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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