The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-18 00:00:00

between Great Britain and France may be consi-
dered as inevitable.

If. we could believe the Liberals, they alone
feel any interest in the deplorable blow that has
fallen upon the Greeks. We, however, if we
thought proper, could refer to twenty articles in
which We have expressed the liiely interest kith
which we have been inspired for a pepple
whom it is impossible to confound with the revo-
lationists of the rest of Europe, or even With those.
of the New World. But it is sufficient for us
to invoke the testimony of an English Journal,
remarkable for _ its zeal in the cause of the
Greeks, TUE Sus, which even now, in copying
from the Etuile the news of the reduction of
Ipsara, observes in an edifying manner, that we
have characterized this news as afflicting for
Christendom.—( Etude, 14.)

Dispatches have been received by Goyern-
!lolua from Sierra Leone, dated the 19th of June.
'l6 Thetis,. Captain Sir JoUN PRILLImottE,
I"iciog on board a number of Officers for the
Ifi7al African Colonial Light Infantry, and for
2tl West India Regiment, with a detach-
!twin of 100 men for the former 'corps, had
"ved at Sierra Leone on the 13th June, and
sailed thence on the 17th for Cape Coast Castle,
Where her. arrival would furnish welcome sue-
"ins to Our fortes.' Sierra Leone, we are ha
ply
to saY) was in a healthy state at the date of the
dispatches.

Sierra Leone Royal Gazettes to the 27th of
June have also been received. The most inte-
resting articles of their contents are the follow-
iii7 • •
-1' giving some particulars of the action fought
with the Ashantees by Major ClitstmLat on the
2lst of May, and of the death of Sir CumtLEs
111,CARMY on the disastrous 21st of January :
[Ertract of a Letter received from the Gold Coast.]
"At break of day (2lst of we were all on our legs,
armed "(7,4.
_, _pc ,
at the martial (though not most inviting) air
,0f ' Turn out the whole.' About eleven o'clock we marched
with 4,500 men (which, as nearly as I could calculate, was the
number of our whole force) to engage the Ashantees. The at-
tack commenced now with tremendous volleys from right to
left. Our troops in the centre gave way in the first onset of
the battle, but they soon advanced again, and stood their
ground like lions.—Lieutenant --, with every effective
Man of the 2d West India Regiment, was placed as a reserve,
immediately in the rear of the parties engaged anti across the
main path : this post he and his men maintained with great
linoness.the whole day.
lot` Here we came regularly into action under every possible
al disadvantage. The Ashantees occupied a high, thickly
weeded, steep hill,' and we were in a cleared farm directly un-
uer them. On the road to the' Pa Demba Farm,' .the plain
youk which looks like a meadow on the right hand, will give
r:ome hiss of the field of battle at ' Fettle.' Captain
11 the Militia was severely wounded in both arms in the corn-
wie, ncetnent of the affair, anti every ten minutes after this, there
.11 somebody going to the rear with a broken head or leg.
,ire fought until mi. ammunition Was expended, and the son
threatened to leave us in the dark.. Upon the whole, we
or,aatnhesr
illed ground on the savages • and from subsequent ct .t appears that they never before got such a regulareivesl; threshingfor
ni a ' bush tight.' they acknowledge 1 1 'sly!: have had some of them taken alive,
b them in Sir
_hi) deserted from their camp, that were taken y.
anti recteirCentiBsome men
Charles's ection. Our bullets did great execution amongst
them I assure you.
~," in coosequence of the circumstance before mentioned re-
rectieg ammunition, &c. we could not follow up our success ;
fur in addition to those reasons, •we afterwards finnyd out that
no less than 2,000 of our cowardly allies scampered off during
the fi •1
T, g It, and left 2,500 men to maintain the unequal contest !to!!
here was but one alternative, and the Major gave orders
retire to the Camp at Garden Hill.
Uf" I wish that I had time to describe to you, an African field
t'battle. Several heads staring you in different directions—
,Toe brought to the Commanders as trophies by the men who
did the deed ' • hallooing and shouting on both sides when firing
atone another ; the shrill notes of the native horns ; the war-
riors almost naked, creeping from one ambush to another to
effect a shot at the enemy, &c. &c. give a curious and iawful
to the conflict.
very day's tallieswith preceding as to our
haain -, account
their tve°
them much the worst of it. The numbers of
trigd mid wounded are, lam told, very great.. S.o. much
forti tthhee battle of Petue. lum quite gratified at having witness.
band 'threshing lite), got, and still more so at having. lent a
Accra,in it myself. Captain left this two days ago for
we i: t°
"Y
to
bring up forces from that place, in order that
he led be enabled to attack the Ashantees again. Whether
will ar,
succeed or not !leaven knows ; or wheiher the natives
I keebne ralliied on again to glory, is equally doubtful: but
afloat. y irlY Letter open to the last, and give all the news
• ....
PRE PTowN, ju NE S.--On Saturday last the packet Airr-
zaa__ttd.r.r).deant arrived from Cape Coast with 10
andhate prisoners
vict is lamented late 'Excellency's servants baggage. Our
receivedegive a melancholy confirmation of- the dreadful tidings
10. by the Dann. Mr. Tasker Williams, the Secretary,
nose life, it appears, was saved by the interposition of a
Powerful Ashantee Chief, has since been delivered up to the
.overnor of the Dutch Fort at Elmina,- upon condition that he
'mould be kept there until the close of the war.
T Extract of a Letter dated Cape Coast Castle, Hay 8, 18121.)
, " Mr. Williams, the Colonial Secretary, who was taken on
the disastrous 21st of January, and who was with Sir Charles,
buckle, and ‘Vetherill, at the time they were killed, and is now
at Limns, having been fortunate enough, through theinterpo-
SitiOn of the Dutch Governor, to be allowed by the Aahmatees
to remain a prisoner at that place until the war may be termi-
nated, relates the following particulars of their deaths. He
IsYs, in their retreat Sir Charles first had his arm broken by a
shot, and was afterwards wounded in the chest and fell :--he
thinks the wound was mortal. Buckle, Wetherill, and himself
then moved Sir Charles, and put him under a large tree, where
they sat with him fora 'few moments, perceiving that their fate
Wes
inevitable, the enemy having surrounded them ; he (Mr.
~I) then received a ball in the thigh, and saw poor
Wetherill, who was lying close to Sir Charles, having been also
!rounded, cutting at tie Ashantees with hissword as they were
rearing the clothes off Sir Charles. At this time he received
another shot, which having hit him in the head stunned him ;
then he came to himself he saw the bodies of Sir Charles,
wttekle, and Wetherill heedless trunks. Mr. Williams's life
44 saved by an Ashantee Chief of superior authority coining
°P at the time they were about cutting off his head."
In L

non last night's Gazette will be found an officia
fil(l6cation to our Allies, that hostilities with Al.
ers
, Lave n ceased, and that the blockade of that
i"aCe is raised. There is also a dispatch Contain.
ill!, ~
' ' n account of the burning of an A lgerine brig,
rder the very muzzles of the guns of the batte•
ane' which was executed with a spirit and gal.
try Worthy of the high character of the British
1007.

Lioston Papers to the 19th ultimo, and Charles.. ton Papers two days Inter, have arrived. One
e
of, the latter contains some further particulars of
1" hurricane at the Isle of France, by which 25