The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-17 00:00:00

rk, NOVEMBER 17, 849•

ExPEDITAON.
DEPOILT OF THE PROCEEDIRITIS
OF 11111 IiAIIOTVI*IIIIIPs INTSIFILIIN AND mvxsricti,
von, MirWe= TIM 13TH OP JOLT, 1848, AND TIMID
ABILITAM IN =OLAND ON TIM 8111 OF NOVZIONN,
1849.
The following communication will be perused with
profound interest, being a full report of the proceedings of
her Majesty'. skips Enterprise and Investigator, nadir the
command of Captain 'Sir James Bess, between the date of
his last Myst& to the Secretary if the Admiralty, from
Use:nava, in Judy, 1848, and the arrival ot the expedition
of Scarborough, on the Srd of this present November :
" Is sesase with the intentions expressed to the
Secretary of the Admiralty, in my letter et the 13th et
July, 1848, her Majesty's ships Ecterprise sad Invest'.
stater sailed on that day from the Danish settlement of
Uprose*.
"By nosing through an inkiest* archipelago of Islands,
which lies off the main land, and seems to keep off the
pressure of the main pack, we succeeded in passing the
position in which the whale ships had bees sr long detaised,
and wad* every day some advance to the northward until
the 20th, when we made fast to a berg aground off Caps

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&Athletes.
• Hue we worn joined by the Lord Gambier (of Hull),
Mr. R. Hill, sue•er, who informed me that, having run to
the son hward with all the rest (Atha whirligig Mips, and hav-
ing carefully examiaect the peck edge for any opening that
might lead them to the weetwasd, he bad come to the con.
cluion there was nort the
thesessmall chance, from the dose,
cusped and heavy mature of ce, ter any ship g
to the wen oust of Baffle Bay this season. He had, there-
fore, returned to the north, and expected that all the other
ships would goon follow him, and eadeavoured to round
the north sad of the pack ; ha spoke very confidently of
being able to accomplish this by the first week of August,
and promised at any rate to remain in company with us until
the 3rd of August. We mat off from toe berg early the
next man*, towing the ships through loose streams of ice
towards some knee of water, which had opened out during
the.,couralm
progwb"lresePrewnias,ledhowsielvnerig,hts:ery slow during thin awl
the next few days, and our situation often difficult sad sow
barraming.
" On the eaernieg of the 26th, when off the Three Islands
of Riau, in lat. 74 deg N. we were surprised, on the log :
siserbig cif, to me the Lord Gambier, about eight miles
distant, standing tinder all sail to the southward ; thus dig-
' appointing uof the only remaining' means of to/warding,
intonation of cur proceedings to their lordships—and this
wee the more mauling as we had out the evening before
pained within ammeter of a mile of her, when, upon any
dried other lineation of going to the southward, we would
have plaited ea Want of her all cur letters and despatches.
Het enterprising commander deserves the highest praise for
penevering alone so far beyond all his fellows, and, had it
ispeadedem kite, T believe he would not have left us until
we had get through the great difficulty of Melville Bay.
" We panned our course to the northward under varying
eirmaestenese at perplexity, anxiety, and success; for al-
though I wild not but feel assayed that we should eventu-
ally get through the Melville Bay barrier, yet calm& and
light winds so gently impeded any movement in the pack,
that day after day passed away • until the meson had so far
advanced as to preclude every hope of accomplishieg much,
if anything, before the setting in of winter.
" No exertions, however, were spared to take advantage
of every opportunity of pushing the ships forward until, en
20th August, during a heavy breeze from the north east, the
slaps, under all the sail they could carry, bond through
a pock of ice of but moderato thickset's, but having amongst
it heavy manes mingled with the lighter ice that covered the
larger surface, througn which is was necessary to drive the
ships at all hazards. The shake they sustained during this
severe trial were great, but fortunately without serious
damage to them.
" We gained the clear water at 4 p m. on 20th August, in
Ist. 764 degrees N., and lon. 68 degrees W., and steered
direct for Ponds Bay, where I felt assured of meeting with
the whale ships, it any should have crossed to the west land,
and might learn from them if the Erebus and Tenor, or
their party in boats, had puled along that shore, and also
eith a view to communicate with the Enuteasum, woo an.
neatly vieic the coast, and fr tm whom w• might have derived
information of our absent friends.
"On the 23rd we made the land, about ten miles to the
southward of Ponds Bay, and could trace the line of the
main pack close in against the land, at a distant* of three
or four miles to the southward, so closely pressed home as
to leave no room for ships or boats to pass between it and
the shore. We next stood into Ponds Bay sad hove to,
within half a mile of those points upon which the &qui-
maul are known to rime their Butarner residencies, emir
guns every half tone and with our glasses closely examining
every part of the stare, without beam able to discern any
human being. •
" From Ponds Bay we tOmmenced a rigid examination of
the coast to the nor award, keeping the ships close in along
the land, so that neither people nor boats could have passed
without oar erring them. Opposed by a strocg current,
although going before the wind between two end three WIIO a
through the water, we found by the result of all our obese-
vatione, as well ae by unerring marks on the land, that we
were sometimes carried asteru against the wind.
" Or the 26th we arrived ofi Possession Boy, and a party
was seat ca shore to search for any traces of Sir John Frank-
lin's expedition having touch, d at this general point of ren-
dezvous. Nothing wee found but the paper lett there re-
cording tun visit of S.r Edward Parry in 1819. Tree toper
was very much damaged, but by careful warn g and ilatug
together, nearly every word was clearly deciphered. (It is
preserved.)
From this point we continued the examination of the coast
with equal care, foe we fully imputed every hour to see those
of whom we were in search, and the most vigilant look-out
was kept 'lost and from the deck.
" Oa the let of September we arrived off Cape York, and
a party was sent on shorn to seek for our friends, and to tic a
conspicuous mark at this remarkable point, in ',flitch was
placed a parr tor the guidance of any party that might
hill in with it. This service was performed by Lour mint
M'Clintock, with much skill, under very difficult circum-
stances.
" Every day we were in the practice of throwing over-
board a cask from each ship, containing papers with in-
fermetion of all our proceedings, guns were fired during
fuggy weather, and blue lights and rockets during the hours
of iarknou, the ships Wing kept under such easy sail, that
any boat ening the signals might have reached them.
The general tenor of the information thus distributed
along the coast was to acquaint Sir John Franklin, or any
of his party that, as the whale ships had not been able to
cross to the west land of Baffin Bay, they could have no
hope of assistance from them and recommending them to
make for Port Leopold, where I intended to form a depot
of povhiene, arid perhaps leave the Investigator to winter
there ; they would, at any rate, with the provisions, 1101 a
natio, of the position in which the nearer ship was peidag
the winter.
" It therefore became necessary to plash for Port Leopold
to fulfil these promises, for had any of his party met with
one of them notions they would assuredly have gone to that
point.
" We accordingly stood over from Cape York towards
N.E. Cape, until we came in with the edge of the pack, too
dense for us to pontrate, Wog between us and Leopold
Island, ab tit 14 miles broad; bat as we could perceive'
that it was stil in motion, we hoped that a few days might
produce a favourable change, and, in the meantime, we
stood over to the north shore of Barrow Strait to seek a har-
bour further to the westward, and to examine the numerous
inlets of that shore. Maxwell Bay and several smaller in-
dentations were thoroughly explored, and although we got
near the entrant* of Wellington Channel, the firm barrier
of ice which stretched across it, and which had not broken
away this WONG, convinced us all was impracticable in that
direction.
" We now stood to the south-west, to seek for a harbour
near Cape Rennell, but found a heavy body of lee extending
from the west end of Corawallis Woad, in a compact man,
to Leopold Island. Coasting along this pack during stormy
and foggy weather, we bad oifficulty in keeping the ships
free dani.cthe nights, for I believe so great a quantity of
ice was before seen in Barrow Strait at this period of
the season.
" With the thermometer at 16 degrees every night, young
Ice formed rapidly, and became so thick as to frustrate all
our exertion to pass through acme of the looser streams.
Nevertheless, after some days of anxious and arduous work,
we succeeded in getting through the pack which still lm
gored about Leopold Island and N.B. Cape, and entered
the harbour of Port Leopold on the 11th of September.
Had we net got into port on that day it would have been
impossible to have done so any day afterwards, the main
pack& during the night, having closed the land and com-
pletely sealed the mouth of the harbour.
" We had new, at any rate, accomplished one material
poiat, end were rejoiced to find the anchorage, of which we
had before been much id doubt, well adapted to our pur-
se*, and as it was desirable to secure a good position fur
oast ship, I resolved that it should be the winter quarters of
the Investigator.
" I had much satisfaction the next morning to find how
perfectly our steam launch fulfilled our expectations in an
experiuental amiss about the harboar, before proceeding
in her to the westward in search of a harbour for the Eater-
mit was now beyond probability, from the early set
tins in of winter, and from the unbroken state of the ice, to
fetich Melville Island this season. The pack anhe harbuur's
mouth, howev,r, still prevented our immediate departure,
and all our energies were devoted to landing a good supply
of provisions upon Whaler Point In this service the
"terain-launelt proved of infinite value conveying a large
cargo handl, and towing two deeply-laden cutters, at tee
rate of four or five knots, through the sheet of ice which
now covered the harbour, and through which no boat,
unaided by steam, could have penetrated beyond her own
Tie plea selected for the depot was upon the low S.E.
point which forms the chief protection to the harbour, two
miles distant from oar anchorage. This work was not only
tedious, but sometimes hazardous, from the flows of thin ice
folding over earth other, and thus forming an obstacle at
times difficult to overcome. Indeed our operations were
still incomplete when they were interupted by the ice in tie
harbour tramming so thick as to require all our attention to
the ships themselves. A prevelence of strong easterly
were carried
winds had ceased the pack to press so heavily against the
hands of
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fw fromuthep
cateralllll them again into shallow
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shanipsdall,
attrhtore wtawinpooteroz.tithrLrheoset
leompsrative safety, although with only a foot or two of
water to spare at low spring tides; but the winter had now

" The extreme high cape of the coast, however, was not
more than 60 mites divant, will bearing nearly south,* the
land thus trending fur Cepa Nicola', the northernmost point
which I had reached during my journey from the Victory in
1831; and which I hoped to have attained on this occasion, as
well as to have revisited the Magnetic Pole, in its immediate
vicinity ; and had not so many of our party broken down, it
might have been accomplished.
We observed several small bey. and inlets between us
and the southernmost capes, of whose continuity we could
not be assured at so great a distance, yet they are marked on
the chart which accompanies this account of our proceed-
ings, by which it will be perceived that a very narrow
isthmus aspirates Prince Regent Inlet from the western sea
at Cresswell and Brantford Bays.
"Oa our return to the encampment I found they had all
b. en well occupied duriog our absence. Lieut. M'Clintock
had taken tome m genetic observations which will be of
area; value from our being so near to the msenetic pole.
Two of the party had cut through the ice, which they
round to be eight fees thick, and Sand a pole by which the
state of the tides was ascertained; and all the rest that
c old work bad mewed a logical= of stones on a high knoll
just above the to te, in which a copper cylinder was placed, 1
containing an account of our proceedings, end all neceseary
information for the guidance of any of Sir John Franklin'.
party that might be journeying along this coast.
" Although our resources did not admit of any further pen
severacce ea our part, we could not but feel some =Seim.
time in the assurance, that it those of whom we were in
a' arch had at any time been upon the north or west coast of
North Somerset, we mast have met with some traces of
them. The. season for travelling Ia them regions bad also
passed away, the thaw having commenced, and ha+ they
abandoned their shies at Melville 1-land, they must have
arrived on either of these shores long before this time, where
•they would have found us in the best possible position to
render th. m assistance and conduct them to our Yawls.
" We set forward on our homeward journey off the
of the 6th of June ; and, after encountering a variety of
difficulties, to which I need not now further allude, we
reached the ship on the 23rd, the party so completely worn
out by fatigue that every man was from some cause or other
is the doctor's hands for two or three weeka, and I am sorry
to say that two of them are not yet recovered.
" 1 bad walked in advance of the party to *elect the beet
road by which 'ito cross the isthmus, and as soon as I got
eight of the ships I was met by Captain Bird and Lieut-
enant M'Clure. from whom I was greatly grieved to hear of
the deems. of Mr. Minty Matthias, the assistent-surgeon of
W Enterprise, of coneumption, which had been deeply
raved in hie constitution before leaving England. He was
a promising soling man, of great anal lit yof disposition,
universally beloved aced regret' ad. Several others of the
mows of both ships were in a declining state, and the general
report of =loth was by no means cheering.
"During my absence Captain Bird tad delpat:hed parties
in several directions. One, under the command of Lieu-
tenant Berman', to the north shore of Barrow Strait ;
sisesti. commanded by Lieutenant Brown, to the east shore
of Prince Regent Inlet; and a third, conducted by Lieutenant
Robinson, along the western shore of that inlet. The
labours of triere pinnies were of comparatively short dura•
don; sill they, like oareAves, all suffered from snow-
blindness, sprained =cies, and debility, especially that under
• utenant Robinson, who extended his examination of the
mar for several miles to the eon .hward of Fury Beach.
Altnough it was now but too evident, from no traces of
the absent expedition having been met with by any of these
rimier., that the ships could not have been detained any-
where in this part of the Arctic regions, yet I considered it
proper to push forward to the westward as soon as our ships
should be liberated from their winter harbour. My chief
hope. now centred In the efforts of Sir John Richardson's
paity, tor I felt fully persuaded that Sir Julia Franklin's
et
ipe must have penetrated so fax beyond Melville Island ea
to induce him to prefer making fur the continent of Amen a
rather than seek assistance from the whale ships in Baffiu
Bey.
" Our crews, weakened by imminent exertion, were in a
very unfit state to undertake the heavy labour which they
had yet to aceonanlish. The season at this place was so
extremely back card that hardly a pool of water was to be
seen on the surface of ice which covered the harbour, ex•
ceps only Meng the lire of gravel which had been spread
out towards the harbour's mouth during the winter,
and there appeared but small prospect of any release this
seen.
"All hands that were able commenced with saws extend•
ing the breadth of the canal—so much as to admit the ships
to pass down it towards the point of the harbour, a distance
of rather more than two mile..
the canal being nearly finished, the harbour ice di-
" Them labours were continued natil the 15th August,
when,
vided along its line into two nearly equal
puts, and thus
two of

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net he with so muelt severity it was impossible to keep the saved us • few days' wosk ; but the tee,to:eadvrafor
people any longer employed at nth work without serious to all appearance as firmly fixed as during the wyle"'mile._
Wary to their health and their suffering from severe frost we could perceive it was wasting away close along se„..__"ll
Wine and it was not until the 28th August that
"Oa the evening of the 12th of October the ships were getting clear of the harbour. we sesettgot
hove into thole whiter 'elation, within 200 yards of each " Before leaving Port Leopold I bad awed a h at. t. L.
other, built of out spare spars, and covered with such eto "
"I was based moat anxious to have taken the Enterprise ing cloths as we could dispense with witch
M some distance to the westward, but any attempt to leave could find a substitute, it needful, leavel alto 12
the ships, under the circumstances of their situation, would provisions, fuel, and other neessesries, Loge her wit►
have Met highly injariose, and probably have led to some Invemigetor's steansengine and launch, which bad
t,..7.
calamity, but the pack which sealed the harbour's mouth lengthened seven feet for the Purrs., and nog k
the night after we entered It - never admieted a chasm of fine vessel, capable of conveying the whole of Si —Li!
evens a boat saltier her way out; sad aeons the Isthmus, Franklin's party to tbe whsle ships, or oureel.,,dlo--ai
as esei
far as we mild damson' from the hills, the same cc Weir
calamity betel our ships in eir progress to the w eet.,Z9
bsies u num of heavy, hummocky lee, which we had "We now proceeded towards the north shore of B—'
coasted aloe' in search of ea opening is the early part of Snit for the purpose of following up tie exam' 41
September, was still pressed closely home agatast the north Wellington Channel, and, if possiole, of extending oat
shoes of North Somerset, and remained fixed there through- starches as fee as Melville island ; but when abentl2
out the winter, so that if the Enterprise had been able to get from the shore, we came to the fixed !mad ice, wkiee—a
out of the harbour, she could not save proceeded far, and not broken away this season, and nothing but an stie..,-*
would nest likely have been compelled either to pass the sheet rot heavy ice was to be seen to the westward.
winter in the peek, or to Dave returned to England, and thus "We kept the ships near that which appeared to he ec'
have defeated all prospective measures for the assistance of most probable spot, watching for any optniag rut
our long absent friends. present itself, when a strong wind suddenly arising tr„„
" And although I could not but feel extreme disappoint- Ist of September, brought the loose pack, through 741V1..
went at the small advance we had been able to make during bad been straggling, down upon, and closely beset Ikeda;
our first season, yet we had much to be thankful fee in At times, during two or three days, they sesteittett ;zee
having been permitted to gain secure winter quarters at Port pressure, and ridges of hummocks were thrown up eh areal
Leopold, a position that of all others was the most desirable, us: but after that time, the tamp' ratere falli g to
if any one spot had to be selected for that purpose. Being formed the whole body f ice into one solid also yea-;:itt.
at the junction of the four great channels of Barrow Strait, so circumstanced that tor some days we could not e
Lancaster &mad, Prince Regent Inlet, and Wellington our folder, and when, by the laborious operation of sore;
Channel, it was barely possible for any party, after sham- and removing the hummocks from under the stern,* e.;
cloning their ships. to pass along the shores of any of those able to do so, we found it twisted and damaged • cal tM
inlets without finding indications of the proximity of our ex- ship was so much strained as to Lucerne the lea
pedition. three inches in a fortnight to fourteen inches dady, v
kg.
" The winter was pegged as are all winters in this climate, though of but trifling importance at present, used 1.--tit.L
but long experienee and liberal means gave us many coin lance us that she was not, a. we had hitherto behaves,
forts that DO other expedition had enjoyed ; yet it is remark- vuloerable.
able that the health of the crew suffered more during this " The ice was stationary for a few days ; the proaershl
winter than on say former occasion. Our want of success so folded the lighter pieces over each otter, and they lei
might have tended a some measure to depress their spirits, so interlaced, as to form one entire sheet, ezteaceseek
and, unfortunately, the cold of winter was prolonged mutate- shore to shore of B arrow Straits and as tar to the pa
ally far into the spring before we could give them mere west as the rye could discern teem the masthead, 'mg%
active employment extreme severity of the temperature bad cemented gi
" During the winter a great many white foxes were taken whole so firmly together that at appeared highly
alive in traps set for the purpose, and as it is well known bable that it could break up again tine season. in tem
how large a tract of country these creatures traverse in which bad bzen cleared away for unohipping the
search of food, I caused copper collars, upon which a notice the newly formed ice was 15 inches thick, and IA fa
of the position of the ships and depot+. of provinces was en- places along the ship's side the 13 feet saws were to gyith
graved, to be clenched round *sit necks, and then set them woek.
at liberty again with the hope the- some of these samisen- "We had now fully made up our minds that the
gas might le the means of conveying the iatelligenee to the were fixed to the winter; and, dismal as the enema ta.
Breams and Terror, as the crews of those vessels would peered, it was far preferable to being carried along ie. spie
assoredly be sager for their capture. coast of Baffin Bay, where the grounded bergs are is reo
" After several short preliminary journeys, in April and otunhen upon the shallow banks off that abort as to rode
the early part of the next month, to carry out small depots it next to impossible for ships involved in a peek to rep
of provisions to the we at of Cape Clarence and to the south destruction.
of Cape Seppings, I the ship. on the 15th of May with a "It was therefore with a mixture of hope and noel
party oensisting of Lieutenant M'Clinteck and 12 men, with that, on the wind shifting to tie westward, we perceived te,
40 days' provisions, which, together with tents, clothes, whole body of ice begin to drive to the eastward, at therm
blankets, and other necessaries, were lashed upon two of eight to ten miles daily. Every effort on our part po
sledges. We were accompanied for the first five days of our totally unavailing, for no humeri power could hare Rind
journey by Captain Bird, in command of a large fatigue either of the ships a mingle inch; they were thus coopacy
party, which increased our numbers to 42. He would wil talon out of our hands, and, in the centre of a held dis
tingly have extended his valuable assistance still further, had more than 50 miles in circumference, were carried Omen,
I not felt that his presence at the shoo would be more bone- southern shore of Lanced, r Sound.
fieial to the service, in sending forth such other parties and " Alter ;taming its entrance the ice drifted in a non
completing such further measures as I proposed should be southerly direction along the west shore of Bain Bay,
adopted during my absence. until we were abreast of l'ouds Bay, to the eouthwant
"A detailed account of this journey may be found in my which we observed a great number of icebergs mod*
journal; it may be sufficient here to mention, that the setae our path, and pie tontine/ the fearful prospect tit ca
examination (Sall the inlets and smaller indentations of the worst seticipations. But when least expected by so, no
coast, in which say ships might have found shelter, occupied release was aim st miraculously brought aleolt. The grea
a large portion of our time, and cott us much labour, but it field of ice was rent into imeumerable fragments as it ly
was necessary that every vision of the coast we passed some unseen power.
along should be thoroughly explored. " Hope revived, and our people worked with energy; el
" The north shore of North Somerset trends slightly to call was made and warps ruu out from each quarter leap*
tbe northward of west, until alter passing the extreme the ships past the heavy floe piece,. The Ineriteme
north cape of America, a few miles beyond Cape Rennet!. reached an open space of water on the evening of the lid,
From this point it trends slightly to the southward of west, but it was not until noon of the 25th of September that th
%mil after rounding Cape Balmy, when it suddenly assumes Enterprise could clear the pack. It is impossible to cooly
&nearly south direction, any idea of the sensation we elperieuced when we feud
"From the high land in the neighbourhood of Cape Bunny ourselves once more at liberty, whilst many a grateful hut
we obtained a very extensive view, and observed that the poured font its praises and thaniugiviug to Almighty Oil
whole space between it and Cape Walker !to the west, and for this unlooked for deliverance.
Wellington Chaunel to the north, • was occupied by very " The advance of winter had now closed all the harbors
heavy, hummocky ice, whilst to the southward it appeared against us, and as it was impossible to penetrate to the vest.
more favourable for travelling. I, therefore, determined ward through the pack trio= which we hadiust been theist
mot to divide the party as I had originally intended I made the signal to the Invest gator of my lineation to to
until we should find a more practicable point for their turn to England.
exertions. " Standing to the SE., we came in with the middle is at
"We therefore proceeded to the southward, tracing all the Boffin flay, within a few miles of the land, and were obliged,
indentations of the coast, when our progress became much in order to make our retreat the mure sure, to omelets/ is
delayed ray several of the party becoming useless from western edg. to the NE., until we reached the limeade
lameness and debility, so that ft proved most fortunate N., where we °ended its n oth end, on the 4th Ortobeele
that I bad not divi led the force, which could only, under sight of the coast of Greenland.
such circumstances, have terminated in the complete failure Favoured by unusually fine weather as we proceeded to
of both ; for although the lead of provisions was every say the southward, we passed without arty accident through tb
becoming less. the necessity of careying two of the sufferer, great cluster of bergs which is always found in la,. 09Y,
on the sledges, and the Wes of the services of three others, and on the 12th we re crossed the Arctic Circle, alten chid
who had scarcely strength to walk behind, greatly increased time we saw no more ice.
the labour of the few who were now able to work. " Strong westerly winds carried us past the meridian of
" The examination of the coast was pursued until the sth Cape Fereertll on the 18th, and at one cm. of the 28th lei
of June, when, having cowmen. d more than half our provi- struck soundings off Mould Head. At daylight we Lod
*ions, and the strength of the petty being much reduced, I ourselves in the Fairway, between North Itoushlses
ass
was reluctantly compelled to abandon further operations, as it Fair Island, but southerly winds so impeded cur 'who
was, moreover, necessary to give the men a day of rest. But progress, that it was Lite on Saturday night before we cola
111.4 the time might not be wholly lost, I proceeded with S, r- anchor off Szarborougb.
gestic Hurditch and William Thompson, a seaman of greater " I arrived at the Admiralty early on Monday, the sth d
endurance, to the extreme south point in sight from our ca- November.
ampment, distant about eight or nine miles. From thin "I cannot conclude this report without winning my
print tee hadito flue a view as fully to reward us for our addi- deep obligations to Carel. Bird for his cordie
ducal labour, more especially when we reflected that from and zealous support throughout this most ochre. sone,
the nature of ice over which we, unencumbered, had tra- and my admiration of the conduct of the tellers and cron
veiled with comparative ease, it could hardly have been ac- of both ship-, whose meri.orious exertions fully nude tha
coinplished by the party in one day, whilst it would have to the most favourable consideration of the Lens Cowes-
"emend anotaer to have got back to their patent encamp Caners of the Admiralty.
ment. JAMES C. ROSS, Captain, RI."
"The extreme point of our 'operations is in latitude 72
deg. 33 N., and longitude 95 dee. 40 W. It is the west point
of a smell high peninsula, and the state of the atmosphere
being at the time peculiarly favourable for distinctness of ,
vise n, laud of any great elevation might have been seen at
the distance of 100 miles.

THE FUNERAL OP THE LATE MASTER OP Jeers COL
LEGE, CLMIGLIDOIL—The remains of the Rev. Dr. Find
were on Thumlay removed into the anti-chapel,snd fum-
ed there until yesterday moraine, the day fixed furtheirra
movel to their final resting place in the parish duck d
Brorkdiah, Norfolk. In consequence of the numerous apple.
cations from parties anxious to pay • final tribute of meat
to the virtues and acqueemente of the demised, it eta
ranged by the gentle= n who hid been entracte! win Ito
conduct of the ceremony that a procession should aeon eesl
the funeral cortege pert of the way on its melanchely mei
In coasequence of an intimation of this arrangement,' kap
number of members of the uaivereity conaregated in der*
lege yesterlay 'awning. Thu procession (which seabed
about 130), passing km the ante-chapel, moved rend de
cloisters, by the side of the hall, into the first cowl, sli
having paraded round the same, passed up the averse, ed
quitted the college by the front gate. The hearse ?mild
the body at the obelisk on the Newmarket-road, and toe
procession having debouched, the funeral corie'gr plena(
on its way to Brockdiah, when the represent/eon el Ze
faintly of the deceased were in readiness to roc eve it.
HON. AhTILLERT COMPANY.—" A della& I*
received at the Armoury-house, Artillery-grow:a, oo 11.0
day evening, the Bth inst., addressed to the cemeasedst
officer, Royal Artillery Company, superseding, by ceder d
her Majesty, twelve captains aid nine lieutenaqtk unt*
ducing all the sergeant. to the ranks." The abate 54!,
meat having appeared in a merning contempt's.*
beieg wor ed in a manner likely to prejudice the pOnt
mind egainst the very ancient corps of the Hon. Avenel
Company of London, we feel it but just to place the fall
before our readers. By warrant from successive en, rink
each company in this regiment has, up to the present teak
elected by ballot its own officer. and Lon-coma ssiosedst
cer.. This election conferred the rank for twelve mood
only, at the expiration of which time a fresh then*
took place, and the officers were eligible to be IY
elected. If fairly exercised, this privilege welli
have rill remained to the corps; but it was Asia
in many ways. Members who bed friends were, by the rase
of these friends, created captains, ere they had half lean'l
the duties of private soldiers. Non-commissioned officers's'
subslteras in vein looked to the heads of their erapeen"
companies fur instruc ion. They could not receive D°
ledge where there was none; and th. men, in then, fitnini
their senior officers unable to teach even them, leit ‘fi
tending, so that the musters in time showed a proportioed
officers ridiculously great fee the handful of men. Mental
anxious to learn were disgusted at the inefficiency of rara
appointed to instruct; and these who belonged to di
regiment for the sake only of wearing the red cost
cited this feeling still more, and would often his;
that if an officer did this or that he would out be w
elected. Thus the offi er most desirous of qualifyina himaUS
ineruct, and most active in giving instru-tioo, bed EC *
CUrity that his services would bee appreciated ; but he we
more frequently led to believe that the slightest 'those
would be remembered with a black ball. This sutra(
things, so totally inconsistent with good diseip!ine sedelh
ciency, was made known to his Royal Highness Prince rll'
bert, the captain.general, who takes a great interest is tts
corps, and is most anxious to under it fit for any service n
may be called upon to perform ; and it was thought 04'
able that the election of office es should no longer be eallo
to the caprice of those who were to receive iietructiox
their hands, and in order to confer a marked dietionion
the corps, her Majesty has declared in the warrant IV ach
haa recently. joined that the officers shell
their commissions direct from the crown, ad
that the non-commissioned °Sun shall owe tinar
elevation entirely to their knowledge of their daty Won'
ciency ; but it is not intended that any but member' of 111
wraps shall hold commissions, or any subordinwe rot
will be seen by this, that very far from the corps beta',
graced by the cage,a very high honour has been coet.T.-
.T
and it ia due tot he active and able exertions of Lient.iks,
the Hon. Henry Fitzroy, M.P., the adjutant, that the en!
puny has recently been so prominently brought %lode as,
notice of his R: al Highoess. With such office's, s"
barked, as they now will be, by the emulation of nest
we have no doubt the corps will shortly arrive at a stras
discipline and efficiency most gratifying to, the eon' d fir
sonar at their head, and worthy of the distieernsh.dl;
lion they are likely in future to occupy. A
Despatch. recto'
'IRE ORIGINAL MANSION OF CLIEFDEN Wast
by George Villiers, tad Duke of Buckingham, in thend7,,,a
Charles the Second, where this nobleman reed
0_
where he carried on his amour with the notorious Co
of Shrewsbury. From the Hoke of Buckingham' eke ,'n- .
"ion passed into the possession of Frederick Priam of :1";
who resided there many years, and greatly imP"Trteb„,sul
place. On the 20th of May, 1795, the hou.e og its
down, and the mansion now destroyed was built
rtn,,,
site, about 23 years siace, by the late Sir George via
who made it the receptacle of his valuable eolierut° of
weeks of art and vertu. Many of these treasures weYSit
chased with the mansion by the Duke of Sutherised:.,,,„
George Warrender's executors, and it is to be feared
portion of them is destroyed. It is understood the hum.
was insured.