The Sun.
London, England, 1819-01-07 00:00:00

CUSTOMS LIST.

Entered Inwards, Jan. 6.—Ellen, Gordon, Africa; Vrow
Gcortje, Berg, Ant werp ; Vrow Hanna, Tenbuini, do. Jane,
W bylock, Berhice ; Rosalie, Marry, New York.
Entered Outwards, Jan. 6.7 Britannia, Bully, Seville;
Ebenezer, Edmund, Hamburgh ; Saxony, Berg, do.; Regalia,
Elliott, lamaira; Elizabeth, Spooner, do. ; Lord Wellington,
Anderson, Bombay.
Cleared Outwards, 6.—Duncombe, Sleigh, Curagoa%
Intrepid Packet, Thornton, Gibraltar ; Harleston, Thornhill,
Antigua; Clio, Gardiner, Messina ; Olive Branch, Batterson,
Gothenburgh.

Yesterday Mr. Serieant SELLON took leave of
the Magistrates of Union-Hall Public Office, and
took his seat this day at Hatton-Girder. BatiGit
ALLEYNE, Es. 1. the Master of Dulwich College,
is appointed in the Learned Seijeant's place at
NEW SOUTH WALES.—The ship Lady Castle-
reagh, Capt. WELTDEN, had arrived from Eng-
land with convicts, after a quick passage of little
more than four, months. Of 450 convicts, it
stated that not one bad died doting the passage,
a circumstance almost unheard of on such occa-
sions. The Castlereagh is expected here (Ma-
Jras) shottly, with a detachment of 250 men ; she
had proceeded in June, it appears, for Hobart's-
town, to receive these troops on board. •
The Monarch, one of the five ships that have
recently sailed for the Downs, chartered for the
West Indies, is 600 tons burden, and carries 22
guns. She is most completely 6 ted out ; has on
board, in addition to her crew, 265 gallant vete-
ran British troops, and 36 Officers, English,
French, and German.
Monday the Sessions f( r the county of Middle-
sex commence at Hicks's Hall, Clerkenwell.---On
the same day there will be an Admiralty Sessions
held in Justice Hall, Old Bailey, when two.cases
of murder, committed on the high seas, will be
tried. One of them is a person connected with
the gang of smugglers, two of whom sulk' ed death
some years ago, and their bodies are now hang•
lug in chains at Blackwall, for firing into a Re-
venue cutter, and killing two officers.—Wednes-
day the Sessions commence at the Old
The Calendar contains a numerous list of offen-
ders, among whom, we are sorry to observe, above
12 for uttering forged Bank notes. None of the
other offences seem peculiarly aggravated.
The peaceable householders of Killaloe are at
present much annoyed by the continual Owings,
both by day and night, of two factions residing
therein, which often excite the most serious alarm
for the lives of the inhabitants. During Divine Ser-
vice on Christmas Day, one party paraded the
s•reets, with fire-arms, in pursuit of their oppo-
nents, threatening destruction to any that should.
appear. It is !much to be regretted, that fellows
of this description should be permitted to pass
with impunity, and ,that sonic measures are not
taken to check the repetition of these outrages.—
We know there are many respectable and deter-
mined Gentlemen residing in that neighbourhood,
who will willingly assist in putting down such
daring presumption.—(Limerick Chronicle.)
Mr. BaaTeesr, we regret to observe, has not re-
ceived that attention doe to his acknowledged me-
rit. He is a very chaste and excellent actor, and.
his Sir Anthony Absolute has not been surpassed in.
this country. Another week willpresent Mrs.BAßT-
LEYinaiew.parts, and enable us more correctly
to designate her peculiar excellencies. It is much
to be desired that her voice was more melodious ;.
those tones, ao masculine,
.and powerful,
are indispensable co,.the heroine—t bey are weak •
anti inefficient idthe softer passions.—(Neu York
Alper.)
SINGULAR OCCUREENCE.---Last Tuesday week,
a poor man, win; had been travelling all day,ar-
rived at Hampstead, and being destitute of money
he applied to the svatchtiaistr, asking where he
could obtain a lodeing for the night ; the watch-
man told him he might sleep in the %vetch-house.
The man accepted the offer, and was locked up.
The watch-house brie°. in rattier a lonely situa-
tion, and there not '-being any occasion to go
there, the watchman forgot the man, and strange
to relate, he remained there six days without
sustenance. On Monday last some person acci-
dentally passieg hearing a faint groan, gave an
alarm, and the prison door being opened, the poor
fellow was discovered in a state of complete in-
seesibilify. He was taken to Hampstead work-
eoese, where Mr. Griffin, the Overseer, ordered
every thing humanity could sOggest to be admi-
nistered for the relief of the unfortunate man. Ile
now lays at the wolkhouse with every prospect of
doing well.
SUlClDE.—Tuesday a young man hired a boat
at Union•staira, Wapping, for the purpose of go-
ing to the opposite side of the Thames. The was.
termatt had not rowed him far when he rose up,
stood on the side of the boat, and throwing
tutu-
self into the water, was drowned.

NOR I ii-WEST pAssAGE.

EXPEDITION under Captain ROSS and Lieutenant PARRY,

in the Isabella and Alexander.

[From the last NueO'er of 13(..tctiwooD's Edinburgi

Magazin e .3

'file following, we are assured, is the most cor-
rect account that has hitherto been published of
tiil Expedition to which it relates :
Mic DeArt ,vere pleased to say, on
onr departure from England, that nothing would
gra.ity you noire, than to learn from one, as °P.
pot t occur, the progress we made in
our voyage of discovery On the strength of
this flatteting eneouragement I wrote to you a
'loeg letter towards the end of July, just as the
last %vlialers were Omer to rake their departure
for Eiigl.ann, which I find came safely to your
banns At that time our hopes and spirits got
\ the better of all doubts and fears; for though we
were then beset ou-every side with ice, yet we
bad seen euotieh, and learned enough, both front
the Danes below, and all the masters of ate
whalers amend us, to be assured, that the ice
was rapidly disappearing, partly from the heat of
the son, bur mostly I believe from the constant
friction of one flaw err mass against another, and
front tire action of the salt water upon them. I
believe I t4,ld you also of the fineness of the cli-
mate, and that we had once, on the top of an
ice-berg, the tempera,toe by Fahrenheit's _titer-
warner er at fume than 80 deg. when exposed to
the sun, and that the effect of his powerful rays
was not only felt, but very visible in the streams
of water which poured down the sides of all these
stupendoes mas•es, like SO many mountain cas-
cades. it is nor, however, the suu•s rays that
chic.fly contribute to destroy the ice—they are of
too rare (Tem rence to produce any such perma-
nent effect ; for the torrents continue to fall, and
flit- field ice to dissolve, apparently just as much
in the ordinary weather of the Arctic regions,
which, generally speaking, is mad, but foggy.
and the atWO•rere mostly loaded with clouds, or
some kind of vapour, as when the sun shines
forth in all his glory ;—when I say mild, I mean
that there is little or no Wind, and that Fahrett-
beic's thetmometer ranges from 32 deg. to 4(1 deg,
it. the shade; once, and I believe but once,
es as down to 24 deg., but very often above 40
deg I .in now sneaking of the month of August,
nod I lII4v Mid that September brought with it no
dimioottoo of :empera7ure,—it is true we were
they, ranging dowo the western coast of Baffin's
Day to tire saitonward ; het we have learnt trout
experienev, that rn these regions one does not in-
crea.sr tire cold.by increasing tire latitude, as I
shall n...% proceed to she, you more fully :-
1 IniiSf it; cruise, however, that I an, writing to
you %sitimut hook Ow Commodore took lots-
.session of all 'tie logs, journals, remark-books,
and (halts, kited carried them off with him from
the litimber to the Adwirralty, so that all our
opinious and speculations on what we have done,
and what we have lett undone, are at head-quar-
tets mention this in order to claim indul-
gence for any lack of pet.eision in dates and 110.1).•
br,S ; nut the main facts eat rite voyage are too
rimgly imps inted on my mind to need any written
itiOni• tat

A the Oth of August we got so far up the
cteis, of (het tifaod as to recognise the Cape
Diofiey -lligge's of Baffin, but still hampered with
the we. Wien near this Cape, we very unex-
p,ctedly oitserved something like human beings
itto.rog towards us on the ice, which separated
us front the shore about seven or eight miles. On
a 'tearer apnroach we perceived that they were
actually tutu, sitting on tow sledges, driven by
five (Pt six dogs in ench. When within a mile or
less of the slops, they stopped short, but hallooed
tuoi shouted at a great late 'Vast at this time
smite signals it ere making between the ships,
which vihahly alarmed them, tor they suddenly
wheeled round. anti set off again towards the
slime in full gallop, at a speed which we sup-
posed 40 he at least equal to that of our mail-
cotiches ; course we soon lost sight of them
13ieliool the hummocks of ice. Every body re-
grettvti their smide'n disappearance; and in order
if po sibie to bringrhem back, and to explain
our rHendly imentions, Captain Ross caused a
white flag to he hoisted on a hillock of ice, on
which, was painted a hand holding a green branch
of a tree—a colour, by the way, and' an object
not very common tat this part of the world ; there
were al,o lett on the ice sonic presents placed on
a stool, and an Esquintaux dog with brads about
his neck ; every thing however remained [lntone's-

ed on our return front an attempt to push to the
north a and through the ice, and the poor dog was
lying down on the very spot where we left him.
On the third day the natives were again observed
at a distance. coming towards us ; they now ap-
proached within a few hundred yards of tie ship
betore they stopped, but perceiving that they had
no inclination to come nearer, Jack Saccheus, the
&qaimanx whom you saw with his canoe on the
name-, volunteered to go out to them. It re-
quired Iry small degree of courage to undertake
this enterprize, as the southern Esquimaux are
firmly persuaded that there i 3 a race of giants
dwelling in the mountains to the northward, who
are exceedingly ferocious, and great cannibals,
and Jack of course believed this story of his
countrymen. It happened, however, fmtunately
perhaps for all parties, that, at the place where
they halted, the ice had Separated, leaving a ca-
nal of a few feet in width. They immediately he-
gait to talk and bawl in a language which Jack at
Best did not understand, but by a little attention he
discovered that the language they mask use of was
that of the southern Esquimaux, somewhat diffe-
rent in the pronunciation, as well as in many of
the words themselves, but-he soon found that he
could make out their meaning. The questions
they put to him with great eagerness, were to
follov-ing purpose :—Who are ye ?-IVhat
are ye ?--Where do you come from ?--Are you
conte'from the moon ?—What are those two great
birds ?—Jack told'them in reply, that he was a
loan like them ;—that he had a father and mcs.

tiltr;—that he was Made of flesh and bones, and
tltilt he wore clothes ;—that the two great things
which they cdlled birds. were houses to live its. On
hearing this, they all called out, 'No, no, we saw

them flap theii• wings, and they were sure that they
were .ftelculc, or evil spirits, come to destroy
them,--at the same time one of them pulled from
his boot a sort of rude knife, which he held out
in a threatening posture, and said he would kill
him. Jack threw them a shirt across the canal,
that they mieht be convinced he carried about
with blot subroantial matters, and not such as spi-
rits could carry ; they asked him what skin it
was made of ? Thus by degrees they conversed
together ; when Jack told them any thing that
pleased them, or ti; which they gave their assent,
it was indicated by pulling their noses. In a short
time they had got into•familiar conversation ; aud
Jack having learnt that there was plenty of water
to the north, cane running to the ship for a plank
to enable them to cross. Captain Ross and Lieu
tenant Parry now, went to meet t bent. Un ap•
proaehing the sh;p; their astonishment was un•
bounded,—every object drew from them all eja•
culation of lull yo ! accomnanied with immoder.
Ate bursts of laughter. They laid hold of the ice-
anchors, the smith's anvil, the large spars of
wood, as if they could catty them off, and ex-
pressed the utmost astonishment apparently at
their unexpected weight ; they seemed like men
who distrusted the sense of sight, and could not
satisfy themselves of the reality of objects, until
they hid grasped them; to view themselves in a
lookitsg-glass, but more especially in a concave
mirror, made them almost frantic with joy and
wonder, and drew forth such bursts of laughter,
and exclamations of surprise, as were never heard
before. The masts of the ship, and a top-mast
on deck, attracted their most profound attention,
which is not at all surprising, especially when
they were assured that they °ere pieces of wood.
A man who never saw a tree, nor even a shrub
beyond a birch or willow twig of the thickness of
a crow's quill, must necessarily be incredulous
that the mast of a ship could be made of the
same material. The two substances with which
they seemed to be most familiar, were ski. and
botre ; and they always enquired of what skin
our ja: bets, trowsers, shirts, hats, &c. were made,
and of what hone were our hit tons, and most
other solid substances. Glass of all kituls they
took naturally enough for ice.
We gave. them some bread, but they spat it
our ; some rum, but they could not bear it ; and
we learnvd from Jack, that they lived entirely on
animal fomf, mostly on the flesh W. seals, sea-
unicorns, hears, foxes, and hit ds ; ttoh ‘tht,:n alt
these failed them. that they eat their (loos. The
bones of the animals which serve them for food.
supply them also with fuel ; and a very fine soft
moss, with long fibrous roots, when dipped itr
fish oil, is used by them as candles or torches.—
This moss grows in great plenty, and very lox-
utiant. The bones also serve them to make their
sledges, which are fastened together with ihougs
of skits. Their knives are certainly the rudest
institonents of the bind in the whole world : they
are nothing more than a flattened piece of 'roll,
like ,t bit of a hoop, passed longitudinally itt the
groo‘,., of fish's bone, and extending beyond it,
at w,t; end, about an inch ; and they are 'hers
fixed. withott• the faculty of opening or shut,ing.
Mr. Sabine took great pains, through the medium
of Jack's interpretation, to learn where they got
the iron, and how they worked it ; the result of
which was, that it was hewn by a sharp stone,
front a large mass found in the mountains at no
great distance from the spot where we were ; of
course it was concluded that it must he native
iron ; and supposing it to have been recently (hiss
covered, this circumstance may, in some measnie,
account for the rudeness of their manufacture, as
the stitching of their clothes and boots, and the
putting together of their sledges, were by no
means contemptible performances. They de-
scribed two pieces of iron trout which they de-
rived their supply; and each of which, by their
account, might be equal to a cube of two feet.
They called it Sowie, and the place where it was
found Sowie-lick, the former of which Jack oh

served to be the name given to iron by the Stith,
ern Esquituaux. We now find, since our arrival
that this iron turns out to be meteoric, and 'ha

it contains the usual proportion of Nickel ; so tha
lack's interpretation, which some of us were dis,

posed to doubt, has been justified. Indeed hels
a man 00 whom the utmost dependence may be
placed ; very intelligent, and always ready to ob-
lige; willing to learn, and grateful to those who
will take thy trouble to instruct hits., whether in

writing, drawing, or any thing that he wishes to
undertake,—he is indeed a most valuable man.

While speaking of him I may observe, that we
were once afraid we had lost him, to Ale great

regret and sorrow of every man on board. lie
had gone on shore, and did not•rturn for two or
three days ; but, on sending after him, he was
fotflol in the hut of a Southern E,quimaux, with
his collar-bone broken. On inquiring how it
happened, it turned out that his musket burst
Jack having loaded it too deeply-with powder, on!
the principle (as he said) of " plenty powder,
It is very remarkable that this new tribe of
Esquimaux (which I find by the Newspapers are
ridiculously called a new nation) have no beats,
nor any means of going upon the water, except
On the ice, though the greater part of their sub-
sistence is derived from that ilem'ent ; hut we un-
derstood that they managed matters very well
without them. The way in which they proceed to
catch seals, is by going to the openings or chasms
in the ice, lying down, and imitating the cry of
a young seal, when the old ones immediately peep
up; and while they are endeavouring to scramble.
upon the ice, they are knocked on the head by the
hunters, er run 4thiough with a kind of spear
made of bone. I remember reading of a similar
practice among the Southern Esquimaux. They
gave us some specimens of this seal-music, and
also of their songs, which were any thing but
music, and accompanied with the most ridiculous
gestures and grimaces. On the niurging of these
notes in the ice, they also watch for the rising of
the sea unicorns to blow,.which it seems they are
frequently obliged to do. The flesh of this ani-
mal dried is a considerable article of their winter
food. Though afraid at first tw go into tLe boat,
they appeared soon to be sensible of the advan-
tages of being able to float on the water, and one
of them sheaved a great desire to get possession of
Jack's canoe, after he bad been told the use of it,
of which he wis before 'perfectly ignorant ; and

noticing could more strongly prove die''r complete
insularity trom their more southern neighbours,
than the circumstance of their not having the
word kayiack (canoe) in their language..

[To he continued.]

POLICE INTELLWENCEi