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The Reporter.
was granted b y his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , and his signature to the document was , we believe , one of the last Masonic acts which he performed . The Encampment was opened on Sunday , the 29 th of October last , at AA est Drayton , being the place named in the warrant ; upon which occasion several Companions of the R . A . received the honour of Masonic knighthood . On the 26 th of last month a Conclave was held at the George Hall , Aldermanhury , when the Grand SubPrior of
- England , and Sir Knights Goldsworthy , Gibbins , Robinson , Pryer , Berkeley , Beaumont , Guyon , and others , having assembled in their field of encampment , proceeded with the preliminary arrangements , and installed Comp . Lee anel several others . The Encampment is about to be removed to the George Hall , London , for the better convenience of the members . JJ ©* Many other reports of Lod ges andChapters ( sixteen in number ') came too late .
Masonic Chit-Chat.
MASONIC CHIT-CHAT .
THE DUKEDOM OF SUSSEX . —The House of Lords met on Thursday , May 23 , and sat in a Committee of Privileges . The attendance of peers was exceedingly numerous , and the space below the bar was literally crammed with barristers and strangers . The order for taking the petition of Sir Augustus D'Este claiming the Dukedom of Sussex into consideration , was read , after which Sir ihomas AVilde ( with whom were MrErie Cand MrWilde
. , Q .., . , jun . ) said , he had the honour to appear , with his learned friend , before their lordships in support of the claim of Sir Augustus D'Este to the Dukedom of Sussex , and he trusted that the evidence and circumstances "he should lay before the house would fully establish the claim of his client . The learned counsel said , their lordships no doubt recollected that his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , son of his Majesty George III ., was born in the year 1773 ; that , when travelling , at an earl his
y age , Royal Highness , in 1792 , met with Lady Augusta Murray and her mother , the Countess of Dunmore , at Rome . At this period the Duke of Sussex had not attained the age of twenty-one ; an intimacy u ° u ' ' ' tlle resuIt was a P rivate marriage between his Royal Highness and her ladyship , at Rome . In 1793 his Royal Highness ancl her ladyship were again publicly married by banns , at the Church of St . GeorgeHanover-squareLondonbut he considered the pricipal
, , ; n question for their lordshi ps' decision would relate to the marriage at Rome , whether that could be considered a legal ancl valid ceremony or not . The learned counsel then proceeded to read portions of the correspondence between the late Duke of Sussex and Lady Augusta Murray , previous to , ancl after their marriage at Rome , ancl in London , in all of which his Royal Highness contends for their validity , and appears anxious that it
should be generally known that he considered the present claimant , Sir Augustus D'Este , to be his lawful ancl legitimate child . At the conclusion of Sir Thomas AVilde ' s argument , their lordships adjourned . Thursday , June 13 . —Mr . L . Walker , late comptroller of the household , produced the patent of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex ,
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The Reporter.
was granted b y his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , and his signature to the document was , we believe , one of the last Masonic acts which he performed . The Encampment was opened on Sunday , the 29 th of October last , at AA est Drayton , being the place named in the warrant ; upon which occasion several Companions of the R . A . received the honour of Masonic knighthood . On the 26 th of last month a Conclave was held at the George Hall , Aldermanhury , when the Grand SubPrior of
- England , and Sir Knights Goldsworthy , Gibbins , Robinson , Pryer , Berkeley , Beaumont , Guyon , and others , having assembled in their field of encampment , proceeded with the preliminary arrangements , and installed Comp . Lee anel several others . The Encampment is about to be removed to the George Hall , London , for the better convenience of the members . JJ ©* Many other reports of Lod ges andChapters ( sixteen in number ') came too late .
Masonic Chit-Chat.
MASONIC CHIT-CHAT .
THE DUKEDOM OF SUSSEX . —The House of Lords met on Thursday , May 23 , and sat in a Committee of Privileges . The attendance of peers was exceedingly numerous , and the space below the bar was literally crammed with barristers and strangers . The order for taking the petition of Sir Augustus D'Este claiming the Dukedom of Sussex into consideration , was read , after which Sir ihomas AVilde ( with whom were MrErie Cand MrWilde
. , Q .., . , jun . ) said , he had the honour to appear , with his learned friend , before their lordships in support of the claim of Sir Augustus D'Este to the Dukedom of Sussex , and he trusted that the evidence and circumstances "he should lay before the house would fully establish the claim of his client . The learned counsel said , their lordships no doubt recollected that his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , son of his Majesty George III ., was born in the year 1773 ; that , when travelling , at an earl his
y age , Royal Highness , in 1792 , met with Lady Augusta Murray and her mother , the Countess of Dunmore , at Rome . At this period the Duke of Sussex had not attained the age of twenty-one ; an intimacy u ° u ' ' ' tlle resuIt was a P rivate marriage between his Royal Highness and her ladyship , at Rome . In 1793 his Royal Highness ancl her ladyship were again publicly married by banns , at the Church of St . GeorgeHanover-squareLondonbut he considered the pricipal
, , ; n question for their lordshi ps' decision would relate to the marriage at Rome , whether that could be considered a legal ancl valid ceremony or not . The learned counsel then proceeded to read portions of the correspondence between the late Duke of Sussex and Lady Augusta Murray , previous to , ancl after their marriage at Rome , ancl in London , in all of which his Royal Highness contends for their validity , and appears anxious that it
should be generally known that he considered the present claimant , Sir Augustus D'Este , to be his lawful ancl legitimate child . At the conclusion of Sir Thomas AVilde ' s argument , their lordships adjourned . Thursday , June 13 . —Mr . L . Walker , late comptroller of the household , produced the patent of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex ,