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Scotland.
Frazer , Master ) . St . Clair appears to have visited his mother-Lodge no less than eig ht times within the year after his formal election and induction as Grand . Master . Although there was no official poet laureate at the period of his death in 1778 , yet there was not wanting some piously-inspired pen to celebrate his worth in verse , as the following lines do testify , composed and chaunted at the funeral Grand Lodge which met upon the mournful occasion . Frail man ! how like the meteor ' s blaze ,
How evanescent are thy rays : Protracted to its longest date How short the time indulged by fate ! No force death's potent arm can brave ; Nor wisdom ' s self' elude the grave . AVhere ' er our various journies tend , 'To this we soon or late descend .
Thither from mortal eyes retired . Though oft beheld and still admired , Sinclair to dust its claims resigns , And in sublimer regions reigns . Let us whom ties fraternal bind Beyond the rest of human kind . Like Sinclair live , like Sinclair die—¦ Then join the Eternal Lodge on high .
It is flattering to know , that the laureate wreath which the Grand Lodge has lately so appropriately bestowed , is not unappreciated by its wearer . No one , certainly , among the sons of Scottish song , is better entitled to " bear the hell away . " Brother Gilfillan ' s fame has long been spread abroad throughout the triple kingdoms ; and the publication recently of a volume of his choicest songs and poems has fully confirmed his claim to be considered as one of Scotland ' s favourite bards . Hath
not the plaid of the Ettrick Shepherd fallen upon him ? Among the living names of note on the roll of the Canongate Kilwinning , is that of the Right Hon . Charles Hope , Lord President of the Supreme Court of Session , who was initiated many years ago in that ancient Lotlge .
LEGAL DECISION AI-FECTING LODGES . —In July , 1 S 10 , the Court of Session of Scotland pronounced judgment in certain actions , respecting properties , which had been raised between the Masters and other Officebearers of the Lod j ; e Canongate Kilwinning , and several other Lodges in Edinburgh , and some persons who had formerly been themselves members of these Lodges , but had been expelled hy a sentence of the Grand Lodge . As the applications bad been made by the Office-bearers
for themselves and the other legal members , the court considered that Mason Lodges , not being corporate bodies , could not sue by their Office-bearers ; and descerned accordingly . Public monuments are about to be erected in different parts of the " north countrie , ' to the memory of the late Duke of Gordon . That excellent nobleman , distinguished alike in the tented field and at the festive boardpresided as Grand Master Mason in the years 1792-3 .
, He was better known under the title of Marquis of Huntly—a name dear to every Highland heart . 3 Iay 23 . —At a meeting of the Supreme It . A . Chapter of Scotland , held at the Hopetouu Rooms , present Comps . Capt . Buswell . A ' .. V ., Sir
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Scotland.
Frazer , Master ) . St . Clair appears to have visited his mother-Lodge no less than eig ht times within the year after his formal election and induction as Grand . Master . Although there was no official poet laureate at the period of his death in 1778 , yet there was not wanting some piously-inspired pen to celebrate his worth in verse , as the following lines do testify , composed and chaunted at the funeral Grand Lodge which met upon the mournful occasion . Frail man ! how like the meteor ' s blaze ,
How evanescent are thy rays : Protracted to its longest date How short the time indulged by fate ! No force death's potent arm can brave ; Nor wisdom ' s self' elude the grave . AVhere ' er our various journies tend , 'To this we soon or late descend .
Thither from mortal eyes retired . Though oft beheld and still admired , Sinclair to dust its claims resigns , And in sublimer regions reigns . Let us whom ties fraternal bind Beyond the rest of human kind . Like Sinclair live , like Sinclair die—¦ Then join the Eternal Lodge on high .
It is flattering to know , that the laureate wreath which the Grand Lodge has lately so appropriately bestowed , is not unappreciated by its wearer . No one , certainly , among the sons of Scottish song , is better entitled to " bear the hell away . " Brother Gilfillan ' s fame has long been spread abroad throughout the triple kingdoms ; and the publication recently of a volume of his choicest songs and poems has fully confirmed his claim to be considered as one of Scotland ' s favourite bards . Hath
not the plaid of the Ettrick Shepherd fallen upon him ? Among the living names of note on the roll of the Canongate Kilwinning , is that of the Right Hon . Charles Hope , Lord President of the Supreme Court of Session , who was initiated many years ago in that ancient Lotlge .
LEGAL DECISION AI-FECTING LODGES . —In July , 1 S 10 , the Court of Session of Scotland pronounced judgment in certain actions , respecting properties , which had been raised between the Masters and other Officebearers of the Lod j ; e Canongate Kilwinning , and several other Lodges in Edinburgh , and some persons who had formerly been themselves members of these Lodges , but had been expelled hy a sentence of the Grand Lodge . As the applications bad been made by the Office-bearers
for themselves and the other legal members , the court considered that Mason Lodges , not being corporate bodies , could not sue by their Office-bearers ; and descerned accordingly . Public monuments are about to be erected in different parts of the " north countrie , ' to the memory of the late Duke of Gordon . That excellent nobleman , distinguished alike in the tented field and at the festive boardpresided as Grand Master Mason in the years 1792-3 .
, He was better known under the title of Marquis of Huntly—a name dear to every Highland heart . 3 Iay 23 . —At a meeting of the Supreme It . A . Chapter of Scotland , held at the Hopetouu Rooms , present Comps . Capt . Buswell . A ' .. V ., Sir