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It is with feelings of sincere regret we have to announce to our readers the death of Mrs., wife to the Governor of Cape Coast Castle, which most suddenly and unexpectedly occurred in that settlement on the 15th of October. The Courier of Tuesday says:

"The feeling with which we record this mournful intelligence at the commencement of a new year, will be respected when we state that only yesterday morning we received from Mrs. Maclean a most affecting and interesting letter, which sets forth at once with the animating assertion, ‘I am very well, and very happy.’ ‘The only regret,’ she proceeds to say, ‘the only regret (the emerald ring that I ﬂing into the dark sea of life to propitiate Fate) is the constant sorrow I feel whenever I think of those whose kindness is so deeply treasured.’ She says that her residence at the castle of Cape Coast is ‘like living in the Arabian Nights—looking out upon palm and cocoa-nut trees.’ And she then enters into a light hearted and pleasant review of her housekeeping troubles, touching yams and plantains—and not less interesting account of her literary labors and prospects; intimating that the ship which brought the letter we quote, brought also the first volume of a novel, and the manuscript of another work to be published periodically. To the last, her friendly gossip is full of life, cheerfulness and hope. The next ship that sailed—how very, very soon afterward!—brought to us the tidings of the sacrifice of that life, the memory of which should be dear to all who can appreciate poetry, and wit, and generosity, the refinements of taste and the kindly impulses of the heart, that makes human nature—and woman‘s nature especially—most worthy to be regarded with admiration and affection."

The following is copied from a periodical paper called the, ‘Watchman,’ of Wednesday, and adds to the regrets which the loss of one so gifted, in the prime of life, must under any circumstances excite:

We have been furnished with the following extract from a letter of the Rev. Thomas Freeman, Wesleyan missionary at Cape Coast, containing the announcement of this calamitous event. The sympathies of a large portion of the public, as well as of her immediate friends, will be awakened by the circumstances of the death of this talented and estimated lady: