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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
I hope the King of England will now let all foreign vessels come 
to the coast to trade, and you must say that the path is now clear 
to do as much English trade as your supplies will allow. 
The following letter was sent after me, to Doompassie. 
Coomassie^ 23d September, 1817 ' 
John Hope Smith, Esq. Governor in Chief, &c. &c. &c. 
Sir, 
The King of Ashantee desires me to request you will write to all 
the Governors of English forts, on the African coast, to order the 
caboceers of each town, to send a proper person to Cape Coast, 
and that you will add one messenger yourself ; that they may all 
proceed to Coomassie to take the King^s fetish in his presence, 
that none may plead ignorance of the Treaty concluded between his 
Majesty and the British nation. 
The King wishes me to express, that he is fully satisfied with 
the objects of the Mission, and that the Treaty may be read by 
me to all the Fantee deputies you may send for that purpose. 
I am, &c. &c. 
(Signed) W. HUTCHISON. 
My last private letters from Cape Coast Castle had imposed the 
most painful anxiety ; the two lives naturally beyond all others the 
dearest to me, were imminently endangered by the seasoning illness 
of the country ; one yielded to it before 1 could arrive, yet, under 
all the impatience of my affliction, I must confess, when I took 
