The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-01 00:00:00

DEATH OF T.,

The Earl of Dundonald died yesterday morning
at one o'clock, at his residence in Kensington. His
lordship was in his 85th year.
The venerable nobleman retained all his faculties
to the last. It will be in the recollection of many
of our readers that his lordship, though in advanced
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years, underwent a painful operation for the stone,
from which, by the skilful treatment of his medical
attendants, and a naturally vigorous constitution,
he had completely recovered. On Tuesday after-
noon at half-past five o'clock he was suddenly at-
tacked with alarming illness, and at one a.m. yes-
terday he expired. Owing to the suddenness of
the attack several members of his family were
unable to have the consolation of being present at
his dissolution.

The following biographical notice of the de-
ceased nobleman is from Men of our Time :
Thomas Cochrane Dundonald, tenth Earl of
Dundonald, better known as Lord Cochrane, was
born Dec. 14, 1775, and when only five years of
age, his name was entered on the books of the
Vesuvius, bomb, commanded by his uncle, Captain
Cochrane, who transferred it successively to the
Carolina and Sophie, He did not go to sea till the
27th June, 1793, when he embarked with his re-
lative in the Hind, of 28 guns. Previously to this
he had been gazBtted to a captaincy in the 79th
Foot, but had not joined his regiment.
On the 17th May, 1795, when acting-lieutenant
of the Thetis, 42, commanded by his uncle, he con-
tributed, with the Hussar, of 28 guns, to the de-
feat, on the coast of North America, of a French
squadron of five sail, two of which were captured.
His confirmation to the Thetis took place May 24,
1796, and he subsequently joined, after serving in
various ships, the Queen Charlotte, flag-ship, in
the Mediterranean, of Admiral Lord Keith.
On December 21st, 1799, he was sent from Gib-
raltar Bay in command of the boats of the Queen
Charlotte and the Emerald frigate, to relieve the
Lady Nelson cutter, then surrounded and attacked,
off Cabritta Point, by several French privateers and
Spanish gunboats, some of which he pursued and
boarded with the most undaunted gallantry, chasing
others under the very cannon of the harbour. On
the capture, Feb, 18, 1800, of the French 74, Le
Genereux, he was appointed her acting captain; but
on 28th March following he was promoted to be
Master and Commander of the Speedy, sloop of-war,
of 16 guns and 54 men ; and in the ten succeeding
months he took 33 vessels, carrying, in all, 128
guns, and. 533 men, besides assisting at the capture
of many others. For one of these, the seizure by
boarding of the Spanish frigate El Gamo, 32 guns,
off Barcelona, on the 6th of May, 1801, he received
his commission as post captain, dated August Bth
following. He succeeded in cutting out a Spanish
convoy at Oroposo, lying under the protection of a
strong battery and numerous gunboats. On the 3d
July, however, the Speedy was herself captured by
the French squadron under Admiral Linois. On
this occasion Lord Cochrane's courage had been so
conspicuous that, on presenting his sword to the
captain of the French 74, Dessaix, it was returned
to him, with the request that he would continue to
wear what he had so nobly used. On the 6th of
the same month he was on board the French squa-
dron when attacked by Sir J. Saumarez in Algesiras
Bay, and being soon afterwards exchanged he re-
turned to England, and went on half-pay.
On the sth of October he was appointed to the
Arab, 22 guns, from which ship, after serving at the
blockade of Boulogne, he removed on the 3d Dec.,
1804, to the Pallas frigate, 32, in which in the fol-
lowing year he was sent out with despatches to his
uncle Admiral Sir A. Cochrane, at that time em-
ployed in the blockade of Ferrol. Whilst cruising
off the Spanish coast in March, 1405, he made a
considerable number of prizes, amongst which was
the Fortuna, from Rio de la Plata to Corunna, with
specie to the amount of £150,000 sterling, besides a
considerable quantity of merchandise, but he gene-
rously returned 10,000 crowns to the Spanish cap-
tain and supercargo. Early in April, 1806, the
Pallas was employed in the Gironde, a river very
difficult of navigation ; and on this service he suc-
ceeded in cutting out the Tapagense corvette of 14
long 12 pounders and 95 men, and notwithstanding
she lay 20 miles above the Cordovan shoal, under
the protection of two heavy batteries. In the fol-
lowing month, with the marines and boats' crews,
he destroyed the semaphores along the French
coast, and bore off the signal flags. The bat-
tery at Point d'Equilon he carried by storm and
laid in ruins, spiking the guns, burning the car-
riages, blowing up the barrack and magazine, and
throwing all the shells into the sea. On the 23d
of August he assumed the command of the Impe-
rieuse, 44 guns, and between the 13th of Decem-
ber, 1806, and the 7th of January, 1807, some days
short of a month, he took and destroyed fifteen of
the enemy's ships, chiefly laden with wine and
provisions. He was afterwards sent to co-operate
with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia, and
on the 21st of July, 1808, he compelled the sur-
render of the castle of Mongat, by which the road
to Gerona, then besieged by the French, had been
completely commanded. In September he re-
newed his operations against the semaphores, on
the coast of Languedoc, and blew up the newly-
construsted semaphoric telegraph at Bourdique,
La Pimede, St. Maguire, Frontignan, Cault, and
Foy, with the houses attached to them, fourteen
barracks of the gendarmes, a battery, and the
strong tower upon the Lake of Frontignan. In
1809 he volunteered for the defence of Trinidad
Castle, attached to the fortress of Rosas on the
coast of Catalonia, then besieged by the French.
At the head of 80 of his own men, and about an
equal number of the Spaniards, he repelled 1,000
of the enemy in an assault on the castle. He
protracted the siege for twelve days, but oft the
citadel capitulating he blew up the magazine of
Trinidad Castle, and retired to his ship. In April,
1809, he was selected by the First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, from his daring intrepidity, to command
a fleet of fire-ships intended for the destruction of
the French fleet then lying at anchor, and
blockaded by Lord Gambier, in the Basque Roads.
On the night of the 11th of that month he went on
board one of the explosion ships containing 1,500
barrels of gunpowder, and performed the hazardous
service confided to him most effectually.
For his signal gallantry on this occasion he re-
ceived the Knighthood of the Bath. He had been
chosen M.P. first for Honiton, and afterwards, in
1807, for Westminster, and as he intimated his
intention to oppose the vote of thanks proposed by
the Government to Lord Gambier, who had the
chief command in the Basque Roads affair, that
nobleman was subjected to a court-martial, but
acquitted. In the early part of 1814 Lord Coch-
rane fell into the snare of some designing knaves
and was charged with fraudulent designs on the
Stock Exchange. The fraud in which he was said
to haye been implicated was committed by a rascal
named Random de Berenger, who contrived that,
on February 22, an express should be sent from
Dover with the information that a French officer
had arrived announcing the death of the Emperor
Napoleon by assasination. The funds rose nearly
10 per cent. in consequence of the false news.
The fraudulent speculators anticipated to rea-
lise a considerable amount by their ne-
farious conduct ; but they were disappointed
in their evil gain, as all bargains on that account
were nulliieel. Lord Cochrane and others were
tried and convicted. His lordship
son wa
eds
for sentwelve
tenced
to pay a fine of £5OO,
to be impr
months, and at the end of that time to stand in the
pillory ; but the last disgraceful part of his punis hu:
ment was remitted on account of his great PeP
larity. He was expelled the House of
common-
on his conviction, in which assembly he took, how
ever, the oaths and his seat on his temporary escape
from the King's Bench Prison ill Jul Y' 1815 The
public, at least, aid not believe Linn capable of the
baoe act laid to hi .3 chargeu, re-elected him
haeynd as a further
eleven days after his expl.siont,
innocence defrayed the
proof of their belief in
aligises
by a
penny subscrip-
fin© imposed by the ju
dshi was the dupe of designing
tion." That or
l
• ot the remotest doubt, but the
p
persons there
not the remotest doubt, but the
persons there
that time s that he was the
popular belief .67t
orinterestedknavery. Perhaps
vic • tim of political
the greatest indigi lity he had to suffer for his in-
discretion WAS his %legradatien as a Knight of the

In 1830, on the accession of the Whigs to office,
under King William IV., Lord Dundonald was re-
instated in his rank in the British Navy from a
feeling that he had been made the victim of party,
and on May 22, 1847, the Order of the Bath was
restored to him. He succeeded his father as Earl
Dundonald in 1841, and became Vice• Admiral of
the Blue, Nov. 23, 1841.

He was appointed Commander-in-Chief on the
North American and West Indian Station in 1848.
In 1851 he became Vice-Admiral of the White, and
in 1854 Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom. Be-
sides his other honours he was a baronet of Scot-
land and Nova Scotia of 1671 ; G.C.8., 1847;
Grand Gross of the Imperial Brazilian Order of the
Cruzero ; Knight of the Royal Order of the Re-
deemer of Greece, and of tha Order of Merit of
Chili. He enjoyed a high reputation for his scien-
tific attainments, and was the author of a pamphlet
entitled " Observations on Naval Affairs," in which
he inserted a summary of his naval services and ex-
posed several acts of injustice which he had experi-
enced in the performance of his duty. He long ago
invented a project for blowing up and annihilating
fleets, which was submitted to the Government ;
and it is said that it was go overwhelmingly
destructive that, at the personal request of George
IV., he not only abstained from asing it, but
pledged his honour to his Majesty that he
would never use it without the sanction of the
Crown. He is understood to have suggested seve-
ral valuable hints for the improvement of our steam
navy.

TO those desirous of a more detailed record of his
career we refer them to " The Autobiography of a
Seaman," the first volume of which, from the pen
of the noble admiral, has been published, and the
second and concluding volume has been announced
as " nearly ready."
In 1856 the lamented admiral was elected an
elder brother of the Trinity House; was restored
in 1847 among the knights of the Order of the
Bath, being reappointed 22d May that year a Grand
Cross of that most honourable institution of knight-
hood. For his eminent services abroad he was
decorated a Grand Cross of the Order of the Crusero
of Brazil, a Knight of the Saviour of Greece, and
of Merit of Chili. The late admiral's commission
bore date as follows :—Lieutenant, May 24, 1796 ;
commander, March 28, 1800; captain, August 8,
1801; rear admiral, May 2, 1832 ; vice admiral,
November 23, 1841; and admiral, March 21, 1851,
and was rear admiral of the United Kingdom.
The late earl of Dundonald succeeded to the
ancient honours of his house on the death of his
father, who died in his 84th year, in 1831. The
late earl married Bth August, 1812, Katherine
Frances Corbett, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas
Barnes, and leaves surviving issue by her ladyship,
who survives her husband, four sons and a daughter,
namely, Thomas Barnes, Lord Cochrane (now the
Earl of Dundonald), born 18th April, 1814, and
married Ist December, 1847, to Louisa Harriet,
daughter of Mr. Wm. Alexander Mackinnon, MT.,
formerly in the 2d foot ; Hon. Horace Bernard
William, born in 1818, and married to Frances
Jacobina, only daughter of the late Alexander
Nicholson ; Captain the Hon. Arthur Auckland,
R N., C. 8., born in 1824 ; Lieutenant the Hon.
Ernest Grey, R.N., born 4th June, 1834; and
Lady 'Catherine Elizabeth, born December, 1821,
and married to Mr. John Willis Fleming, of Stone-
ham Park, Hants.

(From Me .044 Nees.)
Great Britain has lost the last of her ancien,
Sea-kings. The paragon of the British navy ix Its
heroic age, the brilliant rival in desperate service
and dauntless exploit of Nelson himself, the cyno-
sure of Nelson's bravest captains—Thomas Coch-
rane, Earl of Dundonald, is gone, in the fuhiess of
years and honours, to rejoin the company of his
departed countrymen and comrades. In the peace
ful quiet of his English home, this illustrious cap-
tain, whose name was the terror of the enemy's
coasts, and a legend in every sea from the sun-
rise to the sunset, when as yet our grand-
fathers were boys, sinks at last into weliwon
repose. When the present century was only
dawning, young Cochrane was doing deeds by
sea and land which will be remembered as
long as Europe has a history. From his lyiy-
hood he pursued death and glory with all the
eager passion of a lover. The flag of his country
was his lodestar, and, by day and night, througu
battle and tempest, through the iron hail of the
enemy's guns, he watched over its stainless glory
with unsleeping jealousy and insatiable devotion.
The name of Cochrane is to this hour, and must
ever be, a living and speaking memory and tradi-
tion in the noblest national service in the world.
From 1793 to 1814 it was the astonishment and ad-
miration of all the gallant enemies of England.
" Not even the British Navy could do it," is a
saying which the career of Cochrane might have
justified, if a Blake and a Nelson had never
lived. Nowhere, we believe, is this great name
more honoured, nowhere will the news of this
death be receiv ed with a thrill of more generous
emotion, than among the gallant countrymen of
Linois and Dessaix. For as all the world is the
tomb of heroes, so among the brave even an
" enemy" is cherished as a comrade when tlx
battle's done.
The scroll of Lord Dundonald's services is
nothing more nor less than the naval history of
that " war of giants." In the Channel, in the
Mediterranean, in the Bay of Biscay, in the
Atlantic his energy and activity were übiquitous
and incessant, and fortune favoured his audacity.
But his daring did not surpass his genius. In
fertility of resource, in instant perception xf
opportunity, in calm, decisive forethought,
thein
unwavering judgment, in tenacity waill'they
most dashing and reckless adventures, swan__
seemed to the timid or the dull, were nelytrhe E
sea-
, ing. Detesting and despising pedan_E: hirane was
lawyer species, and martinets, Lord u c
ss la such a
a stern disciplinarian. But stberant
nstievours a ship's
captain as Cochrane is the salt
day for England
company; and it will be
when her navy has lost thiltaett
swept the enemy's
nnsivour ! To say that
Cochrane scoured the
flag from every bay d literally the exact na-
tticielaa src_reek where an enemy's
flag could lurk, is to r_eien
were performed by him
ture of the servicestwhia
of France
America, in Gibraltar Bay,
on the coast of
_llCoorns,
jay
ialong thei coasts
in the Gulf of
constantiy opposed to forces vastly
and Spain. and metal,
ber he never paused to
superior in num
asure of an enemy, because
he never
take the mat any enemy could get the
better of his
believed that 41. In cutting t
own resolute -ou expeditions, in
n actions,sudden raids upon the enemy's
boat his life at sea was a continual romance, and
eoasts,
•
will remain the wonder and delight of sailors in all
affes aria' all nations.
c'lt was the :21isfortune, however, of Lord Cochrane
that he was a miiYl of genius, and by nature impa-
tient of mediocrity, odious to officialism, and—in a
word—intractable ashore; as often as he found him-
self under the thumb of privileged incompetence
and intrigue. It is painful to Englishmen of all
parties, though the shame belongs to the Tot leg, to
reflect that this British hero and worthy, whose
loss we are now deploring, was once branded by
his Government, deprived of all his hard-earned
honours, expelled from the House of Commons, ai d
obliged to break out of prison to take his scat for
Westminster. To his dying day he never forgot
those liberal electors of Westminster ; and in the
dedication of his autobiography he identifies his
name for ever with their patriotic suffrages.
conscience
The Liberal party has not upon its .n.O
the reproach of having driven Lord CochTanme
pint_
exile. But in exile the hero was still the c
his flagn
of freedom. In South America, in Greece,
At length;
WAS the tag of national independence.