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Article TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. ← Page 2 of 2 Article LETTERS FROM T. DUNCKERLEY, ESQ. Page 1 of 4 →
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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
relief to be afforded him . It is painful for me to recapitulate the impositions which are continually , practised for want of ^ this or some similar precaution ; I will not repeat them here , but I will assert , for my own justification in suggesting this measure , that I have found from experience and from enquiry , that two out of three of those who have been relieved in-that part of the kingdom where I
reside , have been undeserving of the assistance they have received . I am by no means wedded to the plan I have suggested , and shall be happy if some more able or ingenious Brother would recommend any other which may more effectually answer the end proposed ; in which case I shall be fully satisfied with having merely started the subject , 1 am , Sir , your veiy humble servant and Brother , THEOPHILUS JONES , Master of tbe CAMBRIAN LODGE , Brecon , South Wales .
Letters From T. Dunckerley, Esq.
LETTERS FROM T . DUNCKERLEY , ESQ .
TO THE LATE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
LETTER III .
FROM Va'do we were dispatched by the admiral to Leghorn , where we arrived the 27 th of June . Leghorn is a sea-port town of vast trade and commerce in Tuscany , belonging to the Emperor as Grand Duke , who has a deputy or vice-duke at Florence , the capital of this dutchy , distant hence about foiir leagues . Leghorn stands in a plain on the sea-side , and is very well fortified with fossees and half-moons about it ; there are
several , other fortifications near it . Before the great town , to the westward , there are two large basons" or moles for galleys , and even ships , which are shut up with a great chain ; you pass into it througha very narrow channel between two forts . Without these basons there is a spacious mole ; as you approach the town you see two small towers surrounded by the sea , one of which is white , and called
Marseca ; abreast of the mole upon a rock is a watch-house . At the head ' of the mole there are two very considerable batteries , one above another . Ships water without the town , near a convent of Capuchins . You pass in boats along the mole through the ditches under a bridge . Without the mole there is a tower standing upon a rock , with the sea all round it ; . on the top of this tower there is a lanthorn which is lighted every ni ght for a mark . The Legonese are a people greatl y given to traffick ; the city is very , beautiful both in its situation and buildings ; -the . houses are
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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
relief to be afforded him . It is painful for me to recapitulate the impositions which are continually , practised for want of ^ this or some similar precaution ; I will not repeat them here , but I will assert , for my own justification in suggesting this measure , that I have found from experience and from enquiry , that two out of three of those who have been relieved in-that part of the kingdom where I
reside , have been undeserving of the assistance they have received . I am by no means wedded to the plan I have suggested , and shall be happy if some more able or ingenious Brother would recommend any other which may more effectually answer the end proposed ; in which case I shall be fully satisfied with having merely started the subject , 1 am , Sir , your veiy humble servant and Brother , THEOPHILUS JONES , Master of tbe CAMBRIAN LODGE , Brecon , South Wales .
Letters From T. Dunckerley, Esq.
LETTERS FROM T . DUNCKERLEY , ESQ .
TO THE LATE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
LETTER III .
FROM Va'do we were dispatched by the admiral to Leghorn , where we arrived the 27 th of June . Leghorn is a sea-port town of vast trade and commerce in Tuscany , belonging to the Emperor as Grand Duke , who has a deputy or vice-duke at Florence , the capital of this dutchy , distant hence about foiir leagues . Leghorn stands in a plain on the sea-side , and is very well fortified with fossees and half-moons about it ; there are
several , other fortifications near it . Before the great town , to the westward , there are two large basons" or moles for galleys , and even ships , which are shut up with a great chain ; you pass into it througha very narrow channel between two forts . Without these basons there is a spacious mole ; as you approach the town you see two small towers surrounded by the sea , one of which is white , and called
Marseca ; abreast of the mole upon a rock is a watch-house . At the head ' of the mole there are two very considerable batteries , one above another . Ships water without the town , near a convent of Capuchins . You pass in boats along the mole through the ditches under a bridge . Without the mole there is a tower standing upon a rock , with the sea all round it ; . on the top of this tower there is a lanthorn which is lighted every ni ght for a mark . The Legonese are a people greatl y given to traffick ; the city is very , beautiful both in its situation and buildings ; -the . houses are