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Memoirs Of The Freemasons At Naples.
" pearance of this man , who is certainly a very material evidence , " We are told of a baptism—we ought at least to know the person " baptised , and the one who performed that ceremony ; but here we " see neither the one nor the other . " Pallante again repeated that he had given an account of the whole transaction to his majesty , " Very well , " replied Crisconio , " in that case the king is sole judge , " we have nothing farther to do in the affair . " He then asked Baffi
, the Greek professor , the name of a Freemason in that language , and was answered , Philanthropist , or a friend of mankind . The unexpected questions of Crisconio had sufficiently alarmed Pallante , who was then , though too late , sensible of the faults he had committed ; in order in some measure to repair them he sent privately to Ponsardthe Frenchman whom he had caused so unjustly to be
, imprisoned , and who had by this time been detained a full month ; he offered to give him proofs of his favour , either by money or interest , on condition of his declaring himself to be the person who was to have been made a Freemason the second cf March . Ponsard rejected these , proposals with horror , and flatly refused to render himself an accomplice in such abominable treachery . Pallante did notdesist
, but made use of flattery , promises , threats , but all in vain ; even torments were made use of : Ponsard having courageously resisted all they could do to him , was at last set at liberty , with strict orders to quit the kingdom immediately . Furious at such unjust treatment he left Naples , but re-entered the city on the opposite side , and
without loss of time went-to the Marquis de Clermont , ambassador from the French court , to whom he made a faithful recital of all that had happened to him . The ambassador immediately ordered his coach , and made his complaints to the king ; and in the sequel supported the cause of Ponsard and the Freemasons in general with so much force , that the society will never forget the obligations they owe him , and will always regard him in the light of one of their best benefactors .
Pallante seeing the bad success of his plot , had the art of engaging the Polander to become a willing prisoner ; he sent his secretary to him with orders to let him want for nothing , and to engage him by the means of good wine , to give a deposition such as he wanted , and wherein he declared , that his intention had been to be received a Freemason ; after whichnotwithstanding the express order of the
, tribunal to the contrary , Pallante set him at liberty , in as arbitrary a manner as he had dispensed him from going to prison the first moment of the trial . The Freemasons , who thought themselves near the moment of their deliverance , found themselves again p lunged into fresh troubles . Pallante , insulting- their misery , made a shew of fulfilling the promise he had made them ; they were accordingly
taken out of that prison in order to be shut up in another . They had the mortification of being deceived , and of having furnished arms against themselves . Berenzer , the Swede , overpowered by sorrow for having imprudently contributed ro his own misery , yielded to his destiny , and died in . prison , certainly not altogether for the expiation of his fault , but
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Memoirs Of The Freemasons At Naples.
" pearance of this man , who is certainly a very material evidence , " We are told of a baptism—we ought at least to know the person " baptised , and the one who performed that ceremony ; but here we " see neither the one nor the other . " Pallante again repeated that he had given an account of the whole transaction to his majesty , " Very well , " replied Crisconio , " in that case the king is sole judge , " we have nothing farther to do in the affair . " He then asked Baffi
, the Greek professor , the name of a Freemason in that language , and was answered , Philanthropist , or a friend of mankind . The unexpected questions of Crisconio had sufficiently alarmed Pallante , who was then , though too late , sensible of the faults he had committed ; in order in some measure to repair them he sent privately to Ponsardthe Frenchman whom he had caused so unjustly to be
, imprisoned , and who had by this time been detained a full month ; he offered to give him proofs of his favour , either by money or interest , on condition of his declaring himself to be the person who was to have been made a Freemason the second cf March . Ponsard rejected these , proposals with horror , and flatly refused to render himself an accomplice in such abominable treachery . Pallante did notdesist
, but made use of flattery , promises , threats , but all in vain ; even torments were made use of : Ponsard having courageously resisted all they could do to him , was at last set at liberty , with strict orders to quit the kingdom immediately . Furious at such unjust treatment he left Naples , but re-entered the city on the opposite side , and
without loss of time went-to the Marquis de Clermont , ambassador from the French court , to whom he made a faithful recital of all that had happened to him . The ambassador immediately ordered his coach , and made his complaints to the king ; and in the sequel supported the cause of Ponsard and the Freemasons in general with so much force , that the society will never forget the obligations they owe him , and will always regard him in the light of one of their best benefactors .
Pallante seeing the bad success of his plot , had the art of engaging the Polander to become a willing prisoner ; he sent his secretary to him with orders to let him want for nothing , and to engage him by the means of good wine , to give a deposition such as he wanted , and wherein he declared , that his intention had been to be received a Freemason ; after whichnotwithstanding the express order of the
, tribunal to the contrary , Pallante set him at liberty , in as arbitrary a manner as he had dispensed him from going to prison the first moment of the trial . The Freemasons , who thought themselves near the moment of their deliverance , found themselves again p lunged into fresh troubles . Pallante , insulting- their misery , made a shew of fulfilling the promise he had made them ; they were accordingly
taken out of that prison in order to be shut up in another . They had the mortification of being deceived , and of having furnished arms against themselves . Berenzer , the Swede , overpowered by sorrow for having imprudently contributed ro his own misery , yielded to his destiny , and died in . prison , certainly not altogether for the expiation of his fault , but