The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-06 00:00:00

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, which, 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 department
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 the Government
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 his
line, or to discover that, or his position, otherwise than by the
smoke from his tires.

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On the 23d he advanced so close that he was seen. in, great
force flom the 11M:rower, and a signalwere waosrdmeatareidrei
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,
chant !laps in the roads, to man the guns, and every other pre.,
vacation made for defence—when the manly, who appeared to
have good information of our proceedings, tesititted—htilted— •
his resolution seemed to fail him ; and although at dusk and
during the night he occupied Parson's Groom (village), within
one mile of the fun, 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 be pulled.down, to prevent our being driven
.from our batteries from them by the enemy,
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 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 the flames extended
Much further than Was anticipated or intended ; and, in spite
of every etThrt to arrest their progress, burnt the grass thatch otr
most of the huts and houses 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.

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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, Royal 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 in mperforming other import-
d which, Superintendent of Artillery and Military
aEnntginuetirr,, have been assigned to him, and I trust your 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 out.nhdi•scoAiraineisesty.isnahtiliTtndleiretiztioonn,
England, with troops, inducek the enemy to recall his de-
g his 7,tsywhpicahrto hef
which, on tae t7hteh,ptwurs"telisotrint'cocantwlyttitreitelsternasotidmnegetiling 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, who had 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 hue across, the valley leading to the right of out