ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 15, 13 August 1897, Page 15

ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.

TO THE EDITOR N.Z. TABLET.

Sin,— ln your issue of Gth in*t.. m a paragraph on tho vexed subject of using the terms "English" instead of '-British" in matteib oihcial and Imperial, a statement is made, the correctness ot which, as a Scotchman, 1 must deny ni totn, bO far as concerns my country.

rhe paragraph says —•• However much Scotchmen, Welshmen and Irishmen may object to the idea still they must submit, being conquered i,aw '—Scotland never was conquered by England lhat a long and unequal contest raged between the two countries we all know, but being too long a tale to enter into fully, it is only necewry { or me to -tate what everyone equally well knows, that the held ot B.timockburn settled that matter. Let us quote Tytler (Cap. ni. p. 12 1) on the subject —-Such was the great battle of Bannookburn. glorious to Scotland both in the determined courage with which it was disputed b\ the troops, the high military talents displayed by the king and his leader.-, and the amazing disparity between the number.-, of the combatants. Its consequences were in the highest degree nnpoilant. It put an end lor e\er to all hopes upon the pan of Kngland of accomplishing the conquest of her sister country. The plan, of which we can discern the foundations as far back as tho reign of Alexander HI. and for the furtherance of which the tirst Edward was content to throw away so much of Impure and blood, was put down in the way in which all such -chenies ought to be defeated, by the strong hand of free-born men who wore deti mimed to lvuiain so." etc. '

Finally, Scotland, un.ler James VI.. annexed England and Ireland, he becoming the first Biitish monarch acknowledged King ot Ireland, i 'nle McOeoheuan rum Hegarty. and when found take a note of. — I am. etc., Scotland Yet ! Dunedin. August 10, Hl>7.