14 JULY 1838, Page 9

Dr. Francis (Dictator of Paraguay) is dead, and with his

death ends the most singular government that ever existed. His slavish adherents, dreading the vengeance of the inhabitants of Ascension, have left the country and tied to Monte Video. This singular man retained his character to the day of his death. It is said that he has left several unpublished manuscripts, one of which is " Proof of the Character and the Simplicity of the Spanish Americans, and the means which a Governor must employ to make himself necessary to them." The in- scription a hich he affixed to his portrait is original—" Despotism is in- creased either by having in a country very numerous laws at variance with each other, or no laws at all. I have chosen the latter course, because it is more adapted to the frankness of my character, and to the bad tnemury of the people of Paraguay. "—Dutch Paper.