If 24.] 



Fiscal, on vvhicli account the manager has 

 taken a srent dislike to him, am! scarcely 

 ever meets him witho.iit cursing liini as he 

 passes hy. 'Vhe piinishiiu'iit which he in- 

 liicts on hiin is dreadfully sevcie : tor 

 overy little thiug he floi;s him. I helieve 

 Ned to be a (jiiiet harmless man; I think 

 he docs his vvoik very well. A manager 

 told me himsplf he had punished many ns- 

 groes merely to spite Mr.Wray. F believe 

 the laws of justice, wiiich relalc to the 

 negroes, are known only by name here; 

 fur, while I am vviitini; this, the driver is 

 flogging the people, and neither manager 

 nor overseer near. 



Friday, Aug. 8, 1817 — A great number 

 of people at chapel. From Genesis xv, 1. 

 having passed over the latter part of chap, 

 xiii. as contaming a promise of deliverance 

 from (these two wt.rds partly erased, bnt 

 perfectly legible,) the land of Canaan, I 

 was apprehensive the negroes migJst put 

 such a con-,tuic!ion upon it as I could not 

 wish ; for I tell them some of the promises, 

 &c. which are made to Abraham and 

 others, will apply to a Cluijrian state. It 

 is easier to make a wrong impression on 

 their minds than a right one. 



AFIUCA. 



Accounts Iiave arrived, ofasad disaster 

 which has ha|)ijened in the neighbour- 

 hood of Sierra Leone; where the Eng- 

 lish governor of that colony, Sir diaries 

 M'Carthy, with nearly all his army, 

 have either been killed or taken pri- 

 soners. The enemy and the victors, on 

 til is occasion, are the Asliantees. In 

 1807, an Ashantec army reached the 

 cuast for the first time. In that year, 

 as well as in 1811, and in 1816, they 

 invaded the nation of Fantees, whose 

 population lay about our settlements, 

 and in the course of the wars, by wliich 

 they nearly exlTErininated tiicir misera- 

 ble adversaries, killinjj or selling their 

 enemies for slaves, they not only threat- 

 ened but attacked our forts. Cape 

 Coast Castle was besieged, and it uas 

 only by paying a tribute, that: the 

 savage coiK)uerors were bou;;ht oft'. 

 After t'lis, it was deemed expedient 

 to send an cnjbassy to negotiate a 

 treaty of alliance with a monarch so 

 dangcrons and potent as Sai Tootoo 

 QUAMIVA. Itsucceeded in concluding 

 a treaty, which was afterwards re- 

 newed and conlirmed in 1820, when 

 Mr. Hiitton was appointed to lesidc 

 at Ashantee, as Acting Consul on the 

 part of the iSrilish nation. 



In this slate things remained until 

 1821, when the Fantees put themselves 

 under liritish protei.-tion, and a number 

 of them were armed, trained, and olli- 

 eered by Europeans. A negro sergeant 



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Political Affairs in May. ' 4.63 



having been seized and i)nt to death by 

 the Asliantees, Sir Charles thought him- 

 self bound to avenge the insult; and in 

 August last, Capt. Laiiis, at the head 

 of A body of tl:e 2d West India regi- 

 ment, and assisted by sonic of the native 

 cliiel's, totally defeated the As'iantees at 

 Assecuma : the result has been, they 

 now came down in more formidable 

 nnriihers ; and 16,000 of them falling in 

 with Sir Cliarles, at the head of 5000 

 men, priiicifially Africans, he sustained 

 his fire until his ammunition was ex- 

 hausted, and then, closing in upon him, 

 they obtained a complete victory. Very 

 few escaped to tell the woeful tale, ami 

 amongst t'i:c missing is Sir Charles hin;- 

 self. ^Tlie battle was fought on the 21st 

 of January, near Sicondee, and lasted 

 from 2 P.M. until 6 p.m. Tiie Ashan- 

 tees, however, sustained a great loss. 

 There were fourteen officers with Sir 

 Charles when the action commenced, 

 and only one, a Liiutenaut Erskine, 

 escaped to tell the tale. Among the 

 slain are some of the principal and 

 oldest merchants at Cape Coast ; as, 

 George Robertson, James Headle, 

 Edwin Jones, and Mr. Teilley, the 

 hinS Surgeon, killed; Capt. L. Les- 

 trange died of fatigue ; Major Rickets 

 severely wounded ; many others, whose 

 names arc unknown, killed ; and many 

 wounded and missing. 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



The judicious measure of publishing 

 the project of a new Constitution, has, 

 it appears, restored traiKjiiillity to nearly 

 the wiiolo of the Erazilian provinces. 

 When first pronuilgaled, the munici- 

 pality of Rio de Janeiro presented a 

 petition to the emperor, soliciting that 

 the new Constitution should be at once 

 adopted as a law of the empire, without 

 the intervention of a Legislative Assem- 

 bly. The emperor assured them of the 

 saiisfaction he felt at receiving such an 

 address, but declined compliance with 

 the prayer contai;icd in it until Jie 

 should be acquainted with the wishes of 

 the other provinces. Since that time, 

 similar petitions had been presented 

 from the whole of the provinces sonth 

 of Pernambuco, and tiie same spirit was 

 conceived to actuHto those to the north- 

 ward ; but a sufficient lime had not 

 elapsed to obtain communications from 

 them. 



The Bogota Gazette states the recall 

 of M. Ravenga, Colombian envoy, here. 

 The Congress was about to commence 

 its session. Lancasterian schools were 

 estabhshing ; and all was tranquil in 

 Colombia. 



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