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only respectable hut distinguished signatures ; and I can positively assert that before another month has elapsed , this address will carry with it the most ample distinction and authority . As this ADDRESS has been so far proceeded with , no doubt can be entertained as to what ought to be , and will , and must be the result ; but I rather incline to wonder at its original adoption , for if addresses of the Order are to be bestowed upon every man who happens to be calumniated by those who live and move
and have their being in an atmosphere of perpetual aspersion and vituperation , the Masons of Dublin will have enough to do . What most astonishes me is my own most singular escape ; when I consider the sort of persons who are assailed , I cannot account for my indemnity from libel upon the grounds of my deserts ; nor do I consider that a person who has ever corresponded with your Review , can be considered so contemptible as to be beneath the dignity of rebuke or vilification . In no
way can I account for this singular phenomenon except upon the hypothesis , that all who know anything , however slight , concerning my Masonic character , are aware that attacks , such as have excited the anger , and stimulated the rhetoric of Bro . Ellis , or such as now appear to have wounded the feelings of Bro . 'Lawrence and his friends , would , if directed against rae , whether iu prose or verse , fail to excite that anger which should be either entirely subdued or reserved for higher purposes . "
"Just as the post is going out I have received a copy of Saunders ' s news letter , containing a report of the concert , at which the Lyra Masonica made its first bow to the public . Mr . Ellis ' s name is in this report for the first time mentioned , and that in a very transitory and insufficient manner . About fifty announcements have been published in various papers concerning this concert ; but why ( until the appearance of the report which I now transmit ) has the name of Ellis never even once been mentionednor transpired ? this is a question which can
, only be solved by one who is in possession of that master-key which I have above alluded to . The report which I now send you is so very flattering and impartial as to announce to the public that Mr . Ellis is the author of one of the songs in this collection . Other reviews and notices have declared to the effect , that' the original matter of the poetical part is by VARIOUS authors . ' Now the simple fact isthat ALL the oriinal
matteramount-, g , ing to , I think , above a dozen songs , is by Bro . Hercules Ellis , which announcement could surely have been as easily penned as any of those roundabout notices whicli have appeared , and would have been no ways objectionable , save in one respect , viz ., that it would have been strictly true . "
Concert—Lyra Masonica , June . 11 . —There was a concert given in the Pillar-room of the Rotunda , novel in its character , but attended with other merits than those arising from the fact of mere novelty . The musical banquet was one under the patronage of the Grand Lodge of Ireland , and the great theme of song the merits of the mystic brotherhood ; the composer and adapter of the various airs and concerted pieces on the subject being Dr . Smithwho offered on the occasion a happy and
, effective selection from a new work of his , entitled ' Lyra Masonica . ' It might have been thought an experiment of no little difficulty to dwell so much upon the one theme , at least in the presence of that part of the audience not admitted into the body whose utility and fellowship was advocated so effectively ; but the changes were rung so well as to do
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Ireland.
only respectable hut distinguished signatures ; and I can positively assert that before another month has elapsed , this address will carry with it the most ample distinction and authority . As this ADDRESS has been so far proceeded with , no doubt can be entertained as to what ought to be , and will , and must be the result ; but I rather incline to wonder at its original adoption , for if addresses of the Order are to be bestowed upon every man who happens to be calumniated by those who live and move
and have their being in an atmosphere of perpetual aspersion and vituperation , the Masons of Dublin will have enough to do . What most astonishes me is my own most singular escape ; when I consider the sort of persons who are assailed , I cannot account for my indemnity from libel upon the grounds of my deserts ; nor do I consider that a person who has ever corresponded with your Review , can be considered so contemptible as to be beneath the dignity of rebuke or vilification . In no
way can I account for this singular phenomenon except upon the hypothesis , that all who know anything , however slight , concerning my Masonic character , are aware that attacks , such as have excited the anger , and stimulated the rhetoric of Bro . Ellis , or such as now appear to have wounded the feelings of Bro . 'Lawrence and his friends , would , if directed against rae , whether iu prose or verse , fail to excite that anger which should be either entirely subdued or reserved for higher purposes . "
"Just as the post is going out I have received a copy of Saunders ' s news letter , containing a report of the concert , at which the Lyra Masonica made its first bow to the public . Mr . Ellis ' s name is in this report for the first time mentioned , and that in a very transitory and insufficient manner . About fifty announcements have been published in various papers concerning this concert ; but why ( until the appearance of the report which I now transmit ) has the name of Ellis never even once been mentionednor transpired ? this is a question which can
, only be solved by one who is in possession of that master-key which I have above alluded to . The report which I now send you is so very flattering and impartial as to announce to the public that Mr . Ellis is the author of one of the songs in this collection . Other reviews and notices have declared to the effect , that' the original matter of the poetical part is by VARIOUS authors . ' Now the simple fact isthat ALL the oriinal
matteramount-, g , ing to , I think , above a dozen songs , is by Bro . Hercules Ellis , which announcement could surely have been as easily penned as any of those roundabout notices whicli have appeared , and would have been no ways objectionable , save in one respect , viz ., that it would have been strictly true . "
Concert—Lyra Masonica , June . 11 . —There was a concert given in the Pillar-room of the Rotunda , novel in its character , but attended with other merits than those arising from the fact of mere novelty . The musical banquet was one under the patronage of the Grand Lodge of Ireland , and the great theme of song the merits of the mystic brotherhood ; the composer and adapter of the various airs and concerted pieces on the subject being Dr . Smithwho offered on the occasion a happy and
, effective selection from a new work of his , entitled ' Lyra Masonica . ' It might have been thought an experiment of no little difficulty to dwell so much upon the one theme , at least in the presence of that part of the audience not admitted into the body whose utility and fellowship was advocated so effectively ; but the changes were rung so well as to do