The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-08-30 00:00:00

SIERRA LEO E.

We have received letters from Sierra Leone to
the lihh, and papers to the T.lt .iif June. Om the
I Ith, Sir C. Ni•Curthy rplurtird to that settlrment
(ruin • tour of inspection of the forts on the Gld
Comet,

The following infuripatitak is extracted from the
Boyul Gazette of ilie Sth Jun.• :

FREI:TRW/1, JUNK R.
On Tuesday, Wm Majesty's brig Snapper, Lieutenant
Stokes eummanding,artived from Porteudie and the Inver
Gambia. By this vessel We have adviiee from We dr pen-
&items to windward up to the 20th tat. Tim e vessel* from
Bathurst, St. Mary's, were employed in thh tmde al Portek.
die, and bad, we regret to learn, experienced considerable
interiyption is the purchase of gum there through the ho•-
tility; of a party of the Moore, instigated, as there is eveiy
reaartu to believe, by our competitors in the River Senegal.
it would appear that our merchants had commenced their
barter with the Moors under the
and that tip brig George and Janes had received on board
some tons of gum, when Homed Fell, a Prince of an &devise
tribe, visitea the factory. This character:teas received with
all due courteay, and dismissed with • iniitible present, sp-
!mainly well satisfied ; • short time kfterw•rds, however,
he returned with an armed party., and, probihitang the trade,
obliged the Marabouts, who are the sole train's among the
Arabs, to r'tir with their camel, and gum iota the Deieit.
This Bet 01 violence was of course root) Malt katiall to
Ibrahim Wallet, the Prince who had barn appointed by the
Trans, Chief to sapelittiend the haste. Ibrahim mimed'.
•iely obtained hom the ramp a sit fficieut force, and nbfigrd
Named to retire from the waterside. The latter Chief re-
tweed again with • number of his followers, whew an cis.
grimnessl caused, in which he Me his life, sad his party
were complert ly tooted with considerable Ims. This oc-
curred sin the sth ult. Whets the Snapper left Purirnilic,
our trailers did not anticipate further mei fruptfun, awn hey •
were in drii,ty espemation of the arrival of • cerulean. with
one huudied and fifty camel., fully laden. Ibrahim, wyth a
strong party, bad, a few days previously, left the coast, in
order to escort this sesscumb'e sitim)y is safety to the ree-
ntry. U. have our apmeheniiono, notwithotaiiding,"that
the Mar whirls is likely to ensue between the differeut tribes
may have.the worst effects on lot trai;e, and that it will
;noire equally Mimi. us in our own and to the French gum
merchant,' dursig the present season.
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(Inc I. tiers fsmn St. Rary's are particularly salisfacteiy as
011 the state of oar settlements in the Gambia. Tbe nice.
chants of Batllttrst continue to extend their mercantile run.
nexibits by the establishment of factories on different points
of that great river, the commercial rethiders of which are
mill hut imperfectly known to us. Too touch praise cannot
be given to our Colonials there, fur the spirit of enterprise
which I hry have opposed to the many difficulties they hat •
sireasarily bad to encounter; the most formidable of which,
and wimps at 'lsis time almost the only one, that of the
slave trade, unhappily has not diminished; the detestable
alive marts of Cache and Baugh at no former period "Port-
er' more negroes than at !her wet moujent, and line-tenths
of obese victims are 'trot-tired on the right bank ut the Gam-
bia. The notorious feet, that the representative of his Must
Faithful Majesty at these ports is the priueipal slavedeater,
leaves us little ground to hope for a change for the better, so
lung as he remains unpunished. On the lett bank of the
Gambia the traders in liftman blood, from genteel and
Giree, as well as those of AIWA'', still perselere in their
Bogdan!). traffic, and impede our merchants in the proseru.
Itun 01' their I•gitiipate conameictel infect:arse with the
natives, an intercourse which would otherwise prepare the
way tit. 'Weir religious civilization. Under these circum-
stances, appalling as they are, our merchants have steadily
pursued their way, and have progressively vied ground:
their import. 'unwell in , and the town of Bathurst
bola fair to rival, in buildings and improvement., Freetown
itself. The staple articles of wax and gut. promise to be
very abundant this year, and the quantity of gold already
obtained meth exceeds that of any Curtner *noon. qy the
James, for England, shove one hundred and twenty pounds
weight of that valuable metal was sent borne by twu orithree
of the lurancipal roerchruie. •