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NEWMARKET RACES.

THE FATE OF THE FRANKLIN

EXPEUrTioN.

(THIS DAY.)

TO THE SECRETARY TO VIE ADMIRALTY.
.17, Savile Row, 26th October, 1854.
SIR,—I beg to.enclose a " proof" of my corres-
pondence with the Government "on the Fate of
the Franklin Expedition,"' which I have this
Morning sent to all the London papers.
It is my intention immediatAily to offer my ser-
vices to the Colonial Board, -to descend the Great
Fish River in search of the remains of "The
Franklin Expedition ;" and if that "Board" de-
clines the offer, then to the Admiralty Board.
I have the honour, &c.,
RICHARD KING.

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TO THE gECRETARY TO THE _ADMIRALTY.
17, Siwile-row,_ Oct. 27, 1854.
SIR,—I transmit, for the information of my
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a copy of
my correspondence with their'Lordships, bearing
date respectively December 21, 1844; January 8,
1845; January 31, 1845.
There was no Sir Robert Harry Inglis in those
days; so this correspondence has no place in the
" Blue Books."

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It, however, should have, I think, a place in
the next " Blue Book ;" for the lithographed con-
jectural chart, illustrative of the correspondence,
bears, in indelible characters, not only the position
of the "Great Polar Passage" discovered by Capt.
ll'Clure, but the Atlantic outlet of that "Great
Polar Passage " through Jones Sound discovered
by Sir E. Belcher. _ .

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The actual chart of 27th October, 1854, now
about to issue from the Hydrographer to the
Admiralty, is, doubtless,' more ornamental but not
more truthful, than the conjectural chart_of 31st
January, 1845. • _

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According to a principle, my unerring guide
from the moment I had to deal with life and death
on a great scale, I forward copies of this corre-
spondence to the " London Press."—l have the
honour, are., RICHARD KING.

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POLAR SEA EXPEDITIONS AND POLAR LAND
JOURNEYS.

Sir,—The problem a *North Polar passage between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans having occupied your attention
for some years, I beg to submit to you a careful digest of the
services which have taken place since you entered upon this
field of research in 1818. _ _ _

Humguffin
New Brighton
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They are divisible into Polar Sea Expeditions and Polar
Land Journeys. The Polar Sea Expeditions amount to ten,
the Polar Land Journeys to three ; seven out of the ten
Polar Sea Expeditions may be briefly described :—Captain
Lyon's expedition was modestly called by him " an unsuccess-
ful attempt to reach Repulse Bay ;" in the body of the nar-
rative of Captain Back's expedition, will be found the same
tale which Captain Lyon told on his title-page ; Captain Ross
returned after four years' wintering, without advancing a step
towards the object in view ; Captain Parry failed in his at-
tempt to reach the Polar Sea by Regent Inlet ; Captain
Beechey saw the Polar Sea, and that is all; and Captain
Buchan was not so fortunate as Captain. Beechey
To the remaining three I call your 'particular, attention ;
Ist, to that of the Isabella, of 385 tons,.under the command
of Captain John (now Captain Sir John) Ross ; and the Alex-
ander, of 252 tons, commanded by Lieutenant (now Cap-
tain Sir Edward) Parry, having in, view a western passage
from Baffin Bay. Captain John Ross rounded Baffin Bay
from east to west, without discovering an opening to the
west. 2dly, to that of the' Hecla, of 375 tons, under the
command of Lieutenant Parry, and the Griper, of 180 tons,
under the command of Lieutenant Liddon, ,with the same
object as Captain John Ross iu view. Instead of round-
ing Baffin Bay, Lieutenant Parry made an attempt to cross
the Atlantic, in the parallel of 58 deg., and afterwards
in 73 deg. He succeeded, but the passage was one of great
risk. The result of this expedition everybody knows, and ap-
preciates. We became acquainted with 'a
Sea, of 31 de-
grees of longitude, bounded on the north by broken land,
called the North Georgian Group; and on the South, by Banks
Laud to the West, land without a Dame to the East, and
North Somerset between the two. The Sea between the land
without a name and North Somerset, is called Regent
Inlet, while that between North Somerset and Banks Land, is
without a name. 3dly, to that of the Fury, of 327 tons, under
the command of Captain (lately Lieutenant) Parry, and the
idecla, commanded by Captain Lyon, fitted out with the view
of reaching Regent Inlet, by some unknown southern commu-
nication from Fox Channel. A communication was found,
through the agency of the Esquimaux, in the Fury and Hecla
Strait, but it was ice-clogged.
From these premises, what is the state of things f " When
you applied in 1818 to this question, the power of your vigor-
ous mind and penetrating judgment," a reflection was cast
upon those who had hitherto laboured in this field of researei,
and no doubt was entertained that the problem would be
speedily solved. But another expedition, and another, until
they number ten, have sailed and returned, and the North-
west Passage remains equally a problem ; but with this dif-
ference, that it is no longer of a simple, but of a compound
character. The lands that have been brought to light are so
many lesser puzzles, as additions to the great puzzle of three

walked over

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

(Before the Recorder.)

Mr. John Gore, the extensive metropolitan contractor
for the removal of dust, ashes, &c., surrendered to take
his trial for a nuisance.

Mr. Ryland and Mr. Locke conducted .the prosecu-
tion, which was instituted by the corporation of the city
of London. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Ballantine appeared
for the I lefendant. _ _

After some discussion between the Court and the
learned counsel, it was arranged that the defendant
should plead guilty upon the understanding that he
should not be called up for judgment if the business waq
carried on in future in such a manner as should satisfy
the officers of the Boat(' of Trade, and so as to prevent
it as far as possible from being any nuisance to the
public.

Mary Anne Anstey, 39, a respectable looking woman,
was indicted for the •manslaughter of a child named
Charles Wall.

Mr. Gifford prosecuted, and Mr. Rebton was counsel
for the prisoner.

It appears that the child in question was illegitimate,
and it had been placed in the charge of a woman named
Tucker to nurse. On the afternoon of the 29th Sep-
tember, the prisoner went to the lodging of Tucker
and made inquiry of her respecting her husband,
with whom it appeared she suspected that Tucker
was improperly connected. Tucker told the pri-
soner that she knew nothing of her husband,
and the latter, who was in a very great passion,
having made use of some bad language, reads a
blow at the woman Tucker. She had the child in her
arms at the time, and it appeared that the blow missed
the woman and the child received it on the side. A
surgeon's assistant was called in the next day, and he
treated the injury as one of a trifling character, and
ordered an embrocation to be rubbed in. On the Mon-
day following severe inflammation set in, which resulted
in erysipelas, and the child died on the 7th October, the
erysipelas being the proximate cause of death. It ap-
peared that the original injury was very slight, and by
no means likely to cause death, and there appeared to
be some doubt whether the erysipelas had not been the
result of the embrocation.

centuries. • -
The great difficulty iu the way of these various attempts,
all know, was ice, but no one, not even the author of the
" Chronological History of Arctic Voyages," has inquired
'where was it found, where was it not found, and where,
. .

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I have tested this fact in connection with the movements of
the various Polar Sea Expeditions which have been set afloat
since 1818, and I find that in every instance the difficulties
arose from the same cause—the clinging to lands having an
eastern aspect. It may be as well to mention thorn, for facts
expedition, made attempts for to
Edward Parry,. in his second
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his expedition, he lost the Fury
and failed ; and, in third
' his way along the eastern land of North
while pushing
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Somerset. Sir John Ross, in his second expedition, was
and
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years advancing four miles along the same eastern land,
was at last obliged to abandon his vessel. Captain Lyon and
Sir George Back made separately unsuccessful attempts to
reach Repulse-bay, which has an eastern aspect.
How, it may be inquired, is this general difficulty to be
avoided ? By doing, from experience, that which Baffin and
Ross did from instinct, by taking the road, which is fairly,
open to us—the lauds that have a western aspect. The diffi-
culty then is clearly ono of our own seeking, and no longer
presents an insurmountable barrier to arctic research.
In 1818, you particularly c,lled attention to the easterly
current setting through Behring Strait,
on the Pacific, and
the southerly current setting down Baffin Bay, on the At-
lantic, and you, in consequence, inferred that there must bo
a northern connecting Sea to the two great oceans. It was,
in fact, your most powerful, if net your only, lever to set in
motion a Polar Sea Expedition. Yet the absence of a current
in Lancaster Sound, and the Fury and Hecht Strait, never
seems for a moment to have surprised you. By some unac-
countable means, you have been most effectually drawn from
your original stronghold. It is quite clear that the master
mind has not yet been at work on the subject of Polar Sea
Expeditions, and while the polar travellers are divided among
themselves, and while you are intent upon Regent Inlet,
which may, with as much justice be called, Barrow His Hole,
as James Bay was called Gibbons His Hole," and as the
lower part of the Regent Inlet would most assuredly have
been 'called, had Sir John Ross done as Sir John Barrow
thinks he ought, Ross His Hole, the master mind is not likely
to be brought to light. • . . •
And now let cue call your attention. to . the other service
which has been at work upon this interesting question.
mean the Polar Land Journeys, those fruitful. missions, but
for which you would ha been deprived of one or other
of your favourite Polar Sea Expeditions. A
short survey
of the Polar Land Journeys will afford a standard of com-
parison with the Polar Sea Expeditions, and develope the
true position. The publication of the travels of Hearne, the
fur trader, for which we are indebted to a Frenchman, demon-
strated that the Polar Sea could be reached overland by way
of Canada, and the success which attended the first Govern-
ment expedition proved that the opinion which had been
formed was in every way correct. The distance between the
Coppermine River and Point Turnagain, as Sir
John Franklin
named the point of his retrograde movement, was thus made
known to us. A second expedition added the distance be-
tween the Mackenzie and the coppormine, and Its far west-
ward of the Mackenzie as Foggy Island, which far surpassed
in extent the prosperous voyage of Sir Edward Parry, iu 1819
and 1820. A third expedition eclipsed all, and left to be sur-
veyed but a small portion of the North. American boundary
of the Polar Sea ; in that portion, small as it is, rests the
problem of three centuries.
Is not this sufficient encouragement to send afourth ? The
fruits of the ten • Polar Sea expeditious will not balance with,
those of the last of the three Polar land journeys ; and the
Lai rem., of oho g,s,f and the fans} successful of these ;ate-
resting missions is greater than tnat which remains to be
gathered, while in expenditure the three land journeys have
certainly not cost more than two, if one, of the ten Polar
Sea expeditions. Even the little that has been 'done by the
Polar Sea expedition is of doubtful character. Banks Land,
North Somerset, the North Georgian Group of Islands, and
the boundaries of Barrow Strait are still problems ; they are
the lesser puzzles which I have mentioned. .It is not so with
the laboure of Franklin '
, Richardson and Simpson ; the foot-
ing they made is permanent, while Croker Mountains have
dissolved, and islands threaten to be continents, and conti-
nents islands, the natural consequence, of discovery in ships.
Had you advocated in favour of the Polar Land Journeys,
with a tithe of the zeal that you have the Polar Sea Expedi-
tions4the North-West Passage would have long since ceased to
be a problem, and, instead of a baronetcy, you would deserve a
peerage, for the country would have been saved at least two
hundred thOusand pounds. But what use have you made of
the Polar Land Journeys ? You have invariably made use of
them to stir up a Polar Sea Expedition, which, if it ceased
not to exist in embryo, as was the case with the expeditions
under the command respectively. of Captain Lyon, Captain
Beechey, and Sir George Back, it had but a short uninte-
resting life. If your are really in earnest upon this subject,
you have but one course to pursue: search for the truth, and
value it when you find it. Another fruitless Polar Sea ex-
pedition, and fruitless it will assuredly be, if not well di-
gested, will be a lasting blot in the annals of our vogagos of
disc6very.—l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient
servant, lttenattoßaKe.
17, Savile-row, Dec. 21, 1844,
To Sir John Barrow, Bart.,
Secretary to the Admiralty,
Author of the " Chronological History of Arctic Voyages."
Sir,—l revert to my letter of the '2lst of December. The
Polar travellers are pretty well agreed as to the Northern
boundary of America fi mu Behring Strait to the Great
Fish River Estuary. From this spot to Melville Peninsula,
and to the north of this hiatus, all is conjecture. Such being
the case, I venture an opinion that North Somerset is a part
of the main continent of America; and that Victoria Land,
Bank Land, and Wollaston Land, arc portions of an extensive
island, or an archipelago of islands, which, with the NOrth
Georgian Group, occupy a central position in the Polar Sea.
The Atlantic outlet of the Polar basin is thus divided. In
other words, there are two North West Passages. That be-
tween the oceanic group and the continent of America, which,
at its eastern limit, is called Barrow Strait, has alone been
explored, and is still incomplete. A small sea-way remains
to be discovered in the direction of the Great Fish River
Estuary. It will be found, I believe, washing the western
shore of North Somerset. •
The Northern Strait, as I have named it for present conve-
nience, has au oulet, in all probability, in Jones Sound, or
hard by. Here we may look for the current which we lose at
Behring Strait, and find in Baffin Bay. Here we may ex-
pect to discover a country teeming with life and its neces-
saries—man as well as beast, food as well as fuel. Thus much
iu conjecture. Now for;the argument.
You implicitly believe North Somerset tobe an island, and
the Fury au4_4ecla Strait .to be the Atlantic outlet of the

The Jury returned a verdict of "Not guilty."

OCTOBEIit QV im
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Polar Sea.* Where are the facts? A general assertion is very
acceptable to mankind in general, for life is too short for all
to be equally attentive to one subject. -Bat seven. out of the
ten Polar Sea Expeditions have failed since you entered upon
this field of research in 1815, and the Admiralty, the newspa-
pers inform us, after having solicited the Royal (not the Royal
Geographical) Society for their opinion (sad mockery), are now
urging Government to send the eleventh; a few facts then will
be apropos. They are; howeVer, decidedly against you:
Sir Edward Parry, who discovered the Fury and Heels
Strait, and it has not been visited since his time, has dis-
tinctly' stated alit there is no current in the Fury and Heels
Strait. Sir John Ross has published an Esquimaux Chart of
North Somerset, wherein it is shown to be a peninsula. That
you will say rests upon Indian Information ; it 'does; and so
did the existence of the Polar Sea, the Fury and Hecla Strait,
the Isthmus of Boothia and Melville Peninsular: And who
doubtsthe accuracy of theSe Polarfishermen in theseresnects ?
On the 'contrary', their geographical knowledge is the admira-
tion of the world. Are you then justified in doubting them
in this solitary instance? The same woman—women are the
geographers' at the Pole—who figured that extraordinary
isthmus, the Isthmus of Boothia, figured that laud over which
you are attempting to throw a doubt. When I contended this
point in 1836, you referred to Sir George Back's decided
opinionf of the termivation of the eastern boundary of
the Great Fish River Estuary at Cape Hay, in which belief
the gallant commander, to do honour to the Earl of Ripon,
the chief promoter of the expedition, named au island, lying
off the Cape, Ripon Island. Alas! Cape Hay has now lost
its importance, and Ripon Island is no more. His lordship
has no resting phe; at the pole. Cape Britannia occupies
the place of Ripon Island, and you are thus informed by that
great traveller Simpson, whose death all deplore, that I was
right,-: and that Sir George Back was wrong. Sir John Ross
was more careful of his patron, ex-sheriff Sir Felix Booth.
He gave him six chances ; 1, Boothia Felix ; 2, Gulf of
Boothia ; 3, Isthmus of Boothia ; 4, Boothians; 5, Felix Har-
bour ; 6, Sheriff's Harbour.
There is yet another important point which Simpson
decided in my favour, which I mention as serving to put a
value upon the conjectures I have ventured. The Great
Bay discovered by Simpson in 1839 was supposed by me
to exist in 1836,§*and- which induced me to be so sanguine
of success as to volunteer to the Secretary of State for the
Celonies for the time being, year after year, to conduct an
expedition such as Simpson undertook and successfully carried
out ; for if several jutting points of land had occupied the
space of that bay, not one season, but several seasons, would
have been required for its survey.
A few words in conclusion regarding the Northern Strait.
It is well known that the current setting down Baffin Bay
brings drift wood with it, and it is equally well known that no
drift wood passes through the Fury and Hecla, Hudson, and
Barrow Straits. ' The presumptive evidence is very convinc-
ing to my mind that -a large portion of the wood which is
drifted down the Mackenzie River is carried out to sea and,
catching the western termination of the oceanic group I have
mentioned, is rolled onwards by the Polar current until it
finds its exit, losing in quantity as it travels, in Baffin Bay by
Jones Sound. Additionally, the Esquimaux of Hudson
:strait and of the Mackenzie River are, in manners and cus-
toms, alike; If the intermediate tribes altogether different.
The Ethnologist will infer,, that had the natives of Hudson
Strait found their way from Mackenzie River along the coast
of North America, they would have lost, in the years that must
have been spout in this migration, and in the intermarriages that
must have taken plane, somewhat in manners and customs,
and that consequently they had followed another route, and the
most likely route is that of the drift wood. I cannot but believe
that many, very many, members of the Esquineaux family
remain to be discovered, and that they will be found lining
the shores of the supposed Northern Strait.
Now let me net be misunderstood. Although lam con-
tending for a Poiar Land journey, I am by no means desirous
of putting a stop to the Polar Sea Expedition, which it appears
Government has under its consideration. Let them sail and
prosper if they can ; I only wish to point out what seems to
me, after mature study, to be the right path. lam no econo-
mist, but if thousands of pounds are to be spent let us have
a good investment; and the only safe investment in my opinion
is in a Polar Land journey. In a third letter I shall submit
a plan for the discovery of the North-West Passage, or rather
North-West Passages, by a Polar Land journey. It is a
source of deep regret that I am obliged thus publicly to
address you, but it is my only hope of obtaining a hear-
ing, seeing that since 1836 I have incessantly been labour-
iug in vain for a quiet one. I am the better able to do
this now than formerly, because the reflection can no longer
be cast upon me " that it is from interested motives, and
not from a love of science."—l have the honour to be, sir,
your obedient servant, ItICLIARD KING.
17, Savile-row, Jan. 8, 1545.
To Sir John Barrow, Bart.,
Secretary to the Admiralty.

Sir,—ln submitting a plan for the exploration of the north-
ern coast of North America and the islands adjacent, I
scareely know where to begin, for if I consider the explorers
at once at their starting point in the heart of the country I
shall have Sir J. Franklin, as in 1836, calling it " ineagre,"a
and if I minutely describe the inward route I shall merit the
charge of making a long story. Conciseness in conducting a
Polar Journey, and iu reporting it, is so essential to the tra-
♦e'ler that I prefer to come under Sir John Franklin's lash ;
and, by anticipation,- refer him to his own narrative as a guide
book, or to that of Sir Alexander Mackenzie from which he
obtained his material.

I propose, then, that a party of two officers—one being of
the medical profession—a boat carpenter, and 13 men fully
equipped for the service, should leave Montreal, in Canada,
sufficiently early to reach the Athabasca Lake in July. Here
half the baggage should be left, and the boat Carpenter and
two men should remain, in order to build a boat 28 feet long,
an occupation of three weeks. The explorers should then pro-
ceed to the head waters of the Fish River to fix upon au eligi-
ble position to winter, and the inner man as well as the outer
man should be taken into consideration. The route to the Fish
River from the Athabasca Lake is well known to the Indians
and fur traders, and is minutely described in " King's Narra-
tive of the Expedition in search of SirJ. Ross." The winter esta-
blishment fixed, 1 officer and 3 men, with an Indian guide, should
return to the Athabasca Lake, and, having despatched the
boat carpenter with the Indian guide and the two men to
the Fish River party, there to build a second boat, proceed in
the newly-built boat via the Slave and Mackenzie Rivers to
Great Bear Lake, the wintering post of two of the overland
journeys.

The parties, which, for convenience, it will be as well to
call the eastern and western party, having securely honsed
themselves, should at once adapt their means to their ends,
in getting through the winter and providing for the future,
for which purpose I refer them to the guide-books mentioned;
but as the authors saw things differently, and met, in con-
sequence, with feasting or famine, success or failure, the
exercise of some judgment will be required in the reference.
To collect and hoard provision, and to pave the way to the
Polar Sea so as to be on its shores as early as the navigation
will p rmit, and to observe all and everything iu the vast field
before them, are the main fe.atums of an Arctic winter with a
land party. With a sea party, such as the Admiralty have
proposed, the time will be spent in acting plays and other
merry-audrew tricks that the officers may make a bock out
of the sterility around them.
The western party will be further occupied in transporting,
as the traveller Simpson, their boat to the Goppsrmine River,
and the eastern party their boat to the Great Fish River.
As soon as these rivers aro open the parties must be in
progress, the on. for Cape Britannia, or Ripon Island as it
was once called, and the other for Victoria Land ; the one to
ascertain the connection of the mainland with that of North
Somerset, or with Melville Peninsula, and, if the former, the
character of its western shore ; and tho other to trace Victoria
Laud westerly with the view of testing its value relatively to
the North-West Passage.
If I am rightly inf:rmed, the Hudson Bay Company have
already despatched Mr. Ray, a surgeon, on an overlaudjourney,
for the purpoie of making the survey which I propose for the
eastern party. ,This is an interesting fact, if true, 'but it by
no means sets aside the necessity for a polar laud journey, for
if, cu the arrival of the explorers at the Athabasca, it should
be found that Mr. Rae has beea wholly successful, then,
instead of one, two beats should be built there, and the parties,
instead of separating, should winter together at Great Bear
Lake, and, on reaching Victoria Land, turn the prows of their
boats east and west, so as to double the power emaloyed in
solving the great problem iu that direction.' To enter further
into detail is' unnecessary until the service is determined
upon, but in order that my ability to supply the minutest
detail may not be questioned I take leave to state that I led
the mission in search of Sir John Ross not only into but, out
of the country.
Iu Queen Elizabeth's time the North-West Passage pro-
blem was considered of sufficient importance to demand the
attention of commissioners expressly appointed. If Queen
Victoria will follow the steps of Queen Elizabeth I will
undertake to prove the practicability of the plan here pro-
posed, and the impracticability of the plan proposed by the
Admiralty. The first report that reached England of the
last of the Polar Sea Expeditious led the Admiralty " to
augur favourably of its success." I augured differently, and
published my anticipations. It was subsequently designated
the " 111-starred voyage in the Terror."
It has been considered essential to have the cordial co-
operation of the Hudson's Bay Company in all overland
journeys. Ido not know whether the Admiralty have con-
sulted the Royal Society upon this point, but I am prepared
to prove that if the commander of an overland journey, such
as I propose, should entirely depend upon the co-operation of
the company ho is wholly unfit for the command, It may even
be thought satisfactory to find the Hudson's Day Company at
last endeavouring to fulfil the engagement they entered into
°mauling taai. 6 ter as a Fur Company, that of prose-
cuting by all possible means the North-West Passage ; but
effectually as they have hitherto closed their country to the
man of science it cannot last much longer, Geographical
science is surely not • all that requires furthering in North
America. We have to thank the Admiralty and the Hud-
sou's Bay Company for a state of ignorance regarding that
country, which, in comparison with what hassbeen learned
Northern Asia by Russia, places us nationally in a most dis-
advantageous light.--I have; the honour to be, sir, your faith-
ful servant, RICHARD KING.
17, Savile-row, Jan. 31,1815.
To Sir John Barrow, Bart.