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APPENDIX. 
In venturing to request you will submit my ease to the Lords Com¬ 
missioners of the Admiralty, I feel assured that the public nature of 
the undertaking, and the unparalleled sufferings which have attended 
it, will bring their lordships to the consideration of the circumstances I 
have stated, with every disposition to afford me the means of discharging 
obligations of so sacred a character. 
It is true that according to law, the men may not be able to compel 
the payment of their wages after October, 1831, when all hopes of saving 
the vessel led to her abandonment, but a sense of what is due to my 
character as an officer of the navy, and a feeling of what is due to the 
men, whose constancy was never shaken under the most appalling pros¬ 
pects, and to whose fidelity and obedience I owe so much, I should be 
ashamed of myself if I could for a moment entertain a thought of any 
subterfuge, whereby I might evade the payment of their well-earned 
wages; I am anxious, however, with my slender means, to appeal to 
their lordships in the first instance, in the confident persuasion, that an 
undertaking so entirely of a naval nature, will receive their countenance 
and support, and that, under their lordships’ recommendation, his 
Majesty's government will be pleased to consider the voyage as so en¬ 
tirely directed to public objects, as fairly to claim, under the circum¬ 
stances I have described, that the payment of the officers and men 
should become a public charge. 
As the men have most of them arrived in town, and wait the adjust¬ 
ment of their claims, I need scarcely add, that it is very desirable that 
J should, with as little delay as possible, receive on intimation of their 
lordships’ decision upon this application. 
1 have the honor to be, Sir, 
Your obedient Servant, 
(Signed) John Ross, 
Captain of the Royal Navy. 
Copy of a Letter from Mr. Barrow to Captain John Ross, R. N. 
dated Admiralty, 25th October, 1833. 
Sir, Admiralty, 25th October, 1833. 
I have received and laid before my Lords Commissioners of the 
Admiralty your Letter, dated on board the Isabella, of Hull, in Baffin’s 
Bay, in September last, and 1 am commanded to express their lord- 
ships’ satisfaction at the providential deliverance of yourself and com- 
