The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-23 00:00:00

embargo was laid on the shipping in the harbour
of Rio, which continued till the 21st, when the
Laconia transport, on board of which the six ar-
rested deputies and their families had been plac-
ed, sailed with sealed orders not to be opened till
her arrival in a certain latitude. As thisyessel had
been supplied with provisions for five months,
her destination, which was given out to be Havre
de Grace, was generally supposed to be some far
more distant port ; and some of the conjectures
name that of Goa in the East Indies. The de-
parture of the democratic members was followed
by a proclamation from the Minister of Police,
affixed in all the public streets, offering a reward
of 400 milreas (about 1001.) to any person who
would enable him to prosecute to conviction the
authors of certain placards reflecting on the
recent conduct of the Government ; offering,

at the same time, to conceal the names o

the informers, and to observe strict secrecy

in the prosecution.

This proclamation

"had

struck more alarm into the inhabitants than

any other act of the EMPEROR : in a country
where for a small bribe persons could be found
ready to swear any thing, no one felt himself
secure against a secret prosecution. On the
day after this proclamation the only public

journal which remained in opposition to the 'Go-
vernment, gave notice that the publication could
no longer be continued. It was not till the
25th that the troops arrived from the canton-
ments at St. Christovas, in which they had
been placed by the EMPEROR'S order. Amidst
all the events above related, nothing had occur-
red which could denote to what the future views
of the EMPEROR tended ; and the only circum-
stance which could warrant the suspicion of a
secret design to effect a re-union with Portugal,
was his having received from the King of FRANCE
the grand crosses of the Iloly Ghost and
of St. Michael, addressed to him as " Prince Re-
gent of PoßruciAL," and which decorations,
though he had not ventured to 'exhibit them in
public, he was understood to have accepted.
Intelligence was received at Rio on the 9.211 of
November, of the taking of Monte Video by the
Brizilian troops.

With the letters by the creole, we have re-
ceived a copy of the financial expose of GANA,
the Minister for that department before the re-
cent change ; but we understand that all his
views on that subject have been adopted by his
successor.

CITY, lizettive o'Clock.—Consols opened this
morning at 8911, and got up to 8948, but up to
this hour they are 8984 for the Account, and for
Money 898, with a Market looking towards a
rise.—We do not expect any Expresses from
Paris this morning, owing to its being a strict
Holiday in that Capital.
FOREIGN NlARKET.—Spanish Bonds opened at
241, to 24. i., at which price they remain steady,
with little doing. Most business is doing iu the
Mexican. Loan this morning.

On Monday Mr. MosttoE, the KING'S Mes-
senger, arrived at the Foreign Office, Downing-
street, with dispatches from the Right Hon. Sir
CHARLES BAGOT, our Ambassador at St. Peters-
burgh, from which place he made his journey in
less than three weeks.

Wednesday Mr. Secretary CANNING transacted
business at the Foreign Office.
Tuesday a Board of the Lords of the Trea-
sury was held at the Treasury Office, Whitehall.
THE ARTS.—The fine Portrait of HIS MA-
JESTY, in domestic retirement, painted by Sir
THOMAS LAWRENCE, which we noticed some time
ago, has been engraved by Mr. TURNER.—It is
one of the finest pictures that ever issued from
the pencil of that great Artist, and the most
correct and animated representation of our
august Sovereign which has ever appeared. We
are glad that the Portrait was assigned to this
Engraver, as no Artist of the present day, in his
department, is better qualified to render full
justice to the admirable original.
GENERAL ROTTEN.—Various false reports had
been spread in Switzerland, the native land of
ROTTEN, the late Governor of Barcelona, re-
specting either the conduct of that brave man,
when in the Spanish service, or the mode of his
reception and treatment in the territory through,
which, or the canton in which he intends to re-
side. A Swiss paper contradicts these reports
in the following article .—" It has been said
that the General had been conducted like a pri-
soner through Savoy, that he had brought home
with him a considerable fortune, and that he had
behaved with great cruelty towards the monks
when he commanded in Spain. The very accu-
rate information of which we are in possession,
enables us to refute these reports, and to assure
our readers that General Rotten experienced no
molestation in his way from Genoa to Sion ; that
he was every where treated with the regard due to
his rank and merits in the Sardinian states ; that he
reached his native country with a trifling sum ;
and that, from a feeling of delicacy, he did not
even demand the arrears of his pay, which
amounted to 80,000 francs of French money. It
is equally false that he was guilty of the cruelties
ascribed to him, such as ordering monks to be
put in sacks and thrown into the sea. So far was
he from manifesting a spirit of this kind, that his
conduct was generally indulgent ; that he did
much good to the poor; that he never evinced
any severity, except when urged by duty, and
acting Within the limits of Jaw.