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To Ithuriel.
dinner . " A large number of the Dorset brethren had assembled to do honour to the Craft , pay respect to their provincial ruler , and enjoy the social hour as Masons ought ; when , in proposing the health of the M . W . Grand Master , the Earl of Zetland , the chairman ( Bro . Tucker aforesaid ) remarked that "he ( the Earl ) had been attacked in the most scandalous manner in an article in the ' Freemasons' Quarterly Review / The cause of this attack was that he was too much of a gentleman to
rule over certain parties in the Grand Lodge , and to reply to their attacks . If he ( Bro . Tucker ) saw any more such articles HE WOULD PUBLICLY DENOUNCE THE AUTHOR OP THEM , AS HE WELL KNEW HIM . " The vice-chairman ( Bro . St . John ) fully agreed with the chairman , observing further , that " the person to whom allusion was made was a man of weak mind , possessing neither knowledge nor talents . " I remember many years since , in a scene of farcical rhodomontade , while Bro . C . Matthews , of comic memory , was indulging in tbe most outrageous nonsense and fun , Bro . Fred . Yates , his co-partner in frolic ,
is made constantly to observe , " I say ditto to Mr . Matthews ; until at last he could stand it no longer , and boldly observed , that he should second everything Mr . Matthews would move for the future . So with our modern heroes of Dorset , bluster and rigmarole—one at hand , the other ready . One chance of escape I hope you will prevent—Tucker says , " IF he saw any more such attacks , " & c . At him again—give the portrait a few more master touches , that then" I ' 11 say of it , It tutors nature : artificial strife Lives in these touches livelier than life . "
It may be that you purpose to give a graphic sketch of this consistent Mason , and may be unaware of his Janus-like quality ; he may be aptly termed the " Before and after-dinner Orator , " keeping the secrets of his ri ght from his left hand . A waggish brother observed , that his maiden aunt , Miss Betsey Martin , would be much offended with his assumption of her prerogative . As I am but a wee-bit man , pray do not betray me , for he , though great , may not be merciful . PARVUS HOMO . December 5 . 1849 .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
London , December 7 , 1849 . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —The 5 th of December , A . L . 684 / 9 , was a day , in the annals of Freemasonry , not easily to be forgotten by those brethren who attended the Quarterly Communication . The whole proceedings of the evening were of the highest interest ; whilst the concluding subject of debate was fraught with the utmost danger to the Order . Grand Lodge being openedthe M . W . Grand Masterbefore
pro-, , ceeding with the regular business of the evening , addressed the brethren , in very feeling terms , upon the lamented death of the Queen Dowager . A long conversation , only remarkable for its verbiage , took place , as to the best method for Grand Lodge to record their sense of the loss the nation had sustained . I did hope that some brother , gifted with " the tongue of a ready speaker , " would have suggested to the M . W . Grand
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To Ithuriel.
dinner . " A large number of the Dorset brethren had assembled to do honour to the Craft , pay respect to their provincial ruler , and enjoy the social hour as Masons ought ; when , in proposing the health of the M . W . Grand Master , the Earl of Zetland , the chairman ( Bro . Tucker aforesaid ) remarked that "he ( the Earl ) had been attacked in the most scandalous manner in an article in the ' Freemasons' Quarterly Review / The cause of this attack was that he was too much of a gentleman to
rule over certain parties in the Grand Lodge , and to reply to their attacks . If he ( Bro . Tucker ) saw any more such articles HE WOULD PUBLICLY DENOUNCE THE AUTHOR OP THEM , AS HE WELL KNEW HIM . " The vice-chairman ( Bro . St . John ) fully agreed with the chairman , observing further , that " the person to whom allusion was made was a man of weak mind , possessing neither knowledge nor talents . " I remember many years since , in a scene of farcical rhodomontade , while Bro . C . Matthews , of comic memory , was indulging in tbe most outrageous nonsense and fun , Bro . Fred . Yates , his co-partner in frolic ,
is made constantly to observe , " I say ditto to Mr . Matthews ; until at last he could stand it no longer , and boldly observed , that he should second everything Mr . Matthews would move for the future . So with our modern heroes of Dorset , bluster and rigmarole—one at hand , the other ready . One chance of escape I hope you will prevent—Tucker says , " IF he saw any more such attacks , " & c . At him again—give the portrait a few more master touches , that then" I ' 11 say of it , It tutors nature : artificial strife Lives in these touches livelier than life . "
It may be that you purpose to give a graphic sketch of this consistent Mason , and may be unaware of his Janus-like quality ; he may be aptly termed the " Before and after-dinner Orator , " keeping the secrets of his ri ght from his left hand . A waggish brother observed , that his maiden aunt , Miss Betsey Martin , would be much offended with his assumption of her prerogative . As I am but a wee-bit man , pray do not betray me , for he , though great , may not be merciful . PARVUS HOMO . December 5 . 1849 .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
London , December 7 , 1849 . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —The 5 th of December , A . L . 684 / 9 , was a day , in the annals of Freemasonry , not easily to be forgotten by those brethren who attended the Quarterly Communication . The whole proceedings of the evening were of the highest interest ; whilst the concluding subject of debate was fraught with the utmost danger to the Order . Grand Lodge being openedthe M . W . Grand Masterbefore
pro-, , ceeding with the regular business of the evening , addressed the brethren , in very feeling terms , upon the lamented death of the Queen Dowager . A long conversation , only remarkable for its verbiage , took place , as to the best method for Grand Lodge to record their sense of the loss the nation had sustained . I did hope that some brother , gifted with " the tongue of a ready speaker , " would have suggested to the M . W . Grand