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probably not very difficult to

arm-el by the hangers-en in the Edinburgh Parliiment-

Ise, has deemed it prudent to play the same gain

s accordingly put forth a well-written article, demon

sting that the alleged armorial grievance is, in reality,
grievance at all; at the same time, however, with

kracteristic Scottish caution, averring that its argu-

,nta are directed to eonfute the asserti

the Vindication of Scottish Rights" derives "its birth
n the affair about the lion." While its hand is in, the

urant like

le demob

Idle grievance,

that of

uncrowning the Scottish unicorn

IL crowning our northern brother assures us is a

)dern invention, dating no further back than the acces-
m of JAMES IV . to the English throne ; he very curi-

31y, however, does not condesCend to inform us how
ach earlier it could have appeared, at all events, in

anexion with the royal arms of England ; a singul

ission, no doubt, on the part of so erudite a herald, so

an antiquary, and so communicative an in

T. On the armorial point, trivial as it unquestion-

)e worth while stating as a fact, t

Liat from

,eriod antecedent to the commencement of the present
rtury, to within comnarativelv a fpw VAft,l the Senfthb

contingent of the imperial arms was quartered on the
royal standard, habitually displayed above the battlements
of Edinburgh Castle, as claimed by those whom the
Courant represents as being in error : nay, f►trther, that
on the Scottish Privy Seal, executed at the accession of
Her present 111A_SESTY, and daily used by her appointed
officers, the device is the effigy of Queen VICTORIA on the

)ther, the dexter or CHIEF SUPPORTER

of Scotland occupies the first and fourth quarters, the
emblematic ensigns of England and-Ireland being placed
second and third. So much for past and present

Rejoicing in the heraldic learning of the Courant, and

partially aware of the value attached to bold assertion,
whether true or false, ;the Time* gives utterance to the

hich we have quoted at the commencement of

these observations; and waxing audacious on the strength

of his northern alliance, our friend the thunderer adven-
tures a flash of his theatrical lightning-, wherewith to

scathe the Scottish claims;

with over-weening

arrogance

he launches his leaden bolt,—a ribbald sneer at BANNoes-
puux, and triumphantly assumes that he has laid the

agitation and the agitators for ever in the dust. The bad

taste of such an escapade is not more conspicuous than
is its divergence from the usual caution which regulates
the movements of the Times. On many a blood-stained
field—on many an ensanguined deck, since the day on
which the Scottish Marathon was fought, have our Cale-
donian brethren proved how sensitively, how devotedly
sentiment of national honour—side

they are alive to the

ide with

Albion's sons, in ninny a fray they have

proudly sustained the glory of the British arms ; and
every true-hearted Englishman will join in indignant

on which Scottish men wrote in our country's bravest
blood an interpretation of their national motto, NEMO ME
IMPUNE LACESSIT, in characters which the sunshine
of nearly six centuries have been unable

As for o

conduct their own
not the conclusion

,nce of what

;hem to conduct al