The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-01 00:00:00

by the lonians with the utmost sorrow and re.-1
Bret, for they certainly loved and respected him.'
'We understand that his remains were buried in
the same bastion, at.. Malta,
_which contains the
ashes of the memorable Sir'Ralph Abercrombie.
In the Greek 'churches a Katafalco was raised to
his honour, and regular funeral ceremonies per-.
formed, amongst which. the oration most-deserv-
ing notice
.was-rernarkable for the effect it had
On the hearers.. I send you a translation. The
Orator was Count Sparadin Bulgari-,• a-nobleman
of onelof the first families of .
[Extract of a Letter from'Getioa of the.P.ltit inst..j
" Positive intelligence has just been received,
that several 'armed vessels with signals .of' war,
have sailed from the port of Algiers, and that
their crews, previous to their 'departure, an-
nounced openly, that they were going to chase
all
-Spanish vessels they could meet with. The
Algerine populace thronged to the
.port in crowds

to witness the departure of the tessets, and hail-
ed them with repeated cheers. The Barbarians
boast that they will soon cliace the vessels of
other nations from which they expect. valuable
1 booty."
Aftwun, FEB. 16.—A convention has been
' concluded between .ti,ieFrench arid Spanish Go-
Verntnents, in 'virtue of Which, France will hare
' a free trade to the llavannah for a certain titoe.
A. multitude of rumours are in circulation. It
I".'i is said that some it lgerine-vessels have effe.cted a
4
lauding near Malaga, and Montril, where they
!:s Nye made a rich bootY,. arid. .carried off some
Wealthy. individuals. It is rumoured' that, upon
the same points, the English have disembarked
considerable quantity of arms.,
It is said that the. definitive treaty for the
occupation of Spain has been signed for .4 years ;
40,000
men will remain in the country, and the
Spanish. Government will pay France c 2,000,000
,4 francs per• month, which will form the immense
ttmount of 96 millions.

By a decree of the King of the Netherlands,
dated February 10, the Regeocy of Brussels has
been re-organized.

CITy, Twelve o'Clock.--Consols opened this
morning at 931,-4 and soon after were done at 94,
hut again declined to 931-78- for the Account; and
for Money 9311, with a very brisk market, and a
great deal of business doing, particularly in the
Money Market for to-morrow.
The Express frotp Paris brings' the French
Rentes at 3 o'clock on Saturday, 100 f. SOc., and
at 4 o'clock.,,lolf. 25c.--Spanish 244.
—l,l-tyit-tio,..l.lkelAnitn-.LThe above Market oPen:,
• ed this morning in Mexican Scrip at 7i. to 8, and
went up to 91. Greek is in request at 3.. There
was also some business in most of the Foreign
•, Securities.

•We have undertaken to account for the extra-
ordinary assumption that has been put forth by,
. .
the 'spuriOus school in Petitical Economy, and
which has been so solemnly sanCtioned,notwith-
t

standing its utter fallacy, by a.Committee of the
:House of Commons, viz. " That the, principk of

Pree Trade is universally admittedtobe correct."
llow such an assertion could pass unsontroierted
the walls of Parliament, is indeed-stir-
,
prising' when we' consider thatit is so few years
since Parliament was the theatre of a successful
struggle on the
part of the Landed Interest for
the creation of the
present restrictive, or rather
• prohibitory la-xs, against the importation of
foreign and colonial corn, and when we con-
Sider- that not a Session has since passed
over without a renewal of the conflict be-
tween the theoretical advocates of the ge-
neral principle, and one or more of the classes
of practical men whose interests are endangered
by the threatened application of the general
Principle to their particular concerns ! It is
true that-the Members of the Legislature, in de-
termining to exclude foreign agricultural produce
from an unrestricted competition with the produce
or our own soil, and in thus boldly setting aside
that general :prinCiple which has become. so
fashionable 7 were induced to come to that wise
and salutary decision, which was then ably con-
tended for even by the present CHANCELLOR of
the Excnr.etrEit himself, •because they were all
so thoroughly acquainted with the tnerits•of the
particular case made out. for the Agriculturists,
as to be perfectly convinced that the application
of the general Principle to their concerns, must
be attended by the inevitable ruin of the culti-
yators and proprietors of the soil, and through
them, of the best interests and the safety of the
stale. Very well ! We' of course admit without
hesitation that the particular merits of the case
Inade,out for the Agriculturists constituted a full
and complete exception to the general principle.
"'Jut the. establishment of tile exception at once
SUbTertsthe universality of the rule, and proves.
that •
legislation ought in no Case to proceed upon
the genera! principle, but in all cases upon the