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The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
[ Perfectly agreeing with our Correspondent , we insert the following literal copy of tbe article alluded to , from tbe Gentleman ' s Magazine for June 1 794 . At tbe same time we take tbe liberty of referring tbe . author of tbe said essay , whoever he may be , to tbe letter from " A Past Master of tbe Lodge of Antiquity * , " and to tbe " OEATION" of Dr . Jieans , inserted in our present Number , as containing all tbe reply thai think his illdirected
roe - labours have merited ; and to the Answer of his Royal Highness Prince Edward ( himself a skilful and deeplyinvestigating Mason ) to the Brethren of Quebec , as a testimony to the principles of an Institution that can have merited ( which surely had not otherwise obtained ) so high and honourable a sanction . If , however , any Brother should favour this Magazine with strictures on tbe subject of tbe following essay , f . bey shall be attended to with due respect , and be immediately inserted . ^
Mr . UI- , Winchester , May 18 . AS every thing that relates to the French Revolution , especially , whatever tends to investigate the causes of it , is extremely curious and interesting at the present period , I embrace the opportunity which your widely-circulated Magazine affordsof making known
, amongst ray countrymen an opinion on this subject , which , whether well or ill-founded , is _ very prevalent on the Continent , hoping that some of your intelli gent correspondents will be enabled to throw greater light upon it . The opinion in question is , that the mysteries of Freemasonry have , in a great measure , contributed to those changes in sentiment and morality , no less than in government , nei
amongst a ghbouring people , which the surrounding nations view with such surprize . 1 cannot better make known these ideas than by giving a short account of a work , in which they are contained , now lying before me , written in the French language , and much esteemed by the honest part of the French nation , though little known amongst our countrymen . The author of this was a MrLe Francthe late
. , superior of the seminary of Eudists at Caen , who was butchered at Paris on ; the famous 2 d of September . He is said , by his friends , one of whose letters on this- subject I have seen , to have derived his knowledge of Freemasonry from a voluminous collection of papers which a master of that order , in his last sickness , put into his hands . It is farther stated , that the author , having thoroughly examined these
papers , conceived it to be his duty to lay the substance of them before the Archbishop of Paris some years previous to the commencement of the Revolution ; at the same time undertaking to demonstrate , that the system contained in them menaced approaching ruin both to the Church and the State . The work I have mentioned is intituled " The Veil withdrawn ; or , the Secret of the French Revolution exp lained by the help of Freemasonry . " The second edition , which I make use ofj was printed at Paris in 1792 .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
[ Perfectly agreeing with our Correspondent , we insert the following literal copy of tbe article alluded to , from tbe Gentleman ' s Magazine for June 1 794 . At tbe same time we take tbe liberty of referring tbe . author of tbe said essay , whoever he may be , to tbe letter from " A Past Master of tbe Lodge of Antiquity * , " and to tbe " OEATION" of Dr . Jieans , inserted in our present Number , as containing all tbe reply thai think his illdirected
roe - labours have merited ; and to the Answer of his Royal Highness Prince Edward ( himself a skilful and deeplyinvestigating Mason ) to the Brethren of Quebec , as a testimony to the principles of an Institution that can have merited ( which surely had not otherwise obtained ) so high and honourable a sanction . If , however , any Brother should favour this Magazine with strictures on tbe subject of tbe following essay , f . bey shall be attended to with due respect , and be immediately inserted . ^
Mr . UI- , Winchester , May 18 . AS every thing that relates to the French Revolution , especially , whatever tends to investigate the causes of it , is extremely curious and interesting at the present period , I embrace the opportunity which your widely-circulated Magazine affordsof making known
, amongst ray countrymen an opinion on this subject , which , whether well or ill-founded , is _ very prevalent on the Continent , hoping that some of your intelli gent correspondents will be enabled to throw greater light upon it . The opinion in question is , that the mysteries of Freemasonry have , in a great measure , contributed to those changes in sentiment and morality , no less than in government , nei
amongst a ghbouring people , which the surrounding nations view with such surprize . 1 cannot better make known these ideas than by giving a short account of a work , in which they are contained , now lying before me , written in the French language , and much esteemed by the honest part of the French nation , though little known amongst our countrymen . The author of this was a MrLe Francthe late
. , superior of the seminary of Eudists at Caen , who was butchered at Paris on ; the famous 2 d of September . He is said , by his friends , one of whose letters on this- subject I have seen , to have derived his knowledge of Freemasonry from a voluminous collection of papers which a master of that order , in his last sickness , put into his hands . It is farther stated , that the author , having thoroughly examined these
papers , conceived it to be his duty to lay the substance of them before the Archbishop of Paris some years previous to the commencement of the Revolution ; at the same time undertaking to demonstrate , that the system contained in them menaced approaching ruin both to the Church and the State . The work I have mentioned is intituled " The Veil withdrawn ; or , the Secret of the French Revolution exp lained by the help of Freemasonry . " The second edition , which I make use ofj was printed at Paris in 1792 .