MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
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CHAPTER III. 
Proceedings and Incidents until the Third Dispatch to Cape Coast 
Castle. 
Cape Coast Castki Jtine 21, 1817' 
Sib., 
IVIr. James being ordered to return here as soon as possible, will 
deliver you his instructions, and you will immediately on receipt 
of this letter, take upon yourself the management of the Mission. 
I have every reliance on your prudence and discretion, and still 
firmly hope that the termination of the Embassy will be attended 
with success, and that the sanguine expectations which we have 
entertained as to the result of it, will not be disappointed. 
The King has received a very erroneous impression of the affair 
of the Fantee notes, which I regret to hear was the cause of a 
serious disturbance : I am glad however to find that by your 
|irompt mode of conduct, you were in some measure able to repress 
the unfavourable bias it seems to have occasioned, and I have no 
doubt that an explanation of the circumstance will effectually 
remove any remaining prejudice. This transaction was entirely 
between the Ashantee messengers and Fantees, negociated, and 
determined on by them at Abrah, and afterwards ratified here by 
their mutual consent. Hearing that messengers from the King 
were at Abrah, I invited them down, wishing through their medium 
to communicate with him concerning the conveyance of the pre- 
