The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-26 00:00:00

Average `lm not
(ixfordshirelVitney BaLk Withey—lVilliams,
Clinch, and Go
Pease's ()Id Bank, Tlull, the Hull Old Bank and

11,448

Beverley Bank, Hull-Peaseand Co 47,453
Penzance Bank, Penzance-Batten and Co 11,845
.7ezerborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter-
borough-Messrs. Yorke
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough-Simpson,
White, and Simpson 12,83S
Pctobrokeshire Bank, ilaverfordwest-J. and
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and
Truro Bank, Penzance-Rickets, Enthoven
and Co
Reading Bank, Reading-aqmonas and Co 37,570
Reading Bank, Reading-Stephens,Blandy, and
Co 41.326
Richmond Bank, Richmond-Stapleton and C 0... 6,368
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood-Ledgard
and Sons
Rochdale &ink, Rochdale-Clement, Royds,
and Co
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches-
ter-Day and Nicholson
Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey-Foot-
ner and Son
Royston Bank, Royston-Fordham and Sons 16,262
Rugby Bank, Rugby-Butlin and Son 16,931
Rye Bank, Rye-Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 26,619
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy-
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate-Nash and
Co
Ross (,ld Bank, Herefordshire, Ross-Pritchard
and Allaway 4,610
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden-Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury-Burton, Lloyd, and
Co 19,036
Scarborough Old Bank, !3carborough-Woodall
and Co
Shrewsbury and Market, Drayton Bank, Shrews-
bury-Adams, Adan.s, and Co
Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury--Rocke, Eytons,
and Co
Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne
-Valiance anti Son
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton-Maddison and Son
Southwell Bank, Suuthwell-Wylde and Co.
St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's-J. S. Story 2,759
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury-Messrs. Brodie 22,287
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury Brodie and
King
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp-
ton-Atherly and Fall
Stone Bank, Stone-W. Moore 6,996
Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge -Rufford,
Wragg, and Co 16,972
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford-Stevenson and Co 14,554
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford-Eaton,
Cayley, and Co. .
Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge-Bate and
Robins
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
-Beck, Downward, and Co. 24,703
St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's-Gib-
son and Stuart 2,220
Taunton Bank, Taunton-Messrs, Badcock 28,538
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill, Rundle, and ,
Co
Thornbury Bank, Thornbury-Rolph, Yates, and
Parslow
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton-Duns-
ford and Barne
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston-Yorke and Eland 11,780
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring-But-
cher and Son
Towcester Old Bank, Towcester-J. and S
Percival
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston-Vivian and

11,206

4,256

8,947

9,970

13,490

Co. 16,788
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith,
and Co.
Wallingford Bank, IVallingford—Wells and Co 10,664
Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick—
Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 29,627
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox,
Brothers
West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wakefield—Leathara, Tew, and Co.
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap-
man, and Co 14,443
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win-
chester—Bulpett and Co.
Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester

3,556

6,339

—Wickham and CO
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank,
Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse
Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank,

Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech—
Gurney and Co.
Wi'veliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W.
Hancock
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good-
ricke and Liolyoake.
Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley,Lavender,
and Co. 12,821
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, .
Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 86,329
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley
and Turner
1 Whitby Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil-

kinson
Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-CharlesFoster and
Sons
Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster—
Everett and Co.
Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick 2,644
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—
Messrs. Fryer
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney,
Birkbeck, and Co.
Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,744
Yeovil. Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten
York Bank. York—Swann. Clough, and Co 46,297

20,173

9,288
:846

Average An on n t.
Wilts :ma- Dorset Banking Company; Salisbury 69,076
West Riding Union Banking Company, flitd..
dersfield
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking CQualzny,.
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company;
Worcester - • 6,776
York Union Banking Company, York 71,873
York City and County Bankii°, Company, York 94,510
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Stamps and Taxes, April 17. 1847.

7,350

1E EARL OF DUNDONALD.
LETTER, FRONI SIR G. SINCLAIR.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY.
Thurso Castle, 13th April, 1847.
Sin,—ln a recent number of your respectable and
justly popular journal, I perused with deep interest and
lively satisfaction, a very powerful and pathetic appeal,
on behalf of my much respected and much injured friend
Lord Dundonald, in whose esteem and regard I have for
tunny years deemed it an honour to occupy a place. You
will perhaps allow me to encroach upon your columns,
by troubling you with a few details, connected with the
transactions to which you have been inviting public
I attention.

On the morning after the trial in which his Lordship and
others had been involved, I saw Lord Cochrane in Oxford-
street; and for a few moments hesitated whether I should
venture to meet him under such peculiar circumstances for
fear of exciting painful feelings in his mind. Being,
however, still more apprehensive, that, if I turned down
one of the bye streets, he might think I was desirous
to avoid him, I went up to his lordship, took him by
the hand, and expressed to him with much emotion, my
sorrow and surprise at what had occurred, adding, that,
having long and intimate knowledge of, and respect
for, his personal character, I was convinced that the
evidence must have been distorted by legal ingenuity,
so as to mislead and impose upon the jury, "Well,
Sinclair," replied Lord C., " I feel much gratified at
this trying moment, by the assurance of your sympathy,
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but I -shOUld be sorry- to rest my claims upon your
esteem (which I highly value), upon your kind appre-
ciation of my general character. It has been my mis-
fortune, from possessing an unsuspicious temper, to have
mixed myself up in this business with others, whom I
supposed to be as guiltless as myself, and the same
feeling of conscious innocence made me less careful
than perhaps I ought to have been, in making proper
preparations for the trial ; but there is no help
for these things now, and all that remains for

me to do, is to move, as I shall of course imme-
diately do, for a new trial, when I shall fight my battle
alone. If I do not rebut every charge to your entire
satisfaction, and that of all other honest men, I am con-
tented to be branded with infamy, and shall never ex-
pect you or them to speak to me again "
I mention this occurrence, Sir, in order to prove how
convinced his Lordship was that when the case was re-
..

.
heard his character would be completely cleared. He
never would have staked it so emphatically on the issue

.
of a new trial, if he had not been entirely confident as
to its triumphant result. I may here add, that after the
conviction Lord Dundonald's uncle, the late Hon. Basil

Cochrane, with whom I was very intimate, bestowed a
great deal of trouble and expense in collecting informa-
tion with respect to his nephew's case, and, as the result
of much perseverance and diligent scrutiny, assured me
that be had obtained possession of facts so strong and so
conclusive as would completely establish Lord C.'s in-
nocence.

You are probably aware, Sir, that I lived for many
years in habits of the most affectionate regard and un-
bounded confidence with the late Sir F. Burdett, who

was long the attached friend and colleague of Lord
Cochrane. I never kniw any man who so thoroughly
identified himself IA ith the felines and interests of those
whom he loved; but at the same time he had so nice

:Ind so scrupulous a sense of 14,!nour, and was so tens,-
cious of strict principle both in public and private life,
that if any one, however beloved by him, had been
guilty, of a base or sordid action, it would not have been
possible for him, in consistency with the impulses of his
noble and chivalrous heart, to have continued to live with
any such individual in habits of familiar intercourse and
_ _

friendship. Sir Francis, however, retained from first to
lust the same entire and unwavering confidence in Lord

C.'s integrity, the same unqualified admiration of
his character, the same ardent desire to witness his

complete vindication from what he consieered to be the

most cruel and groundless aspersions. A few years
subsequent to the trial, on one of the first occasions on
which his late Majesty, then Duke of Clarence, honoured
the late Countess of Dysart with his company to dinner
at Ham House, permission was given that Sir Francis
Burdett should be one of the party; and I remember his
Royal Highness said to me on that occasion, " Si-
Francis has entertained some extreme opinions, but I
do him no more than justice when I observe, that he has
never for a moment lost sight of that respect which every
good•subject owes to the royal family." When the com-
pany retired to the drawing-room after dinner, Sir
F. and I had a long conversation with the Duke, in
which both of us, particularly Sir F., dwelt at great
length upon the services and sufferings of Lord Coch-
rane; in fact, I never heard Sir Francis express him-
self with greater energy, eloquence, and animation. His
Royal Highness intimated his hearty concurrence in every
eulogium that was pronounced on Lord Cochrane's pre-
eminence in point both of personal bravery and profes-
sional knowledge ; but being at that time Lord High
Admiral, he abstained from stating any decided opinion
on the subject of the trial, though he listened with great
patience and attention to all that was urged on behalf of
Lord Cochrane, and so far from being offended at the
earnestness with which we pleaded the cause of an absent
and, as we thought, deeply injured friend, that when I
communicated to him, soon atter the termination of this
discussion, a respectful wish on the part of Sir Francis
Burdett that his Royal Highness would do him the
honour to fix a day for dining with him at a villa which
he then occupied at Twickenham, the Duke at once re-
plied, " I will dine with him with the greatest pleasure,"
and immediately fixed a day for that purpose. The en-
tertainment took place not long thereafter, and Sir
Francis again renewed_ the subject with. his royal guest
as earnestly as before. I saw them sitting tee-a-tete for
a long time on the sofa, whilst this matter was discussed

(as Sir Francis told me afterwards), but did not myself
hear what actually passed.
I trouble you, Sir, with these details, in order to illus-
trate the anxiety with which Sir Francis availed himself
of every opportunity to stand forward as the champion
and advocate of one so dear to him. But I must be al-
lowed to add a still stronger and more striking proof of
the conviction which he entertained of Lord Cochrane's
entire innocence. He has not once, but often, assured
me that if the most painful part of the sentence had
been:carried into effect, he intended to have gone down
in his carriage to the spot, and to have insisted on
taking his stand by the side of his friend, in order to
enjoy the high honour of sharing his unmerited dis-
grace. I have frequently since that period met Lord
Cochrane at Sir Francis Burdett's, both at dinner and
in the morning ; and although Sir Francis was of all
men the most courteous and fascinating in his manner
of doing the honours of his house, even to the hum-
blest individual who entered it, I always observed on
his part a marked anxiety to distinguish Lord Cochrane
by the most soothing and gratif)ing manifestations of
cordiality and regard. °hen, when Lord C. has left
the room, I have heard Sir F. exclaim—" Ah,
I cannot look at that man without feeling ashamed of
England's ingratitude and neglect. Cochrane is the
Irian best fitted to save the country in any season of
perilous emergency—he has done much to promote her
honour and advantage—it is her own fault it he has not
done more. I sin as convinced of his innocence as to
the charge brought against him, as I am of yours or of
my own ; and I feel indignant when I see the traces of
sorrow and brokenness of heart in the furrowed counte-
nance of that man, who has beeu deprived, through pre-
judice and malignity, of the honours he has so signally
merited, and condemned to a punishment, which to him
is worse than death, and nut less undeserved than over-
whelming."
been
jeus the
t)
When I mentioned at the commencement of this pars-
l;reph that
'
shore
r
was, in the case of Lord Cochrane, one of such extreme
punishmentwSihrle Fh. had
(even made up
harshness and cruelty, I cannot say "idenz trecenti Jura-
vimus," nor, indeed, do I believe that any man but Sir F.
himself has, in my time, been characterised by such a
spirit of chivalrous friendship, as would have suggested
the adoption of a step so unexampled and so uttignatii-
mous. But if, as was the case in an earlier and less
refined period of our history, a large number of respect-
able compurgators might have been allowed to attest
their firm belief in the pround!essn-ss of this charge, I
have no doubt that an overeheltuisg majority of
those to whom Lord C. was best, known, and who had
witnessed either professionally or in private, his
heroism, his intesrity, his eagerness to promote his
country's fame, his neglect of his personal interests,
would have stepi;ed forward and exclaimed with one
voice, "not guilty, upon my honour!" I remember when
the late gallant and excellent Lord Napier camei to pass
a few days with my father, at his residence in
Ins Com-
mno , I introduced the subject of Lord ch rane smerits
and misfortunes; Lord Napier emphatically replied, " I
would stake my life upon Coehrane's innocence—and I
don'thow any man who knows him can believe that
see
he is guilty."
I fear, Sir, that I have trespassed at far too great a
statement) neglect
fo r
declaring to
o‘, ofm
length upon your own time and the patience of your
readers—hut I could not (though scarcely able to commit
to
rnftgoura
ity n
not
bringing before the public a 1:w.
:iuocnphaa
ipad, r
ne os
b so
p long
oon
feelings of respect and admiration for Lord:Du
considerations,
which may in some degree tend to pro-
mote that tardy justice (for I
will not call it favour)
which you have so ably and so .kindly advocated. For
my own part, Sir, when I consider, dispassionately, the
personal character of Lord I)undonald, and the whole
tenor of his conduct both public and private, as well as
the high estimation in which he has been uniformly held
by all who have seen him oftenest, knew him well, and
lived with him longest, I feel impelled, in reference to
such a charge, when made against such a man, to adopt
(with the mere insertion of a negative) a celebrated ex-
pression of Tertullian, and to exclaim, "Non c edo, qui
itnpossible."—l remain, Sir, your faithful and obedient
servant, GEORGE SINCLAIR.

A deputation of snip owners of Liverpool, headed by
Viscount Sandon, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., and
Mr. William Brown, M.P., sad consisting of Mr. John
Miller, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Coulburn, and Mr. Lockett
(chairman), had an interview on Saturday with Viscount
Palmerston, on the subject of an Act lately passed by
the Congress of the United States of America, with
reference to the conveoance of passengers; to the United
States.

Mr. Highatn, Secretary and Comptroller-General to
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer ou Saturday, at his official residence, in
Downing-street.