The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-10-18 00:00:00

BRITISH NORTH-WEST EXPEDITION.

FeJori the Montreat Gazette of September 11.]

In addition to the communication which appear-
ed in th• rifoatrrof flerohl of the 17th ult. relative
I. the Arctic Expedition, under the orders of
L'eotenant Franklin, we are happy lobe empowered
to strut, upon the authority of inure recent arrival.,
that the expedition had arrived at York Factory,
p. Ilutl.ou's Bay, and woe about to embark fur
Ear, land.
It appelitS that the toils and sufferings of the Ex-
pedition have been of -the most trying description,
sod that if they do nut exceed belief, they were at
least of such a nature as almost to overcome the
stoutest heart, and deter all future attempts of a
tendeisc-Y. It was fitted out in the summer of
11119, and in the course of the following year was
enabled by a liberal aid and reinforce meta from the
North. West Company, to advance to the shores
of the Great Bear Lake, winch, we think, is it.
tusted in about 67 deg. north lat, where it eticamp•
ed and -wintered. In the ensuing spring it ap-
prOaclied the Copper Mine River, which it de.
scendell until it fell into the ocean. Hitherto the
expedition was accompunied by Mr. Wintzel, a
clerk to the North-West Company, with ten of
their best Indian hunters; hot the wide and open
seas, which ai.peared at the tualuence of the niter
with the ocean, elated the expedition so much with
the hope of ultimate success, the it was thought
proper to dispense with the further attendance of
Mr. ‘Vitozel, and his hunters, who accordingly re-
turned up the river, leaving the expedition to
proceed in two canoes to explore the coast of the
Polar See, eastward from the mouth of the Copper
Mine River, towards Hudson's Bey. But it seems,
that in vomit qtience of the approach of winter, so
early as the letter end of August, heavy fallsof snow,
dense as mist, and an extremely bare and ill.pro-
Tided wardrobe, the expedition was unfortunately
prevented from accomplishing its end, farther than
eXploring about 500 mules of the coast which lies to
the north-east of the Copper Mine River, and as-
certaining that, so far us the rye could penetrate,
the sea which laid before throb was quite open, aud
perfectly free of ice.
As the expedition returned, its wants and its 'xi-
getictes brcame alarming to the extreme, and it
soon required the whole fortitude of the besot, and
the utmost exertion of the frame, to brave the hard-
ships which stared it in the face. In approaching
that part of the Copper Mine River from which it
set out, it was necessary to double en immense
point of land, which would occupy a greater length
of time than its emergencies would well admit of,
and it was therefore deemed necessary to set the
canoes adrift, and cut a direct course over land to
the Copper Mine Ritter. When the travellers
arrived on the banks of the river they experienced
some puzzling difficulties how to get across, but
having killed ten elks, with the skins of which they
contra% ed to conatruet a canoe, this hardship was
$OOll Overcome; but the joy which it diffused was as
transient as disappointed hope. In forcing their me.
lancholy way through the untravelled wilds between
the Copper Mine River and the Great Bear Lake,
they fell completely short of provisions, and were
for many da►s under the necessity of subsisting upon
sea weeds, and a powder produced from pounding
the withered bones of the food which they had al-
ready committed. In this struggle betwixt the love
of life and the dread of it death that must be tent.
fyilig to ad mankind, Mr. Wood, nine Canadians,
and au Esqusniaux, hell untimelyand regretted vic-
tims ; sod had not the survivors, who, for several
days, were driven to the necessity of prolonging a
miserable exporter, by feeding upon the tattered
reinnards of their shoes, and, we fear, upon a more
forbidding and unpalatable fare, exerted themselves
by a siper-human rtf.rt to reach the Great Bear
Cake, it is probable that they would haveall suffer-
ed the mo►t exquisite and appalling martyrdom.
Here they found the heed► and the bleached bones
of the runnels that had set ved them for last winter's
pros isious, wlnchath.rded them the melancholy mgre-
dienta for prill:”Vilig the vital spark, until their arrival
at some post of the Iludsou's Buy Company. It
is said, that upon the arrival of this surviving party
of the expedition et Slave Lake. the Canadians
there were very nigh breaking forth into souse
al outrage, when they found that their for-
mer comrades, instead of returnieg with the expe-
dition, had been lost fur ever; but we understand
that no serious injury has transpired in consequence
of this very !littoral illsiippOlutamo.

Pot ITE Our poor fishermen." rays the
Brighton Chronicle, " have hitherto met with very
iiidiffetent succ.s% in their herring voyage, the wea-
ther having frtrinenily prevented them from getiing
t.r fen, and the nights they got thither the ti.ll de-
clined to net." We taupe they appointed tome
oilier time when it would be more agreeable to
them to accept the fishermen's invitation.

A dreadful fire broke out last morning •t half
past three, in the house of Mr. COLVIs, grocer, in
Rosemary-lane, which consumed the houses of
Nlevsrs. l'ow's, hatters ; COWAN, • clothier ; arid
HAGUNTY, piece-broker ; and thinisged three
houses before the flames could be extinguished.
The exertions of the firemen •re deserving of
thanks., in arresting the further progress of the
flames, No hits woe lost.

TFIE ARMY.

. ,
Cement Loud Cembetmere is daily expected 'in thildinilo
asinine the command of tl a fortes in stint country.

General Sir John Lambe, t inspected ea Friday last, at
the Nevi liariseks, Limerick, flag Wigs& of horde artillery
and the Bth chavion guard. ; end meat day the 42,1..80ral
Highlanders. The General approved omit of the lipped:.
mite sod perfect hue of discipline of there ell-couductrd
corps.
. .

The 10th royal husaars are immediately expected to the
quarters he the city and county of Lisnetick occupied by the
3d light dritgoons tart winter; weir the 61h dragon cuarAs
are in remove to the C 11111.4111111,11111 possessed by thews hitt ly
in she connotes of Kerry sod Co►k.
A soldier of the v. terao battalion was tried oo 31otolay
peorsight, in Cork, f,4 using jointing laiiguage to Sheri 7.:
Ilesnatil, of that city, whilst in the exertitton of his tare.
The soldier was convicted, and received three hundred
lashes.