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America.
" ' This Lodge offers another proof of the excellence and useful influence of Masonry . When in Dominica , in the year 1805 , the 46 th regiment was attacked by a French force , which it gallantly repelled , but in the action had the misfortune again to lose the Masonic chest , which the enemy succeeded in securing on board their fleet , without knowing its contents . Threo years afterwards , the French government , at tho earnest request of the officers who had commanded tho expedition , returned the chest , with several complimentary presentsottering bthat act the acknowledgment and homago of an
, y enlightened nation to the purity , value , and usefulness of Masonry . ' ' ' In 1834 there were but twelve Masons attached to the Lodge , one only of whom was among the number of its original members . These twelve , however , in that year petitioned and obtained from the Grand Lodge of Ireland , a renewal of then- original charter . This circumstance elicited the interesting facts which aro here given from their records . '
" It is worthy of remark in this connection , that the 40 th was not the only regiment which , during the revolutionary struggle in this country , was afforded an opportunity of witnessing a practical illustration of the beautiful and humanizing principles of Freemasonry , even amid the jarring elements of war . We have the authority of the late distinguished Brother the Rev . James Milnor , D . D ., a Past Grand Blaster of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania , for the
statement , that in a skirmish with a detachment of the British army , the warrant and regalia of the Military Lodge ,, No . 18 fell into the hands of the American general Parsons , who immediately returned them to the British commander , with the following fraternal note : — .
"' When the ambition of monarchs , or the jarring interests of states , call forth their subjects to war , we , as Masons , are disarmed of that resentment which stimulates to indiscriminate desolation ; and however our political sentiments may impel us in the public dispute , we are still Brethren ; and , our professional duties apart , ought to promote the happiness and advance tho welfare of each other . Accept , therefore , at the hands of a Brother , the Constitution of the Lodge ' Unity , No . 18 , ' held in the 17 th British regiment , which your late misfortunes have put it in my power to restore to you . ' " It might be difficult to present to our readers anything which more beautifully or significantl y illustrates the benignant principles of our Order , and their practical operations , than the foregoing interesting anecdotes . "
Foreign.
FOREIGN .
FKANCK—La Clemente Amitie . —At a meeting of this Lodge , on the 8 th of October , the members paid Masonically a mournful tribute of respect to the memory of the Illustrious Brother Arthur , Duke of Wellington , & c , who had been an Honorary Member of the Lodge since May 18 , 1847 . This information has been most politely and fraternally conveyed to us by Bro . Leblanc de Marconnay , who expresses his gratification on being thus able to prove to the Brethren
on this side of the Channel how much the Brethren of this Lodge respect the memory of our departed Brother , and sympathize with us on account of his decease .
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America.
" ' This Lodge offers another proof of the excellence and useful influence of Masonry . When in Dominica , in the year 1805 , the 46 th regiment was attacked by a French force , which it gallantly repelled , but in the action had the misfortune again to lose the Masonic chest , which the enemy succeeded in securing on board their fleet , without knowing its contents . Threo years afterwards , the French government , at tho earnest request of the officers who had commanded tho expedition , returned the chest , with several complimentary presentsottering bthat act the acknowledgment and homago of an
, y enlightened nation to the purity , value , and usefulness of Masonry . ' ' ' In 1834 there were but twelve Masons attached to the Lodge , one only of whom was among the number of its original members . These twelve , however , in that year petitioned and obtained from the Grand Lodge of Ireland , a renewal of then- original charter . This circumstance elicited the interesting facts which aro here given from their records . '
" It is worthy of remark in this connection , that the 40 th was not the only regiment which , during the revolutionary struggle in this country , was afforded an opportunity of witnessing a practical illustration of the beautiful and humanizing principles of Freemasonry , even amid the jarring elements of war . We have the authority of the late distinguished Brother the Rev . James Milnor , D . D ., a Past Grand Blaster of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania , for the
statement , that in a skirmish with a detachment of the British army , the warrant and regalia of the Military Lodge ,, No . 18 fell into the hands of the American general Parsons , who immediately returned them to the British commander , with the following fraternal note : — .
"' When the ambition of monarchs , or the jarring interests of states , call forth their subjects to war , we , as Masons , are disarmed of that resentment which stimulates to indiscriminate desolation ; and however our political sentiments may impel us in the public dispute , we are still Brethren ; and , our professional duties apart , ought to promote the happiness and advance tho welfare of each other . Accept , therefore , at the hands of a Brother , the Constitution of the Lodge ' Unity , No . 18 , ' held in the 17 th British regiment , which your late misfortunes have put it in my power to restore to you . ' " It might be difficult to present to our readers anything which more beautifully or significantl y illustrates the benignant principles of our Order , and their practical operations , than the foregoing interesting anecdotes . "
Foreign.
FOREIGN .
FKANCK—La Clemente Amitie . —At a meeting of this Lodge , on the 8 th of October , the members paid Masonically a mournful tribute of respect to the memory of the Illustrious Brother Arthur , Duke of Wellington , & c , who had been an Honorary Member of the Lodge since May 18 , 1847 . This information has been most politely and fraternally conveyed to us by Bro . Leblanc de Marconnay , who expresses his gratification on being thus able to prove to the Brethren
on this side of the Channel how much the Brethren of this Lodge respect the memory of our departed Brother , and sympathize with us on account of his decease .