The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-26 00:00:00

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LONDON. WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 184

All undeserved imputations, however, have been
removed from the character of Lord DUNDONALD,
and his name is virtually declared to be as untar-
nished as any upon the book of Peerage. What is
particularly worthy of consideration, too, in the act
of the SOVEREIGN, and of her MAJESTY'S Ministers, is
that the Earl of DIINDONALD is restored to the
original lustre of his position, and is re-invested with
the star and ribbon during a period of maritime
tranquillity, when no sentiments save those of abatract
truth, uninfluenced by the motives of convenience,
could have elicited the acknowledgment of his
wrongs and the satisfaction fur so many indig-
nities. Lord DUNDOINALD may now rejoice in the
glory with which his own genius and valour have
adorned his history ; he !nay rejoice not merely in
' the certain admiration of posterity, but in the present
and cordial admiration of his contemporaries. Ilis
brilliant carver has been nobly consummated by the
complete vindication of his actions, and by his double
investiture, aisit,:wrffe, with the emblems of national
gratitude.,:,,lwibe, conduct of the present Cabinet he
may have a foretaste of the applause which will be
given to the piethury of his heroic life by future
generations..

At this season of general deficiency and scarcity,
when thousands of our countrymen are unable to pro-
cure a sufficiency of even the humblest and plainest
description of food for their fatuities ; when trade is
paral3sed, and the immense quan ities of gold (the
only circulating medium whiCA. the absurd restric-
trions imposed on our currency by the several sta-
tutes relating to banking allows us,) is daily exported
from our shores in exchange for tt'e cereal products
of other lands, it becomes the most serious duty of
the Legislature to restrain, by binding ani stringent
enactments, every description of waste whereby the
food of the people is diminished, and the exigencies of
the nation increased ; and also to suspend or abrogate
every existing law that may possibly lead to similar
results. Many of the most exalted in our land have'
taken the initiation in placing their own households
on limited allowances. Our gracious SOVEREIGN,
ever foremost in the cause of humanity, has set
the example. The order has been issued
that the quantity and the quality of the
bread and flour used in the palaces shall be reduced—
that no individual shall be permitted to receive more
than a pound of bread in the day, and that second
qualit% flour only shall bEios.ed for any purpose in the
royal establkhments. The precedent thus set, has, as
might easily be imagined, been extensively followed.
It is looked on as a religious slut by every head of a
family to abolish all useless an e cesary expendi- '
ture in his own immediate circle, to abridge, as much
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as possible, the outlay, even for necessaries. It is by
such means only that the difficulties of our position
can be successfully encountered, that the most heart-
rending misery and suffering can be averted from our
poorer brethren. .There is not a sufficiency for all,
and unless the wealthier will consent to curtail a por-
.tiott of the consumption usual in ordinary periods,
some 'fcriUSt; be left withvkut enough to keep life and
soul together.

While such economy is -renaerea necessary, it
would indeed be a mockery to continue a sys-
tem that occasions the greatest injury to the
growing crops, a system that damps the energy and
checks the spirit of the farmer. Too often he finds
on the arrival of the anxiously-expected harvest the
fallacy of the hopes in which he had indulged; in
place of obtaining an ample return for the labour and
capital he has expended in the cultivation of the soil,
he finds the chief portion consumed and destroyed
by a s•.iperabundance of game and vermin, which he
dares not get rid of. No; they must be retained for
his landlord's sport, and to his cost he finds that
sport invokes him in utter ruin.

effects
sn of etshtiismeaxtteraformed
of
gthaemei,njanurdiothues
mayordinabrey quantity
damage thereby occasioned, from the case of THOMAS
FREDERICKS, which was heard in the Court of
Queen's Bench on Saturday last. Into the legal
points connected with that case it is wholly unneces-
sary to enter. The simple fact that a jury assessed
no less than 343/. 19... for the damage done in two
years by game and rabbits to the lands in the
cccupation of the plaintiff's tenants, or 160/.125. in the
public indignation, and to
183 '. is. damage first, and 1831. 7s, in
tho end year, is amply
sufficient to aw ,k_, the
direct attention to the monster grievance
in one year to a few farmers, in a
moderate sized manor ! What must be the amount
of
injury throughout the kingdom in general, what
would he a fair per tentage at which to estimate the
annual damage done
muchacre might it be assumed ?
crops, or at how per.
123eiely be §O6 dowil a ;4. .
g.the average loss bIIo u 1 4

From our heart we congratulate the Earl of DUN-
DONALD on the compensation which he has received,
for thirty years' injustice, by his restoration to knight-
hood. A paragraph in the Ga:ette of last evening
formally announces that Vice-Admiral the Earl of
DUNDONALD is once again a Knight Grand Cross of
the 3lost Honourable Order of the Bath. By that
declaration the present Government at once acknow-
ledges that a heinous cruelty has been perpetrates
towards this heroic sailor by the preceding Adminis
trations, and proclaims to the world that the character
of our distinguished countryman remains unsullied
and unsuspected. Again we express our most ear-
nest felicitations to Lord DUNDONALD for the tardy
but brilliant expiation of Ministerial injustice with
which .her MAJESTY'S existing advisers have striven
to compensate his prolonged sorrows. May the
satisfaction experienced by this Noble and
Gallant Peer at an avowal so imperatively
demanded by truth obliterate the recollection of the
wrongs and contumelies with which he has been for
years insulted ! May he find in the contentment and
serenity flowing from an expression of national con-
trition like this, an enjoyment immeasurably beyond
the sufferings entailed upon him by more than a
quarter of a century of national ingratitude !
History would have done ample justice to this
eminent and valorous man, had the State continued
blind to his merits and indifferent to his services.
Nay, history has already done him the justice he de-
s,rves. The name of COCHRANE ranks among those
of the noblest heroes in the British navy, and
is invested with h glory only second to that
of the greatest warrior of the sea. In the
records of our naval actions none are more conspi-
cuous for calmness almost incredible, fo; audacity
almost insane, fur enterprise the most continual
and the most chivalrous, than the achievements per-
formed in the war vessels of England by the Earl of
DUNDONALD, when Lord COCHRANE. Those achieve-
merits might surely have sheltered this valiant servant
of the Crown from the odium of professional degrada-
tion and the miseries of Ministerial neglect. The
prowess by which he had so repeatedly maintained
the dignity of the realm, forwarded the interests of
his compatriots, and covered himself with perpetual
glory, might surely have saved him from thirty years
of anxiety, of official contempt, and of apparent
public debasement. But no ; that anxiety has been
experienced, that contempt has been borne, that ap-
parent debasement has continued during thirty
years, and only after passing te.cathed through this
terrible ordeal is the sin of the State confessed, and
the victim of its persecution restored to the knight-
hood he had won at the point of his keen sword !
Why, Koscrusxo might as w2ll have been branded
as infamous by the refugees of Poland, or DUGUES-
CLIN have had his baton as Constable of France
broken ignominiously over his head ! Why, BouVAR
might with equal reason have been scouted from the
shores of South America, or the golden spurs might
as lief have been hacked from the heels of fir
PHILIP SYDNEY !