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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts front the Morning Papers, Mag. 3.

[BRITISH FRCSS.]
We are afraid that the disastrous intelligence
onounced on Saturday, and brought from Bar-
hadees., detailing the defeat and massacre of the
force,under Sir Charles M'Carthy, at Sciondee,
on the Gold Coast, on the 21st of last January,
is bUf.toO wArfounded ; and .that*this excellent
of4gei.,2 with his unfortunate companions in arms,
and'Several of the oldest and most respectable
m4ritiantk at Cape Coast, who 'accompanied him,
have either fallen in the contest with these fero-
cioueSavages, or survived to experience a fate
still more appalling. Notwithstanding the so-
lemn treaty entered into by Mr. Bowdich in
September, 1817, at Coomassie, the capital of the
ASantee.territory, with " Sai Tootoo Quamina,"
the Barbarian Monarch, signed by him; and by
Boitinnee (barna," chief of the neighbObring.
country of Dwahin anal its dependencies, and
attested by four of the principal Caboceers, or
Captains, of the Ashantee warriors, deputed
from the General Assembly to swear with
the King—guaranteeing perpetual peace and har-
mony between the British, subjects in that
country, and the subjects of the Kings of
Ashantee•and Dwabin, and also prornishig peace
between the Ashantees and the barbarians of
Rwabin, and all nations of Africa, residing under
the protection of the Company's forts and settle-
ments on the Gold Coast, declaring that neither
party had then any claim on the other, the
AShantee Monarch agreeing by this compact to
permit a British officer to reside constantly at his
capital; for the purpose of institutinc, and pre-
serving a regular communication with the Go-
vernor-in-Chief, at Cape Coast Castle ; and both
Kings stipulating to commit their children to the
care of the Governor-in-Chief, for education at
Cape Coast Castle, in full confidence of the good
intentions of the British Government, and the be-
nefits to be derived from it ;—in despite of this
treaty of only a few years back, it appears that
the Ashantees, with a, perfidy characteristic of
barbarians, had latterly made frequent incursions
for the purpose of plundering and desolating the
Cape Coast territory, and in one of these expedi-
tions had seized a British sergeant, whom they
murdered and mutilated in the most. shocking
manner. Tired of fruitless representations,
Sir Charles M'Carthy, the Governor. of Sieara
Leone, to avenge this latter outrage, had
come down to Cape Coast Castle in January,
and prepared the expedition which. terminated
so disastrously. This lamented officer divided his
force into three bodies, of one of which he took
the personal command, and was accompanied by
several of the merchants from Cape Coast, as vo-
lunteers. But unfortunately, before the divi-
sions could form a junction, Sir Charles, with his
body, was intercepted' by 10,000 of the.Ashan-
tees, whom he fought as long as his ammunition
lasted ; but his small force was at length over;
powered by the overwhelming force of the
Ashantees, and this gallant officer, with the of-
ficers and merchants who accompanied him,Were
either butchered in the contest or fell as prison-
ers into the hands of these savages. Though
fOurteen days had elapsed since the departure
from Cape Coast of the expedition, no intelli-
gence from Sir Charles M'Carthy, or the mer-
chants with him, had reached that place, when
the Elizabeth,. who brought the news of the fa-
tal 'encounter to Barbadoes, left it.

[MORNING POST.]
be seen by an official communication in
another part of our Paper, that the Spanish Go-
vernmenthave neglected or refused to provide
for the payment of the dividends now due upon
the constitutional loans. This unprincipled pro-
ceeding can excite no surprise in the mind of any
dliyassionate observer of passing events ; for
vv:hile. the principal of the debt continues to be
diShoneitly unacknowledged, it would be the
excess of weakness to expect that any provision
sitould be made for the payment of the interest
of it. The whole question in short between the
Government of Ferdinand the Seventh and
the creditors of Spain, is a more trial of
patience, in which the party most stubborn
and uncompromising, must obtain the triumph.
irnire flagrant breach of honour, or cell-
tetript of common honesty than the refusal of the
SpaniSh Monarch to acknowledge contracts so-
leMnly entered into and,: ratified under his own
authority, never disgraced the annals of criminali-
ty ; nor will any thing teach a Government guilty
of :Sikh Swindling tricks the principles of ordi-
nary probity, hut obliging it to endure the natu-
ral distresses attached to knavery. The common
interest of the European Public, and more par-
tilCularly of its great Capitalists, not only as
regards the Peninsula, but all other countries,
enforces the necessity of resisting the fraudulent
schemes of the. Court of Madrid, while the very
exist'ence' of the latter dictates their abandon-
Trieol. Whit do the advisers of Ferdinand VII:
really contend for ? A. Principle—and what
principle ? 'that of robbing those who relied on
tke swat:: pledges andaetfloritative guarantees of
the King of Spain, during his Constitutional
Sovereignty ! To imagine that they calculate on
gaining by the fraud would be absurd--for the
More certain its Success, the greatleroutildte
thelo ss' to
the nation.. Whaf,, for example, y
Go-
vernment of Colombia have gained by disallowing
We: debts contracted by- M. Zen, compared to
04; profit it has realized by their'even tardy re-
cognition ? The same principle applies to Old
as to New 'Spain. By disallowing the loans of
the Co'istei, the Court Of Madrid has destroyed
its own stability, and for what purpose ?
—Solely -and: exclusively to discountenance
a system Which Ferdinand swore, and swore
be Voluntarily swore to uphold' and de-
fend fqr evert ! If the Governrrient of Madrid
vve!e, recognise the engagements of the
corteS, would gain immediately by that act of
honesty, at least double the present value, or
rather the current price, of thoie securities.
For the sake of example, we hope the Spanish
Ministers may be driven to do themselies and
their co:3eiry this benefit. As to the character

of their Sovereign, it it bilyond all chance of re-
demption. Had the Revolution of 18W de-
posed and exiled that imbecile Prince, there
would have been sinne,gronhd of apology for
the conduct which' • 44(14E4 after the - sur-
render of Cadiz
,to the French' troops. That he
should, however,- have attached himself to the
Constitution almost as soon as it was restored, and
readily lent hiS Royal sanction to all its subse-
quent proceedings, merely to turn round at the end
and proclaim his past perjuries by oath. which, for
aught known beyond the precincts of the Palace,
may be yet forsworn with equal sincerity and
solemnity as the former, leaves room fdr nothing
above the sheerest contempt and disgust. His
Majesty at the same time should be allowed to
persevere if he will, for in the present exigencies
and distractions of his unhappy country, the re-
ward of such rare merits must come at last and
ere long. In a word, Ferdinand VII. is the
worst enemy of Legitimate Monarchy which has
graced it for the last half century.

[NEW TIMES.]
, We have anxiously examined the reports -re-
ceived at Liverpool by the Barbadoes Mail, an-
nouncing the defeat and death of Sir Charles
MacCarthy on the Gold Coast; and though we
cannot say that the account is false,.we are still
disposed to hope that it may not eventually be
confirmed. The statement is given in a Barba-
does Paper of the 20th of March ; it was brought
thither by a merchant brig called the Elizabeth,
and states that the battle was fought near Suc-
condee, which is to the westward of Cape Coast.
The account is given in two different letters,
one from Accra of the 31st of January, the
other from an Officer of the Owen Glendower
at Cape- Coast on the Bth of February.—
We know that the Owen Glendower sailed
on the. sth of January with an intention of
running down to call at Cape Coast, and pro-
ceed thence to search the harbours and rivers of
Beniu and Baitra. We know also that .Brigade
Major Rickets accompanied Sir C. MacArthy
from Sierra Leone to Cape Coast in November :
and the name of Major Rickets is given as
" severely wounded," in the Accra letter. Still
this does not "appear to us very conclusive; and
there are some circumstances a little suspicious
in the story. It is rather singular that if a
battle was fought on the 21st January, on the
Gold Coast, the first account of it should reach
this country from Barbadoes. Barbadoes is a
place where any news unfavourable to Sierra
Leone or its Government would easily find credit.
Accra, too, is a place where the Dutch party
would be likely enough to invent bad news. The
Accra letter says, on Jan. 31, " This will be
handed to you by Captain' Bonney, of the brig
Elizabeth, which is now lying off and on ;.and as
she touches at Barbadoes, I cannot let slip this
opportunity of writing a few lines." It would
seem that the Elizabeth, however, went from
Accra to Cape Coast, and was there eight days
afterwards ; and, very singular, she there also
meets with a gentleman' who has a correspondent
at Barbadoes ! The Officer of the. Glendower
too says, " Belzoni is no more: he died at Benin
of dysentery, after every thing that could be
wished' was done and settled for his proceeding
to the interior." Now the Sierra Leona Gazette.
of the 24th of January says
" By. the brig Francis Ann, from leeward, which fell in with
his Majesty's brig Swinger at sea, we learn that Belzoni had
landed in the Bight of Benin, where he experienced a slight at-
tack of fever ; but feeling himself perfectly recovered in a few
days, he started upon his enterprise, with every hope of ulti-
mate success."

As these two statements respecting Belzoni differ
so materially, we may venture to indulge a hope
that the loss of Sir Charles MacCarthy has been
at least exaggerated. It is remarkable enough
that the Gold Coast Gazette, of December 13,
notices A totally unfounded report as having pre-
vailed at Liverpool, that Fort James at Accra
had been surprised by the Ashantees !

[MORNING HERALD.]

Paris Pa pers of Thursday and Friday have been
received since our lait.. They are chiefly taken
up with the proceedings in the Chamber of De-
puties on the two respectively preceding days.
On Wednesday an interestingapeech against the
project for reducing the interest of the Rentes
was delivered by M. Cassimir Perrier, a Liberal,
l a banker, and one of the Deputies for Paris.
It called forth frequent murmurs and other
interruptions. One of the principal charges
urged by him against the 'Minister was, that
whilst he had been in confidential communication
of his plan for lowering the interest with cer-
tain foreign capitalists, Austrian and English,
he kept his designs wholly secret from the French
stockholders. The consequence was, thnt the
foreigners who were in the secret, and were
playing a game of knowledge against ignorance,
sold out to enormous advantage. lie also urged
that the measures was designed to indemnify the
emigrants at the expence of the Stockholders—
and made a mock appeal to the delicacy of the
former, who formed a Majority of the Cham-
ber, and were thus deciding an indemnity to
themselves. With respect to the first-men-
tioned objection, we should observe that he
alluded to, without naming, one individual,
who, from his knowledge of the Minister's plans,
sold out a hundred, Neapolitan StoCk which
be purchased at 85. M. de Villele answered
this speech extempore, or improvised a reply, as
the French call. It had little of point, and no
novelty. After some further discussion, the sub-
ject was adjourned, and resumed next day, to
hear the Reporter of the . Commission. An
amendment proposed by M. Leroi, and modified
by the Minister of Fithince, was referred to the
Commission to report thereon next day. There
is little intelligence of any other kind in these
papers. The Conatitutionncl, on the faith of
letters from England, says that the Portuguese
Government is certainly planning an expedition
against i3razil. The Greeks, have, it is said,
taken Arta, and are besieging Prevesit• on the
land side, whilst the port • is blocked by, two.
English vessels, which have chased some Alge-
rines thither.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
. It is quite unitising to observe the numerous
attempts lately made by the particular friends

of Lord Eldon, is palliation of the errors im-
puted to his Lordship. We trust, therefore, their
effect will be somewhat -at variance with the
views of such interested scribes, and that public
' attention, so far from being thus seduced into a
careless indifference, may be more than ever
alive to the great end for obtaining some effectual
redress. The mere appointment of a Commis-
'
sion will not suffice; and particularly when we
look at the situation and expectancies of a
majority of the Commissioners. Most of them
are indebted to Lord Eldon for their official
occupations ; and such as are Masters of the
Court of Chancery are, we should think, pecu-
liarly unqualified for the task •of investigat-
ing the abuses of that Court. These situa-
tions, we are informed, were formerly worth about
a thousand a-year each, but are now become
nearly treble that sum. Whether this increase is
to be solely attributable to an increase of busi-
ness, the Commissioners, probably, may take
upon them to determine ; but it is a lamentable
fact, that it is in the power of any Master in
Chancery to make an addition to his profits by
delaying the matters referred to him, and by
calling for a mass of papers to be copied by
his clerks, at the expellee of the unfortunate
suitors. We are only surprised that- some of
the Registrars of the Court -have not likewise
been nominated Commissioners, as we have had
many complaints 'from most respectable soli-
citors upon the subject of the delays and
extra fees in that department. We have no
hostility towards our veteran Chancellor, and
should be unwilling to press hard against any
man who has the awful prospect of the infir-
mities of age before him; , but we-trust the Noble
Earl will reflect upon the many favours he has
received from the community ; and that, however
he may wish to screen his own defects, he Will
lend his powerful aid in upsetting many of the
abuses too long permitted in the system. Mr.
Tierney very justly observed, the practice of
the Court of Chancery has now become a na-
tional grievance, and the wretched suitors, whose
prospects in life are often times ruined, are not to
be pacified by so flippant a writer.as the Quarterly
Reviewer. Indeed, it is well known the author
of the late ill-timed article in favour of Lord
Eldon, which has been studiously copied by some
of the Ministerial Journalistsi is a young Barris-
ter, who humbly hopes his servicei.may not. be
quite forgotten. Whether his -exeectatiens will
be realized or not, is, to uspa matter of perfect
indifference. Our great object is to obtain
redress for a serious injury-; and we think the
public press cannot._ be better employed, than'
in demanding such. 'redress for those unhappy
individuals, who in many instances cannot, and-
in many more perhaps,, dare not demand it fore,
themselves. Let us hope, the Members of the
House of Commons will not let the subject drop,-
even for the present Session ; but that a prepa-
ratory hint may be giv.en to the Chancellor and
his friends, how much the whole proceedings of
the Commission may hereafter become a matter
for serious- inquiry. - •