The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-01
BY LA MARQUIsE DE FONTENOY.
p ORD COCHRANE, who has been
figuring conspicuously at the fes-
tivities at Santiago and at VAL

ORD COCHRANE, who has been
figuring conspicuously at the tes-
tivities at Santiago and at VAL
paraiso. in connection with the
public of Chill, is twenty-five-year
old lieutenant of the Scots Guards. who
is indebted for all the attentions Law
ished upon him by the Gillian gov
eminent and the Chilian people, to the
fact that he is the great-grapdson OF
that Lord Cochrane who played SO
important role in the early years
of their independence. becoming the
creator and tine first admiral OF their
navy. In fact, the name of Lord Coch-
rane is bound up in the minds of the
Chilians with the history of their IN
dependence, and his prowesses while
at the head of the naval forces OF
Spanish frigate Esmeraida, in the Bay
OF Valdivia, are among the most amaz-
ing feats in naval history.
There is no more romantic story,
whose statue occupies a conspicuous
place in the public gardens at san
tiago The son of a penniless Scotch
peer, he lived to be an admiral in the
navies of England, of Chill. OF Brazil
and Of Greece. He was midshipman
when the great Napoleon was a mere
artillery subaltern. He was a radical
member of Parliament, colleague OF
Sir Francis Burdett in 1907. He planned
the famous attack with fire ships on the
French fleet in AK Roads. Complete
success was married by the incapacity
and jealousy of his superior, Lord Gam
bier, and Cochrane, refusing to con-
sent to the official fiction that, It was
bier in Parliament A court martial
on crooked evidence, acquitted Gam
bier, and Cochrane's career in the navy
was ruined. His political career was
4 l., l, 300 Of cI1y
the stock exchange by bogus cour-
Her. announcing the defeat of Napo-
Icon. 1t was conspiracy. IN which
| Cochranes uncle, Cochrane tombstone.
the Tory ministry succeeded in in
volving Cochrane, who. not having then
| succeeded to the family earldom OF
! Dundonald, was amenable to the or
binary courts. His conviction was Sc
cured. He was expelled from the House Sc
of Commons. deprived of his Order or
1.-The Bath. dismissed from the navy.
imprisoned and fined.
Cochrane Whose conviction was
bit of discredtable political trickery.
/ of Chill, which had just revolted from
Spain, and Chili's hnest warship to-
day bears the name OF Almirante Coch-
rane. From Chilli he passed TO tn ne
command OF the navy of Brazil, which
had just thrown off the allegiance Of
Portugal, and did for that empire much
the same work that he had done for
the Gillian republic, winning hght
capture of Maranhao with a single
frigate, thereby addinAan entire PROV
ince to the Brazilian empire. For this
he received from the Brazilian en-
pire the title of MARQUIS Of Maranhao,
which is now borne by his grandson n.
the present Earl Of Dundonald, father
| OF the Lord Cochrane who has been
/ the guest OF the CHILEAN government
at its centennial celebration. he neHs
became admiral of the tiny navy OF
But though he could make seamen out
of Chilians and Brazilians. he could
not make seamen out OF Greeks, ana
he returned to England In 1879.
King, William w., who had always been
his friend. succeeded to the throne,
and one Of the first things that ne did
was to grant him a full pardon for an
| offense Which he had Eever committed
this being the only means in Englsh
| law Of effacing the convtction----and 70
restore him to the navy with the rank
of yice-Admiral; while Queen Victoria
IN the early years Of her reign reg ro re-
Las a Knight Grand Cross there
of, by way of public and official rec
ognition of his Innocence of the charges
brought by the odious political con-
spiracy which had led to his deprlyal
naand the British naval forces in North
| American waters.
Finally, during the Russian War, IN
1855. he submitted once more TO the
admiralty a secret planof his. own,
which he claimed would annihilato
cronstadt and sebastopol without loss
70 the. attacking force, which he Of
ffered to lead IN person, But the o.
as those which led to their rejection
when he had proposed the plan to the
British government in the beginning
! ct the century, prior to his dismissal
/ from the English navy. For after
having been investigated on that oo-
casion by n committee sitting IN cam
4 era Including the Royal Duke of York.
Lord Keith and Lord Exnlouth. it was
agree to reject the plan, on the score
of its barbarity, hut it was agreed that
the means protected by Lord Cosh-
ised, and destroy any fertilization or
neet When ,Cochrane entered the
] Gillian service he gave a solemn pledge
| to the Prince Regent not to divnlge
| the plan to any other government, And
lto this day 1t remains secret Whsa
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