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 Braehead and Craufurdland, who, in right of his mother, as proprietrix of Braehead, in the county of Mid-Lothian, claims this privilege,- the service performed being the ancient tenure by which the estate of Braehead is held. He was attended by Masters Charles and Walter Scott, the one a son, the other a nephew, of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. as pages, attired in splendid dresses of scarlet and white satin: the former holding a silver ewer, and the other a salver, with a damask napkin of Scottish.manufacture, and of the finest texture. In offering the basin, Mr. Howison Craufurd knelt down to his Majesty, who, after he had dipped his fingers in the water, and wiped them with the napkin, acknowledged the service with an affability and grace peculiarly his own.

A great number of healths and toasts were drunk. About ten o'clock, the company began to retire; and they broke up about twelve. All were delighted with the evening's entertainment. His Majesty seemed to have been highly gratified with his reception, and with the ardent demonstrations of duty and affection which he received from the highly-respectable company assembled around him.

On the forenoon of Sunday, the 25th of August, the King attended divine service in the High Church of St. Giles's. The seat occupied by the King was that which is allotted to his Majesty's Commissioner to the General Assembly, in front of the gallery, and immediately opposite the pulpit. His Majesty, at a quarter past eleven set out in a close carriage for church from Holyrood Palace, (having arrived only a few minutes