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Provincial.
" ' AVe feel assured that this periodical will meet with a hearty welcome from all the members of the ' Craft ; ' not only affording them the means of vindicating the Order from the aspersions of those whom , in their wisdom , affect to despise the ' light' of Masonry , but as a medium by which Masonic intelligence may be more widely and more speedily diffused . The numbers which have already appeared exhibit
considerable talent , and telling all that may be told of Masonry , the papers will be as highly interesting to the public as to the Waft . We mention in particular those on the origin and early history of Masonry , and the graphic tale of ' The Mason . ' The latter is founded on a fact communicated at Cambridge by a scion of one of the oldest families in the county ; and though the parties to the fact were a Moor and an
Englishman , it has lost little in the tale in appearing as a Russian and a Frenchman . ' " I hope to forward some interesting gleanings for your next Number , and am , Sir and Brother ,
" Your obedient servant , " CANTAB . " " P . S . As a matter of news only I have to state the Scientific Lodge and tbe Chapter of Pythagoras bespoke a play and other entertainments on the 29 th of September . The house was admirably attended ; and a Masonic address , taken from your first number , with local additions , was admirably spoken bv Mrs . Hield . "
COLCHESTER . —Our town and neighbourhood have been somewhat excited by circumstances which the following details wfll sufficiently explain . To the Editor of the Colchester Gazette . —As a sincere and ardent well-wisher to Mechanics' Institutes , I deplore that the one in this town lias been appropriated to an illiberal and unjust attack upon the oldest
charitable society in existence ; indeed every friend to the Colchester Mechanics' Institute must regret that a lecturer should be invited from a distant town to sow the seeds of dissention amongst its members , as well as array them in hostility to many of their neighbours . It is not my intention to travel over the arguments which were mainly directed against the writings of those who support the antiquity of
Freemasonry , for upon all such subjects every Mason forms his own opinions , from the facts as they may be established ; but when the lecturer charges Masons ivith " swearing to conceal each other ' s villainy , " he either shows an entire disregard of truth , or extreme ignorance . Although I attach but slight importance to great names , yet I may reasonably ask , is it probable that his present Majesty , or his brother , the Duke of Sussex , or noblemen of such rank as the Marquis of Salisbury or Lord Durham , would countenance or support principles at
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Provincial.
" ' AVe feel assured that this periodical will meet with a hearty welcome from all the members of the ' Craft ; ' not only affording them the means of vindicating the Order from the aspersions of those whom , in their wisdom , affect to despise the ' light' of Masonry , but as a medium by which Masonic intelligence may be more widely and more speedily diffused . The numbers which have already appeared exhibit
considerable talent , and telling all that may be told of Masonry , the papers will be as highly interesting to the public as to the Waft . We mention in particular those on the origin and early history of Masonry , and the graphic tale of ' The Mason . ' The latter is founded on a fact communicated at Cambridge by a scion of one of the oldest families in the county ; and though the parties to the fact were a Moor and an
Englishman , it has lost little in the tale in appearing as a Russian and a Frenchman . ' " I hope to forward some interesting gleanings for your next Number , and am , Sir and Brother ,
" Your obedient servant , " CANTAB . " " P . S . As a matter of news only I have to state the Scientific Lodge and tbe Chapter of Pythagoras bespoke a play and other entertainments on the 29 th of September . The house was admirably attended ; and a Masonic address , taken from your first number , with local additions , was admirably spoken bv Mrs . Hield . "
COLCHESTER . —Our town and neighbourhood have been somewhat excited by circumstances which the following details wfll sufficiently explain . To the Editor of the Colchester Gazette . —As a sincere and ardent well-wisher to Mechanics' Institutes , I deplore that the one in this town lias been appropriated to an illiberal and unjust attack upon the oldest
charitable society in existence ; indeed every friend to the Colchester Mechanics' Institute must regret that a lecturer should be invited from a distant town to sow the seeds of dissention amongst its members , as well as array them in hostility to many of their neighbours . It is not my intention to travel over the arguments which were mainly directed against the writings of those who support the antiquity of
Freemasonry , for upon all such subjects every Mason forms his own opinions , from the facts as they may be established ; but when the lecturer charges Masons ivith " swearing to conceal each other ' s villainy , " he either shows an entire disregard of truth , or extreme ignorance . Although I attach but slight importance to great names , yet I may reasonably ask , is it probable that his present Majesty , or his brother , the Duke of Sussex , or noblemen of such rank as the Marquis of Salisbury or Lord Durham , would countenance or support principles at