"A RELIC FOR SCOTLAND"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 223, 14 June 1919, Page 10

"A RELIC FOR SCOTLAND"

THE DEATH OP Q\iEEN MAU. Sir-Under tho heading "A. Heljo for Sco an. "ere appears iu your columns the purchase a«d pres.cn a on to lb« Sal Scottish »m K the last letter written by Jin . nf Scots In tho emlomo of the eiai lnisveco"deda S w T aing(lu.t.t,sfor Z (H ■> Catholic religion that sho i» omlemned to die. Thte slaUmioirf. in view Of the wholly inndequalo and «u ralWaclory teaching of history in «'o mX and of the SH-era which prevails concerning tho facts or Arnrv's life her conduct, and plou the Church of Borne, liwl selected M.uy as tho centre of their plot, and her pail, in ii- r'"ii p«ent al to its , success. i° no t ilo wd" cfWylie, tho irUtorjnn: "It is surely a most instructive fact that Hie fieries of crimes into whicli this, prncei plunged *ns one of tho main ujrtumenb that Providence employed to bring this plot to nought i' lol,l / 1 ' "y that Jliry Stuart mit her hand to this lwiid of Wood the tulo m lier foi< « turned, and all things went against her" Beginning witli her ill-starred affection for Darnley, her inarrittw *ilh him through treachery cu m.natmg a. it did in her complicity, to say the east, in tho plot to murder linn; hen nfatnation with the lowbred Bibmjj, and. later, her almndoinnen. to Bollwell led to tho revolt of the pec Jβ against a Queen so ignoble. Mary fled to .lingland after making a last a temp, to-secure again her throne, bet led England, tho plotting* .of ho ■I^es led Mnrv to conspire aeainst the life and. h one of Elizabeth. Tor <1.. S Ireachenr .he was arrested, imprisoned, and fibsiv. nuently executed. It ,vas there ore, becauso of her relmion that she paid tho penalty of death, but because din allowed herself to be made Hw instrument of Papist plotting,? against England s Protestant Queen and. tho Prolostant re--1 m > liOWAim KLLIOTT. Wellington, Juno 12, W'J.