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his question he tokl him (Sir E.) the last time he saw 

 him was on board the Gladiator, the reader is not to 

 infer from this that the author witnessed his court- 

 martiaL He did not ; for though on board at the time, 

 the court Avas far too crowded to gain admittance ; but 

 on the trial of Lord Gambler, through the instrumen- 

 tality of the Judge- Advocate, or some one in his office, 

 he obtained a standing place in the cabin of the 

 Gladiator, as close to the president as the court allowed 

 to spectators, and which, from the confined accommoda- 

 tion, might almost be said to be beside him. 



In my early tuition in the Royal Navy, and from 

 my experience, short as it was, I had been always led 

 to believe that a proper submission and a respectful 

 demeanour to our superiors was not only looked for from 

 all grades, but established by the articles of Avar, as the 

 very groundwork of discipline, and as such had become 

 the rule of the service. I had also been taught to look 

 upon a naval court-martial as a most august, if not an 

 awful, tribunal ; and Avhen I saAv in that assemblage so 

 many distinguished veterans, I could but feel surprised 

 at the very off-hand manner, and Avhat appeared to me, 

 to say the least, the disrespectful conduct, of Lord Coch- 

 rane to the whole court, Avhich Avas 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 

 Avhich properly he begs to refer the reader to the trial 

 of Lord Gambler, taken in shorthand by Gurney at the 

 time, and published at Portsmouth. 



The discrepancies betAveen Lord Dundonald's and 



