The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-20 00:00:00

CAPE-OP GOOD 1101)E.

The following is an extract of a letter from
dated Oct. '24. It will be
Cape Coast Castle,
read with interest :-44 Certain Americans have

purchased a small tract of land on the coast of
Africa, somewhere near Cape Miscuado, and
have colonized it with a black and yellow po-
pulation from the United states, where the
slave population has increased to a degree which
has not a little alarmed the government. These
unfortunate wretches, amounting to about four
hundred in number, the moment they landed,

found themselves, in the first place, exposed to
the dishonesty and extortion of the agents of the
o
necessary supplies for their furirgniiistahel
dpuwricthhatsielers of the colony. The latter were
co-
lonists, hut their agents had bartered these supplies
away with the 'lathes for their own profit, and the
colonists were starving. in addition to this scene of
misery ,the natives conceiving the Americans tohave
cheated them in the purchase of lands, had made
war upon them, and were hunting them down in
all directions. When the last accounts came away
those miserable people, deserted by time parent
country, which had thus thrown them upon a bar-
barous coast to perish, were erecting some works
round the wretched collection of huts which they
called a town and had named it Monrowa, after the
name of the President of the United States. They
entertained no hope however of being able to op-
pose any effectual resistance to the black
swarms which surround them, and had literally
skint them up in their dwellings. This primary
colony the Americans had named Liberica, The
Ashantee war is at a stand, and may of the
tribes which had been induced to throw off their

allegiance to our flag, had returned to it again,
and had withdrawn from the war. The white
force at Cape Coast Castle is more than sufficient
to set the whole Ashantee populatio❑ at de-
fiance."

DREADFUL EXPLOSION AT POLGOOTH MINE.—
On Thursday evening (15th inst.) a most melancholy accident
happened at the above mine, occasioned by the bursting of the
boiler of the engine. The explosion was so terrific, that one
man, named Phillip Rowe, was thrown over the engine-
house to the distance of one hundred and fifty feet, and killed,
and another named Martin, dreadfully hurt, since dead. Pieces
of the boiler of 600 weight were carried to the distance of six
hundred feet, and tore down whole houses. Not a yes-,
tige of the house which contained the boiler remains : and two
adjoining houses were literally dashed in pieces by the ex-
plosion. In the midst of this distressing relation, one provi-
dential circumstance merits attention. Captain Reed having
occasion for men to assist at the capstan, in order to secure
them, went into the boiler-house and took away the clothes
belonging to those who were expected to come from under
ground. To this circumstance they owe their preservation ;
for on coming up, several ran home in their underground
clothes; had they staid to change, they must inevitably have
shared the same fate of their most unfortunate companions.
Nothing could exceed the consternation of the inhabitants in
the neighbourhood of the accident; some fancied the end of all
things was come, others that an earthquake had happened, and
the explosion was heard at the distance of full two miles.—
(Royal Cornwall Gazette.)