the Imperial Russian Order of St. Anne, of the first class, which the Emperor Alexander was pleased to conter upon him, as an especial mark of his favour, and in testimony of his aprobation of the manner in which the said Sir Tho as Tyrwhitt discharged the duty of investing His Imperial Majesty with the ensigns of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, in the year 1813: And also to command, that the said royal concession and declaration be registered in His Majesty's College of Arms. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of SEPTEMBER 21, 1824. Whitehall, September 20, 1824. THE King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom to John Lowther, of Swillington, in the west riding of the county of York, Esq. and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. Master of the Horse's-Office, King's-Mews, The King has been graciously pleased to appoint Arthur William FitzRoy Somerset, Esq. Page of Honour to His Majesty in Ordinary. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of OCTOBER 2, Foreign-Office, October 1, 1824. THE King has been pleased to appoint George William Chad, Esq. (now Secretary to His Majesty's Embassy at the Court of the Netherlands), to be His Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Saxony. The King has also been pleased to appoint Charles Townshend Barnard, Esq. to be Secretary to His Majesty's Legation at the Court of Saxony. The King has also been pleased to appoint Andrew Snape Douglas, Esq. (now Secretary to His Majesty's Legation at the Court of the Two Sicilies), to be Secretary to His Majesty's Embassy at the Court of the Netherlands. The King has also been pleased to appoint Gibbs Crawford Antrobus, Esq. (now Secretary to His Majesty's Legation at the Court of Sardinia), to be Secretary to His Majesty's Legation at the .Court of the Two Sicilies. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of OCTOBER 5, Colonial-Office, Downing-Street, DISPATCHES, of which the following are extracts, dated Cape Coast-Castle, 30th of June, 17th and 22d of July, and addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl Bathurst, K. G. have been this day received from Lieutenant-Colonel William Sutherland, of the 2d West India Regiment, and from Lieutenant-Colonel A. Grant, of the Royal African Colonial Corps: Cape Coast-Castle, 30th June 1824. MY communication of the 31st of May, duplicate of which is inclosed herewith, would have informed your Lordship of the state of operations on this Coast to that period, except that I omitted to mention I had recalled the troops into the Castle when, on the desertion of the Fantees, I found it would be useless and imprudent to remain in the field. I have now the honour to make you acquainted with subsequent occurrences to this date. All the prisoners and deserters recently brought in, concur in stating, that Assai Tootoo Quamina, the reigning King, at the commencement of hostilities, had lately died at Coomassie, and that Adoo Assai, his successor and brother, had left Ashantee, accompanied by all the warriers he could muster, with the determination of destroying Cape Coast, and driving the English out of the country; 1824. D d and and in order that I might not plead ignorance of His Majesty's intentions, he did me the honour, soon after his arrival at Fetué, to send a Fetish (sanctified or sacred) boy to our advanced posts with a message, importing that "If the walls of Cape Coast-Castle were not " high enough, I ought to build them higher, andl "if they were not sufficiently furnished with cannon, that I should land those belonging to "the ships of war; but that all could not prevent "his throwing the whole into the sea!" which was of course treated with contempt. After about three weeks of preparation, during which our scouts and small parties were very successful in cutting off the enemy's foraging stragglers, and by frequent alarms, in keeping him constantly on the alert in his camp, thereby preventing his collecting provisions, of which he was very much in want; the above message was followed up by the King's advance from Fetue on the 21st instant with his whole army, to within five miles of the fort, driving in without resistance a party of observation I had left at the Government Garden Hill village, where he established his head quarters. On the 22d he was again in motion and took up an extensive line or chain of posts round great part of the Settlement, distant about three miles, but in bush so thick that it was impossible to judge of his strength except by the extent of his line, or to discover that, or his position otherwise than by the smoke from his fires. On the 23d he advanced so close that he was seen in great force from the Hill-Tower, and a signal was made from thence to that effect. I was consequently in momentary expectation of being attacked-the townsmen were ordered to make all possible resistance; the women, children, provisions, and valuables, were taken for protec tion into the fort, the seamen and marines were landed from His Majesty's ship Victor and mer chant ships in the Roads to man the guns, and every other preparation made for defence-when the enemy, who appeared to have good informa tion of our proceedings hesitated-halted-his resolution seemed to fail him; and although at dusk and during the night he occupied Parson's-Croom (village), within one mile of the fort, he retired early on the 24th to the encampment he had quitted two days before, from whence to the end of the month he contented himself with detaching strong parties to lay waste the country round about, and to burn and destroy all the villages within reach, which he was enabled to do with perfect impunity, my garrison at the time, for both Castle and Tower (independent of a very small unorganized force, in which little dependence could be placed) only amounting to three hundred and sixteen rank and file, many of them very young soldiers, and of whom one hundred and four were in hospital, twelve sick in quarters, thirty-two recruits, twelve boys, exclusive of a few artificers and militia. It is proper I should here make your Lordship acquainted with a circumstance which, during this menaced attack, led to considerable loss of property to several individuals by fire. Some time previous to the approach of the enemy on the 22d, and on that day, I ordered some houses which, within thirty yards, commanded and overlooked the principal ramparts and defences on the land side to be pulled down, to prevent our being driven from our batteries from them by the enemy, and to remove such obstructions to the range of our guns. These re-peated orders were disregarded by the town's-peo-ple, and the garrison was too weak to execute them, I considered it, therefore, my duty (when on D. d. 2 the |