from Notes, on the Minutes of a Court Martial: Holden on Board His Majesty's Ship Gladiator, in Portsmouth Harbour, on Wednesday, theth Day of July,, ampC.
On the Trial, of the Right Honourable James, Lord Gambier
The court martia L, were published: ac credited by the name of W.
B. Gurney, a gentle man, for whom we entertain much respect and, as we have well founded reason to believe, at the instance of Lord Gambier.
'what his Lordship's motives were, in thus introducing those minutes to the view, and, as it were, calling for the judge ment of the public upon their merits, will not ad mit of a doubt, when the Sentence pronounced by the Court, shall have been perused!
The' severity and injustice which those Minutes evidence towards Lord Cochrane and the favour and affection they breathe towards Lord Gambier, called for those comments, and those elucidations which will be found in the following pages and which are submitted, in no other spirit, and to no other end, than to diminish the labours of the public, in forming their conclusions, and ulti mately deciding upon the matters that those Minutes embrace.
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Admiral Thomas Cochrane,th Earl of Dundonald,st Marquess of Maranhão, GCB, ODM, styled Lord Cochrane betweenand, was a Scottish naval flag officer of the Royal Navy and radical politician.
He was a daring and successful captain of the Napoleonic Wars, leading the French to nickname him Le Loup des Mers The Sea Wolf.
He was dismissed from the Royal Navy in, following a conviction for fraud on the Stock Exchange, He helped organize and lead the rebel navies of Chile, Brazil and Greece during their respective wars of independence through thes, While in charge of the Chilean Navy, Cochrane also contributed to Peruvian Independence through the Freedom Expedition of Perú, In, he was pardoned by the Crown and reinst Admiral Thomas Cochrane,th Earl of Dundonald,st Marquess of Maranhão, GCB, ODM, styled Lord Cochrane betweenand, was a Scottish naval flag officer
of the Royal Navy and radical politician.
He was a daring and successful captain of the Napoleonic Wars, leading the French to nickname him Le Loup des Mers 'The Sea Wolf'.
He was dismissed from the Royal Navy in, following a conviction for fraud on the Stock Exchange, He helped organize and lead the rebel navies of Chile, Brazil and Greece during their respective wars of independence through thes, While in charge of the Chilean Navy, Cochrane also contributed to Peruvian Independence through the Freedom Expedition of Perú, In, he was pardoned by the Crown and reinstated in the Royal Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral of the Blue, After several promotions, he died inwith the rank of Admiral of the Red, and the honorary title of Rear Admiral of the United Kingdom.
His life and exploits inspired the naval fiction ofth andth century novelists, particularly the figures of C, S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O'Brian's protagonist Jack Aubrey, sitelink.