• - Sir Garnet Wolseley's report to Lord Kimberley on.
the battle
of Amoaful, or Accromboo, was published on Friday. It is short, straightforward, and soldierlike. Sir Garnet confirms our guess that the King had carefully deceived the Missionaries, but adds that the statements he received made no difference to his pre- parations. He was obliged to halt for supplies, and did halt, and " must frankly confess that so far as he had allowed himself for an instant to suppose that an Ashantee monarch's solemn promises were of the smallest value, he was hopelessly in error." The whole negotiation was one treacherous plot, the King assur- ing his envoys he would not resist, while he was gathering his whole force on Amoaful, where General Wolselei found the resistance of the Ashantees, thanks to the impenetrable, charicter of the bush, ." more serious than he Could have conceived possible' He, how- ever, inflicted a complete defeat, reduced the attack- on his rear to a mere "inconvenience," pressed forward against a timid resistance towards Cooinassie, and hoped before nightfall . of the 2nd - to reach the city, which, however, he did not entei. till .the 4th, after two _ days' more of fighting. Beyond this point we- have only rumour, but Sir • Garnet's profound irritation wjth the King and his treacheries render the rumour of the arrest more than probable. It would appear that the Staff received_ one important warning from Mr. Dawson, a missionary still kept in Coomaasie, who sent the General an ordinary message of thanks for some money,
ending with a reference to a verse in Corinthians. This was taken for an ordinary formula, but when the verse was read, it was found to end with the words, "For we are not ignorant of their devices."
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