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To Thomas Moore, Esq., P. J. G. D.
So much for my version of facts . I should have paused before addressing you , nay , perhaps I should have not done so at all , but for your expression after my observation , " that your opinion remained unchanged . " I felt something to be honestly due to myself , and now draw your attention to another circumstance that has grown out of the case , namely , that it was reported to me that a Grand Officer had represented to His Royal Hihness the M . W . G . M . that the dinner
g in question took place on the very day appointed for the Boys' Anniversary , and which circumstance appeared very naturally to account for the deficit in its numbers . It must be borne in mind that 1 had the honour to preside on the occasion . You have disclaimed " laying the information , " in this I rejoice , and am bound to make the disclaimer public—and further to say that 1 am led to believe that I stand exonerated in the highest quarter from
a charge , which , if PROVED , would have been a breach of Masonic conduct . However , I have taken care to write the truth , where only truth should be addressed ; I know not yet who my traducer is , it is well perhaps to be in ignorance , my hand may unconsciously have grasped his , since and often , and 1 leave to him the enviable feelings that enshrouded the pressure . And now I miht conclude with the hackneyed apology of having
g trespassed upon your time , which you would very properly treat with indifference . I would rather say , that having written what I think , I have read it carefully over , and send it with my fraternal regard , Remaining , dear Sir , and Brother , Very sincerely yours , Lancaster Place , Nov . 3 rd , 1 S 35 . ROB . THOS . CRUCEFIX .
The Mysterious Mr. B.
THE MYSTERIOUS MR . B .
Concluded . ( lllS LIFE RELATED BY HIMSELF . )
TIIF , ship arrived in England in the month of March 1789 . At this period I unfortunately met with so severe an accident , that I was incapacitated from ever again performing hard manual labour , and from which I am suffering , more or less , to the present day : —I was crushed by a large sea chest , which was being removed to the long boat for the purpose of being conveyed on shore , and was so seriously injured that great doubts were entertained of my ever recovering from the effects . I
was sent to the hospital at Plymouth , wherein I remained an inmate for two months , during which time I received the kindest possible aid from the medical officers , and more particularly from an elderly gentleman , who , from some unknown reason , appeared by his anxious solicitude to be extremely interested in my fate . His attention was undeviating ; and at the time when I was pronounced convalescent , he , in a conversation which we hadassured me that I need not fear of being put into
, a situation which would render me not only capable of procuring my future subsistence , but make me comfortable for the remainder of my life . There can be little doubt but he was acquainted with the authors of my being ; yet I never , in spite of my incessant and earnest prayers , could induce him to acknowledge it . At my discharge from the hospital I was taken into to the house of Mr . James , the individual I am
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To Thomas Moore, Esq., P. J. G. D.
So much for my version of facts . I should have paused before addressing you , nay , perhaps I should have not done so at all , but for your expression after my observation , " that your opinion remained unchanged . " I felt something to be honestly due to myself , and now draw your attention to another circumstance that has grown out of the case , namely , that it was reported to me that a Grand Officer had represented to His Royal Hihness the M . W . G . M . that the dinner
g in question took place on the very day appointed for the Boys' Anniversary , and which circumstance appeared very naturally to account for the deficit in its numbers . It must be borne in mind that 1 had the honour to preside on the occasion . You have disclaimed " laying the information , " in this I rejoice , and am bound to make the disclaimer public—and further to say that 1 am led to believe that I stand exonerated in the highest quarter from
a charge , which , if PROVED , would have been a breach of Masonic conduct . However , I have taken care to write the truth , where only truth should be addressed ; I know not yet who my traducer is , it is well perhaps to be in ignorance , my hand may unconsciously have grasped his , since and often , and 1 leave to him the enviable feelings that enshrouded the pressure . And now I miht conclude with the hackneyed apology of having
g trespassed upon your time , which you would very properly treat with indifference . I would rather say , that having written what I think , I have read it carefully over , and send it with my fraternal regard , Remaining , dear Sir , and Brother , Very sincerely yours , Lancaster Place , Nov . 3 rd , 1 S 35 . ROB . THOS . CRUCEFIX .
The Mysterious Mr. B.
THE MYSTERIOUS MR . B .
Concluded . ( lllS LIFE RELATED BY HIMSELF . )
TIIF , ship arrived in England in the month of March 1789 . At this period I unfortunately met with so severe an accident , that I was incapacitated from ever again performing hard manual labour , and from which I am suffering , more or less , to the present day : —I was crushed by a large sea chest , which was being removed to the long boat for the purpose of being conveyed on shore , and was so seriously injured that great doubts were entertained of my ever recovering from the effects . I
was sent to the hospital at Plymouth , wherein I remained an inmate for two months , during which time I received the kindest possible aid from the medical officers , and more particularly from an elderly gentleman , who , from some unknown reason , appeared by his anxious solicitude to be extremely interested in my fate . His attention was undeviating ; and at the time when I was pronounced convalescent , he , in a conversation which we hadassured me that I need not fear of being put into
, a situation which would render me not only capable of procuring my future subsistence , but make me comfortable for the remainder of my life . There can be little doubt but he was acquainted with the authors of my being ; yet I never , in spite of my incessant and earnest prayers , could induce him to acknowledge it . At my discharge from the hospital I was taken into to the house of Mr . James , the individual I am