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the northern provinces of Brazil."

The appeal was unsuccessful. The part of it having reference to the
replacement of Lord Dundonald's banner in Westminster Abbey was
considered by Lord Palmerston to be a question with which it was not in
his province to deal. "With regard to the fine," he said, "I am afraid
that there are no funds out of which it could be repaid, and I should
doubt there being any precedent for such a proceeding; and I find, on
inquiry, that pay or half-pay has not been granted to any naval officer
for any period during which he may have been out of the service." That
reply induced Lord Dundonald to write again to Lord Palmerston on the
7th of June. "I submit," he then said, "that, the fine being imposed for
an alleged offence of which I was wholly innocent, it ought to be
repaid, even if there be no special fund appropriated to such a purpose.
The peculiarity of my case may account for there being no precedent for
such a proceeding, if none there be. The same peculiarity may
distinguish my case from that of all other naval officers to whom no pay
or half-pay has been allowed for any period during which they may have
been out of the service. I may have been the only naval officer unjustly
expelled, and assuredly I have been the only one so expelled after
manifesting, by various acts, a truly patriotic zeal for the honour and
interest of our country. No other naval officer, after such acts, was
ever expelled the service and otherwise punished on mere conjectural
evidence, since demonstrated to have been utterly groundless. I submit
that instances have occurred of military officers recovering pay or
half-pay after unjust expulsion, as in the case of Sir Robert Wilson;
and I am not aware of the existence of any cause for a distinction in
this respect between the two services. I feel the deepest gratitude and
satisfaction that my life has been spared to a period when I may
reasonably hope that the portion of justice yet due to me for the
erroneous verdict and its injurious consequences will not be withheld.
Of that justice, the first instalment, namely, the restoration of my
naval rank, was granted by his late Majesty King William, and the second
by her present most gracious Majesty, who, on the representation of my
noble friend the Marquess of Lansdowne, was pleased to reinstate me in
the Order of the Bath. For the third and conclusive portion of justice
still remaining due to me, I cannot desist from