The Sun. — 1824-05-03 (London, England)

IMES MAGA. !MIT by the Ashantees, was but too well founded. We subjoin such further accounts of the disaster as have bee" received, in addition to that which first reached us. Apprehensions are entertained, and not without reason, that the news of this severe end humiliating blow to the British arms by a black enemy will have a very mischievous effect on the minds of the Negroes in the West Indic:. The event is, indeed, in every point of view, a subject of most poignant regret. The loss of 1.0 many valuable lives, including, it is to be feared, that of the Governor himself-the protracted and sanguinary hostilities which will probably follow the calamitous occurrence that has already taken place—the expence cti sending out a powerful expedition to humble the Ashantees, and to redeem the honour of the British name from the stain attached to It by the triumph of the Barbarians,--and the inopportune (liyersion of a part of the strength of the Empire, which will thus be effected at a moment when the critical state' of South American affairs render' it peculiarly desirable that our whole force should be at onr disposal, are considerations Which furnish matter of serious and painful reflection.  [From a Barbadoes Paper of March 20.] nninotTowN, Mincrt 20, 1824.—The brig Elizabeth, wl"icit arrived on Thursday last from Africa, gives an account ,a sanguinary conflict that lately happened between the 'Elantees, a very powerful race, and a force composed of about 'fr'C'6o natives and others of Cape Coast Castle, an English settlement in that neighbourhood. The former had, of late, made frequent incursions for the purpose of plundering the latter terri -tnrY ; and in one of these had seized a British sergeant, t"0"r1 they murdered, and afterwards mutilated in a most he manner. To avenge this crime, and the insult offered IJeone, English flag, Sir Charles 314Carthy, Governor of Sierra immediately prepared this expedition, which was formed into three divisions, one of which he commanded, and was acrnPanied by many merchants as volunteers; but, before the „ ree parties could form a junction, Sir Charles was inter. rPte4 by 10,000 of the Ashantees, whom he fought as long as ;such ammunition lasted ; but being at length overpowered by 4'll an immense number of the foe, he and those with him bre either massacred or made prisoners ; and, from their ocl-thirsty character, it is feared the first of these disasters 'aa befallen him, and under circumstances of aggravated cruelty Although fourteen days elapsed since the departure of this 'tWititm, no intelligence of Sir Charles or of the merchants ad reached the Cape when the Elizabeth left that coast. It has been surmised, that the Ashantees had been instigated to their one 1 ill conduct by some foreign traders in a neighbouring district account of the exertions of the British in intercepting the African slave Trade. 1 I P., . following is an extract of a private letter from au officer of rank on board the Owen Glen dower, which not only confirins the• disastrods tidings above given, but adds to them the melancholy intelligence of the death of that enterprising traveller BELzoNz "