Star.
London, England, 1818-01-21 00:00:00

REGALIA OF SCOTL4ND.

is well known, that, by tOlit Act of takes, it ii
specially provided, that the Crown,. Sceptre, and
Slyrord of State; belonging to the Kingdom of Scott
land, are appointed to remain and be preserved in
that kingdom, and that these royal symbols were
carefully deposited in a strong chest, in presence of
the Officers of State and, other personages of high
dignity, as well as the Commisdoners of the.Rarl
Niarescli:ll, who' claimed, by ancient custom, the
custody thereof, and that the chest was placed in a
Chamber in the Castle of Edinburgh, called the
Grown-room, which was formally and strongly se-
cured. Nevertheless, a strong report went abroad,
;that, during the troublesome times of 1715 or 1718,
or, as some say, so late as 1745, the regalia of Scot-
land were transferred to London, and it is certain,
that, at the Jewel Office in the Tower, a crown has
been exhibited among the other treasures, supposed
and alleged to be that of Scotland. Others have
'traced this report to the artifices of the Jacobites,
,whose aversion at the Union is well known, and who
did all they could to excite throe Scotland a
feeling, that the country had been ed, and her
privileges destroyed, by that m le treaty.
Some years since, a Commission was issued to the
Officers of State of Scotland, and other eminent per-
sons, to open the Crown-room, in order to search for
certain Records, which, it was supposedgneyht have
been deposited there. The room was o accord-
ingly, and all things seemed to be in the same con-.
diuon in which they might have been left in 1707.
The dust of a century lay on the floor, and on the
lid of a huge chest, answering the description of that
in which the regalia are stated to have been deposit-
ed. It was even remarked by an observer, equally
acute and accurate, that the dust (about six incites
thick) presented a surface perfectly uniform and level,
which could not have been the case had the chest
been opened at any great distance of time after it
had been placed in the Crown Room, since, in that
case, a large quantity of dust displaced from the lid
of the chest must have been lying around it in heaps:
But the matter was left to conjecture ; for the Com-
mission only warranting a search for Records, of
which none were found in the Crown Room, the

Commissioners did not consider it as authorising
them to open a chest, which, if it contains any thing
at all, holds not the Records, but the Regalia of our
ancient kingdom.
The keen and irritating feeling of national jealousy
which once attached an important point of honour to
the exigence and preservation of these Chadic' as
,the visible and tangible symbols of Scottish indepen-
dence, has been long lulled to rest by the merging
of our separate national concerns in the general inte-
rests of Great Britain. Yet there is a feeling of mys-
terious curiosity with which we are tempted to regard
bilked rooms, chests _which we have locked for cen-
turies, and the fate of those symbols which anciently
represented the Royalty of Scotland. It is therefore
with pleasure that we inform our Readers, that the
mystery attached to this point of our national and
historical antiquities, will probably soon-be cleared up.
A Commission, under the Sign Manual, has been
recently issued to his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh
and Queensberry, Lord Lieutcnaut of Mid-Lothian,
with the principal Officers of State for Scotland, the
respective Heads of the Courts of Law and Legal
Bodies, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and other
Gentlemen recommended by official situations of im-'
portance, directing them to open the Crown Room,
and proceed to open the Chest in which the Regalia
are said to have been deposited, to make search for
the same, and to report the issue of their inquiries to
his Royal Highnes the Prince Regent

Thursday two slight of hand Itinerants obtained
permission to perform one night at Dalston, stating
themselves to be in the greatest distress; but before
the evening's amusements commenced, a constable
and a respectable old woman from Wigton arrived at
Dalston, with a charge against one of the performers
of having seduced and taken away with him the
daughter of the old woman, of the age of 16, and'
also some• of the•old woman's handkerchiefs; this
being given upon oath, the Alight-of-band-man was
committed to Carlisle gaol for further examination ;
and on Friday the Clerk of the Peace attended with a
Magistrate, when the delinquent, upon being told
he should undergo the punishment of whipping and
imprisonment, sued hard for mercy, although he had
held a high crest before. The old and young women
seemed both melted ; the young declaring she would
go with him wherever he went, and the old one stat-
ing she had done all she could to get her daughter
back, and therefore she would return home. In this
state the matter now stands, and the conjuror re-
mains in Carlisle gaol for the present.
For some time past one Mark Kingston and Ed-
ward Peacock, two coal-porters, working at the wharf
at the bottom of Watcr-lane, Fleet-street, had been
paying their addresses to a young widow, the wife of
a brother workman deceased. She paid attention to
both, declaring she did not know which she liked
best, but she could have but one, according to the '
laws of matrimony ; but if they would take a chance
who should be the happy man between them, she
would be agreeable. They accordingly agreed to
fight, which battle took place on Friday last, on the
coal wharf, when after a struggle of thirteen rounds,
in which was some good knock-down blows, victory
was declared in favour of Mark Kingston, who went
off in great triumph to see the young widow.--They
are to be asked three times in church, and to be mar-
ried on Shrove Monday.

We feel pleasure in publishing the following letter,
as transmitted to us, in confirmation of a paragraph
which appeared in our Paper, relative to the cure of
that general and dangerous complaint Rupture:

TO THE EDITOR OE THE STAR.
Sta—Observing a paragraph in your Paper respecting the cure
of an Hernia, performed (of a large size) by the Medical Board,
at Charlotte Ilouse, Great Charlotte-street, Illackfriars Road, in
justice, Sir, to Messri. COOPER and Co. I beg to add my
personal testimony. :laving been afflicted nearly twenty ears,
and deemed incurable by eminent Surgeons, I patiently bare my
affliction, expecting every hour to be my hat; I at length ap-
plied to the Medical Board, and have reason to pray for that
excellent Etablishment, for although I am nearly 50, was per
fectly cured in a few weeks, and now, thank Gon, enjoy good
health.—l think, Mr. Editor, all who know me will allow that
I can have no other motive for this communication than apublie
benefit.—l ant, Sir, your obedient Servant, C. CLIMANIS.
Dog and Stile, near London-road, St. George's
Yields, October, 1017.