d done for Greece. To his persistent entreaties were
due all the meagre displays of patriotism by which the Government of the
country was maintained and Capodistrias accepted as President, and all
the feeble efforts by which the war was carried on and the triumph of
the Porte was averted until the direct interference of the Allied
Powers. That interference had been in great measure induced by the
report that he had entered the service of Greece, so that to him was due
not a little of the benefit that accrued from the whole course of
diplomacy by which her independence was secured; and the independence
was made more prompt and complete than could have been expected by the
fortunate circumstance of his having occasioned the collision between
the forces of Turkey and those of the Allied Powers which issued in the
Battle of Navarino. Much more he would have achieved had his arguments
been listened to and his plans supported. His failures no less than his
successes bespeak his worth.

CHAPTER XXIII.

A RECAPITULATION OF LORD COCHRANE'S NAVAL SERVICES.--HIS EFFORTS TO
OBTAIN RESTITUTION OF THE RANK TAKEN FROM HIM AFTER THE STOCK EXCHANGE
TRIAL.--HIS PETITION TO THE DUKE OF CLARENCE.--ITS REJECTION BY THE DUKE
OF WELLINGTON'S CABINET.--LORD COCHRANE'S OCCUPATIONS AFTER THE CLOSE OF
HIS GREEK SERVICE.--HIS RETURN TO ENGLAND.--HIS MEMORIAL TO WILLIAM
IV.--ITS TARDY CONSIDERATION BY EARL GREY'S CABINET.--ITS PROMOTERS AND
OPPONENTS.--LORD COCHRANE'S ACCESSION TO THE PEERAGE AS TENTH EARL OF
DUNDONALD.--HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE KING.--THE COUNTESS OF DUNDONALD'S
EFFORTS IN AID OF HER HUSBAND'S MEMORIAL.--THEIR ULTIMATE SUCCESS.--THE
EARL OF DUNDONALD'S "FREE PARDON," AND RESTORATION TO NAVAL RANK.

[1828-1832.]

Lord Cochrane's retirement from the service of Greece brought to a close
his career as a fighting seaman. With one brief exception, occurring
twenty years later, when he commanded the British squadron in the North
American and West Indian waters, but when there was no warfare to be
done the rest of his life, comprising thirty years of ripe manhood and
vigorous old age, was passed without employment in the profession which
was dear to him, and in which he had shown himself to be possessed of
talents rarely equalled and certainly never surpassed.

He entered that profession at the age of seventeen. In 1800, when he was
twenty-four, he was promoted to the command of the _Speedy_. With that
crazy little sloop, no la