Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-05
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Tie queens visit TO the IxrsOIutc.

tFfom the London Times, Dec. III
Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Al
bert inspected the discovery bark Resolute, which
is now lying off Cowes, in the Medina water;
but before narraing the circumstances of the
royal visit il may not be inappropriate, as this is
peculiarly the age of "antecedents," TO glance at
the past history of that remarkable craft, aud TO
present in consecutive form some facts respec-
ting her which are not generally known. aud
others which though they have already been pub.
hshed, are too interesting to suffer by repetition.
Her Majesty's bark Resolute formed one of Sir
Edward Belcher's squadron of discovery, and
in May, 1853. was sent, under the command of
Captain Kellett. Il. n, To the Polar Seas in
search of Sir John Franklin and for scientific
purposes. She was--or, since her dellverance
enables US to speak of her of u ship restored
to life. let us rather say she is-a stout square
built vessel of 500 tons. She is double decked
and double planked throughout. in order TO with
stand the pressure of Joe, and She carries two
brass gun six FOUNDERS Her builders. having
regard To the comfort of her officers and crew i'll
the Arctic seas, fitted her with an ingenious heat
ing apparatus, the furnace OF which Is inserted
in tho mainhold, while steampipes, running fore
and aft through the body of the vessel, maintain.
ed an agreeable temperature even when the Their
mometer had fallen much below zero. When
she left the government dockyard she was libe-
rally provided with everything requisite for her
perilous voyage. and. both regards structure
and equipment, was admirably adapted for the
| service in which she to DO engaged Owing
| to her peculiar build she is neces sarily u dull
! sailer, but -h" is very strong ship, and what
| the Americans call "a good, safe seaboRt." Not
| wihstanding. however, the care bestowed on her
! construction. she not tated to fulfil the pur-
| poses for which she was designed. She was
! frozen in among the icebergsin latitude ~ deg
| n. and in the month of May 1854, her officers
aud crew finally abandoned her, leaving their eff
| fects on board. She had remained in the iceberg
| l6 months, when n large portion of the ice in
which she was imbedled brcomng detached from
| the mast by thaw, it toated off with her. leav-
! ing her at the mercy of wind and wave, and hur
| ryng her out to remote sens, where, in latitude
&c deg 30 min. and longitude "a deg, she WAS
found in the month of September. 1855, by the
! Captain Buddngton. She had then drifted over
the wilderness of waters about 1900 miles from
| the spot where she WAS abandoned Captain
Buddngton and part of his crew approach
! cd her over the ice, and took up their quarters
! within her. They fund ~ death like silence
and dread rcpose," torexoept themselves.there
was not living thing on hoard, In the words
of DIR. Macown the surgeon of the ship, who has
written pretty poem on the subject: -
Her wooden walls tenautless,
No more the busy throng
Cherrea the lone decks through Arctic nights
J With mHsic and with song
| The bold aud gallant crew had fled
| That once she gladly bore,
| In search of Franklin and his men
! From Abon's happy shore.
The ship found not to have sustained any