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tion to his nephew. He and his crew were amply 

 rewarded in money, and himself in money and 

 in honours ; the former was very properly bestowed, 

 for his boldly engaging in so hazardous, though 

 ill-advised, an enterprise, for the sufferings of him- 

 self and party, and for the long-continued anxiety, 

 which money can only poorly reward : of the 

 latter no one will envy him ; a few foreign princes 

 may think themselves flattered by having their 

 names dotted along the coast-line of a thing called 

 a chart ; but the King of England's family are not 

 so easily captivated by baits of this kind. Captain 

 Beaufort says, " Captain Ross brought to me a 

 chart to prepare for the King, which I did, and re- 

 turned it to him ; and there is no copy of it left 

 in the Hydrographical Office :" and as Captain 

 Beaufort makes no description of it, neither will any 

 be made here ; — the less that is said of it the better. 

 The honours, however, have carefully been pre- 

 served, and copied into a certain repository* for 

 general information, as follow : 



" Ross, Captain Sir John, entered the navy in 1790 ; 

 fifteen years a midshipman ; seven years a lieutenant ; seven 

 years a commander ; became a post-captain in 1818 ; re- 

 ceived numerous marks of public approbation in consequence 

 of his Arctic Expeditions ; was made a Commander of the 

 Sword of Sweden ; a Knight of the Second Class of St. 

 Anne of Prussia (in diamonds) ; Second Class of the Legion 

 of Honour ; Second Class of the Red Eagle of Prussia ; 



* Dodd's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, &c. 



