The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-15 00:00:00

THE ASIIANTEE ARMY.

BRISTOL, JUNE 14, Pour, p. 01.-The Pitt is
just arrive2l from Cape Coast Castle, which she
left 20th March. The Ashantee Army was between
Dixcove and Elmina, and the Cape Coast people
were going to attack them. Sir C. AFC:ARTILY
was dead, and the Officers who accompanied him
into the Bush were also supposed to be dead,
excepting Mr. WILLIAMS, who was at Elmina.

The greatest anxiety is now felt for the arrival
of his Majesty's ship Valorous, which is daily,
We may say hourly, expected direct from a
Mexican port, with the report of the English
Agents as to the state of the Mexican territory
and Government. That the report from Mexico,
at least, will be unfavourable, there can be very
little doubt, particularly as it was some time since
known there that ITURBIDE was coming out, and
that an expedition was about to be employed
against the Independents, in the first instance,
at "neatens. But whatever may be the nature
of the dispatches expected by Government from
the new Transatlantic States, we are well assured
that Mr. CANNING. will this night announce to
Parliament and the Country that it is not at
present intended that their independence shall
be recognized by this country, because we know,
from authentic information, that it is well un-
derstood that such an act by the British Govern.
meat, under existing circumstances, will inevi-
tably lead to a war with the Continent of Eu-
rope.—Our private advices received this day from
Paris state that as soon as M. de VILLELE's admini-
stration is formed,the first object of the French Go-
vernment will be to stimulate, if
for the recovery of
assist, FERDINAND VII., great effort
not openly to
to make a
his lost Colonies, on the
ground or at least the pretext, of extricating
them horn a state of civil confusion and anarchy.

The French Ratites on Saturday, after being a
103 f. 20 c. closed at 102. f. 86 c.

We have received the Paris Papers of Satur-
day, and the Etoile of Sunday. With the excep.
Lion of the light which they throw upon the di-
vided state of the Royalist party, by the conti-
nued bickerings of the Journals respecting the
dismissal of Viscount de CIIATEAUBRIAND, their
contents are unimportant. The Journal des De-
buts now attacks M. de CoaniaaE, the Minister
of the Interior, as well as M. de VILLELE, whom
it characterizes as "a very ordinary individual,
who too frequently follows the advice of bad
counsellors, even whilst he despises them,"—who,
" though very skilful as a man of business, is
much less so as a statesman,"—and who, " hav-
ing spent the greatest part of his life in the Co-
lonies, knows France but little, and Europe not
at all !"—These are singularly unexpected asper-
sions upon a Minister whom this very Journal
des D(sbats eulogized only the other day to the
skies! But the spite of the Journal des DZ•bats
even carries it so far as to say that M. de VII.-
LELE " has given way too far to the impulse of
wounded self-love and of impotent anger!"
This is• really whimsically ludicrous. M. de
VI.LLELR has just struck down a powerful and
dangerous rival, by a blow that has at once
hurled him from the favour of his Sovereign and
from a most distinguished post in the Ministry ;
and yet the literary advocates of the fallen and
disgraced statesman affect to call the anger of
that man impotent, who has made their patron so
sensibly feel the energy of his resentment and the
weight of his power.—The Constitutionnel states
that the Portuguese Infant Don AltauEr, will not
be received at the French Court, but has been
ordered to take up his residence at the Castle of
Compeign. The Queen of PORTUGAL (his mo-
ther), is ordered, it is said, to depart forthwith
for Austria.

Letters received from Madrid, dated the 2d of
June, mention that wheat had risen in an extra-
ordinary manner, and was at the above date sell-
ing at 64 rialc the fanega, and it was thought
that the price would soon be 70. Barley was
selling at 30 and 32 rials. In the time of the
constitution wheat was worth from 25 to 30 rials,
and barley from 10 to 12. This shews what the
Spaniards have gained by their late change. The
public clamour was great, the poor loading the
French with execrations as the immediate cause
of the existing scarcity. The people do not forget
the famine of Madrid in 1809, when the French
were there, on which occasion upwards of 30,000
persons died of hunger in two months. This
public calamity was, by order of the municipality,
represented in a large painting, preserved in the
Academy of Paintings.

Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH did not, last night in
the House of Commons, present the Petition from
the Merchants of London praying for the recog-
nition of South American Independence, in con-
sequence of an intimation from Mr. CANNING
that the bringing it forward then would be pro-
ductive of inconvenience. It is to be presented
to-night. On the second reading of the Bill for
renewing the Irish Insurrection Act, Mr. ROBERT-
SON collected and urged all the objections which
may be made to such a measure, and which would
be made justly if it were proposed to render it
permanent. Ile then moved that the Bill be read
a second time that day six months. Mr. Secre-
tary PEEL and Mr. GourasuaN defended the
measure as having been introduced at the recom-
mendation of the Committee for inquiring into
the State of, Ireland, and as only intended
to secure the peace of that country, until more
efficacious remedies could be provided. Co-
lonel DAVIES and Mr. Seam" RI CE also sup-
ported it, much to their credit on similar grounds,
and on a division the amendment was thrown out
by an overpowering majority of 112 to 23.—The
new Churches Bill was read a third time and
passed, after two divisions ; as was also the Ma-1
rine Insurance Bill.

The Bills for restoring four Scotch Peers to
the honours of their attainted ancestors, and that
for reversing the Stafford attainder, were passed
yesterday in the Lords, and brought to the Com-
mons, where they received a first and second
reading, went through Committees, and were or-
dered to be reported this day.

DOTER, JUNE 14.—Arrived from Calais, on
Saturday, his Majesty's packet Arrow, having on
board ALEX. BAKING, Esq. M. P. and his fa-
mily.—The Sovereign steam-boat arrived yes-
terday from Boulogne with Mrs. SARTORIS and
her family.—The Medusa steam-boat is arrived
this day from Boulogne, with Mr. HAMILTON,
the British Consul at that port. He was charged
with dispatches for Mr. CANNING, and set off
with them immediately for London.—His Excel-
lency Count liattvum is arrived here with the
Countess and his son, who embark to-morrow
morning for Calais, on their way to St. Peters-.
burgh.

BRISTOL AND BRITISH CHANNELS' GRAND
SHIP CANAL.—According to Parliamentary docu-
ments, the number of ships and tonnage passing
and repassing the Land's End in Cornwall, both
the number of ships and tonnage has multiplied
between 1811 (when this grand project originated
at Chard, in Somerset, by Mr. PYRE) and 1823,
which proves the excellency of it, more particu-
larly as so many valuable lives will be saved an-
nually, and above one thousand pounds worth of
property weekly. In short, it is impossible to
describe the vast benefits derivable by the pro-
prietors, and the nation at large, from the execu-
tion of this noble plan, but the projectors will
certainly be entitled to the everlasting gratitude
of posterity.—The canal is to lead from Bridge-
water, and enter the British Channel at Seaton'
Bay, eastward of the Start Point. A commodious
harbour will be formed in Seaton Bay
where, at
high water, frigates may find a safe refuge from
shipwreck in the West Bay, which is always a
terror to mariners, as the bay extends from Port-
land to the Start, where many valuable merchant-
men are frequently lost.