In the month of December 1852, I had the honour of receiving special orders from the Secretary of the Navy of the United States, to "conduct an expedition to the Arctic Seas in search of Sir John Franklin." I had been engaged, under Lieutenant De Haven, in the Grinnell Expedition, which sailed from the United States in 1850 on the same errand; and I had occupied myself for some months after our return in maturing the scheme of a renewed effort to rescue the missing party, or at least to resolve the mystery of its fate. Mr Grinnell, with a liberality altogether characteristic, had placed the _Advance_, in which I sailed before, at my disposal for the cruise; and Mr Peabody of London, the gen…
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