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Provincial.
" 25 , Hill-street , 12 th May , 1842 . "DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I am much flattered by the kind wish expressed in your letter of the 10 th , that I should take the chair at the Masonic banquet , proposed to be held at AVolverhampton , on the 18 th of July next ; but I fear it will he quite out of my power to comply with this request , as it is my present intention to go to the Continent in that month , having been advised to do so for the benefit of my health . " I beg to remain yours faithfully and fraternally , " G EORGE ANSON , P . G . M . " " The Rev . H . R , Slade , AVolverhampton . "
It is needless to say the preceding toasts were received with such demonstrations of acclamation as they respectively merited . The Rev . CHAIRMAN then rose and addressed the company in the following language : — " Brothers All ! I rise to give you the toast of the evening , under the most lively impulses of pleasure , mingled with some incipient inklings of apprehension , lest I fail to do justice to the toast I am about
to propose , as well as to the flattering expectations of my kind Brethren who have deputed me to fill this chair on the present very auspicious occasion . I rise , I repeat , to greet your presence at this humble banquet , with the hearty welcome of a Brother Mason . I take credit to myself that I originated this trifling effort to do honour to a very distinguished member of the Craft , and I rejoice to declare that my Brethren of St . Peter ' s Lodge met the suggestion with the most
unanimous desire to co-operate in promoting that design . Permit me then , most sincerely to tender you the fraternal acknowledgements , both of the Lodge and myself , for the excellent manner in which you have responded to our invitation , to pay this tribute of respect and attachment to a best beloved Brother , and an old and dearest friend . Need I add , since it is known that we have as a guest at this festive board , that pre-eminent Mason our worshi pful Brother Doctor Crucefix , Pasl ^ Grand Deacon of England , that St . Peter ' s Lodge shall make this day the
date of a new epoch in the record of its constitution , or that every Brother present must feel himself identified with the reputation of this event , and that I myself shall ever indulge in an honest exultation at being called upon by my Brethren of St . Peter ' s Lodge , to preside at the table which entertains so celebrated a visitor . " Indulge me , then , with a brief interval to dwell on one or two of the prominent features—for the time and circumstance will not permit me to expatiate upon the whole—of the character of that man whom 1 deem
it a privilege to call my personal and intimate friend—whom I am proud to regard as my Masonic tutor , monitor , and mentor , at least , as to his instructions in the sublime and really catholic spirit of Masonry , if not in the technical and manual operations of the science—whom I am exceedingly happy to introduce to the acquaintance of the Brethren of this and the adjacent provinces here assembled , to delight in honouring him with the rough but substantial hospitality of Staffordshire . We are
an iron-framed race—springing from an iron-bound soil ; but our hearts are as soft as the clay which moulds the fused metals into useful shapes , and as warm as the furnace which melts the hard stone into a liquid and malleable material . A most gratifying experience has taught me to estimate the sterling kind-heartedness of the Staffordshire Brethren , and that made me so anxious to bring down my revered friend , here on the ri ght , to participate in the knowledge of their masculine and warm-
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Provincial.
" 25 , Hill-street , 12 th May , 1842 . "DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I am much flattered by the kind wish expressed in your letter of the 10 th , that I should take the chair at the Masonic banquet , proposed to be held at AVolverhampton , on the 18 th of July next ; but I fear it will he quite out of my power to comply with this request , as it is my present intention to go to the Continent in that month , having been advised to do so for the benefit of my health . " I beg to remain yours faithfully and fraternally , " G EORGE ANSON , P . G . M . " " The Rev . H . R , Slade , AVolverhampton . "
It is needless to say the preceding toasts were received with such demonstrations of acclamation as they respectively merited . The Rev . CHAIRMAN then rose and addressed the company in the following language : — " Brothers All ! I rise to give you the toast of the evening , under the most lively impulses of pleasure , mingled with some incipient inklings of apprehension , lest I fail to do justice to the toast I am about
to propose , as well as to the flattering expectations of my kind Brethren who have deputed me to fill this chair on the present very auspicious occasion . I rise , I repeat , to greet your presence at this humble banquet , with the hearty welcome of a Brother Mason . I take credit to myself that I originated this trifling effort to do honour to a very distinguished member of the Craft , and I rejoice to declare that my Brethren of St . Peter ' s Lodge met the suggestion with the most
unanimous desire to co-operate in promoting that design . Permit me then , most sincerely to tender you the fraternal acknowledgements , both of the Lodge and myself , for the excellent manner in which you have responded to our invitation , to pay this tribute of respect and attachment to a best beloved Brother , and an old and dearest friend . Need I add , since it is known that we have as a guest at this festive board , that pre-eminent Mason our worshi pful Brother Doctor Crucefix , Pasl ^ Grand Deacon of England , that St . Peter ' s Lodge shall make this day the
date of a new epoch in the record of its constitution , or that every Brother present must feel himself identified with the reputation of this event , and that I myself shall ever indulge in an honest exultation at being called upon by my Brethren of St . Peter ' s Lodge , to preside at the table which entertains so celebrated a visitor . " Indulge me , then , with a brief interval to dwell on one or two of the prominent features—for the time and circumstance will not permit me to expatiate upon the whole—of the character of that man whom 1 deem
it a privilege to call my personal and intimate friend—whom I am proud to regard as my Masonic tutor , monitor , and mentor , at least , as to his instructions in the sublime and really catholic spirit of Masonry , if not in the technical and manual operations of the science—whom I am exceedingly happy to introduce to the acquaintance of the Brethren of this and the adjacent provinces here assembled , to delight in honouring him with the rough but substantial hospitality of Staffordshire . We are
an iron-framed race—springing from an iron-bound soil ; but our hearts are as soft as the clay which moulds the fused metals into useful shapes , and as warm as the furnace which melts the hard stone into a liquid and malleable material . A most gratifying experience has taught me to estimate the sterling kind-heartedness of the Staffordshire Brethren , and that made me so anxious to bring down my revered friend , here on the ri ght , to participate in the knowledge of their masculine and warm-