Advices were received yes...
Advices were received yesterday from Sierra Leonie, dated the 31st of May, by the Circus, D EAN, arrived at Plymouth in 39 days from that colony. A vessel had arrived on the previous d-y from Cape Coast Castle, bringing accounts of the 9th of May, at which time the British were lhard pressed by the Ashantees, and an engagement was very shortly expected to take place. The Ashantee army, which was said to be 20,000 strong, had advanced to Conmerda, within ls miles of Cape Coast Castle. Of the meaus ot. the British Commander to resist so formidable a force, we are very imperfectly informed. Major CHISHOit'S corps con- sisted of about 4,000 Fantees; but that of Captain BLEN- icAANE is not stated. No apprebensions existed, however, of an attack upen the Castle, which mounts 100 guns, ^nd is quite proof against any attack from such an enemy. There are, besides, martello-towers upon two hills, com- manding the approaches on the land side to the Castle, mounted with S21b. carronades. Still the colony at large wzas il the most melancholy unprotected state possible, and all business of course wholly suspended. Reports were current at 8ierra Leone df three attacks on the British by the Ashantees, in which the latter gained the advantage, subsequesit to that most fatal one in which Sir C. M'ARTHY perished; but no details are given.