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Essay On A King.
the }' ' will love one another . —Their faults are of greater latituue than other men ' s , and their falls more irrecoverable ; for-which- reason there is no medium to be found betwixt Nebuchadnezzar as a king , and afterwards as a beast . —To conclude , as a king is a person . of the greatest power , he is likewise subject to the greatest cares ; the man therefore that honours him not is next thing to an atheist , wanting the fear of God in his heart .
The Iron Mask.
THE IRON MASK .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE
SIR , AFTER all the conjectures that have been promulgated respecting the Man in the Iron Mask , I think the account inserted in your last Number bears the strongest marks of veracity . That the prisoner was of the blood-royal of France ( as there asserted ) seems confirmed by a learned and eloquent advocate of the last Parliament of Paris . It is but justice to saythat what follows is taken from the
, European Magazine , Vol . XXI . p . 424 . "In the MS . Memoirs of M . De La Reinterie , at present in the possession of the Marquis of Mesmon Romance at Paris , the Marquis says , That when he commanded in the fortress of Pignerol , a prisoner who was confined in the citadel of that place one day shut the door of his room with great violence upon the officer who waited upon
him , and ran immediatel y down stairs , in order to escape ' from his confinement ; he was , however , stopped by the centinel at the bottom of the stairs . The officer in the mean time cried out from the window , that the prisoner was making his escape , and requested the assistance of the garrison . The officer upon guard immediately came up and laid hold of the prisonerwho was scuffling with the centinel . The
, officer drew his sword , and the prisoner cried out , in a very commanding tone of voice , Songez a ce que vous faites Monsieur : Respectez le sang de vos Souverains— "Take care what you do , sir : respect the blood of your sovereigns . "—In the mean time the officer who had been locked in came down stairs , and , on hearing what the prisoner had said , put his hand upon his mouth , and desired all the persons
present never to mention what they had heard the prisoner say ; who was immediately reconducted to his old apartment , and guarded with more care than before , " M . De La Reinterie says , that he told the story fo a few confidential persons about the court of Versailles , whose names he mentions in his Memoirs , and that , except to them , he always preserved the most perfect secresy of this very extraordinary circumstance . "
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Essay On A King.
the }' ' will love one another . —Their faults are of greater latituue than other men ' s , and their falls more irrecoverable ; for-which- reason there is no medium to be found betwixt Nebuchadnezzar as a king , and afterwards as a beast . —To conclude , as a king is a person . of the greatest power , he is likewise subject to the greatest cares ; the man therefore that honours him not is next thing to an atheist , wanting the fear of God in his heart .
The Iron Mask.
THE IRON MASK .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE
SIR , AFTER all the conjectures that have been promulgated respecting the Man in the Iron Mask , I think the account inserted in your last Number bears the strongest marks of veracity . That the prisoner was of the blood-royal of France ( as there asserted ) seems confirmed by a learned and eloquent advocate of the last Parliament of Paris . It is but justice to saythat what follows is taken from the
, European Magazine , Vol . XXI . p . 424 . "In the MS . Memoirs of M . De La Reinterie , at present in the possession of the Marquis of Mesmon Romance at Paris , the Marquis says , That when he commanded in the fortress of Pignerol , a prisoner who was confined in the citadel of that place one day shut the door of his room with great violence upon the officer who waited upon
him , and ran immediatel y down stairs , in order to escape ' from his confinement ; he was , however , stopped by the centinel at the bottom of the stairs . The officer in the mean time cried out from the window , that the prisoner was making his escape , and requested the assistance of the garrison . The officer upon guard immediately came up and laid hold of the prisonerwho was scuffling with the centinel . The
, officer drew his sword , and the prisoner cried out , in a very commanding tone of voice , Songez a ce que vous faites Monsieur : Respectez le sang de vos Souverains— "Take care what you do , sir : respect the blood of your sovereigns . "—In the mean time the officer who had been locked in came down stairs , and , on hearing what the prisoner had said , put his hand upon his mouth , and desired all the persons
present never to mention what they had heard the prisoner say ; who was immediately reconducted to his old apartment , and guarded with more care than before , " M . De La Reinterie says , that he told the story fo a few confidential persons about the court of Versailles , whose names he mentions in his Memoirs , and that , except to them , he always preserved the most perfect secresy of this very extraordinary circumstance . "