An ex-Sheriff on the othe...
An e'x-Sheriff on the other side of the Tweed seemr disposed to encircle his name with as honourable a notorie- ty as the but too-celebrated ex-Sheriff on the banks of the Thames. WVe have long been aware of the degree of poli. tical animosity which unhappily inflames the Government andOpposition- parties in Scotland--an animosity heightened by the sense of public wrongs oit the one side, and the insa- tiable avidity of public plunder on the other: yet there are rules of war which even savages respect; but savages are not generally politicians. A person named Wilson, it will be recollected, was executed for high treason in Scot- land, some time in the year 1820. Of this person, Lord ABCHIBALD HAMILTON has been charged, by the northern ex-Sheriff, in a letter which appeared in an evening paper of Saturday last, with having been the friend. Proofs of the friendship, it was insinuated, were con- tained in certain letters found by the ex-Sheriff, du- ring his shrievalty, in Wilson's house. The best reply to this base insinuation is that adopted by Lord ARCH- IsALD--namely, the publication of the letters themselyes; and what degree of intimacy or friendship they establish will be clear to our readers, .when we inform them that one of the letters informs Wilson, that Lord ARCHIBALD will, as requested, present a petition from the town of Strat- haven, uuder an assurance that " the language of the peti- "tion is respectful to the House, and the character of the petitioners loyal and peaceable ;" and the other, from the same to the same, states that his Lordship will also present a petitionagainst the Corn Billl! We never knew anAdmi- nistration that would wish its opponenti.to be tradueed iii so outrageous a degree hs this. The ex-Sheriff will, there- fore, probably find that. he has offTendel those whom he would make his frien'Is, more than his enemy, by his excess of zeal.