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afterwards Earl Dundonald — one of tlie last of 

 our old "Sea Lions" — spent some time, wlien a 

 boy, with his father, Lord Dundonald,* were also 

 casting and boring guns ; but, in consequence of 

 refusing to fee Government servants at Woolwich, 

 the manufacturers had a number of them thrown upon 

 their hands, which they sold to a firm at Rotherham, 

 and which found their way to India, where they 

 were recognised by old workmen in the army, who 

 captured them during the Sikh war. At the same 

 time cannon which burst, and did almost as much 

 damage to the English as to their enemies, were 

 palmed off upon the nation. 



Mr. Forester wrote to the Duke of York, who 

 came down, accompanied by the Prince of Orange, 

 to examine the guns for himself; and a number 

 of 18 and 32-pounders were fired in honour of the 

 event. Others were subjected to various tests, to 

 the entire satisfaction of the visitors. 



At this period the Willey country presented a 

 spectacle altogether unparalleled in Mr. Forester's 



* Lord Dundonald, who lived in the old mansion, still standing, 

 at the Tuckies, was an excellent chemist, and constructed some 

 ingeniously contrived ovens, by which he extracted from coal a 

 tar for the use of the navy, and which also became an article of 

 general comuierce. 



