MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
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sure, we shall console ourselves in our reluctant change of pursuit^ 
by the satisfaction of our own minds of the honourable zeal of our 
motives. 
We most respectfully solicit our recall, as we cannot implicate 
our character and our responsibilitj with Mr. James's judgment 
md perseverance in prosecuting the Mission, of the consummation 
of which we cannot agree to despond. We could not reconcile 
ourselves to the sacrifice of one of its important objects to our per- 
sonal apprehensions (supported as we are by authority and circum- 
stances) whilst the recollection of the illustrious energies of an 
enterprising traveller, forlorn and destitute, appeals to our spirit, 
and impresses the expectations of our country. We are, &c. 
(Signed) 
T. EDWARD BO WDICH. 
W. HUTCHISON. 
HENRY TEDLIE. 
Coomassie, Mat/ 24, 18 17. 
To THE Governor and Council, Cape Coast Castle. 
Gentlemen, 
The act our former letter has avowed, and we would presume 
(after the most deliberate reflection) to add justified, has made it 
our duty to communicate (independently of Mr. James) the circum- 
stances of the interval we may aw^ait your pleasure. 
If this duty had not been imposed on us by the act in question, 
the imminent fatality engendered in the debate of to day, and 
quickened by the ardor of the captains^ would have demanded 
from our private as well as our public feelings, the most energetic 
representations (as auxiliary to those of Mr, James^) in impressing 
