The Sun.
London, England, 1819-06-17 00:00:00

THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1819.

CAUTION AGAINST PURCHASING PRETENDED
CLAIMS UPON GOVERNMENT on account of SUP-
PLIES FURNIsHED, or SERVICES RENDERED, to the
BRITISH ARMY in the PENINSULA. •

VITIIEREAS it has been represented to the
LORDS COMMISSIONERS of HIS MAJESTY'S
TREASURY, that FRAUDS have been committed hy va-
rious Persons pretending to sell Certificates, or other Docu-
ments, in support of Claims upon His Majesty's Govern-
ment, fur Supplies furnished, or Services rerrdered, to the
British Army in the Peninsula; Notice is hereby given, that
the period for the presentation of Claims of this description
has long since expired ; all Persons are therefore cautioned
against purchasing any such Claims or Documents.

Jand J. SITTE,Wn !GUT. the Contractors for
• the SMALLEST LOTTERY ever known to contain
TWO £30,000 ALL IN MONEY,
Also 2.000 GUINEAS IN GOLD! _ _

Which will be• DRAWN on MIDSUMMER DAY, 24th Inst.
and ALL IN ONE DAY, request their Friends and the Pub-
lic's immed,ate attention thereto: the time being so short,
and the Chances of obtaining Capitals of such value with so
few Tickets, nut likely to occur again. Having had the plea-
sure to divide the t'ir-t Prize of L. 30,000, and the Last
L. 50,500 ever sold, they hope to distribute the above Capi-
tals at their Old Offices,
37, Cornhill, I 11, Holborn,
38, Haymarket, 141, Oxford-street.

FOR THE SUN.

THE EARL OF DUNDONALO.

MR. EDITOR-Though the views which your
Paper exhibits of the political world are occa-
sionally somewhat different from mine, I am
ready at all times to acknowledge its liberal in-
dependence; 'and, not classing it wir.h the pro-
docts of the hireling Press,, to respect it as the

disinterested friend of Government, conciliated
solely by principle, and actuated by no other
feeling than thsat of 'the PUBLIC GOOD. I unite,
therefore, very heartily in its praise with your
late Correspondent BENVOLIO, with whom also I
most,entjrely sympathize in his sensibilities re-
specting the unfortunate Earl of DUNDONALD-8
Nobleman, who having consecrated his life to

science, in its connexion with the manufactures
of Britain; is at this moment sinking into the
grave under the complicated pressure of years, of
poverty, of the ingratitude of his country, and

(I would add, if it were not for the conduct of a
brother, who now alone supports him) of the ill
usage of those who are the most intimately con-
nected with him by the affinity of blood. I wish
on/this occasion, Mr. Editor, that, with the mi-
nisterial partialities of BBNvoLto, I could per-
suade myself that the petition, lately presented
to the PRINCE REGENT on the behalf of this me-.
ritorions and venerable Patrician, must necessa-
rily be productive of its proper effect. I am aware,
indeed, that other Noblemen, in the situation of
Lord DUNDONALD, bat without his claims on the
public gratitude, have been assisted by the gene-
ilsity of the Throne ; and I am not ignorant that,
in our days, the last two Viscounts FALCONtERG
(both of whom were Catholics, anti one of whom
was a Priest,) were rescued from absolute indi-
gence by the liberality of our Government. With
these facts, Mr. Editor, I am acquainted ; my
sentiments also respecting the present Ministers
of the Crown are very favourable; and I am sa.-
tisfied that TB E REGENT has a heart in his bosom
softened and saturated with the milk of human
kindness_ Why then shouttt I not concur with
BENVOLIO in deeming the rejection of Lord DUN-
DONALD'S petition to be au impossible event. To
justify my dissent, in this instance, from the be-
nevolent incredulity of your Correspondent, I
• must inform you, Mr. Editor, that the affecting
petition of this scientific and venerable Nobleman
was conveyed more than six weeks ago through
the proper Ministerial channel to the REGENT,
and was by him immediately transferred to the
Ministers, with whom it has ever since remained
in a state of perfect neglect. Yes, Sir, this pe-
tition, which was of a nature to extort tears from
the most unreleoting eyes, has been suffered to
repose with,,ut notice dorioo several 'successive

weeks avoid the litter on Ministerial tables! It

co►►ld not have been perused by the REGENT, or
its result must have been instantly favourable ;

nut_on the dispensers of the Royal bounty its
im-
pression appears to have been effectless ; and its
presenter, with his admirable. wife, has been per-
mitted to languish in the most cruel Suspense,
whilst be is withheld from the complicated wretch.
edness of a workhouse solely by the interposition
of his brother, Mr. BASIL COCHRAN. This, Mr.
Editor, is a plait exposition of facts; and I will
leave you to decide from it whether my fears on-
the occasion are altogether groundless. The re-
sult of this long deliberation on 'a stibject which
seems to be of such easy determination, may
finally be honourable to our Ministers, and, in
this event, they may expect the plaudit of my
heart ; but it may
,be- of an opposite charac-
ter, and then they may assure themselves of
my hisses and execrations. Of these, indeP(l,yont
Paper will probably not consent to be the vehi-
cle : but other Papers are open to me, and they
who can be cruel and,unjust., may possibly disco-
ver, that they cannot he cruel and unjust with
impunity►. You will pt,rceive, Mr. Editor, from
the- precision with which I have lctated certain
-facts in this letter to you, that I am not perso-
nally unacquainted with Lord DUNDONALD. In
truth I know hies well ; and ' I speak with cer-
tainty when I affirm, that, with a warm temper
,and a quick susceptibility of wrongs (a full mea-
sure of which has been heaped upon his homy
bead), be has passed innocently through a long
!ite, unarraigned of any injuries inflicted by him
On a single individual of the great human commit-
fuity ; that he has devoted his patrithony and his
many days to the service of Science, as she is the
handmaid of utility ; that, poor himself, he has
made many rich by the communication of his
scientific discoveries ;' and that the results, in Va-
rious •instances, of his knowledge, sagacity, and
persevering investigation,' have been eminently
beneficial to his country. lam not confident,
however, that these merits, when Lord DUNDO•
NALD'S claim to the possession of them has.been
fully established, are of a specks to conciliate the
beuevolenpe of our Ministers. But 1 can produce
on his behalf another description of merit, which
will necessarily excite their attention, if -it should

[PRICE SE VENPtIICF;

not be able to command their gratitude. Once
(and once only, as I believe) has-this devotee ot-
science stept from his elaboratory, to mingle in•
the political contests of his times. When the
ferment of the French Revolution was in its first
and most violent ebullition, when it became the
subject of alarm to one pert of the British Nation,
and of insurrectionary hope to another, Lord
DUNEIONALD exerted himself with effect in our
northern metropolis, to confound the insolence of
innovation, sod to support the counsels of Mr.
I'ITT. 'lite intelligent activity of my unfortunate
client, at this memorable and limportant
was duly appreciated by the late Lotd MELVILLE
and if either lie has survived in his son, or the
illustrious WILLIAM PITT in the present Govern-
ment, it will not now he the lot of Lord DUN-
DONALD to see his claims on his country held
cheap by the Ministers of his Sovereign, and him-
self degraded to the wretchedness of petitioning,
and of petitioning in vain, for bread.
In my present address to you, ills.. Editor, and
through you to the Government of which you are
the tintired advocate, I have contented myself
with seizing on what floats on the surface of my
case. In some future letter I may, perhaps, dive
into its depths ; and 1 cannot doubt of my abi.
lity, with the materials which. I can produce, to
make my pleading triumphant at the Tribunal of
the Nation, whatever event it may now experience
in the cold and narrow recesses to which the re-
. tijon alluded to seem to have been consigned.
Julie IG, 1919. AN LIUS.

*** We admire the amiable feelings of this
Correspondent, as well as the-dignified spirit and
hottest energy with which he has expressed them;
hut we conceive that he should not too hastily
infer, that, because the Petition has not yet been
attended to, it is forgotten, or will finally be
unsuccessful. He should consider the constant
and weighty occupations of Government, and
make some allowance for the impediments thrown
in its way, by the unceasing efforts of a Patriotic
OPPOSITION !! !—We shall always be glad to hear
from such a Correspondent.