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LONDON, WEDNESDAY VVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1820. 1
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APUBLIC MEETING of the FRIENDS of
Sir W11.11.1.1M CURTIS, Hart. M. P. and Alderman,
who are desirous of securing the Return of the llotourable
Baronet as one of the Ropreseneatives of the City of Loudon
in Parliament, at the approaching Eleetion, will tabs Owe
TO-MORROW, at the London Tavern, Hishopsgst•-atrpst.
The Chair will be taken at one o'clock. prschWy.

We arrived at the pass at half-past three P. M. The
wind blew from the north, and as it swel•t up the vast
anrface of snow, was extremely cold to oar feelings.
The thermometer stood at 40, a higher temperature than
was looked for, considering the latitu le and elevation
at which we were; the snow had melted from off the
southern face of the range, and disclosed the slope of
the crest, upon which we pitched onr tent, of no great
sire, vet including within its area part of the inferior
boundary of snow that extended contiguous to the sum-
mit of time eastern peak or wall of the pass. We were
only four yards from the ridge, which was clothed with
uththomed snow and ice, descending in one sheet along
a declivity, which terminates with the Sutluj, at the pro-
digious depth of 9,000 feet.
It is impossible to describe the scene of admiration
and wonder that presents itself to the astonished eye of
the traveller, who, from so detailed a spot, beholds
halts of !mountains, confounded is shapeless irregula-
rity, and raising their mural crests high into the circle
of perpetual winter. The view to the northward baffles
description, nor is the nearer prospect at all inferior ;
for here you stand encompassed with wreck and desola-
tion on every side, and the straining eye, at last dim with
the snowy splendour of the more distant landscape, finds
no relief in the surrounding objects, which show no
trace of industry, no vestige of animated existence, ex-
cept a scanty growth of moss that studs the last remains
of soil, and a few lichens, that appear more elevated in
the crevices of the rusty crags, while the last stage of
organic life is recognized in the birds that have their
dwelling in the snow.
Those monuments of primitive creation, though of
iron texture, yield to the slow influence of destructive
time, so that the most durable of the productions of na-
ture are seen hurrying into decay ; yet so gigantic, so
solid, and so imposing, is the aspect of the mountains,
that it is difficult to reconcile the mind to any idea of a
period for their entire destruction.
The first object of attraction to the spectator, is the
singular and extraordinary appearance of the peaks.
Him magnitude, height, and multiplied figures and
foams.

sowing easterly, nearly parallel with the great chain,
receiving many supplies, it finally joins the Jens.
The descent upon the Pubbur side is very abrupt,
mms'i exceeding in extent that on the north side, ant/
NOM • to owe it to a southern aspect, ploughed and torn
by t loosened fragments, and its surface swept by
rushing streams, which, descending abruptly from the
snow 4, roll away the soil that can hardly be renewed.
A bright ind even powerful sun in the day, thaws the
snow that soaks into the crevices, and this fretting with
the approach of night, bursts the rocks asunder with a
tremendous noise. This is the season when the vast
crashes happen, yet they are equally liable to occur in
the spring, when the supporting ledge, already shat-
tered, is borne down by the load of snow. From they
hnlk of some of the pieces now at the foot of the moun-
tains, an idea may be formed of their destructive coo-
lie• when in full /notion; carrying befogs them all that
the; meet in their way. bring down even whole fields,
wh'ch settle in the soil of the first level in their way ;
oth rs, more remotely displaced, and perhaps of greater
magnitude, set off with a bound, and their superior ve-
locity and impelling massiveness, as they strike against
other rocks in their passage, instead of loosening them,
only wedge them into greater firmness; so tint, unin-
cumbered, they keep on, till opposed by masses which
are fixed in immoveable security. when they are shivered
into thousands of fragments; others, again, meeting in
their route with no obstacles, acquire an overwhehuing
impulse, which their length of passage increases, an I
these tear ,ny the grassy slope and sweep before them
every thing in their way.

FROM TUESDAY'S lAINDON GAZETTE.

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BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
S. Burgess, Manche4ter, oaten-printer.
U tNKRUPTS.
J. Ralnie. Gornersal. Yorkshire, woolstapler, to surrender
Feb. v 3, 96, and March el, at the liesslons-Noise, Weir
.Ittorneys, Mr. Kraus, Hatton-garden, Lunde; And
Mr. Ca rr. Oontersal.
R. Meese. Altrinehate. Cheshire, foll6dealet. P
and March VI, at the White. Baer Inn. Maneheeter..'
net's, Masan. Wright and Cole, Temple, London; and Mr.
P. W. BenneMe, Manehegter.
J. Ellrettleworth and T. Mtephens, Torklngton, C
dealers, Feb. 23, 114, and March VI, at the Abu In:M-
chaster. Atioriteye. Mr. Woodhurne, Matiehe.,ter; and
Messrs. Wigleswortk and Crossley. Gray's-inn-square,
Leedom.

J. Chance. Worcester. maltater, Feb. *3, 94, and Much
21, at the Hell Inn. Worcester. Attorneys, Mr. Edwards.
Linooln's-inn, London; and ?Ir.

Woreeiter.

8. smith, Walley. Cheshire. cotton-spinner, Feb. 11. IS,
and March 21. at the White Bear Inn. Nlanehester. Attor-
neys, Mows. Brandrett sad Co., Temple, 1...mi10n; mid
Mr. Brown. sweldleworth.

J. Dumiss. Carlisle, cattle-dealer, Feb. S. U. and Marelt
41, at the Rush Ina, Carlisle. Attorneys. Messrs. Monnsey
and Sisson. Carlisle; and Messrs. Mounery and Fisher,
Red Lion-square, London.

The soil near the summit of the pan certainly cannot
he generated ; the scanty growth of inorganic life Is
insufficient to maintain a reproduction, as is the case
along the slope near the base, where the exuberance of
vegetation replenishes the waste, and produces node
trees of 30 and 36 feet circumference ; and the rock of
the Himalaya, even if decomposed, is quite unfavourable
to vegetation.

S. Carrington, Ashborne. Derbyshire. mercer. Feb.2l.
and Mara 11. at the Green Nan Inn. Aphborne. Atitonteys,
Messrs. Johnson and Wise, Ashborne ; and Mr. Barba,
Fetter-lane. London.

R. Wilson, Bridge-street. Vauxhall. linen-draper, Feh.
19, and Marrh I. at Guildhall. Attorne, Ir. Phillips,
King-street, Covent-garden.
J. Farmer, bkinner-street, licensed victualler, Feb.lo. 12,
and March VI. at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Dade, Pala-
grave-place. Temple-har.
J. Brander and J. Barclay. Hire-lane. merchants, Feb. 14,
26, and March VI. at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. 'lschia.
New-court. Rt. 8w 'thin's-lane.

For half n mile, the declivity upon the Pnbbor side is
amazingly steep, sad then it softens into a plain, thickly
studded with the hardiest productions of the earth, vet
it is not of a less elevation than 13 or 14,000 feet, which
in latitude 31. 23. is much above the line of perpetual
frost, as laid down thereotie.ally. I'l is, and other obser-
vations more prominent, must considerably affect the
foundation of the general principles of congelation.

There are some with spiry summits; these shew their
naked granite sides, shattered and warped by the action
of interminable frost ; a 'roll a of these rises front the
heel of the Sutlnj, and attain an elevat of about
40,000 feet, they rise pyramidically, and shout into spires,
I while thonaands of feet are occupied in such deep slopes
as to be unable to sustain the snow but in the hollows
that have been formed in them. The portions of the
bare surface consequently suffer most from the efforts of
noceasina frost, which acts upon them in such a way, as
that, when viewed with a glass, they have the singular
appearance
ther
anceofshelves, or layers of banks, heaped one
upon
ce
Others form perfect cones : one of vast magnitude is
seen north of the pass. The surfaces of these are so en-
tirely incased, that they appear, not snowy mountaies,
but mountains of ure snow. Then come the inclines'
of grarillwar, deeeesaling frown tile
peaks, breaking off with a precipitous fall of
many hundred feet, and backed upon their northern
side by a mural face of great depth. Two of these re-
markable appearances are seen amongst the declining
slops of the eastern range of the hills and even from
the plains.
The obliquity of their position, while it exposes them
to a heavy coat of snow, prevents their being divested of
it by an avalanche, and at all seesaw they exhibit the
same appearance; but in May and June, till the com-
mencement of the rains, they an open to the in/grace
of a cloudless sky, with a thawing and freezing alter-
nately, which enceinte their surface and produces the
sparkling beauty of a glacier, forming certainly the
grandest scenery of the Himalaya.

J. Owens, Kington, Herefordshire, ironmongor, Feb. ilk
t 9, sad Mardi VI, at the King's Head Inn, Kington. At-
torso's. Messrs. Davies and Banks. Kingtua ; and Mr.
Pagh. Bernard-street. Rouen-square, London.
B. Williams, Birmingham. chemist, Feb. V 3.24. and Mare%
41, at the Woolpaek Inn, Birmingham. Attorneys, Messrs.
Egerton and Co.. Gray's-inn-square, London; and Messrs.
Spurrier and Ingleby, Birmingham.
S. Dye, Norwich, grocer. Feb. VI, 2?. and March 11. at
the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. Attorney, Mr. tioodwln.
Norwich.

Ilion the northern declivity of the pass lies a vast un-
broken sheet of snow, which never melts; it descends
from the crest in a wall form, and is thence expanded
over the whole of the valley for abort a mile, where this
astonishing mass reclines against the brow of the pas..
The depth of snow must be great ; the general quality of
the rock of the pass and its surrounding peaks is gneika
and quartz, hut it is difficult to ascertain the true sub-
stance, as all the pieces within rearh are detached from
shove ; no real granite was observed, so that we msv
conclude none exists upon the more lofty eminences that
rise on each side.
The fittest of the pass according to tM formula of con-
gelation is 4,101 feet within that limit, yet tisk pro.li:ri-
oils altitude is not abandoned by nature; tufts of moss
and grass, with a light soil, are Peen all the way to the
top, and even rise on each side to two and three hundred
feet, while higher up on the rugged cliffs that are 'loom-
ed to 'twain perpetual snow, animated na.nre finds a
habitation, and ravens and s null birds have their nests
there.

J. Fallarton, Manchester. %addict. Feb. IP. lA, and March
hi, at the White Beer lan, Manchester. Attorneys, Messrs.
Wright and Cole, temple, London; and Mr. Onsavilla.
Manchester. _ _

J. RIUon, Carlisle, tallow-chandler, Feb. /lats.&
likreb ft. at OviMAall. London. Attqnsty, Mr.
Fish-street. Doctors'-eommons.
Z. Ford, Lime-street, London, wine-merchant, Feh.l2, 21,
sad March 11. at Ouildhall, London. Attorney, Mr. Young,
Charlotte-row, Malmion-House. .

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J. G. Bidwill, F.seter, wine-merchant, Feb. 19. 29, and
March 21, at Guildhall, London. Attorney, Mr. Young,
(7barlotte-cow, Manalon-Honse.
G. Solomon, Loman-street. Goodman's-gelds, Middlesex,
hardwarentan. Feb. lA, 29. and March 21, at Guildhall.
Attorney, Mr. Hutchinson, Crown-court, Threadneedle-

On our arrival here we foun I it necessary, from the
scanty supply of fire-wood brought whit us, to part with
the best proportion of our attendants, who ha I Jost time
left to reach the wooded valley. It would have been a
fine task for a painter, to have sketched the physiogno-
my of our servants. Although the sun shone brightly,
the wind chilled the temperature which was at 40.; the
sudden transition was strongly experienced by them,
and now the wannest hour of the d■y produced 80:sie
thought. of the rigour of approachiog night. Tho.e
who had to reut.tin, 'hewed miserable contortions, while
the others, who had the prospect of comfort below,
forced into a better hie their spasmodic visages of
despair.
As evening advanced, cools gathered, which threw
down a light shower , f snow, and when these cleared
away, they left a sky of deep azure. Hv sun-set the
they tooneter bail fallen to 32.; before it grew dark, we
banked ourselves round with snow, and onr proximity
to it (being inside), we thought ecretnely lucky. The
tent was very crazy, and we were ohlige.l .o load it with
snow to keep it from being blown away; a shill? hurdle
of wood had to last for the night, and par► of the nest
day, till fresh supplies arrived. Peopl• of all sorts and
descriptions crowded into the ►ent, and added to the tens
perature; as we could not afford a blaze, we sat la a
eland of smoke, which the frosty win.' forced into nor
eyes, anti dorm our throats; t•rt this, however disagree-
able. was wore adapted to oor feelings than the biting
air without.

street.
W. Henley. Tlnlywell-street, Strand, silk-mercer, Feb. 29.
March 7. and VI, at Guildhall. Attorneys, Messrs. Jacomb
and Beetley. Baaingltall-street.
J. hlederaft, Lamb's Coadult-street, Middlesex. jeweller.
Feb. 19, 39, and March 11, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr.
Boxer, Old Jewry.
DIVIDENDS.
Feb. 99. J. Knight and T. Ashby. Gough-square, fancy-
featber-manufactiorers, at Guildhall—Feb. V 9, R. Ilarris.
Wood-street. Spitalarlds„ stationer, at Guildhall—Feb. *9,
R. H. F. Williams and M. Wilson. Liverpool. merchants. at
Guildhall. London—Feb. 39. W. Ritchie. Finabury-square.
aserchant, at Guildhall—Feb. 99, T. De nu, Durham, merchant,
at Guildhall. London—Feb. 29. R. Ord, Deptford, butcher.
at Ouildhall—Feb. 39. J. Austin. Aldersgate-street, corn-
dealer, at Guildhall—Feb. It J. Balfour, Basinghall-street,
Blackwell-hall-factor. at Guildhall—Feb. VS. J. Russell,
Palace-wharf, Lambeth. timber-merchant, at Guildhall—
Feb. 11, W. Lewis end J. A. Ileaclerson, Little Tower-
street, wine-merchants, at Otaildliall—Feb. 12, E. Read and
T. Baker, Great Ritsselt-street, Bloomsbury, linen drapers.
at Guildhall—March 1, J. /Wise, Liverpool, merchant. at
the (Merge lan, Liverpool—March 9, W. Bruwa. Fast Ret-
ford, Nottingham. corn-factor, at the White Hart Inn, East
Retford—March I, C. Martin. Great Yarmouth. linen-
draper. at the King's Head Inn, Great Ysruautb—MareitB.
J. Dixon, Wellington, Salop. mercer. at the Pheasant has,
Wellington--March 3, R. and J. Slater, Nanalesbury-atilt,
Lancaster. cotton-spinners, at the New lan, Blackburn, Las-
easter—March I, J. Ritchie and T. Moffat, Liverpool, mer-
lchasts, at the George Inn. Liverpool.
CF.RTIF IC AT ES--Fe . 29.
W. Wootton, Tyer's-gateway. Bermondsey, tanner—J.
Eayer, Finedon. Northampton. farmer—J. Weldon, Petals
street. warehoeseusan—D. Bishop. Great Surrey
Blackfriars-road, spholaterer.-11. Mills, New Bond-street.
linen-draper--C. Law, Minorles, vletaaller—W. Eames,
Haymarket, horse-dealer.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLY RD.
J. and J. Patient. Bermondsey New-road. London, teener'
—Rogers and Law. Swlthin merchants—J. and
C. Reedits,. Back Church-lane, St. George's, Middlesex,
coopers—Tate and Dreweett. Oxford. seedamen—lngram
and Co. Leeds. snerehants—Myersand Denison, Leeds, tea-
dealers—Campbell and Bone, Warnford-eourt. Throgmor-
toe-street, insurance-hrokers—J. and C. Woodward. New-
gate-street. newirvenders—Paehett and Carter. Leeds, hat-
ters—Hatcheon end Sheppard—Lowe sad Fielding, Idea-
classier.

Of all this singular and imposing forms, the most mag-
wificeat are the table summits. One of these enormous
masses rises sear Wangtoo ; its su 11111 l it is perfectly
level, and throws down a precipitous rugged frost,
' which stretches out into a slope or bosons covered with
wow. Upon its table surface is a vertical layer of great
depth, and the line of union of this wall of snow with its
traggy face is well defined, and has a very strange ef-
fect. 'f he base of this mountain sends forth a river.
whose channel of solid *Tooke is scooped and worn
into cavities, recording the violence and turbulence of
its stream.

--Sntlla; a few of those remarkable listnral appear-
ances, which baffle all attempts at faithful description;
and if witlaio the range of vision, which is nut extensive,
such singularly striking objects arrest the eve, what
may rot be anticipated throughout a chain of.snch ex-
tent? A vertical wall of 30011 feet has in vain been
searched for amongst the European Alps, yet here, where
mature astonishes by her unparalleled magnitude, she
may present even something snore wonderful, is the
deep wallies which every where intersects gig (test ridges
of this stupendous range.
lly a series of barometrical observations, the extreme
al;ituslo of the peas is sot under 15,100 fent,..ei height,
abrordiog to theory, abandoned by animal and vegetable
NO. The peaks or walls on each side sbew the ravages
of time and weather.
The eastern wall rises with a considerable inrlination
for five or six hundred feet I thence starting backwards,
it terminates in a crown of snow perhaps one thousand
five hundred or two thousand feet higher.
The western peak, or rather wall, is literally a pile of
mouldering fragments, and rises to about five or six hun-
dred feet; the ascent is impracticable, higher than thiry
og t.ty feet. where are the usual emblems of adoration,
so Illst a spectator, standing on the crest, is not forcibly
attracted the imposing figure or magnitude of the
bending chars.
Beystod the west wall is another break or pass, which
the work of ruin has not yet mole traversable; but so
rapid is the decay, that a few years must level the di-
vithog ridge, and knee a grand breach. Its wevern
side rises to a towering summit deeply clad in snow,
and werreepoods with the opposite or eastern one, I' Ing
sheet two thousand feet in height. The space within
these slay tamed a mile. In the dewed% on either side
the chars recede, forming a dell ; upon the north carry-
ing( tits stream from the thawing snow to the Suiluj,
and on the south seeding a branch to the Peldmr.
The prospect towards that stream is banked up by an
arum a the grand range, which is crossed by the pass.
The IPubbur has its source at the junction, and washes
its bone in its primitive form, for tea or twelve miles to
Juaglegh, where it loses its peaked and disordered ,
figure, exchanging its cap of snow for a coat of grass,
and continuing a few miles at a height of twelve thou-
sand feet, with a =risco of partial vegetation and
patches of snow.
The Pubber, sow stranithesed by the numerous
strums that roll down kern the whole extent of the last
ansentaiits N Hiuselaya, runs south-west, to about thirty
44,4406,111.gailasapent emcallssi assasre hose,

The bre.tras a source of comfort to hook at. for warmth
was generated only by the exertiuti naceesary to hens' it
alive. Spirits seemed really to have lost their Weiler:it
and had scarcely any effect in keeping ns warm. Having
to inhale the inioliry atmosphere, we formed a circle
around the fire, which only appeared at ti►nea, and the.,
by the application of the blowpipe. The snow within
the tent was very convenient for a supply of wale
which we ascertained the excellent qualities in
To avert in some degree the annoyance of t)►e Ins .kr,
we used tobac►o; but this too, like the spirits, fell stmr,
of its nsoal stimulating posers, and was only of some
hetiefit when horning as fuel.
The wind blew in puff., awl shook of the snow fe ►•o
mar tent, so as to render it le►s stable. The only ch ► •
ire hail, served to sutioort the har, 1111 l eter, and we sat
opus the ground. We t..rate►l altoigtobee a motley
troupe. but such a seen,' was neither foreign to nor ex-
perimice or feelings, and was nut without its intere•t.
For a while, indeed, we might have forgotten oar loft.
situation, guarded by fruwniug, peaks with their eternal
►►inter, till the faint snnn•i of a distant crash broke th •
silence, and the noise of nearer destruction pressed
closely upon our thoughts, while the hard texture of our
beds often acutely reminded us of our position, and
obliged as to shift about for more accommodating rest
so that there was a perpetual stirring and agitation in
sole as well as out. A blink of the bre orcasiotiall:
spewed as the self-arrange►) fragoi••nts that had, p.•r
haps, once crowned the w.,111 of the pass. The grows I
upon which we sat was reit rusted with the ice, and
thawing by the fire, gave to souse uneasiness, and h►
others amusement. _ . _

Every thing had its time, and at length the scene
changed into one more dostres.ing th:in I can describe.
Ac sapleasant ',mafiosi of drowsier.. felt in the eien-
la( gradually increased after dusk, and by nine
had almost overpowered any attempt to sit up. fl
whole party bat myself lay asleep ; thr fire hardly threw
a faint slamion, and the cold increased with the night.

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