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feightage of a fow rota the Falkland Islands.
Painful and unsatisfactory as my report of the fate of
the party is, I trust it may be considered conclusive by
their Lordships, acd setting at rest any further anxiety
on the part of their sorrowing friends.—l have, &c.,
" MORSHEAD, Captain.
Rear-Admiral Moresby, C. 8."

" Her Majesty's ship 'bide, Valparaiso, Feb. 21.
" Sir,—ln reference to my letter of the 23d of January
last, relating to Captain Gardiner and the missionary
party, I have the honour to enclose two unfinished letters
written by Captain Gardiner shortly before his death
(found in the cavern, and addressed to his son and
daughter), for immediate transmission to England to
await the clispsal of the Lards Commissioners of the
Admiralty. The remaining books, papers, and other'
articles found near the boats are enclosed in a case,
awaiting any opportunity you may deem desirable for
sending then). I Lilt:lose a list of these effects in the
case, one pack ,t addressed to yourself as my Corn-
mander-in-Chief, being the original documents on which
ray letter is founded, and I suggest it should be retained
until you should be rati6fied with the correctness of the
statements of the above letter, dated 22d of January,
1852, and, as none of these articles can be claimed by
the Missionary Society, I also sugg"st the propriety of
their being forwarded to the Rev. E. G. Marsh, Ayles-
ford Vicarage, Maidstone, Kent, friend and executor of
Captain Gardincr.—l am. &c.,
" W. H. MORSHEAD, Captain.

_
" Rear-Admiral Moresby. C.B.
" & list of articles belonging to the late Captain Gar-
diner enclosed, viz.:—A mahogany case, containing two
silver pencil-cases, two halfpence, a piece of a thermo-
meter, a half-crown. a silver watch, and two memoranda
regarding his effects; a spyglass, a piece of a quadrant, a
leather case containing letters and papers, a sketch-book,
two pocket-books, one Patlgorilian vocabulary (manu-
script), manuscripts, three memorandum-books, 22
books, a few pamphlets and periodicals, an atlas and
chart. Eight letters addressed to the mission pssrty, in
Captain Morshead's care, all having been exposed to the
air and sea for months, are nearly valueless in them-
selves, but may prove of interest to their friends.
W. T 3. MORSHEAD, Captain."

•
MISSIONARY MADNESS.
of
the thee x party
Prs s
A most appalling story will be found in another
column of our impression this day. An English officer,
Captain Gardiner, of theeßoyal Itlavy, who had procpeded
with six companions upon what was called the .‘ Patago-
nian Mission" to the neighbourhood of Cape Horn, has
been literally starved to death—he, and his companions
theo slmeaodtehrer
withh him. Neither reverence for the cause iu which
thettie they
unutterablewere engagfeodllynoofr athdemieranttieernproisfe tahse
it
loftywasq.uali-iocuanof
con-
ducted,esef
tiou against those who could wantonly risk so many
valuable lives on so hopeless blind
natural ur
i neyd iegsnllol-
- expedition. Surely
there is distress and ago!! Y enough
within
at home—surely
there is ignorance and vice enough ithinahe bonndarieo
of the four seas. When this distress shall have been
alleviated—when this ignorance shall hav
ened—when this vice shall have been extirpated, will it
been enl ight-
not be time enough to think of dispatching missions
Cape Horn? There is such a thing as aubordarantiloton
even among acts of duty. What are we to think Olf
that
charity which disregards the claims of the suffering
thousands who speak with English tongues, but can
find sympathy and money enough when there is a
question of affording assistance to a parcel of scarcely
human savages, separated from us, we easy almost say,
by the diameter of the globe? True, they may be
living in the midst of savagery and brutality of the
wildest kind, but at least they are not afflieteel with that
worst species of suffering—conscious degradation. They
have not present before their eyes at every mo ment of
the day a standard of comparison which adds hitensity
to every pang they suffer. We should be perfectlse will-
ing to accept the argument against the promoters of these
wild schemes from their own point of view. We should
be prepared to show them in our own large towns, and
in the very centre of British civilization, persons as ig-
norant of the first rudiments of Christianity as the
wretched savages who persecuted Captain Gardiner and
his companions amidst the tempests of Cape Horn. The
reports of the various commissioners connected with the
Associations for the Promotion of Christianity by va-
rious means in the populous districts of English towns
will supply them with all requisite information. Let
them go to the Bishop of London—let them go to Lord
Shaftesbury—let them go to the nearest inspector of po-
lice, and they can soon supply themselves with facts
sufficient to quicken their missionary zeal. We, who
may be supposed to entertain the question rather
in the spirit of statesmen or politicians, would
say, " Why do not you,. who are blessed with
abundant means, rather pluck a few hundreds or thou-
sands of your suffering countrymen from certain de-
struction than waste your energies upon a horde of
savages separated from you by every line of demarca-
tion which Providence can set between human beings?
What would you say to the wild Patagonian who would
with a dry eye abandon his unfortunate countrymen to
their ignorance, their brutality, and their storms, and
devote his life to the purpose of procuring painted glass
for the windows of St. Barnabas in Belgravia, or sub-
scriptions for the erection of district churches in Bolton
or in Sheffield? Is it not in your power, by a slight
exercise of your superior intelligence and a alight
expenditure of your abundant means, to remove many
an English family to Australia or the Canadas, to lands
where they will grow up without the awful temptations
to which they must inevitably be exposed at home, and
where their children will meet with all plibfitable in-
struction and teaching? Your sympathies are not with
them. Their sufferings are a common and everyday
matter. It requires almost the pungency of a romance
to lash your sluggish zeal into activity. The Patagonian
and the negro are your brothers—not so your poor
English fellow-countrymen." Strange as it may appear,
this is a lamentable truth, and the result is neglect ta
home, and misdirected energy abroad.
It is unnecessary here to reproduce the particulars of
the story, which will be found in ample detail in Captain
Morehead's report. - Suffice it to say that the ill-fated
party landed on Picton Island towards the conclusion of
the year 1850. From the first they seem to have been
annoyed, in some measure, by the natives, and to have
been hunted backwards and forwards from the little island
to what may be called the mainland of Tierra del Fuego.
About the middle of April, 1851, Captain Gardiner
begins to record in his diary, which has been preserved
to us, that " they have provisions enough to last for two
months, but some are very low." They have but a flask
and a-half of powder; their fishing-net is washed away.
They shoot an occasional fox, which serves them for food;
and, besides, if they did not destroy the animal, he
would do his best to steal the remainder of their
little stock of provisions. The scurvy breaks out
among the party. They are driven to take refuge
in a cavern ; but the tide rolls in, and
" Gardiner and Mr. Maidment, the Captaintheir lives, cate-
chist, are obliged to swim out for
refuge upon a clump of rock, round the base of which
the waves of the South Atlantic are breaking. Upon
this rock the two poor creatures kneel down in pra,ver.
John Badcock, a Cornish fisherman, dies. By July 4
the party have been seven weeks on short allowance;
their only hope is in the expected ship from the
Falk-
land Islands; but no ship comes. They greedily eat a
t a half-devoured fish washed n
penguin, a shag,
the shore. Six mice are spoken of in he • upon
journal as
dainties. The garden-seeds have been used for broth,
and are all spent. Muscles and limpets
ceurse—and then rock-weed is boild downare the next re.
Erwin, a carpenter, and Bryant, a to a jelly.
fisher-
man, die. Two of the another Cornish
surgeon, and Pearce, a third Cornishman, Mr.
Williams, the
away from the main bodyr Cornishman, had gone
object or other, probablyof the pasty, for some
food. Their dead bodies for the discovery of
River, some distance off. The
were discovered at Cook's
must have died about theo presumption is they
diner himself, who same time as Captain Gas.-
diner himself,
The last probably expired on the 6th of Sep-'
September, and inenthtr'y in his diary is on the sth of
tasted food or water foris
fhe mentions that he badt not
catechist, had died afe city days. Mr. afai.dtvwe,nas the.__
6th of January, 1852,
w days before. As ft . the
before Catain Morshead arrived
at the
island, we leave the value of the precautions which
_..
had been taken to the
for maintaining the expedition
public judgment.
Poor Captain Gardiner's diary, in which he records
day by day the slow process of his agony, brings the
scene very vividly before us. In its naked simplicity it
far exceeds the wild ravings which Victor Hugo has
placed in the mouth of the condemned criminal who is
supposed to record his feelings day by day between con-
demnation and execution. Surely this should be a severe
lesson to the friends and advocates of distant missionary
enterprise. What had we to do in Patagonia and its
inhospitable islands? In Patagonia itself, as far as we
know from the little information we have derived from
the South American Governments, there are some
hordes of wanderiaglndians—but of their real condition
we are in perfect ignorance. The very lines of the
coast were mere guess work upon the charts until the
surveying expeditions of the Beagle and Enterprise in
1826-36. Surely it is unjust, impolitic, and winecesaill
to devote the great sums which would be necessary 111...,
order to carry, out any missionary expedition of an el
fective nature in such a region to any such purpo6s?
while we have so much destitution and ignorancee.!
home. At any rate, the thing should either be well.
done, or it should not be done at all. We canno/.,atewtil
reason, incur the expense of doing it well.
Tr
rove a
Captain Gardiner and his companions shou P
d insufficient
terrible warning against any unadvised an
r to come.
expeditions of the like kind for many
a Yea Tbe pro-
Let us hear no more of Patagonian missions
d a responsi-
moters of the scheme have already incurre
poignant re-
bility which should give them subject for
Times.
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