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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERY REVIEW. ← Page 4 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quartery Review.
publication on the subject of Freemasonry . The calumnies of the editor of the Tablet have been promptly met by a Roman Catholic gentleman of high character , and to whose advocacy the body are indebted . A gentleman , himself educated in the communion of the Church of Rome , presents a fine contrast to the writer , who has lately embraced its tenets , both in charity ancl toleration ; ancl we hope the
lesson the writer of the Tablet has received will warn him in future not to rush into print to slander an " Order" of whose principles he is utterly ignorant . The letters of our respected correspondent will be found most interesting . "
We have only room for the following extract , from the letter alluded to : — " From the time of the incursion of the French armies into the Peninsula in 1807 , Freemasons' Lodges were greatly multiplied all over Spain ancl Portugal . In the former country Don Carlos the ( then ) Infante , exercised the high office of Grand Master of Spain and her
colonies , with the perfect countenance of his brother , King Ferdinand VII . In 1821 and 1822 , I often saw Don Carlos acknowledge the sign of Fellowship with several Englishmen then in the capital . After the subversion of the constitution of 1812 , the dungeons of the Holy Inquisition , which had been wrested to the cruel purposes of the government for the punishment of Freemasons and Constitutionalists , had
been crowded with Liberals . I was present when the brazen gates of the Inquisition at St . Jago de Compostella were broken open in 1820 , and the prisoners—all political—were liberated on the re-establishment of the Constitution . An incident entered in "My Note Book , " is a case in point—a matter of history . The Conde de Montijo was found in solitary confinement , in a cell from whence the light was nearly
excluded . When we entered his dungeon to inform him that the light of the sun awaited him , ancl that his liberty was at hand , he could not be prevailed upon to leave this den , but begged that if he were doomed to die , he might be at once released of life . General Azevedo , taking him by the hand to lead him out into open daylight and liberty , was obliged to have assistance to bring him forth , so impressed was the
Count with the fancy that he was to have been butchered , like many other Constitutionalists before him . However , he was released with the rest , and I saw him on several days subsequently , when he was obliged to wear a shade over his eyes , yet unaccustomed to the broad glare of sunshine . "
The Rev . APr . Burke . —This worthy coadjutor of the Tablet in the crusade against Freemasonry , has received a signal castigation from the pen of a " Catholic Freemason , " in an article that appeared lately in the Ncnagh Guardian ; the Tablet probably iias writhed under the inllic-
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The Freemasons' Quartery Review.
publication on the subject of Freemasonry . The calumnies of the editor of the Tablet have been promptly met by a Roman Catholic gentleman of high character , and to whose advocacy the body are indebted . A gentleman , himself educated in the communion of the Church of Rome , presents a fine contrast to the writer , who has lately embraced its tenets , both in charity ancl toleration ; ancl we hope the
lesson the writer of the Tablet has received will warn him in future not to rush into print to slander an " Order" of whose principles he is utterly ignorant . The letters of our respected correspondent will be found most interesting . "
We have only room for the following extract , from the letter alluded to : — " From the time of the incursion of the French armies into the Peninsula in 1807 , Freemasons' Lodges were greatly multiplied all over Spain ancl Portugal . In the former country Don Carlos the ( then ) Infante , exercised the high office of Grand Master of Spain and her
colonies , with the perfect countenance of his brother , King Ferdinand VII . In 1821 and 1822 , I often saw Don Carlos acknowledge the sign of Fellowship with several Englishmen then in the capital . After the subversion of the constitution of 1812 , the dungeons of the Holy Inquisition , which had been wrested to the cruel purposes of the government for the punishment of Freemasons and Constitutionalists , had
been crowded with Liberals . I was present when the brazen gates of the Inquisition at St . Jago de Compostella were broken open in 1820 , and the prisoners—all political—were liberated on the re-establishment of the Constitution . An incident entered in "My Note Book , " is a case in point—a matter of history . The Conde de Montijo was found in solitary confinement , in a cell from whence the light was nearly
excluded . When we entered his dungeon to inform him that the light of the sun awaited him , ancl that his liberty was at hand , he could not be prevailed upon to leave this den , but begged that if he were doomed to die , he might be at once released of life . General Azevedo , taking him by the hand to lead him out into open daylight and liberty , was obliged to have assistance to bring him forth , so impressed was the
Count with the fancy that he was to have been butchered , like many other Constitutionalists before him . However , he was released with the rest , and I saw him on several days subsequently , when he was obliged to wear a shade over his eyes , yet unaccustomed to the broad glare of sunshine . "
The Rev . APr . Burke . —This worthy coadjutor of the Tablet in the crusade against Freemasonry , has received a signal castigation from the pen of a " Catholic Freemason , " in an article that appeared lately in the Ncnagh Guardian ; the Tablet probably iias writhed under the inllic-