The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-01 00:00:00

CAPTAIN PARRY.

The Quarterly Review, just published, contains the
following remarks upariWtain Parry's expedition of
discovery:—
" Two summers have now passed over, and it is pretty
clear that they have not carried him into the Pacific; me-
lees, indeed, which is merely in the chances, he may have
taken the route of China and the Cape of Good Mope.
which, from his ample supply of provisions remaining, is
not quite improbable. Had he ran for Kamtskyka, or
along the coast of America in the Pacific, we should, be.
fore this time, have beard of him. We know he calcu-
lated upon three summers, and only wished that, if not
heard of in the beginning of 1824, a vessel with
sions might be sent into Bebring's Straits in the autumn
of that year. He was last seen near the Upper Savage
Islands, on the 22d of July, 1821, steering with a fair
wind and through an open sea, direct for Repulse Bay;
and as Captain Franklin left Cape Turnagain on the
25th of August in the same year, the latter was on his
return before Captain Parry could possibly hare reached
that point" In the event, however, of his having dore
so in the course of that season, it is dot improbable that
he would enter that deep gulf, of which the Cape forms
the eastern and northern extremity; the less so, from its
being situated in the mune longi tode nearly as the Copper-
mine River is laidilown on Arrowamith's Chart; a point
which he would u ndoubtedly deem i t expedient to visit; and
if so, he would meet with the fiag-staff and letter Isft by Car.
Franklin, and, probably, pass the winter in one of the
many snag harbours which tbeArctic Gulph affords. The
second season, would, with ease. bring luso to that point
of the coast which is terminated by the Rocky Nouns
tans a little beyond Mackenzie's River. the only spot
where we can conceive any difficulty to occur ; here Cap-
tain Parry would, probably, pus the second winter ; and
if so. the third summer would, without difficulty, carry
him through Bebring's Straits. And when we consider
the character of the Commander, is ho would leave no-
thing behind him unexamined (and, from the indented
nature of the coast,th eee is much to examine) we are not in
the least surprised at his taking 3 seasons, whicb.iodred, he
always calculated upon to accoroplish his task, and which,
if not impossible, hems)? therefore beespected to do in the
course of the present summer. With regard to risk, we
apprehend none beyond that to which all navigation in
the icy seas is liable, and which the long•frequented
whale fishery, conducted in vessels not half so strong nor
half so well manned, has proved to be little more than
common era risk. Indeed, with ships as strong as wood
and iron can make them—stored with provisions and
fuel for nearly four years; with a Commander excelled
by none in the various duties of his profession, endued
with intellectual faculties of the highest order, and full
of zeal and energy, tempered with due prudence and dis-
cretion; with experienced officers and crews of picked
seamen; we cannot persuade ourselves that any reg.
sonableground of alarm for their safety need be enter
tamed."

• '• Among the number of idle conjectures which appears
from time to time, In the public prints (and which are pro-
duetive of no other effect than awakening the anxiety of the
friends of those employed on the expedition), one writer is
surprised that Captain Franklin met with no traces of Cap-
tain Parry, though it was impossible; a Frenchman has dis-
covered him on the coast of Siberia; and an English
Journalist announces :he two ships to have been seen off
Icy Cape by some fishing boats of the Aleutian Islands,
which is just the same as if the pilchard fishermen of the
coast of Corowall had discovered thaw off the North
Cade of Norway, the distance in such cue being about the
acme.