Show sir john franklin ft it it the following biographical sketch of tt distinguished navigator whose fate after sy many unsuccessful expeditions has at leno leng length tik been recently ascertained through the inde fatt gable and successful of capt F L mcclintock and his associates we copy from the new york tribune of oct 15 sir john franklin was waa born at spilsby lff lin coln coin shire april 16 1786 lie ile was destined b by y his father for the ministry by nature for tha 1 sea while at the grammar school at Lowth he walked twelve miles to seethe see bee the ocean for the first time heimas he wab was sent on a bradin trading vo voyage to lisbon to cure him of this bent ben cli zit tha voyage confirmed it his father yielded to tb nature and procured him a mans mana warrant in 1800 ile he served on the at the battle of copenhagen april 2 1801 in the investigator commanded by his cousin capt flinders be he spent two years exploring 0 the coasts of australia she proved IV orthy and he sailed for home in the porpoise in 1803 which was wrecked on a reef miles from australia where he and his hia com companions remained for fifty days on a sandbank they were carried to canton whence he sailed for england in the fleet of In diamen in the strait of malacca they werm were attacked by a french squadron without success at home he joined the and of forty persons who stood about him at trafalgar but seven escaped escaped unhurt for six years afterward he serve served on the bedford capturing an american gunboat at new orleans in tho tha war ivar of 1812 here he was Ivoun wounded ded and mad made lieutenant in 1818 he commanded the trent the smaller of two vessels which attempted the northeast passage to india the larger jarger was disabled and capt buchan who commanded the expedition refused to allow him to proceed alone in 1819 be he commanded an overland exploration from york factory in the three years i ears of this expedition he performed a foot journey bourney of miles while the mercury was brozini fro roze zini n another foot journey of miles a lons ions on sea voyage in canoes and was then obliged to return without having explored what he ie went for the coast of the arctic ocean ile eie returned and was promoted in 1822 in 1823 he published an account of his voyage and married ried eleanor the daughter of an eminent architect in 1825 he was placed at the head of another overland arctic expedition his ilia wife wire then at the point ct of death insisted that he should go and gave him as a parting gift a silk flag to be hoisted when he reached the polar sea she died tha the da day after ater he sailed on this journey he reached edy the ocean and traveled westward from the mouth of the mackenzie miles along tha coast to min 37 sec west longitude I 1 lla ila i wintered at great bear lake where he instituted a series of magnetic observations ib went back to en england land by way ivay of new york in 1827 and in 1828 he married jane griffin the present lady franklin and published an account of his second expedition in 1829 he was knighted received the degree of from oxford and the gold medal of the geo goo geographical graphical raph ical society of paris in 1830 ha did service service in the greek revolution a as co commander of the rainbow he was governor of tasmania from 1830 1936 to 1843 founded a college and endowed it largely established the scientific association of hobarton howarton Ho barton was very popular and on his departure received an enthusiastic ovation in 1845 he sailed in command of the erebus and terror on his last expedition on the oth of july of that year it was seen for the last time by white men from a about tha centre of baffino Baff ins bay ile he was to push on through h lancaster sound and barrows Bar rows rowa strait to melville Io iville sound and thence westward as far as possible in 1846 1840 three expeditions were ivere sent by tha the th british government ia search of him in three more were sent out by the government beside two by lady franklin two by public subscription and one by henry grinnell of new york franklins first winter quarten were f found but bothi nothing ing more in 1852 sir edward belcher sailed from fron en england land in search of him with five vessels ant and commander Dayle field with a screw steamer in 1853 1833 dr kane went out as commander of the second grinnell expedition lady Frankl frankiln lu sent a steamer and sailing vessel dr raa ilu started for a second exploration of boothia and two vessels were sent in aid of sir ar edwa edward belcher in 1854 dr rae heard from Esqui maux a story of forty white men sledging toward tha the south near king williams land in the spring of 1850 and latero lathrof late of thirty white corpses and some graves on the continent and five corpses considerably eaten on an island a few miles to the northwest north west of the mouth of black river dr rae found telescopes es guns and among among the natives he Vs has exhibited them in new york mr anderson andersen visited the island in 1855 and found many articles but no bodies ile he was unable to reach the principal scene of disaster the fate of Si rJohn remained a mystery until the discovery of mcclintock which is the news of today to day the grand jury of chittenden county have indicted the vermont state A agricultural 0 society as a nuisance the ground of the is id is that said society has violated the law against horse racing |