State Jacobites.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 5, 31 January 1912, Page 45

State Jacobites.

“The King—over the water!” was a io*at openly given and eutlni-' ist ically received at a Scottish banquet in London one night recently, and in honour of King George. That sentiment has never been given, at least in the United Kingdom, in honour of a Sovereign of the House of Hanover, for it is the oldest of all Jacobite toasts; and it was accustomed to l»e so symbolically used that finger-bowls were abolished at the dinner-table at Windsor Castle, certainly until late Victorian times, because of the inherited Jacobite habit of drinkjug the health of the monarch with all apparent loyalty, but literally “over the water." Yet, when Principal J. Yule Mackay, of the University Col lege, Dundee, presiding at the annual dinner of the Glasgow University Club in London, slyly observed that the opportunity was at last given to all Scotsmen to drink with true loyalty the toast of “The King” in the precise form so many of their countrymen for two centuries had desired, there was a roar of acclaim and a rapturous welcome for his ready wit.