Year: 1875

CAPTAIN YOUNG AND HIS CRITICS.
The Morning Advertiser not courteous as it's
contemporaries in greeting tho Pandora's return. II
said -


OF all the astonishing things, said that Journal which
have occurred the OF Arctic exploration, there
has been nothing more absolutely wonderful than The
return of the Pandora Saturday TO Portsmouth.
When she started in June from the side of the dockad
jety greatest naval port II with hopes high
and hearts elatc. Never was there that seemed
more devoted to ship, or had more experience OF
ice; there officers who appeared better
fitted to direct such picked crew. The chosen chron
icler board, and was known for his daring
enced in Arctic work. What there tha; could
possibly promise more fairly, only the expedition
of the Alert and the Discovery which had the resources
OF nation AT their back, yet which not in their
degree better fitted and manned than Lady Franklns,
Mr. j. Gordon Benefits aud Captain Allen Young's
Fox, renamed Pandora2 She seems TO have done very
well until she pack ice, and then she returned
We trust she did not expect to find the remains or Sir
John Franklin and his gallant comrades without seeing
ice Yet, sooner does she across "a closely
packed field OF ice, extending 'as far the eye could
reach and with every prospect OF the ship being frozen
in y than she comes back But tins appalling pro-
spect seng that it occurred in the first days OF Sep
tembcr when ice frequently packs and opens out again.
should hardly have determined resolue men TO re-
turn One story is that the crew resolved to como
back. Well, we saw the Pandoras crew, and we think
there nothing less likely than that they resolved
do anything what their captain told them to do
To say nothing oil Esqumaux joe who adheres to the
belief in which Lady Franklin died. that Sir John is
yet alive there was not board the tight little craft
single hand who had not been tried many a cold
sea That instead of news Of Franklin, the Pandora
surely most ilchosen name-should have brought
home 'some Esquimaux dogs and a bear,n must
very gratifying TO naturalsts but hardly be said
TO materially advance our knowledge Of Arctic geo
graphy OF the whereabouts Of the bones OF Frank
lin and his noble crew.


To this Captain Young replied, addressing his com
munication to the same paper whose editor was good
enough to retract the impertnence of the former
article:--


CAPTAIN YoUNG's REPLY.


To THE EDITOR MORNING ADVERTISER


SIR notice that you state that ''of all the astonish
ing things nothing is more absolutely wonderful than
the return OF the Pandora


Now, to me, IL appears that nothing is more wonder
full than that newspaper SO influential and so well
informed should make such statement in absolute
ignorance everything connected with the projects Of
the Pandora, and consequently Of my own private
affairs for the Pandora sailed as private yacht, the
expenses OF the VOYAGE were deraved ty private rse
and all publicity avoided at least unsought
am, moreover. at loss TO understand your Infer
that coach may be driven through stone wall
ship sailed through solid and fixed barrier OF Ice
though perhaps your niormants may nave lea you 70
suppose that such feat IS possible. And was not
newspapers canvass absolutely private affairs or
attempt to throw slur upon the character of crew
who most honest and respectable seamen, and who
have done their duty to me- their employer, in most
exemplary manner


trust therefore, that you will, with that courtesy
and candor with which you so justly credited ex-
plain your numerous readers that the statement
question appeared in error, and without sufficient
knowledge Of facts to warrant the differences which



&C. ALLEN YOUNG,


Commander Arctic Ship Pandora


No ] ST. James street. s. W., Oct "a


I'VE very willingly give insertion TO this communica-
tion feel bound to admit that the circumstances
connected with the sailing of and the return Of the Pan
dora--the latter subsequently made known to uswere
not such to justify the infereuces and conclusions
suggested in the article complained Of by Captain
Young. We not that had cast any sIur
upon the Pandora's crew, but any rate hasten to
withdraw anything which possibly be held 10 reflect
upon the conduct and gaantry either Of crew, officers
or commander.-ED. NJ A.