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I . . airing the samelentiments, the same ideas, and the 1 sa me desires with those traitors.—Avd in what points were they not urpriied *prepar ing to break out? No: no other opinion can be maintained: their trea son and their apostacy are incorrigible. With their ex termination alone can the public tranquillity be se med. But what a difficult.undertaking ! Secured in their masonic caverns, walled in in their towers, hidden in their secret cabins, who can combat them ? But let all our works chew that this is really the object towards which our exertions are directed—that zeal for religion and the King devour our heart; that after our idolised Sovereign and his Royal Family, nothing is more dear to us, nothing so much det•erses our con.idrration as those who, urged by a loyalty without limits, have vo lootasily devoted themselves to defend our altars, our t:srone, and our property ; and I am certain that all the good- sill assist us in the discovery and persecution • of this race of iniquity, who can only live betwen it re ligion and anarchy. In the meantime I command, under the strictest te sponsibility, that all the employes in the Police regulate their conduct according to these sentiments ; that they preserve, by all means, the strictest harmony with the other authorities ; and that, convinced as they ought to i.e IT the great service the Royalists do, and ought to do, to the cause of GOD and the King, they promote • forcibly the augmentation of these corps in all the vil lages, however small, dispensing to them, as much as lies in their power, all the protection merited by those who so generously and disinterestedly enlist under the standard of religion and loyalty. MARIANO 'LUPINO GONZALES. Madrid, September 14, 1824. order of the Suptrintondent-General of Police of the King dom, JOSE LOPEZ REQUENA. FROM LAST NIGHeS LONDON GAZETTE. COLONIAL OFFICE, DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 50. Dispatches, of which the following are extracts, dated Cape Coast Castle, 30th June, 17th and 22d of July, and addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Bathurst, K.G. • have been received from Lieut.-Colonel Sutherland, of the 2d Vest India Regiment, and Lieut.-Colonel Grant, of the Royal Ali icaii Colonial Corps:— Cape Coast Castle, June 30, 18 , 24. My communication of the Slst of May, duplicate of which is inclised herewith, would have informed your Lordship of the state of operations on this Coast to that period, except that 1 omitted to mention I had recalled the troops into the Castle, when, on the desertion of the Fantees, I round it would be useless and imprudent to remain in the field. I havenow the honour to make you acquainted with subsequent occurrences to this date. All the prisoners and deserters recently brought in, concur is stating, Ott Assai Tootoo Quamina, the reigning King at the commencement of hostilities, had lately died at Coomassie, and that Adoo Assisi, his suc cessor and brother, bad left Ashantee, accompanied by all the warriors he could muster, with the determina tion of destroying Cape Coast, and driving the Dogfish out of the country ; and in order that I might not plead ignorance of his Majesty's intentions, he did me the honour, soon after his arrival at Fetue, to send a Fetish (sanctified or sacred) boy to our advanced posts with a message, importing that • If the walls of Cape Coast Castle were not high enough. I ought to build them higher, and if they were not sufficiently furnished with cannon, that I should land those belonging to the ships of win ; but that all could not prevent his throwing the whole into the sea !" a threat which was of course treated with contempt. After about three week of preparation, during which our scouts and small parties .were very successful in cutting off the enemy's foraging stragglers, and by fre quent alarms, in keeping him constantly on the alert in his camp, thereby preventing his collecting provisions, of which be was very much in want ; the above message was followed up by the King's advance from Fetue on the 21st inst. with his whole army, to within five miles of the fort, driving in without resistance a party of ob servation I had left at the Government Garden Hill y& • lake, where he established his head-quarters. _ On the 2.qd he was again in motion, and took up an extensive line or chain of posts round great part of the settlement, distant about three miles, but in bush so thick that it was impossible to judge of his strength except by the extent of his line, or to discover that, or hit position, otherwise than by the smoke from his fires. On the 23d he advanced so close that he was seen in great force from the Hill Tower, and a signal was made from thence to that effect. I was consequently in mo meutary expectation of being attacked. The townsmen were ordered to make all possible resistance ; the women and children, provisions, and valuables, were taken for protection into the fort; the seamen and marines were landed hom his Majesty's ship Victor and merchant ships in the roads to man the guns, and every other pre paration made for defence, when the enemy, who ap peared to have good information of our proceedings, hesitated, halted; his resolution seemed to fail him ; and although at dusk and during the night he occupied Parson's Croons (village), within one mile of the fort, he retired early on the 24th to the encampment he had quitted two days before, from whence to the end of the month he contented himself with detaching strong par ties to lay waste the country round about,and to but n and destroy all the villages within reach, which he was enabled to do ids perfect impunity, my garrison at the time, far both Castle and Tower, independent of a very small unorganised force, on which little dependence could be placed, only amounted to 31P; rank and file, many of them very young soldiers, and of ss horn 10l were in hospital, twelve sick in quarters, thirty-two recruits, twelve boys, exclusive of a few artificers and militia. It is proper 1 should here make your Lordship ac quainted with a circumstance which, during this me naced attack, led to considerable loss of property to several individuals by fire. Some time previ :us to the approach of the enemy on the 22d, and on that day, I ordered some houses which, within 30 yards, commanded and overlooked the prin. cipa) ramparts and defences on the land side, to be pulled down, to prevent our being driven horn our bat teries from them by the enemy, and to remove such obstructions to the range of our guns. These repeated orders were disregarded by the town's people, and the garrison was too weak to execute them ; I considered it, therefore, my duty, (when, on the 23J, the Othcer com manding in the Tower threw out the signal " the enemy is advancing from the westward,") to order four of those houses to be set on fine; and I am sorry to say, that o ving to a sudden rise of wind, tht flames extended much farther than was anticipated or intended ; and, in spite of every effort to arrest then progress, burnt the grass thatch off m•tst of the huts and houses in the town, and consumed several. Oa ing,liowever, to the previous ignoval of goods, &c. into the fort, and the peculiar • Royal Marine Artillery 9.c1 West India Regiment Royal Afric.in Colonial Corps Total Regulars Dliliti Uttorg ,nlzed Total strength I S I . t eonstruct;on and swist 'floors (mud thickly plastereti Over strung laths) of the ]cooties resisting the tirtitilt Of fire, there was mach less loss ofproperty thin could. have been supposed; goods, furkkure, and even gun.„, powder; having been found untottgbod,,in some of them, alter their thatch bad been cunsenta. In concluding this communication, I beg leave to ea. press my best acknowledgments for the cordial co-ope ration and prompt assistance rendered to me through out the most critical portion of this period by Captain Scott, Acting Commander of his Majesty's ship Victor, which had arrived a few days before, and was the only man of war cn the Gold Coast. Captain Scott not only repeatedly landed the seamen and marines of his bwn ship, but as often procured volunteers from the crews of the merchant vessels in the roads, to assist the garrison in case of attack, and with great celerity fitted up and equipped three gunboats, to scour the approaches by the beach, and flank such of the defences as were in them selves weakest ; and I sincerely hope his Officer-like exer tions, on all occasions, will be rewarded as they justly merit.—l must also mention my sense of the services of Lieutenant W. 0. Aitcheson, Royal Marine Artillery, in terms of the warmest approbation. This Officer having heard of the recent disastrous defeat of our forces, that the Officers were all sickly, and that there was no Artillery Officer on the Coast, being actuated by. feelings and zeal which always characterise the true solJier, immediately volunteered his services from As cension, where he was stationed, arrived in the Victor, on the 10th instant, and has ever since been indefatiga ble in getting up, mounting, and placing guns on the works to most advantage, in arranging the ordnance stores and magazines, and in performing other import ant duties, which, as Superintendant of Artillery and Military Engineer, have been assigned to him, and I trust your Lordship will permit me to recommend him strongly to your notice. W. SUTHERLAND, Lieut. Col. 24 West India Meat. commanding the Forces. Cape Coast Castle, July 17, 1824. When my dispatch of the 30th ultimo was written, this Settlement was nearly surrounded by the Ashantees, who were encamped within three or four miles of it, ravaging the country, and burning the villages. I have now the honour to inform your Lordship, that since then these barbarians have been defeated ; their army is now dispersed, and they are, by all accounts, retiring in small parties to their own country, in the best way, and as fast as they can. Eat'' , this month, the advance of a body of auxi liaries, which had been collected, with infinite trouble and difficulty, about Accra, and countries in that di rection, and, I suppose, the arrival of his Majesty's ship Thetis, on the 4th instant, from England, with troops, induced the enemy to recal his detachments, for the purpose of concentrating his army, part of which, on the 7th, was distinctly seen defiling in great force over a hill, by several paths, towards some heights which he , occupied near the left of his position, where we could perceive the King's tent. On the Bth, the Accra Auxiliaries, who had arrived on the 6th, and been supplied with arms and ammuni tion, as far as our very limited means would permit, were, with the Cape Coast people, placed in position on a strong and commanding chain of heights (opposite to the enemy), round the town and fort, and busily em ployed until the 11th in clearing away the bush, forti fying their posts, and watching the motions of the Ashantees, with whom there was occasionally some skir mishing, and who were busy cutting paths towards us. On the 11 tit (Sunday), soon after day-light, the enemy was seen descending in several masses of great strength into, and forming his line across, the valley leading to the right of our position, which was about half a mile from the town ; and about two in the afternoon his ad vance having been fired upon by our skirmishers, a general engagement was brought on, which at dusk, half-past six r. as. I am happy to say, terminated in his being defeated at all points, and obliged to retire; two camps on the right of his position, which he had weak ened to reinforce his left, having been burnt and plun dered by part of our unorganized forces, whn, although daily driven out of town to their posts, at the point of the bayonet, to do them justice, fought on this occasion for four hours with great courage, particularly on the right, against which the utmost efforts of the enemy, who fought bravely, were directed, and which he re peatedly advanced in masses to turn and to attack, without however making the least frpression. Our loss In killed and wounded (as per annexed re turn), lam sorry to say, has been considerable. One Officer, Lieutenant Swanzy, Royal African Colonial Corps, a most zealous and promising young man, and twice slightly wounded before the fatal shot took effect, and 103 men killed, and 448 wounded ; but it is matter of great satisfaction, and a proof of how well the action must have been sustained,although fought in thick bush, that the enemy, by his own account, has not to boast of having cut off a single head from our killed, or of having taken even one pi isoner from us of any description, a circumstance the more remarkable, if the numerical disparity of the contending bodies is considered ; ours, in position, where a strong reserve was always kept, not exceeding 19 Officers, and 5,053 rank and file, of whom only '285 were regulars (vile margin);* whilst the Ashantee force, as seen during the morning, cannot be estimated at less than 16,000 fighting men. Their loss in killed acrd wounded on this day could not be ascer tained; but their dead are very numerous on the scene of action, and numbers of pi isoners and deserters brought in since, state it to be great, and that many Chiefs, or Captains, were killed or wounded. On the 12th, the enemy again appeared drawn up in the valley, apparently with the design of making an other attempt on our positions; and, in order to draw him into some movement that rni%ht expose his inten tions, I twice or thrice or dered a body of skirmishers to creep up to, open a tire on him, and then retirc This fire was each time returned with great anima tion from the enemy's whole line for about halt an hour (his divisions, it is said, and as I thought at the time, firing on each other), after our skirmishers had,. agreeably to their orders, retired unobserved. But as he made no demonstration of advance up to two in the afternoon, I directed a few random shot from a field piece to be fired through the bush in his direction, on which he retired towards the head of the valley, where he still remained on the 13th, during the night of which . • Strjeants and ahem Rank and Filc 1 90 15 195 118 4650 IT • 053 he disappeared altogether, takio tile direction of the Goiefl Garden, Elmina ) and . Itetue. towards Dooatits, which is pa , the direct route to Ashantee. We have since heat that the result of the action, and unpOpulavity of the war, together with the enemy's herrible sufferings and losses; from disease and want of provisions, had elicited strong symptoms of insubordi nation and discontent in the Ashantee army ; that as early as the night of the 11th, whole bands had deserted from the King; that four out of six Captains, who had been retaken, had been beheaded, after being tortured, the other two remaining prisoners in heavy logs ; but that, notwithstanding these examples, his Majesty was now making his way back, accompanied bt only a few hundreds of followers ; in proof of which, it is said, he was yesterday obliged to move with his own guard to cover a convoy of gunpowder from Elmina, which had been assailed, and three barrels captured by 50 or 60 scouts I had ordered out in that directioa, with a view of ascertaining his hiding place; and I have little doubt that numbers of the Ashantees wl be cut off doling their retreat by the Wassaws and Fantees. I am happy to inform your Lordship, that I have rea son to approve of the conduct of every individual, whe ther of the Army, Navy, or Marines, employed in these operations, which,lt not brilliant, were at least extremely harassing and arduous, and throughout which I trust his Majesty's Government will be satisfied that all did their duty, and that up to this period as much has been effected as our means, the nature of the coun try in which we acted, and the circumstances we were placed in, would permit. Where all evinced zeal and alacrity in the discharge of their several duties, it may, perhaps, be deemed su pererogatory to particularize any ; but I.cannot, in jus tice to the service, omit to direct your Lordship's atten tion to the merits and devotion to the public service al ways displayed by Major Chisholm, Royal Aft ican Corps, whose conduct in command of the right bri gade, which bore the brunt of the battle of the 11th, was everything I could wish, as was that of Captain David Campbell of the same corps, at the head of the Cape Coast Division, on the extreme right, which was warmly engaged throughout the day ; of Capt. Dowson, of that regiment, commanding the reserve (regulars and militia) also engaged ; and of Lieut. W. 0. Aitcheson, -Royal Marine Artillery, in charge of the field-pieces in position on this occasion. I beg leave also to request your Lordship's notice of the services of Major Purdon, Royal African _Corps, commanding the left brigade; of the zeal and enter. prise of Captain Blenkarne, of the same regiment, who some time ago volunteered to proceed to Accra in ao l open canoe, to assist in collecting these auxiliary forces„ whose opportune arrival at this crisis is to be mainly. attributed to his praiseworthy and indefatigable exer tions, and who, in these operations, commanded the British Accra Division (in the left brigade), part of which, on the 11th, burnt two of the enemy's camps; of the impOrtant services of Captain Ricketts, 2d West India Regiment, Brigade Major to the Forces, in performance of various essential duties, and who was wounded in the action in which the late Governor 'was killed ; of Cap tain Hutchison, Annamaboe Militia, who having been severely wounded in the affair of t he 21st of May was placed, on his partial recovery, in command of the Hill Tower, where be gave up his whole time to improving the defences of his pest, the disciplining of the garrison, and to a most zealous and effectual discharge of his military duties; of Captain Scott, of his Majesty's ship Swinger, late of the Victor; and of Lieutenant Drew, First of the Thetis, who commanded the seamen and marines employed on shore. I deem it a pleasing duty to acquaint your Lordship that I received the most cordial co-operation and effec itual aid from Major de Richelieu, the Governor of his IDanish Majesty's settlements on the Gold Coast, who Made use of his best influence and means to collect and equip a strolls body of Danish dependents, who ar rived at Cape Coast, -under the command of Captain Poulson, a Danish Officer, with the other auxiliaries, and fought bravely in the recent engagement. To Captain Sir John Phillimore, Knt. C.B. of his Majesty's ship Thetis, the senior Naval Officer present, my best thanks are eminently due, for the very great and cordial assistance he repeatedly rendered to me, in landing the seamen and marines of his own ship, and Swinger brig of war, to garrison the fort, whenever it became necessary to march the troops out of it, to rein ' force those engaged or in position, for the liberality of the supplies of powder, lead, &c. which be furnished to the utmost extent of his power, and for employing his ship, men, and means in every way in which they could possibly benefit the public service; and as this experi enced Officer was present during the whole period em braced in this dispatch, acquainted with every occur rence detailed in it, and an eye-witness to many of them, and the difficulties we had to contend with, I beg leave to refer your Lordship to him for any particular infor mation you may wish to obtain relative thereto. W. SUTHERLAND, Lieut.-Col. ed West India Regiment, commanding the Forces. 1117111111 Or THE KILLED AND WOUNDED, MT 1, 1824. 2d West India Regiment-3 rank and file wounded. Royal African Corps—Lieut. Swam, killed. Militia-1 rank and file, killed; 5 rank and file, wounded. Unorganised Armed Force.-102 rank and file, killed; 440 rank and file, wounded. • Cape Coast Castle, July 23,1834. Since I had the honour of addressing your Lordship, on the 18th instant, repOrting my arrival, nothing very particular has taken place respecting the enemy. Lieutenant Colonel Sutherland's report will acquaint your Lordship of the enemy's repulse near this place on the 11th inst. On the 19th, I leaiwt that he was en carriped at about five miles distant from this place, and sent out an auxiliary force, with a view to entice him to approach within reach of our guns : they returned on the following day with a few prisoners. The enemy shewed no disposition to approach the garrison. Ile made off on the 20th, in the direction of Annamaboe; and it has just been reported to me, that some firing had been heard yesterday at one of the Annamaboe villages, seven or eight miles inland. I fear the villages will suffer, but I am under no apprehension for the sort. I regret to state to your Lordship, that the Europeans in garrison have suffered much during the last quarter. A. GRANT, Lieut.-Col. R.A.C. Cumg. • ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, OCTOBER 4. Extract of a letter from Commodore Bullen to John Wilson Croker, Esq. dated on board his Majesty's ship Maidstone, Cape Coast, Gold' Coast, July 42,1824. I have gloat pleasure in being able to acquaint their* .Lorddlips, by his Majesty's ship Thetis, that on Sunda) week the troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Sutherland 'completely routed the Ashantet army, *which had advanced in great force to withir about two miles of the Castle, leaving an innumerable number of killed on the field ; and that on account of total defeat, they *.are, 1 learn, retiring in all haste towards Cpomassie s their ca;ital: this 'has been* further • ['confirmed by the information obtained from two pei, soners brought in yesterday, sltto state the enemy to be in full retreat, and suffering severely from famin e (calm,' by their having laid waste the country ou their advance), dysentery, and small-pox. Too much praise cannot be bestowed on Captain Sir John Phillimore, whose unremitting exertions and ju dicious arrangements, in taking his own ship into shoal water, manning and arming the boats of the Thetis, Victor, and Swinger, landing detachments of seame n and marines to co-operate with the army, and garrison it . tower on the height bey on d t h e C astle, which be armed, and placed under the command of his First Lieutenant, contributed materially towards the success of our arms. His personal exertions were such as t, call fotth the admiration of all; and Lieut.-Colonel Sutherland acquaints me that no language of his can do justice to hN merits, or describe the cool and deci sive !wanner in which he acted throughout: and to him, who was an eye-witness of the whole transaction, and is fully master of the subject, I must beg to reter their Lordships - for further information on this subject; and I beg to assure them, they may rely on my paying the most vigilant attention to their direttions on this im portant subject, and rendering every assistance in my power towards the attainment of so desirable an object. THE EVENING STAR.. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1824. THE MIDS. STOCK RX CH A NOE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened at for the Account; since the arrival of an Express from Paris, they ate done at 95j for the Account; 9G% for ,next fORRION FUNDS. There is iictle . doing , except .in Mexican and French Scrip, which have risen. • Current Prices: New Spanish 16/ Ohl 211, Russian 954, Mexi can 501 1, Colombian Scrip 8 ?jag. Colombian 771 781, Cliiko 744 4, French Scrip 134 # pre. Austrian 974 f,New Prussian 98, 'Affiance Shares 104, 11 pre. Brazil par 4 pre. Buenos Ayres 24 2 disc. Peruvian 65 66, Greek 17 16 disc. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock shut-3 per Cent. Reduced shut S per Cent. Cons, 95% % 34 SA .-31 per Cent. shnt 4 per Cent. Assented shut t 4 per Cent. New 106% ya s/ 8 —lndia Bonds 87 £l,OOO Excheq. Bills (2d.) 48 ; (1 1 / 2 d.) 47 8. £lOO and £2OO do. (2d.) 48 50 ; (1 1 / 2 d.) 48 50. Cons. for Acct. 95% Vs %. . This morning we received the Moniteur of s Monday. »a nd the Etoile of yesterday, by Express, the P ar i s par' of Sunday having previously readied us. The/IL/situ? in its " pantie non officielle," contains the letter front Jassy, given elsewhere, stating the evacuation of Mol davia. A Royal Ordonnance has been issMd, restoting the Staff of the Royal Corps of. Engineers to four hun dred Officers, exclusive of the General Officers. The In fant Don MIGUEL, of Portugal, left Paris on Monday, with his suite, for Vienna. The Constitutionnd of Sunday, bas the following paragraph:—" There is a report in circulation, that the Government has received this evening the important news that the Turkish squadron has been completely destroyed, and that 'tile brave CANARIS has blown up the ship of the Caiiiin . Pacha, in which service•he was himself destroyed."—The Etoile, alluding to this Para• graph, says—ft We could .wish that the great news an. nounced in the letters from Venice, which we take from the Journal des Debate, were confirmed, but our Cor. respondence ) as well as the foreign Journals, which we received to-day, does not permit us yet to give it as certain." The same Journal, however, gives an article re asserting the destruction of the Capitan Pacha, and the defeat of the Turks at Samos. The same article also appears in the Journal des Debats. The following are extracts:— FROM THE ETOILE OF TUESDAY. PARIS, OCTOBER 4. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the King presided at a Council, which lasted till halfapast four o'clock, at which the Dauphin assisted. Duting the absence of his Excellency the Marquis Clermont Tonnerre, Baron Dames, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will keep theportefeuille of the War Department. They write from Pernambuco, dated 10th August, 4 g since the 3d of this mouth our roads are occupied by a Brazilian division, composed of two frigates, two brigs, and two corvettes; this division is commanded by Carvalho, who is going to form the blockUle.” We read in the Augs6urg Gazette of the 29th of Sep tember, that some Tartars have brought news to Bucha rest, that there will be a change in the Turki h Mi nistry; the Grand Vizier, Ghalib Pacha, has been replaced by the Pacha of Sailtria. Glplib was hated by the Janissaries, which patty is triumphant at this moment. The following is the details of. the affair of Samos, which took place on the 19th and 20th : Ten thousand Turks landed, on the 19:11, at Samos, and were destroyed by the Greek, as they could not receive succours in time from the Capitan Pacha, whose fleet was, at that moment, attacked by the Greek squadron. in the battle the Greeks, for some time, could not use their fire-ships, but afterwards they pro •Juced the expected effect. They also lost three brigs (armed), and what Was more unfortunate, the immortal Canaris, uho has had already the glory of destroying two Captain Pachas, or Grand Admirals. The loss of the Turks was the .41- miral's vessel, commanded by Koreb, Captain Podia, which blew up. The infidels had the mortification to see destroyed before their eyes, ninety-four fligates, corvettes, &c. which were sunk, blown into the air, or Jestroyed. This is the end of the Ottoman expedition which came from Constantinople, aid the same fat: jwaits that from Egypt! This news wa, brought t Corfu, by a ship of war of his Britannic Majesty, whit ' was a witne4 of the combat, and immediately sailed '}or Mal •dds, ti vicated 'Court. Ren This bauphi Chapel peared with th 4 Inun nisters, Dignita Peers al the Nea At to lasted t the Con This •Sunday ricans tart' evs followir The tract of if Wt `veial J publish with rel ignoran throw 41 withara They PI orders I et As • 'flounce( by what tion of late trot Stourch absence of dans vessary " Th founder tuella of podar, siring, men, vo tion, hs and, tc coffers that on davia if on rained( the Sul the mo of theh , Lig MOOR. elan ha taguese x.4tai tan, ai are ext - -