Star. — London, England, 1824-08-04 00:00:00

r" • . v. • C WAR WITH THE ASHANTEES. PROM LAST NIGIfT . 3 GAZETTE. COMNIAL OFFICE, JULY•zi, 1894. Dispatches, ler*Wtell the following are extracts, were this day received from Lieutenant-Colonel Sutherland, commanding his Majesty's troops on the Western Coast. of Africa, addressed to the Earl Bathurst, K.G. one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. EXTRACT OF A DISPATCH PROM LIEUTeCOL.SUTHERLAND, DATED CAPE ROAST CASTLE, 28TH MAY, 1824. On the 19th inst. I went to the Camp (bush or jungle), to see the position occupied by our force, and left Major Chisholm (whose exertions have been most praiseworthy throughout), in command there, with directions to con tinue cutting paths towards the Ashantees, whose fighting post was about five miles distant ; returning myself into the Fort, to superintend and hasten our pre parations, and forward supplies of ammunition. 20th.—I ordered every man, well enough to do duty, to be marched to Camp, being anxious to attack the enemy as soon as possible, having learnt that the King of Ashantee was rapidly advancing with 10,000 men, to form a junction with the body who were opposed to us. The forts were this day gat risoned by seamen and marines from the squadron, who were landed with the utmost promptitude, by Captain Prickett, of the Owen Glendower, the then senior Officer, for the purpose. 21st. Major Chisholm succeeded, after very great ex ertion and fatigue, in cutting paths to the enemy's posi , lion about one P.M. when an engagement immediately commenced; the enemy fought bravely, keeping up a heavy fire from bush so thick that he could only be seen at intervals, and making several attempts to turn the Major's flanks, but finding himself baffled at all points, after fighting for five hours, his fire ceased, aad he retired from the field, as we afterwards ascertained, with great loss ion killed and wounded, whilst ours, as will appear by the annexed return, was trifling in both. • The advantage thus gained might have been produc tive of the most beneficial and decisive results, had it been in Major Chisholm's power to follow it up, but neither threats nor persuasions could prevail on our Emcee allies to advance a step in pursuit of the enemy: on the contrary, most of them fled previous to the first fire, others soon followed, and as Major Chisholm at last found himself abandoned by all, except the Offi cers, regulars, and militia, and a few brave native auxi liaries, not composing in all near half our forces, he very prudently retired, without the slightest molesta tion, to a position rather on this side of that which he occupied previous to the action ; and the Ashantees, two days afterward, returned to the ground from which they had on that occasion been driven. I cannot close this communication without express ing my obligations for the cordial co-operation and as sistance rendered to me by Captain Bullen, C.B. R.N. (and before his arrival by Captain Prickett), and the Officers of the squadron under his orders, and particu larly to Captain Bowen, of the Driver, whose exertions for five months last year, in mounting and equipping the guns of this fort, drew forth the warm acknowledg ments of the late Commodore Sir Rubel t Mends. I must also particularise Lieutenant King, R.N. first of the Driver, who commanded a division of our forces in the field for several months in 1823, and being a vo lunteer, was slightly wounded in the affair of the 21st instant.—From Major Chisholm, Royal African Colo iti,il Light 1111 intry (with whr,se Civil Government I do not mean to interfere), and all Officers, Military and Civil, I receive every support, although their duties are, in consequence of their very limited number, very fa tiguing and laborious. It affords me much pleasure to add, that Major Chis holm, who is really a most deserving and zealous Officer, represents the regulars (2d West India Regiment and Coloni.tl Corps), Militia, and some others, to have con ducted themselves with very praiseworthy steadiness in the recent engagement. Return of the Regulars, Militia, and unorganized Forces, sheaving their strength prior to the action with the Ashantees, on the 21st of May, 1824, and their Losses in Killed, Wounded, and Missing, on that day. Cape Coast Castle, May, 1824. Effective, prior to the Action. Regulars-1 Major, I Captain, 2 Lieutenants, 3 Ensigns, 1 Quar termaster, 2 Assistant and Staff Surgeons, 12 serjeants,lo drum mers, 211 rank and file. Militia-1 Captain, 3 Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, 19 serjeants, 446 rank and file. Total-1 Major, 2 Captains, 5 Lieutenants, 4 Ensigns, 1 Quartermaster, 2 Assistant and Staff Surgeons, 31 ser • jeants, 10 drummers, 657 rank and file. Killed—Regulars, 1 rank and file. Militia-3 rank and file.— Total-4 rank and file. Wounded—Regulars, 1 serjeant, 1 drummer, 18 rank and file. Militia, 1 Captain, 5 serjeants, 51 rank and file.—Tutal, 1 Cap. tain, 4 serjeants, 1 drummer, 69 rank and file. Missing—Regulars, 1 strjtant, 7 rank and file. Militia, 80 rank and file.—Total, 1 serjeant, 87 rank and file. The unorganised native force consisted of 77 Chiefs, and 5187 men, of whom 84 were killed, and 603 wounded. Names of Officers Wounded—Captain William Hutchin,.on, of the Militia, dangerously; Lieut. King, Royal Navy, slightly. Extract f a Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel SUTHERLAND, dated Cape Coast Castle, 31st May, 1824 herewith I hare the honour to transmit a duplicate of a dispatch, under date of the 28th instant, forwarded by his Majesty s ship Driver. Since then the enemy has made no movement of importance, but the army under the King is said to have formed a junction with that at Fettue yesterday, and I suppose he will immediately undertake something, his united force being stated to amount to 16,000 men; and as the rains have now set in, he will not certainly remain inactive. • I am making the most strenuous exertions to collect a force strong enough to cope with the enemy, and whenever I succeed so far as to render an attack on him prudent, I shall endeavour to drive him a little further into the interior, it I can do no more. _ _ In the meantime I learn the small-pox and dysentery are com mitting sad ravages in his camp, and these are likely to be assisted by want of provisions and the present inclement season. THI DISCOVERY SHIPS. Letters were yesterday received from Captain Parry, from Whale Island, Davis's Straits, crew all well, dated the 26th of June. No accident had occurred since they left the river. Both the Ilecla and Fury kept company daring the voyage, and arrived together. The expedi tion was to proceed on their ulterior destination on the I st of July. Dispatches have also reached the Admi ralty from Captain Parry, later in date than the private letters above referred to: they were brought to Whitby by the William Harris transport, which left this enter prising officer on the 2d of July, at the entrance to Baf fin's Bay. It is not likely that any other intelligence will be received of Captain Parry until the result of his expedition is known.—The following letter on this sub. ject will be read with interest: " His Majesty's ship Fury, Whale Cove, Whale-fish Island, lat. 69 deg. 9 min. N. long. 56 deg. 30 W. "'We have had a very good passage: called nowhere since leaving the Nore. We passed several immense ice bergs on the 21st and 22d of June, in Davis's Straits, and made the land on the morning of the latter date. 44 It gives me much pleasure to inform you that our Captain enjoys perfect health, and is in good spirits, as are also the Officers and men of the Fury. Captain Parry, of the Hecla, his Officers and men, are all well. We have been very busily employed clearing the trans port of stores, live cattle, &c. We shall have fresh meat on alternate days until Christmas, or perhaps longer, if the fodder last. One thing I wish to caution you against ..--namely, the vague reports you will hear of us. After the transport leaves us, depend upon it we shall never see a European face or ship—how then can it be possible that any information respecting us can , reach England, unless there were conveyances for dispatches by land, which cannot be the case ? Should we succeed is finding a passage to the south ward of the Pole, we might soon transmit you a letter. I hope I shall have the pleasure of regaling you on board on our return, after a successful voyage round the Island of America, with a glass of grog made from the first rum that has accomplished that passage. "CHARLES PULFRIL Carpenter of his Majesty's ship Fury. " Adieu for three or four years ! We expect to part with the transport that has accompanied us from Eng land to-night ; by her I send you this letter. " July 2, 1824." THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1824. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 923 for the Account, and got up to92a, I, at which price they remain steady up to this hour. The Express from Paris has brought the Reines, after 'Change on Monday, at 99f. 35c. FOREIGN FUNDS. There is scarcely anything doing in the Foreign Market this morning. Current Prices : New Spanish 16, Old 21/ to 1, Russian 941 a, Alliance Shares 121 131, Blexican 521 to 531, Colombian Scrip 41 dis. Milan 781, French Scrip 10i, Austrian 081, Portuguese 861, Buenos Ayres 11. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 236 1 h-3 per Cent. Reduced 93 1 4 Vs S per Cent. Cons. 92 5 /s 1 / 4 Y 4 -3i per Cts. 101% 4 per Cent. Assented 101 1 / 8 1 / 4 4 per Cent. New 106 105%. Bank Long Anns. 22 15.16 23—India Bonds 76 SO £l,OOO Exchequer Bills (2d.) 38 42 36 ; (1 V 2 d.) 37 8 £5OO Do. (2d.) 39 6 40 ; (1 1 / 2 d.) 37 8 £lOO and £2OO 1)o. (2d.) 40 38 40 Consols for Acct. 92% Y 2 1/4. By the arrival of a Jamaica Mail this morning, we have Papers to the 19th of Jane, bringing an account of an insurrectionary movement on the part of the Slaves on Argyle Estate, in the parish of Hanover. This intelligence excited considerable alarm among the West India Merchants in the City, and the most extra vagant rumours were circulated on Change. One re. port was, that the Slaves had been joined by five thou sand Maroons; now it so happens that there are not more than twelve or fourteen hundred Maroons on the whole island. The affair, which does not appear very serious, is said to have arisen in consequence of the slaves not • being allowed Saturday for themselves, as had been pro mised. The following account of it is from the Ja maica courant of the 18th of June. KINGSTON, JUNE 18. We were on Wednesday in possession of very un pleasant tidings that have transpired regarding the pro cceedings of the slaves on Argyle Estate, in Hanover, of which yesterday we received the following account. An old woman attached to Argyle Estate, informed Mr. Malcolm, that the slaves on the property intended to set fire to the thrash-house, and that the Maroons were sus pected of being concerned, but had not openly joined. A notice of this alarming circumstance was dispatched to his Grace the Governor, who, on Wednesday, sent his Military Secretary over t. the Commander-in-Chief with the intelligence. We are informed his Excellency has taken measures to reinforce the military in this distracted quarter, and that two companies of the Hanoveriaa regiment had marched to the spot. Since writing the above, we have been permitted the perusal of letters from the Parish of Hanover, which we are inclined to believe. They state .ghat the slaves on Argyle Estate, having been promised Sa turday for themselves, resisted working on that day, when called out, on which the Overseers punished a few refractory ones. A general discontent was the con ' sequence ; and after fir ing the thrash-house of a neigh bouring estate, they absconded into the woods; but many have since returned, and the whole were expected to follow, when tranquillity will soon be restored. We have heard that the Hussar frigate was to be held in readiness to take troops on board, in the event of this ebullition assuming a decided character. We earnestly hope our next report will bring the news of the Negroes having resumed their wonted ala-, crity and submission. FROM THE JAMAICA COURANT 07 THE 17TH JUNE. The Ringdove brig, from Laguira, was coming to anchor when the Packet left Barbadoes, and the Ganges, 84, was lying at St. Vincent. It is said that the Superb, 74, is to come from Bar badoes to this Island, for the purpose of receiving the flag of Vice-Admiral Halsted, when Captain Thomas Forrest will remove into that ship, and Captain Thomas Staines will take the command of the Isis, of 50, and the Ganges, fit, Captain E. Brace, C.B. will return to England. PROM THE COURANT OF JUNE 16. By the Melantho we learn, that on the 7th instant, the French frigate La Flora arrived at Santa Martha from France. She had on board a Commissioner, M. Chassareau, who had proceeded for Carthagena. This forenoon we received Lisbon Papers to the 18th ult. but they contain no intelligence of interest. Several vessels bad arrived from Rio de Janeiro, and other parts of the Brazils; and•one vessel in 120 days from Monte Video, with 400 troops ana General MAIJDO. The Lisbon Gazette of the 17th, contains a long article oh the policy of the British Gayer nmeni, which is justly praised for its prudence in preserving the country in peace, when some hasty politicians wished to prec pitate us in a war for the sake of the imbecile Cortes of Spain, and the partisans of a Government who did not think it worth fighting for; the principal object of the article is, however, to praise our Ministers for not recognising the independence of the South American States, which it is contended would give this country no commercial advantages it does not at present possess, while it would embroil us with the other European Powers. The idea that the South American States cannot accomplish or maintain their independence is futile, and whatever the Lisbon Gaulle may say, we suspect the Court of Lisbon has very little hope of ever recovering her transatlantic possessions. The following are extracts : LISBON, JULY 16. To-day we present to our readers the Speech of his Britannic Majesty on dosing the Session of Parliament. With the exception of the convulsed state of a part of Ireland, to which his Majesty alludes, all the rest of the Speech sbews the state of peace and increasing prospe rity of the British nation. Some English Journals, animated only by thirst of the gain which the idea of the separation of the pro vinces of South America from the mother countries io Europe, hold out to them, are amazed at not finding in his Majesty's Speech any allusion to the subject of the recognition of the independence of those States, which they eagerly expected, and their impatience breaks out with unjust complaints and satires. These are the same journals that murmured because! , the English Government refused to precipitate Grea t Britain into a continental war in Europe, to support the impotent party of the Cortes of Spain, which was after wards treated by these very journals with the most in sulting epithets, and with the most remarkable incon sistency, decreed as the most contemptible of the human race, for not having defended with more heroism the city of Cadiz, in which they had shut themselves up. The English Government, by its prudence and wisdom on that occasion, delivered Great Britain from a war in which, at least, it would have been opposed by the will and the efforts of the principal part of the population of the Peninsula, as the event proved. The most distinguished and sound part of the British nation knows how to appreciate the good fortune of having escaped from the manifold tens ptations of the disorganising notion which moved heaven and earth to draw England into its ruinous contest: the English Government gave a great proof of its wisdom and firm ness on this occasion. It sheaved that it knew Spain better than those who sought to involve it in that war ; and the British nation has every reason, as well as the people of the Peninsula, to praise and bless the mode ration and foresight of the Government which saved Europe from a cruel war, and from a renewal of those miseries which it cost so much blood (English as well as that of other nations) to terminate. It is the same wise and prudent policy which now in duces the British Government to resist all the incite ments of these same advocates of the cause of " Liberty and Equality," now invested with the specious title of the Independence of America, and gilded with the se ducing hopes of a commerce which shall transform the stones of the streets of Great Britain into gold and dia monds. This policy, which prevents the British Go vernment from interfering in the measures which the nations of the Peninsula are taking to put down rebel lion in transatlantic dominions, after having conquered it at home, is that which justice prescribes, and the pro priety of not precipitating a measure which would be as contrary to the relations of peace and good neighbour hood with the mother countries of Europe (of much greater weight, in a political view, than the unformed and distant new States of South America), as if the lat ter should think fit to recognize the independence of Ireland, or of any other part of the British empire which should be in a disturbed state, merely because it might suit the political or commercial interests of the State which should choose to act in this manner, and even without first giving time to the States of Europe to maintain their political rights by means of persua sion or force, which they have been prevented from em ploying by the political convulsions from which they have not been delivered till within less than a year. Besides this, the state of things which is already ma nifesting itself in various parts of those desolated coun tries, shews how much reason there is to distrust first appearances, always disfigured by enthusiasm; and how much more agreeable to the interest of Great Bri tain is the policy recommended by its wise Ministers, precipitating nothing, leaving circumstances to be ma tured by the course of time, and by the series of events, which are the best guides of the true policy of nations. Meantime, nothing prevents the British commerce from continuing its peacef ii relations with those States, the recognition of whose independence would certainly not increase the means of causing the private right of the English merchants to be more respected, in their commercial transactions with these people, than in the present state in which those nations exist. Experience proves how slippery is the step for a formal recognition to our intimate alliance, and the con sequences of such an alliance are incalculable. A pre cipitate step is not always easy to be retraced, and its influence almost always extends further than is desired, or than can be afterwards remedied. At all events, the recognition of the independence of a State which has not yet received from time the necessary solidity, and which really does not know its own situation, would be an absurdity, looking at the question in the most favourable light, since such a recognition of indepen dence would be only saying to the world, " I recog. nice this State as independent, so far as k can defend itself against that of which formerly it constituted an integral part; and this declaration which I make is not designed to restrain tie free exercise of the political rights of the diplomatic Sovereign over it." By what we perceive in the speeches in the English Parliament, we must believe that the great and prevail. ing policy by which its Government is guided in this matter, as it was in respect to the first of which we spoke, is that of peace and good understanding with all nations, this being the best calculated to secure to it the immense benefits which it must always derive In m the excellence of its institutions, from the great mas= its productive capital, horn its commercial genius, fr nru its extensive navigation, and from the. immense supe riority of its manufactures, which must necessarily open to it all the markets in the world, whether it re cognises or does not recognise the independence of this or that political Government. We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday, with the Etoile of yesterday, by Express.-- Private letters of Monday have also reached us. The Etoile of Tuesday, as indeed it does every day, contains a long article on the state of the French Ministry, in reply to some observations in the other Journals. The Etoile has another long article on the affairs cf . South America, and ridicules the intelligence respecting the reported victory of BOLIVAR, which we were the first to doubt. The French Papers of Monday contain a long accourt of the first interview of General GUILLEMINOT, the French Ambassador in Constantinople, with the GRAND Vara, which took place on the 27th of June. The lac,- cession and the audience in the hall of the Divan were conducted with the usual Oriental pomp. Compli mentary speeches were exchanged through the medium of interpreters, and the whole ceremony appears to have been in that chewy style which the French call grand and imposing. Monday, M. de VILLRLE and Marshal LAURISTON transacted business with the KING. Private letters from Paris state, that not the slightest expectation prevailed of any change in the Ministry. It was understood that M. de VILLELE possessed the fa vour both of the KING and MoNstetra, and there is no party sufficiently strong to resist so powerful an in fluence. It was in his financial arrangements only that he was vulnerable, and this danger he had surmounted. The Budget is expected to pass the Chamber of Peers without serious opposition, and the Session will probably close in about a week. It is rumoured that the following, arrangements on the eve of taking place in the French Ministry : N. Clermont Tonnerre, Minister of Marine, to succeed :11 de Chateaubriand, as Minister of Foreign Affairs; the Duke tie Dot:. deauville, transferred from the Management of the Posts to the nistry of Marine; M. de Rochefoucauld to succeed the Duke t:e Doudeauville in the department of the Post Office. We have given extracts from the French Papers of Sunday in a preceding page, and we add the following from Galignani's Messenger of Monday : PARIS, AUGUST 1. Yesterday his Majesty granted a private audience to the Earl of Hurowby, President of the Council of his Britannic Majesty. The Duke of Bourbon and the Infant Don Miguel visited the King yesterday. It esterday, Lord Harrowby and family arrived at Meurices hotel. Rossini and Madame Pasta have arived at Paris. Scrox EXCHANGS, JOLT 51, Frvc o'Ctocir.—ln consequence of the Settling of the Account appearing heavy, and offers to a consi derable extent being made, the price of Stocks went down rapidly to-day, but it afterwards recovered to the opening quotations. The Five per Cents. for Money closed at 97f. 15c. for the end of the month. The price at four o'clock was 97f. 70c. ; at this hour 971:90c. Rarras.—Five per Cents. 981.25 c. 15. 10. 20. 25. 65. 55. 60. 55. 75. 85. 80. 90. Spanish 18. End of the month, half-past three o'cloct.-991. 20c. The Jamaica Mail, received this morning, brings no confirmation of the reported victory of BOLIVAR. The latest accounts from the General are of the 27th of May, via Panama. In April, his head-quarters were at Ttuxillo, when he had a force of 19,000 men; and letters from Carthagena, of the 14th May, state, that he had demanded more men and money from his Govern ment, which it was not able to supply to the extept of his demand. Another account, of a later date, repre sents him as having received reinforcements, and about to commence offensive operations. Yesterday, Mr. FINNERSEY, an Extra Messenger, was sent off with dispatches from the Colonial Office, in Downing-street, for Ancona. Mr. Secretary CANNING transacted business at the Foreign Office yesterday. In the evening, the Right Honougable Secretary left town for Coombe Wood, on a visit to the Earl of Livearow., where there was a select party to dinner. Yesterday, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER came to town, from Charlton, Kent, and after transacting business at the Treasury, returned in the evening. Mr. and Mrs. HUSKISSON, after visiting their friend, Lord GRANVILLE, in the Netherlands, will proceed to Ai:-la•Cha pelle, from thence to Cologne, to take a peep at the Rhine, the Mo selle, and the Maine, and return by way of Brussels, visit the plains of Waterloo, the noble fortress made by BONAPARTE, under the superintendence of CanNoT, at Antwerp, and before they embark for England, see the “ sports and pastimes" of the motley group at Rotterdam during the Fair. Saturday, the 17th ultimo, the Right Hon. the Lady Mau: Lombok:. CaawronD honoured Leslie House with a visit, previous to her Ladyship's departure for the Continent. Monday afternoon, the wife of a man named Simp kins, a gun-maker, living in White Horse-court, Rosemary-lanes had an affray with some women living in the same court. The husband accidentally coming home, took the part of his wife, when he was attacked by four women, who knocked him down, and beat and kicked him in such a violent a manner, that after lingering to great misery, he died this morning at a quarter before five o'clock• A Coroner's Inquest will be held on the body this evening• — His wife also suffered much, and still is confined. Two women are in custody for the above outrage. Friday, a person calling himself William Lindsey, and pretending to be a Cornet in the Coldstream Guards, was apprehended at Dover, and fully committed for trial, on a charge of forging the acceptance of Mr. CHARLES Cox, ut the firm of Cox and GASENWOOD, tO a draft drawn in the name of William Lindsey, in favour . of Lieutenant Vernon. Upon searching the baggage o f the prisoner, his linen was marked D. 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