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to appear in a Court of justice to answer to some some charge, which he was not specified, and on these conditions he would send those two gentlemen to Moose Factory to be thence conveyed to Canada, but otherwise that they should be detained at York Factory all the Winter.

A prospect of some alleviation of their sufferings now appeared by the arrival from England on the 30^th of August of the Hudson's Bay Company's ship Prince of Wales. On board of this vessel came passengers, Lieut. Franklin of the Royal Navy, and four three other gentlemen forming an expedition who had been dispatched by Government to pursue discoveries in towards the Northern Pole regions and towards the Frozen Ocean, by Coppermine and Mackenzie's Rivers. This expedition This expedition entered into […] cooperative simultaneously with that of Lieut. Parry by sea (the last accounts from whom left him at the entrance of Sir James Lancaster's sound in Baffin's Bay) will probably determine the long contested questions of the existence of a North West passage; the extent of the continent of America towards the North Pole, and the insularity of Greenland. Lieut. Parry Franklin reached Fort Chipewyan in [space] days from Hudson's Bay, travelling most of the way on snowshoes, and wintered there. In the Spring of this year he proceeded with guides, hunters, dogs and sledges furnished by the North West Company, and when last heard of was at the end of May on the point of starting of from the North West Company's post at Great Slave Lake.

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