Star.
London, England, 1827-07-17 00:00:00

CAPTAIN FRANKLIN.

PROM Till LITIIIART GAZETTI.
We now state what has been done on the side of the
Pacific Ocean; by which it will appear that Captain,
Franklin's fearing to go on, lest the Blossom should
bate failed in reaching its appointed destination, was
very unfortunate. Captain Beechey did succeed, and
bad arrived at Kotzebue Soend, the appointed place of
nodezvous! Here the gallant Officer remained, wait
*gin the fond hope of meeting the overland expedition,
till the harbour began to freeze; when, to avoid being
frozen in, he was reluctantly obliged to hoist his sails
lad depart. The following is an extract from a private
Inter horn Captain Beechey; and its description of the
Iritet's feelings and disappointments is to our mind as
stetting as it is sinsple.and flatus:2i :—•
" San Franciseo,•)lov. 4,1526.
" With the expectation of being by this time on my way home,
lipitted St. Paul's on the 4th of July, and hastened to Kotzebue
awed, Performing what I could for hydrography in my war. I
waited there four days, and then proceeded to the northward: The
weenier was ane, and favourable for our purpose ; and we tee-
med oar work in a mush shorter period than I could have ex.
ptet_ed' and wceeeded hi penetrating one hundred and twenty miles
unser than the Icy Cape of Captain Cook. Success in this re.
'PM, excited our warmest expectation of similar good fortune in
lat aluclpesteemed friend Captain Franklin ; but this was a feeling
lath gradually subsided, as the time passed away without his
'Mot
I was myself so sanguine of kis success, from what I
be den tithe coast about Prince Regent's Inlet, and the facility
"11 vat there generally offered to boats proceeding between
14,..,1'ad and the ice, that the appearance of every balder
k"°‘ boat) that rounded the point of the anchorage, gave
e die meet lively hopes : each successive disappointment,
- and the near approach of winter, which had be-
*ll become too evident, greatly tended to deaden those sen.
',Wee, acid every expectation had at length passed away.—
. determined, however, to wait for him as long se it was possible,
Intbout being frozen io. Tqwards the end of Septembers we were
Halted In daunt companies of natives, travelling homewards
with their stock of provisionefor the winter, which they had been
occupied in collecting daring else summer months. This in some
degree broke the monotony of the scene; but their visits latterly
became ' few and far between,' .and we were eventually left quite
time. At kngtb the edges of the harbour were frozen, and it
stems onl7 a day or two of calm weather to render the whole a
- of Ice. This was a signal which I'dared not disobey ; and en
he loth of October, with a clear sky and hard frosty weather, we
owed out of the Sound, our minds filled with anxiety for our in.
tvesd countrymen, to whose relief (in the event of their arriving
!WstNienit to our departure) we endeavoured to contribute, by
n I a supply of flour on the island for them, and a case of
to embk them to purcitase the friendship of the neighbour.
g,2LI Int seen how very newly Captain Franklin and Captain
had approached each other—the one In longitude 150 do-
:voile.' in so high a northern laths eh that these degrees are only
"!' ell or 24 miles ; the other 160 miles within Icy Cape, which
Zia lon/bode 160 degrees; we cannot belp feeling more and
7triZzation that the small intervening apace was not surmounted,
' t ;unction. -the grand completion of the expedition—hap-
NtiffeCted.
M.
Tie expedition;' thus concludes the letter in the Quebec Pa.
b.."'" we believe may be relied on, " returns to England
ihs—leor by the Hudson's Bay Company's ship, with the c0m-
1....7 Cargo Franklin and Dr. Richardson, who propose to go
0.4 the way of Canada and New York. As Capt. Franklin
7.7rarto travel the winter on the ice, he hopes to reach Montreal
or db the cod of August, 1627."
Can Francisco is a port in New Albion.