The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-03 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

By a second Express we have private intelli-
gence, of unquestionable authority, which con-

firms the statement given by the Ett)../.., respect
ing the French naval force in the Brazils. We
may therefore consider the alarming intelligence
from that quarter as for the present satisfac-
torily explained. It is expected that Mr. CAN-
NING will also make a communication to Parlia-
ment on this subject to night.

Our private letters from Paris further state
that the project of Law for the reduction of the
French Rentes was carried in the Chamber of
Deputies on Saturday, without amendment. The
minority against the Project was only 50.
GUEEHARD'S LOAN.—On its being announced
on the Stock Exchange at Paris, that no dividend
would be paid on the Royal Loan contracted by
the above Gentleman, there was the utmost
confusion. The abuse and violence heaped upon
M. Guebbard was beyond description, and every

epithet of disgrace and infamy was applied• with
bitterness and execration to the Royal Spanish
Government

REXTES ON TIII3 IST MAY.
Opened at - - 102 f. VO c.
Closed . .. - 105 f.
I)ucats . —a •It - j
Spanish - - 15..

In a prccedidg column we have given extracts
from the Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday.
The Bloat; has a Constantinople article, which
4tateS that M. AIINZIACKY is at length engaged
in a course of negociation with the Po RTE. This
article further states, that the DIVAN relies on
the
Powerful co-operation of the Pacha of EGYPT
the campaign against the Greeks.

YiS MAJESTY has signified his positive intention
to hold a DraNVing-room on the 13th, unless pre-
..

"ntPd by severe indisposition. A new arrange-

;'`"t, we understand, is to take place, by order
or lliS MAJESTY, viz. by having a list of the per-
t
s‘'ns who wish to be presented at the Drawing-
""l, submitted to him the preceding day, that
NlA.szny may examine their several preten-
sions to such an honour. The presentations will,
‘-'f course, be lunch abridged in number, as few
mrin venture to court such a distinction without
%lett-founded expectations.

We understand that it is intended to call a
General Meeting of the Spanish Bondholders,
for the purpose of petitioniug Ministers to in-
terpose their good offices with the Spanish Go-
vernment, in favour of the British holders of
the repudiated Bonds. It certainly appears
to us, considering that our Ambassador %as
attendance on FERDINAND SETENTII, when
the Constitutional debt was contracted, and
"iitidering that FERDINAND now refuses to
4eknowledge the debt. not on the ground of in-
solvency, but on that of his having been under re•
straint, that our Goverment is bound to inter-
ft've for the protection of those British subjects
Who have thus been most shamefully defrauded
of their property.

A most ridiculous statement is posted on the
Poreign Stock Exchange, purporting to b• an
annunciation taken from The Netts Sunday paper,
of twenty capitalists having united to sell two
nlillions of the Colombian New Loan ! We
think it necessary to apprise the public that this
story is utterly unfounded in truth, and
that it can scarcely have been put forth for any
Other purpose than that of enabling the Contrac-
tots and their_friends to.get out, -upon the,credu-
lity of the British Public. This Loan, in ell pro-
bability will be a disputed one ; and. will have
ja.st the same march as the last Loan contracted
for by Mr. ZEA.

We fear that the melancholy intelligence which
we were enabled to publish on Saturday, of the
(lefeat of Sir CH A IMES MAGA. !MIT by the Ash-
antees, was but too well founded. We subjoin
such further accounts of the disaster as have
bee" received, in addition to that which first
reached us. Apprehensions are entertained, and
not without reason, that the news of this severe
end humiliating blow to the British arms by a
black enemy will have a very mischievous effect
on the minds of the Negroes in the West Indic:.
The event is, indeed, in every point of view,
a subject of most poignant regret. The loss
of 1.0 many valuable lives, including, it is to
be feared, that of the Governor himself--
the protracted and sanguinary hostilities which
will probably follow the calamitous occur-
rence that has already taken place—the expence
cti sending out a powerful expedition to humble
the Ashantees, and to redeem the honour of the
British name from the stain attached to It by the
triumph of the Barbarians,--and the inopportune
(liyersion of a part of the strength of the Empire,
which will thus be effected at a moment when
the critical state' of South American affairs ren-
der' it peculiarly desirable that our whole force
should be at onr disposal, are considerations
Which furnish matter of serious and painful re-
flection.

[From a Barbadoes Paper of March 20.]
nninotTowN, Mincrt 20, 1824.—The brig Elizabeth,
wl"icit arrived on Thursday last from Africa, gives an account
,a sanguinary conflict that lately happened between the
'Elantees, a very powerful race, and a force composed of about
'fr'C'6o natives and others of Cape Coast Castle, an English set-
tlement in that neighbourhood. The former had, of late, made
frequent incursions for the purpose of plundering the latter
terri
-tnrY ; and in one of these had seized a British sergeant,
t"0"r1 they murdered, and afterwards mutilated in a most
he manner. To avenge this crime, and the insult offered
IJeone,
English flag, Sir Charles 314Carthy, Governor of Sierra
immediately prepared this expedition, which was formed
into three divisions, one of which he commanded, and was ac-
rnPanied by many merchants as volunteers; but, before the
„ ree parties could form a junction, Sir Charles was inter.
rPte4 by 10,000 of the Ashantees, whom he fought as long as
;such
ammunition lasted ; but being at length overpowered by
4'll an immense number of the foe, he and those with him
bre either massacred or made prisoners ; and, from their
ocl-thirsty character, it is feared the first of these disasters
'aa befallen him, and under circumstances of aggravated cruel-
ty Although fourteen days elapsed since the departure of this
'tWititm, no intelligence of Sir Charles or of the merchants
ad reached the Cape when the Elizabeth left that coast. It has
been surmised, that the Ashantees had been instigated to their
one
1 ill conduct by some foreign traders in a neighbouring district
account of the exertions of the British in intercepting the
African slave Trade.
1 I
P., .
following is an extract of a private letter
from au officer of rank on board the Owen Glen-

dower, which not only confirins the• disastrods
tidings above given, but adds to them the me-
lancholy intelligence of the death of that enter-
prising traveller BELzoNz
" CAPE COAST, FEB. B.—All is confusion here: the Ashan-
tees have beaten the Governor; he is a prisoner or killed; so
are all the white men of the party, about 7 or 8, and more than
two-thirds of his force. Our marines garrison Cape Coast
Castle. We have been at duty night and day of the severest
nature.

" I almost thought the other day that my jaw-bone would
have ornamented an Ashantee drum : fate would have it other-
wise. We have had two marines and one Kroontan killed, ~tttd
two marines and five seamen wounded.

" We are all ready: for harder work, and as the Ashantees
shew no quarter, but torture those they take, if our lads are
obliged to land (which is more than probable), 1 land too; no
prisoner. will any of us be : that is determined. The country
overrun by the Ashantees is in a horrible condition ; every male
old person and child is put to death ; the girls just arrived at a
proper age are saved. A Captain L'Estrange was so affected
by the dreadful sights which he saw on the march, that, on
seeing two children hung up by the neck, and two with their
bellies cut open, he dropped down and died.
44 Belzoni is no more. He died at Benin of dysentery, after
every thing that could be wished was done and settled for his
proceeding into the interior."
( From the Hampshire Telecrap
etter from Barbadoes :
h of Saturday, May 1. )
The following is an extract of a l
'6 CARLISLE BAY, 111Ancu 12.—The Eden, Scout, and
Ringdove, sail immediately for Cape Coast Castle, in, conse-
quence of news having been just received here of the total de-
feat of Sir Charles Al`Carthy's expedition, by the Ashantees.—
His force consisted of about 500 Europaans and 15,000 Fantees,
—a race of people well armed, and .in constant enmity to the
Ashantees."

PORTSDIOUTH, MAY I.—The VOAlie transport, Lieut.
Cole, Agent, arrived on Wednesday from the West Indies,
with condemned stores and invalids.. She left Barbadoes on the
13th of March, when the Ganges, Superb, Eden, Scout, and
Ringdove, were lying there. file two former ships were ex-
pected to sail in a few days on a cruise round the Island. The
Vibilia touched at St. Vincent's on the 20th 3larch. A strange
report. was current in that Island, which we trust is too horrible
and too improbable to be relied on. We give it to our readers a,:
we received it, without in any degree vouching for its authen-
ticity. It was said that the master of a merchant vessel, from
the coast of Africa, had brought the news, that the Blacks had
made an attack on our English settlement at Sierra Leone,
and put the Governor, Sir Charles MacCarthy, and all the white
inhabitants to death. It was further reported that in conse-
quence of this intelligence, Capt. Brace, of the Ganges, had
taken upon himself to dispatch the Scout and Ringdove to the
Coast to act as circumstances may-require.--.(lbid.
The Liverpool Mercury, in giviug the letter,
with a copy of which we were favoured on Satur-
day, announcing the defeat of Sir CHARLXII
APC•RTM Y, says—
-

" We regret to announce to the public some very melan-
choly and most important intelligence, which has been received
by Messrs. Barton, Irlam, and Higginson, in this town, from
their friends in Barbadoes, by the Pandora, which arrived at
Liverpool on Thursday. It seems, that notirithstanding the
amicable arrangements which were supposed to have taken
place between the British settlers on the coast of Africa
and the ferocious Ashantees, the latter have attacked Sir
Charles 31‘Carthy, Governor of sierra Leone. The result has
been most disastrous ; but we shall, for the present, forbear to
hazard any conjectures respecting the origin of this dreadful
affair, of which we can only state, on the authority of the Bar-
bados: Mercury of the 20th ult., that the Ashantees had, of
late, made frequent incursions or the purpose of plundering
the settlement. at Cape Coast Castle. To avenge this inselt on
the British flag, Sir Charles 111‘Carthe prepared an expedition,
the fate of which is detailed in the annexed letter.—( See Tux
SUN of Saturday.)

Letters from Sierra Leone of the 10th of March
do not say any thing of the battle with the
Ashantees ; but there had not, probably, been
time for the sad tidings to reach that place.

Charlestown Papers arrived to the 10th April)
but they do not contain any thing worth ex-
tracting.

FROM French ship Tele-
graph, which arrived at Havannah front . Bout-•
deaux on the 42.8 th ult., informs that in latitude
of
.st, Antonio (Cape de•Vord), she was boarded
by the brig Romanis, a Spanish privateer, by
whom 13 of her crew -were taken oat, the vessel
then proceeded to Peru with.C.u.nraix, aU lex-
Deputy of the late Spanish Cortese his son and
several other persons on board.—(Charltsioren
Courier, April 7.)

NNW ENGLAND CoFFaE.xoosE.--We hare re-
ceived a St. Vincent Gazette of the 2Sth March,
which brings the following

" BARBADOIS, MARCIIIB.—The Mary Elk's arrived here
on Monday, in eleven days from Para, with the British Vice-
Consul, a number of British merchants, and several Portuguese
gentlemen holding civil appointments in that country, in all 52,
being compelled to leave in consequence of the dreadful anarchy
and confusion which prevailed there, occasioned, it is said,by the
tyrannizing conduct of the Captain of a Brazilian brig of war,
acting under orders of the Emperor, in levying contributions
upon the inhabitants, and plundering the shipping in the har-
bour. A representation of the above circumstance has been made
to his Excellency the Governor and Commanding Officer of the
naval squadron here; the sloops of war Eden and Scout were dis-
patched last evening for Oporto, with the Consul and several
of the Merchants on board, with the view of demanding the
British property remaining in that place, and ascertaining
what further steps it may be necessary to take for the security
of the British trade.

[PROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

An Evening Contemporary affected to state,
from authority," on Saturday, that at the latest
dates there were only two French frigates at Rio
de Janeiro. Our readers are already aware that
Government received dispatches by the vessel
which brought the private intelligence re-
specting the French naval armament in that
quarter which excited so much alarm ; and we
are now enabled to announce positively that the
amount of the French force was, at the time the
dispatches were sent off, four heavy frigates
and that the arrival of a number of addi-
tional ships of war was hourly expected It was
pretended that this squadron was destined for
the Pacific ; but even if the Pacific should really
turn out to be its destination, what other
object than one of open or of secret hostility
can the French Government have in sending a
fleet to that part of the world ? We regret to
state, that in the best-informed political quarters
great fears are entertained for the independence
of the Brazils ; and we shall not be surprised if
we soon hear of a counter-revolution at Rio de
Janeiro as suddenly effected as that which re-
cently took place at Lisbon.