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London, England, 1857-08-29 00:00:00

service to which they belonged ; not to despair, but lollc
forward to the future with a firm determination to over-
come the difficulties of their present situation, and bear the
vicissitudes which must befall them with all the fortitude
of British s!anien.

In conclusion, he reminded them they were as much
under the providence of a merciful God, there as else•
where; thus inculcating the same principles as did Sir
Humphrey Gilbert, who (in the words of the inspired
Longfellow) is made to say to his frightened mariners,

Do not fear! Heaven is as near
By water as by land.
Captain M`Clure wound up his harangue by pointing to a
cloud edged with a bright light, and assuring his attentive
listeners that not that only, but every cloud had its silver
lining; and added he, " it is my firtll conviction that the
cloud of adversi'y under which we now are will not move
an exception to the rule !" That very day the exploring
party from the Resolute reached them.
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The following morning, the captain again sent for the
crew, and pointing out the manifest workings of an all.
seeing God, as displayed in their behalf, he concluded by
saying—" I was therefore right, my men, when I stated
that every cloud had its silver lining—the arrival of the
little band from the Resolute is ours; and let me implore
you my lads to remember, on your return to yoar families
and homes, that there are churches in England as well as
public•houses.

The great question whether Sir Edward
Belcher was justified or not in his unprece-
dented desertion of his squadron, is discreetly
avoided by Mr M•Dougall ; although. from
the prominence with which the bald sentence
of the court-martial—that Sir Edward Belcher
" be acquitted "—is noted, in the face of the
complimentary terms in which Admiral Gordon
was pleased to express himself when returning
the sword of Captain Kellett, sufficiently
shows that the master of the Resolute enjoyed
with his captain perfect confidence as to the
result of another winter or two in the old
ship. But if the abandonment of the ship was
without precedent, her recovery was not less
remarkably.. The Resolute was abandoned in
latitude 74 deg. 41 m. N. in May, 1854, and on
the 10th September, 1855, the master of the
American whaler George Henry, Captain Bud-
, dington, then in lat. 67 deg. N.. sighted her
in the distance bearing N.E. about twenty miles
from Cape Mercy :

He ascended the rigging of his craft, and, looking at the
strange ship through the glass, pronounced her, from her ap•
pearanee, to be an abandoned vessel. The head of the stranger
appeared to be dui east, and during the whole of that
day and the one following the course of the ship did not vary
more than a point or so from the east. "We kept gradu•
ally nearing one another," as Captain Buildington says,
" although I could not exactly say what caused the thing to
come about, except, perhaps, the ship may hove been struck
by a counter current from Davis Straits, and driven towards
us in that manner. For five days we were in sight of one
another, and continued to drift towards each other." Ou
the sixth (lily after making the discovery, and when the
shin was about seven miles off, Captain Bu ldington ordered
the two mates and two of the crew to proceed to the
abandoned vessel across the packed ice, and, after inspect-
ing her, to return to the barque as soon as practicable.
Soon after the departure of the party a south-easter
sprung up, and in consequence thereof no communication
was had with those on board the ship for two days. As
soon as the wind subsided, and it was safe for the party to
retrace their steps, they left the shin, and after a tedious
and hard march arrived on board the barque in safety.
They immediately represented the facts to Captain Bud-
dington, saving that the abandoned vessel was her
Britannic Majesty's ship Resolute.

The ship of course was in a deplorable plight,
and it took some days before she could be re-
fitted to any extent. Captain Buddington,
without a chart or a chronometer, and with
an inaccurate compass, then, taking eleven of
his o..vn crew, embarked on board, and pre-
pared to bring home his prize :

From the time that Captain Bullington took charge
of the Resolute up to the 16th of October, she continued to
drive in a S.W. direction with the pack of ice, when she
sncceeded in getting clear. Wishing to be in company as
long as possible with the barque, Captain Buddington
waited on the outside of the floe for throe or four days, with
the hope of meeting her, but the vessels missed one
another, and did not meet again during the remainder of
the eventful voyage.
While here waiting for the George Henry, the British
barque, Alibi, hove in sight, and on being signalled, came
alongside the Resolute. The news of the recovery of the
Resolute was communicated to Captain Stuart, of the
British barque, and a pair of Captain Kellett's epaulettes,
found on board the abandoned vessel, were intrusted to
him by Captain Millington, with instructions to have
them forwarded to the owner as speedily as possible. They
were sent by Captain Stuart to Mr. Barrow, who forwarded
them to Commodore Kellett in the West Indies, and were
duly received by him in perfect order for attending a
drawing room if required, not being soiled in the slightest
degree. A letter for the owners of the George Henry, in-
forming them of what had occurred, was also placed in the
hands of Captain Stuart, who promised to mail it home•