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To the Members of the Royal Humane Society --

Your attention is called to the fact that one hundred and twenty six fellow creatures forming the expedition under Sir John Franklin, are at this moment in most imminent peril of perishing by famine and its attendant horrors, in the ice of the Polar Sea. That although an attempt is being made to search for and succour the lost expedition - yet the Government is wilfully blind to the imminence of its danger, and neglects to take every precaution to guard against its destruction -- That inasmuch as the expeditions about to start may be involved in the same difficulties which have faced the one they are intended to relieve, a successful issue to the attempts cannot be hoped for or expected -- That in the opinion of unbiassed persons acquainted with the Arctic Regions and the nature of the obstacles to be encountered, the land journey about to be