The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-10 00:00:00

A ROYAL CHRISTENING IN 1600,

The following account, written by a contempo-
rary and eye-witness of the baptism of King
Charles 1., is of some interest at the present moment,
inasmuch that, like the princely eldest born of the
present Prince and Princess of Wales, King Charles
I. was at his birth the son of the heir to the English
throne (James VI. of Scotland and I. of England),
and of a female scion of the royal family of Den-
mark. It is literally copied from a manuscript in
the Lyons-office at Edinburgh, " written by John
Blinsele Hay Herald:—

" Upon Wednesday, betwixt eleven and twelve hours at
even, the 19th day of November, 1600, the Queen's Majesty
was delivered within the Palace of Dunfermling of a man-
child. God of His mercy make him His servant, give him
long and prosperous days to live, both to God's glory and
to the welfare of the country. Upon Tuesday, the 23d of
December, the King's Majesty came from his chambers to
the Chapel Royal, conveyed by the Marquis of Huntly,
the Earls of Montrose, Chancellor, Cassils, Mar and
Winton ; my Lord Lyon ; Sir George Douglas of Ellen,
Knight ; John Blinsele, Hay Herald ; James Borthwich,
RothsaylHerald ; and Thomas Williamson, Ross Herald;
Daniel Graham, Dingwal Pursevant ; William Makeson,
Bute Pursevant; and David Gardner, Ormond Purse-
vent; our coats of arms displayed, trumpets sounding
before us, conveyed his Majesty to the Chapel
Royal. And there his Majesty was placed on the east geivil
of the chapel. And thereafter my Lord Lyon, Master of the
Ceremonies, Heralds, Pursovants, and Trumpeters, came to
the Queen's chamber, and there was a pall of gold, silver,
and silk, very magnificent wrought (as it was spoken) by
his Majesty's late mother, of good memory, which was
sustained and borne by six knights—viz., the Knight of
Edzell and the Knight of Duddup at one end, the Knights
of Trequair and Ormiston at the ether end, and in the
midst of the pall on every side the Knight of Black Ormis-
' ton, called Sir Mark Ker of Ormiston, and Sir William
Balindon of Broughton ; and within the pall the Bairn,
borne by Marquis de Rohan, a nobleman of Brittany,
who bore the Bairn in his arms from the chamber to the
chapel ; and on one side of the said Marquis de Rohan his
brother, called M. de Soubize ; and on the other side of him
the Marquis of Huntly; and behind him my Lord Living-
stone, who bare up the Bairn's royal robe of purple velvet
lined with damask. The Bairn was covered with cloth of
gold and lawn. And behind, the dames of honour, the
Marquis of Huntly's wife, the Countess of Mar, with the
wives of my Lords Treasurer, President, Secretary, with
many other dames of honour. And before the pall was
the Bairn's honours borne, viz,, My Lord President bare
the crown ducal ; my Lord Spynie bare the laver and towel ;
my Lord Roxburgh bare the basin; my Lord Lyon, Master of
the Ceremonies, heralds with our coats displayed, trumpeters
sounding before us, with sundry other noblemen, We ranked
to the chapel till we came before his Majesty; and there, on the
north side of the said chapel, the pall and Bahia was placed.
The Lady Marchioness of lluntly bare the Bairn within the
said pall all the time of the sermon. On the east side of the
said pall was two chairs of cramoisy velvet where the two
brothers sat beneath his Majesty. On his Majesty's right
hand and on the west side of the pall sat these noblemen :
The Marquis of Huntly, Chancellor, Cassils, Mar and Win-
ton, treasurer, secretary, clerk register, advocate, and sundry
ether noblemen of the secret council. Upon the south side
of the chapel, my Lords Livingstone, Spynie, President
Roxburgh, and sundry other noblemen and servants of the
two Frenchmen who were his Majesty's gossips. The ser-
mon and baptism was made by Mr. David Lindsay, Bishop
of Ross, and minister of Leith, which was upon Romans
13th and 2d. The time of sermon being ended, Mr: David
Lindsay declared it over again in French to the two French-
men that were gossips, and thereafter he proceeded to the
baptism of the Bairn. The pall and Bairn was brought to
she pulpit, borne by the said Marquis de Rohan, and his
Majesty came in his place to the said pulpit with the said
noblemen ; and the minister baptised him, naming him
Cnarlea; and then after a Psalm sung, and blessing said,
my Lord Lyon proclaimed his styles, and called him my
Lord Charles of Scotland, Duke of Albany, Marquis of
Ormond, Earl of Ross, Lord Ardmannogh; and thereafter
Dingwal Pursevant proclaimed his styles out of the west
window of the said chapel, crying with a loud ♦oice—
Largess of the most high and excellent Prince, my Lord
Charles of Scotland, Duke of Albany, Marquis of Ormond,
Earl of Ross, Lord of Ardmannogh. Largesse largesse I
largesse I And thereafter John Mineola, Hay Herald, did
cast out of the said window one hundred marks of silver to

the poor, of the duke's largess; trumpets sounding, tho
castle shot nine cannons ; his Majesty ranked from tho
chapel to tho chamber as he did before; The pall, Bairn,
aad honours wore borne, and the lord's dames ranked from

the ohapel to the Queen's chamber, the gossip 'Marquis de
Rohan bore the Bairn as he did to the kirk; my Lord Lyon,
Master of Ceremonies, heralds, rursevants, trumpets sound.
ing before us."

SO, HE WILL HAVE IT. !—Messrs. Macmillan.
and Co. announce a reply by Professor Clanks Kingsley
to Dr. Newman's pamphlet, " Mr. Kingsley and Dr.
Newman," under the title of " What, then, does Dr. New-
man teach ?"

A RASCAL PROPERLY PUNISHED.—George Arm-
strorl gr a private of the 30th British Regiment, who
took
advantage of his leave of absence to cross to the Ame-
rican side, enlist there, receive the bounty, and then return
to his regiment boasting t,f his rascality, has been tried by
court martial, and sentenced to be drummed out of the e‘r-
vice, and afterwards imprisoned for two years,—Montreal
paper.

A POLITE CHRISTIAN.—.A lady, who was a strict
observer of etiquette, being unable to go to church one
Sunday, send her card.—American paper,
MARK LEMON'S " Wait for the End" forms vols.
698 and 699 of Tsuchnitz's Collection of British Authors.
Lord Macaulay's " History of England" has just been pub
lished at Prague, in Hungarian, by Zeleny.

THE TRADE OF THE NORTH-EASTERN PORTS.
The Customs returns show the following quantities
of coals and coke exported over sea from the north-eastern
ports in February : —Newcastle .on-Tyne, 124,672 tons of
coals, and 12,929 tone of coke, being an increase of 11,702
tons of coal as compared with February, 1863—Sunder-
land, 66,397 tons, being an increase of 4,391 tons—Hartle-
pool, 17,541 tons, being a decrease of 12,795 tons. 1./13 th
exported 9,491 tons—Warkworth, 3,727 tons—Seaham,
1,375 tons. In the value of goods other than coals and
coke exported there has been a decrease, amounting to
129,218 at Newcastle—Hartlepool, 1:113,791—and Middles-
borough, .C 16,242. There was an increase, however, of
6,323 at Sunderland. Newcastlel,377 exportedtnosof
coals—Sun-
to London
and coastwise, in February,
62
dorland 160,930—Hartlepool, 103,96.—Middlesborough,
13,001 —and ,
Scaham,
34,806 tons.
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON M. AND MAXIMILIAN.
—lt is reported that the Emperor and the Archduke Maxi-
milian are greatly pleased with each other, and that all the
difficulties relating to the acceptance of the Mexican throne
have been smoothed over and arranged to the mutual satis-
faction of both potentates.