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TI;E PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of HIS MAJESTY's ORDNANCE du hereby give Notice, that 1)10PosaIt will be received at their Office in Pall *all on or b'rure TUESDAY, the 12th October, front such Persons as may be willing to PURCHASE certain OBSOLETE IRON ORDNANCE SHOT, Shells, Cast Iron Lead Pots, and Pa- Per Curers Stoves burnt out; Unserviceable Files, Rubbers, RasP9,Taps, and Steel of Sorts; also a quantity of Unservice able Carpenter's and other Artificers"fools, Knives, Scissors, I lie Proposals must be delivered, sealed up and indorsed "Proposals for the Piirchate of Obsolete Iron Ordnance, &e.;" but iIQ Proposal can be admitted after the 1201 Oc tober next, at T,elve o'Clock at Noon, neither will any Tend er he noticed, unless the Party making it, or au Agent la his behalf, 111111 attends rr,u.,"l;tl particulars may be had on application at the Sc. p uu " r "Y.l , Othte, Pall Mall, between the hours of Ten . and ,„„ u , Cl ,° , k ; and also at the Royal Laboratory and Store clefl"thce Royal Irsenal, Woolwich, where the Arts • l uly be vi ewed. By Order Of the Board, WM. GRIFFIN, Secretary, ARNIY.-11ALr PAY, &c. NOTICES having been given in the Gazette of the 2d Octobe hoe 1824, by order of the Right Ho rr, able the PA YMASTER -GENERAL, that the following SER VICES, du e on the 24th September, 1824, will be in IvCOURSE of PAYMENT at the ARMY PAY-OFFICE, te kITEHALL, on THURSDAY, the 14th October, between "WI of Eleven and Two o'Clock, the same will be P a id oa that day aceordingly, viz.:— 14!If•pay to Reduced Officers of the Land Forces. b!rie!'lll Officers' Unattached Pay. oYal Bounty Allowance. !!titired Pull and Half-pay. t ,F or Adjutants of Local Militia. m . o f kiiiiiT_WitLlCCS to Reduced Adjutants and Serjeant-, aju P u r 4 . °PI Half,pay • °P PICERS in RECEIn of RETIRED FULL or 11 Al.y. I • c Pky ijtil.Major unt a as Reduc ed Adjutants of Local ; tu 4-4rtearl dAlloces as Reduced Adjutants ur a ARMY PAY-OFFICE, WHITEHALL, r ir , Sept. e , l, 18 1 14. VIE LO RDS COMMISSIONERS of HIS ti MM. jE "'Y'S TREASURY having determined that cr ‘un ought to be allowed to receive Full or HaltPaY, luE Allowance as above, who is in Holy Orders ; Notice is g l vvu, by Order of the Right Honourable She Pay ,;;."*(l`!tneral, th at a ll Retired Officers, Reduced Adjutants aical Aej utants Foreign O ff icers on Half-Pay, and Reduced froth and erjeants-Major of Militia, will be required, 111cy are 2411 i December mat, to state in their Affidavits that "in ~ ti stie Holy Orders ; and after that p eriod, no Re '4E4llor Hpay alf-, or other Allowance as above, can be If„ dto any P e r son , un l ess t h e words " that he is not in 1Y O rders" be inserted in the Affidavit. % NI RPgulation sloes not, however, extend to Chaplains P 94 Halt Pay. DAVID MARTIN, Cashier of ltejirril CHILBLAIN CERATE. lUS CER.A.TE, from its emolient and heal for iiiK properties, is found to be an excellent application when I,roken ; and if need to the hands 1 when there is a predisposition to these annoying ,;, t unt it is attended with the utmost advantage in pre -114,1,4 t heir occurrence. Being free front any disagreeable ur Unsightly appearance. it may be used without the ni convenience to the bands and arms. It is also . tised gr"at success in eases of Scalds, Mutts, Bruises, Erup s u ' i l,a9 Ulcers, especially in Sure and Ulcerated Legs. , b l i ct, " in Nixes, at Is. IV. and 2s . 9d. by Butler, Che• the 4 ' ? I 'valtsitle, St. Paul's, and 220, Regent.strret (near Vrr~ r gY'e Rooms), London ; and by the principal Medicine L‘‘ts throughout the Kingdom. " .iutti also Outy be had, the CAJEPUT OPODELDOC, th e Remedy fur Chilblains (before broken), allaying ; used also in Rheumatism, Spasmodic Akre anti 2 j .. :Pt Splains, B ru i ses , &c. In Bottles, at Is. led. 'e careful to ask for "Butler's Chilblain Cerate, o"tlchlue." , . I 'o 'r- TAY"" itiq. don VI •`°. 9, New Bridge-street, Lon . I. Il o i lo tt ace SIR, t "„ v'O . leave to inform you, that ev L e u r es si ‘ n , : n e ,r t , h ni e i 1, b1.1" 1 " 179 0, 1 bad been afflicted with the . suedwine. h ' " 4 111 t 1 • • course et teserib ov i s oastinately . resisting ! y de rein 4 the most eminent of tletevela.eultyllinedret,waiened on be courses of salivat,io_nt w ` tau , d appear to be of [Croat the Hospital with little relief, , _ :of last year i,, :ifilest inveterate nature. In tie sen t "?' put a period Eby3,:'r had got to such a bead, as nearly : t i l t on ll a 't ,,` lic e---I had a large ulcer un the innatecrow o n P of ty g b i e . :l , ll . , ;', 44 ner t :;;:' ' l nn. and my legs were . broke out ihn i t 7 l " a l - ` 4l e of l ' i CY riFlit was dreadfully painful, d 1 a :111 left had also tw,,, ceration for the last seven years . y d ,„ e ~p, 114:gleenoiles. on it, Was very niucb discoloured, an 1., , .x‘ruelating pain, particularly .41 4 41 when warns in bed, liss rye / ti) deprive sue of rest T hompson iu this lamentable state, I ( I received so 4reitt aoatnivrided by Mr. J. , . w % Iliel, 1 4 C by them here), to take your Lake to sP c a o t u e r n s t e P o il f ls a • luit n i, i .' e aan to .1000 the Mit o. Slay ; sr; tine I began to if funtl' 'I receive benetit—in little more .le t a l . ll . l — a loon _s.the ulcers on my headand arms were soundly a l i im s w. ev er 41 ter, the sores on my le s healed also; kavr: e os in i ll th e 144..: eou3itlerable diseolouratron in the skirl, 1 011 4 ,, t !I the left, which, by Aberi,rieisFveranceandubsitled ; a little the blessing of God ,. a . nd ''' in your invaluable Medicine, .. 3 .111e, _, 414 IZis dispersing, the skin regaining its natur b a e l c l anie, 4l _ l y u r 'lir ha t Pains gradually going olf.-1 thus 1.. my lorkrtßittal advice and medicine, perfectly free from . 11 streii,,cbmPlaints.-- have recovered nty former . spi t r . it ' s av a_m4d her,bs ti ‘fi, and ant become Jolly and fat, in which sta who _ n i ew erd eti n 'all Months to the astonishment of all c k twiff; ist a loss isi Wha ' t terms te express my gratitud 1 , n. b . 0t t[, for the good of other suffering nsortals, to .1 . 11 44 41 ; ) 1 1 : 41 e its public as pok.ible, as I shall on every ocs.a ht_so doing you will greatly oblige, ' T s Year grateful, obedient, very liumbleservant . . In ." ALEX. MUKKER i I Ch'ses High-street. Edinburgh. olin I,.tiontpin\:,itsNiens.s7, tone above Cure:— . . ~,. h isob New Poultry Market, Eilitslititn, , rtr,,, I t atflotosli Old Assembly Close, Edinburgl s i. '"Olt ' - ,7,'td 4nd sold ts ' y the sole Proprietor, rIiONIAs TA Y . - ht.l44,lFttsber of the' Itz al College of Surgeons, at his t ''" 4 4l l -", ''' i f ) ; New Brit! , 1 -street, London; whet e, after . a C 414 J-TeSitiente of m 1 ! ti 40 vears ill a practice parts ilicidtLu'rected to the cure to domplaints allit those s 'crec,,", l .to the Parts of Geineration, with that inviolab le . 1 141 1 11IVIL 1 1171 of his profession should always observe in it Atti" 4 "' !le Hailers himself d • • nd usiistance he vice and b 1t05i0,...,i. the LI . . tea ttt.. „ 7. noministers to persons taking this Metli . ciue,. will . e t [ahem by a discerning Public, as an advat 1,9,L. seldom lip Albo ;otitis tinivdiveid of all • ambiguity. t e lg at a 4 ,_,. sis a pponstnsent,tor the convenience of those 40, ~I ),,yt , i r ,stan.ce, at the Tshop, No. 103. Oxford-streets -1 • 13 -t, ',l ()1 11 , 3 , No. 7, Irish- street-hill; Mr. Baxter, 1 4. " ' ge l Edi bur i a l - Al t. c 'h ee l N I , tits blin ; and of , IV 4lttit,7;', i i : .. 1 , .."..;n - ii - d - .rabl town a s e l , tl l4 ' felt "rresia?fonly 2s. 9d. each, stamped sn , and ity cui...,P in direct , ions where v u sealed f e :t I i u t i r i ''"ealselves With ease, speed, se'crecr, fend safety. COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, REGENT-STREET. AS the present unexampled rage for New In. surance Companies occasions the public attention to be engaged by various attractive Promises, it may not be improper to remind the Friends of the COUNTY FIRE OFFICE what have been its Performances. The County Fire Office has now been established upwards of seventeen years, during which time Sixteen Hundred Sufferers have been indemnified, and only one claim has been brought into a Court of Law—namely, that of the Thurtells. Returns to the amount of 42,000/. have been paid to all Per sons who have continued insured seven years, upon Annual as well as upon septennial Policies, and whether they have been Claithants for losses, or _otherwise—an important advantage which no'Other Insurance Office existing has afforded. By vigilant and prudent management, the County Office grew rich during the years which were favourable for Insurance business, and, in this advantage, persons who now insure par ticipate. It ought also to be known, that since the establishment of the COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, besides many which have been carried on as losing concerns, no less than eighteen New Insurance Offices have broken up. Several of these, which were announced under high patronage, and_ with- the most captivating promises, have expired in total insolvency, and left the disappointed claimants in fruitless liti gation with their Trustees and Directors. It is not difficult to anticipate what must be the fate of the numerous new Offices which are now proposed ; and now that their funds are not im provable, at half their former rate of interest, are outbidding each other in extravagant promises upon reduced means. Those who are aware of the confusion and misery which have resulted from the numerous failures - of Insurance Adventurers, and the probability that such failures will soon recur more ex tensively than ever, will not hesitateto choose between realized benefits and untried promises. • Ai* , 41 , s- A.; / 7 ' t 70 ,41 ).4 -07Ai u t/. ~„, eT WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1824. TEAS ASSURANCE COMPANY of LONDON. halthuted 1808, and empowered by an Act of Parliametit.of the 54 OEO. 111. CAPITA L—E 1,200,000. FIRE DEPARTMENT. ON ALL for upwards, continuing in force for five years, the Assured will be entitled to partici. pate in the Surplus Premiums, which may remain at the end of that period. THE RETURNS for the five years ending at Christmas, 1822, and also for the five years ending at Christmas, 1823, were 24" per cent. In addition to the benefit of Returns, this Company offers to Assurers the further advantage of an allowance for the loss of Rent of Buildings rendered untenuntable by F ire. RENEIVALS.—Receipts for the renewal of Policies due at Michaelmas are now ready for delivery at the Office in London and by the Country Agents, and should be taken up within fifteen days thereafter.. • LIFE DEPARTMENT. ADDITIONS to POLICIES.—Persons assured for the whole term of Life, will have an addition made to their Poll: cies every seventh year, or an equivalent reduction will be made in the future payments of Premium, at the option of the As sured. For the Seven Years ending at Christmas, 11123, an average addition of X 157 has been made to every £lOOO Assured, London, or through an Agent in Great Britain. The next valuation will be made at Christmas 1830, and Policies effected before that date, will participate in proportion to the time they may then have been in force. Policies may also be effected for the whole term of Life, by a limited number of yearly payments. Tables applicable to this mode of Assurance may be obtained at the Office. • SEA RISK.—The Company allows certain passages by Sea in decked vessels, without extra Premium, as set forth in the Conditions of the Office proposals. Proposals fully explanatory of the principles and rates of the Company, ntay be had at , the principal Office in Cheapsidc, London; and of the several Agents in the Country, 1 w are authorized to take the appearance of Lives proposedforAs suranee. HENRY DESBOROUGH, jurl. Sec. Cheapslde, London, Sept. ZIO, GAMBLING.--Two young men have, we are informed, been detected in practices, w hi c h, if proved in a Court of Justice, would render them liable to transportation.— One of these worthies invited two of his acquaintances to dine with him. After dinner, dice were introduced, and a game at hazard was begun. In the course of the game, the host wok an opportunity (unobserved as he supposed) to change the diee, and immediately the luck turned decidedly In his favour. Sus picion being excited, by his constant winning, and by the.custs . he made, the parties roused to play any longer, and went away. One of them, however, got the that into his poss:ssion, and took them away. On examining them, it was found that, in stead of each having the progressive numbers from one to six inclusive, one had two aces, two threes, and two lives ; and the other, two twos, two fours, and two sixes : the King's stamp, and the name of the maker, being both forged. The individual charged with using the false dice, said he had received them from the person alluded to as his confederate. The swindlers were compelled to refund.--(ilfalleliestir Paper.) jVIATItIMONIAL LOTTERY.—A recent traveller in the United States gives an account of a Ma trimonial Lottery, which was formed there with beneficial effects. At a wedding in Smith Ca rolina, a young Lawyer moved, " That one man in the company should be selected as President ; that this President should be duly sworn to keep .entirely secret all the communications that should be forwarded - to him in his official dep artment that night ; that each. unmaried gentleman and lady should write his or her name on a piece of paper, and under it place the name of tine per son they wished to marry ; then hand it to the President for inspection; and if any gentleman and lady hind reciprocally chosen each other, the President was to inform each of the result ; and those who had not been reciprocal in their choke, kept entirely ,secret." After the ap pointment of the President, communications were accordingly handed up to the chair, and it was found twelve young gentlemen and ladies had made reciprocal choices; and the traveller states that eleven of the twelve matches were solemnized. ANOTHER SWINDLER .—CHARLES SAM. CAVE, Esq. (of Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire), had scarcely left our gaol on his way to the hulks, before another Chevalier &Industrie, calling him self Mr. Howe, made his appearance in this city, and by a specious address and respectable ap. pearance, has succeeded in levying contributions upon some of the inhabitants. lie commenced operations in the character of an auctioneer, chiefly fur the sale of such horses and carriages as might be intrusted to his care ; and having open ed an office contiguous to the Bush Inn, adver tised in both the Carlisle papers his intention to sell several valuable cattle, an elegant family phaeton, and a gig, on the first day of our races. A few days previous to the proposed auction, he disposed of the phaeton (which was the property of a gentleman in this county) to a person in Car lisle, for 501., and having effected some minor sales, suddenly decamped with the money. lie has been traced as far as Brampton, where he re mained one night, and procured a horse to pur sue his journey, but which he sent back after rid ing him some distance—(Carlisle Journal.) From the LONDON GAZETTE, Oct. 5. THE ASHANTEE WAR. Colonial-Ofcc, Dowtigg-strect, Sept. 30. Dispatches, of which the following are extracts, dated Cape Coast Castle, 30th of June, 17th and 2:11 of July, and address. ed to the Hight Hon. the Earl Bathurst, K.G., have been this day received from Lieutenant-Colonel William Sutherland, of the 2d West India Regiment, and from Lieutenant-Colonel A. Grant, of the Royal African Colonial Corps :-- Cape Coast-Caatle, June 30. My communication of the 3lst of May, duplicate of which is enclosed herewith, would have infortned your Lordship of the state of operations on this coast to that period, except that I omitted to mention I had recalled the troops into the Castle, when, on the desertion of the Fantees, I found it would be useless and imprudent to remain in the field. I have now the honour to make you acquainted with subsequent occurrences to this date. All the prisoners and deserters recently brought in, concur in stating, that Assaf. Tootoe Quamina, the reigning King at the commencement of hostilities, had lately died at Coomassie, and that Adou Assai, his successor and brother, had left Ash. antee, accompanied by all the warriors he could muster, with the determination of destroying Cape Coast, and driving the English out 9f the country; and in order that I might not plead ignorance of his Majesty's intentions, he did me the ho nour, soon after his arrival at Fetue, to send a Fetish (sane tifiedor sacred) boy to our advanced posts, with a message, importing that " It' 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 war ; but that all could not prevent his throwing the whole into the sea!" which was of course treated with contempt. After about three weeks of preparation, during which our scouts and small parties were very successful 'in cutting off the enemy's foraging stragglers, and by frequent alarms, in keeping him constantly on the alert in his camp, thereby pre venting his collecting provisions, of which he was very much in want, the above message was followed up by the King's advance from Fetue on the 21st instant, with his whole army, to within five miles of the fort, driving in without re sistance a party of observation had left at th e G overnment Gardenhill village, where he established his head-quarters. On the 22d he was again in motion, and took up an exten sive line or chain of posts round great part of the settlement, distant about three miles, but in bush so thick that it was im possible to judge of his strength, except by the extent of hi s line, or to discover that, or his position, otherwise than by the smoke from his tires. tetroxo makea On the 23d he advanced so close that he was seen . in, great force flom the 11M:rower, and a signal were wa o s rd m e a tarei d r e i of being • iittacked—the townsmenstationt en c_e_ to that effect. 1 was consequently luables, were taken for protection into the fort, the in mumen seamen and • and mer possible resistance; the women, children, provisions, and va marines were landed from his ilajesty s ship Victor, c hant !laps in the roads, to man the guns, and every other pre., vacation made for defence—when the man l y, who appeared to have good information of our proceedings, tesititted—htilted— • his resolution s eeme d to fail him ; an d a l t h oug h at d us k an d during the night he occupied Parson's Groom (village), within one mile of the f un , he retired early on the 24th to sire encamp ment he had quitted two (hays before, from whence, to the end of'the month, lie contented himself with detaching strong par ties to lay waste the country round about, and to burn and destroy all the villages within reach, which he was enabled to do with perfect impunity, my garrison at the time for both castle and tower Sindepentlent of a very—small unorganized force, in which litt c dependence could be placed) only amount ing to 3 if; rank anti file, many of them very young soldiers, and of whom 104 were in hospital, 12 sick in quarters, 32 re cniita, 12 boys, exclusive of a few ar.iticers anti militia. It is proper I should here make your Lordships acquainted with a circumstance, which, during this menaced attack, led to cOirtiderable loss of property to several individuals by fire. Some time previous to the approach of the enemy on the 22d, and on that day, I ordered some houses which, within 31) yards, commanded and overlooked the principal ramparts and defences on the land side, to b e pu ll ed.down, to prevent our being driven .from our batteries f rom t h em b y the enemy, obstructions to t h e range of our guns. These repeated orders were disregarded by the town's-p eo pl e, and the garr i son was too weak to execute them, I considered it, therefore, my duty (when on the 23d, the officer commanding in the tower threw out the signal, " the enemy is advancing from the westward"), to order four of those houses to he sot on tire ; and am sorry to say, that owing to a stahlt:n rise of wind th e fl ames exten d e d Much further than Was anticipated or intended ; and, in spite of every etThrt to arrest their progress, burnt th e grass t h atc h o tr most of the huts and hou ses in the town, and consumed several. Owing, however, to the previous removal of goods, etc., into the fort, anti the peculiar constructio3 and twist floors (mud thickly plastered over strong laths) of the houses resisting the action of tire, there was snitch less less of property than could have been supposed : goods, furniture, and ,even gunpowder, having been found untouched in sonic of them after their thatch had been consumed. . _ ..... In conchuling this communication, I beg leave to express my best acknowledgments for the cordial co-operation and prompt assistance rendered to me throughout the most critical portion of. this period by Captain Scott, acting commander of his Ma jesty's ship Victor, which' had arrived a few days before, and was at the time the only man of war on the Gold Coast.— Captain Scott not only repeatedly landed the seamen and ma. tines of his own ship, but as often procured volunteers from the crews of the merchant ships in the mitts, to assist the garrison in case of attack, and with great celerity fitted up and equipped three gun-boats to. scour the approaches by the beach, and flank such of the defences as were in themselves weakest ; and I sin cerely hope his officer-like exertions on all occasions will be rewarded as they justly merited. I must also mention my sense of the services of Lieutenant W, Atcheson, R o y a l Marine Artillery, in terms of the warmest approbation. This officer having beard 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 characterize the true soldier, immediately volunteered his services from Ascension, where he was stationed, arrived in the Victory on the 10th inst., and has ever since been indefatigable in getting up, mounting, and plat. lag guns on the works to most advantage, in arranging the ord nance stores and magazines, and i n mperforming other import d which, Superintendent of A rt ill ery and Military a E n n t gin u e ti rr, , have been assigned to him, and I trust y our Lord ship will permit me to recommend him strongly to your notice.. %V. SUTHERLAND. Lieut.-Colonel 2d West India Regiment, commanding the Forces. Cape Coast Castle, July 17. When my dispatch of the 30th ult. was written, this settle ment was nearly surrounded by the A shantees, who were en camped within three or four miles of it, ravaging the country and burning the . villages. I have now the honour 'o inform your Lordship, that since then, these barbarians have been defeated, their army is now dispersed, and they are, by all ac counts, retiring in small parties to their own country, in the best way, and - as fast as they can. the 4th instant, irons Early this month the advance of a body of auxiliaries, which had been collected, - with infinite trouble and difficulty, about I suppose, the arrivalAecra o u t. n h d i • s co A ir ai n e i s es ty. i s n ah t i l i Tt n d le ire ti ztio o n n , England, with troops, inducek the enemy to recall his de g his 7 ,ts y wh p ic a h rto he f which, on tae t 7 h t e h, pt w u rs " t e lis o t r in t 'c o c an t w ly t t i tr e i t e l s t e r n a so ti d m n e g e tilin g in great force over a hill. by several laths, occupied near the left of his position, where we could perceive the King's tent. On the Bth, the Accra auxiliaries, wh o h a d arrived on the oth, and been supplied with arms and ammunition 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 anti fort, and busily employed until the 11th in clearing away the bush, fortifying their posts, and watching the motions of the A shuntees, with whom there was occasionally some skirmish ing, and who were busy cutting paths towards us. -On the 11th (Sunday), soon after day-light, the enemy was, seen descending in-Several masses of great strength into, anti, forming his hu e across , th e v a lley l ea di ng to t h e r i ght o f out UN. position, which was about half a mile from the town ; and about two in the afternoon, his advance having been fired upon by our skirmishers, a general engagement was brought on, which at dusk, half-past six p.m., lam happy to say, terminated in his being deteated at all points, and obliged to retire ; two camps on the right of his position, which he had weakened to reinforce his left, having been burnt and plundered by part of our unorganised forces, who, 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., par ticularly on the right, against which the utmost effort* 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 irtipresaion. Our loss in killed and wounded (as per annexed.return), I ant sorry to say, has been considerable. One officer, Lieute nant Swanzv, Itoyrl African Colonial Carps a most zealous and promising young man, and twice slightly wounded be fore the fatal shot took effeet, and one hundred and three men killed, and four hundred and forty-eight men wounded : btit it is matter of great satisfaction, and a proof of how well the ac tion must have been sustained, altltough fought in a thick bull, that the enemy, by his own account, - has not to boast of hav- I ing cut off a single head from our killed, or of having taken even one prisoner from na of any description—a circumstance the more remarkable, if the numerical disparity of the contend ing bodies is considered; ours, in position, where a strong re serve was always kept, not exceeding 19 officers and 5,00 rank and tile, of whom only 295 were regulars ( Vide margin*); whilst the Ashantee force, as seen during the morning, cannot be estimated at less than MOOD fighting men. Their loss in killed and wounded on this day could not be ascertained, but their dead are very numerous on the scene of action, and num bers of prisoners and deserters, brought in since, state it to be great, and that many chiefs or captains were killed and wounded. On the 12th, the enemy :Again appeared drawn up in the valley, apparently with the design of making another attempt on our position ; and in order to draw him into some movement that might expose his int e nti ons , I tw i ce or thr i ce or d ered a body of skirmishers to creep up to, open a tire on him, and then retire. This tire was each time returned with great animation from the enemy's whole line for about half 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 un. observed. 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 tired 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 he disappeared alto gether, taking the direction of the Government Garden, Mini na, and Fetue„ towards Doonqua, which is on the direct route to Ashantee. We have since heard that the result of the action and unpo pularity of the war, together with the enemy's horrible suffer ings and losses, from disease and want of provisions, had eli cited strong symptoms of insubordination and discontent in the Ashantee army ; that as early as the night of the llth whole bands had deserted from the fling ; that four out of six cap tains, 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 hack, accompanied by 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 cap tured by fifty or sixty scouts I had ordered out in that direction, with a view of ascertaining his hiding place ; and I have little doubt that numbers of the Ashantees will be cut off, during their retreat, by the :t Virmi s and Fantees. . _ . I am happy to inform your Lordship that I have reason to approve of the conduct of every individual, whether of the army, navy, or marines, employed in these operations, which, if 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 country in which we acted, and 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 supererogatory to par ticularize any ; but I cannot, in justice, omit to direct your Lordship's attention to the merits and devotion to the public service always displayed by Major Chisholm, Royal African Corps, whose conduct in command of the right brigade, which bore the burnt of the battle of the Ilth„ was every thing 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 e n ga g e d t h roug h out ;he day ; ofeap tam Dawson, of that reg men t, commanding the reserve ((regu lars and militia) also engag e d ; a nd o f - Lieutenant W. 0. •Aitcheson, Royal Marine Artillery, in charge of the field r pieces in position on this occasion. I be leave also to request your Lordship's notice of the ser vices of Major Purdon, Royal African Corps, commanding the left brigade; of the zeal and enterp r i se of aptain Bletikarne, of the same regiment, who some time ago volunteered to proceed to Accra, in im open canoe, to assist in collecting these auxiliary forces, whOse opportune arrival at this crisis is to be mainly attributed to his praise-worthy and Indefatigable exer tions, and who, in these operations, commanded the British Accra Division (in the left brigade), part of which, on the llth, burnt two of the enemy's camps; of the important services of Captain Rickets, 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 (lover nor wan killed ; of C a pt a i n Hutchison, Annamaboe Militia, who, having been severely wounded in the affair of the 21st of May, was placed, on his partial recovery, in command of the Ilill-Tower, where he gave up his whole time to Improv ing the defences of his post, the disciplining of his garrison, Swinger, late and to a most zealous a nd e ff ec t ua l discharge of his military of the i o c l to C r ap i t i a n i , ri t o S h eo l t A t e , o o t f o l l i a i n s t Majesty's t el o i i ip the Thens, 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 cooperation and effectual aid from Major de Richelieu, the Governor of his Danish Majesty's settlements on the Gold Coast, who made use of his best in fluence and means to collect and equip a strong body of Da nish dependents, who arrived at Capp Coast, under the coin mend of Captain Poulson, a Danish officer, with the other auxiliaries, and fought bravely in the recent engagement. To Captain Sir John Phillimore, Knt. C. IL, of his Ma jesty's ship Thetis, the senior naval officer present, my best thanks arc eminently due for the very great an d cor di al assist ance he repeatedly rendered to me, in l an di ng t h e seamen and marines of' leis own ship and Swinger brig o f war , to garr i son the fort, whenever it became necessary 4o march the troops out of it, to reinforce those engaged or in position, tbr the liberality of the supplies of powder, lead, &e. which lie 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 experienced officer was present during the whole period embraced in this dispatch, acquainted with every occurrence detailed in it, and an eye-witness to many of them, and the difficulty. we had to contend with, I beg leave to refer your Lordship to him for any particular information you may wish to obtain relative thereto, W. SUTHERLAND, 11 West India Regiment, commanding the forces. Return of the Killed and Wounded of the organized and un organized Forces in the action with the Aahantees, near Cape Coast, on the llth of July, 1824. 2tl West India regiment-3 rank and tile wounded. Royal African corps.—Lieut. Swanzy, killed. Militia.-1 rank and tile killed ; b rank and Me wounded. Unorganized armed Forces.-102 rank and Me killed ; 440 rank and tile wounded. Cape Coast-Castle, July 22, 1824. Since I had the honour of addressing your Lordship on the 18th instant, peporting my arrival, nothing very particular has taken place respecting the enemy. Lieut.-Colonel Sutherland's report will acquaint your Lord ship of the enemy's repulse near this place on the Ilth instant. ()n the 19th I learnt that he was encamped at about five miles' Sergeants and Officers. Rank and File. * llnyal Marine Artillery . . I 2 2d SYest India Regiment - - 1 90 Royal African Colonial Corps . 15 189 Total Regulars - 17 Militia - - 2 Unorganized - 0 4 , 650 Tot4l btrength • 19 5,053 PRICE SEVENPENCE distance from this place, and sent out an auxiliary force; with,* View to entice him to approach within reach of ourgliiis.;. returned on the following day With a fiw 'prisoners'. ' The 'eilern v showed no disposition ro approach the.garrrisort.' He Made oirt on the nth, in the direction of Armatoohoe ; and it has 4tist now been reported to Me, that some firing lad ken heard yes.. terday at one of the Annamaboe' Villages, seven or eight mileit• inland,. I fear the villages will suffer, but lam under no ap prehension for the fort. I regret to state to your Lordship, that the Europeans in garrison have suffered much during the last gcarter. A. GRANT, Lieut. Cul. It, A: C. Consg. Admiralty Office, Oa. 4. • - Extract of a letter from Commodore BuPen - to John Wilson Croker, Esq. dated on board his Majesty's ship Maidstone, Cape Coast, Gold Coast, July 22, 1824, . I have great pleasure in being able to acquaint their Lord ships, by his Majesty's ship 'Thetis, A n t on S un d ay week the troops under the command of .Lieut.-Golonel tiutherland com pletely routed the Ashant e e a rmy, which had advanced in. great toreeto within abitut two miles of the CAStilt, leaving, an irioutnerable number of killed on the field ; and that on ac count of this total defeat, they arc, I learn, retirine in all !tame towards Coomasce, their capital : this has been &rater con.. firmed by infortnation obtained from two prisoners brought in yesterday, who state the enemy to be in full retreat ; :and our-. feting severely from famine (caused by their having laid waste ; the country on their advance), dysentery, and small-pox. Too much praise cannot be bestowed . on Captain Sir John Phillimore, whose unremitting exertions• and judicious- ar.: rangetnents, in taking his own ship into shoal .water,. man, fling and arming the boats of the Thetis, Victor, and Swln ger, landing detachments of seamen and inaritunt to co-ope.: rate with the army, anti garrison a tower ,on the height yond the Castle, which he armed and placed under the com mand of his First Lieutenant, contributed materially towards the success of our arms. His personal exertions were such as to call forth the admiration of all; and Lieutenant-Colonel Suther land acquaints me that no language of his can do .li:ake tobis merits, or describe the cool and decisive manner 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 refer their Lordships for further information on this sub ject; and I beg to assure them, they may rely on my paying the most vigilant attention to their directions on this important subject, and rendering every assistance in my power towards the attainment of so desirable an object. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. William Liddard, Charlotte-row, Bermondsey, coal.iner- Olant, from Oct. 12 to Nov. 2. BANKRUPTS, George Ilodgson Liverpool grocer, to surrender Oct. 21, 22,.' Nov. 16, at die George Inn,. Liverpool. Solicitor, Mr. Chester, Staple-inn. Richard Perkins, Penmain, Monmouthshire, coal-merchant, Oct. 19, 20, Nov. Id, at the White Lion Inn, Bristol. Solid tor, Mr. Platt, New Boswell-sourt, Lincoln's-inn. Thomas. Bandon, llean-street, Soho, coin.e-house-keeper, Oct. 29, 30, Nov. 16, at the Bankrupts Court, Basinghall, street. Solicitors, Messrs. Jay and Ryles, Gray's-inn 7 place. Joseph Emans, lvy-lano, bookseller, Oct. 29, 30, Nov. 16, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Brough, Shoreditch. William Bury Clayton, Manchestef, baker, Oct. le, 19, Nov. 16, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Solicitors, Messrs. Adlington, tiregory, and Faulkner, Betiford.row. John Smith and Frederick Smith, element's-lane and St. Swithites-lane, wine merchants, Oct. IG, 23, Nov. 16, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basingliall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Hewitt, Token-house, Lothbury. 'DEVI DEN DS. Oct. 30, T. Rose, Regent -street, Pall-mall, wine-merchant— Oct. 26, 1. BA, Poultry, ironmonger —Oct. 30, B. Johnson, Cherry-Trees, Worcestershire, farmer—Oct. 30, B. Johnson, &unborn, Warwickshire, farmer—Nov. 6, J. Robertson, Old Broad-street, merchant— Oct. 30, R. Dearman, Barnsley, and R. Dearman, Pintler•Oaks, Yorkshire, merchants—Oct. 27, T. Edaby, Etnberton, Buckinghamshire, lace-merchant—Oct. 27, .1. Taylor, Leominster, skinner—Oct. 30, F. Dore Berke ley-square, auctioneer—Nov. 2, B. Berry, J. Broadbent, and J. and J. IVilson, Dalton, Yorkshire, manufacturers of fancy cloths. CERTIFICATES, OCT. 26, O. Austin, Luton, Betltbrtishire;banker—G. Hunt, Leices ter-square, linest-tlraper—U. Buller, Stratforthupon-Avon, "War wiekmilre, corn.tl l'itze, Tot nes, I.tevonshire, grocer—C. H. Danbury, Wood-street, Cheap:4lde, silk-manu facturer, PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. A. and C. Wood, Trump-street, Cheap Side, milliners—lL DunSford, 0. Barite, and A. Boase, Tiverton, Devonshire, bankers: so far as regards A. Boase—J.Brown,.l. W. Alston, and C. Lees, Glasgow, general merchants-11. Davies and B. A. Noble-street, Cheapside, Leghorn hat-manufacturers Y. I'. Itobinson and C. A. Palmer, Liverpool, merchants—C. Major and Wheeler, Andover, milliners —J. and W. Med calfe, Manchester brush manufacturers—C. T. Dunlevie and R. Struthers, Liverpool—E. and J. Thompson, Kingston upon-Hull and Manchester, wharfingers—W. Batcheller and ltigxlen Dover, Kent, booksellers—H. W. Smith and H. Barron Albion-wharf, City-road, coal-merchants—W. C. and .1. 11. Irvin, Great IVinchester-street, merchants-3, a nd J. Whitehead, Fore-street, ltimehottae, must-makers—S. Hall, H: Weary, and 1. Cook, Bristol, Spanish and German wool merchants ; so far as regards 1. Cook—A. Brewer and .1. Judd, Huddersfield, wheelwrights—W. and J. Peniston, New Sarum, masons. MURDER NEAR NENAGI!. LIMERICK, OCT. 2.—There is n report in town today, that u sergeant and two privates of the 62d Regiment, on their march to an ont-i o,t on the Upper Shan n o n , were de prived of their arms near henagh, yesterday, by a gang of ruf fians, who murdered the sergeant, and heat the others in a frightful manner. We have not been able to learn the parti culars. Since writing the above, we have been favoured with the fol lowing statement of facts from a most respectable gentleman in the neighbourhood where the murder was committed :—" Ser geant Dowd, of the 62d Regiment, commanding a small de tachment of soldiers on the Shannon, about six miles from Nenagh, on returning to his barrack on Tuesday evening, about eight o'clock, went into a public-house on the road-side with two of his men, and called for a little beer. There were four or five countrymen, who had been to Nenagh with cars, sitting in the house when the sergeant went in ; some conversation took place between one of the countrymen (a person of the name of . Ken» nedy), and a soldier, Ke n nedy saying he liked the soldiers, and damned the police; the soldier made some remark In favour or the police, when the countryman stood up to strike him; on which the sergeant said that lie would not allow his pally to he insulted, and that he would inform the police, and have them all taken up under the Insurrection Act in the morning, and in. scantly ordered his men to their barrack. On the soldiers leaving the house, the carmen almost immediately got their cars ready, and followed in the same direction ; on their taming up with the eh h e e r sergeant and his two men (one of whom was 50 or 60 paces behind) the men leaped down °tithe ears, and coming behind the sergeant in the dark (it being then between 9 and 10 o'clock), they knock - . eel him down, on which qiiin, the soldier, ran up to assist the o h n e th s e a saw road the s p s t e .e ri c e h a i n u t i. knocking,Th The sergeant, and was himself knocked down. The sergeant got up. and ran towards the door of a house and knocked, to try and save hi mse lf f r om his pursuers, but was not admitted ; Quin ran towards another house, but could not get in, and on going soldier, Coleman, who .was in the rear when the ser'eant f o o p tm t o d w h a i r n d s s l the y ing h o o n u s h e i sw facel t ere first knocked down, was at the same instant struck ) with wita the but.end of a whip : and on another of the countrymen ; vnunge up, he said, " That is Coleman, don't str ik e him,'' (Coleman is a native of that coutrty ); Sy t t, h owever sac 1 some struggle, they succeeded in forcing his bayonet from the scabbard, and after striking him violently with •mt two or three times, they ran on towards time place where the serjeant wits, and gave hint a desperate stab betw e e n the fourth and MTh ribs, and whiel l penetrated to the heart, besides a severe cut on the head. The soldiers instantly, on his murderers leaving him, carried ' the sergeant into a house, when he almost in s t a ntly expired, but never spoke. Great * praise is due to the detachnient of po lice stationed at Rib m aron for their exertions in securing three Men, who tire fully identified, anti a Coroner's Jury have found against them a verdict of Wiyid Abetter. They have been fully committed for 6.61. One of the murders riot taken has Red,. but hopes are entertained of his being apprehended."..... (Limerick Chronicle.) ig 1.1