Star.
London, England, 1827-04-16 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELUGUCI:

The Provident*, Statanootz, cis Amin& in the River, from
Bombay.
FALMOUTN, Aran. IS, Wind N. and 14, Wind. N. to S.— Ar-
riired the Woodford, Lunettes. from London for Jan:talcs. Sailed
the Emulous packet, Carus, for Halifax and Bermuda.
PLYMOUTH, Aram 13 and 14.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the
Juno, 800 err, from Oporto. Sailed the Eliza, Basset., for New-
foundland; Maria Jacoba, Baas, for St. Thomas's; Amethyst,
Toonsoe, for Quebec; and Swift, BiIIOWN, f.,r Tenerife.
DIAL, Aram 14. —Wind E.—Arrived the Sir A. Mackenzie,
ROSIXION, from Zante; Margaret Book, JOHNION, from Trieste;
and Cameros's, TODD, from Barbie*. Arrived from London, the
Herald, Tommie, roe Berhfce ; Betsey and Sarah, Batson, for
Gibraltar; Ada, FRIEND' for Demerara; Resolution, WARD, for
Halifax; and Britannia, Team, for Quebec.
Aran. 13. Wind S —Arrived from London, the Abeona, Fats-
seam, for Honduras; Ward, Haag, for St. John's; and the Benz-
bournbury, Frwsee, for China.
Penniman% Aram 13.—;- Wind W.N.W.—Arrlved the Princess
Royal transport. from Belfast; Caledonia, Cruntanz, from Cadiz;
and his Majesty's ship Papaws, from Chatham. Sailed the Crown,
Roy, for Quebec ; and John Bushman, for Riga. His Ma-
jesty's frigate ViCTORIN/4 in miniature, sailed yesterday for Virginia
Water, for the u.e of his Maaesrv.

7&QM Tea IIiADIMIIIII TZLICOIIIAPH.
The Sybille, 48, Commodore Francis R. Collier, C.B. went oat
of harbour this morning, fitted for the command on the Western
Coast of Africa. She will sail next week.
The Defence cutter, Lieutenant H. S. Perkins, has captured and
taken into North Yarmouth, the Eliza Johanna, of Flushing, with
200 tubs of foreign spirits.
Wednesday arrived the ship Caroline, Captain Eidson. from
Calcutta, bound to London, having on board the remainder of the
Invalids (the first division arrived here in November last, by the.
&noble and Cgtharioe Stewart Forbes), of the 67th, Suth, and 141 k
Regiments. She left the Cape on the 2d, and Ascension on tbe '
20th February, on which day the William Harris transport arrived
there from England, with stores and provisions for the Island.
The Revenue cutters Tartar, Lieutenant Watben, and Ifingfis.
Lieutenant St. Quintin, have commenced their cruising on the
Dorset coast with good fortune, the former having captured the I
Providence sloop, of Cherbourgh. with 14 tubs (the remains of het
overthrown cargo), and seven men (five of them Frenchmen), and
the latter the Mary Ann, of Cherbourgh, with 125 tubs, 18 flagons
of spirits, and three men (one a Frenchman), and taken them alto
Weymouth.
The Procrls, 10, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, arrived this
afternoon, with seamen from Chatham.
We are happy to find that letters from Rio do Janeiro, dated
February 7, state the arrival of the Forte, 46, Captain J. Coghlsn,
C.B. in 41 days from Spithead, with his Excellency Chev. Von
Neuman, and the Austrian Embassy to the Court of Brazils. The
Ranger and Heron were lying there. The Cambridge, Blanche,
and Eclair were shortly expected from the Pacific, oil their return
to England.
The folltiwing is an extract of a letter from an Officer of his
Majesty's sloop Pelican, dated March 8 On the td of this
month, while cruising after a noted pirate of the name of Chepriotti,
we fell in with a vessel, armed, and full of men, off the island of
Ithaca, and at nine in the morning, being calm, we sent away two
boats, manned and armed, and kept them in sight for som.. time,
when a breeze springing up, we made all sail after the vessel, and
about twelve at noon, got her within range of bur great guns, when
Lieutenant Grant manned and armed the large cutler, and ,
went in chase, the water getting too shoal for-the strip to ap-
proach nearer the shore, when the vessel commenced a heavy
fire of round and grape on our three boats ; we, in return, corre.l
nsenced firing on board the ship to cover the boats. There was now
a running fight with the vessel and our boats fur two hours, seek
geing at the rate of four miles an hour. We in the ship covered our
boats with round shot from our great guns: at about three rah
the boats got hold of the stern boat of the enemy ; the breeze then
sprung up, and the vessel get more head way, when we found our
boats drop, and the enemy run on shore. The boats returned with
the First Lieutenant wounded in the hand dangerously; Second
Lieutenant bounded in the shoulder, and his collar bone broke
through; the shots in both cases remain, as they cannot be got at. The
carpenter, Mr. Case,was shot through the fleshy part of his right at m ;
two marines and two seamen killed; two dangerously wounded.
and not expected to live, and others slightly. We then found that
the vessel had barricaded herself so with planks, tee. that we could
do nothing further with the boats. We came to an anchor, and
fired at her for a mark, and after amusing them in that way for
about ten minutes, they made signs for us to send our boat. We
did so, well armed and manned on all points. Our boats boarded
her, and found her to be a Turkish man of war, of four gins and
50 men. We had killed the Captain and Az en before we bad
got alongside. After healing the dead overboard, we took the I
Turks on board our boats, and set fire to the vessel, as she was shot
to pieces, and unable to float. We then made for the harbour —•
tbe Turks, sixteen in number, are now on board the Pelican, and
we expect to take them to Smyrna, to be given up to the Turkish
Government."
We may probably have to announce the arrival of his Majesty's
ship Tweed. Capt. Frederick Hunn, from the Gulph of llelezico,
in our next paper. She had to call at Tampico, to embark 40,000 i.
to specie for the Mexican Government ; but as Tampico is a bar
harbour, and a stroug north.westerly gale set in before she could
have reached that place,we are quite satisfied that Capt. Hunn would
not attempt to enter it, until a return of favourable weather. This
circumstance most satisfactorily accounts (to those who have any
knowledge in these local subjects), for the Tweed not having reached
England with her valuable shipments. The precautionary means
taken by Sir Lawrence Halstead to warn Captain Hunn of a pos.
sible danger, arising front our affairs with Spain, though highly pru-
dent in that excellent Chief, yet, as it must be well known, cannot
attach itself whatever to the delay ascribed to that ship's arrival.

THE NORTH POLE EXPEDITION.
Captain PARRY has at length sailed upon his pro-
jected expedition. He will touch at Flammerfest, in
Norway, to receive on board a number of rein deer,
which have been substituted for dogs, and are to be
employed in dragging sledge boats over the ice—in
carrying provisions—and in furnishing food for the
party, who proceed from Spitzbergen towards the Pole.
We believe that all Europe feels interested in this bold
and novel attempt to reach " the green world's end ;"
and it will reflect additional lustre upon the Navy of
England, should our intrepid navigator succeed in
planting the banners of l3ritain upon the axis of the
universe.
The following is a Copy of an official letter addressed
by Captain PARRY, to the First Lord of the Admiralty,
wherein Captain PARRY'S plans are detailed :
TO THE RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT MELVILLE, &c.
(Corr) " Admiralty, 15th April, 1826.
"MY LORD,—Among the cute, pitses which yet re-
main unaccomplished, and of which the object is to
complete our knowledge of the surface of the globe, it
appears to me that there is none more desirable to be
undertaken, and (considering the nature of such enter-
prises) few so easily practicable, as an attempt to reach
the North Pole ef the earth. Having long been in the
habit of contemplating such an enterprise, and being
confirmed in my own opinion of its practicability by a
written plan of Captain Franklin, now in my posses.
sioo, I beg leave to lay before yoUr Lordship my views
era this interesting subject.
" There can be no doubt of the practicability of
reaching, in any pear (as is the annual custom of the
whalers) that part of Spitzbergen, called " Cloven
Cliff," lying in latitude 79 52. about the middle or
towards the close of May ; so that the party might set
off to the northward on the Ist of June. The distance
of Cloven Cliff from the Pole is 600 miles.
4, The method which I consider a practicable or.e of
accomplishing the propcsed object is by means of boats!
having " runners" attached to them in the manner of '
sledges, so as to admit of their being hauled over the
ice when no open water p,e*enteri itself, and again
launched at pleasure. The frame of these boats, wh ch I
propose should be two in tiumber, should ei.nsist of larch
QC bickery, so as to be at citice 11,;iit, tough, and rather
flexible. The principal fastenings to he of copper, of
the least brittle kind, and the rest to be lashings 01
thong, so as to render the whole as yielding and elastic
as s,iWe,ceasistrutly with safficient'swawb auJ stiff-

nesg. This framesbeirig Covered with leather. or soma
such material (to be determined on by experiment) a
boat would thus be formed, resembling the Russian
baidnr, in which lone coasting voyages are performed,
or the sutf boats at Madras, and in every respect suited
to the intended purpose.
" The number of individuals I should propose to be
employed On this service is twenty-four—namely, two
Officers and ten men to constitute each boat's crew.
Annexed to this letter is a list of the articles required
on such an expedition; also an estimate of the weight
of each, together with a further explanation of some of
the details, to which I beg to refer your Lordship.
" In this estimate provision has been made for 72
days. at a full and ample allowance of every artiee,
which is known by experience to be required on such
an occasion, during a polar summer. This interval of
time would make it necessary to traverse 16i miles per
day in order to effect the proposed object, which (unless
favoured by considerable extents of open water) is per-
hips too much to expect to accomplish. But having
on repeated trials found that seven days such allowance
may, without any privation whatever, be extended to
nine days. I feel confident that the supply mentioned in
the estimate, aided by birds, seals, &c. would be found
quite sufficient for ninety-ftva days, reducing the daily
distance to IS miles.

...
" An oilskin cover completely over the boats, answer-
ing also the purpose of a sail when required, would
make the people comfortable during the times of rest,
each man being provided with his blanket bag, and a
suit of extra clothing as a dry shift.
Prom my knowledge of the qualities of the Esqui-
maul dogs, 1 am inclined to think that the object might
be materially assisted by employing from 12 to 20 of
these useful animals for draught ; • a portion of food
might be taken for them, and more would probably be
procured as the party advanced; but even in case of
the failure of their provisions, the flesh of the dogs
themselves would furnish no inconsiderable addition to
that of the men.
" In case either of meeting with an island, or of
finding ice which appears to be perpetually fixed or
firmly grounded, an obvious part of the plan would be
to leave there a considerable portion of the baggage on
the outward passage, to be taken up on the return, so
as to be enabled to push on more rapidly. It is more
than-probable that the party would find some such mode
of disencumbering themselves of a part of their baggage;
besides the certain daily diminution of weight (amount-
ing to sixty poieNds), occasioned by the expenditure of
provisions, fuel, &c.
" To eoable the party to take advantage of the
season, it would be necessary for a ship to leave
England with them about the beginning of April,
so as to reach Smeerenburgh, towards the first week
in May. By the middle of that month, the whalers
usually advance as far as Cloven Cliff. As it would be
proper for the ship to be somewhat strengthened for re-
sisting the ice, I beg to suggest that the Hecla would,
' in every respect, be well adapted to this service, from
twenty to thirty men, including Officers, being added to
the twenty-four forming the party intended to go to

the Pole.
" Immediately on arriving at a proper nation, the
ship might be permanently and securely moored in any
small and sheltered cove, of which there is no want in
that neighbourhood. The expedition would then set off,
about the Ist of June, directly to the northward, being
accompanied for the first hundred miles by about 12
extra men, for the purpose of assisting in the transport
of the baggage, so as to make a rapid progress for the
first few days.
"MI6 extra party would then return to the ship, di.
rections being given to the Commanding Officer imme-
diately to employ them in transporting to the northern-
most of the Seven Islands marked in the chart a small
quantity of provisions, Ike. as a supply for the expedi-
tton on its return, that station being fifty miles nearer
the Pale than Cloven Cliff, and consequently the best
to steer for in coming back.
" It may here be suggested that, as regards the stay
of the ship at the northern part of Spitzbergen during
the three best months of the summer, the plan now pro-
posed might be made subservient to the interests of
science, by sending out some duly qualified person to
employ himself during that interval, in conducting a
series of experiments on the pendulum, in making a
variety of interesting magnetic observations,in attending
to the various meteorological phenomena, and in col-
lecting specimens of natural history. At the same time
the party proposed above to be sent to the Seven Islands
might afterwards be engaged in exploring and survey-
ing the eastern coast of Spitzbergen, of which we ate
at pre,ent wholly ignorant, and which it would be a
matter of no ordinary interest is examine. I mention
these collateral objects to show that during the absence
of the party sent towards the Pole, the rest of the expe-
dition might be constantly and beneficially employed.
" The practicability of thus reaching the North Pole ap-
pears to me to turn wholly on the question of resources.
This being the case, it would very soon become a matter
of simple calculation whether or not the object was within
the reach of the resources with which the party was
furnished ; so that they might at any time proceed or
return, according to circumstances. In other respects
I can perceive nothing whatever, that should make it
an enterprize of extraordinary risk. The summer tem-
perature of the Polar regions is by no means uncom-
fortable; the sun would be constantly above the hori•
non, and our men have always enjoyed remarkably
robust health during excursions of this nature. If open
water should frequently occur, it is always sure to be
smooth, and even if it were otherwise, a boat hauled up
on a flow of ice, is as secure as on shore. In fact, the
more open water is found, the more easy would be the
accomplishment of the enterprize; and taking the chance
of such occasional assiatance. I cannot but entertain a
confident hope that the whole might be completed by
the end of August ; and the Expedition again in England
before the middle of September.
" With respect to the nature of the ice on which, in
case of little open water, the boats would require to be
hauled, the testimony of every individual who has
visited these parts is highly satisfactory, affording a con
&dent hope that the travelling over it would be easy
and expeditious. Phipps,Buchan,Franklin, and Score.by,.
all describe it as remarkably flat, and, within the sea
margin, consisting for the moat part of large, level,
closely-jorned 8. es. Scoresby indeed expresly remarks,
that a coach and four might drive along it for miles with-
out interruptirn. Much of the ice which I have myself
met wriluiras been of that descr iption,and the probability
is, that in higher latitudes, where it may have been
less &situ bed, this will be found the case in a still

• Captain Parry has since been compelled so far to alter this part
of his plan, as to etrpWy Lapi. rd rein deer instead of Eiquirnaux
dogs.

greater degree. On this aLtbunt it might perhaps bE
desirable to have the Means 'of putting the boots bri
wheels, thus furnishing st third .Mork of conveyance;
which in gist occasionally tit tett,: ted td, if found towo
venient on dial.
" Such, my Lcird, is a brief Outline of the plait by
which I consider it practicable to reach the North Pole;
and on which a variety of improvernents would suggest
themselves, in the course of an equipment having that
object in view. The enterprise itself is of so interesting
a nature, and is connected with so many subjects of
various scientific enquiry, that its accomplishment
could n t fail to be highly creditable to the country
which undertakes it; while the expense would be very
trifling, the risk by no means extraordinsry, and the
whole question solved in the short space of :a months.
" I have thus early submitted my plan to your Lord.;
ship,•because, in case of its adoption, I consider it essen-
tial to success that various trials should be made, in the
course of the present autumn, as to the best materials'
and construction for the boats, and other articles of
equipment. It would also be of import-ince to procure
this Summer from Greenland, by way of Copenhagea,
the necessary number of dogs, as Well as of their ace.;
lent waterproof boots for travelling. It would; more-
over, be desirable that the Officers and men should be
selected, and trained to their respective duties, in the
course of the ensuing Autumn, so as to be ready for pro-
ceeding to Spitsbergen early in the next Sprint.
" I need scarcely add that, should your Lordship
think favourably of the plan now submitted I shall feel
honoured in being entrusted with its execution ; confi.
dently entertaining the proud, and I trust not unrea-
sonable hope of planting under your Lordship's .taspkei,
the British flag upon the north Pole of the Earth.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's faithful and bedient servant'
(Signed) "W. E. PARRY, Captain, ft.N."

ESTIMATE FOR EACH OF TWO BOATS.

Boat (for twelve persons)
Paddles, twelve .
. . .
Mast to be made of paddles, yard to be made of pikes.
Oilskin or duck covering (to be used as a sail) . ' 43
Small iron grate for cooking (i 0 lbs.) fur each boat . 4
Coals (310 lbs.) for each boat . 155 f
Wood (some covered with brimstone) . • 55t
Bread (at Ilb per man a day) . 864 f
Meat, or Pemmican (at two-thirds of a pound per day) 3714.1.
Proof Spirits (at halt a pint per man a day) . . 3001
Cocoa Paste (sweetened) t
Medicine . . 20
. .

111141811.
. 1,025 It/.
02

Ammunition
Tobacco (for eight men using it) . .
Fowling-pieces, 5-21 lbs. and Tomahawks, 2-10 lbs. .
Boarding-pikes, 4 (with boat-hooks at she other end) .
Spare clothes for men .
Pannikin, knife, fork, spoon, pepper, and salt .
Leadline (using shoe for lead)
Blanket bag (12)
. .
Packages of provisions. including cooking-pot
Citiic Acid, crystallised .
Material. of wood, canvas, thong, hammer, nails, Ste.
for repairing boat l5
. .
Soap, twine, needles, thread, shoemakers tools, books, •
pencils, pens, ink, India rubber $ .
Pocket Telescepes.(two) for each boat . 2
Three Sextants, 3 Artificial Horisons, 2 lbs. of Mercury 4
A small Transit Instrument, three Kater's Compasses 3
Six Pocket Chronometers, Six Thermometers, Two
Pocket Compasses . . .
1

. 30
444

25
. 120

. 20
. 15 ,
. sot
• bt

12)3,600 lbs.

500 lbs.

N B. Tha articles marked y will be daily reduced in weights to
die =vent of SO lbs. in rack boat.

THE MARKETS.

CORN RXCHANGR, MARK-LANK, Aram it
We were but moderately supplied with Wheat to this inorninies
market, still the meeting trade is far from being brisk, but fine sam-
pies sold rather well at the prices of this day se'nnight. Malting
Barley continues in request, and sold freely at ees. per quarter, ow-
ing to the shortness of the supply. Beans and Peas continue to
hang on the hands, but our lan quotations are still demanied. The
magnitude of the supply of Oats causes the trade to be very dull,
but last Monday's prices were demanded. in other articles there
is no alteration.

Rye, new, 3811 405
Beans, Small, new, 465 110
-- old, 00s 00s
Tick, new, 46. 455
old, 00s 00$
Oats, Feed, new, 26s 294
- old, 00a 004
Poland, new, 34. 36.
----- old, 00s 005
Potatoe, new, 36. 39s
---- old, 29s 555
-- Scotch, 00s 001
Flour, per sack, 45.. 500.
Rapeseed 205 221 per last:
ARILITAIS LAST Write.
4,058 Peas, qra.
NO Irish Oats
1,923 Foreign Oats 3
1104 English Floor, sacks
546 Foreign Barley
SMITHFIELD MARKET. Ann. 16.
We have an exceeding short supply of Meat at market to day, in
fact, shorter than we remember fur the List three years, the market
more resembling the appearance it generally wears on a Friday, than
that of a Monday's supply. The consequence of this scanty ap-
pearance is a general advance in the price of all kinds of Meat, Beef
being 4d. torsi. above last Monday's quotation-prime Scots wiling
readily at ss. 6d. per stone ; good large Olen at 45. 10d. to Si. ed.
and the coarser, inferior, and second-rate Meat at 41. to Sd. per
stone. Mutton has undergone an improvement of about 6d.
per stone, fine young Downs being as high as 55. 105. to 65. per
stone ; good coarse-woolled Sheep at 51. 6d. to ss. 10d. and the
second-rate and inferior Ewes 45. 6d. to 55. 4d. per stone. Lamb is
quoted about 4d. per stone !fetter, Is. per stone being the price of
the Meat of the best quality. Veal is good sale at a shade improve-
ment, the best young Calves fetching ss. lid. to 6s. per stone ; and
the larger and coarser Calves 4s. led. to ss. 6d. per Otte°. Pork
may be quoted about 2d. per stone beyond Friday's quotation, prime
dairy-fed Porkers being Ss. 4d. to Ss. 6d. per stone ; and large
Hogs 4s. to 4s. 10d. per do. The market wears a very stiff appear-
ance, and appears likely to keep up the advance.-Beasts, 1,662;
Sheep, 12,140; Pigs, SO ; Calves, 120.
Beef, per stone, 4s. to Ss. 4d. Mutton, 41. Sd. to 61. Veal,
4s. Gd. to 6s. Pork. 45. to Si. 6d. Lamb, Gs. to Hay, per load,
al 155. to £5 155. Clover, A 4 51. to £6 10s. wl 2s.
t.

Wheat, Red, new, 50s 658
-- old, 48s 605
White, new, 50155 s
old 50s 58s
Barley, Us 44s
Malting 60s 645
Peas, Grey, 1626, 441 s 505
—.---. Old, 005 00s
Maple, 11126, —s —s
5--01 d, 005 Ms
White, old, 50s. S2s
.--- new, 50s 525
Boilers, 1825, 411. 46s
----.. 1626, 591 56.

Wheat, British qrs.
Do. Foreign
Barley, British
Oats
Beans

8,905
411;4

LIVERPOOL., APRIL 14.
Corms Woos.—The import this week is 17.397 bags, anti the
sales amount to 13,490 bags, at very trifling alteration in prices
There are no later advice' from New York than those of Piarch 14,
given in last week's Chromick, which quote prices of Upland 111-914
to 1041 and Premium of Exchange at 10d. to told.
Sects, &c.—Tbere has been a good demand fog 13. P. Sitpr, and
sales have been made to the extent of 750 hbds. but prices have been
barely supported. The Havana was withdrawn from auction for
' want of buyers. Nothing was done at the public sales of Coffee, but
a few casks Jamaica have been sold to the trade at lower rates, and
300 bags Havana have been taken for shipment at 48s. In Mo-
lasses, Ginger, Cocoa, and Rice, the transactions are unimportant.
A few bags Pimento of fine quality have been disposed of at Od. per
lb. There is very little doing in Rum. The Treasury have con-
tinued the allowance for wastage of Rum until Apt it 5, 1828.

GAMS LAWS.—At the Petty Sessions held at New-
town Cunningham, in the county of Dunegal, an the
6th instant, James Gibson, of Gortiac, WAS fined gol.
for an offence against the Game Laws committed by
ihim in the barony of Enuishowe, .