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FURTHER PARTICULARS.
FROM SATURDAY NiGnrs GAZETTE.

Or George Mackenzie, Sir David Mae, Lieutestant-General
Sir John Hopei Dr. Thomas Spens, Sir John Pringle, Sir David
Hunter Blair, Sir Evan Macgregor Murray, Henry Jardine,
Sag. Honourable General John Leslie Cumming; Major Nor-
man Pringle, Adjutant. s.
So closed the splendid pageant of the Kinds land-
ing in Scotland; a pageant, of as much beauty, and
conducted, perhaps, with more feeling, as well as de-
corum, than any other in the annals of the country.
All political and even all personal animosity seemed
to he forgotten ; and the appearance of the people
could.be compared to nothing so justly, as to that of
an orderly family on the arrival of a well beloved and
long expected • father. Among the countless multi-
tude of spectators, we have not been able to learn
that there was a single quarrel, a single dispute, or a•
single.accident. All seemed happy, and all seemed
anxious to contribute to the general happiness.—
Taking the matter as a mere spectacle, the effect of
it was quite unique. Just at the moment of his MA-
JESTY'S landing, we stood upon the leads of Holy-
rood (to which we were most obligingly admitted by
the Noble Keeper of the Palace). On our left were
the old and falling crags, spread with marquees,
spotted with cavalry, and mounted with cannon.—
Over this ran the picturesque elevation of Arthur's
Seat, with here and there a solitary jager clothing
its sides. The position of the sun was such as to give
relief to many parts of the clifi;, and every fissure of
the hill, and the Yeomanry and Artillerymen on the
summit of the crags were, by their elevation and pro-
jection against the clear sky, magnified into giants.
On the left rose the graceful view of the Calton, with
its spiral walks thronged with multitudes, and over it
the numerous flags arid pendants of the Royal squa-
dron, the tint and the merchant vessels, had a very
fine effect. Before us rose the glories of Edina, the
old grey Castle, the venerable Crown of St. Giles, and
the fantastic clusters of the old buildings, which, with
their irregular heights, produce even at high noon a
chiaro oscuro, which one may look for in vain in any
other city.
At one part was the Court of the Palace, vi ith the
Royal Standard floating on its ancient walk and
guarded by Highlanders with their swords, shields,
and pistols. There was a fine light breeze, with flying
clouds, which added much to the beauty of tl e scene.
When the grand salute, upon his MAJE:,TY'S entering
the barge, was fired from the fleet, the answering
salqte from Salisbury Crags had a very fit.e effect.
The volumes of white smoke hung over the cliffs as
if they had been things of permanence and solidity.
The report of the guns shook the Palace; and every
report was taken up by countless echoes, and an-
swered by shouting and martial music. The sky
lowered for a little, as if to give sublin:ity to the
fleecy smoke and flashing fire on the earth. The
smoke and the haze in an instant enveloped the City,
and the gleam of the cannon seemed to come from an
immense distance. The haze cleared up just as his
MAJESTY entered the City, and the rush of people
horn the North side of the Calton Hill to the South,
announced that the Procession was no longer vi,iblc
from that quarter. The mass was beautifully grouped
along the different swells and projections, while
smaller masses were ever and anon parsing between.
At the time when the shout of applause was heard
;rem Prince's-ptrect, the whole mass of people started
into motion as if by magic ; and when the first note
of the bagpipe was heard playing the favourite air of
" the Campbells are coming," and the first yellow
plumes of the Breadalbanes were seen nodding be-
tween the Calton 11111 and the monument of DAVID
DUNIE, the stir was not much less.

The whole of the Procession was splendid, but cer-
tainly the most imposing part of it was those in the
Highland garb. There is something Grecian about
it—something which inspires the idea of strength,
much more than laced coats or polished cuirasra:s.—
Even Sir WILLIAM CURTIS looked a bit of a hero,
as his bare limbs shewed the size of his understanding.
Captain CAMPBELL, of Auchreac'n, who was at the
head of the Breadalbanes, was most splendid. Some
of the Celtic Meeting, as for instance GRA HAM STIR-
LINO, of Perth, and MACDOUGAL, of Macdougal,
who commanjed the Guard which was posted to re-
ceive the Royal Person at Holyrood, were models of
the costume. Indeed, from the appearance which
was made by all who took part in this Procession, it
is demonstrated that the costume and appearance of
Scotsmen, are second to none; while the deep and
general, though manly and tempered feelings which
they have evinced upon this occasion, prove that they
know how to act as well as how to be splendid. Scot-
land will not soon forget the KING'S visit; and it is
probable that, from the reception with which he has
met, Scotland will not soon be forgotten by the KING.
Leith and Dalkeith were illuminated, and fireworks
were let off in Charlotte-square last night ; but the
folks seemed too much absorbed by the feelings of
the morning for paying any attention to them. Edin-
burgh is to be lighted up this evening.

ADMIRALTY OFFICE, AUGUST 17, 182 g.
A dispatch has been received from Commodore Sir Otani's,
Paris; dated off Berwick the 13th instant, reporting, that after
very tempestuous weather on the preceding night, the KING, in
his Majesty's yacht the Royal George, reached the entrance of
the Firth of Forth on the morning of the 13th, but that the
wind blowing with great violence from the W.N.W. and a good
deal of sea getting up, the Commodore felt it his duty to advise
his MAJESTY to anchor for shelter in Berwick Roads, which was
accordingly dune at nine A.M. the Royal Sovereign yacht being
in company. _ _ _

Ilia .11i.s..reArrr remained in perfectly good health ; and it was
his MAJECTeg intention, as soon as the weather should mode-
rate, to proceed to the Flrtli

A further dispatch, dated the 14th, from Leith Roads, an-
nounces that, at two p.m. on that day the KING had reached that
aachorage, in his Majesty's yacht Royal (ieurge, attended by
the other yachts and the rest of the squadron.

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was illuminated on Wednesday and last night, aal
had a beautiful effect.
Several Highland Chiefs have arrived, and are at.
tended by their followers, dressed in the national
costume.
FROM THE EDTNBUROH ORSERFER OP FRIDAY.
The Procession of yesterday, as seen from the leads
of Holyrood, was more grand even than the descrip-
tions one meets with in the fairy tales of the East. Eve, y
one knows bow very striking Edinburgh is from that
point ; and when the Calton Hill was crowded with
well-dressed people, and the heights replying to the
shipping in Leith Roads, in the thunder-note, of can:
non, the effect was sublime. When the first Royal salute
was fired from the squadron, and answered by the
Calton Hill and Salisbury Crags, it put me in mind
of Chit* Harold's description at the thunder-storm in
the Alps, where one mountain answers through its
curtain of clouds to the sonorous voice of another :
" And Jura answers through her murky shroud,
/lack to the joyous Alps, which calls to her aloud !"
Salisbury Crags were spotted with tents an.l
marquees; and when the dense clouds of white smoke
from the guns hung over the bristling cliffs, they had
-an effect s‘hich no pen can de,ct ibe. That effect ‘t,,,
heightened by the sudden lowering of the sky, along
the darkness of which the 'white smoke from th..!
Castle guns rolled like fire-balls over the dark train
of night. A bolt of black smoke, too, from the bon-
fire on the top of Arthur's Seat, as if it had pro-
truded from a volcano, added interest to the still lite
of the scene.

We are informed, that when the first gun, an.
nouncing his MAJESTY'S departure from the yac:it,
was fired, there was in all present not an liuzza, but
a swelling sob of rapture inexpressibly expressive.-_
Several spectators then actually shed tears of delight
and pride; and when they could command utter-
ance, they were as loud as their neighbours in their
cries of welcome.
In the Procession from Leith a little boy, whose
hat was covered with heather, had incommoded a
Gentleman in the tumultuous march, who hat re-
proved him.—,4 Hoot man," said the boy, " dinua
be angry to-day—we are a' mad!"
The coast of Fife was !art night illuminated by bon-
fires, lighted on the adjacent and the Lomond Hills.
A large body of the Campbells, or Breadalbaue
Highlanders, under the command of Captain Came-
DELL, have arrived.here. They were received at lie.
lyrood Palace by the Countess of BREADALBANE.—
Eliet:e fine, manly, and martial appealieg men are
tended to strengthen the domestic guard of the
Saturday, his MAJESTY will hold a Levee.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESI'ONDENTS.
" EDINBURGH, AUGUST 1:7.
" The Royal Fleet arrived in the Roads last nig::t,
and came to anchor about half a mile liom the Pier-
head, where the three yachts lay in line, the Suv.2-
reign a-head and the Regent a-stern of the Royal
GEORGE, the frigate and sloops of war forming a
other line outside. Twelve o'clock being high we.c..,
his MAJESTY fired on that hour for landing to-clar,
and, exactly at the hour appointed, stepped into the
,State Barge, and was rowed. on shore b) f:Aitteen of
the ROYAL GEORGE'S clew, dressed in bluejackets,
with red shoulder knots, and black velvet caps. All
the men of war's boats and many private barges
formed a line on each side of the KING, a little astern
on the Admiral's barge leading. The moment tL.e
SOVEREIGN stepped into the boat a gun was fired
from the yacht ; and a Royal salute from the &xi:-
sands of vessels in the Frith, repeated by the ctnnca
from the Castle, the shores, and the mountains, for a
while transported the mind from the nether sphere,
and made one feel as if the whole was enchantment.
Imagine the spacious Filth of Forth, in all its splei.-
dour, covered with some thousand sail, decked out
all the gaudy colours of ten thousand forms—a
nificent bonfire blazing from Arthur's Seat—the sum-
mit of Salisbury Crags covered with a mil:: try e;..canli,-
ment, and the Standard of England floating in the
—the Calton Hill, Castle Rocks, and every eminence.
covered with the millions of Scotia's population, co:.
lected-from the North and from the South, the East am..

the West.
All this seen from the Bay, in a beautiful summer
noon, what the rising columns of smoke, the echo of
the artillery reverberated from the mountains, and
the animating cheers of a proud and loyal people, and
you may form some, but a faint idea, of the specta-
cle which I witnessed this day. His MAJESTY was
about ten minutes in rowing into the harbour, and
landed on a platform opposite the Ship Tavern, w hick
was covered with crimson, and where he entered aa
open carriage and drove along the shore, up Church-
street and Leith-walk, through York-place, St. An-
drew's-square, into Pi ince's-street, and along ti!.
gent Bridge, to Holy rood, by the Calton Hill and
St. Anne's Yards. From the point of the Pier-head
to the entrance of the Palace every open space and
the front of every house was covered with raised
scaffolding, such as occupied Westminster and its
neighbourhood at the Coronation ; and such was the
enthusiasm that every seat and corner were let at
from three to five and even ten shillings a seat.
" His MAJESTY was received at his landing by
WILLIAM CHILD, Esq. Admiral of Leith, and IL::
other constituted Authorities. He thee entered an
open landau, and the Procession commenced—Asr, A
troop of Mid-Lothian Yeomanry ; then detachmeets
of the several Highland Clans, dressed in their
na-
tive tartans, and headed by their respective Chief...
In front of the Royal carriage 150 of the Celtic So.
ciety, in Royal tartan, with shields and bucklers.—
On the right of his MAJESTY the gallant young hart
of ERROLL, Lord High Constable, and his train of
six Knights and 15 Squires. On the left the Marquis
of LOTHIAN, Lord Lieutenant of the County, and
his train of Deputy Lieutenants. Behind followed
the carriages of the Nobility in grand array ; and
the whole closed by a squadron of the Scots Greys.
"At the commencement of the City dominion A