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hfs rank, not in a situation to receive any reward from the Ad¬ 
miralty in the way of promotion. Having incurred expenses 
and losses to the amount of nearly three thousand pounds, and 
received no more than the half pay, which had accumulated 
during the expedition, he remains with the same rank with 
which he went out. Under these circumstances, and looking 
to the advantages to science and the honour to his country, 
which have resulted from the expedition under his command ; 
looking to the expense which the country has been willing to 
incur on former occasions for similar expeditions, and to the 
rewards, which it has voted even for less important and honour¬ 
able objects, your committee hope they are not transgressing the 
bounds of a due regard to public economy, in recommending 
that a sum of five thousand pounds be voted to Captain John 
Ross. 
To Mr. Felix Booth, to whose modest public spirit and rare 
munificence this expedition is entirely due, your committee re¬ 
gret that they have it not in their power to propose some fit 
token of public acknowledgment ; but they cannot forbear offer¬ 
ing the tribute of their admiration and respect. 
The case of a poor man afflicted with blindnes in consequence 
of the expedition, has been brought before the notice of your 
committee by a member of the House ; and your committee beg 
to recommend it to such consideration, as to his Majesty’s Go¬ 
vernment, after due investigation of the facts, may seem fit. 
Afril 1834. 
Copy of a Letter from Captain John Ross, r. n. to Captain the 
Honourable George Elliot, C. B. dated 22d October, 1833 . 
Sir, Portland Hotel, 22d October, 1833. 
The expedition from which I am now returned, having been under¬ 
taken in 1829, at my own expense, I necessarily came under certain 
engagements with the crew, which, according to my expectation at the 
time, might be likely to terminate in fifteen months, and in that case I 
should have been enabled to fulfil those engagements; but as the ab¬ 
sence of the men has been protracted to four years and a half, the claims 
upon me have greatly increased, while, by the loss of my vessel the 
means of discharging them has been much diminished. 
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