The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-02 00:00:00

We have received the Paris Papers of Friday,
and the Etoile of Saturday, a►►d have given ex-
tracts from them in our preceding columns. The
Journal des INbals and the Etoile are at issue
respecting the alleged negociation for the recog-
nition of the independence of Hayti, the former
paper expressing its satisfaction at the disposition
manifested by the French Government to treat
with► the Blacks, and the latter urging very
powerful objections to the admission of a Negro
Sovereignty into the rank of independent States.
As our Readers are aware that the Journal des
Debuts, since the fall of M. de CUATEAUBILIAND,
is no longer a Ministerial Paper, whilst the
Etoile is still an organ of the Ministry, the in-
ference which they will draw from the reason-
ings of the Etoile, is of course an unfavourable
one for St. Domingo. What the Journal des De-
bate says as to the wishes and intentions of the
Emperor ALtXANDICK is for the same reason (its
being no longer in the confidence of the French
Ministry) entitled to less weight than would
hav• been formerly attached to it.

In a Second Edition of THE Stitt of Saturday,
we announced the receipt of dispatches by Go.
vernment, communicating the details of another
action fought between the British forces at Cape
Coast Castle and the Ashantees. We now re•
peat this intelligence, at greater length, for the
information of those of our Readers who did not
receive our Second Edition. We regret to per.
ceive, that although the gallantry of Major CRIS.
HOLM and his troops was crowned with victory,
yet the British force was obliged to retire to its
former position, in consequence of the coming up
of the King of the ASHANT EES with large rein.
forcements, and that our settlement, therefore,
and the brave men to whom its defence is com.
mitted, are still exposed to great danger. It op.
pears, that Major CHISHOLM, who commanded
during the engagement, had made preperntions
to attack the enemy, who were encamped within
five miles of the Castle, and accordingly, on the
morning of the 21st of May, he commenced his
operations. After the ground had been cleared, and
paths cut, not without great labour and fatigue,
various directions, towurds the enemy's camp,
the attack commenced. The engagement was
long and SangUitiary; it lasted upwittis of five

hours, when the enemy retreated precipitately,
after experiencing very considerable loss is
killed, wounded, and prisoners. The retreat
continued for two days, but it was ascertained
that the King of the ASUANTEES had subsequent-
ly joined his army with considerable reinforce-
ments, which it was estimated would make the
• •
whole ends force amount to 16,000 men. The
Fautees, and the rest of the co-operating native
Powers, conducted themselves, during the battle,
in a manner extremely unsatisfactory to Major
ClllllllOOl, who consequently was not only pro'
vented from pursuing the enemy, but obliged to re,
tire to his former position. It was ascertained from
the isoners, that the enemy had resolved to make
an attack upon the Castle, which the presence of
their King, it was supposed, would expedite.
Out loss was inconsiderable. The rainy season

had begun, and the prisoners reported that tho
!small-pox and dysentry had committed very co!"
siderahle ravages in the Ashantee camp. ill°
following is an extract ►+f a private letter:—

" C:ipa Coast Cud:, .:I:ay

" The state,of this piece is, most, dreadful, t: o ;,i:ii; but war,
confusion, oind disease. We had another touch at the
tees on the 21st of tl:is month, and after a contest of five hours
and a half, both sides ceased firing. We loit, however, about
150 killed, and upward of 800 wounded. 'We expect another
and more serious brush very shortly, as the King himself is
coming down with strong reinforcement. How it will end Gott
only knows ; but, in the interim, you may conceive what Is 01
situation, when I inform you that we have more than COO°
strangers (women and children) now in the town for protect:loN
and such a mass of disease and filth I never before witnessed.
I have now for four months been almost incessantly in the bulb'
and you may, therefore, believe that I am, as indeed we all sr"
most anxiously looking for a termination to the present $144 Of
things."

It appears by tits
letter of the 31st, that •
Ashantees were within five miles of the Castle.
PORTSMOUTH, ,ir Y 91.
This morning arrived his Majesty's sloop of war the Drir,
Captain Charles Bowen, from the Coast of Africa, whyzi
he
lied been two years and a half employed, during which
ee
she captured 500 slaves, although lately her services h he"'
partly directed from that object, by Captain Bowen hal
been entrusted by the late Sir Robert Mends with the nab
protection of all our settlements on the Gold Coast, which
were menaced with destruction by the King of Ashontg._
These fortresses having been put into the beet possible sest
defence, and the Driver proving in a bad state, she was ordet;,
to England, without being relieved. Commodore Bullent;
the .'Maidstone, had arrived at Cape Coast (which place i
Driver left on May 29), and was refitting.—The
tinned healthy, and was thus stationed :—the Maidstone ST.
Swinger remain on the Gold Coast, to assist the forts in an
pending contest with the Aehantees; the Bann, to Gambia
Portendick, to protect the gum -trade and the interests 01-
merchants in that quarter; the Victor, cruising in the Bightusy`
Benin and Biafra, against the Slave Traders ; the Owen. ee„,e,
dower, gone to Prince's Island to water, and to proceed (115;5
to England, via Barbadoes.—Capt. Woolcome, in the Benne...see,
in with fad captured in March last a large Portuguese brig from
Lagos, called the Bon Caminito, having 350 Slaves on Won:
squadron COf;
who had subsequently been all 'emancipated at Stern 10,',.
This is the only slave vessel which has been captured mitre en.
death of Sir R. Mends; but the inhuman traffic was colt!
on with a daringness anti effrontery unequalled for some Y4IIZ,
owing to the, Brazilian States (that great mart for slaves)
daring themselves free, and the trade being sanctioned by. re
Government. Daily skirmishes were taking place between T.:
Ashantees and the Fantees, which generally' ended to?:
disadvantage of the latter. There is little- doubt but Wel
will, ere long, be driven under the guns of the British- Fortll
and be compelled to abandon their country to their enent
An action was fought within ten miles of Cape, Coast, belt"
about 10,000 Ashantees and 6 or 7,000
W Fantees, assisted bill
few white troops, and 2tl detachment of the est India 11:
gatient, commandedC by Alajor Chisholm, Lieut. King, of
Driver, who was on the field of battle, and who was wool
on this occasion, says, that the Ashantees were defeated, seep
driven back a considerable distance. This success wall, "".
doubt, owing to the exertions of Major Chisholm, as Iler.
regular troop under his ordere. The next day, howeveret,
ligince was received that the King of Ashentee, with a reees.'-.
ful army, was within three days' march of Anamlleurate
toaunnt r,y iun have all
b edei eetniotinrse.l
This caused the Fantees to disperse, and no entreatie*P',";
n
English Commander of the forces could induce them to ";.'
the field. In the mean time the armies of the Aahantesoll—f
foodlai' ogf tlt wastei
inhe
habitants, fans te-
Indian corn, yams, plantains, and bananas, which
ys ' neat.
nmaining Fantees, who
may be fortunateyenougn to esesr-ine, sweet, will, to all appearance, perish next year by fen3;ho
wasteJoh Taeker Williams, lesq., acting Colonial secretartio aken prisoner when Sir Charles
3l‘Carth
y . SS
th is Low living at the Dutch Fort of Through
nee of
mane intercession of the Governor of that Fort, the IV"; bs
residing there was obtained for him, on condition that et should, on no account, be allowed to 1-1' • until a r
quit ....mina should he concluded. The following officers have rece
ea WM
atll
fallen victims to the climate :—.Ensign 31,1,ean,
India Regiment; Hospital Assistant F. IL Ritnn,lre7terittsl
O'Meara and APKenzie, Royal African Corps; le"—
APCarthy, 2d West India Regiment. eel°.
The passengers by the Driver are—the lady of Lieut not
Colonel Sutherland, Commander of the Forces ; yet
Olpherte, 2d West India regiment ; and Lieut. Arnsillg
of the Bann (invalided.)
caltbit
The crew of the Driver have hren comearatively
hir
although we regret to say that Mr. Charles Hunter, Inll;;Crit
man, elr. Peter APKennan, carpenter; and three sctoint-
,:lii;hsetropladnt.at:n4s,tbfai
fell victims to fever at Cape Coast. The follewing vis
ments had taken place in the African squadron, vign'„ COot'
Prickett, to command the °wee Glendower; Captainr.
ney, to the Bann ; Captain Woolcombe, to the Vial& of
Wm. Pedtter (son of George Pedtler, Este of Hyde,opea
W e m
Wight), and Mr. Geo. 31anninidseiPirnen, of the 3lt.
Glendower, were promoted to ben Lieutenants of the •fisn of
sa
John Thomas, of the Owen (ilentlower, to be Licutendowen
the Victor. Mr. Finlaison, master of the Owen °lea
died lately oft' Prince's Island. whio.
The following is an extract froma letter
received
A by
we (the Hampshire Telegraph) have
the Driver
c eite wseeilb Cape Coast, May 28.—Since our most disastrous a-!l,ity,p--
the Ashen tees, they have increased in te.tilidence. and setl;tbet
we have been environed with difficultiee of ell kindelocetsige:
war here bears no bright prospects. A skirmish has e tht
place, but without any other result than the ii Ashantees toward Cape Ccqw; which, in consequence„e the „et, 1001-,:
of ordnance stores (a most xtetonlinary neglect r""overoen;
where), we have not been al)1-; to prevent. One fieldbled are now at a complete stand ; tied they have beettes"ooll;r;
take up a position and establish t;lemsdves in t),'o,,r. ji
of' the Settlement, about two ireeee from the L: the $OOl
movements must be guided by circumstances; btl'eereeel.fr
quantity of power and lead we have rent ening muss_',rottesere
to defend the fort in the last extremity. There is roaire as 1,,/,
ball in the place ; and the ships of war cannot sPhooses
more than they have : even the lead intended for only twe
ps
been cut up for ainieunitiote Besides, we have
are. poets;
effective white troops in the Castle ; the othersn ece
of colour and Fantees ; and tilt• rainy sickly seamslculy—jo
ot
'mining. In taunt, Cape toast is now very. of Travis
troops are all called in to recruit—we have a scarcity reettlinor
sions, by which the white inhabitants are suffering a A
..‘„ nandr tbe, ise/le
natives in our favour are not to be depended lie—,moot- or
tees are very powerful; malting in the whole an accuof our co 0,
horrible misery. It would be much to the adventatre,
eenceti
try lithe place were ahandened. ll'e understand tnilaiticoSciso
equally anxious with ourselves for peace; but their c?nneset
repugnant to the feelings and princieles of lenglishinei
__cbieGt
thelives of the Kin o: ankert and iiisbrother,anon7o, of
tt
the bravest of our allies, shoeld be rendered a see7,lemeeL
pretty confidently ascertained, that the Dutch settle
Eimine supply the Ashentees with gunpowder, which
ir, so
protract the war, the inhabitants of the place bellS4Ltrout:me,
your, and um strong a power for the Governor to eee. tee,ile
the Div
that the Castle is more a dependency- of the town,. seem et?
of the Castle. Colonel Sutherland has srtivena. petal'
Leone, rind assumed the command of the forces r