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which the course of political. ambition has been sometimes de- 
graded. In the year 1790, he was appointed een Sete 
‘af Scotland, in the room of Mr Cuartes Hope. 
The office of Judge-Advocate, it had: hitherto, (I belicre), 
been usual to execute by deputy; but Mr Tyrer was not of 
a character to. make any compromise with duty, or to accept of 
office, without accepting of all its obligations. He made it his 
_ business, therefore, to attend upon every trial: he-gave to every 
case his most careful and considerate attention ; and so anxious 
was he-to fulfil his duty to the utmost, that he took the trouble 
of drawing up, for his. own direction, a Treatise upon Martial 
Law, which afterwards, when he retired from the office, he 
gave to:the public, and which has (I-understand) been found 
of the: most bn use in. - decision of cases: of this 
ery 5 ae 
Into the: detail of Mr Dveenicn’ s conduct in the — of 
this delicate but important office, it would be presumptuous in 
me to enter; but I may. be permitted to relate, from his corre: 
spondenee, a.single incident, which illustrates both the con- 
sciousness with which he discharged his duty, and the respect 
in which his, opinion was held by those who were then.ati a 
head of the Military Department. 
_A court-martial had been held‘at Ayr, with the sentence of 
ville Mr Tyrier-was extremely dissatisfied, and to the injus- 
tice of which, he had: anxiously, but.in vain, endeavoured at 
the time to awaken the attention of the Court. Upon trans- 
mitting the proceedings to London, Mr Tyrirr thought it his 
duty to communicate the grounds of his dissatisfaction. with: 
the sentence to Sir Cnartes Morean, then Judge-Advocate-. 
General, and, in the most earnest terms, to implore his atten- 
tion to the case, if his Majesty should (as was probable) refer 
it to his decision. Sir Cartes Morean cheerfully undertook 
the 
