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airing the samelentiments, the same ideas, and the 1
same desires with those traitors.—Avd in what points
were they not urpriied *prepar ing to break out?
No: no other opinion can be maintained: their trea-
son and their apostacy are incorrigible. With their ex-
termination alone can the public tranquillity be se-
med. But what a difficult.undertaking ! Secured in
their masonic caverns, walled in in their towers, hidden
in their secret cabins, who can combat them ? But let
all our works chew that this is really the object towards
which our exertions are directed—that zeal for religion
and the King devour our heart; that after our idolised
Sovereign and his Royal Family, nothing is more dear
to us, nothing so much det•erses our con.idrration as
those who, urged by a loyalty without limits, have vo-
lootasily devoted themselves to defend our altars, our
t:srone, and our property ; and I am certain that all
the good- sill assist us in the discovery and persecution •
of this race of iniquity, who can only live betwen it re-
ligion and anarchy.
In the meantime I command, under the strictest te-
sponsibility, that all the employes in the Police regulate
their conduct according to these sentiments ; that they
preserve, by all means, the strictest harmony with the
other authorities ; and that, convinced as they ought to
i.e IT the great service the Royalists do, and ought to
do, to the cause of GOD and the King, they promote
• forcibly the augmentation of these corps in all the vil-
lages, however small, dispensing to them, as much as
lies in their power, all the protection merited by those
who so generously and disinterestedly enlist under the
standard of religion and loyalty.
MARIANO 'LUPINO GONZALES.
Madrid, September 14, 1824.
order of the Suptrintondent-General of Police of the King-
dom, JOSE LOPEZ REQUENA.

FROM LAST NIGHeS LONDON GAZETTE.

COLONIAL OFFICE, DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 50.
Dispatches, of which the following are extracts, dated
Cape Coast Castle, 30th June, 17th and 22d of July,
and addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Bathurst, K.G.
• have been received from Lieut.-Colonel Sutherland,
of the 2d Vest India Regiment, and Lieut.-Colonel

Grant, of the Royal Ali icaii Colonial Corps:—
Cape Coast Castle, June 30, 18,24.
My communication of the Slst of May, duplicate of
which is inclised herewith, would have informed your
Lordship of the state of operations on this Coast to that
period, except that 1 omitted to mention I had recalled
the troops into the Castle, when, on the desertion of the
Fantees, I round it would be useless and imprudent to
remain in the field. I havenow the honour to make you
acquainted with subsequent occurrences to this date.
All the prisoners and deserters recently brought in,
concur is stating, Ott Assai Tootoo Quamina, the
reigning King at the commencement of hostilities, had
lately died at Coomassie, and that Adoo Assisi, his suc-
cessor and brother, bad left Ashantee, accompanied by
all the warriors he could muster, with the determina-
tion of destroying Cape Coast, and driving the Dogfish
out of the country ; and in order that I might not plead
ignorance of his Majesty's intentions, he did me the
honour, soon after his arrival at Fetue, to send a Fetish
(sanctified or sacred) boy to our advanced posts with a
message, importing that
• If the walls of Cape Coast Castle were not high
enough. I ought to build them higher, and if they were
not sufficiently furnished with cannon, that I should
land those belonging to the ships of win ; but that all
could not prevent his throwing the whole into the sea !"
a threat which was of course treated with contempt.
After about three week of preparation, during which
our scouts and small parties .were very successful in
cutting off the enemy's foraging stragglers, and by fre-
quent alarms, in keeping him constantly on the alert in
his camp, thereby preventing his collecting provisions,
of which be was very much in want ; the above message
was followed up by the King's advance from Fetue on
the 21st inst. with his whole army, to within five miles
of the fort, driving in without resistance a party of ob-
servation I had left at the Government Garden Hill y&
• lake, where he established his head-quarters. _

On the 2.qd he was again in motion, and took up an
extensive line or chain of posts round great part of the
settlement, distant about three miles, but in bush so thick
that it was impossible to judge of his strength except by
the extent of his line, or to discover that, or hit position,
otherwise than by the smoke from his fires.

On the 23d he advanced so close that he was seen in
great force from the Hill Tower, and a signal was made
from thence to that effect. I was consequently in mo-
meutary expectation of being attacked. The townsmen
were ordered to make all possible resistance ; the women
and children, provisions, and valuables, were taken for
protection into the fort; the seamen and marines were
landed hom his Majesty's ship Victor and merchant-
ships in the roads to man the guns, and every other pre-
paration made for defence, when the enemy, who ap-
peared to have good information of our proceedings,
hesitated, halted; his resolution seemed to fail him ; and
although at dusk and during the night he occupied
Parson's Croons (village), within one mile of the fort,
he retired early on the 24th to the encampment he had
quitted two days before, from whence to the end of the
month he contented himself with detaching strong par-
ties to lay waste the country round about,and to but n and
destroy all the villages within reach, which he was enabled
to do ids perfect impunity, my garrison at the time, far
both Castle and Tower, independent of a very small
unorganised force, on which little dependence could be
placed, only amounted to 31P; rank and file, many of
them very young soldiers, and of ss horn 10l were in
hospital, twelve sick in quarters, thirty-two recruits,
twelve boys, exclusive of a few artificers and militia.
It is proper 1 should here make your Lordship ac-
quainted with a circumstance which, during this me-
naced attack, led to considerable loss of property to
several individuals by fire.
Some time previ :us to the approach of the enemy on
the 22d, and on that day, I ordered some houses which,
within 30 yards, commanded and overlooked the prin.
cipa) ramparts and defences on the land side, to be
pulled down, to prevent our being driven horn our bat-
teries from them by the enemy, and to remove such
obstructions to the range of our guns. These repeated
orders were disregarded by the town's people, and the
garrison was too weak to execute them ; I considered it,
therefore, my duty, (when, on the 23J, the Othcer com-
manding in the Tower threw out the signal " the enemy
is advancing from the westward,") to order four of those
houses to be set on fine; and I am sorry to say, that
o ving to a sudden rise of wind, tht flames extended
much farther than was anticipated or intended ; and, in
spite of every effort to arrest then progress, burnt the
grass thatch off m•tst of the huts and houses in the town,
and consumed several. Oa ing,liowever, to the previous
ignoval of goods, &c. into the fort, and the peculiar

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