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B udil Persons as are desirous . of Contracting with the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, to deliver NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE THOUSAND ACOLLIERY, situate at PWLLGWAIN, near NEWBRIDGR, in the County of GLAMORGAN, workable by Level ; the Coal is Bitumous, of excellent quality, and may be conveyed to the Cardiff Canal by a Trarnroad, which is made from it along the Vale of RhOndda, and passes through the Pwllgwain Farm. Also a COLLIERY, with Coal of the abovequality, situated at EREW ISSA, about half a mile higher up the Vale of Rhondda than the above, on the same Trattroad, workable by Level, and may be opened within a few yards of the Tramroad. The Vale of Rhondda is in a healthy, beautiful, and picturesque part of South Wales, having a fine clear River running through its length. The present Farm Houses are in good repair, and capable of being fitted up as comfortable Residences, and may be had with a suitable portion of Laud, Outhouses, &c. by the Takers of the Colliery. The above are, therefore. considered well worth the attention of any Gentleman retiring from Business, but still desirous of a safe employ, where considerable advantage may be obtained, without any great advance of Capital, or any Risk. For Particulars (if by letter, postage paid) enquire .f Mr. Adam Murray, Surveyor and Land Agent, 61, St. Martin's-lane, London ; Mr. B. Martin, Colliery Surveyor, Morriston, near Swansea; or Mr. James Williamson, Laselay, near Cardiff. The Tenants will shew the Lands. POUNDS OF OATS, At the Ordnance Depot, in Taoley-street, may receive Particulars of the Contr.icts at this Office, between the hours of Ten anti Four; and deliver their Tenders sealed up, and directed to the Agent fur Commissariat Supplies, marking thereon " Tender for Oats;' on nr before TUESDAY, the 21st Instant, but none will be received after Twelve o'Clock on that day ; nor will any Pro posal he noticed unless made On, or annexed to, a Printed Par ticular, and the Prices inserted in Words 'at length ; nor unless a Letter be subjoined to such Proposal, signed by Two Persons of known Property engaging to become bound with the Party tendering, in 'the Sum . expressed In the Particulars, for the due Per f 4 • THE 'DISTRESSED LETTER-PRESS PRINTERS ARCTIC LAND EXPEDITION. soot ins Daman counts. rWe had the happiness, last week, of presenting our Readers with a letter from the very centre of Africa, pointing at, rather than dwelling on, matters of high import to the friends of science; and, this week, we have a still higher treat in store for them, in the shape of Extracts from an Original Journal, kept by a learned and valued friend attached to the Arctic Land Expedition, and for warded to us, we may say, from the near neighbourhood of the North Pole. We say Extracts—for the Journal in question, as originally written, was too long for our narrow limits.] FORT FRANKLIN, GREAT BEAR LAKE, Fn. 6. At New York we were received with much hospita lity, and I may say kindness, by the upper class of citi ' zens. We spent a week very agreeably with them, after which, we left New York in a steam-boat, and pro ceeded up the river Hudson to Albany, landing by the way at West Point, to visit the Military Academy established there on a large scale. West Point is as sociated with unpleasant recollections to an English. man, as being the position of the American army when the unfortunate but gallant Major Andre was taken in carrying on his negocrations with General Arnold. The Hudson is . a magnificent river, and much of its scenery possesses a grand, nay almost an alpine character.— Albany, the seat of the Government of the State of New York, is a comparatively ancient, quiet, and well built town, not disturbed by the commerce which bus tles through the streets of New York. We were enter tained by the Governor of the State, General de Witt Clinton, a polished Gentleman, of great scientific at tainments, and by Van Rauselaer, the proprietor of a county which bears his name, and in feet a Nobleman under the appellation of Patron (pronounced patrons) which is, I snppos' , the Republican equivalent for Doke. We also made here the acquaintance of Mr. Celden, a liber ri leader of the federal party. We ac companied the Governor to Church, and the Clergyman, a Presbyterian, prayed in express terms for the safety and success of the Expedition. At Albany we hired three coaches, with four horses each, to convey us to Lewistown, a distance of about 420 miles. Our party at this time consisted of five ofitcersJohr marines, and Mr. Buchanan the 'British Consul, who came with us from New York, and ac companied us during our journey through the United States. and Upper Canada, facilitating oUr .priigtess greatly by his 'intimate knowledge of the route, the modes of travelling, and the manners of the inhabitants. After we had struck off, however, from the great western roatito Buffaloe, in order to go to Lewistown on - the Niagara, we found, as . Might be eh pected train the's-natter thoroughfare; leis acconsthcida lion for so large a party. • We arrived at one of the s m a ll er inns a b out 6 3 411- l i g ht, after the family had re tired to bed, found the door on the latch, and walked in ; but experienced some difictsity, too it *rata frosty • night, in getting the family' to quit their warm beds and providers with supper. Mr. Buchanan, however, hit upon an expedient which answered admirably. He sent our highland piper into the long passage leading to the bed-rooms, and he had not marched twice along it to the tune of The Gathering of the Mat, before the landlord, his wife, and five or six female attendants, hurried forth. They took all this in good part, said it was delightful Music, cooked some ham for our supper with their usual expedition, and spread clean sheets on the beds which they had left. From Lewistown we Crossed the Niagara to Queens town on the Canada side, and went about seven miles up the river to visit the justly celebrated Falls. Many have endeavoured to describe these Falls, and I think with very little success. I shall not make a new at tempt, but merely remark, th it, notwithstanding all I had read on the subject, and the various drawings I had seen, the grandeur of the scene far exceeded my pre vious conceptions of it. All the other cataracts which I have seen, dwindle, oil comparison with this. Olio in significance. It is a stupendous monument of the power of the CRRATOR of the Ihsivertei , aaho wields at etiltau elEment that mocks the utmost strength of feeble riian. Place Xerxes and his Satraps and emirs, or the might iest potentate at the head of the most magnificent army that eider trod the earth, within the current of that powerful stream; and a single minute would suffice to sweep them and their cumbrous train to utter destruc tion. This neighbourhood is a place of summer resort for the inhabitants of the State of New York, and a hotel for their accommodation has been built so as to overlook the Falls. This, with some flights of wooden stairs to enable the visitors to ascend and descend the banks of the river, are no ornament to the scene ; neither do they injure it, and perhaps the Cataract of Niagara is the only one in the world that would not be injured by such adjuncts. But it is framed on so mighty a plan, that the eye, on contemplating its tremendous rush of waters, lets slip from observation every work of art. From Niagara we proceeded to Fort George, situated on Lake Ontario, at the influx of the river, and, crossing the Lake, we landed at York, the capital of Upper Canada. After a stay of twenty-fours at this place, we proceeded in carts, by miserable roads, and through a thinly settled country, to Lake Senicoe, which we cross ed, and descending the Nattawasaga River to Lake Huron, we arrived in a few days at Penetanguishene, a naval depot, situated on one of the bays of that Lake. At Penetanguishene we were joined by twenty-four Canadian voyageurs from Montreal, and on the 28d of April the whole party embarked in two large canoes, which, together with some stores, had been forwarded from Lower Canada the preceding season. In these canoes we coasted Lakes Huron and Superior, and ar rived at Fort William on the 10th of May, .having suf fered a few days' detention, partly from ice, but princi pally from high winds. Fort William, previous to their union with the Hud son's Bay Company, was the principal depot of the North West Fur Traders. Here we exchanged our large canoes for four smaller ones, adapted to river` na vigation, and, separating into two parties, Capt. Frank lin and I pushed on a head in a partially laden canoe, while Messrs. Back, Kendall, and Drummond, follow ed with the stores in the three remaining canoes. We arrived on the 15th of June at Cumberland-house,which,' you may remember, was our wintering quarters the first year on our former journey through the country; and it was also the residence, during the last winter, of our seamen, who, with three boats and some stores under their charge, left England in June 1824, in the Hudson's Bay Ship. They resumed their voyage this season on the 2d of June, and we overtook them on the 29th of the same month, in sufficient time to assist them in reaching and crossing the height of land which se parates the waters flowing towards Hudson's Bay, from those which fall into the Arctic sea. Owing to the un usual dryness of the season, we experienced much diffi culty in launching the boats through the small streams leading to and from this portage, which is named the Methy Carrying-place, and particularly through the small Methy river, which is nearly SO miles long, and which, this season, nowhere offered water sufficient to float the boats, except in small pools, between which long and almost dry fords intervened. We had, in consequence, to carry the cargoes nearly the whole way, either partially or entirely, through swamps from which the mosquitoes assailed us in myriads at every step.— The Carrying place itself is twelve miles long, over a high ridge of sand hills, and here the boats were partly carried on men's shoulders, and partly launched the whole distance. After this tedious and laborious ope ration, during which a considerable nnmber of the men were disabled by swellings of the legs, we descended the Athabasca river, and reached Fort Chepewyan, on the Lake of the Hills, on the 15th of July. By referring to Mackenzie's voyages, you will perceive that it was from this post that that enterprising traveller set outran the Sd of June, 1789, on that memorable voyage to the Arctic sea, in which he discovered and navigated the river that bears his name, and opened up to the Fur trade a large track of productive country. It was necessary for Captain Franklin to remain at Fort Chepewyan until the arrival of Mr. Back, that he might discharge such of the Canadian voyagers as were to return to Canada this season, and also to make other arrangements; but that the boats (which were now four in number, an additional one having been borrowed from the Company, and heavily laden with upwards of two tons of pemmican, besides other stones), might be no cause of delay after the arrival of the canoes, I went on with them on the 21st. The canoes, under Mes s rs. Back and Kendall, (Drum-, 'mond having been left at Cumberland-house to botanize on the Saskatchewan) arrived at Chepewyan on the 23d, and on the 25th, Captain Franklin having sent back to Canada a canoe with the voyagers whose services were no longer needed, set out after me with the three re ' maining canoes. The boats reached Slave Lake on the 213th July, only two days later than we arrived at the same place in canoes on the second year of our former journey ; a difference of speed attributable solely to our acquaintance with the route and mode of travelling, and the previous arrangements so carefully made by Cap tain Franklin. After passing two days under the hos pitable roufof Mr. M'Vicar, who was so kind to us alter our foimer suffering's, I set out again, and, coast ing the southern shore of Great Slave Lake, entered the Mackenzie. The current of this stately river swept us rapidly along, and on the 3d of August we arrived at Fort Simpson, situated at the influx of the River of the Mountains, and at seven in the morning of the 6th we landed at Fort Norman, about two hundred miles further down that river. These two posts are distant from each other thirteen days of winter travelling.— • At Fort Norman I left a portion of the stores, and a boat and select crew for Captain Franklin ; and going on with the remainder, we ascended the current of the Bear Lake River, which joins the Mackenzie about thirty miles below Fort Norman. Bear Lake River has a rapid current; the voyage down it being performed in eight or nine hours, while its ascent occupies three or four days. It is seventy-six miles long. We arrived at Fort Franklin, then in progress of erection, on the 16th of August. Mr. Deese, a chief trader of the Hud son Bay Company, who had come down with a party of men in the month of June to make preparations for -us, did not expect to see us before the 25th of September. Captain Franklin and hiiparty reached Fort Norman the day after I left it, anu sending Mr. 13 ick up with the canoes and stores, he and Mr. Kendall proceeded down the river in the boat, with crew of seven men, including the Esquimau: interpreter. 0 r the Sd day they passed Fort Good Hope,in lat. 67.28. the last of the Company's posts, and in three days more reached the sea. The river flowed into it through many channels, separated by low deltas, which ire mostly covered by • spring floods. Whale Island of Mackenzie, the bruit of his voyage, is one of the outermost of these deltas, but it is surrounded by the fresh water of the river, and it was not until the boat had approached Garry's Island, thirty miles to seaward, that the clear salt water was perceived, by a well defined line, to be separated from the muddy water of the river. Captain Franklin landed on Garry's Island exactly six months from the date of his sailing from England; and it will exci•e the sympathy of his friends to learn, that he then displayed for the first time a silk flag, which was sewed by his lamented wife in her last illness, and delivered with a presentiment, alas! too true, that they were never again to meet in this world. Garry's Island lies in lat. 69. 29. and in longitude 135:41. W. From its summit they saw many white and black whales, seals, &c. After remaining a day here, for the put pose of making astronomical observe dons, and enjoying the contemplation of a sea clear of ice, they set out on their return, and arrived at this post on the 6th of September. We had, during their absence, bestowed upon it the name which it now bears. They saw several Esquimaux encampments recently des. rted, but were not so fortunate as to find any of the people of that nation. Presents, however, of iron work were left at their huts, and we have had the satisfaction of learn- ing, in thesiourse of this winter, through the medium olthe Sharp Eyes—a tribe of Indians who frequent at Good Hope—that these presents were found by the ,people for whom they were intended, and have prepai d them strongly in our favour. The Expedition tra., yelled, from the date of its leaving N:w York, the 26th March, until its reunion at Fort Iran kiln on the 6th of September—and including a survey which I made of the north side of Bear Lake, in Captain Franklin's .ab sence—five thousand one hundred and sixty miles, of which five hundred and nine-six were through the United States and settled parts of Upper Canada. It. will resume its labours as soon as the rivers are clear of ice, which will not be before the end of June. At pre sent the whole party are in good health and high spirits, and are sanguine in their expectations of success. No letters from this post later than the date of this can reach England sooner than October, 1827. FRENCH PAPERS. The Moniteur of Monday contains a Royal Ordon nance, convoking the Chambers for the 12th December. Another Royal Ordonnance elevates the venerable Arch bishop of Bourdeaux, lately Bishop of Boston, in Ame rica, to the dignity of the Peerage. The same Paper, in a kind of leading article, explains some parts, and contradicts others, of the account which we extracted yesterday from another Journal, respecting the recent disturbances at the Royal College of Versailles. It de nies that the affray was so serious as it had been retire seined, reducing the battalion of Swiss (whose assist ance was said to have been called in) to four fusileers, and making all the damage done amount only to a few broken panes of glass, and some smashed crockery.— The young rioters had been dismissed to their homes for the holidays, but were all to return with the exception of about a dozen of the ringleaders. The Etoile of Tuesday states, in a letter from Con stantinople of the 15th ult. that the Greek Patriarch has been deposed: A great agitation prevails among the Greeks in the Turkish capital. The Etoile of Wednesday informs us, that the Prin cess Regent of Portugal has proclaimed a general am nesty for all the factious officers and soldiers who shall return to their country before the termination of the year. This intelligence, it adds. together with that of the marriage of the,lnfant Don Miguel, and of the oath taken by that Prince to the - Constitution, is a sufficient answer to the rumours of the march of additional troops into Spain. The Journal then subjoins the following paragraph, as its authority for stating that this young adherent of legitimacy has at last become constitutional. " We received by an extraordinary conveyance the Vienna Pa pers of the 31st ult. from which we make the following extract: " s Yestettlay, at six o'clock in the evening, before all the Court, in the presence of their Majesties, in the great hall of audience, the Infant Don Miguel was solemnly betrothed to her Majesty Queen Marla da Gloria 11. of Portugal, granddaughter of the Emperor of Austria, whose house is united by new and more close ties to that of Braganza. The august Prince, who has here acquired by his modest conduct general respect, appears in consequence to have yielded to the commands of his august brother and Sovereign.'" The report of the young Prince haying taken the oath to the Constitution, appears thus wrest only on in. ference ; but from the nature of the premises,. the inference seems to be irresistible. It is not at all likely that the Emperor would allow his da ughter to, be be trothed, in the face of Europe, to a Prince Who gopti oiled hostile to the institutions which We had 'sista to his country, and engaged to Maintain at the luzatd of displeasing his legitimate allies. We May. therefore, believe that Don Miguel has at least engaged to support the Cones; and that the party in Portugal who relied OF THE METROPOLIS. 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