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... lordships by Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, K C B. commander-in-chief of her Majesty's forces on the West eoast of Africa, announcing that war had, in the month of February last, been declared against the Chiefs of Galli- nas; andthathp, the said commodore ...
... analysis The real state is to be found in the three facts which we have often had occasion to expatiate upon. Ist. The war Africa is an embarrassment, and no longer a danger. 2ndly. Colonizing by means of the native population is a chimera. 3rdly. A ...
... THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. By her Majesty's sloop Contest, 12, Commander m Archibald M acinurdo, just arrived at Spithead from nm the west coast of Africa, we are in receipt of intelli- in gence from the slave-coast to the 11th July, and from T. tuie more ...
... SEIZURE OF AN ENGLISH BRIG BY A PORTUGUESE MAX-OF-WAR. (From the Liverpool Mail.) Considerable sensation, mingled with little indignation, has been created in this town amongst the merchants engaged the African trade, by the illegal seizure, by a Portuguese ...
... FRANCE.—Steamers on the West Coast of Africa.—The ilonitcur states that contracts for the delivery of English coal at the differeut points on the west coast Africa will be adjudged the 29th instant. The places and quantities are :—Goree, 2,500 000 ki ...
... spot, from Records in the Archives of Switzerland. By Wandering Artist. 2 vols, post Bvo. 18s. cloth. Contents: The Nuns' War; the War of Two Abbots (Rcichenan and St. Gall); the Passage of the Great St. Bernard; and Bertha, Queen of Transjurane Burgundy ...
... are at the present moment eight French steam-frigates the Mediterranean: the Asmodee, the Descartes, the Infernal, with their war complement; the Labrador, the Albatros, the Orenoque, the Panema, and Montezuma, with demi-complement. These steamers are scarcely ...
... when menaced by war or revolt, but it does not govern. It would be a difficult task for us to point out among the existing branches of the ministry, one that could claim as a right, the inheritance which appertains to the Minister of War ; many of them ...
... years ago the government of Brazil allowed a survey of part of the Amazons to be executed by the commander of & French man-of-war, although the Treaty of Utrecht would have warranted refusal to admit the ship into the waters of that river. An attempt made ...
... prove that serious risk will be occasioned to iron vessels of war when exposed to the chance of being struck by heavy shot, it is doubtful if the board will not abolish them as men of war. The Fantome, 16, Siren, 16, and Ardent, Spitjire, Locust, and ...
... of the Accountant-General of th Navy) the vessel* employed on the west coast Africa 1845, was 291,601/.; of the vessels uot employe#, exclusively on the west coast of Africa, 414,953/.; total, 706,454/. The items of wear and tear. stores, coals ...
... naval force at Vera Cruz, consisting of four first-class frigates of 60 guns each, and of war, mounting altogether nearly 400 guns, there is but one English vessel of war there, the Rose, 18, Commander Pelly. Indeed, the whole of the British naval force on ...