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panions from a perilous situation, unequalled in the records of navigation, 
and their congratulations at your safe return. 
I am, &c. 
(Signed) John Barrow . 
Copy of a Letter from Captain John Ross, R. N. to Mr. Barrow, 
dated 26th October, 1838. 
Sir, Portland Hotel, 26th October, 1883. 
In consequence of a verbal communication with Sir Thomas Hardy, 
1 have the honour to transmit, for the consideration of the Lords Com¬ 
missioners of the Admiralty, a list of the officers and men employed on 
the late Expedition to the Arctic Seas, showing the pay due to each, 
on the principle that I should have felt it my duty to act upon towards 
them, had the discharge of those claims rested with myself, instead of 
being taken up by their Lordships, on the grounds of the public na¬ 
ture of the service to which the object of the Expedition was directed ; 
and I have reason to know that the officers and men will consider 
themselves fully recompensed by the propesed scale of pay. 
f trust I may be allowed to take this opportunity to express for my¬ 
self and for every person under my command, the deep sense we have 
of the kind protection so cheerfully extended to us by their Lordships. 
I am, &c. 
(Signed) John Ross, 
Captain, Royal Navy. 
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Copy of a Letter from Mr. Barrow to Captain John Ross, R. N. 
dated 28th October, 1833. 
Sir, Admiralty, October 28th, 1833. 
1 have received and laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Ad¬ 
miralty your Letter of the 26th instant, transmitting a list of the officers 
and men employed in your late Expedition to the Arctic Seas, show¬ 
ing the amount of pay due to each, according to the scale by which 
you would have felt yourself bound to remunerate them for their ser¬ 
vices, and I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you, in 
reply, that although these men have no claim on his Majesty’s Govern¬ 
ment, inasmuch as the expedition was not sent out by the Board of 
Admiralty, yet in consideration of its having been undertaken for the 
