The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-09-06
5elrtt Misfrllunq.
Jealousy in the Navy.
English Admiral Who Was Long As
sailed. Recalled by Attack
on Schley.

Admiral Winfield Scott Schley is
not the first great sea victor who has
suffered by official combinations and
the rivalry and jealousy of superiors.
There are also other cases in which,
with admiralty and navy departments
against them, successful warrior-navi-
gators have maintained the confidence
of the people and finally compelled
recognition.
The career of Admiral Sir Thomas
Cochrane, the most famous English
naval officer OF this century and also
the prince of South American sea-fght-
ers, is striking illustration. His
treatment by his superiors and the
admiralty was so hostile that he only
received full recognition Of the extra
ordinary achievements of bis life long
after their accomplishment.
Lord Cochrane was one of the great
est of English naval heroes, ranking
with Nelson, Drake, Blake, and Rod
ney. More than that, he made possi-
BILE by his remarkable victories in
South America-while serving under
republican hags-the freedom Of Chile
and Peru. He also saw service in the
navies of Brazil and Greece, and de-
clined an appointment as admiral of
the Spanish line. He was compelled
to seek honors from other nations by
reason of his gross treatment by his
own, but tLose nations requited his
vast services quite as poorly as did
England. 1t is true that he died the
tenth Earl of Dundonald and rear ad-
miral of the United Kingdom, but his
title came to him by inheritance and
not by royal favor; and his rank in the
English navy was only obtained after
long prosecutions and many years after
his brilliant exploits had made him
celebrated around the globe.
CAREER IN AMERICAN WATERS.
Cochrane's fame was even greater in
the New World than in tue Old, for a
large part of his astonishing career
was spent in American waters. He
was on the North Atlantic station as
early as 1856, being then an acting
lieutenant on the Thetis and twenty
one years old. Many years later-at
the close of career of extraordinary
victories and more extraordinary vicis-
STUDIES he commanded the North
American and West Indian station, in
which he had commenced his naval
service. During the intervening years
he had won many notable sea fights
for England; then, being disgraced,
degraded, and imprisoned, expelled
from Parliament, and kicked out of the
Order of the Bath. He had also seen
extended, exciting, and successful SER
vice as the supreme commanding
officer of the navies of four different
nations.
In the second month of the nine
teenth century Cochrane, then twenty
four years old, took command OF the
British brig Speedy, little vessel of
but fifteen tons, carrying fourteen
four-pound guns and tifty-four men.
With this so called "burlesque' ship
he cruised the Spanish coast, and
speedily made himself terror to the
enemey. He made many captures,
and of Barcelona performed an exploit
rivaled only by that OF the Bon Homme
Richard against the Scraps. In fact,
the naval historians call the fight of
the Speedy and the Ell Gamo without
parallel in naval history" The Ell