The Sun. — London, England, 1819-01-07 00:00:00

NOR I ii-WEST pAssAGE. EXPEDITION under Captain ROSS and Lieutenant PARRY, in the Isabella and Alexander. [From the last NueO'er of 13(..tctiwooD's Edinburgi Magazin e .3 'file following, we are assured, is the most cor rect account that has hitherto been published of tiil Expedition to which it relates : Mic DeArt ,vere pleased to say, on onr departure from England, that nothing would gra.ity you noire, than to learn from one, as ° P . pot t occur, the progress we made in our voyage of discovery On the strength of this flatteting eneouragement I wrote to you a 'loeg letter towards the end of July, just as the last %vlialers were Omer to rake their departure for Eiigl.ann, which I find came safely to your banns At that time our hopes and spirits got \ the better of all doubts and fears; for though we were then beset ou-every side with ice, yet we bad seen euotieh, and learned enough, both front the Danes below, and all the masters of ate whalers amend us, to be assured, that the ice was rapidly disappearing, partly from the heat of the son, bur mostly I believe from the constant friction of one flaw err mass against another, and front tire action of the salt water upon them. I believe I t4,ld you also of the fineness of the cli mate, and that we had once, on the top of an ice-berg, the tempera , toe by Fahrenheit's _titer warner er at fume than 80 deg. when exposed to the sun, and that the effect of his powerful rays was not only felt, but very visible in the streams of water which poured down the sides of all these stupendoes mas•es, like SO many mountain cas cades. it i s nor, however, the suu•s rays that chic.fly contribute to destroy the ice—they are of too rare (Tem rence to produce any such perma nent effect ; for the torrents continue to fall, and flit- field ice to dissolve, apparently just as much in the ordinary weather of the Arctic regions, which, generally speaking, is mad, but foggy. and the atWO•rere mostly loaded with clouds, or some kind of vapour, as when the sun shines forth in all his glory ;—when I say mild, I mean that there is little or no Wind, and that Fahrett beic's thetmometer ranges from 32 deg. to 4(1 deg, it. the shade ; once, and I believe but once, es as down to 24 deg., but very often above 40 deg I .in now sneaking of the month of August, nod I lII4v Mid that September brought with it no dimioottoo of :empera7ure,—it is true we were they, ranging dowo the western coast of Baffin's Day to tire saitonward ; het we have learnt trout experienev, that rn these regions one does not in crea.sr tire cold.by increasing tire latitude, as I shall n...% proceed to she , you more fully :- 1 IniiSf it; cruise, however, that I an, writing to you %siti mu t ho o k Ow Commodore took lots .session of all 'tie logs, journals, remark-books, and (halts, kited carried them off with him from the litimber to the Adwirralty, so that all our opinious and speculations on what we have done, and what we have lett undone, are at head-quar tets mention this in order to claim indul gence for any lack of pet.eision in dates and 110.1).• br , S ; nut the main facts eat rite voyage are too rimgly imps inted on my mind to need any written itiOni• tat A the Oth of August we got so far up the cteis, of (het tifaod as to recognise the Cape Diofiey -lligge's of Baffin, but still hampered with the we. Wien near this Cape, we very unex p,ctedly oitserved something like human beings itto.rog towards us on the ice, which separated us front the shore about seven or eight miles. On a 'tearer apnroach we perceived that they were actually tutu, sitting on tow sledges, driven by five (Pt six dogs in ench. When within a mile or less of the slops, they stopped short, but hallooed tuo i shouted at a great late 'Vast at this time smite signals it ere making between the ships, which vihahly alarmed them, tor they suddenly wheeled round. anti set off again towards the slime in full gallop, at a speed which we sup posed 40 he at least equal to that of our mail- cotiches ; course we soon lost sight of them 13ieliool the hummocks of ice. Every body re grettvti their smide'n disappearance; and in order if po sibie to bringrhem back, and to explain our rHendly imentions, Captain Ross caused a white flag to he hoisted on a hillock of ice, on which, was painted a hand holding a green branch of a tree—a colour, by the way, and' an object not very common tat this part of the world ; there were al,o lett on the ice sonic presents placed on a stool, and an Esquintaux dog with br ads about his neck ; every thing however remained [lntone's- ed on our return front an attempt to push to the north a and through the ice, and the poor dog was lying down on the very spot where we left him. On the third day the natives were again observed at a distance. coming towards us ; they now ap proached within a few hundred yards of tie ship betore they stopped, but perceiving that they had no inclination to come nearer, Jack Saccheus, the &qaimanx whom you saw with his canoe on the name-, volunteered to go out to them. It re quired Iry small degree of courage to undertake this enterprize, as the southern Esquimaux are firmly persuaded that there i 3 a race of giants dwelling in the mountains to the northward, who are exceedingly ferocious, and great cannibals, and Jack of course believed this story of his countrymen. It happened, however, fmtunately perhaps for all parties, that, at the place where they halted, the ice had Separated, leaving a ca nal of a few feet in width. They immediately he gait to talk and bawl in a language which Jack at Best did not understand, but by a little attention he discovered that the language they mask use of was that of the southern Esquimaux, somewhat diffe rent in the pronunciation, as well as in many of the words themselves, but-he soon found that he could make out their meaning. The questions they put to him with great eagerness, were to follov-ing purpose :—Who are ye ?-IVhat are ye ?--Where do you come from ?--Are you conte'from the moon ?—What are those two great birds ?—Jack told'them in reply, that he was a loan like them ;—that he had a father and mcs. tiltr;—that he was Made of flesh and bones, and tltilt he wore clothes ;—that the two great things which they cdlled birds. were houses to live its. On hearing this, they all called out, 'No, no, we saw them flap theii• wings, and they were sure that they were .ftelculc, or evil spirits, come to destroy them,--at the same time one of them pulled from his boot a sort of rude knife, which he held out in a threatening posture, and said he would kill him. Jack threw them a shirt across the canal, that they mieht be convinced he carried about with blot subroantial matters, and not such as spi rits could carry ; they asked him what skin it was made of ? Thus by degrees they conversed together ; when Jack told them any thing that pleased them, or ti; which they gave their assent, it was indicated by pulling their noses. In a short time they had got into•familiar conversation ; aud Jack having learnt that there was plenty of water to the north, cane running to the ship for a plank to enable them to cross. Captain Ross and Lieu tenant Parry now , went to meet t bent. Un ap• proaehing the sh;p; their astonishment was un• bounded,—every object drew from them all eja• culation of lull yo ! accomnanied with immoder. Ate bursts of laughter. They laid hold of the ice anchors, the smith's anvil, the large spars of wood, as if they could catty them off, and ex pressed the utmost astonishment apparently at their unexpected weight ; they seemed like men who distrusted the sense of sight, and could not satisfy themselves of the reality of objects, until they hid grasped them; to view themselves in a lookitsg-glass, but more especially in a concave mirror, made them almost frantic with joy and wonder, and drew forth such bursts of laughter, and exclamations of surprise, as were never heard before. The masts of the ship, and a top-mast on deck, attracted their most profound attention, which is not at all surprising, especially when they were assured that they °ere pieces of wood. A man who never saw a tree, nor even a shrub beyond a birch or willow twig of the thickness of a crow's quill, must necessarily be incredulous that the mast of a ship could be made of the same material. The two substances with which they seemed to be most familiar, were ski. and botre ; and they always enquired of what skin our ja: bets, trowsers, shirts, hats, &c. were made, and of what hone were our hit tons, and most other solid substances. Glass of all kituls they took naturally enoug h f or i ce. We gave. them some bread, but they spat it our ; some rum, but they could not bear it ; and we learnvd from Jack, that they lived entirely on animal fomf, mostly on the flesh W . seals, sea unicorns, hears, foxes, and hit ds ; ttoh ‘tht,:n alt these failed them. that they eat their (loos. The bones of the animals which serve them for food. supply them also with fuel ; and a very fine soft moss, with long fibrous roots, when dipped itr fish oil, is used by them as candles or torches.— This moss grows in great plenty, and very lox utiant. The bones also serve them to make their sledges, which are fastened together with ihougs of skits. Their knives are certainly the rudest institonents of the bi n d i n t h e w h o l e world : they are nothing more than a flattened piece of 'roll, like ,t bit of a hoop, passed longitudinally itt the groo‘,., of fish's bone, and extending beyond it, at w , t; end, about an inch ; and they are 'hers fixed. withott• the faculty of opening or shut , ing. Mr. Sabine took great pains, through the medium of Jack's interpretation, to learn where they got the iron, and how they worked it ; the result of which was, that it was hewn by a sharp stone, front a large mass found in the mountains at no great distance from the spot where we were ; of course it was concluded that it must he native iron ; and supposing it to have been recently (hiss covered, this circumstance may, in some measnie, account for the rudeness of their manufacture, as the stitching of their clothes and boots, and the putting together of their sledges, were by no means contemptible performances. They de scribed two pieces of iron trout which they de rived their supply; and each of which, by their account, might be equal to a cube of two feet. They called it Sowie, and the place where it was found Sowie-lick, the former of which Jack oh served to be the name given to iron by the Stith, ern Esquituaux. We now find, since our arrival that this iron turns out to be meteoric, and 'ha it contains the usual proportion of Nickel ; so tha lack's interpretation, which some of us were dis, posed to doubt, has been justified. Indeed hels a man 00 whom the utmost dependence may be placed ; very intelligent, and always ready to ob lige; willing to learn, and grateful to those who will take thy trouble to instruct hits., whether in writing, drawing, or any thing that he wishes to undertake,—he is indeed a most valuable man. While speaking of him I may observe, that we were once afraid we had lost him, to Ale great regret and sorrow of every man on board. lie had gone on shore, and did not•rturn for two or three days ; but, on sending after him, he was fotflol in the hut of a Southern E , quimaux, with his collar-bone broken. On inquiring how it happened, it turned out that his musket burst Jack having loaded it too deeply-with powder, on! the principle (as he said) of " plenty powder, It is very remarkable that this new tribe of Esquimaux (which I find by the Newspapers are ridiculously called a new nation) have no beats, nor any means of going upon the water, except On the ice, though the greater part of their sub sistence is derived from that ilem'ent ; hut we un derstood that they managed matters very well without them. The way in which they proceed to catch seals, is by going to the openings or chasms in the ice, lying down, and imitating the cry of a young seal, when the old ones immediately peep up; and while they are endeavouring to scramble . upon the ice, they are knocked on the head by the hunters, er run 4 thiough with a kind of spear made of bone. I remember reading of a similar practice among the Southern Esquimaux. They gave us some specimens of this seal-music, and also of their songs, which were any thing but music, and accompanied with the most ridiculous gestures and grimaces. On the niurging of these notes in the ice, they also watch for the rising of the sea unicorns to blow,.which it seems they are frequently obliged to do. The flesh of this ani mal dried is a considerable article of their winter food. Though afraid at first tw go into tLe boat, they appeared soon to be sensible of the advan tages of being able to float on the water, and one of them sheaved a great desire to get possession of Jack's canoe, after he bad been told the use of it, of which he wis before 'perfectly ignorant ; and noticing could more strongly prove die''r complete insularity trom their more southern neighbours, than the circumstance of their not having the word kayiack (canoe) in their language.. [To he continued.] POLICE INTELLWENCEi CRUEL FltA t-D. BOW.STREET.-A fe;(1;; : .ctgo, a respectable looking ttanale, who had evidently seen better days, and who described herself as the widow of Mr. Bland, an Attorney, who had died a few months since, and lett her in a state of destitu tion, with five children dependent on her for sup port, applied to Mr. Bra 1I E, in great affliction, tinder the following circumstances :—A short time after her husband's death she )ecatue 'ac quainted, at a friend's house at Richmond, with a person who had the appearance of a Gentleman, and who described himself as a Mr. John Lloyd, brought up to the law in London, and as lately following that profession at Newark ; he sympa thized in the tenderest manner with her distress, and called at her residence, No. 8, Bridge-row, Lambeth, and told her he could get her eldest son, a youth about 19 years of age, provided for, (if she could procure the sum of 1301.) in a place under Government. She exerted herself among her friends, and a Gentleman very humanely promised her the stipulated stun. Mr. Lloyd called again, when she informed him she had succeeded in getting the promisf! of the hundred and thirty pounds; he said he should he able to pro cure her an appointment for leer 5. , 1) in a few days ; and shortly after called again, and told her to have the money ready by the 14)..inin, of the 24th of December last, as he had procot, d the pro mise of an appointment of a Page to, the King ; she accordingly went to the Gentleman, her friend, who bad proniked the taoney, and he gave her a 1001. and a 301. Bank note, %%lio, she gave to Mr. Lloyd on the morning of the 24:11 of De cember, he desiring h-r to acComp , siy him, and he would give her the necessary documents and warrant of appointment for her soh ; she accom panied tom to the Treasury, when he desired her to " toddle" about the passage for a few mi nutes, and he would retort, to her. Sit saw him go up the Great Staircsse, and in a little time return with some papers in his hand. She after wards accompanied him across the Park to St. James's Palace, where be told her he was going to the Lord Chamberlain's Office, for the warrant of appointment as a Page to the King. On their art ival at the Palace, he desired her to " kick her heels Aont for a short time, and he would return to her with the warrant from the Lord Chamber lain's °thee," She waited between three and four hours in the Palace, wheuher patience became quite exhausted, and site ventured to go to the Lord Chamberlain's Office, and inquired for Mr. Lloyd ; but nothing was known of hint or the transaction ; she then began to suspect that she had been doped by Lloyd, and that, to her great mortification, she had lost her friend's money; she made inquiry of every person she suspected had any knowledge of itlr, Ll oyd , h could not find him, or learn where he was to be found, and afterwards made her application to. Mr. Birnie, who without hesitation gtatkted warrant against Lloyd for a fraud. Mrs. Bland had fortunately got the ,numbers of the notes.- 17,410 is that of the 1001., and 11,041 the 301., and the payment of theM has since been stopped at the Rank.--Adkins, the officer, very kindly un dertook the serving of the warrant, and is going in pursuit of Lloyd, whom Mrs. Bland described to be about 35 years of ng* , five feet five inches high, bald head at top, aiC wearing powder, pale face, thin, and very long i:ose; and yvhen he defrauded her of the - tboney, he Wk.s dressed in a blue coat, black silk waistcoat, hl,:e pantaloons, bouts, and a mixed great coat. Adkins has not yet succeeded in tracing him. ROBBERY iN THE GREEN PA-;ZK. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yestertlav a youth, named Morgan, was examined before .1011 N LDv. CONANT, Esq. Ou a charge of attacking Air. Wm. Davis, of laird street, Manchester-square, in the Green Park, and robbing him of a pocket book, containing a one-pound Bank note. The prosecutor deposed, that on Saturday last, about eleven o'clock, he was coming through the Green Park, on his way to Spring Gardens, to the house of his Solicitor ; it was very foggy, and as be entered the Green Park, on the path to St. bmes's Palace, he observed two ill-looking fel lows following him, and suspecting that they in tended to attack him, he took the precaution . of twisting the chain of his watch, which was worth sixty guineas, throng') the buttonhole of his Waistcoat, When he was about half way down the path - they attacked him ; one took out his pocket-book, and another, as he anticipated, made .. a snatch at his watch, but. failed in his endeavour to get it, and they then ran away. lie followed then) some distance, but they escaped in the fog, and he-found the pocket-book lying open on the grass, emptied of its contents. On his return home in the evening he gave inforniation to Coates, one ofthe Mary-le-bone constablee,of the robbery, with a description of the persan of one of them, and that evening Coates took him info custody in .Limes -street, where be was gambling with other bar! characters. The prosecutor stated, that on Monday a man met hint in Oxford -street, and offered him a pound 'note it be would not prosecute, but be- gave loin no answer ; and the following day he received a note couched in the following terms from some anonymous person := " Sir—You wilt weigh Well the propriety of prosecuting the, prisoner. You are your own judge; but if you appear against trim, something .1. Cri OUS will be the consequence. " Yours, A;c. " The prisoner's true and sworn friend:' The Prisoner denied the robbery, and called a man named Trigg to prove an alibi; but the mo- meat he appeared, M. Davis recognise►l him al the man who offered him the pound note to forego proceedings. He was in consequence put to the bar, but no proof of his being concerned in the robbery could be brought against him, and he was discharged. Morgan was fully committed: COAL MARKET, JANUARY 6. Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price. 59 Newcastlo . 154 ..333. ed. to 455. 3d. 17& Sundcrland..... . ..4. 1 Scotch Coal ~.n iHalbeath C0a1......... i .......„ . 20s. Od. to —s. Oct. 1 Cinders ... .. ~ 1.... .. 975. Gd. to —s, OE THE DROPPED CHILD. Yesterday an 111(pliSli 101 l was held in the 13° 31.d i • room of th e wO r kb , use o f t h e un i te d parishes ( St. Andrew, Holborn, and S:. George the Marty ( ,) in Gray's Inn-lane, to inv es ti gate the dealt ° I I ni de child, th ree wee k s old, called Andrew horr or; or Tissue, whose mother is stated to be a 1 51( .1 lady of 'fortune, residing on a terrace in the O c r; road, and whose iAant was exposed in - a bds 4e n at the door of Mr. Jame s , 9 4, Tash street , ° oC the night of Tuesday, the 15th o f De c ember I'll, as stated in our Paper, and its death solV 9e ,:, to be caused by Lavimg a great quantity ofrrp administered to it, as well as to its e xposure,' The Jury consi ste d o f 24 o f the most • res pect ,, ": ie . wen in the parish, as the c a s e *se( toed to 00.11 ; general interest, and th e extraor di nary controje t l ot the witnesses was noticed by every one• N L„ P. thing new was adduced. The chi,f were Samuel Long„a journeytnau botcher, t i Lamb's Conduit, street ; rgaret a James , ° Tash-street ; Sareh zwalter, nurse, in St• I" ) ; drew's workhouse, Holborn ; D r . Denois"%o,- Gnildford-street reet ; the PA I) Surgeon of •St • drew's and Elizah t eb Wi ttier, who deP9seGf ; that, abo u t .two mo nt h s ago , s h e app li e d for a muse-child to Mrs. Symons, a midwife, r e ' siding in Kirby -street, Hatton-garden, her "rwl: having di e d. Sh e desired her to callin a[et' days, as she knew a lady tar advanc" in pregnancy, and as soon as brought to bed, f '; vv ""' child would be p ut out to nurse, bTt that it 'i be only f o r a h ew days. Witness then refuse d '- /, take it for so short a period, and told Mrs mons that she wanted one fora length at 11 /° . Mrs. Symons then said that her Sister, ,alt, w h o l o d ge d in the sane house, veueild !ikc child, and tv it ness should hat e• ai 1,. h. r f" I ` J I . nurse. Did not se e M rs . St mots again e nu' 3 4/. the deceased was brought by Mrs. kl'hite, -tSi e r; in-law to Mr s . Sy mons, uo the house W h e r i r lodged, t- be given to Ws. L ii . vaos„‘lrs..syino"' ' i sister. It was br oug h t on stif today, the 120' December last, bet ween twelve and o ne Wel.) , and as Mrs. Evans was not at home, ss t“ the care of it till lee Tuesday uollowing. 03 Saturday mottling Mts. pc , s „„ er n° brought the child, cline am! s.tid she must ueke it back to Mrs. Symoes, as it •was intended to be sent to wet nurse on its father's estare in tot c e lla.. try. The child was perfectly hcal7lty time, and lived on and atrow-root. .." 5 lint above three hours old whet) it was brought. She dressed the child oil Tuesday, and carried it to Mrs. Symons, in Kit by-sit cei, end deliv e red it (4 ' her at tour o'clock in the afternoon, who paid to e 7s. for nursing it, and said that it was going t° its .lathet's country seat, about 25 milts trote London, to be put to purse. Whilst she had the child, Mrs. Symons advised ner to get 50 1 '1 poppies, and give them to the child, as it 1%701 11 " keep it constautly quiet, anti was an excellent thing to give a cross - On Tuesday evening, Dec' 15, she heard of a child being dropped in "Dash' street, went to see it, trent) an impression that it W 45 the same site haul taken to Mr. SymonS the saw s afternoon. Site knew it from two red piniple.9 01: 1 one shoulder, and the mark of which the mo!hesr received whi;et pregnant of .' being Le tween both its eyes. The dre ss the child when I delivered it into Mrs. Symons.'s haucts was a new and beautiful dress, .and that Pow p r o. duce(' is mean and dirty, not the same dress, cept the shirt. It had very black :,air • j ate sure it is same child : I saw it again on 'be t„H ow i n g morning, and , was•sore that soinethii4 had been giveo to it improperly : it was so 0 10(.3 altered in its appearance that I shonld not have known it, but from the- marks 1 have already de - ' scribed ; it was drowsy and stupitied ; and the had te l° lt e c 1( the it 1 1 ) rtqrilaiai(i be n erl en soitt ever rte, ls i 7ce eel s S ite iti t : a fie d ; i : it would have beets alive at this time. 1 an Ole nurse :o shetv 'the child to a doctor; I visited fry 61X tilneS in the workhouse, and it got worse • verf time ; It was a very piercing ant. colt rig!) whea the deceased Was 'dropped : 1 never leornee trout, Mrs. Syourns %rho .the mother ot t ehled if NI ~P7Z PeS Ik e 4 - 01,1 'teal , . ,_ iD a(11 *rd er tii ss i, ali 0 ‘vithi 4 111 v, ANI '431 1 1s 1 oi l() th,,, Here the evidence closed, when some of - rho Jury proposed to examine Syttiou, , , woo present, w hen some of the o , erserrs staied that tvas highly improper to ex ; amine her, who tended to be prosecuted as a patty, and who woo now under hail to answer for the offence, a'' I+ l4 they could not call on her to criminate herselL They did not meet to inquire who the father or the mother was, that , might appear on a future time; they met to inquire how and by what means the child-came by its death. Here ific room was cleared of all eNcept the Jury, and after a sitting of seven horns, and a consultation of two hours, from thelopinnin of the• Doctors, they re turned a verdict—" Died by the Visitation of God." On the sth irs't., the Lady of .iohn Levicn, Esq. of a son. ED. On the Cl h instant, at St. George's Ilano...er-square, sepli De!afield, jun.' Ffq. of Chasles.stieet,. to Charlotte, fourth:daughter of the late H. C. eu n "''' of Cobham Park, Surrey. DIED. On Saturday, the 2d instant, at Pentonyiile, Mr. Sanizei Sampson, solicitor, of St. Swithin's-lane. On the 18th of July last, ia the 37th year of his aao, at the camp, near Nehore, in the Province of Malwa, Colonel Joltu s- , tice, second s L o Y n ui c l if er Sus,,ex : serving under the command of General Sir Milts Nightiogale he was seized. while in pertecehealth, with the cholera _morbus, about noon, and on the evening• of the same day expired. PROVINCIAL NIARRIACILS, BIRTHS. On the 25t1; nit. at the Dock-yard, Chatham, Mrs. Payne, wife of W. Payne, Esq. Master attendant, of female twins. Lately, at Newittglon Rectory, 'next Sittin,gbourne, „Kent., the Lady of Henry Day, ESC'. ofd, daughter. :4;11161ED. • On Thu rsmlay last, at Presthury, Mr. Picton, to Mss Frost, of Macclesfield. Lately, at Cresford, Cheshire, Mr. Edward Griffith, of Bar ton, to Miss E. Evans, of the Russet. Di ED. Yesterday se'nnight, Mr. Wiliiaru Cuthu s h, K ee p er o f his Majesty's Ga o l for the County of Kent.—iNlrs. Cutbush ex pired also on Monday last.. On Saturday, at St. Leonard's, West Mailing, Francis Hubble Donee, Esq. one of the :11agistrates of the County of Kent. LONDON: Printed hyi. B. CARSTAIRS,;of No. 29, Great Ormond-street, Qat e:i-S.;nare; anft putAished by W. A. S(ItIPPS, of No. 7, Sob Mollim-street, at THE SuN Office, No. 113, StralLl ; where Adreitisements, Orders, Lettere, &e, 'bust paid) hoallressed. th It air] IL, ( tOth r• ,4