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Nfr. • by a feeling of commiseration than otherwise towards' the Governor of D'Elmina, who, we believe, is desirous of observing a strict neutrality ; but who has not even sumcient influence over the natives of the town to pre vent them from insulting him, and those under his pro tection, in the very Castle. During the period that Captain Courtenay com manded on the coast, he took every opportunity of as sisting our forces, and in some instances obliged the Dutch to abide by those rules which they, as a friendly Power, ought never to have deviated from. These in- stances of cordial co-operation on the part of Capt. C. and his officers deserve our warmest thanks, and we sincerely hope will be favourably noticed by the Go vernment of our country. The Bann sailed again on Friday for the Gambia and Portendie, where we trust Capt. Courtenay may arrive before the expiration of the , gum season; satisfied as we are, that his presence there will be of the same service to our merchants engaged in that trade, as his exertions upon the Gold Coast have been to our troops in their cause against the common enemy. FREETOWN, JUNE 19. We had the pleasure of witnessing, on Sunday even ing last, the arrival of his Majesty's ship Thetis, Captain Sir Jolla Piiillimore, Knt. C.B. having on board a number of officers for the Royal African Colonial Light Infan tryand 2d West India Regiment, with a detachment of 100 non commissioned officers and privates of the for mer corps. Among the officers we noticed two (Lieu tenants Clements aad Cartwright) who had served in this colony for some years, with great credit to them selves, and advantage to the service. The men themselves ale a fine body; but knowing as we do the irregular and intemperate habits of this class, we have but melancholy forebodings respecting their fate; should they, however, fortunately have an opportunity of bringing the Ashantees into action im mediately on their reaching Cape Coast, we augur the most favourable results. The news of their arrival there, and of the force assembled on the Coast, will, we almost fear, induce the enemy to retrace their steps, and thus prolong the war, which is much less severely felt by them from the facility with which they procure sup li - plies from the Dutch settlement of Elmina, than is generally imagined. The best force to employ in this service is, no doubt, Natives ; and our Government appear to be perfectly aware of this by ordering the 2d West India Regiment and Colonial African Corps to be recruited to 1,000 men each. When this is completed, and we have no doubt but with common exertion that it will be speedily accomplished, there will be but little necessity to em ploy European troops, who, in this country, like the West Indies or any other within the Tropics, suffer much from the difference of climate acting on their general , intemperate mode of living. Extract of a letter received from the Gold Coast, giving some details of an action with the Ashantees on the 21st of May last: " At break of day 21st of May) we were all on our legs, armed cap-a pie, at the martial (though not most inviting) air of ' Turn out the whole.' About eleven o'clock a e marched with 4,500 men (which, as nearly as I could calculate, was the number of our whole force) to engage the Ashantees. The attack com menced now with tremendous volleys from right to left. oit troops in the centre gave way in the first onset of the battle, but they soon advanced again, and stood their ground like lions. Lieutenant —, with every effective man of the 2d West India Regiment, was placed as a reserve, immediately in the rear of the parties engaged, and across the main path : this post he and his men maintained with great firmness the whole day. "Here we came regularly into action under every possible local disadvantage. The Ashantees occupied a high, thickly wooded, steep hill, and we were in a cleared farm directly under them. On the road to the, Pa Demba Farm, the plain of rock which looks like a meadow on the right hand, will give you some idea of the field of battle at Fetue. Captain —, of the Militia, was severely wounded in both arms in the com mencement of the affair, and every ten minutes after this, there was somebody going to the rear with a bro ken head or leg. We fought until our ammunitian , was expended, and the sun thteatenei to leave us in the dark. Upon the whole, we rather gained ground upon the savages ; and from subsequent accounts, it appears that they never before got such a regular threshing in a 6 bush fight.' This they acknowledge themselves, for we have had some of them taken alive, and received some men who deserted from their camp, that were taken by them in Sir Charles's action. Our bullets did great execution amongst them, I assure you. " In consequence of the circumstance before men tioned respecting ammunition, &c. we could not follow up our success, for in addition to those reasons, we after wards found out that no less than 2,000 ol our cowardly allies scampered off during the fight, and left '2,500 men to maintain the unequal contest! There was but one alternative, and the Major gave orders to retire to the camp at Garden Hill. " I wish that I had time to describeto you an African field of battle. Severed heads staring you in different directions—some brought to the Commanders as tro phies by the men who did the deed; hallooing and shouting on both sides when firing at one another ; the shrill notes of the native horns; the warriors almost naked, creeping from one ambush to another to have a shot at the enemy, &c. give a curious and awful effect to the conflict. lg Every day's account tallies with the preceding as to oar having given them the worst of it. The numbers of their killed and wounded ate, I am told, very great. So much for the battle of Fetue. lam quite gratified at having witnessed the threshing they got, and still more so at having lent a hand in it myself. Captain -- left this two days ago for Accra, to try to bring up forces from that place, in order that we may be enabled to attack the Ashantees again. \Vhether he %ill succeed or not, Heaven knows ; or whether the natives here can be rallied on again to glory, is equally doubtful ; but I will keep my letter open to the last, and give you all the news afloat." FREETOWN, JUNE 5. Saturday last, the Ocket Alexander Giant arrived from Cape Coast with sixteen Ashantee prisoners, and his lamented late Excellency's servants and baggage. Our advices give a melancholy confirmation of the dreadful tidings received by the . Bann. Mr. Tasker Williams, the Secretary, whose life, it appears, was saved by the interposition of a powerful Ashantee Chief, has since been delivered up to the Governor of the Dutch fort at Elmina, upon condition that he should be kept these until the close of the war. MADE WITH THE NETHERLANDS. Wood OWh s nt , Midshi p man ; Mr. Thom. Isvini t°ll9 ditto ; IP S Ir. David Mosbersy, ditto; Mr. John Robb, ditto; Mr. Charles Ed ward Schreiber,-litts • Mt George Dawes, ditto; Mr. John L. N. Sealy, ditto; Mr. Ch arleh Hothant, ditto;' Honourable Frederick William Gray, ditto; Mr. Charles D. Ryder, ditto; Mr. Edmund H. Seppings, ditto. (Sighed) R. C. SPENCER, Captain. -..i1i0..-- D ECKEE. " William, by the Grace of Goo, King of the Netherlands, Prince ' of Orange-Nassau, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, &c. &C. " On the report of our Ministers, &c. In order to give effect to a provisional agreement entered into at London, during the negociations now pending there, for concluding a treaty of commerce founded on mutual interests, and until the said treaty shall have been con cluded ; we decree, &c. Art. 1. All goods, which after the 14th inst. shall be imported from the United Kingdom of Great Britain by ships under English colours, shall provisionally be considered and treated in respect of duties, as if the importation had been made by a Netherland ship. a This provisional arrangement shall not be con sidered as definitive, until the abovementioned treaty of commerce shall be concluded. a Art. 2. This equalization does not extend to such goods, of which the importation under the Netherland flag is specially favoured by the general law, or by the tat iff of duties inwards or outwards. " Given at the Hague, Aug.ll, 1824." FOREIGN OFFICE, AUGUST 17. The Right Honourable George Canning, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, has this day notified, by the command of his Majesty, to the Mi nisters of Foreign Powers resident at this Court, that in consequence of the satisfactory issue of the negocia tions between the Commander of his Majesty's naval forces off Algie . rs, and the Government of that Regency, the blockade of that port has been discontinued. ALGIERS. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, AUGUST 16. Dispatches have this morning been received at this Office, addressed by Vice-Admiral Sir Harry Neale to John Wilson Croker, Esq. and dated in the Bay of Al giers, the 26th of July, reporting that the differences between this country and the Regency of Algiers were on that day satisfactorily arranged, and that the hostili ties between the two countries had accordingly ceased. ADMIR II.TY OFFICE, AUGUST 16. Vice Admiral Sir Harry Neale has transmitted to John Wilson Croker, Esq. a letter from the Honourable Captain Spencer, of his Majesty's ship Naiad, of which the following is a copy : His Majesty's ship Naiad, Bay of Bona, May r 64, 1824. SIR-I have much satisfaction in acquainting you with the complete destruction of the Algetine brig of war, lately repotted to you, moored alongside the walls of the fortress of Bona, by the boats of the Naiad, under the command of Lieutenant Quin, first of this ship. If, in detailing this affair, I should trespass somewhat at length on your time, I trust, Sir, you will attribute it solely to my anxious desire that the conspicuous merit of the Officers and men in the boats, and their gallant leader, should have due credit, the whole plan of the operations having been formed, and all the details ar ranged, entirely by Lieutenant Quin himself ; except ing that I objected to his proposal of bringing the brig out, knowing her situation to be such as would risk very many lives in the attempt. j. - The boats left the Naiad at half-past 11 last night, and being guided in their approach by the lights and fires in the different batteries, pulled for what proved to be a 16-gun brig of the largest class, whose position was of extraordinary strength, and far beyond what I had even • imagined possible. She was moored head and stern, in addition to a chain cable fast on shore, in a bight within about eighty feet of the walls of the for tress, upon which I counted at least forty pieces of can non, some flanking her on either side, none further off than short canister range, and several within her own length, amongst which latter were the sixteen guns be longing to the brig herself, the enemy not unreasonah)y conceiving that, by placing them them, in preference to keeping them in her, all attempts at boarding must be rendered ineffectual by their fire. I have reason to believe the greater part of her crew were landed to work them, the whole of the Turkish garrison, of about 400 soldiers, having sufficient employment in managing the other guns, and keeping up a heavy fire of musketry from the embrasures and wall, almost over hanging her decks. A few sailors, left as look-outs, escaped to the shore, leaving the brig so lightened as to cause the greatest difficulty in ascending her sides. All these obstacles and the tremendous fire of cannon and small arms, kept up during the whole time the boats were in sight, which from the illumination caused by the burning vessel was lengthened, served only as a means of shewing how vain all resistance is when Bri tish seamen and marines are led by their Officers in the way they were upon this occasion. Lieutenant Quin did not leave the brig till she was in n complete blaze in all parts, which ended in her partially blowing up, burning to the water's edge, and at last sinking in such a depth that not a particle of her is to be seen, her masts having fallen in the flames. No language that I am master of can convey to you, Sir, an adequate idea of the intrepidity of the attack, which could only be equalled by the cool courage dis played during the time necessary to distribute the fire in all parts of a vessel under such circumstances. The Officers' names engaged in this service are sub joined; for, as all did their duty so nobly on this occa sion, and have on all former ones given me such perfect satisfaction, I cannot in justice particularize. They unite in speaking in the highest terms of the silence and good conduct of the men, who did not allow a whisper to be heard until the enemy's first round of grape, which they answered with three cheers. I have great pleasure in adding, that notwithstanding so very different a return might have been expected, I have only to report to you a few men hurt by severe contusions, and none killed, chiefly to be attributed to the masterly manner the business was conducted in ; the whole of the credit of which is due to Lieutenant Quin, to whom I confided the entire arrangement ; and I hope you will honour him with your recommendation. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) R. C. SPENCER, Captain. Sir Harry Neale, Bart. G.C.B. Vice• Admiral, &e. &c. LIST OP OFFICERS AND MIDSHIPMEN EMPLOYED . IN THE BOATS. Lieutenant Michael Quin, Lieutenant Thpinas Dilke, Lieutenant George Evans, Lieutenant . W. S. Knapman, it. M.. Mr. Sear's, LONDON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1824. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Funds remain in the same state as yesterday, but there is scarcely anything doing. Consols opened this morning at 931, 1, for the Account, at which price they have continued up to the present hour. FOREIGN FUNDS. Scarcely anything doing in the Foreign Market this morning.— Current Prices :—New Spanish 17a Old 22 to 1., Russian 96a 4, Alliance Shares 12 to Mexican 521 h, Colombian Scrip 5 to 4i dis. Chilian 79, French Scrip 13 a, Austtiani 95i, Portu guese 8711, Buenos Ayres prem. Brazilian prem. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 237-3 per Ct. Redu. 9412 gs % IS per Ct. C0n5.93 7 / 8 5 / 8 -4 per Ct. Assented 101% 1/2 4 per Cent. New 106 1 / 8 105 7 / 8 Long Anns. '23 3-16 Y 4 .—lndia Stock 287 India Bonds 80 82—New Annuities 94 1 / El ,0 Bills (2d.) 38 42; (Phd.) 38 39 £5OO Do. (2.1) 40 39 42 ; (1 1 / 2 d.) 40 £lOO and t:200 Do. (2d.) 40 39 42 ; (1%c1.) 40 41 Coir,ols tor Acct. 93/ s . 5 / 8 • This morning we received the Lisbon Gazettes to the 3d of August. They are principally filled with extracts from the Spanish and other journals. The Gazette of the 27th • contains an account of the numerous testimo nials the King of PORTUGAL has received from foreign Powers, of their satisfaction at the itsue of the late at tempt of the Infant Pt ince MIGUEL to usurp the functions of his Sovereign and father. It will be seen that his BRITANNIC MAJESTY has written a letter with his own hand to the King of PORTUGAL on this subject,. stating that his MAJESTY had conferred the'promotion asked for the Officers of the WINDSOR CASTLE, and ex pressing his satisfaction at the conduct of our Ambas sador, Sir EDWARD THORNTON. • The Gazette contra dicts the report that Hanoverian troops were to be sent to Lisbon. The following are extracts: THE EVENING STAR. LISBON, JULY 27. We have already published, in other Numbers of this Journal, the testimonies of approbation which various Members of the Diplomatic Body residing at this Court have received from etior respes.ttve o..c.iiments for their conduct in the crisis of the 30th April, in which they so greatly contributed to secure the legitimacy of the Throne, and to deliver this kingdom from the hor rors of anarchy ; and it is our grateful duty not to pass over in silence whatever may come to our knowledge on this subject, because, if nobody who is acquainted with the facts can be insensible to the impottant services which the foreign Minister s performed on that occasion, it is just that it should be known that they were una nimousry eommended by their Governments. Ills Britannic Majesty, in a Cabinet letter, written with his own hand, to the King our Sovereign, ex pressed to his Majesty that he had received with the greatest satisfaction his letter, dated on board the Windsor Castle, by which letter he was assured of the personal safety of his Majesty, and at the same time of the share which his naval force had happily had in con tributing to his safety ; and in the same letter his Bri tannic Majesty expresses his satisfaction that the services' of Sir Edward Thornton were acceptable and useful to the King our Sovereign; and that having already signified his approbation to the Officers of the British Navy for their conduct on that occasion, granting them the promotion which his Majesty was pleased to ask for them ; he also consented that they should re ceive the marks of gratitude which his Majesty was pleased to offer them. His Holiness, granting to the most excellent and re vered Archbishop of Nazianzo permission to accept and wear the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Order of Nossa Senbora da Concelcao of Villa Vicpsa, which his Majesty conferred on him for his services on that occa sion, was pleased also, particularly to commend the conduct of the Nuncio, as his Excellency officially in formed the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in a note of the 23d inst. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of the King of Denmark, writing to the Charge d'Affaires of that So vereign at this Court, relative to the events that took place at Lisbon up to the 14th of May, says—" The representatives of the Sovereigns shewed their august character on this occasion ; they contributed to the tri umph of the principles which are the safeguard of legi timate power, and of public peace and tranquillity. Your conduct and your language on this occasion have merited the august approbation of his Majesty." The same sentiments are so general, that even those Governments who had no Representatives here at that time have expressed their sentiments to his Majesty's Ministers at their Courts. Thus Count Bernstorff, Mi nister - for Foreign Affairs to the King of Prussia, speak ing to Count Oriolla on this subject, said to him, " that he much regretted there was no diplomatic agent for Prussia at Lisbon at that time, as he would not have been behind the others in manifesting to the King of Portugal the interest which Europe takes in his aUgnst person." Reports have been spread by the English and French Journals, of the approaching arrival of a corps of Ha. noverian troops in Portugal ; we are authorised formally and officially to contradict this statement; and in the same manner to give the assurance, that no convention has been concluded on the subject ; and even -that the full powers which would be necessary to conclude such a convention have not been given. - - . • After this official statement, the Editor observes, how necessary it is to be circimspect in listening to reprn ti devoid of authority, at a time when so many confl ing passions and interests are at wo: k. If it 0: , .; ever be necessary, for the good of the State, to admi t , t body of troops of a friendly nation, or even of foiti a hired troops, such as many of the great Powers of Eu. rope have in their pay, to lessen the number of hands taken from agriculture, and other important reasons, which are no dishonour to those nations that make use of such assistance, this would never affect the Portu. guese loyalty, which is far above such petty considera. tions. It is, however, useless to dwell on the subject, as the report of the coming of foreign troops is false. Letters have been received from Buenos Ayres, of the 3d of June. They contain no political or comencr. cial news. Letters have been received from Jamaica to the 6th of July. The Abeona, TURNER, sailed from Monata Bay the sth of July, when all was quiet, but it w as feared that fresh disturbances would break out. the packet was to sail on the 15th. The Eliza, Pr.timmEn, arrived at Liverpool from Montego Bay, sailed the same time, gives the same account. The following further intelligence has been received at the New En. ; land and Jamaica Coffee Houses: EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LIVERPOOL, JULY 16. " The Eliza, Plummer, from Montego Bay, Jamaica, arrived ti.is day; sailed the sth July. She reports that all was criiet at the time of her departure ; but fears were entertained of another revolt in the neighbourhood of Annatto Bay, to which place a force was dispatched from Montego Bay previous to her departure." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MORANT BAY, JULY 3. " I am pleased to inform you that an Express arrived at the King's House, in Spanish Town, a few days since, giving pleasing accounts that the Insurrection of the Negroes in Hanover had been quelled, and all was once mere peaceable and quiet. Sir John Keane was on bis return, in the Hussar frigate, with the intention of vi siting all the principal ports round the Island. We expect him here in a few days : this part of the Island, as far as we can learn, is content and well disposed, and I trust we shall long continue so." The Paris Papers of Sunday have reached tic. On Monday, on account of the preceding day being a fast, there was no paper published. The most importint ar ticle in the French papers, is the renewal of the Censor. ship on the public journals. This is the most unpopular act of M. de VILLELE'S Ministry, and was by no mean; called for, although the papers in the interest of M. de CHATEAUBRIAND had been rather severe on his more successful , xi. The Paris Papers of Sunday last contain a letter from Ausburg, from which it appears that the influence of the Court of Austria i. at present employed in endeavouring to bring about a reconciliation between Portugal and Brazil; for this purpose an extraordinary courier is said to have been recently dispatched to London with fresh instructions to Prince ESTILHAZY on the subject of the nego tiations. Prince MErvzoNicu, the Marquis de CARAMAN, and M. de TATISCIIIEFT, are expected to return co Vienna between the 20th and 25th of the present month. It is mentioned by the Quotklienne, as a prevailing report, that General Ikanox, the Commander of the French army in Spain, is about to be recalled. The reason assigned for this measure is the supposed necessity of confiding the command of the troops and the embassy to the Court of Madrid to the same person. The Court of Cassation has rejected the appeal of the Crown lawyers against the decision of the Inferior Courts in favour of the Journal called tha dristarque Francais. PARIS, AUGUST 16. The Monitettr was published to-day (Monday, Aug. 16), for the purpose of making known the following Ordonnance of the King, re-establishing'the Censorship of the Journals—a measure which, in the present situ ation of the Ministry and of the Opposition, is consi dered as of great political importance : “ ORDONNANCE OF THE KING. " Loots, by the grace of GOD, King of France and Navarre, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting. " Seeing Art. 4 of the Law of 17th March, 1822, conceived in the following terms:— " If in the interval of the Sessions of the Chambers, serious cir- cumstances should render ineffectual for the moment the measures of guarantee and repression established, the laws of 31st March, 1820, and 26th July, 1821, may be immediately put again in force, by virtue of an Ordonnance of the King debated in Council, and countersigned by three Ministers. " This disposition shall cease by full right one month after the opening of the Session of the Chambers, if during this delay it has not been converted into a law. " It shall likewise cease by full right the day on which an °Mos nance decreeing the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies may be published. " Considering that the jurisprudence of our Courts of Justice has lately admitted for the Journals an existence de jure, indepen dent of their existence de facto that this interpretation furnishes a sure and easy means of eluding the suspension and suppression of the Journals. " That it follows from this that the means of repression enacted by Act 3, of the law of 17th March, 1822, are become insufficient. . . " Desiring, under these circumstances, and till the next meeting of the Chambers, to provide efficaciously for the maintenance of public order, with the advice of our Council of State, we have or dained, and ordain as follows : _ . 14 Art. 1. The laws of the 51st March, 1820, and 26th July, 1621, are again put in force, dating from this day. " Art. 2. 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