The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
THE PALACE At LINLITHGow.
1t VIII Probably Be Restored in
Honor of the Late Queen
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The project to restore LinIitngow Palace
BY public subscription of the Scottish Eco
pie, as q memorial to their late Queen,
has in its favor Il great deaI of Eagifsh
and Scottish history. which makes the
choice of this ruin particularly appro-
pirate As il now is, the palace is re-
S4rded as the finest and most interesting
rum IN scotland, which IS a land OF rims
almost as much as q land of cakes. Re
stored merely To- the sake OF restoring
! II might have been grievance to the ~
GIclcUS historian and antiquarian, but its
restoration with the memory Of Queen
Victoria as an argument would seem only
a natural and consistent step in its his
tory
Adjacent to the royal burgh of LinIith-
gov, which IS about sixteen miles from
Edinburgh, is q lake covering about I0J
acres Almost exactly in the middle of
one side of this lake a promontory juts
out ana upon this promonIOry the Roman
invaders OF Caledonia nineteen centuries
ago made a fortified camp Edward I OF
England. one Of Queen Fictoria's most
| distinguished ancestors, was as fa-Orabiy
impressed W.. the advantages of the site
as his Roman predecessors mad been. and
II was ne VINO HFSI built q royal castle
or Keep here, in 1872. OF the masonry
which still attracts the admiring eyes
and the cameras of tourists at Linlith-
gov, however 1t is not at all certain that
any part goes back TO this date There
may be much of Edward 1 s work in the
foundations, but the Oldest visible por-
ugH OF the walls now remaining IS at
tributed to James III Of Scotland. another
ancestor of Queen Victoria, who asceuded
the throne in If5a
In 1872 Mary Stuart. through whom the
late Queen Of Great Britain and Ireland
derived all her hereditary claims to the
throne, was born in this ancient castle
then one OF the chief ROYAL residences CT
Scotland Throughout the exceptionally
stormy years which followed the death of
James and the accession OF Mary. the
royal burgh of LinIithgow was the scene
Il some OF the darkest and blOOdieSt
tragedies There, in 1871 Hamilton of
Bothwellhaugh lay in wait in a wooden
balcony at the back OF the house and,
shielded from observation by the family
washing that hung on line along the
balcony, shot md killed the Regent Mo
ray In thai same year was held at Lin
NLhgoW the =" lEention OF lords, Scottish,
French. and d-safected English the dec
IaraJions o. E.nich eliminated in the kid
naping and murder of Mary Queen Of
Scots
As late as 1916 the old walls of LinIi5h-
gov palace still stood in fair pre- servation-
Then when the last rising OF the Scottish
JacobiteS had ended in disaster at CuIlo-
den and Prince Charles 1Tas a fugitive,
General h1wley, one OF tie officers who
at that time did most TO maintain the
HanOYerian succession. having used in
hthgow as barrack for his troops. st
It on fire when he abandoned it From
the earliest days of her reign Queen Vie
JOria did more than any other sovereign
of her house TO heal the soreness which
remained from the dynastic quarrelS of
the preceding century. She was d great
StLtF OF George II. Rlf IN
Scotland she always renem nergJ with
something Ike Jacobite euthsuiasm the
fact that she was also Of the same blood
as Prince Charlie u was not until her
reign that a Scottish militia regiment.
mastering on CuiIoden Muir for statutory
drill. could deck their bOunetS with the
white Wild roses that grew there without
reproof from their commanding officers
She chose for herself a Highland residence
IN one of the most decidedly JaCObIteS dis
trlets- and loved 10 wander over the coun-
try where Prince ChdrIie-'-Tny own cons
in, as she liked to call him-wandere,f
and hid as a fugitive. and to hear for her
self the local JacObite traditions at first
hand from the people OF the country. As
the burning Of LinAthgoW palace was one
of the bitterly remembered wrongs in
diCJed on Scotland by the troops of the
black cOckade. and taking into cOnS{de-a-
ton the historical associations of the
building with two of Eictorias most i'm
pOTtaGt ancestors-geneal0g speak
ing-it appears that lord Rosabery who
by the way, is one of the largest land
owners in LinlithgoW- county. was par
ticUlarly happy in his suggestion Of a ma
tionaI memorial