The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

Distressing News from Africa.

By the arrival of the brig Oswego, at Boston, we learn that when she left Mesurado, the American colonists at Monrovia, (Africa.) were nearly all sick of the fever. The Oswego took out 61 settlers from Baltimore, who were all landed in good health, but who previous to her sailing had died: and nearly all those remaining were sick of the fever, and it was not probable that twenty will survive the present season. It has been most lamentable--that all the American settlers who have gone to Africa, have chosen the most unfavorable season; arriving just at the commencement, or in the midst of the rainy season, they are almost sure to sicken and die. Doctor Ayres, who went out in the Oswego to assume the government of the Colony, was taken sick a few days after he arrived, and was left very ill when the Oswego sailed. The Rev. Mr. Ashmun had partially recovered from his late illness. A gentleman who came passenger in the Oswego, also informs us, that the Fort erected at Monrovia, Africa, for the protection of the American Colony, by Captain Spence, officers and crew of the Cyane, disappeared in the tornado; the foundation being placed on rough logs, the walls, although of considerable height and of great weight, gently rolled away before the wind--and scarcely a vestige of the fort remains.