The New Hampshire Gazette

Captain Ross.—There is too much reason to fear that this adventurous sailor has perished in his chivalric attempt to "run upon the sharp wind of the north." Since July, 1829, he has not been heard of. He was then between the 57th and 58th degrees of north latitude, and in high spirits and expectations of ultimate success in the object of his perilous voyage. It was well known to the friends of this officer that he had labored under a sense of wounded honor and wrong, since the government expeditions were taken out of his hands and given to Captain Parry, then his First Lieutenant. When Captain Parry after fruitless attempts, abandoned the task of discovering a north west passage, as hopeless, Ross came forward to occupy the forsaken field of enterprise, and entered upon his undertaking with a determination to make the supposed passage, or perish in the attempt. He went forth in the spirit of Shakspeare's Richard.

"I've set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die."

and as we have already said, it is to be apprehended the cast has been a fatal one. Whether he and his crew have utterly perished in the deep, been crushed by a collision or oversetting of icebergs, been the victims of hyperborean tempest, or whether the whole expedition is fast locked in a higher latitude than has yet been attained, and from which there can be no means of communicating with the more southern world (a hope which, for many reasons, we dare hardly entertain or inculcate) must remain for some time a painful mystery. It has been said by naval men, that the ship in which he started was too heavily laden, and was supplied with boilers of a new and vicious construction which it was feared would be found inoperative in an emergency. As he had three years' provisions with him, the starvation which had so nearly proved fatal to Capt. Franklin and his little band, does not fall within the list of probabilities. If any of the crew had survived any disaster to the vessel, and fallen amongst some of the Polar tribes of Indians, it is to be supposed that means would have been found of communicating with the northermost establishments of the Fur Company, with whom these Indians barter the skins they obtain in the chase. The fate of our gallant countrymen may remain as long unknown as that of La Perouse.—Anglo German Advertiser.