An " Ex-M.P." writes to the Times, telling how Colonel
Hill, now Governor of Newfoundland, in 1853, finding that 20,000 Ashantees had invaded British territory, raised an army of 150 whites and 20,000 Fantees, and proposed to attack the Ashantees on the English side of the Prah. Beftire attacking, however, he gave the Ashantees twenty-four hours to recross the river, and 'the Ashantees, who had fought the Fantees for ages, became so demoralised that they accepted it. " Ex-M.P." is a very impertinent person, and Governor Hill ought at once to repudiate this attack upon his sanity. Both ought to know by this time that a Fantee, or any other negro of the West Coast not an Ashantee, is a coward, a rascal, and a fool, who ought to be kept in slavery and whipped every morning, till he sees the advantage of carrying an overweight of baggage, under blows from sheathed swords, for troops too careless to provide him rations. That is his proper 'position, conclusively established by all evidence, and especially by the palpable fact that he did not run away during the five days' hard-fighting which preceded the capture of Coomassie.
