The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-16 00:00:00

ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

Advices were received in town on Thursday, of the
return of Captain Ross, in the Isabella, with his corn.
panion, the Alexander sloop, Lieutenant Parry, to
Shetland, after a fruitless attempt to penetrate through
Behring's Straits past the American continent. It is
said that Capt. Ross almost reached the latitude of 78
deg. and traversed the whole of I)avis's Straits, and
found inhahitants, but could not discover the smallest
opening sufficient to admit the entrance ofa ship. Sci-
ence has, however, derived some advantage, as he has
been enabled to trace the line of cant with greater se- -
curacy, and to alter the positions which had been as- -
signed to it in all the charts. The subjoined are given
as the results:

" The Isabella and the Alexander discovery ships,
are safely arrived in Brassa Sound, Lerwick, all well ; .
neither ship having lost a man, nor having n man in
the sick hst. Captain Ross has completely succeeded
in exploring• every part of Baffin's Bay, and, with the
exception of errors in the latitudes and longitudes, of
verifying the statements of that old and able navigator
whose name it bears, and of ascertaining that no peso
sage exists between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
through Davis's Straits and Baffin's Bay, the whole
being fbund to be surrounded by high land, extending
to the north as far as lat. 77. 55. and long. 76. W. ; and
in the 74th degree of latitude, stretching westward as
far as 84. W. longitude. They traced the same the
whole way down to the Cape Walsingham of Davis,
which they ascertained to lie in lat 66. and long. 60. ;
from hence they stood for Resolution Island, and then
stood homeward. They have made many curious 0b..•
servations and discoveries, of which, perhaps, will not
be considered as the least interesting, that of a nation
being found to inhabit the Arctic regions, between the
latitudes of 76. and 78.., who thought that the world
to the South was all ice ; that generation had succeeded
generation of a people who had never tasted the fruits
of the earth, had no ides of a Supreme Being, who
never had an enemy, and.• whose Chiefs had. hitherto
supposed themselves monarchs of the universe. There
now remains only to be discovered the termination, if
it has one, of Middleton's Repulse Bay, and, a few de•
grees to the northward of it, to determine whether
Greenland be an island or joins America ; and this
might with the greatest ease be done from the northern..
most station of the Hudson's Bay Company in any one
season."

The hope of discovery in the northern seas is not •
wholly laid aside; though that which has been already
ascertained rather depreciates the importance of what
remains. We consider an expedition which proves
that there is no north-west passage to the vast Pacific,
to have succeeded in its object as completely as if the
result had been the reverse ; except, indeed, it was to
be expected that the mariners would make a parent if
they did not find one. The task of the officers and
seamen sent on the discovery, would indeed have been
more arduous, if they Lad fund an opening, which
they must have traced ; but their duty was simply to
ascertain the fact, and that we suppose they have
done. The voyage to the Pole will, it is said, be tried
again next year ; and the adhesion of Greenland to •
Amerisa, or its separation from that.continent, 4111111 m
tained by examination.

Paris and Brussels papers have arrived: The King
on Sunday gave a private audience to the. Spanish
Ambassador, the Due de Fernan Nunez, who delivered
a letter from his Sovereign. These journals conjecture
that the Due de Richelieu will return to Paris on the •
15th or 16th instant. Some accounts from Aix-les. •
Chapelle mention that the Emperor of Russia intended :
to set out from thence for Brussels on Monday last,
where splendid fetes are preparing ; other statements
defer his Imperial Majesty's departure till. Monday .
next. The latter advice. also announce, that the Em..
peror of Austria will leave Aix-la-Chapelle on the 18th
instant, for his own capital.—The King of Prussia •
returned to Aix la-Chapelle on Sunday last.—A pa..
ragraph in the Brussels papers, dated from
Chapelle, asserts that the Congress of Ministers has
entertained the consideration of the fate of Napoleon.—
On Monday the Duc d'Angouleme arrived at Aix-la.
Chapelle. The motive of his Royal Highness's visit•
was to return the compliment of a similar nature paid
by their Imperial and Royal Majesties to the King of -
France on the late occasion. Mr. Baring reached Aix..
la-Chapelle the night before the Due d'Angouleme
ar-
rived there; and on Monday a conference was held at
the house of Prince liardenberg, on the subject of a.T
proposition made by France for an extension of the
term originally agreed upon for the discharge of her
pecuniary obligations. It was reported at the date of
the last letters, that France required a much longer -
time than had been already intimated ; a request, in
which it was supposed that Prussia would not acquiesce.
without reluctance.

The Duke of Gloucester was at Lausanne on the
28th of October, on his return from Italy. On the
29th, the public authorities in the town gave a dinner .-
to his Serene flightless.

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POLICE.

Row STREET.
SIWKING OCCritIIENCE,

IV...Nevin! Mr. Horsley. of Csaunbitryslant, Islington.
wha nn Sunday lost his son. who together with his infant
,had been token ou• by a female servant in a child's
chai e, attended before Mr. Hicks and Mr. liirnie, the sitting
Tlag;strates, accompanied by a friend, and stated, that they
had found a witness who had seen a man lake the infant,
whic'i is only a year and u half old, out of the chaise, which
was left Heal the Asy Isom, and walk away with it. It an-
reart-il to the man a singular circumstance, and he was in.
duce I to follow rite thief, who, in the Borough, went into a
liquor shop, w hel 4, lie had a glass of :in ; the a ituess also
went into the liquor shop, and had a full view (tithe man and
the ; and from his olvseri pt inn there is no doubt at' the
infant Horsley's. The thief left the litinor shop,
and proceeded tmeards Loudon-bridge, where the witness lust
sight of him. Mr. Horsley was so much afficted, he was wit
able to state his rase; and lirs. Horsley being in a pregnant
state, he was learild of the consequences. The circuit'.
stances, however, were clearly related by his friend, who
state I that they considered dht• seduction of the servant girl
away, as au underplot to getting the child; there was nn
doubt, however, but that she had been induced to take the
children in that direction ; for she was restricted front tak-
it,-4 them nut of Canotibury.lane, or very near it ; whereas
sic had been seen genie away, on Sunday, crossing the Sltepl
herd and Shepherdess-field, and pulling the chaise with both
her hands, apparently as fast as she could. She had not
any preciiiiiion for herself to stay ont, as she had nu
oll.er clothes but ii o• 4. slit had on. 1t as strongly simper ted
that she went to a iloa+C Of ill fame in Ilea l's-rosv, near the
Asylum, kept by a woman of the name of Vetch. Her pa.
r its, nor any of her relations or friends, had not heard any
t Sin; ofher. suiperteil that she had been nittriles et!
or 113.1 destroyed herself, but they did not state their reason
fur thinking so. 'Vh•rp stated that they 11841 been to the l'„.
•. m roion.street, to give similar information, and
they intended to go to the Secretary of State's Office for the
Home Department, to apply to the Secretary and trader
Serretary of Mare.

The Nlaeistrates appointed two constables to go and search
the house of ill-forme in Nlead's-row, near the Asylum, and to
bring the parties who keep the house betore them, if ne-
cessary.
In a short time after, Mr. Horsley's friend announced in
the public office, that the servant was found, and taken from
off a etaee coach io I lolborn, and that she had been brought
to the office: a considerable degree of exultation ntanaitesl-
ed all present. 'the Magistrates determined on giving' a
preference to the examinatiori of the servant, to any other
business which was then waiting, except what was immediate-
ly before them: but after waiting some time, upon inquiry,
it turned nut that 7tlr. Horsley and his friend hail been
tilisineo melt ; fur it was ascertained, upon inquiry, that
the servant was not in custody ; they then left the office
In make further iimniries as to the report winch they had
beard of the sereaut having been found.
After a considerable search, it was ascertained that she
hail been taken to the offiee of the Vestry clerk, of Islington,
',sheer the guard of the Birmingham coat It stated, that the
girl had gone by that roach from Cie Saracen's.braol Inn, on
Solose.itill, on Sunday evening, to Birmingham, oder peculiar
I.:relined:ince.. She presented herself to go by the coach as
an noitsille paseetserr, just feline they were tritely to start,
and said her place was taken; he looked at the aay.hill, and
(mind that there was no place taken for a female that was
wet lint told her that there wits a !dace taken by is Mr.
Atkins, who was led yet come, when she replied that lit r
name was Atkins, a hereas it is Elizabeth Holbrook t but 110
Ale. Atkins appearing, and the coach being 'early to start. he
a-lved her a bete her cloths or luggage were; she replied
she tail none: the clothes which she had on a., re not ealeu_
fated to Ira I in,
vr. tieing very light ; but she minuted the
',Oath and went to liirminghem, 4her••, on l,er ureic .s a 4• the
it Os+ seen that she did not know an
Berson Ir ere. She is sixteen years of age, but small of her
age, and has a very young apprie:ance: 511
the attention of the people at t I. weer lain het moilve
tor 40t,ig to Bit mitiotain ; and they at length learnt time her
that she it as tonne to 111. 1114111 Cd, but that her intended
husband was not in Birmingham, she having lett him in
I.ondon, and lie was to bottom her to Birmingham to marry
her. This 1 atement was sufficient to convince any reflect-
ing person that she had been the dupe of some designing
villain. and they used their exertions in endeavouring to
persuade her to the same belief; and her supposed lover
not arr: yang at Birmingham by I iiesday afternoon, she was
convinced that site had been deceived, and agreed to return
to 1.4,11.10111)y the coach that afternoon. Some money was
collected bs several liniumie persons for her there, as well
by some ladies who came in the coach with hr r; and it so
happened, that the same guyed came with that coach Iron.
Birmingham as attended the coach she went by from
London. He, therefore undertook the rare of her, and
the ciictimslances of Mr. Horsley'e children being carried
oil by a servant girl, ha•ing become 4 subject of great no-
toriety, la: ascertained that sloe was the girl alto had ab•
'reunited with them, He there fore, sietertnitte.l on not let.
bog her Co OW of his eietil. on his arrival it, Liqiiin, till
he had dull% red her safe into cesiody :Ind lie delivered
her to Ire palish uNi, era of I.lington, where she was kept
in an ex', aie dimity way, instead of to Ii„.„.
ley's or taken bethre a Police Alage,trate for investi-
gation. She was even taken to Lamm th, w consctitt",„c
a the ',Tau. or a man being strut lieu atilt the tee.t.ing
child. Tits cis comat,ence being known iet Mr. little y's
tioilfrey, the constable, went tiff with ail sl,l to tilllua
her froze Islington to Lamle th. Oil his arrival in Lower
Laintietli.marsh, he met Godwin, le•lmiging to this °thee,
who had also been employed upon this distressing business,
and learnt from him, that the persolis who had brought the
girl from Ishiegioti had taken her to Billingsgate, In 1-11.
dC3VOIII- to find 1411 a loan eiho had been sect, thew with a
child 311110t.1 in:: the description uf Mr. Hoorsley's; lie pointed
0111 a 1,4344•-08/11:•1` 111 1-1111111:111.11141.11, where be 11.141 Merl
.1111110yt.4 111 the (robing were broneht berme her,
to a•ceitviii it any of throe was the mars a lio had sectored
her to Mr. Horsley• children in the chaise; but she
knew it,,titioe of any of them. It did nut appear upon what
ground auy 01.thel,e melt were sforpc vie it, except from vsiwial
report.);,,drily Plocceded to the- to: die-house in I.ambeth.
marsh do descillocil, a here lie ((mood Ekzabelli Holbrook io
the custody of Mr. Brown. the beadle of Lambeth parish ; he
claimed her as his pirsom r havilig preolmed his warran',
the treadle resigned his charge of her, and in a short time
after Godfrey, by for desire of the persons who had brought
her flout Islington, was prevailed on to take b r to the tier-
culy. public house, opposite the Asylum; the landlady of