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head of the Admiralty. Ile is to bold the office
till a young connexion of this Noble Lord
can come forward and supply his place. This
young protege, and relation of the Noble Lord,
is the redoubtable Mr. H. When the trial of
13orthwick took place, this young Gentleman, the
depute of the Lord Advocate, refused to obey his
r. Lordship's orders, not to proceed with the trial.
Would he have ventured to do this if the Lord
Advocate held his office in an independent man-
ner ? No. In this case there would have
been no appeal to the House of Commons ; for
the Lord Advocate would have turned Mr. IL
about his business, for disobeying' the instruc-
tions given to him—but it appears under the cir-
cumstances of the parties, the Learned Lord
dared not do this. The young Gentleman is now
Soliciter-General, and will be very shortly Lord
Advocate.—A few years ago we recollect another
job, created by the same party and the
same influence. Sir P. M--, who was never a
practising Lawyer, was appointed a Baron of Ex-
chequer, contrary to all usage, and in defiance of
a report of Commissioners appointed to inquire into
the Judicature of Scotland, which was published
a very few months previous to the appointment.
But it turned out that this individual required an
addition to his income,and wits, we are informed,
brother-in-law to the same Noble Lord whom we
have before alluded to, which was the real justi-
fication of the appointment. At the period of
this appointment, a division nearly as expressive
as the present one took place. We hope the
pride of Scotchmen will be called forth, and
that a stop will be put to- such undue proceed-
ings in time corning.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The last Charleston Papers, to the sth ult.
contain official extracts from the Havanna!) Ga-
zettes, relating to Mexico, and confirm the in-
telligence we gave several weeks since of the ab-
dication of the Usurper of Mexico. The house
of Iturbide, as Napoleon used to say, has ceased
to reign. This upstart, who, amid the con-
V11184)113 of his country, rose from obscurity
to military command, and from that to su-
preme power, played the tyrant for his hour
within the dominions of Montezuma ; but he
is now precipitated from the station he usurped
to his original insignificance again. Like Dio.
nysius of Syracuse, Augustin the First has been
driven from a throne, abd prayed to be allowed
a refuge and subsistence in a foreign land. The
fallen Usurper sought to negociate, in adversity,
with the Liberating Army of Mexico, and asked
to be permitted to arrange his family affairs, and
retire to Jamaica; but his request was refused,
and it was reported he had been poi-
soned, and his family consigned to a pri-
son. Thus has passed away the first Mexican
dynasty since the conquest of the Cortes, and the
death of Gaatimozin. From that period Mexico
was a vast appanage of old Spain, supplying her
with unbounded resources. She was one of the
last of her colonies that deserted the fallen for-
tunes of the mother country ; but the anchor
that held her to Spain is parted for ever. Mexico
is again free ; throughout the vast extent of the
western hemisphere, from the falls of Niagara to
the river of the Amazons, despotism is now no more.
Trade and the arts, civilization and knowledge,
will all follow in the train of liberty, and
throughout those vast Savannahs, where countless
herds of cattle only ranged for ages, the busy
haunts and abodes of men will soon find a place.
Bolivar himself was only a few years since a re-
fugee in Jamaica, where Iturbide prayed to be
permitted to retire, and the illustrious Chief is
now the head of the immense republicofColombia.
Thus while confederated despots are leagued
against liberty in Europe, in America freedom
has spread its influence with gigantic strides, and
bounds must be set to the aspirations and disco-
veries of the human mind, before any limits can
be assigned to the future greatness and prospe-
rity of either America.