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Provincial.
approbation and fraternal regard , my Brethren , with higher feelings than those of ordinary self-gratification , because I consider the testimonial as emanating from a lively recollection on your parts , of those important public ceremonies wliich have accompanied our provincial labours , and which , as marked eras of the moral influence of Freemasonry over society at large , have given an elevation of character to our Order in Cornwallwhichthough slumbering at present from natural and
unavoid-, , able changes , will nevertheless rise again and flourish with new incident , passing on unimpaired to future generations . The first public ceremony , my Brethren , at which I had the honour to preside with you as a Masonic body was , I believe , our dedication to the Almighty Architect of the Universe , of the present light house at the mouth of the Falmouth harbour , as an object of the highest importance to the maritime community at large , but more particularly interesting to the families and friends
of those hardy and enterprising mariners , whose undaunted race for upwards of a century past had nobly " braved the battle and the breeze . " Our next provincial labours were devoted to the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a monumental tribute of sorrowing relatives , admiring friends , and a liberal ancl discriminating public , to the heroic African travellers—the Landers —( loud cheers)—who nobly devoted the bloom of their manhood in that baneful landwhich led alike to the goal of their
, mutual ambition , and the consequent aggrandisement of their country ' s glory ; and ivhere , with a determination of purpose , unexampled in the annals of history , and at the sacrifice of life from savage assassination of the one , and the subsequent premature dissolution , from the fatal effects of climate , of the other , these dauntless ancl elevated young men
triumphantly succeeded in the accomplishment of a national enterprise which had baffled the labours , skill , and fatal perseverance of a succession of victims in the same perilous pursuit , from Ledyard ancl Park to Laing and Clapperton —( loucl cheering ) . The impressions of this imposing , ceremony was scarcely dormant , when we were again called upon to assist , as a Masonic body , in doing public honour to the memory of a deceased nobleman in the county , whom it had been our pride and boast to hail as a Brothera patronand a friend ! Need I here utter the
, , venerated name of De Dunstanville , my Brethren , to bring to your recollections our solemn ceremonies at Cam Brea ?—( hear , hear)—where thousands—I may add tens of thousands of our countrymen , were assembled to proclaim , in loud and grateful acclamations , the concentric virtues of hereditary rank and worth without pride—solid understanding and talent devoid of pedantry or ostentation—unbounded charity blended with Christian humility—patriotism unsullied by party spirit or
solitary selfish interest—great moral courage and domestic amiability , combined with refined private friendship , and based on the generous affections of the purest principles of benevolence —( cheers ) . These , my Brethren , and every other cardinal virtue which can elevate man in the scale of society here below , and ensure his eternal welfare hereafter , were the inherent offsprings of the heart , and the unvarying characteristics of the actions of Tehidy ' s last noble representative—the exaltedbeloved
, , and universally lamented Francis Lord De Dunstanville and Basset ! I must here , my esteemed Brethren , entreat you to pardon my indulging thus long in cherished retrospection of past associations , which I am confident are as indelibly engraven on all your hearts as on mine . But I cannot refrain from availing myself of the present , and , perhaps , the last opportunity I may have of proclaiming to so distinguished au assem-
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Provincial.
approbation and fraternal regard , my Brethren , with higher feelings than those of ordinary self-gratification , because I consider the testimonial as emanating from a lively recollection on your parts , of those important public ceremonies wliich have accompanied our provincial labours , and which , as marked eras of the moral influence of Freemasonry over society at large , have given an elevation of character to our Order in Cornwallwhichthough slumbering at present from natural and
unavoid-, , able changes , will nevertheless rise again and flourish with new incident , passing on unimpaired to future generations . The first public ceremony , my Brethren , at which I had the honour to preside with you as a Masonic body was , I believe , our dedication to the Almighty Architect of the Universe , of the present light house at the mouth of the Falmouth harbour , as an object of the highest importance to the maritime community at large , but more particularly interesting to the families and friends
of those hardy and enterprising mariners , whose undaunted race for upwards of a century past had nobly " braved the battle and the breeze . " Our next provincial labours were devoted to the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a monumental tribute of sorrowing relatives , admiring friends , and a liberal ancl discriminating public , to the heroic African travellers—the Landers —( loud cheers)—who nobly devoted the bloom of their manhood in that baneful landwhich led alike to the goal of their
, mutual ambition , and the consequent aggrandisement of their country ' s glory ; and ivhere , with a determination of purpose , unexampled in the annals of history , and at the sacrifice of life from savage assassination of the one , and the subsequent premature dissolution , from the fatal effects of climate , of the other , these dauntless ancl elevated young men
triumphantly succeeded in the accomplishment of a national enterprise which had baffled the labours , skill , and fatal perseverance of a succession of victims in the same perilous pursuit , from Ledyard ancl Park to Laing and Clapperton —( loucl cheering ) . The impressions of this imposing , ceremony was scarcely dormant , when we were again called upon to assist , as a Masonic body , in doing public honour to the memory of a deceased nobleman in the county , whom it had been our pride and boast to hail as a Brothera patronand a friend ! Need I here utter the
, , venerated name of De Dunstanville , my Brethren , to bring to your recollections our solemn ceremonies at Cam Brea ?—( hear , hear)—where thousands—I may add tens of thousands of our countrymen , were assembled to proclaim , in loud and grateful acclamations , the concentric virtues of hereditary rank and worth without pride—solid understanding and talent devoid of pedantry or ostentation—unbounded charity blended with Christian humility—patriotism unsullied by party spirit or
solitary selfish interest—great moral courage and domestic amiability , combined with refined private friendship , and based on the generous affections of the purest principles of benevolence —( cheers ) . These , my Brethren , and every other cardinal virtue which can elevate man in the scale of society here below , and ensure his eternal welfare hereafter , were the inherent offsprings of the heart , and the unvarying characteristics of the actions of Tehidy ' s last noble representative—the exaltedbeloved
, , and universally lamented Francis Lord De Dunstanville and Basset ! I must here , my esteemed Brethren , entreat you to pardon my indulging thus long in cherished retrospection of past associations , which I am confident are as indelibly engraven on all your hearts as on mine . But I cannot refrain from availing myself of the present , and , perhaps , the last opportunity I may have of proclaiming to so distinguished au assem-