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Masonry In France.
mais il est facheux qu ' arrivaut dans un ordre dont il ne connaissaifc pas l'imporfcance et les besoins , il' n ' aifc pas cherche a s ' entourer des homines qui lui presentaient le plus de garanties , tcls que les ~ S . "F . Desanlis , Janin , Bertrand , de St . Jean , Morand , Garon , Piquenot , Boisson , Porfcalier , Mongenot , AVenty , Eauiltrier , Joberfc , Chilorefc , A ^ eixer , Bailly , d'Arragon , Clement d'Anglebert , Maubane , Contro ,
Leraller , et de bien d'autres encore , qui seraient ii meme de lui donne des conseilles aussi fructueux que desinteresses . S'il s ' etait enquis , a l'autorite eompefcente , des homines qui niangeufc au ratelier do la police secrete , il n ' est pas probable qu'il en cut ete la dupe , car on pent se servir des espions , mais on n ' en fait point ses amis . Tel est l ' etat des choses en Erance , et j ' ai presume que ces details interesseraient les ma 9 ons de ce jiays , si amis cle la legalite , si prudemment diriges par les macons honorables qui composent le gouvernement maconnique .
[ Translation . ' ] DEAK SIU AUD BROTHER , — The Masonic press in Prance is no more free than the press political , and if any wholesome truths can be conveyed to the actual G . 0 . of the Order it will be doubtless owing to the more complete collection of useful documents concerning our important Society contained in the Freemason * ' Quarterly Magazine . Since 1817 tbe irit of democracy which had introduced itself into the profane
, sp world , and troubled the administration of public affairs , had also glided into Masonry , by the reappearance in the Order of the Bros . Pagnerre , Altaroche , Blaize , & c , who had become members of the G . O . It xvas intended to give way to the exigencies of the times in removing those Officers of the G . O ., the oldest , the best instructed , and tlie fittest to preserve its traditions . It xvas decided that henceforward the G . O . should be composed only of deputies from the lodges ,
and that every one of them could only represent a single Loclge . Truly , there wovild then be something to do , for hitherto the deputies had been only useless dummies , and it was necessary to create a power to counterbalance that of the officers , occasionally too absolute . But in bringing in all at once an entire representative system as the element of legislative and judicial poxver xvas to destroy the traditions ofthe Order , and to introduce confusion . On the other hand , the deputies , before being brought to Paris , and its working Lodges being not in the best condition on the point of instructiongreat risk xvas run of filling the
adminis-, tration xvith inadequate instruments ready to become the prey of the designing . After the the revolution of 1 S 4 S , our fast men threxr themselves upon Masonry , hoping to find in it an element for success in their views . The Pagnerres , the Altaroches , the Blaizes had already disappeared , for the affairs ofthe State , at the head of xvhich they had at last arrived , absorbed all their time . Men still more
obscure hoped to tread in their steps . The promulgation of the nexv constitution , and the revolution effected in the G . 0 ., aided wonderfully their schemes . Amongst the nexv deputies xvas one Bro . Perier , referendary of the Chamber of Accounts , xx'hose opinions xvere very advanced ; one Bro . Hubert , a young Gascon Mason , xvho had , as good Hemy 1 "V . used to say , " emry thing to gain every thing . " These txvo persons confederated themselves most intimately , and endeavoured to reconstruct the Order : the first in the intez-est of his accomplicethe second in the hopes of xvhat miht turn .
, g up As the majority ofthe old Officers had received proxies , the elections could not be managed as xvas exactly xvished ; so that the actual session of the G . O ., xvhich expires the following March , has not been so bad as xx'as expected . They xvere obliged to leave Bro . Desanlis , solicitor , in the Presidential Chair : a Conservative of fortune and devotion to the general good . Bro . XVentz , solicitor ,
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Masonry In France.
mais il est facheux qu ' arrivaut dans un ordre dont il ne connaissaifc pas l'imporfcance et les besoins , il' n ' aifc pas cherche a s ' entourer des homines qui lui presentaient le plus de garanties , tcls que les ~ S . "F . Desanlis , Janin , Bertrand , de St . Jean , Morand , Garon , Piquenot , Boisson , Porfcalier , Mongenot , AVenty , Eauiltrier , Joberfc , Chilorefc , A ^ eixer , Bailly , d'Arragon , Clement d'Anglebert , Maubane , Contro ,
Leraller , et de bien d'autres encore , qui seraient ii meme de lui donne des conseilles aussi fructueux que desinteresses . S'il s ' etait enquis , a l'autorite eompefcente , des homines qui niangeufc au ratelier do la police secrete , il n ' est pas probable qu'il en cut ete la dupe , car on pent se servir des espions , mais on n ' en fait point ses amis . Tel est l ' etat des choses en Erance , et j ' ai presume que ces details interesseraient les ma 9 ons de ce jiays , si amis cle la legalite , si prudemment diriges par les macons honorables qui composent le gouvernement maconnique .
[ Translation . ' ] DEAK SIU AUD BROTHER , — The Masonic press in Prance is no more free than the press political , and if any wholesome truths can be conveyed to the actual G . 0 . of the Order it will be doubtless owing to the more complete collection of useful documents concerning our important Society contained in the Freemason * ' Quarterly Magazine . Since 1817 tbe irit of democracy which had introduced itself into the profane
, sp world , and troubled the administration of public affairs , had also glided into Masonry , by the reappearance in the Order of the Bros . Pagnerre , Altaroche , Blaize , & c , who had become members of the G . O . It xvas intended to give way to the exigencies of the times in removing those Officers of the G . O ., the oldest , the best instructed , and tlie fittest to preserve its traditions . It xvas decided that henceforward the G . O . should be composed only of deputies from the lodges ,
and that every one of them could only represent a single Loclge . Truly , there wovild then be something to do , for hitherto the deputies had been only useless dummies , and it was necessary to create a power to counterbalance that of the officers , occasionally too absolute . But in bringing in all at once an entire representative system as the element of legislative and judicial poxver xvas to destroy the traditions ofthe Order , and to introduce confusion . On the other hand , the deputies , before being brought to Paris , and its working Lodges being not in the best condition on the point of instructiongreat risk xvas run of filling the
adminis-, tration xvith inadequate instruments ready to become the prey of the designing . After the the revolution of 1 S 4 S , our fast men threxr themselves upon Masonry , hoping to find in it an element for success in their views . The Pagnerres , the Altaroches , the Blaizes had already disappeared , for the affairs ofthe State , at the head of xvhich they had at last arrived , absorbed all their time . Men still more
obscure hoped to tread in their steps . The promulgation of the nexv constitution , and the revolution effected in the G . 0 ., aided wonderfully their schemes . Amongst the nexv deputies xvas one Bro . Perier , referendary of the Chamber of Accounts , xx'hose opinions xvere very advanced ; one Bro . Hubert , a young Gascon Mason , xvho had , as good Hemy 1 "V . used to say , " emry thing to gain every thing . " These txvo persons confederated themselves most intimately , and endeavoured to reconstruct the Order : the first in the intez-est of his accomplicethe second in the hopes of xvhat miht turn .
, g up As the majority ofthe old Officers had received proxies , the elections could not be managed as xvas exactly xvished ; so that the actual session of the G . O ., xvhich expires the following March , has not been so bad as xx'as expected . They xvere obliged to leave Bro . Desanlis , solicitor , in the Presidential Chair : a Conservative of fortune and devotion to the general good . Bro . XVentz , solicitor ,