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Select Papers On Various Subjects, Read Before A Literary Society In London.
What though he live and die unknown . Unwept , his head without a stone , More truly has he tasted life Than all the sons of WEALTH and STRIFE , And when its ebbing tide is spent , Rises more blest , more innocent !
Memoirs Of The Freemasons At Naples.
MEMOIRS OF THE FREEMASONS AT NAPLES .
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PALLANTE having in tins manner , -as already related , lost Ins labour and his mone 3 * , quitted Naples and retired to Vetri ,. atthe distance of thirty miles from the capital . The new process against tlie-Freemasons was hardly begun when Pallante , though at a distance , endeavoured to stop its course , by representing to the judges strong exceptions , as he thought , against Crisconio . The Marquis Tanucciwho always supported Pallanteand even directed
, , him in all his motions , endeavoured to obtain a reading of them in open court . But Ponsard ' s advocate represented to his majesty , that there was an established law forbidding the acceptance of any such papers , after the information of a process was once begun . The King then gave orders to the tribunal to continue the trial without reading them . The second information was soon finished ; . and
, the result was conformable to the facts as related in this history . When it was complete- Pallante , whose turn it was to defend himself , received an order , after eighteen months absence , to repair to Naples . He had his own house as a prison , and a guard set over him . As all his former designs and stratagems had miscarried , he had recourse to the last . The reader may remember he had
formerly been accused of preparing the Lodge in the manner above related : till then he had constantly denied it ; but seeing what turn things had taken , he thought proper to make a true confession , and had the confidence to give the name of a pious fraud to his infamous proceedings . According to his opinion , it was a laudable actiomto impose on the public authorityand the name of two kings j- ^ -the
, corruption of witnesses , in order to betray innocent people , he - deemed meritorious ;—falsehood to his prince , worthy praise ;—poisoning , a necessary act;—in short , all the crimes he had been guilty of merited the applause of the world .
While he endeavoured to colour over his crimes in this manner , Ise put every thing in practice in order to gain time , He encle ' a-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Select Papers On Various Subjects, Read Before A Literary Society In London.
What though he live and die unknown . Unwept , his head without a stone , More truly has he tasted life Than all the sons of WEALTH and STRIFE , And when its ebbing tide is spent , Rises more blest , more innocent !
Memoirs Of The Freemasons At Naples.
MEMOIRS OF THE FREEMASONS AT NAPLES .
Concluded from Page 337
PALLANTE having in tins manner , -as already related , lost Ins labour and his mone 3 * , quitted Naples and retired to Vetri ,. atthe distance of thirty miles from the capital . The new process against tlie-Freemasons was hardly begun when Pallante , though at a distance , endeavoured to stop its course , by representing to the judges strong exceptions , as he thought , against Crisconio . The Marquis Tanucciwho always supported Pallanteand even directed
, , him in all his motions , endeavoured to obtain a reading of them in open court . But Ponsard ' s advocate represented to his majesty , that there was an established law forbidding the acceptance of any such papers , after the information of a process was once begun . The King then gave orders to the tribunal to continue the trial without reading them . The second information was soon finished ; . and
, the result was conformable to the facts as related in this history . When it was complete- Pallante , whose turn it was to defend himself , received an order , after eighteen months absence , to repair to Naples . He had his own house as a prison , and a guard set over him . As all his former designs and stratagems had miscarried , he had recourse to the last . The reader may remember he had
formerly been accused of preparing the Lodge in the manner above related : till then he had constantly denied it ; but seeing what turn things had taken , he thought proper to make a true confession , and had the confidence to give the name of a pious fraud to his infamous proceedings . According to his opinion , it was a laudable actiomto impose on the public authorityand the name of two kings j- ^ -the
, corruption of witnesses , in order to betray innocent people , he - deemed meritorious ;—falsehood to his prince , worthy praise ;—poisoning , a necessary act;—in short , all the crimes he had been guilty of merited the applause of the world .
While he endeavoured to colour over his crimes in this manner , Ise put every thing in practice in order to gain time , He encle ' a-