The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-05-03 00:00:00

NORM WKS,' PASSAGE.

It has bergs unrested, sad, as far es we have the means
of judging, there ts bolls reason awl humanity in the sug-
genii ssss that the present seas.. woiski be well employed iss
wadi.: out a weasel iu search of sine sosintryineei who weal
uit the Ltalieu's Bay expedition. II is wow certain, that if
Lieutenant Parry 41111 his companions he alive, and have not
passed throughlssing's Streit* into the Nutshell' Pacific,
they must have wustered in some very high latitude, and
though prepared against must of the probable coeitingencies,
still &ethical' or manful irises may have befallen them winch
eau fureaight could guard against, sine the most judicious
conduct prevent or remove. The corcomstance pinned nut
in our last week's paper would certainly i eciiur ies to hope,
that our Intrepid navigators have shared iw the amenity of
season observed its latitude GO anal 61 degrees of our own
hemisphere, and that they have been enabled to prosecute
the arduous object of their pursuit ; yet no one at all Cllll.
versant with the subject, hist must cuatemplaie with lively
seassbility and dread, she many fearful perils to which their
entakriuktug is liable. It is true the 7.etlard Islands, where
the comparatively mild winter has been experie,real, lee
under the same parallel of Witte& with Cape rarewell, in
iVeist Greenland, but with such • space, sad such an octets
as she Atlantic intervessisig, rat with the Insown datferetire
of climate which 11111111 N snit even a Kumla can be formed of
the stale of the weather in the Arctic regions of Aster, ice.
Our issirepid mariners may have been shipwrecked, and
obliged to burry themselves in heil■ amousgat the snow, as
happened to the eel. lasted With pilul, Samna, and his
abipmates, ou the coast of Nova Z Labia, during Ilse winter
irf 1:1111. An wuluokeel.for disaster may hive destroyed Ilse
skips, and deprived them in a usomeses of all the sesaussices
with which they weir', so amply provided—they may have
Ins.'s compelled to lithe to their Loots, and to tusetgate u
kuusen seas, exposed to all the iiicleUietielei and vieissitssahls
of these inhospitable regiuus—or, what as far from impowei.
hie, perhaps after haviaig survived, under every titivat►on,
Ilse lung, anal dark, and dreary Lenart...resit night, they may
now lie reduced to the ~,, :eighties' exlremaUty of hanger
and cold, or is ritual danger of perishing front the attacks
of hostile savages. We own that whatever ies , twe hike
ill the success of Ibis hazardous exploit, is tome thaw mot.
Irrhalancr.l by the colleens tee feel to the fate of oar cuss..
Iquitos engaged ill it, and we do think that it Ivcomes
the dusty of those who " sit at home at rase," lei coo-
ts-ire every means, fur their salety, anal to leave At little as
panteible to chalice. No harm eau accrue from doing too
much; great injury may lie sustained from dome tam little.
Hut admitting that they are sate and well, which we ter.
'Trolly hope that they •re, the expense of sending out •
vessel to look alter them is an expense which the country
would cheerfully defray: strut so 141' feast its being uurro-
dueller., the aciluisiliuos to nautical and erographaral
science, made by such an expedstient, would lie 1411 ample
reimbursement. %'e would inspreas strueigly, but respect.
fully, of the minds of these in power, nail one probable
cause of failsere of the rexpedition that went in yin •t of La
Peyroinie, originated in the hang interval of lime Iliat was
suffered lu elapse taelweeu its miting and the period a hen all
doubts as to she fact of souse calamity Isamitig caves taken
him most have ceased. The last letter written by that elm.
tingoislied and u talur smote navigator was Jobe I'oll hi, it.
in February, 1768, ■nd stated the probability lir his
reaching the isle of France on his way house in D.Tesulier
of the same year. Yet it was not till Septenitn-r 171S1,
that D'Etaticeriateaux sailed from Beal: that is. three years
after Ili. probable lams, capture, ur murder, of Pe:e court.,
and cuisactriently nut less than tour years usual have elapsed
le•fore they could by possibility reach ■ny spud winre the
weltorholy Catastrophe .'s likely to have happeuri!. Bet
the tempest of the Revolution was them resing.--i• ass pro.
'cress it swept away ail iufe,i,er Considers:isms, null I.a Vey-
rouse was left Its his &tr. Had D'Ersirseasteaux been ills.
patched early its 1769, a very alarmed result might, and as.
ssisrell!y a far more sane...rimy reseal( would have brew
effected, Instances iunussitrabie Isere uerurord us wheels
shipwara lied remora have subsisted and &tended themarle.s
for a lung tune under elillicalths almost incredible. Hot
Ihrre is • trent to human exertion under sods connoted...area,
and that terns was, its the instance alluded to, alretched hia•-
yamd the limit of human endurance. Lel our country stiller
up such reproach with respect to Leal. Parry.—(Olourealer
Journal.)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION.—FruiII
by the College of l'ii”ogiatta, no Jess that; 40,090
die annually in Great Britain of Consumption, and at least
10,000 hi London. The late Wm. Turnbull, Lou a very
ingeinutis Surgeon, ascertained that every 20th person was
ruptured. These complaints are Italy alarming to every
individual who trees the least exe►►tion. It is also incredible
Ilse •umber that suffer from • certain Disease, by being
improperly treated. It was those eiienmetann•s induce)
Dr. Coor►,. to select eminent Physician's and Sargent's, •f
at lea►t 30 years' experience, to turns a Medical Board;
sad since the I siablislawsent upwards of 30,000 l'ai bins Icive
been erred—wary sf !bent after Hospitals had failed
Messrs. Coogan. and Co. are cutsaulird at tVutslotock-
street, o:ford-street, and at Marlette House, Great Char-
lotte-strati, uppusite the Bev. Rowland Hull's, daily, truss
Eight till tight.-31ethauscs have advice gratis FOUI
ing, from Six till ;Eight, and on Sunday blurnings until
Twelve u'Cluck.—'a• Ruptures of 30 years standing radi-
cally cured, without confinement—There our rival., lours
at each buyer, and private rooms fur Females.—N.R. The
afflicted would du well to read Stews. Coor►lt and Co.'s
Lectures us two prevailing Diseases, published at One
by Mr. Harvey, 22, Blackfnars-ruad. They will
alas prove useful to prang Practitioners.

AGE, Tiu24D4v, Mar 2.
Ge•50a............. 441
Vessicr lial. Liv.... 2 80
Malta .......... . 4a
Pimplvo .... .... 39!
Miilvvnso, pry 0x... 119
Lisbon ..... 6l
Op°. to . • 501
Rio illtrifo

Bahia
o.shlusa ....
Cork 9/

muLtaom.
Pwelwgel 44.1 J Ir t s. d.
Cull', wee: 0 0 0
4444 d in Bars—. 3 17 104
New 'lhtelblotrite 3 16 li
New Pulls.* 0 4 11
Silver he Bars Y 6 04
New Lurie reek— I 0 0

MARKETS.

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[from the - London .Vereenhk Price Carroll," of ruatiay
May t, 18301

WEST INDIA AND SPANISH MAIN PRI/DUCE.

(•ores,—Three has been a singly &mood since ors last,
and She pablie sales hare gore off al roamer priets,eseept•
inz Uwtrh, winch ti, chorea Ir. to Is. per els,. it etsissetpienee
of the large qu.tutity bronchi forsrarii ; St. Doiminei broom&
110 s. Mum the price paid last Tues.lay ; H h, of
superior gwaliSy, sold SS/ 3165. per rot.
The •luck of W. Leafier is nor 3,420 tom. being 45n
more than at ibis time last year, prrseui priers hs. per est.
higher.
PIMENTO has tone of heavily by pettalic auction, 511
destine of p. per lb.
Sucr.tit —The business dime in 21sisclvarte during Iles
week was limited, in consequence of file small rpiaiiiiip
awn.. particularly of hew Of 011111, frs13111!1, Okla, is MOM 3$
sr litre.). A small public ',Jr of Jamaica, on Frillsy, went
oh sub spirit at high priers. In Foirigo Segura welly little
has berm 4611 C.

Tne Snick of 11. P. Siazar i* now 4,310 mike less iban
lad year's at this thew, present prices 4s. per cal. lower per
iviir average.

IMMO* —Two public sales took place last week, rO9ll-
- %On sera's. Gamin's's, and 50 weans 011.11CCA, which
weal at Stir follow sug rates : Gust maim line *obi& 7s. 3.1. 10
7 7.1 ; .aloe 6.. Iss 71. (nod earls. 5. 6.1. 10 5.. Chi ;
Wises% slats° 54. 3d. to ri • 4.1.; 01 tiosiury dal° 4..
4+ 10.1.; Cm:sees 341 Onras K. 91, is. 94. •2.1. i subsi 6s. 9d.
to 7s. 3.1. ; 0..3,1.1„..,
In Cocoa there Isms been uwahint dune.
Rusts have Is au in limited d. tosstsd, and we redoca our
quotations uf JallllllCl 23. per taltsso.
The press 111 stuck of Hoist is 11,553 putnelsertn., and price
of proof% 24. 3.1. per gallon. tusk 11.1 year, same date,
9,303 pauclwons, sod price of proofs 24 10.1. per gallon.