The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-19 00:00:00

TAH FUND!.

It will bet sem tinitheStockscoollnon to fall. We
ere pomaded that the perspicooos aye of the mdoeyed
politician, draws some omens front • distance, as
well es from affairs at home, which together ac-
count for the present gloominess of his complesioa.
Whet lever and folchrum will ever aria raise this
mighty weight of England's fate we know not ; tiara
Mr. PITT'S oratory is nn more, and English credo.
AV, is nearly osbaested.

We extract the following from the Canada sad
Nova Sepsis Paper•, received on saterday :
`• You (U. C.), Fso.4s.—Mr. GOURLAT hie.
ing been committed to jail, mutant to lb. provi-
sions of an Art of the 44th of the King. applied
shortly after his committal for a Writ of Habeas
Corpus; hoping, perhaps, that it would be refused
his; bet it was granted, and by virtue of it he was
broeght from Niagara to York, to lay his caebefo►e
the Chief Jostler, wbo had lamed the Writ. That
Magistrate basing decided that she order to Mr.
GOURLAT to welt the province, and his imprison.
lama on refusal to do an, were strictly conformable
to the Statute, he was remanded to prison et Nia-
gara. While Mr. Comma was at York he resided
at Mr. POULIOT'S inn.

" HALIFAX, MAIM 13.—A very neaserees and re-
opectable Meeting of the Inhabitants of ibis town was
held at the Etching. Cole*Amuse on Saturday last,
GtORGL: Gamic, F.q. is the Chair. It was re-
solved eaanimoasly, that the Legisistere be petition-
ed to authorise the establishment of a Reek In Hali-
fax : that 50,0001. be the capital, to be invested in
the British Fends: that notes to the esnoeut of
150,0001. be isreed by the Bank : that the shares be
1001. each, and every Ere shares, according to a
elanification, entitled to a vote: that the Beak be
sethorised to pay notes presented, either in specie,
provincial paper, or bills of rid:sage 0/1 London, at
the curtest rate. A Committee was tehn eppoloted
to prepare the Petition, and mks it to be presented
to the Leeislatere. The Gentlemen present imme-
diately afterwards unanimously agreed to give to the
doubloon the value of 41. end to the eeetreign the
value of 11. 2s. sd. currency. The Mottles then ad-
journed.
" A 13111 hes pined the Nen Seeds Rouse of
Assembly to regulate marriage licences. According
to Its provisions, any Clergyman of any religious
persuasion is authorised to solemnise matrimony, if
he has been chosen by his eengrepstioe sod regclarly
ordained. Some of the Members objected to it on the
ground that sects were multiplying se rapidly, and
ordination obtained in so easy a manner, that they
apprehended great mischief 'veld inerisably result.
In the same Assembly there base been some debates
en the increace of tasation—additional duties on
goods imported by non-resident persons—on sales
by auction—on brandy and gin, tobacco, wines, se-
perfine Boer, and piaster of Paris are proposed.
" NLW Viva, Fre 13.—1 n 'looking the moralise
of General A. T. Mason, by Mr. John MiGarty,
the Georgetown Messenger states, that they fought
with muskets at the distance of only twelve fed,
and add lba aggravating circumsteoce, that they were
not only related to each other, bet doubly related,
they were catmint and brother s•imlato —the widow of
General Meson the sitter of his murderer! The
Editor severely censuses the persons acting is se-
conds, and closes his article with these remarks:—
' In short, there is bat one opinion, bet one senti--,
must on Ow subject. The public marks with its in.
Amities the conduct of all the perpetrators in thee
act, which bas so outraged humanity, and which has'
Geed tech i stigma on the national character. This
feeling is jolt, and it is necessary, if we do not wish
to sink not oily ie the opinion .1 the world, bet, he
fact, from a liberal and high-minded People, to
brutal and ferocious barbarians.' "—(., uelocc Ga.
:Me.)
" One of the drollest acts of a leri.latire hotly
recorded in the annals of Government is the fallow.,
ing Resolotion, passed by the House of aepresents- '
lives of Rhode !stood Wh , on the Gib of
May, 1817, a gross limit was offered to the Chief
Magistrate of this State by music LPICHIONI to the
United States troops stationed in the buboes of
Newport: Resolved, therefore, that a Committee'
be appointed to investigate and report the Refs con-
vected with such Insult, in eider that such steps may
be taken by this Gowan' Assembly as will elaineebe
the honour and dignity of the State. "—(11e111faa
Free Press, March 16.)
"M Asoe.G r a tkAL Jecason.—This distlegeithed
hero was honoured at Baltimore, on Monday last,
with a greed military parade and peblk dleoef.-
Asnoag the toasts we select the following, as baths
a distinct bearing so the object of the Meetings—
." Geweral JAeason. who. like she Certkeeeeisa warder;
posed the prohibited broads et Ho away se et.ne with hies sit
Insist. and like HaaaraAL, eletaelaea M the field, demised to
be resulted In theists's..

" After this toast win pronounced, Getters!
JACILioN rose sod said, • What 1 hare dose, Sh,
was for my wont ry. (:onsclosis that tun first object
of my heart bar ever been to advance nor prosperity
and happiness; to receive the approbation of Toy rel.
low.ciiitens is to me a source of the higheßt golf.
icstio•—it is the proudest reward of a sotdier. Not
only my public act', but my private chancier, boy,
Woo assailed. I tom been charged with personal
mercenary views In occupying Florida. I stern to
answer so degrading an micossiion. It is as base as
It is absurd, and could only originate in bosoms ae-
sthete of every manly rinse. I have no fear bet
ray notary will do se justice. I pow, Sir, beg
leave to give yes—
The Itib and 13sher Repiegther. IRI4, the any, eg, *meth
Freese, detested she Compere.. or Fwar..te, ro.ll nadler the
hrserd unease ef She as., •pangled banner, east baltmere
m Iseendrar)