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dertaken entirely on private risk, and the Board of Admiralty 
could not therefore be held responsible for any liabilities in¬ 
curred, or be called upon in strictness to notice in any way the 
services of the individuals engaged in it, yet, as far as the 
power of the Admiralty extends, none of these services has gone 
unnoticed or unrewarded. It appears from a memorandum de¬ 
livered in to your committee by the Admiralty, that “all the 
men have received double full pay until they finally abandoned 
their ship, and full pay after that until their arrival in England, 
amounting to the gross sum of £4,580 ; that they have besides 
been employed in eligible situations in the dock yards, or placed 
in others that will lead to promotion;” that Mr. Abernethy, the 
gunner; “ has been promoted, and appointed to the Seringa- 
patam; 1 ’ that Mr. Thom, purser, “has been appointed to the 
lucrative situation of purser of the Canopus, of 84 gunsthat 
Mr. Mc’Diarmid, the medical officer of the expedition, “ has 
been appointed assistant-surgeon of the navy, and when quali¬ 
fied to pass his examination, will be promoted to the rank of 
surgeon ;” that Commander Ross, to whom it appears that the 
greater part of the scientific results of the expedition are due, 
“ has been placed on full pay, and appointed commander of 
the Victory for twelve months, that he me / by that length of 
service be enabled to receive the rank of p >st captain, which is 
by a special minute of the Admiralty ensured to him at the 
expiration of that time;’ 1 and that Capt. John Humphreys, of 
the Isabella, to whose persevering humanity alone Capt. Ross 
and his party, under Providence, in all probability owe their 
lives, has received that remuneration for the expense of bringing 
them home, which, upon consideration, has been thought proper 
by the Admiralty, and which appears to your committee to be 
a reasonable compensation. Capt. Ross alone, the commander 
of the expedition, who had the anxious and painful responsi¬ 
bility of the health and discipline of the party for above four 
years, under circumstances of unparalleled difficulty and hard¬ 
ship, and who had the merit of maintaining both health and 
discipline in a remarkable degree, (for only one man in twenty- 
three was lost in consequence of the expedition) is, owing to 
