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acknowledged them with a grace and cordiality which drew fresh acclamations 

 from his subjects. A little past twelve o'clock, the king was received at the 

 landing-place by the port admiral, the magistrates of Leith, the Lord Provost 

 of Edinburgh, the Lord Justice Clerk, the Lord Chief Baron, the Lord Clerk 

 Register, the Lord Advocate, Sir Thomas Bradford, Sir Walter Scott, and 

 other distinguished individuals appointed for this duty. 



After the due performance of much imposing ceremony, the king having the 

 port admiral and senior magistrate on his right, proceeded with a firm step 

 along the platform, and path strewn with flowers to his carriage. Here he 

 was again saluted with deafening peals, while the highland chief Glengarry, 

 penetrating the dense multitude in performance of his office, drew up in front 

 of the royal liege, and proclaimed, " Your Majesty is welcome to Scotland !" 



After a short pause, the procession set forward, and was extremely showy 

 as it spread out. The earl of Kinnoul, as Lord-lyon, curvetting and caprioling 

 his handsome charger in front of a cloud of heralds and cavaliers — his golden 

 coronet — crimson mantle flowing to the ground — his broidered boots and golden 

 spurs, would have been irresistible in the eyes of a dame of the twelfth centiuy. 

 Sir Alexander Keith, as Knight-marshal, with his grooms and esquires ; and 

 Sir Patrick Walker, as " White-Rod," with liis equerries, made a splendid 

 appearance — second only to that of the Lord-lyon. A long alternation of 

 cavalry and infantry, city dignitaries, and highlanders, followed. At the end 

 of the vista — surrounded hj the royal guard of archers, Glengarry and his 

 household retainers, and a whole galaxy of starred and scarlet aides-de-camp 

 itnd generals— was seen the king, wearing the uniform of a British admiral.* 

 After some delay in going through the ceremonies of receiving the city keys 

 ariS listening to speeches, the train moved round by the foot of the Calton-hill 

 towards the palace, in allusion to which, says an elegant %vriter who witnessed 

 the procession, " I have been a seeker of sights — not of mere shows — all my 

 life. No man is more immovable to the glories of gilt coaches and trumpeters 

 laced to the gorge. My delight has been where the magnificent of Nature 

 combined with some strong excitement of man. I have seen an army marching 

 over mountains, and spreading glen and crag with expanded banners and glit- 

 tering steel ; I have seen an army hurrying to battle through a huge ancient 

 city that had every roof and window clustered with people listening wdth ' white 

 lips ' and in dumb suspense to the roar of the cannon outside their gates ; I 



• His Majesty was dressed in an admiral's uniform, with a tliistle and sprig of lieath in his hat, and on 

 liis breast the St. Andrew's Cross, which had been presented to him the previous day by Sir Walter Scott, 

 in the name of the ladies of Edinburgh. — Historical Account — Appendix to this Work. 



