The New York Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1854, Page 7

It is in the ordere pate the 13th-15¢s ind M’Clare will have be aor and on e1 iste emine: | Be Geprecations of bears or other mals; barrack alone aer’ peataneens for soldiers. ‘you at Locking from this point (Sigual Hill the harbor, spxiously would I avoid touching on this mat- | there, with or withou! not a fishing’ bost , a you, 3 this honorable Court isinstracted “‘to search -| most advisable, so that Captain Collinson or Tour ye ou trreep the broad ex a of water ilk into my conduct of this expedition, aud I cannot al- | Commanber M‘Clare’s party may finderery possible pho look, and observe the doings at both ex- low that any imputation should rest on me for non- | assistance which they may require, and have the | tremities of this large haven with the greatest case. Br darlin of tn oer ely cngotst Tomy | nid yen av pachee wohate ey | fue Steamed atresia ut Bo: you cable e a four 0! masted war vessel ti ‘0 imperatively neceseary to decide on instanter, veillance. , and I dis- | or a depot of stones; tvarmaendran on, lect. With Signal Hil a telegraph vie — D 5 H s 3 ry she might not be able to’ cut out next season, and | covered itin the correspondene relative to Lieut. | between Melville Ba and Beechey Island, it mi outer fort communicates, ard every versel enterin, | Me neceeaty of het sband-amient woald again be | Pim, after Treached Beechey' Inland in July, 1304, | be xpcoteat wo do ne This o's naitt aa da oe Latteieed i aipiataiee Dele ere | Come a fresh subjectof doubt, Of this uncersaiaty | that be, or some officer of the Investigator, might | can form a bet‘er judgment thun we cau. Our nat | Grande is situated on tie Opposite side of the rivar we bad the year of 1863, when the Broadalbaue was | have searohed the short distance down Paince of | apxious wish is to establish t st poss'b’e ar- | to Rio, and beara about the same co a lost, and the season this year, whon the North | Wales's Siraits, and that afforded me the grouad- | rangemrot with the view of givin Nasear iad | that Hoboken does to New York. itis ee on bar dotibiiakcaragy tony "ek boscorgi wo ve Sins work, el 4 ae lett, of at kcast Soe’ mae Ned “agate those ships, Sop be | to say the least of it, a beautiful littie place, more { BUCCeO: m abandonment of ne | Cm ed to eeek refu, rection ’ us earthly rillage. Comfort and convenience until telief, if neces- | fice or the 2ist of August. Thea bets our. Resolute, bat such been his wish; also for |-poi ed out. 6. Having pa these. general fone bite that bide their lofty ake ie sary, sbould be cent from England. But it was mised a council of officers should have been | viacing my notices farther down Peel’s- Inlet, which will require your careful consideration, | misty firmament, and mammoth caves through clear to my conception, ani their lordships had re- | held. But 1 confidently ask if, after I had quitted | aud even plissing the reserch af Liéut. Mechant | we Jeave it to you to take such steps as you may | which the hoarse moan of the tide is foverer echo- iied fully and sole'y on my abilityto uage of these | this position, and time ‘passed, I could calculate on | still farther than Ramsa' Island—pasteiy to | consider most expedient for meeting the circum: | icg, make one dream of real romance; while the matters Captain Collineon, with 4 zon) ehip | uvanimity of ceciston. In one instance, it was sug- | the Enterprise! Captain Kellett has stated that my | atances of the cae.” following document, | quict beauty of the fruit lands, rendered almost under bis feet, no want of rovisions, avd the know- , cested by their lordships, upon the question of | order—tbe orly “order,” I humbly submit to this | which was read by sir Belcher, contaias the | Patadisical by their fragrant atmos, here gives new by Polat Barrow and Behring | abandonméxt of further search, paragraph 2, No. 2, | hop. Court, which be would submit to as imperative, | latest inatructious which he regeived from the Ad: | zest to your existencs—now vigor to your soul. i , Would pot blindly tempt Providence by any | “And if such should likewise be your opinion | and under date the 21st of April, 1854—was given | mirelty :— | Some distance from the steamoat landing, | farther at/empt to advance towards Barrow Straita. | (after mature consideration with the seniors under | without any reference to his opision. 1 humbly Apsanarry, April 28,1354. | the sea shore, aud at the foot of a pretty wig bill, | Previous to the arrival of the Pecnix I had sug- command,) thie appears no other course | submit that, with my original orders of October | SiR—My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have | there is a kind of cavern between tvo rocks, wiiok , 48 will be apparent in my despatch of No. 3, | left, but to abandon al farther search.” 1 | (sentooly as information), the suppl:mentary ones | ‘irected Her Majosty’s ships Phonix and Talbot, uoder | patore seems to have intended for a pic-nic table, | 1854, under date Aug. 15, 1850, thet, in the event | candidly ask, intrusted as I was with full | of February, 1854, the private letters and emissaries | (he order» of Caplain Inglelield, to procesd with provi. | and which has been dubtiegs used for tha: purpose _ of his meeting with Dr. Rae, be would obtatn acom- | powers, most completely in possession of the | (Lieut. Hamilton and Commander M'Clintock, tue | Nrienishing tho ships and depots, and Tam commis. | #@ Various old brandy bottles, corks, and wll pi oked mt guide to conduct him and hia orew to | views of her Majesty’é government, and with my | latter ct whom he empowers to re; ut himself, | gioned by their hips bones testify. Doub ing this hill of whio's I speak, ae Bay pastes The — acres final aonets, Die hs ey risk senteninen and who was full, pag bay a an Be eck in: | return of the you can return to the bya path throagh a year seems weren my suspicion councils, and, finally, acta: I tnought proper” ray . i heard all, con- | had the sat quaint you that, on tho | hey Island last year, they pleasant abubbery, on either side of which wild safe arrival of k would meet him, as Captain Coilinsom proposed (ag | at sucha critical moment? Was this coutemplated | sidered all, and duly weighed the good fait involv- | Majesty's ship Investig southern flowers grow in profusion. Pawiag through | stated.in bis record) to advance eastward and | when this command was entrusted to me, and was | ed in wy instructious from their lordships, and fully | tain M'Clure, at Banks’ Land, hay | the village atl ia still and ani, yon bear no noise, | southerly towards the Dolphin and Union Strait | it to such an alternative that I was to be driven to | cognizant of the private feslings and reasons of | every of the northwest passages though, 1 'y, | save the gabbling of some children in an infant Under thene circumstances I think it highly p:o- | screen myeelf from bility? Noone, I feel | Capt. Kellett, I dec on the honest performance without discovering traces of Sir John Franklin, and school, the notes of a solitary piaf> here and the of my ia- | bable that we shall see either Captain nson, or | sure, would give me It for conduct a0 un: of a painfal public duty, fully coaviaced at this patrol of the al oe es Snabie a reno Daataln there. On the wall of tre ferry house, a travelling me sine, sates by Dr ae, atte ately. “My” Eanl doops or canoes re; ene or 80 er to pro pepe oun ie eres! fe rang and ipa they. oe) ig ak ge my espate! reed hich | Xoo co has left his name. It is “Czas, Templeton, p recommendation ne sdmiralty. luce dissension bs: am 2088 B98: ge no extiica' could remaia for 8 ol, Capt: 88," red in October, 1851, to inquire and report w ed. esi, 28th of Bept, Gork, will give ay faa | elated with me, by possibly acting diate ay tn tie Hesolute, but that the additional force of ir | ler Muventy's slip Enterprise, passed tho entrance of | The pritcipal places of amusement in Rio » wious expedition; and toat ‘the plan of future proceedings; bat it be necessary for me to re- | opposition, to opin! ven uy such ciccum- | crew migh* eventually save the A sistance. But se | the Colville river ; and thcir lordships trust, by the re- | the theare Lyried Flamineuse, St. Pedro oad ions there pr ised ia to be the basis of 7 on what is there so distinctly set Thad | tances, even if a majority thought with me. [ have | faras I cam follow the reasoning of Captain Kel | ports he may have obtained from the natives of Prince | St. Francisco. At the first named, Madame Char- dings.” inal the of tune tully intended ai the arrival of the expected | besd of a council of Sarthe the preparation for | lett, now stravge to me, Captain Collinson does | Albert’s Land, as well as from the records deposited by |’ ten, a Fresch lady of some celebrity, has been givi from the ive First Lords of | | relief from England, ab Beechey Island, and asoor- | etveat, but I trust that my ba k way never be tura: | know where the Investigator went. He leaves | “uptain M’Clure on his passage along that shore, that he | q geries of operas. Tbe papers speak eloquent me oa 4 the 18ta paragraph, woere jalan he latest wishes of Lords marnisalon: ed from fe enemy; nor do I teat bo taake-sayeal 20 notice of any intention to seek, her. He = Regt 8 oA pacts el gece get her succeeds, dine, Lucia and Noeme. ere n return ofthe ers \miralty on, inal | respon for my conduct, or for sion io | intends to make an attemnt on what we be- io MC! iad ee <ist and son have been performing treir gymoastia Bcglend. tse 20th paragraph Pinds me to.one. | step of withdrawing the crew of her Majesty's ahip | this expedition. The auprobation of my Lords Com. | lieve to be ““a blind lead,” and it is clear to me teat. | ° Tris orae the tase rear een Kellett sur apeciat | fata to respectable houses in the theatre St. Pedros ce, and I am commanded to return | Assistance. But, havin, frequently discussed this | mistioners of the Admiralty, under the views oon- | be wiil return, for he bas no alternative but in tae | attention to the mensures they now. require to be mlopt- | _. We have oad three deaths on board since my bens the stock of provisions shall have been re- | watter with Ci and McClure, &c., it } ‘ained in my former despatch, fully sstiefied me | mind of theorists, and find the advice of Captain | cd at once for withdrawing, if possible, the whole of the | Robert Bruce, a native of Scotland, John Turner 4 t> twelve months’ full allowance, seemed to be the opinion that ro safety of return to | tbat the course I would meet with their ap | Kellet, the best he could give, to return with all | force now cmployed in the search for Sir Johu Franklin | Loudon Va., ard Michael Nad, marine, of Galway, dictates that tweive months’ full allowance | Ergland (and at that period unaided by — probation on the its of the case. I decided to the | despatch by the way of Point Burrow. This relieves | from the Polar seas; for effecting this object, they re- | Tieland. esly react of suca a mixture of preserved | could be reckoned on after the 26th of August, best of my ability, and under t:e trust reposed in | my mind. I had no idea, altrough the paper may | fr#in from issuing any positive instruction how youare | Tre firat Portuguese mail steamer that ever ar- ¢ béen ena % that I ought at once to proceed to the Assistance | me, fi st, to withdraw the crew of the In tor,or | have passed my hands unnoticed, that suc aa im | (0 act, or what sep: you are to ta hey are aware | rived in Rio, came in cn July the first. ‘The gtori- my - | andexe.ute all that was necessary to be dono be- | to spprove of the measures adopted by Cap'ain Kel: | portant document had been so’ well placed, or [ | You must, be ont uided by the pé-ition of the ships | ons fourth of the same month was becomingly cele- be caught (as fere that date. I deferred until the 234, calculating | le't; next, that of the Resolute (the crews of tenders | would assuredly bave embodied it in my correspon- | Niust influence your operations, but. their lordsiips? | bated by all the war ships in harbor. On the Lite of August we were considerably surprised by the arrival of the Yankee river steambost very proper ly called the Surprise on her way to Califoraia, ‘ack, and compelled to wicter in it, True it is | that the full moon of the 25th (for the spring tides | being borne on the books of the ships to which they | dence, of which I have no revollection. I hold la | Views may be stated generally as follows :— supplies have been forwarded, both last as well | have little influence om the weather there) would | were attached); and, finally, that of the Assistance. | wy hands the correspondence of Captain Kellett, 1. If the erews of the Enterprise and Invyostizator year, to Beechy Island; but, in co far as re- | effect any change which could be hoped for during | But with all due submission to this honorable court, | between March and Ju'y, 1854, one important letter | are at Ban| nd they must abandon their shi o our ships and preparations for farther service | Auguat. My expectation of the release of the ship | I am here in England (on duty) in my gig awaitin; fe to Captain Collinson excepted. I trust that should be made to What next, brother Jonathan? On the 27ch, the concerned, we, who know by experience the | thisceason was crushed at each successive stege | the further pleasure of my Lords Commissioners o: tain Kellett will at a future date allow me to M turn to Ei U. 8., sloop-of-war Decatur got in, after the long ulty of laying out the caches, even for the sus- | which we made northerly. The young winter had | the Admiralty (as my Gespatches indicate), and ofsome extracts on purely service matters, Be gre ftlett, passage of seventy-two days from Norfolk. In firiug nce of tra’ jarties, well know that sledge | set in there, as it did on the previous years at | ready, should such be their direction, to rejoin my | to clear away any impression from the mind of ‘the " mt to England will the whole | Salute tor the Briiah, a quarter gunner of the Northumberland Sourd and Port Refoge; sud, | ship where my pendant was left fying. “By the | First Lord af the Admiralty. Tost portion of one | Cf" the ships. sod their crows, abeiioning all farther") EFeECH frigate Acdromede had his arm blown off, therefore, without sme extraordinary onvul: lence produced before this honorable court, it } embodied in my narrative was read to Captain Kel- | tearch for ihe missing expedition, unless any cireum. | {om the effects of which he died in seven minutes sion of nature, not now to be expected before | will apeat, that blasting the ice was resorted to. | lett, and he did not offer any objection to its use on | stances (on consultation with the senior officers of her | Afterwards. On September 7th, the mail packet the crew for one year would occupy, as | the first week in October, no hope remained of re- | Now blasting, unless there be a free space for the | this occasion. With respect to notices, as I have | Majesty's ships) should u Severn arrived from Southampton. She leaves moe teaches us, about an entire seagon. | Jease. Still mindfal of m: ition, and of the poasi- | dislocated ice to float off, is but judicious | made all those issued by me uniform, I ould only | remaining out anot | for the same place on the 15th. ‘The U.8. steamer too pi known to me, that, bat for | ble wishes of their lordships, I left hip (on | expenditure of powder. The removal o ice, not | imagine that the one left at Ramsay Island was | {ate of our missing countrymen, But if C K Maseachusetis, on her way to join the Pacific squad- arrival of the Phoenix, after I had quit- | duty) fully prepared to take posssasion, should such | excceding eighteen feet in thickness, even to free | similar to that left at Deely Island, and tins Nontome | Ton, put in here on the 9th. The U. 8. ship Ger has been unable echy 2, that the atock of preserved | be their pleasure. Atall events, toleave her under | the ship from her winter berth, one hundred and | escaped notice. I regret to find the evidence | amd, it may be nocosary to give o | mantown run in here on the 7th, in tem days frou , &c., intended for the relief of any wao might | a proper commander. It must ‘be apparent to the | riaty feeta-head, cost the labor of about.one hundred | of Commander M'C:intock today varies so com: Sechay Ieeaas note ee omamashea th Falkland Islands. The commodore ordered her im- eid not detain any officers or men who may | Wediately to sea again. She is now beating out of Beeches feland. but send them to | B&bor, on her way to Pernambuso. ‘The hag ws ~ | is at Montevideo. The bark Sarah Chase, forty- of Captain Col- | five days from New York, arrived yesterday. There i iga rumor here that forty-five men of a British maa- of-war have been lost in the harbor of Bahia, while | going ashore on liberty. Of the Saranac’s move- ments I can te!l you nothing in advacce. We are preparing for sea, this is all I know, but wherever we go, be assured you shall hear from me. i Beechy Island was far from sufficient, and that | mind of every naval officer, that the fact of a crew | *ndsix men at the rate of about fourteen hours a-day pletely from that g' yesterday. He ten attri- a atlowance only could be spared for the in- | leaving their mess places, almost annihilates ¢ over one month. The docking a ship in the fice ia | buted the blockiog of Wellington Channel to resuls d crews themaseembled on board her Majéity’s | chance of comfort should they return. It wasat-| only deemed a temporary measure to avoid nips, | from the nom-sleatance of Barrow's St-aits. Tne ico North Star. As to travelling condition, all tempted to obviate al this, and I therefore iaspected | vever for winter quarters. To cat ths North Star | from Parry’s boundary did not clear away this year jae! was expended in laying out the caches for | the decks before 1 took my fins! leave, and saw that | out of winter quarters, with sa, waters outside, a | until late in August, and Leopold Island was not y’s ship Euterpi a Collinson before Jane this year; lignum | she was creditable to the officers aud crew should | distance of about eleven hundred yards, osoupied sp pwecietie se Commander M’Clintock well u 7 provide for h ‘and. coal, ill adapted, only remained. 2 | fresh banda be sent to take possession. Sheleaked at | one hundred and sixty men and office:s from the | this year, until the 27th of August, by m Bespane the Relea een dames ane. b patters of deep import, but which are seldom | the time regularly seven inches per diem. On reach: | tenth of June until the twenty-first of August, | fifteen milesof “land floe,” as will be seen by my | Wit); Provisions and stores; and ii will bem ght ot by others than those on whom the com- | ing the southern fice ledge, thirty-four miles fromthe | seventy-two days, in ice varying from three to aeven | despatch of the 28th September, 1864. T'ne opin- | Star or Talbot wits a ten rests. But, to return to Fe committee of | ship, over which the boats had been dragged, it was.| feet. But in the course of taking opinion I fully oun. | ious'now given are merely the reault of what the e those stations everythin ings have been he: found that much property must be abandoned, as | sulted all the officers around me, ard taking not the | latest experience bas aided in forming—not what | and comfort of the er Epsor. the boats could not carry the crew, and eighteen | opinion ofanYonein particular, I decided inthe spirit | wight have been the result had the season been as | having done this, it does not appear to thoir lordship EXCUSE GIVEN BY THE ENGLISH FOR FIRING INTO THR men had to ag § land antil relief was sent from their Lespekipe instructions as to abandonment, ‘‘if | close as last year, when the Phoonix barely escaped | be necessary that any of ps should remain another AMERICAN SCHOONPR BAY CITY. the North Star. the crews of the Investigator, | such likewise should be your opinion”that no possible | fiom Beechey Ia’aud omthe 26th August. If the ice | year in the Polar Seas, un! We translate the following item from the Corres - | Mercantil (Rio de Janeiro) of the 1ith of Septem- | ber s— i prise sti. | ¢ American schooner B: it jich put Is'and. By the orders to previous Arctis commanders | has informed you that the crew of the Assistasce | only make, say eighty miles in eighty-six daye,I-had | eaior, North Star, ani thot.) if it can be | hone, ee tat ‘fastant, pital: with aa it was the custom (as willbe seen by the twenty- | were enervated by continued service. Why they | 00 reason, from apy communication made to me, to | dione; if possible to do so, they leave it to your judgment | pleasant rencontre off Bahia, for not respon ta fires raph of those addressed to Sir John | weie ina worse Condition than that or Kellett’s | expecta release this season. Indeed, I bad every | and discretion to send home such of them as may not be | the signals made by H. B. M. schooner Bonita. b be abandoned, Fraoitin ge well as to Sir Edward Parry, &c.) to| ship or the North Star, bas not b:en stated. | reason to believe that she was in imminent danger. | required, and to adopt those measures which con- | Eoglish schooner, it seems, Orst saw the American, pot.” But nature herself bad ided that no | take commard of the should the veaselof | The former had the resources of Melville | Commander M'Clintock also ctates that he, as an | Sider most necessary to ensn . a asked her, in naval terms, by # blank shot, to ble progress should be made beyond the 97th de- | the cenior be injured:—‘In the event of any irrepa- | Island, affording daily, for a period, 14 lb. per | officer, would, in defiance of the orders he well Perigo ee ree gh lie to. Receiving no answer, she fancied it waa P this , for ahe had such a barrier | rable accident happeniug to either of the two ships, | man, of beef and veniaon, besides small game, ac- | knew I held, and of which he had an authorized nbn sf he some Rngsian cruiser, and then fired in earnest, at this tarnin, angle of the coast as rendered | you are to cause the officers aad crew of tue disab! tivity and amusement; whereas the crew of the Ag- | copy, bave remained by his veseel. Iam happy to obliging the Bay City to voist her colors, On seeing pr advance to ships i ship tobe removed into the other, and with her | sistance never tasted one ounze beyond the Queen’s | find that the more officer-like opinion of Capt. Keilett the flag, the English were suspicious that it was d myself of the refuge w! eingly to proceed in prosecution of the voyage, or | stores, except a casual hare, or ptarmigan, snot by | agrees with my sense of naval discipline. [have now authorize you to"! used as a disguise. They consequently dei Arctic tors return to Bogiand, according aa circumstances shall | siogle sportsmen in the barzen, unproductive wii. | been nearly forty-three years in the naval service of and to make the schooner’s paper, and on being of explori appear to require, understanding that the officers | derness where our ship winterzd. 2 North Star, | my country—thii ty six years a commi:sioned officer, 1 may deem nece they were genuine allowed her to proceed. The Resolute and Assistance, were now to be added to | chauce offered of extricating her Majeaty’s ship As- | thus pressed on Leopold Island and that northern ae further search to b those ‘belonging to the North Star, an aggregate | sistaeme inthe eeason of 1854, aud my instra:tions | land, it i my firm conviction that no movement | These are tho views of thei of 268 souls, to be conveyed in one ship to Hagland, | directed me, if possible, that all the cre ws, if not the | could have taken ylace on the ice where the Reso- 6 ships’ oF crews. i and all other duties: complete, we quitted Beechey | vessels, were to come home. Commander Richards | Jute and Jutrepid were hampered. If they could } ce, Pioneer, Resols b and crew of both abips are hereby authorizad and | aleo, had the successive refreshments provided by | 9nd for periods of nearly twenty yeura have been ing their wishes in’ fs Bonita arrived in the fe terday. miles useleas ured to continue to perform the duties according | the several vessels which touched at Beec'ey Island, | eptrusted with more important comands and ex: trebles bed Nia i mgfrniet bet pie a to their ive ranks and stations on boardel tier | and her crew were nearly exchanged in 1853 by tue | ercising greater powera than, I believe, few of my ne en in ey SE ee The Executive Government of the City. period that | sbip to which they mey be removed, in the event of | men t ont by the Phoenix. The ev.dencs of | rankhave held. I have met tha or gone of my | and crews shall arrive in England emeete le om Roy TO THE EDITOR OF THE N HERAL: might, in idleness, dream of | sn occurrence of this nature. Should, unfortunate | Commander Ric! is fatly borne out by that of | Lords OC: mmissiorers of the Adi ity, that of the | On the return of any of the ships to England from | alee pac Bruce mg Name i 1 ess inthe sip, and therefore I deem- | ly, your own ship bethe one disabled, you ars in | be medical officers. A general survey was hold | Foreign office, and, I trust, that of maay distia- | neechey Inland, it ‘s vesiratle that the east to ihe | T€ ¢xecntive government of the city of New redeet te call on ye lope Richards, Lieu- that ode to ae of the Toror” Sir | every fortnight, and by that, coupled with my.owa | guished officers in my profession. [have met the r of Pond’s Pay, namely, from “the river Clyde | York, as now conducted, is a subject in which every master, for James Ress was similarly directed to make such ar | observations, I could not be ignorant, not ony of the | evemies of my country during the years 1912, 1813, ‘ape Walsingliam sho H nts for the and crews as may be | preeent ailings, but of the general disposition to | 1814, 1915, 1816, and 1842, and as a neutral, repeat. | you are, therefore, to endeavor 3 1 snout oomecazt to the rales of the service, and most | disease throughout the crews. Lest any iaiscon- | edly urder fire in the Douro; im 1833, was thanked | tbe ships proceeding to England to meet this c conducive to the objects of the ition. Captain | ception should arise with respect to te svale of | by the higher pwers for the same judgment and de- a aH obit ots Gollinon bed simllar orders.” T-alads to those iat | provisions, I beg to Temurk thatthe scale ordered | ction whi h this day, for the frm time in my ife, |<, (ie Devel tok especially to show that their lordships considered the | was 80 far oe that no complaint was mada | has ever been questioned; not by Lords Commis- | } Ls : tale of service in Arctic service to beas I have | by the crow, and it is well kaown that seameasel- | sioners of the Admiralty, but by the customary | { extracted in the order to Sir John Franklin. If had | com omit to let their feelings on such matters be | rules of the service, of which, I trast, I shall not be abandoned or lost her Majesty's ship Assistarce, it | known on the quarterdeck. Neither fuel, clothing, | fourd by this honorable court an unworthy membe:. the corporation of New York is probably a source ef” would clearly have been my duty to have taken com-| nor preserved mess, were in such quantity asto | Next to the approbation of my sovereign, and of my | :) | some snrprige if not astonishment. He is, perhaps, mand of thé North Star. But I had previously, | warrant leaving a crew—for the health and comfort |» Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, I value the | are clearly to understand that yon are not to comm’! | J and still continued to command the equadron from | of my officers and crew had been deemed to be my | honorable approval of my professional brethren. | any, lestile act whatever, the slips unter your counman! | @ Frenchman of that revolutionary school which be= my gig, from the 18th of July to the 24th of August | Grat consideration ; and upon the matter of comfort | Jealous of my honor, and sensitively alive to the re- | [iting heen, fi'tel ont for the sale purpose of ailing | Heyes, or professes to believe, that » constitution ona at land, takin, precedent the | to the officers, ali had been spared that could be | motest shadow of blame, I confidently repose in | otatiisiied practice uf all civilized nations to consiler | be formed in a day, a code of laws ina week, and @ course adopted by Str Gordon » when he | sent to those who were in want at Bechey Island ; | + ur hands that character which, during along and | Yostels xo employed as exempt froin the operations of | republic, “feathers and all,” hatched in a month, IE quitted ber Majesty’s Wellesley, in China, and | and I was informed that neither mess articles nor | ying seivicd in every clime and in the re- | war, public, 5 a 5 proceeded with bis gig on board the Sesostris steam- | wize, nor any wine for the sick, remained to render | motest regiovg of the earth, has, I trust, not been | 1 am, sir, your most humble servant, B. OSBORNE the stranger is an Englishman, of that untravelle® - er to Calcutta. and as I considered that it would | the winter more than that of simple endarance un- | tarmished by disobedience to the wishes as The’ court was then ordered to be again cleared | 800b class which is forever fi fault with every Capt. McClure from bringing the Iavestigator | inconvenience the service by interference with the | der the high professional feelings which actuated | rell as the commards of my Lords Commis: | ond after the lapze of about two hours it was re , body, everywhere, s combination ef lville Island. Ihave, farther, my own expe | books and accounts, if [ took the command of the | the officera to stay by the ship. I was further in- | sioners of the Aémiralty. Sir E. Belcher then re: opened. ¥ 5 H prejudices and gall, who can see good that fa: and my own conviction, based on my jour- | North Star, I directed Commander Pallen “to re. | formed that no volunteers among the crew would be | extracts fiom various orders issued by the Lords of | PEt he, uty Jndge Advecate read the long formal | 20t English, ard nothing English that is not good— o the northeast in 1852 and 1863, that up to | ceive me, a8 well ss the other officers of the expedi | found. The evidence of Commander M‘Clintock | the Admiralty for his guidance in the eoncuct of | gading of tre cour:, which, after reciting the pow- | he would be apt to exclaim, ‘‘Is this » specimen of ddle of July, 1853, no Ing for navigation | tion, with my gig, for com to Eoglend.” goes, I humbly submit, and.he iso uasomnon an- | the expedition. By, instructions dated the 16th of | ¢:5 vested in the court to try Capt. Gir Elward Bel. | Jour republican management? Isthisa sapple ef 4. Indeed, if {t had, no one officer of my | Thus, commanding from her "a ship North ‘ity, to ee most clearly, that with his experl- | April, 1952, Bir Edward Belcher was directed to | cher ©. B. for the loes of ber fajesty’s ships As | Your free institations?”” could have suggested a course to pursue. | Star, the Phoenix and Talbot hove in sight, and I of Prince Regent’s Inlet, the viciatty of Port | proceed with the Assistance, Resolute, Pioneer, 1 tance, Resolute and Intrepid, were of opinion, hav: | We apewer, yes! It is the very freedom of p, then, I would inquire—in what direction | bad to consider the latest instructions forwarded to Leopold and Barrow’s Straits, both under Capt. Aus. / tepid. and North Star to Becohey Island, witch was | |... heard the evidence in support of the charge, aud | OUF institutions that facilitates these discrepame he search to be prosecuted ? for every known | me from their lordships. It will be seea by the | 1850-51, and now with our expediti m, that | to be cousidered the grand rendezvous of the expe- | 4:4 ‘statement of Sir Ecward, Bolcher-ond heving | cle®, ard exposes us to the gape inflasmes d been plored! Over the vast | second paragraph the: ed the ‘‘at once with: | the cause of the ice not cle: in the Wellington | dition, and on arriving at that point his attention | Gujy weighed the same and tho premises, that Cape. | of office seekers, amy and dema- drawin; nif postble, te of the force now em- | ‘Channel is to be attributed to the non-clearance of | was circcted to two great objects—first, endeavor | Kojiet was justified in abaudoning his ship from | gogues, but the keart of the Pi is sound loyed in the search for Sir John Franklin from the | Barrow’s Straits. Whence, then, the release of the | ing to pars up Welliogton Channel, with one sailing | 11 orders he iad received from Sir Fiward Belcher; | apd in the right place; those who have been lo@ Potar seas.” Next, if tte crews of the Enterprise | Resolute? And although much opinion has been | vessel and one steamer; ard. secondly, the advance | ing that Sir Edvard Belcher, in pursaance of the | 8Way ace inning to discover their real frien‘a; at Banks’ Land, they must | brought to bear on matters on which direct evi | ofa similar force towards Meiville Islacd. The | conndence vested in bir, was 60 authorized to give, | ® l'ght.is breaking in upon them; are lett is also to | cence as to fact on oath is necessary, I trust, with | following is the last paragraph of the instractions : | S73 had not gone beyond hia orders for abandoning | | & sense of the gross abuses which they case this cannot be effect- | all due submission to the court, that no reliable | ‘You are cltinctly to understand our inatractions | ++ oc yeyrela: but the court were of opinion that be- | fuller; they have ceased to put faith in those wha officers and men are not de | legal evidence has in any one point been addaced | to be, that the several ships under your orders sha! | fore doing so he should have aoahiree with Captain | profess to practise all the virtues under heaveng detained at Beechey Island, bat rent home. If no | to meet any of the questions involved, aod without | each be on its way heme, and to the eastward of | Kitest, “Under these cirenmetanecs they acanitted’, #bd betray the trast impcsed-upon them at the hai of Captain Collin-| considering the powers entrusted to me. Bat that | Barrow’s Strait, woenever their stock of provision | Grotsin Sir Raward Belcher. C. Brot ali blame, and | fizst feasible-opportanity. It is in the sudde2 ra. top, measures are to be adopted for his relief. But | there is no evidence whatever of any of these new | shsil have been redaced to twelve months’ full al. he ord acquitted accordingly. . ’ versal of a wrong, the power of thus quickly i I lowance.” In the instructions dated the 12th of hanced tosh Eéward Bek ie his fyirg an error, that constitutes the obiat beauty 0° were able. Next,| deration when I was within Lancaster Sound, | May, 1853, the following paragraphs occur:—‘2. out making any observation whatev: | car jaws aud institu*ions—there lies the ssfety o: “by their lord: | could I even, bad I been necessarily compelled to be | communicating with you on the subject of y: Be Hd be examined. wad | citizen is deeply interested, not more for the beach: i utin- | Of them-elves in particular, than, as represeating te: nin eeaE Th CERULS cit the daily visiters to our model republic, the primoi> ithe necessity of a part | Plesof democracy in full progress. i To a foreigner landing on our shores, imbued witit all his Europeon prejudices, the municipal action of Although this country fs now at war with Russio Po! ‘ our great confederation and the fi tio: ships,” being to reoall, withthe least possible de. | influenced by the opinion of any one, have attended | met orcers andthe service on whish you are employ. | Icber bowed on receiving the sword, aud the court | fr Sree ng at = ot the United Staten lay, the whole of the ships or crews nanied in the | to their opinions on such untenable grounis. I now | €4, we are aware bow impossib'e it is for us to sen! v Sdedatdnomnt: | Is isthia politioal mobility of oar people that im margin, if it can be done.” Their lordships, then, | arrive at the evidence of Captain McUlare, and here! cut any defivite instructions with reference to your | AFFAIRS IN BRA. some measure keeps in check thos paliticsl pan- having the fullest confidence in my unabace. zea! | I must make my stand, in so far as my opinions and | iu‘ure procecdires, when we sre ignorart o | “ vegvgtl 7 | derers who wish to fatten on the a are ' cs and integrity, give me such fall powers to act, | general acts relative to Captain Collinson are con- , the povitien in which you may now be placed, Que NEV Ab Oe eee conscious that the same le who elected oxad nearly the under every’ circumstance, aa I may consider most | cerned. To wnom could I look for ipformaton so | 0” whether any traces of Sir Jobn Franklin's expe- Ox poaxp Uniren Starrs Siar Saranac. | | wiliturm round if they their trust, and burt tyself, viz., the search of the western | conducive to the best interests of toe service and | securely as to the intentions of Captaia Collinson | c..ion may have been found during last autumn or Rio dE Janergo, Sept. 12, 1854.5 | them from their official pedestal. S hatta's Bay, ‘and in order t) effsct this he | the objects they bad in view. bea Dy ne as PS Pg ool, Rag mi ight be ee | Erk ree bod BE a bos Mey 12 you may | Mutinecrs Senteneed—Jol/ifeation of the Sailors Tt is the want of this pesuliarity which cripplee: point invoived. pro! 9 coming towards | ba 3 ost ¢: » I “ veaeel in Pond’s | fally to weigh and consider the onl ms opt. But if kore-—Rio, its Harigr and Surrounding Scene- | ‘he people of Europe ani stops theic . Siasees ie aoeet eer enokive tester ia. | Thet was, the care for ‘the safety and welfare of | Beeckey Islavd? Surely it wili not be for one | no traces of the missing ships have been found be- | 4°/"e-~Rio, it asi a 2 a im see Their atter conservatiam ia a mil Be abot tania? temodiate snug harbor, and the Assistance | Captain Collinson. That question had long occu- | moment entertained that conver-ation, confiden- ; yond the Wellingtou Channel, and if itshould appear | 1—Amusiments--Deaihs on Board— Ships necks, which will eventually strangle them; but Cle.” would have enabled us to com: | pied the thoughts and been the constant of | tial or private correspondence, on the intensely | that by the extended search you may have been Shizping, &c , &c. America wiil loom up from her political probation, rk « conversation between Captain Kellett avd mjself for | exciting objects of this expedition, are not the | enabled to make in that quarter, that the missing | at the present time, when the papers are filled | purified by x rience and verfect by practice— . six weeks. I had, therefore, no hesitation in coming | true indioes of the minds, of the inmost feelings, of | ships did not proceed in tnat direction, ani if Cap- | | 4, . descriptive of naval warfar>, | Détf ct in her laws and perfect in her institations-—— nt once to the decision, for the late arrival of the | those sascciated with me, If { am to be guided | tain Kellett should bave reached Melvi'le Island, ay | With comesporcerce cescrip: ’ | ard in twenty seats she will possess more power Pkoenix, and the startling report of her captain | solely by official communications, let them be pro | citected by bis instruct‘ons, aud his-land expedi- | and with stirirgacconnts of actnal ergagemen's | 914 greater influence in the world tha the unite 1 and the icemaster, that the through the ice | duced—I acknowledge none. Bu’ I must strongly | tiors should also have failed ia fincing any such | on the ceep,.a letter from @ peaceful frigate like our | effurts of the whole of could command. Seaoamecaied ‘problematical, called for decision | resist any opizions formed in this country, or after | trace, it does not appear to us that there is soy | own will be hardly ooticed in the midst of so man It {s our faith in the Peop that emboldens us to and promptitude in 8 tion. The first point was | my ultimate acts after quitting Beechey Island hai | other direction in which prospect of their discove- | — isiles. Still, th thos an ‘wil speak the troth without fear or favor, and to cal tbat no safe quarters for any vessel cou'd be found-| revealed intelligence on which It would then be in- | ry can be expected. Eve y actesiple part ot tne | ¢Xtiting epistles. Still, there are e who wil | thei: attention to some of the abuses which best. ide , the vicinity; next,that we had | expedient toact. Captain McClure had informed | shores of the Polar Seas, west of iancaster Sound, | tad it, ond it is for them write. I promisedt | thec tizensof New York like an incubus—abueea Sheanr oe a the Noth Bae ons erilled, andit ont that be considered Captain Collinson beyond | will bave been visited, without finding a trace of tne | give sou the particulars of the court martial being | which, if not quickly 1emedied, will produce inzal- the ship ef be lost, then her crew besubsisted | the reach of disaster. No one then dreamed of his | misting ships, exce; their former station at Beechey | 414 on board this ehip at the time I last wrote | Culsble mischief. To ac omglish this desirable end A hips to seek Becohey Island, if | islacd in 1845 and 1346. In sacha contingency | . Seat thet Le each Talbot had been lei exept med Pxpect that if sap of his parties 83 this, and if such should likewise be your opin: , But a® there was rot sufficient interest in them, and bebind and cut into winter quarters, now impera | should find a passage to exist (very much doub‘ed | ‘ov, alter mature consideration with the senior offi. 55 they were too long for me to copy, it ia adequat tively necessary to decide on instanter, she might | by intelligent individaals) through Poel Lalet, tha: | cers urder your cominand, there appears mo other | to say that the matizeers bare been sentenced, and able rext reason to cut out in time to proceed | he would find my notices deposited at Capes Walker | course left but to absndon all farther search. 3. Bat | aiede: the palcbnentiae jaatly de pty al ‘aswehad ample proof bythe fact of | and Bunny, on each side of the opeving, and that if | in care you sbould have found any trace of the | ate now undergolog » Jaatly the North Star ‘aly resoblag Fhe floe edge, aided | they did they would undoubtedly reach Beechey | expecition, it will be your auty to follow up that | ac:ved by them. three On the 2ist of August. refer- | Island before T quitted. Captain McClare’s opinion | ‘race. In doing this you mus} exercise extreme | In my last I spoke of liberty being long expected thet their, lordahtpe? instructions to Sir Joha | een eninge? mine, viz., that he was not in | caution, so as not to lose yourmeausof communica- | avd often sake4 for, It haa since been granted to of tia vot necessary to pass sew laws, but simply to ‘orce those we possess, to compel those in offive ‘ 0 carry out the roles snd regulations laid down for the'r guidance, to do their duty honestly and strict- ly, without fear, favor, or affection. Uuless this ws eee, it od ye ® Ane oe hebey wo reas cient, and consequently impossible to supply thas deficiency. Busivess capacity in all ma’ con- vected with Tice dig pol vasti: - i talent; a mau may the men, sad [am happy to say that their condact | pes, pera mayor, and his constitattonal 3 had no danger to apprehend, and could | ticn with Beecbey Island; nor are you toincar any | on “that the health, comfort, and safety | casi retarn by the was he gas The contest of | hopeless risk by proceedirg beyond reasonable 4 Hi tender, unless men on mm against me at laland, before thejar- | iimits, for tie safety of your crews must be your | while ow shore was very good for fellows confined in | manners, and judgment render him totally unfit to er po mn - and Ly + = (Pal of the Phoenix, was, that Capt. Collinson would in We piace every confidence ia ydur geal | the nerrow space of a ship for neatly a year. Itis { preside over the great interests ‘to his care under.the | advantage of next season from an advanced | make for the Hudson's Bay settlement; and I refer to | snd intelligence, and feel assured tha’ you will act i | sa chief magistrate of the first city in the United first Position inay be cOmatertaleaced Eo aiat wan be | my isat denpatch, before Tleft Beechey Leland on the | with sound judzment in whatever situation you may | tive They kicked ap some devilish ahizes, saw the | Stat2e, We want a first clase mon es mayor, one Sattered duving the winter, and by the Want of ack $0 of August, written under the influence of such | be placed. We therefore leave it to you: either to elephant, got glorious, reveiled im the charms of tose = who weight, one wh by years of ‘contact rt ; iscuesion. 1 then knew not of the fate of Dr. Rae. [ | abandon the expedition altogether if you are of opt- | Southern dames, and came aboard in that beautifal | with big fellow citizens has, by ty, ji refreshments and refitting as be afforded by | 4 , | to abm- retarn to 0 were the ordera to rurailoed Kis Gh of Speeeesy it yet remains to be | nion that no further steps can be practically taken, | state of unconsel whioh sailors love to feel. | Ment. and general knoe tae if The Birdchn onenterog apn his apedhion, But later | proved how far I erred in my jridgment. My de- | or to send euch of the ships to Eogland sa you tay | — * | will of all who know bim. wont 9 man adove experience has proved to us 8 steamer trip to | cision for the relief of Oa) inson was planned | not require, transmittiog by them to our secretary, | It ls slso true that one jolly old tar,a little the | nspicion, of @ vigorous sad practical mind, and Beechey Island and back is but a summer excursion | in October, 1353, mat! d carried oat ia March, | nct only a full s:count of all your proceedings, bat | worse for the wear, tambied over the gangway with capsble of devoting the part of his time to of four months; and, therefore, that efficient relief | 1854 ‘and I did not rece orders until Aug. 26, | charts of all your discoveries, and keeping as in: | fa pair of black peepers, and notwithstanding tha: | the @uties of his cffice. The has hitherto, would be better afforded, if, indeed, such a step | 1864. The evidence of Captain Kellets requires | formed of your views and intentions, so if it his ed | been considered as of political strife, should be found necessary, by the non-appearsace | most careful consideration, and before I venipre to should be deceseary every requisite aid may be givea | Unpleasant addition to his appearance, cried out— bsving many rights but no datics, We of Captain . Coltinson, 7 sending @ steamer | deal with it, must protest in the strongest terms | ouin the summer of 1954. 4. Before your final ‘Give me liberty, or give me” ——"' Potato sor08e, i apon the ens of New York to rectify thesa next ‘As no vessel has been left, | against the insin either of my intention to | departure from the Polar Seas, should you think pro- | binted a bystander, ae the speaker was interrupted | evils, to place men in who will scoapt ng and Bo depot there is faily $| produce his private or “confidential” commani- | per to adopt that course. there appears one very im: | by a sneeze. But such little extravagances aro | bribe, be guilty of no job, wink at no injastica, to sustain 66 men for more than ome year, ex- | cations, . one of mine bas heen read to the |. portant subject which will require your ssriows.con- | dcnabie once in a while, especially when indulged | gtrict!y carry out the laws in their integcity. If of extra provision, of a second vessel, “end the | Court.” Capt. Kellett to be on such intimate | sideration ;and ‘hat ia,the present positionof theships | in by mea whove visits on shore are. like angels | tis is done, aud no more, weshall be abio.to Towing bome of ‘one or two, will be avoided. | terma of friendship after a servitude “ offand on” | under tte command of Yo en ineon aad - | visite om earth, “few and far betwee.” They wer? | of the most efficient executive corporation, sob T was to leave the North Star or T with a ten | for nearly twenty-three years together, tha: exce, mander M’Clure, which entered the ics to Shanorth- | well pleased with what they saw in iio, aad who | ony in the United States, but in the world. der, that tender evidently intended to tow the ves. | ing where docaments were requisite for the public | east ot Point Ba-to ¥ (Bebring’s Straita) latter | could be otherwise? The peculiarities of this city | cw Yous, November 3, 1854. sel 52 left home next year, thus precinding the service I did not communicate otherwise than con | in August, 1850, aod the former in, 1861, | ore two weil knows to you to demaad » genera! d+ | These Acvipents on THE Reaprva Rawnoap—Oa tas officers, with their respective crews, may | scription, but [ cannot coaclnde pot eres ne Ee Ag ged another vessel this next sea- een ee all the weighty concerns son. my tenders were availal there- command. ment to be | have been compelled by circumstanees to abamdoa | something of those which sre most prom sg | S0Um ult, ax the passenger. train from Reading was ap- fore, the leaving ‘a abi railed the” ‘soutiaaed ex. frauenesd uch an v= mel ‘ot the mind, | thelr ships. Te auch be "the case, they may |. ‘The scenery about the suburbs of Rio iss wild | proaching Norrintown, aman WhO, Wa On the ten "a pense of almost expenditure. Bvery object | where, indeed, was I to look for anjthing to guide | probsbly attempt to reach Melville Island, atd bav- | ard picturesque as it is varied and beautiful. Sig | knocked down by the cowcateher, and badly tajured lated by their lordships has, I trust, under | me? Hea any been produced betore this te bad this in view when left Bogland, we | cal Hill commends a five view of toe city and Lar. | was picked up and carried to a houne rhe - x the Teposed in ma, faily carried out. | honorable Ort eet mubst: affords evi- | directed in your instructions teat 4 depot of provi: | bor. The long ani sarrow streets, with their teles. | where he received prompt — eral He roe mang ‘ard of the customer water in | True tt is thet Captain Collinson ia not he-e, bat | dence of opisiont” Rather than be driven to dl- | siovaandotherstoresshoula be formed at that island | coped houses buddied closely together, lov atraage | No ene cre rrenqnence of ome iapedincah CANE ‘rith tle pressure of the whole current set- | how wou my toon, by thetr lordshi; and the | valge the materials on which I founded my jadg- | From this position they no doub: endeavour to |wund miserable, but are not ao bad when son pass | Ci the engine, in conaegnenoe of Homes ARORL at Tae pwa B ent | make their way to Beevbey Island, or Port Leopold. | through them. At 18 will therefore he your duty, before reta to : a E e i Id Martin channel, determined that country, be » I em content to suffer martyrdom to oats in tine to soe my instructions, as the estimation of this hom. court had I Legg bce preserve inviolate, as I have done ge return ¢ all the vessels, was out of the quea- behind, should hi occasion, privete correspsadence. But the ques The fina observa‘ions be suppo: | himself suddenly in cout. Wi not those who | tion to which I did alinde is, I believe, before withparagtagh ¢ ;—" expream@ fancy a ship should have heen left ot Beookey Is ' bo Court ine lette: already read, prodacel by Oap: Corner, if there i@ | bs "tne fireman, who followad, had one of his loge A Z a ~ mee a rp Medenog bane | he broken, 9A few moments aftermaris the Loller exploded England, to be fully satisfied that a proper 0, acting soldier 808 police aame th a terrible crash, and the locomotive was blown cools, Provisions, &c., bad brea formed a3 Melville | snd hurrying fang, sidewalk sou will someticass pieces. Fortuaately gabady was injured by this catea~ qilacd by Capt. KReUott, aad that cleas information gee a string of ; bak @ in length, wite " rephe. OE EEE EO