The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-09 00:00:00

ARCTIC LAND EXPEDITION.

[FURTHER. PARTICULARS.I
Captain FRANKLIN and his,assistants explored
the Arctic Sea as far as the 117 degree west longitude, and in

doing so corrected a material error committed by Hearne.
One great advantage accruing from the journey will be an ex-
tension of the fur trade : for it is a law well enough understood
among nations, that the power which first visits an unknown
region thereby establishes a sufficient claim to its natural pro-
ductions ; and but for the expedition, the Russians, from their
settlement at Behring's Straits, might easily have penetrated to
the east, and thus lessened our chances of carrying on a traffic,
which has already been considerably circumscribed by the pro 7
gress of civilization. -When at the farthest point of their pro-
gress, the expedition, with suitable means of conveyance,
might easily have got round to Hudson's Bay; but situated as
they were, and possessing only a few slight canoes, it would
hare been perfect madness to have dared the perils of an open
and ever-agitated sea.. At this time they were totally ignorant
of the movements of Captain Parry : but supposing that the
navigator, had appeared on the coast, j'ust as Captain Franklin
was about to abandon it, what, we ask, would have been the
feelings of our adventurous countrymen.

As it was, the travellers .had .to abandon their canoes, and
with theM the whole of their baggage, excepting books, wipers,
and a few other necessaries, which they. contrived to carry
on their backs. , The story of their sufferings from cold, bun-
. ger, and fatigue, has. already been very widely circulated ; but
.it is not, we believe.;. known, that just as these sufferings were
at their height, they caught a solitary elk—a• circumstance
which, in the first moments of their transport, they regard-
ed much the same light as the manna rained from Heaven.
--Judge, then, of their despair, when, just as • the knife
or the hatchet was raised to slaughter the devoted elk, the ani-

mal by a strong effort escaped from their toils, and hurried away
to wilds as yet unvisited by a huthan enemy. Never, perhaps,
was there a greater disappointment ; from something like hope
they were again plunged in the lowest depths of dispair, and
such altogether was the effect of this incident, that the bare re-
collection of it, even at the distance of nearly twelve months,
never fails to more-Dr. Richardson to tears.

After the lamented and cruel murder of Lieutenant Hood,
our townsman and the English sailor were twenty days' march
behind Capt. Franklin, who had pushed on with the stronger of
the party, in the confident hope of being able to send his com-
panions supplies. But before these supplies could reach them,
they most providentially fell- in with a party of Indian hun-
ters ; and from these " stoics of the wood, and men with-
out a tear," they experienced a series of humane atten-
tions, which might well put to the blush the boasted civi-
lization of European nations. At one glance the sagacious
Indians penetrated into all the mis ries of our countrymen's
situation, treating them as patients in every sense of the word,
and administering food not as they would have had it, but as
best suited their impaired and exhausted frames. At their de-
parture they made them various little presents, particularly of
shoes finely ornamented with porcupine quills ; and altogether
the kindness which Dr. Richardson and his companion expe-
rienced at the hands of these Indians, fully realied all that
Campbell has so finely fabled of the " Oneyda people."
To this relation we have only to add, that there is no truth
whatever in the report that the Canadians were so enraged at
the loss of the eight hunters employed in the expedition, that
they were upon the very point of offering violence to the persons
of the British officers. Indeed, how could this be ? The sur-
viving Canadians, of course, informed their friends that every
thing had been quite fair, and fostered their natural love of the
marvellous, by an account of monsters 'seen by land and sea (many
of them approximating far nearer than the mermaid to the hu-
man form), with a thousand other grossly exaggerated rela-
tions of personal peril, suffering, and achievement.—(Dumfries
Courier.

CITY BUSlNESS.—Yesterday the LORD MAYOR
accompanied by the Lord Mayor Elect, several
Aldermen, the Sheriffs, and Livery of the Com-
panies of Stationers and Merchant Taylors, set
off from -the Mansion-house a little after one
o'clock for Guildhall, to attend the swearing in
of the Lord Mayor Elect.—Upon their arrival
at the Hall, a Court of Aldermen was formed
for the .general dispatch of public business.—
Sundry persons were sworn, and others allowed
to be admitted brokers.—The Chamberlain re-
ported the surplus of the Orphans' Fund, when
the Court was pleased to order 20,7001. of the
outstanding debt to be paid off and discharged,
and directed the Chamberlain to give the notice
to the several parties interested, agreeably to the
directions of the Act of Parliament.—Commis-
sinners of the Court of Requests for the month
of December next were appointed.—Several
outstanding bills and accounts were ordered
for payment.—They then proceeded to the
great hall, and having taken their seats upon the
hustings, the Lord mayor Elect was called in due
form, according to the custom, to come forth and
take upon him the office ; and his Lordship
having advanced to the table took the usual
oath, which was administered by the Deputy
Town Clerk.—The accustomed form of pre-
senting the city mace, the purse, and the seals,
and of delivering the sword, were then gone
through, when his Lordship received the con-
gratulations of his brethren, the city officers, &c.,
and shortly after adjourned to the Mansion-house
I to dinner.

We regret much to state, that the moment
the Lord Mayor (Alderman Magnay) returned
yesterday from the Guildhall, the first intelligence
he received was that of the death of one of his
children, an interesting boy between six and seven
years of age. This calamity was very severely felt,
by his Lordship,who requested Sir Claudius Hun-
ter to represent him at the dinner given at the
Mansion-house to the two companies over which
Alderman Magnay and Alderman Heygate pre-
' side. His Lordship has now 16 children, six of
whom are by his present wife.
SHOPLIFTING.--About 7 o'clock, on Thursday
evening, as Thomas Thompson, one of the Clerkenwell Con-
stables, was taking his rounds in St. John-street, he observed a
man lurking about the shop of Mr. W. J. Love, linen-draper.
He watched him for some time, and at length saw him take
a piece of printed calico, which was inside the shop door, put it
under his arm, and walk away with it. Thompson followed
the villain, who, on observing him, ran along a narrow lane,
and over a poor feeble old woman, whom he dashed aginst the'
stones with such violence, that she was taken up for dead.
Thompson pursued him, ana he was finally secured, and
the piece of print, consisting of 25 yards, which he was seen
to throw away, was picked up. The ruffian, though disguised
as a tradesman, having on a black linen apron, was soon recog-
nised to be Henry Case, a very old offender, who had been tried
four times, and twice convicted, and received six months
imprisonment each time. He was taken the same evening
before the Sitting Magistrate at Hatton-garden, and committed
to Newgate for trial.