The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-06 00:00:00

DISCOVER)" SHIPS.

(rCUTURR PARTUTLIMI.)
Extract of a Letter from Aberdeen. Nov. 1. :—" We
bare siurerephqsare in ronttnutticating to the relatives
of those brace men who devoted themselves to the ser-
ene of their country on hoard the discovery ships, that
after the perik of their long and arduous voyage, they
are again within sight of their native land. The Herta
omelet° oir Bay yesterday for provisions, and sailed
is the afternoon for Leith roads. Her gallant and in-
commander, Captain Parry, accompanied by his
istrearmar, came on shore at Peterhead, on Moisday,
aid aml through here yesterday, to go by land to
They parted with the tiriper in the North
tie, and she Is expected up every hone. The
Bola mutiatered a heavy gale after parting
with the thi,on, and sustained sonic damage. Pew par-
tial:es of their highly interesting voyage have yet tram
spited, the (sewers and crew of the vessel cont. g them-
tests to casual observations, until their commander
doll have laid his Journal before the Lords of the Ad-
miralty. We nutletteamd that they wintered in latitude
7.5 N; a,. I in their attempts to explore a passage to the
Western Ocean, were as far as 1b I W. They wintered
in a snug hay, in Lancaster Sound ; and tad not get
clear of the ice till the sth August this year. From
October till February, or foe abort Viindays, Sheyenne
is darkness; but with abundance of wholesome pro-
visions, and other requisite comforts, they passed the
time very agreeably. The crew were amused with games
of every kind ; and occasionally acted plays for mutual
entertainment. As to the main object of the expedition,
the discovery of a North West Passage, we cannot yet
speak with mach confidence. One of the officers with
whom we have conversed entertains not the least doubt
upon the subject; hut we must wait for Lieut. Parry's
observations before We pronounce with certainty. The
cocnter will look with great ausiery fur the publican'
of the. Journal of 'his voyage. They have been out
fin about eighteen months, having sailed from Sheerness
on the Igth May, 1:419."
From the notification of Lieutenant Parry's arrival at
the Admiralty, and a dispatch transmitted.by a whaler
no the:lth of September. which we have inserted from
last Satur,lay's Lwrrlie, it will be seen that the Heels
gad Grip-:, in the slimmer of Isl 9, discovered a passage
nuough Lancaster Sound into the Polar Sea, and pene-
trated a, ;"ir as 1124 W. long. between the parallals of
;land 75 deg. N. lat. They passed the winter in 74,
47. N. le. and 110. 47. W. long. with the loss of one
man only. They resumed the objects of the voyage this
year as sons as the season permitted, and attempted to
penetrate through the ice towards Behring's Straits, in
two directions, but without effect.—lt being then doubt-
ful whether their stock of provisions would hold out for
arrither wintef, it was resolved to return to linkland,
after mall'.og a survey of the west coast of Ihvis's Strait.
In (Impenitence of the ships haying reached so far to
the westward 'as the longitude of the Copper Mine
River, the officers and reeves 1:: come entitled to a re-
wzrd of 500/. by Act of Parliament.

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Kte; az.—The Conventioa nutlet. which General prayed their Lordships attention to some cird
Purroan Pe:e entered raleraho on the 6th alt., has emnstances connected with her testimony. All
been declared null and void by the Parliameot at Ns- she swore that could at all reflect on the Queen, 1,
pl., Tie Neapolitan tioyernnwnt and Parliament was a mere probability. She swore that she I
still not listen to Joy propo.ition having for its object saw a female with •Bergami. But she might i
the indepen lessee of Sicily. General Pepe has in con- have been deceived. For that female might as well have I
sequence been retailed, and General Coletta appointed been the Countess Oldi as the Princess. But she also
t:, the command, *to, at the slat. of the last accounts swore that she came there voluntarily, while their Lord- I
from Naples, the 19th ultimo, was about to sat sail ships' bad in evidence that she was examined by the 1
t r Sicily with a corps of 6,000 Calabrese troops. Minister at Baden, whether there was nothing to which
kr the parpose of ensuring the unconditional submit's- she could depose against the Princess.—(Hear, bear D
sion of the inhabitants of Palermo. Bat there was a power exercised to make Barbara Krantz 1
During the day on which Palermo was attacked,
the avert „„e, fling dreadful. The sinehee et.
to
alms to Englaad; and that same power was exercised
was very c inshlerahle. The firing from the Palermo to keep witnesses back on the part of her Majesty.—
batteries aa I ;:un boats has done great injury to the (Load cheer.4.)—Some Noble Lords had said with a
palaces of prince Cuto and Prince earolicn. The great appearance of candour, that they would dismiss
public gardens and the botanical gardens, are nearly the case at Trieste. In justice to her Majesty they should
destroyed; io fact, the scene of devastation over about not dismiss that case, nor any other case where snch pal-
tl.ree square miles of the adjoining country, is de- pable falsehood appeared. If their Lordships believed that
plcerahle in the extreme. The people fought with the there was an extensive machinery at work, an eaten-
greatest der.perition. Had they unfortsnasely gut the sive system to prove evidence, and that even *foreign
better of the troops, which they bad every chance of hlinister had undertaken that Ameorraik employment,
doing or. the 27th, the consequences to Palermo would —(beer, hear!)—and that many persons came fee-
have been dreadful, as the populace were easels ex- ward voluntarily, merely fur the purpose of truth and
asperate.l against the nobility and all the respectable morality-, bat at the rare time Is conserputler of that
people, for bring favourable to the Neapolitan troops system, and that they believed considerable suspicion
entering the city as friends. boil bet* created against the Princess, be teratid ark
It is stated in the Morning Papers from aatboeity, their Lordships ithether they ware sot bound to look
that it is her Majesty's intention to go to the Moan to. dm .prolsabllity that a Alispositios m*lst haute es;•
of Lords to-marrowmorning. 1 Isis{ pkytate %bst which tree sot. troe,44.ldso testate
Her Majesty has fixed Monday, the ISA ti*.. ter fillat which. did abt stioeit of imbvaletioal--..
receiving such addresses as may be than 164 fell {Hear.) There iras :Wallet. Ch 113111141111“ WWI he
preientation. `e mild not emit. Their Lorirkips had bees called