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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
me. I repeated my declarations to iidoooee, and added, that I 
should not think of leaving a Resident, if such were the forms of 
the Ashantee Court. The Ashantee messengers declared that you 
had ordered your letters to be delivered to the King. I said that 
was impossible. The King was very gentle, but such was the sus* 
picion of the assembly, that they requested me to swear on my 
sword, that 1 had not altered any part of your letter ; I did so, 
prefacing the act as such a suspicion merited. I then read your 
letter, abating nothing of its spirit and firmness, and laying stress 
upon your disposition to benefit the King, and the proofs you had 
given. I concluded my illustrations with the declaration, that you 
did not settle the King's palaver from fear, but from friendship, as 
it remained with him to prove. I submitted the preliminaries in 
form, for rejection or acceptance. After an ardent debate among 
the captains, they were executed and attested, and I lose no time 
in forwarding the copy. I left a duplicate with the King, as I 
shall of the treaty . 
The King intends to dispatch a messenger directly to empower 
Adoo Bradie to receive the gold, and hopes you will recommend 
the people of Commenda to restore any of the slaves in their pos- 
session belonging to Elmina, although that is not his palaver. 
The King desired me to communicate his best thanks for your 
handsome treatment of his nephew, whose reports have been very 
flattering. 
I urged my intercessions for Quamina Bootaqua, until the King 
vouchsafed me his assurance that he would pardon him. 
I have the satisfaction to inform you, that I have been able, 
privately, so far to conciliate the Moors, as to have witnessed their 
forwardance of the certificates* to the Interior, with their own letters 
of recommendation indorsed. 
* For a copy of these certificates vide the opposite engraving. 
