Yesterday morning, Mr. Be...
The Times, 1824-08-18T00:00:00

Yesterday morning, MIr. Bego, an Italian courier, ar- rived at the Foreign Office, with despatches for Mr. Secre. tary Canning from Sir WVilliam A'Court, our Ambassador at Madrid, datedl up to the 6th inst. Mr. Bego also brought despatches for the Right Hon. Secretary from Sir Charles Stuart, our Ambassador at Paris, at which city he stopped on his way to England. Despatclie. were received yesterday at the Colonial-office, fromn Sierra Leone, dated the 26th of June. His Majesty's ship the The.is, Sir John Phillimore, had arrived at Sierra Leone on the 13th of that month, with a detachment of the Royal African Colonial Corpz. As soon as the Tlhetis had completed her refreslhments, she sailed, on the 17th, for Cape Coast Castle. A loan for the service of Brazil was yesterdav brought iato the money-market. Its amnount is 1,000,0001. sterling, to be represented by stock at 75 per cent., bearing interest nt, according to the instructions given to the Commis- sioners now residing here, who will require in the whole 2,500,0001.; but as tfhose gentlemen entertain an opirnion that some arrangement wvill shortly be enteredl into with Portugal for the recognitiion of the indlepenence of Brazil, they conceive that by postponing till then the negotiation f the contract, they will be enabled to raise money on more favourable terms. This at least is the explanation current among the best-iiformed Brazilians, but we have of course no data on which to determine its correctness. The instalments on this loan are fixed for paymenit at the following periods:-10 per ccnt., Aug. 20; 10, Sept. 21; 10, Oct. 14.; 5, Nov. 19; S, Dec. 21; 5, Jan. 20, 18225; 5, Feb. 18; .5, March 18; 10, April 20; 10, May 17. Dis- count is to be allowed on payment in full, at the rate of i. per cent. per annunm, from the date of the resapective in- stalments. On the paymnent of the instalments falling due between the l4th of October and the 20th of April inclt- sive, certificates of stock will be delivered equal to the amount of money paid--a plan similar to that a(lopted with ihe last French loan. The contractors for this loan are Messrs. Bazett, Farquhar, andl Co. ; Messrs. Fletcher, Alexantler, and. Co.; and Messrs. Thomas Wilson and Co. We yester(lay copie(l from an cvenirn- paper the state- meuit of a horrible fate said to have befallen Sir C- I'Carthy among the Ashantees. Tkat statement has since been traced to the Joan/ Bl,411 Sunday paper, and no one therrfore will row wonder thiat it should turn out to be a falsehood,as the following letter, published in an evening journal of yesterday, will sufficiently prove:-"' Cape Coast Castle, lay 8.-kr.lVilluams, the Colonial Secretary, who was taken on the disastrous 21st of JanuaTy, and who was M ith Sir Charles, Buckle, and WVetherill, at the timc they were killed, anid is now at llmina, having: been fortunate enough, through1 the in- terposition of the Dutchi tovernor, to be allowe by the Asliantees to remain a prisoner at that place until the war may be terminated, relates the following particulars of their deaths. He says in their re- treat Sir Charles first had his arm broken by a shot, and was after- wards wountled in the cheet and fell: lie thinks the wound was mor- tal. Buckle; NVetherill, and himself, tihen moved Sir Charles, and put hilm under a large tree, where tlhey sat withi him for a few inonients, perceiving that their fate was inevitable, the enemy having surroundedl them. He (Alr.Wllliants) then received a ball in the thigh, and saw poor NVetherill, who was lyin close to Sir Charles, havin,g been also wounded, cuttinlg at tlte Asliantees with hib sword as they were tearin g the clothes off Sir Charles- At thistinme he received another shot, ;which having hit him 'in the head, stun. tIed him ; wvien he caine to himself, he saw tile bodiesof Sir Charles, Buckle, and vVetherill, headless trunks. ilr. Williams's life was saved by an Ashantee of superior authority coming up at the time they were about cutting off his head." 1flhe following nolice appeared yesterday at Lloyd's "Portuguese Consulate, London, August 17. 1824. Sir,-I beg leave to acquait.you for the information of merchants and others, con- cerned in tie tradeof PortutgAl, that His Alost Faithful Majesty, by htis royal edict, ilndlid date of the 11th ult., has been pleased to order two vessels of war to be put into coininissioil an the preventive ser. vice, to cruise oni tle coast of Portugal, te guard atalnsi snneggling to be carried on in the ports of his domainions, granting liberty to the officera commanding the aiiie, to board and search such vessels as may be boutid to said ports, and to seize those that may not have tneir ^apers regularly authetiticated bv thie Portuguese Consuls or their delegates or tiat nrrsy be found in the act of landing any part of their cargoes contras to law. This regulatlun is to be X^ut its force in three months f'rom the date of the said edict on vessels coming fromn the ports- of Spain Italy, and the Mediiterranean, Fran.c, and H olland. - And on ttlose from Russia, and other No.: then puorts, in four months from the sane date. I am, &c. (Signed) "F F. .J SA APAYO, Consul-Geeneral. 6;Joliti Bepinett. Esq., Lloyd's.11 CHARLESTON, July io.-Arrived, the 3chooner Aen anid Adelibus, Litle, from Mtatinzas, in four days. The brig JOhln, of Boston, for Miatanzaa, was captured on the 4th of June, off thlat harbour, by three piratical boats, andl pluiitered of mioney, clothing, &C. Piraoes nearAlatanzaslhavc becomeeyery numerous. H ALIFAX, June 21.-Extract of a letter, dated Sydney, June 11 :-" A fishing vessel haus lately returned to MIargret from St. Pe:ul'm Island, oiff Cape North, where tihey discovered eleven dead bodies of persons,lying iin a tent on the island, supposed to have p-erished from col4 and starvation, as there appeared signs of their living on each other. Part of a vessel was asihore; but no papers were found by which her name could be discovered."-C'harlsbon payer. A Valenciennes journal gives us the following article:- Six merchan's crossing the coast of Guinea, withs 76 large monkeys, were attacked by upwards of a hundred negroes. Being at a loss how to defend themselves against sucli fearful odds, one of the mer- chants proposed arming theprisoners; accordinglyswords, poniards, and 'pistols were distributed amongst then, and by imitating their niasters, these grotesque auxiliaries succeeded in putting their ag- gressors to flight I I I CREDULITY.-Carmarthen fair, on Thursclay last, was but thinly attelltled. owing, we understand, to a most absurd alarm, founded upon an ancient prophecy of Alerlin, that on that day thie town was to be utterly destroyed by inundation. Hundreds of per- sons absolutely retired from the towu to the neighboiuring villages. to avoid the threatened danger, and, indeed, so great was the terror of sonic of' those poor deluded creatures, that they even set off on the preceding day for Sw.vansea, and other towns. In all times false prophecies have abotunded, but thsat in tes nresent age of' almost uni- versal Information and intelligence, we sho6uld find perHtet so 80sdu. ions, excltes astonishilnent....Lamnriesm.