The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . emansMagazine for January 1801, expressed his disappro-bation of the new Banner, and after sneeringly allud-ing to the taste which formed it, entreated an expla-nation from the heralds ; and suggested that instead ofintroducing the saltire of St. Patrick, it would havebeen preferable to have placed an escutcheon of pre-tence on the centre of the Cross, containing Vert,a Harp Or, stringed Argent, the emblem of as th
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . emansMagazine for January 1801, expressed his disappro-bation of the new Banner, and after sneeringly allud-ing to the taste which formed it, entreated an expla-nation from the heralds ; and suggested that instead ofintroducing the saltire of St. Patrick, it would havebeen preferable to have placed an escutcheon of pre-tence on the centre of the Cross, containing Vert,a Harp Or, stringed Argent, the emblem of as the original Banner of St. George was adul-terated, and the usage of arms infringed upon in oneinstance, it was certainly more consistent that thesame principle should be acted upon in the second, byjoining the Saltire of St. Patrick to that of St. An-drew, although the manner in which it was introducedwas objectionable upon this ground, that it does notpresent the addition in a and distinct is best shewn in the annexed engraving, of the 68 THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR. manner in which the Saltire of St. Patrick actuallyappears on the Union Flag. No. No. 8. That it bears no resemblance to the plain Saltire inthe wood-cut, No. 5, is manifest; yet, after a fewobservations upon the blazoning- of the Banner, it willbe proved that by a very slight alteration, it would berendered consistent in every respect with the rules ofHeraldry, and what is of more importance, with theprinciple upon which it was altered. The objection to the present blazon is, that even tothe most skilful Herald it is not only very obscure, butsome doubt exists whether it properly describes thecharges. Setting aside the positive jumble of terms,which is unavoidable from its present complicatedarrangement, it is by no means certain that a fim-briation does not extend all round the field, in whichcase the Cross of St. George would be still farther shorn of its beams for it would be entirely sur-round
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