Star. — 1809-10-12 (London, England)

TRE EDITOR OF THE STAR.  Sin—Observing, lately, some remarks in the various Papers of the day, respecting the intended Jdhilee, on account of the advanced period of the reign of our beloved Sovereign over this empire, and having temarked the stress laid on the long reigns of Edward the Third, and Henry the Third, of England, I have felt an inclination (natural, you will say, to an old Highlander), that the glory of our once Royal Scottish Line in this respect, should not be eclipsed : and I therefore hope, that a few facts, from History, in this view, will not be unacceptable. lam sure, they Rill be highly gratifying to many of your Readers beyond the Tweed. The English Heptarchy was only subdued in the year 823, when Egbert the Great became the first sole Saxon Monarch of England, nearly about the time that Kenneth the Second conquered the Picts. Constantine the Third, the grandson of Kenneth, was often victorious over the Dates, who during his reign had invaded the east coast of Scotland. This warlike Highland Prince, after a reign of fifty-two years, died in peace in the monastery of Icolmkill, to which he had retired, on account of his great age, a short time before his death. Malcolm the 3d, surnamed Caenmore, computed his reign (as Charles the 2d of Britain) from the death of his father Duncan the Ist, who was murdered by Macbeth, anno 1010. Macbeth's usurpatiori continued seventeen years until Malcolm was restored to the throne of his fathers in 1.57, by the aid of Edward tLe Confess-)r. Malcolm married Princess Margaret, daughter to Edward, the son of Edmond the Second of England, surnamed Ironside ; and thus introduced the blood royal of the Saxon, or English Kings, into the royal line of Scotland. This warlike Prince was slain in the siege of Alntviek Castle, the 13th November, 1093, in the fifty-third year of his prosperous reign, and was the lust of the Scottish Monarchs buried et Dunfermline. The eldest daughter of Malcolm the Third married Henry the First, the youngest son of William the Conqueror ; and thus continued the blood r0y.,1 of the old Saxon Monarchy, ie the line of the Normans, Plantagenets, and Tudors. King William of Scotland, surnamed the Lion, the great grandson of Malcolm the Third, died at the Abbey of Aberbrothwick, in the 4.9ih year of his reign. This Abbey had been founded by him in honour of the memory of Thomas a Bee ket of Canterbury . David the Second, son of the victorious Robert the First, or the Bruce, died February 2d, 1371, in the 43d year of his rei:rn, in the Castle of Edinbargh, in that part of the .'building named from his having built it, King D -svid's Tower. On the death of David 11. commenced the Stewart succession, whose reigns were unfortunate and short, until that of James VI. who reigned .58 years, '22 of . .  which over England and Scotland, as one United Kingdom. His present Majesty, Geo. Il I. is the sixth in lineal descent, from that 'learned and prudent • Monarch, the First of Great Britain, in whose veins was centered all the Blood Royal of the different dynasties that in Cornier ages held dominion in this now happ4 United KinOom. 'Thus, Sir, 1 have cfmpleted my design—and this Statement may be depcnded on, as from one who has long been led to make hiuory and genealogy his pecuhar study. In conclusion, permit me, Sir, to hint that the ar• poaching Jubilee might be signalized for ages to erne, to the honour of. both our King and his People, if, instead of a waste of money fir purposes, the memory and gratification of which will end with the day—some of our leading men of worth wauld but publish their resolutions, to countenance sub-:eripftons and collections for founding, an ins:ituticn for the  maintenance of a certain n umberofdeservine- aged men and women. Surely such a measure wouldmeet with the cordial support of thf, enlightened and the good. I would propose such an establishment to he fir proportion of Eng Scotthe reception of an equal proportion and Irish subjects —that thus the unisut of the three Kingdoms might h. perp:tuatcd. The front of the buqding might exhibit to admiring strangers and to Albit4r.'s sons :And .langlters, for centuries to come, such an Inscription as the following : Jubilee t:5, I AO, By puolic cetantat7 Subscriptions, 'rt. the Memory of the Mit of King', G Lc,