LAST VOYAGE OF CAPT. ROSS. 
477 
under discussion ; but some fresh sources of information have 
lately opened upon us, and which will tend to confirm the falsi¬ 
fication of the charge, which Capt. Ross, most injudiciously and 
unadvisedly, publicly made against us, that our information was 
not derived from any authentic source, and that his work (if it 
ever makes its appearance) was to be looked up to, as the only 
true and faithful narrative of all his exploits, achievements, 
amours, adventures, sins, transgressions and blunders, which he 
had in person committed, or caused others to commit, who were 
under his authority, from the sailing of the Victory from Wool¬ 
wich, to his fortunate reception on board the Isabella, after which, 
according to his own statement before the committee of the House 
of Commons, his surveys and discoveries were of far greater 
consequence, than any which he had made, during the whole of 
his sojou n in the Arctic seas, by which he has himself furnished 
us with a criterion, whereby to judge of the value of those dis¬ 
coveries; for we have only to refer to those, which he made sub¬ 
sequently to his joining the Isabella, in order to ascertain to a 
nicety, the intrinsic value of those, which he made antecedent 
to that event. 
