CONGO EXPEDITION* 
ed to Mr Barrow, whose masterly discussions 
upon this subject had excited a general interest ; 
while the direction of the land expedition was 
intrusted to Major-general Gordon, by whom 
it was understood to have been originally plan- 
ned. We shall begin with narrating the adven- 
tures of the expedition to the Congo. Every 
conceivable degree of judgment and diligence ap- 
pears to have been employed, both in preparing 
the means of success, and in selecting the persons 
best qualified for conducting it. The command 
was given, at his solicitation, to Captain Tuckey, 
an officer much more highly accomplished than is 
usual in his profession — who, after serving with 
distinction in various remote seas, had been led, 
in the solitude of a French prison, to apply him- 
self, with peculiar diligence, to the studies of geo- 
graphy and hydrography. He was supported by 
Lieutenant Hawkey, an active officer and an ex- 
cellent draughtsman, and by Messrs Fitzmaurice 
and Hodder, as master and master's mate, both 
apparently well qualified for their situations. The 
expedition contained also several eminent men of 
science, destined to collect those objects of natu- 
ral history which this unknown region might be 
expected to afford. Of this number was Dr 
Smith, a Danish gentleman, who had devoted 
himself to botany, and, with a view to the im- 
provement of that favourite science, had travers- 
