The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-27 00:00:00

COAST OF AFRICA.

[From the Hampshire Telegraph.]
On Thttiatiay arrived the Cato transport, Lien-
tenant, W. R. (Jooavr, agent (Wm !Sadler, master), from
Cape Coast, Ascension, and Sierra Leone, whither she took
supplies of provisions from Deptford. she left Cape Coast on
the 13th of Februarv„Ascension the Bth of March, and Sierra
Leone the Bth of 'May. General Charles Turner, C. 8., had
assumed the command of the. British settlements on the SVcst
Coast of Africa (in the room or the late Sir Charles Wearthy),
and thereupon issued the following proclamation :
" To the People of Cape Coast, to the People of the other
British Settlements ontthe Gold Coast, and to the surrounding
Nations, Friends, and Allies to England—
" The King of the Aahantces has, by the assistance of the
Eltuina people, waged a cruel and unjust war against you and
; he has suffered for his crimes and rashnes, and Elmina is
isnly'SUffercd to stand because the King of the Dutch, and the
King of England, my master, are at peace. But I have re-
preSen'ted their Conduct; and their fate will depend on the
orders I receive.
" You have all stood forward-in defence of your rightsaand I
thank' you in the name of the King, my Master. •
"-England aloes not wish for any wars ; she wishes the na-
tions, of Africa to he free, happy, and rich. She wishes for
nothing in this country but lawful trade and commerce.
" if the King of Ashantee will content himself with govern-
ing his own nation and his own people, and does not stop the
trade of the interior with the coast, or attempt to oppress his
neighbours, let him say so to me, and I will make a treaty with
him on these terms ; but I will not make peace with lulu on
any other terms, nor until he gives up every claim to tribute or
subjection from surrounding nations.
" (liven at Cape Coast, this 2d day of April, 1825."
The disastrOus termination of the late aggression of the King
of Ashantee Will, it--is expected, induce hint to conform to the
reasonable proposals contained in the above proclamation, by
which alone his people will be permitted to recommence their
connection svith the coast. The Ashanteeshave hitherto (through
their superior warlike character) acted as intermediate agents
between the nations situated in their rear, and the merchants at
the forts on the coast, in exchanging their gold and other va-
luable articles for European manufactures ; but if they persist
in an obstinate adherence to their oppressive rights, these na-
tions, it is fully expected, will in the end render the litherto ty-
rannizing and oppressive kingdom of Ashantee tributary to
them. The 'Maidstone frigate, Commodore Chas. Bullen, C. 8.,
and the Esk, Capt. PurchiSs,returned to Sierra Leone on the
3d of May, fromarisiting the Gambia:and Cape de Verd Islands,
leaving the Conflict gun_lad
Lieutenaht Clarkson, for the
protection of the- gum-trade at Portendick. The Victor, 18,
Captain Woolcombe, was to leave the Gold Coast, for England,
on the 'arrival out of the Redwing from England. The ship
Prince .of•WaterlOo, and the large barks Margaret, Asia, and
Providence,, were 'to sail front Sierra Leone, for England, on
, . the 9th ult. with full cargoes of timber (teake).and camwood.
There had been no recent seiiure of slave vessels : this hor-
rid traffic -.011 never :be .put down. to any extent, until the fo-
reign powers who are concerned in its continuance shall awaken
to a better feeling. on 'the subject. We are assured that there
are more French slave-vessels on the coast of Atrica now, than at
any period during.the last .20 years. Major Laing's description
of the barbarous treatment of the poor slaves on their way down
to the:coast is deeply horri'ying and distressing. The ships of
war employed on the-coast were generally health ! but the mor-
tality among the troops at Cape Coast continued to be great. It
appeared by the last seturnsathatin the course of 12 months,
• 217 men and .22 officers (besides semen and children) had died,
leaving 14d men andeightaofficers only, of which the garrison'',
was composed ; and it was expected that not ten men out of
-the remeining, number would be alive on the Ist of July, 1825.
It is reniarkale, that- when once a family becomes infeeted by
the fever of that climate all its members, young and old, alike
fall victims .to it. The 'Cato brought home an officer and,eight
men invalided froM the Maidstone and Esk; also D. M. Ha-
milton,
Esq. Chief Justice at Sierra Leone;: Mr. Itendall, As-
sistant-Commissary.(leneral ; and Mrs. Showers, wife of the
Apothecary to the Forces. Spoke the brig Douglas, from
Liverpool to Pernambuco, in lat. 40. 11. N.,10ng..24. 30. W.,
'
'out 24 days, all well • and the Tamerlane, rom. Sierra Leone,
bound to Cork, out 33 days. •

A•TRANSPORTING SUBJECT.—The subject for
the Chancellor's English' Prize Poem for 1823 was Austra-
lasia;New Holland).—This happened'to be the subject of con-
versation at a party of JOHNIANS, when some observing that
they
thought it a bad subject, one of the party remarked, " It
was at least a transporting' one,"
'MUSICAL 'fituusn of BRAztr..—The travel-
lers Spix and Mastius found in the Brazil a greyish-brown
bird, probably a thrush, which frequents the bushes and
ground in damp low woods, and sings with numerous repeti-
tions. through the musical scale, from 111 to A 2 (of the Ger-
man scale) so regularly, that not a single note is wanting•
t
. I
commonly sings each note four or five times over, and then
proceeds imperceptibly to the following (limner tone.
AN ILLUSTRATION.--MILTON, IliS latter
days, and when he was blind (a thing some men do with their
eyes open), married a Shrew. The thike of Buckingham, one
clay, in Milton's hearing, called her a Rose. "lam no judge
of flowers," observed 111ilton, " but it may
the thorn: daily." be so, for I feel