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disrespectful conduct of Lord Cochrane to 

 the whole court, which was more than once 

 animadverted on by the president and others. 

 Hence the expectations and the rumours of 

 a third court-martial, and hence the author's 

 mistake to understand which properly he 

 begs to refer the reader to the trial of Lord 

 Gambier, taken in short-hand by Gurney at 

 the time, and published at Portsmouth. 



The discrepancies between Lord Dun- 

 donald's and Lady Chatterton's account of 

 this memorable event must be reconciled 

 by abler pens than mine, and if possible a 

 correct elucidation of the facts elicited by 

 more acute reasoners. 



The gratitude, if not the generosity, of 

 the British nation has been manifested on 

 a recent occasion in the funeral of one of 

 its most brave and scientific naval heroes, 

 whose daring acts blaze like a meteor in our 

 Naval annals; but the historian will pause 

 before he ventures to record the capacity or 

 the skill of an Admiral who never manoeu- 



