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D ra ch sh o lin . Although this Castle cannot be included in the Environs of Copenhagen, yet it is within tolerable distance and so connected with an epoch in Scottish history as must render it a place of interest to every subject of Great Britain. It is a remarkable fact that every English historian, to the very last, has made Malmo, in Sweden, the deatli-place of the turbulent Earl of Bothwell: but Mi*. Thorleifr Gudmundson Repp, the learned Ice­ lander, (and a thorough Englishman at heart) has, acting under the commands of Queen Caroline Amalie of Denmark, Daughter of the Sister of George III., proved from documents found by him in the Royal Privy Archives of Copenhagen that Earl Bothwell was removed from Malmn, then included in the Danish Kingdom, at the urgent request of the Scottish government, (as, being a sea port, it afforded the Earl too much liberty and intercourse with the Scottish gentlemen and officers who used to visit that town) to Draclisholm, a sequestered castle on the west coast of Sealand, which at that time belonged to the Crown, but is • now a baronial residence, called A d le r s h o r g . Here it was that the turbulent and ambitious Earl of Bothwell passed, in great seclusion, the last years of his chequered life. Should a short summary of Mr. Repp’s work