Staunton Spectator, And General Advertiser

From the African Repository

DEATH OF GOV. FINLEY.

The brig Mail, recently from Liberia, brings the melancholy news of the death of Governor Finley, of the Mississippi colony.

A letter received by a gentleman in this country from James Brown, acting agent of the Mississippi colony, gives the following particulars:

"About the 10th of September, the Governor left Greenville for Monrovia, on business as well as for his health. On his way he attempted to visit Bassa Cove. Landing about two miles below the settlement, he was robbed and murdered by the natives.

The Governor seems to have placed too much confidence in a native whom he had with him, and to whom he exposed the fact of his having a sum of money about him—The faithlessness of this fellow, in disclosing the circumstance of the money, no doubt occasioned the murder.

The death of the Governor seems to have led to a war between the natives and the settlers of Bassa Cove, who had one or two of their people killed, and several wounded, and several of their houses destroyed.

We regret to hear of any occurrence calculated to disturb the peaceful relations existing between the colonists and natives; and await with much anxiety a full report of all the circumstances attending this unhappy affair."