The Ashantee Expedition has ended well. Sir Garnet Wolseley finding,
on February 6, that the King would neither negotiate nor come in, and that the rivers were rising behind him, burnt down Coomassie, blew up the King's palace, sent the Europeans home, and informed the King that he should halt on the Adansi Hills for his submission. To his own astonishment, it came. Captain Glover, with the despised allies, had fought his way to within fourteen miles of Coomassie, and the King, who was skulking about, with three of his tribes already in mutiny, feared a final.disaster, sent in 1,000 oz. of gold as first instalment of the indemnity, and offered to sign any conditions required, if Glover were ordered to retire. Captain Glover had sent on Captain Sartorius as his envoy to the General, and his messenger, after a romantic march of nearly fifty-five miles, right through Coomassie, which he found deserted, rejoined head-quarters. Sir -Garnet accordingly sent the order to Captain Glover to retire, and a draft treaty, by the King's messenger, and it was believed that the beaten barbarian would yield at once.
