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To be lieutenint, by putebst--Ensign
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The Christian name of Mr. Strong, appointed to an Unattached
Ensigncy, on the 19th May, repo. Joarp4 and not J.Age. •

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)Lahr-General Sir George Adam Wood to be Governor of Car-
lisk, vice Li,utenant.lient.ral Burne,deceased.
CO M.:11 MS A R I AT.
Commissi ins to he dated 7th June, 11125.
1 be Deputy Commissaries-General—Assistant Commissaries.
General, Thomas Forth Winter, William Mackay. James Wood-
house, J. S. Kachatizier, William Hewetaon, James' Lsidley,
James Saumares Doltree, and Thomas Price.
T. be Assistant Commissaries-General.—Deputy Assistant Com-
missaries-General, Thomas Wharton Ramsay, Charles GEaham,
William Jennings, William Furmidge, Francis William A. C.
Major. Richard Green. Lovell Pennell, J. B Knight, Henry
Hrndy. John Tench, Johu K. Ilacbreedy, and William Henry
• Robinson.
Tu bi Deputy Assistant Commissaries- general.—Ctmlmissaties.
Clerk, Werter Smith, Fulford Bastard Fielde, Langley Bracken-
bury, John Whaley, Henry Francis Oriel, John George Smith,
Thomas Trews Ferguson Cossvorthy. Thomas George S. Swan,
Henry Hickson Brown, and T. Duguid.
OFFICE OF ONDNANCF:. JUNE 23. 1825.
Cruetsof Royal Rngisieers.—Lleotenant-Colonel Frederick Resin*.
sekeray to be Wont!. vice Bridges, deceased. Btevrt Major
Rdward Fig r to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Thickeray ; Second
Captain William Cuthl.ert Ward to he -Captain vice Figg ; First
Lieutenant Rickard Sparkman Young so be Second Captain,
vice Ward ; Second Lieutenant Iknjamin.Spicer Stebelint :o be
First Lieutenant, vice Young; First Liensenant Daniel lioltoc
to be Second Captain, vice Gilbert, refired on. half-pay ; Second
Lieutenant William Laney to be First Lieutenant, vice Bolton,
promoted.
FFICE OF ORDNANCE. JUTE 24, 1825.
jßoyid Regiment of Artillery.—Second Captain Basil Robinson
' Heim. from half-pay, to be Second Captain, vice Hope, retired.
Commission signed by the Lord lieutenant of the East Riding of
the County of York, and Town and County of the Town of
Kingston-upon.ilull.
Richard Sykes, jun. Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant.
Cornatission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
• l'eebles.
John Murray Nasmyth, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant.
Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County and
County and Cup of GlOucester, and of the County and City of
I3ristoL
Royal North Gloucester Militia.—Williams Goklaey, Est to be
(ptain, vice Joseph Matthews, resigned.

COAST OF AFRICA.

Thursday arrived the Cato transport, Lieutenant
W. R. Cooley, agent (William Sadler, master), from
Cape Coast, Ascension, and Sierra Leone, whither she
took supplies of provisions from Deptford. She left
Cape Coast on the 13th of February, Ascension the Bth
of March. and Sierra Leone the Bth of May. General
Charles Turner, C.B. had assumed the command of the
British Settlements on the West Coast of Africa.
The disastrous termination of the late aggression of '
the King of Ashantee will, it is expected, induce him
to conform to the reasonable proposals contained in the
above Proclamation, by which alone his people will be
permitted to recommence their connection with the
coast. The Ashantees have hitherto, through their
superior warlike character, acted as intermediate agents
between the nations situated in their rear, and the mer-
• chants at the forts on the coast. in exchanging their
gold and other valuable articles for European manu-
faetutes, but if they persist in an obstinate 'adherence
to their oppressive rights; these nations, it is fully ex-
pected, will, in theand, render the hitherto tyrann'zing
and op •ressive kingdom of Ashantee tributary to them.
The Maidstone frigate, Commodore Charles Bullen,
C.B. and the Esk, Captain Purchass, returned to Sierra
Lone on the 3d of May, from visiting the Gambia and.
Cape de Verd Islands, leaving the Conflict gun-brig,
Lieutenant Clarkson, for the protection of the gum-
trade at Portendick. The Victor, 18, Captain Wool-
combe, was to leave the Gold Coast, for England, on
the arrival out of the Redwing from England. The
ship Prince of Waterloo, and the large barks Margaret,
Asia, and Providence, were to sail from Sierra Leone,
for England, on the 9th ult. with full cargoes of timber
(te-14 and camweod.
There had been no recent seizure of slave vessels,:
this horrid traffic will never be put down to any extent,
until the F reign Powers who are concerned in its con-
tinuance shall awaken to a better feeling on the sub.
jeci. We are assured that there are more French slave-
vessi Is on the coast of Africa now, th 4 n at any per it'd
dates the last twenty years. Major Laing 's descrip-
tion of the barbarous treatment of the poor slaves on
their way down to the coast; is deeply horrifying and
distressing. The ships of war employed on the ci art
were generally healthy; but the mortality among the
troops at Cape Coast continued to be very great. It
appeared by the last returns, that in the course of
twelve months, 217 men and twenty-two Officers (be-
sides women and children) had died ; leaving 146 men
and eight Officers only, of which the garrison was corn-
posed; and it was expected that not ten men out of the
remaining number would be alive on the Ist of July,
1825.• It is remarkable, that when once a family be-
comes infected by the fever of that climate, all its
members, young and'old, alike fall victims to it. The
Cato- brought home an Officer and eight men invalided
from the Maidstone and Esk ; also D. M. Hamilton,
Esq. Chief Justice at Sierra Leone; Mr. Kendall, As-
sistani•Comaiissary-General ; and Mrs. Showers, wife
of the Apothecary to the Forces.. Spoke the brig
Douglas, from Liverpool to Pernambuco, in lat. 40.11.
N. long. 24.80. W. out twenty-four days, all well • and
the Tamerlane, from Sierra Leone, bound to Cori, out
thirty-three days.
TRADE wi PURTUGAL.

FROM THE COURIER FRANSAIE OF FRIDAY, JUNI S
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
Lwow, lam
Tile influence of the English policy is more and more
felt in our councils, and produces in the acts of our Go-
vernment results advantageous to our commerce and our.
manufactures. Our /Cabinet has just taken the first
step to renounce the system of absolute prohibition,
which kept limn our ports a great part of the ships of
Eia..pe. A duty of thirty per cent. is extablished_in
Wye room of complete exclusion, in a vast number of
articles; the consumption of which bas become indis-
pensable, and which could not be procured except by.
smuggling. •
Such are silks, ornaments, tissues, worked with gold
or silver, laces, false stones, and beads of all colours
cloths and stuffs of countries, except those of Eng.
land and Holland. Henceforward competition will be
Opett to all nations, and the consumer will gain by it:
ale,olitasusca, brought into harmony with our new
• re)etiess with Baited, cannot faa to rinse our commerce
'tbsk state pi etageatims.,ei railer of nullity; to
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The rrean.hle nr tie edict, v:ll.ch introduces a more'
reitsonableAystern. deserts es to he 4unted, as it is c:&.
cul4t-d the new spirit which animates the Go-
vernmetit : it is as
" I, the King, snake known to all those who shag see the present
'die t,thst considering the inconveniences which result from retaining
laws the enactments el which were salutary when they were adapted
to the usages, customs, and circumstances of the times of their pub-
lication, but which have become incompatible with the new usages
and wants which the course of time has introduced into society,
think fit, and order the following to be ohsetved.
iThis is as:tiredly the same doctilue that has lately been asserted
in the I loute of Conmsons by Messrs- C'atining,Prel. and I uskisson.)
" The several articles follow :—The Ist reeapitulares the prohibi-
Itory laws and ordinances; in the 2d ate excepted some articles com•
Ipriied in those laws and ordinances, among which ageatvord-canes.
1 pocket-pistols, and all kinds of spirittious liquors. Aetiele 4th is
the most important. The same articles, it says, c which were
prohibited, and which are at this moment admissible In the two
ports of Lisbon and Oporto, shall pay the duty on import in the
ports in which they shall enter, according to the regulations laid
.down to that effect at presynt (SO per cent.)or which shall be in force
in future. The duties shall he paid according to the estimates
nide of the price on the day when tlity were dispatched from the
Custom-house; or by an auction, which may be made for the
greater security end regularity of the payments.
1 Article 5 estends to the Azores, Madeira, and the Cape deVerd
Islands, the regulations laid down for Lisbon and Oporto.
" Another edict of the aame date suppresses the duty on the ex-
portation of salt by Portuguese vessels, and reduces it to 200 real.
(rees) per mops, instead of 500. •
" The export duty on wine is reduced to one half.
*4 It is useless to observe, that • this edict has been issued imme-
diately after the departure of Sit Charles Stuart for Ur azil. Moit
certainly, before his arrival here, our Cabinet would not have pub-
liahed such doctrines upon commerce, and would not have failed to
extend any meestire that it might have thought fit to adopt, to the
ports of Brasil, which no longer depend on Portugal, as well as to
the other colonies which are still in its possession."

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