the two enamelled plates, which are lust from' the
pommel, I know not ; hut it is certain the Pope'hail such
figures. as appears by these verses male by Yuhobur, a fa-
mous Italian poet ; as the same are seutiouisl by Ilerntassias
Hermes, a Grooms writer, who gives us these hoe«, toots.' iu
the istotastery :
." Qsscreua, !Bons, Melia, format sea Stemmata Print:cps ;
Risque trilins tritium slat diadema
'ruts Nevis Petri sediis non &ether tombs;
Mutes teget a veutis,stellaque munstrat item."

Now that the regalia of ti:ollaud have been foutol,
it may attune our readers to Fee the sueessititimit, an
to Oetr exo.tettee. made by Mr. [logo Arno!, ill lam
utmusing I littory qf Edinburgh. Speaking of the
interior vtructureof the Castle, he says--;

" In Ibis quarter of the Castle State Prisoners are kept;
and irs one apartment, called the ('roar Knew, it is pre-
leaded that the RIVIIIS of Scotland are drpstaitert; that they
were lodged there with inns* formality tor 2lith %larch, 1707,
is certain. Whether tlwy lie there still is very peohlt
If they be, nothing at least ran ha noire 111114111 thaw the
way in which thi y hate lawn kept.
''The tray (Dpresent all object of great valise, is not to his
it up for ever f he eyes of Ilw public; quite the reverse.
It is by prudiseisig it at stated times before certain officers,
ac representing the public. Nom,attree She seam were de-
posited, no G‘veenor of the Castle, repots his ad*slrssiwn,
has made imps's), if they were lilt • 1,1•11110. by bog porde-
cesaor. No mortal boa been known is, bare area them.
Wlnalier it arta lkat die Government ettivriained a
jenio,,,y that the 'Sruts,:in their fickleness or disgust,
worth! repent threaselraa of the Voles,, or that they
rirsalled the regalia might, *spots an iarrsioo, fall into
the beads of the Inir of the Unitise of Stoat.; it 1.41411%
probable that the. rrz dm hare bees privately removed
by a "ram order front the Court ; for it is impossible
that any. Governor of the Castle *until abstract them with-
out aritholity. If after this general surmise, Fa publicly
thrown out, the officers of state and governor of E..linburets
Castle a ill not wake pee Ronal inquiry, whither the salralsa
of scs•tlatol be }llll in ilia Cmile, the 'bobby will be colailral
to conclude that Mei are no leapt,. Mere, anal that Shea hate
bees carried sbr ha print ardent frau. the Curri."--
( Edinburgh )
•

‘Ve regret in state that ‘V11.1.1.01 lioNv wow).
E•ci of ile E•st-x, stitil of Sibton. en
K,„t, at lie. lenet.e he Clem les—eeto vet, 11:,i
Sue.they it 110(111, In the 59111 oil' of Inn
Hue. II e 'cies reertetra the Ct,tietLy 4.i Kent in PHI
leeement freetn the year I 81Jel 10 Isl 2. W 1.1,1.01
i'1111,1:6 I lo Nor WOOD, EN. his tllkt.t son, btu:a:beds
to iel ualuu6le taunts an Essex wed Kent.

7HE 71:11F.

BETTING YESTERDAY IN TUC SPORTING

CIRCLES.
DERBY.
'M. In 1 acst the Waxy c. I 12 10 1 apt Dirtutor
out of Mahout:l 14 to l :acct
10} to 1 arM Orville c. I 16 to 1 opt I). of York's
out a Alleprtta &pout's. cult.
12 to 1 ■pt Creccy

OA
4 to 1 opt Loo
RIDDLESIVOI
11 to 2 apt Cresoidi
ti to 1 mg-1 Dictator
b to -1 ao►t Kantail
OATI.
Sovereigu first favottrite.—N

12 to 1 apt Chutney f.
'll STARIS.
6 to 1 ig.t Alarmion, itnt
of Lancashire Witch.

, N DS.
• belling, about the St. Leger.•

MARKE 7'.i.

CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, FFIBRUART 9.
We had a middling supply of Wheat this moving from
Fissex and Kent, Bur sampl.s of which mild readily at Mon.
day's prices, hut isifrriur curls were yes), dull, and towards
the close were rather !newt.. Fine Bailey soil Oats support
their prices ; Malt is steady; in Peas and Beans there is no
malcri:d variatimi.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, Thorpair, EFIBILVARY 9.

This dm's maiket was well *applied with prime
sad the skew of Cattle, to Wiwi* roaperls, wig tolerably
good. 1144:1; Molina, Veal, and Pork, sold at 13,4 prices;
sod the trade in general was oiatealia hißk. The is
the Haymarket were nob, r lively. Hay, Straw, and Clovir
frlclied last price,. Subjoined is a correct statement ut
the prices and numbers
sink the offal per stone of 911).
_ .

Reef.... 3% i o.t, In 51. 6J. lira.' of Cat t k atilt fig,/ t..—
Al stlttot 44, 03.1 to 04. 4,1 lictigine ... ... 2.?ltei
Lomb .. 04 ilii 1.. 01. d.l. ShIV.I) 14.54/0
1/..41....44 01 to 74 U, eulve. 271
Puri... 14 2.1 to I; I. 11.1. I Piet ....

111A1. Alt;.: rktptiJant
RIO. at 111.n.,1 %old
(WI ...selictle
bi Sunderland

FRO.II SATURDAY NIGIIT'S GAZETTE.