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 On the 12th, the ships commenced their homeward voyage; but they did not finally escape from the ice until the 17th of the following month, after having been almost immoveably beset in it for twenty four days out of the last twenty-six, in the course of which time they had been taken over no leas than 140 leagues of ground, generally very close to the shore, and always unable to do any thing towards effecting their escape from danger. They anchored in Lerwick harbour, Shetland, on the 10th October; and were paid off at Deptford, Nov. 14th, 1823. In his introduction to the account of this voyage. Captain Parry says:–

The officers of this expedition who were promoted by the Admiralty, either during their absence from England, or soon after their return to the river Thames, were Captains Parry and Lyon, Lieutenant Hoppner, and Messrs. Henderson, Sherer, Ross, Griffiths, Bushman, Skeoch, McLaren, and Halse.

Captain Parry’s post-commission bears date, Nov, 8, 1821. He was appointed acting hydrographer to the Admiralty, Dec. 1, 1823; presented with the freedom of the city of Winchester, on the 20th of the same month; and placed in the