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London, England, 1826-10-07 00:00:00

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Matthew Hassan and Win. Williams, Bristol, chemists. James
White and J. Howell, Threadneedle-street auctioneers. Albert
Edward Hasslar and Alexander Haselar, 'Wate, Hertfordshire,
surgeons. J'slien Skrine and Charles Homfrey, Cambridge, bankers.
Augustus Schmuck and Walter Crafton Smith, Bury-court, St.
Mary Axe, merchants. William Wilson and John Roberts, Sal-
ford, Lancashire, brewera. John Waddle and James Stewart,
Stafford-street. dund-st rest, purveyors of milk. William Townsend
and Thomas Fuulds, Luddenden Yorkshire, worsted manufacturers.
Zachariah Sevier and Cornelius Denbigh, Skipton, Yorkshire,iron.
mongers. J. Rodman and Ednid. Aldetsey, Stroud, Kent, corn
factors. John Spooner Rooker, Thomas Underdown and Henry
Wilkinson, Sheffield, silver platers, as far as regards John Spooner
Rooke. William Bestow and George Thorpe, Nottingham, lace
improvers. Matthew Charley Swift and Wm. Henry Swift,
Houndaditch, woollen drapers. Edward Lenim and Francis Lemm,
Ilonmouth-street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, tailors and clothes sales-
men. William Oldham and Richard Ravrnhill, Cadiz, Spain, and
London, merchants. Jame. Hargreaves, Hugh Dawson, Thomas
&milk and John Earnshaw, Spring Mill and Kilnhurst, Yorkshire,
corn dealers. Paul Legge, James Wall, John Hood and John
Russell, Gloucester, dealers. Edmund Ogden, Robert Pagan and
Robert Ogden, Rochdale, Lancashire, woollen manufacturers.
William Hardwick and James Warner, Eastington, Gloucester-
shire, grocers and drapers. Jackson Gandy and Henry Sherring-
ton', Manchester, commission agents. Thomas Leigh Dlundell and
Joseph Ward, Epsom and Ewell, Surrey, surgeons. Charles Ro-
binson, James Timothy Fuord and Mark Smith, Hull, dealers.

General Weekly Average of the Price of British Corn, which
governs Importation, Marie up to the ..29th of September.
Wheat 565. Yd. I Oats 281. 6.1. Brans 465. 94.
Barley 355. od. Bye 40s. 0.1. Peas 50s. 3d.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns made in the Week ending the 4th ti.l of
Oct., 7826, is 51s. Bid. per cwt. exclusive of the duties of Cus-
toms paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof.

The transport Louisa, Lieutenant Bradley, R.N.
Agent, left on the 2'2d instant, for Cape Coast and As-
cension, whence she returns here to take home damaged
stores, and invalids. Fifty meaand two officers of the
Royal African Colonial Corps, under the command of
Captain Fraser, embarked on board thii vessel for the
former place, to reinforce the garrisons on the Gold
Coast, and also an officer of the Commissariat Staff, is
Staff Surgeon, and another •officer of the Medical
Department.
It is now some months since we have received any
accounts .frorn those dependencies ; and we must ac-
knowledge that we feel very anxtoes for an arrival, as,
from such a length of time having elapsed, we are in
perfect ignorance of either the efficiency of the force
stationed there, or the state of the country and oar rela-
tions with the native Bitters, and. what is more yard-
cularly of consequnce. -the. position and useasursta
the Ashantees, whom the knowledge of Geiteral Tar
ner's death may embolden again te try their fqrces
against us; in which cue, the calamities we have had
once so deeply to deplore, may be revived. In fact, it
is time that either these possessions were formed into a
,separate government, or merely kept up as forts, The
retaining at Cape Coast an establishment for carrying
the intentions of Great Britain into effect, (the expense
of which, as voted by Parliament, is far beyond the
amount granted to this colony), is in a great degree ren-
dered useless by its being attached to this Government ;
which really has never yet been enabled to exercise
such an authority there as the circumstances of the
times required, except when the head of the Adminis-
tration himself has been upon the spot—an absence from
which has always proved of the greatest injury to the
particular interests of the colony itself.
It is now six weeks sitrce his Honour the Acting Go-
vernor left this for the Gambia, and we may therefore
hourly expect his return—an event that will prove as
gratifying to us all, as it is desirable for the public
good; and more especially as k relates to the particu-
lar objects of maintaining this Colony, which we consi-
der to be so intimately connected by our relations with
the surrounding countries, as to induce us to hail the
present good feeling of the neighbouring Chiefs, and
bring it ,forward as the surest criterion that could be ad-
vancedbf the influence of this Government, and the
increasing importance of the setslement ; which, while
extending its limits and authority, mast be materially
benefitted• by the commerce thus secured to us alone
with the nations Of the interior, by the paths being open
for the valuable productions of those countries to the
water side, for barter for the goods bf our merchants;
and, what is of more paramount importance, by the
'abandonment of the inhuman traffic in men, which has
too long debased and kept back these Chiefs from cor-
dially soliciting the friendship and good offices of the
colony. The return of the Governor will, we hope,
consolidate this present state of affairs ; his unction
alone is required to give effect to the great good which
it is now in our power to effect, by acceding to the
wishes of the numerous Chiefs, who, without any soli-
citation on our part, have offered to us the possession
of certain parts of their territories, with the view of thus
enabling them to put a stop to the slave trade, and to
carry on a more extended commerce with the colony.
17th.—By an arrival in the last week from the Rio
Nunez, we learn that a brig, under French colours, had
been lying there since the t 2d ult; for a cargo of slaves.
It is supposed that she will, if they can be procured,
take five hundred wretched beings. The whole country
is, of course, in requisition to supply this miscreant's
cupidity, who is protected in his villany from the in-
terference of this Colony or his Majesty's cruisers, by
the colours and the nation he belongs to.
Our ship news announces the arrival' f another slave vase; the
Spanish schooner ?honor, which, we understand, has 173 soilhe.
tunates on board. The increase of this trait is realhoniblv•
10th.—That a number of piratical vessUs are cruia.
ing on the coast at present, and fur some time past, hoe
,been pretty clearly demonstrated by the information
obtained by almost every arrival from the southward.
The schooner Elie, of this colony, on her passage up,
was boarded off Cape Palmas by a brig of this descrip.
don, hoisting an American ensign and Brazilian pen.
dant; and the Captain and craw taken out of her and
put on board the pirate, who sent his own people in
their place, and detained the former a prisoner the
whole night, when he was restored to his vessel, after
being desired to sign a paper to the effect that he (die
pirate) had not plundered his vessel of anything; which
was refused by the Captain, who did not feel satisfied
that spoliation of the cargo had not followed die sea.
zure of his vessel, but which, on examination, was found
not tobe the case. The object of this outrage on a
merchantman under English colours, cannot be mis-
taken ; fortunately, however, for her owner, it would
seem that the cargo (African produce) did not offersuf-
ficient temptation to excite the cupidity of this lawless
rover, who we hope may yet be fallen in with by some
Of our cruisers. We understand that the Captain of
the Elise shortly after his vessel was released, fell in with
his Majesty's ship Redwing, and acquainted Captain
Clavering of the citcumstance,giving him a description
of the brig, when it appeared his Majesty's ship had
given chace a few days before to a vessel answering the
description, but which escaped by her superior sailing.
We subjoin the description of this vessel, for the kilos.-
' mation of our nautical friends, and more particular*
those brave officers who are in command of the men of
war at present on the coast.
DE3CRIPT/ON— annerican build ; pierced for 20, and mounting 15
or 20 guns; very sharp in appearance, and low in the water;
painted black, with white streak and ports; masts slightly raking ;
main gaff painted black; goes under the following designatiuns :
American brig Spark, and El Famador ; and MA Viucedor, Bra-
zilian privateer.
We have this week the painful reflection of an
nouncing the arrival of another slave vessel—the Por-
tuguese schooner La Fortune, taken by his Majesty's
ship Brazen off Princes island, having on hoard at the
time 2+5 of the unfortunate naives of this Continent,
+5 of whoni had terminated their sufferings on their
passage here, leaving 200 wretched survivors afflicted
with those diseases generally prevailing on board these
floating receptacles of misery. The extent apd audacity
with which this inhuman traffic is now carried on,
indeed, but too painfully brought to our notice, by the

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The following statement will throw some light On
the recent intelligence from Chili:
During the time that the Chilian Government was
exerting all its strength toveduce Chiloe, the Liberators
Bolivar, made a tender of a detachment of his'army in
Peru to act with them in enabling them to accomplish
their object. This offer was civilly declined on the
part of the Chilian Administration, becausse it was sp•
prehended that‘the Liberator would give the command
of this auxiliary force to his friend General 0.11 ggins,
who might be induced to avail himself of the oppor.
tunity thus presented, to deprive his old antagonist.
General Freire, of the supreme Directorshir, and plate
himself at the head of the State. The Chilian p Does at
last effected their object without assistance of any kind,
'and as report statesvro the no small disappointment of
the party who thus offered their aid.
The object which Bolivar is supposed to have had in
view, first in offering the assistance of his troops to re,
duce Chiloe, and, subsequently, in insisting on his right
to appoint their commander, was to have sent his friend
O'Higgins (who is now with him at Lima) into Chiloe,
with a force that might have enabled him to recover
his former ascendancy. That General is considered a
man of considerable military talents, is allowed ro be a
person of great private worth and respectability, and
is known to be not only a favourite with Bolivar,
but with the higher classes, or aristocracy of Chile. Had
he, therefore, appeared in his native country with 4,000
or 5,000 Colombian bayonets, in addition to the strength
of his own partisans, and the influence of his personal
character, there is little doubt that his ambition would
have been gratified with the supreme Directorship of
the Republic.
Having failed in,his first well-planned endeavour; h
is stated in letters from Lima, that he hoped to sfleceed
by gaining over to his side a portion of the Chilian
army, That part of the troops to whom his emissaries
had the easiest access, was the garrison of Chiloe, and
here, accordingly, he resolved to clmmence the work
of seduction and intrigue. Stich; we have no doubt,
is the key to the following account of the mu;iny—the
connecting principle which renders the details of the
Si. Jago Gapite intelligible. That the dangers which
thence threaten the existing order of things in Chili, tre
not so formidable or so imminent as might at first siglk
appear, may be gathered from two circumstances—,
first, the garrison of Chiloe, though it may be an cacti-
lent nucleus for rebellion, from the ease with which the
place may be defended, and its convenient position for
making descents on the coasts, consists evidently of but
a small military force; and, secondly, the project of
insurrection must have been organized, and the intrigue
of O'Higgins hatched, before the Liberator had heard
of the rebellion of Pus and the danger which threatened
his supremacy on the Spanish Main. The latter events
mast either bring him back to Colombia in person, or
induce him to seed thither so large a portion of his
troops, that he will have few disposable resources, and
probably little inclination to extend his line of opera-
tions to the neighbourhood of Cape Horn.

An official communication states, that the G)lonshian
Om is now recognised and admitted in France,as well as the Mexican.
We extract from the Supplement to the Bombay Cou-
rier of the Ist of April, the following particulars of a
♦ery gallant exploit between a party stationed at Milroy'',
ender Ensign Clark, of the3.l Madras Native Infantry,
and a greatly superior force of the enemy
" On the evening of the 15th of February, Ensign Clark having
received intelligence that a body of men had been dispatched by the
Ex-Governor of Martaban to attack the villages of Bew and bil-
low, proceeded to the former to take the personal command of the
small picquet stationed there, and to ascertain tttk measures that
might be necessary, leaving Captain Johnstone, of the Commissa-
riat, who happened to be at Mikow, collecting supplies, in charge
of the main party, which he had promptly offered his Assistance to
command. A little before daylight, on the morning of the 16th,
the enemy surrounded the village of Bew with a force which left
Ensign Clark no alternative but to fall back on the main party. fie
accordingly forced his way through the enemy, and was soon joined
by Lieutenant Johnstone, who had marched to his assistance with a
reinforcement. Ensign Clark continued his retreat to his position
at Mikow, where, concentrating his small force, he determined to
make a stand, and extending his line, so that one flank rested on the
river, and the other on the house of a Rahoon, he successfully
checked the advance of the enemy till about half-past eight o'clock.
Observing the Burman line waver, Ensign Clark then ordered his
men to charge, on which the enemy fled in the most precipitate
manner, neglecting theits usual custom of carrying off the dead ; 40
bodies were found on the field. Our loss was inconsiderable, but
one killed mid seven wounded. The fire of the Borman' from
jinjals and small arms was kept up with great noise and petite r,
ante, but was ill directed. The detachment at Nitkow did n
teed 150 men, whilst the Romans were not fewer than 15,0004; I.
mediately after t:ie newiriA the 4Clit)ll reached Colonel Pepper, a
reinforcement of 100 rank and bye of the 3d Regiment, with 20
pioneer., under Captain Leggett, was sent to hlikow, as well as 100
from l'egu, by whisk the post, which is one of some importance,
was secured against the repetition of a similar attempt."

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