The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-09 00:00:00

the prosecution, in the affair of General DER..
TON, terminated on the. 4th instant:at Poictiers,
but the details possess little interest.

FRENCH FUNDS.—SEPT. 6.
Five per Cents. Opened at
Highest
Closed at 94 f. 70 c.
Bank Stock 1636 f- 95 c.
Exchange on London—One Month 25 f. 45 c.
Three Months 25 1. 35 c.

A Lisbon mail arrived on Saturday with letters
and papers to the 25th ukt. inclusive. No men-
tion is made of the state of the negotiation for
the loan contract. The troops, known by the
last mail to have been embarked for Bahia, re-
mained on board, where they have continued
eleven days, and were still without orders for
proceeding to their destination. It was inferred
from thence by some, that the object of the ex-
pedition was about to be abandoned ; but the
tone of the Ministry, who were constantly
urging decisive measures, furnished, with others,
,a conclusive argument against' that supposition,
and led to the belief that the delay arose solely
from the intention of strengthening the armament.
The new bank of Lisbon commenced its transac-
tions on the 25th ultimo. On the 17th there was
read in the Cartes a letter from the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, containing a note from the
British Charge d'Affaires, demanding the suspen-
sion of the additional duty of 15 per cent.
on British woollens. It was referred to the
Special Committee on that subject. At the
same sitting it was stated that the accounts
brought by a Portuguese brig, in 64 days, from
the province of Alagoas, in Brazil, showed that
province to be perfectly tranquil : the dispatch
from the Provincial Junta- of Para, and those
from the Government of. Alagoas, expressed the
perfect adherence of the inhabitants to the
mother country, and their firm resolution to pre-
serve inviolite their oath to the constitution of
the Cortes.

We received some American Papers this morn-
ing, but none of a later date than those which
have before come to hand. , •
The Democratic Press states, on the authority of information
from Charleston, that, in consequence of the Negro plot recently
detected in that place, a law will be proposed, and probably
passed, in the next Session of the Legislature of South Caro-
lina, prohibiting any Slave or coloured person from being taken
out of the State, or any, coloured person from any of these States
from residing in South Carolina.
[From the Richmond Compiler.]
The drought in the surrounding country, particularly north
and west of us, is blighting in the most destructive manner our
corn crops. Should this severe drought continue4and sweep bare
districts of country, the short crop, together with the door which
is now opened in the West Indies for. Indian corn, free of duty,
will ensure an important advance of price.

The low and disgusting language in which. some
of the Whigs have indulged since the .death of the
Marquis of LONDONDERRY, continues to be ,ob-
truded on the public.—We insert an extract from
the Chronicle of this morning .(see " London
Journals "), for the . purpose of enabling our
Readerato judge for themselves of the extremely
despicable and disgraceful spirit by which the
organs of the Whigs are at present distinguished,
and of the insolent and presumptuous tone in
Which the first Authorities of the State, in-
cluding even his MAJESTY himself, are alluded
to by scribblers, whose style of writing alone
furnishes abundant proof of their own deficiency
in the qualifications and feelings of Gentlemen.—
Thus, we. have " the-Ministers, and their
,Royal',
Head,"" bickering" as to the choice: of the "in-
dividual" who is to fill the " redoubtable office"
in-the House of Commons recently filled by Lord
LoNritornEttßY.Who told this writer that the
KING has been bickering-with his Ministers !—lt
would be .useless. to animadvert upon the ten-
dency of this very unwarrantable language !

The Letters of SIDNEY on the ROMAN CA-
TpoLic Question, which appeared in THE, UN,
have been copied into THE ANTIDOTE, a Dublin
Paper, instituted by that intrepid Champion for
Protestantism, Sir ' HARCOURT LEES. We are
glad to find that the Author of SIDNEY'S Letters
is collecting them, in order to publish them to-
gether; as they constitute such a body of argu-
ments, facts, and illustrations, as ought to be in
the hands of all who are sincerely anxious for
the preservation of our happy Establishment in
Church and State. As SIDNEY is well qualified
to write on political at well as ecclesiastical sub-
jects, we hope to gratify our Readers with his
future correspondence on the present extraordi-
nary situation of the general affairs of Europe.

PROTESTANT BURYING GROUND tN ROME.
In consequence of ail article in the Courier of
Saturday, the 31st of August, inserted from the official Ga-
zette of Rome, the Diario di Ronui, of the 3d August, it is re-
quested that another article may be also inserted which has
since appeared upon the same subject, in the same paper, to-
gether with the, following statement.
Immediately upon the publication of the _Mario of the 3d
August, a complaint was made at Rome, representing the
truths and. injustice of its remarks upon the statement said to
have been made in the English House of peers, on the second
reading of the Roman Catholic Peers Bill; And thereupon the
Roman Government caused the following article to be inserted
in its Diario of the 14th August :
" It has been observed by some persons, that the precise ex-
" pressions are not to be found In the. English Papers which
" we translated from the Joutnal des Debats of the 25t15,0f last
" June, and inserted in No. 62 of our Diario, as having been
" used by the Noble Lord in the English House of Peers upon
" the second reading of the Bill to admit Roman Catholic
"'Peers into ,that House. In this case, We rejoice that the
" Noble Lord, who in other respects is worthy of the highest
" esteem, should not Itave expressed himself in the terms W,
" ported in the Journal des _Wats ; and actuated by those
" sentiments of justice and impartiality on which we value our-
" selves, we think it our duty to make this statemen't."
The fact asserted in debate was, that the Court of Rome had
refused protection to the Protestant tombs which' havo been
erected within the walls of Rome, referring at the same time to
the distinguished persons to whom that refusal was given ;
and that refusal is not denied by the article of the 3d August ;
but according to later accounts it appears that the Roman Go-
vernment is now at last taking measures towards protecting the
existing tombs, by an enclosure, which it had hitherto refused
to allow.

The Belfast News Letter of Friday last con-
tains an advertisement for the sale of all the
effects of the Bishop of CLOGHER, without re-
serve, at the Palace of Clogher, viz. cattle, car-
riages, farming utensils, furniture, wines, &c. &c.
to a very considerable amount of valuable ar-
ticles.

The Duke of York arrived in town yesterday
at twelve o'clock, from Brighton. His Royal
Highness afterwards paid a visit to his MAJESTY.
The LORD COANCELLOR and the Earl of
WESTMORLAND had audiences of the KIND
on