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the regulations . I am sorry that it should have happened , and I hope that the Brethren will accept this acknowledgment in excuse for it . I regret , however , at the same time , that I am obliged , from the insolence which I have received on several occasions from the acting W . M . ( which will prevent my meeting him again in Lodge ) , to tender my resignation as a member of the R . C . L . "

I have not yet done with the hissing . In January last I officially attended the banquet of the B . C . L ., contrary to the expressed opinion of the members of my Lodge , who said I would certainly be insulted . I said , " Surely they will respect the Square / ' but it was not so . The conversation at the head of the table was so pointedly offensive in its character against both the G . M . and P . G . M ., that I claimed the protection of the chair ; after dinner I was pointedly hissed , because I , the senior P . M . of their own Lodge present , objected to smolcing in Masonic clothing ; and upon my retiring to tbe ante-room , the most atrocious language was used to me . I specially exempt from these charges the W . M ., and those Brethren who were members of the Lodge at the time I was their W . M . , it

appeared to be confined to the very young men recently made , who seem to be as ignorant of the B . of C . as" Justitia " is of the true principles of the Order . If this is the " comparative comfort" spoken of by " Justitia , " I can see why so many good Masons have left his Lodge to join mine . The R . S . L . would never have been resuscitated had it not been for the extraordinary and unMasonie conduct of " Justitia " and his friends ; it is a singular fact that all our resident joining members have been members of the B . C . L . " Ilinc illce lacrymo ?" With regard to the election of Prov . G-. Treasurer last year , I can only say that I

was canvassed for my vote several months before the election in favour of the unsuccessful candidate , for whom I voted ; that he was to be nominated was well known , and the merits of the two candidates were discussedpriorto the Prov . G . L , The present opposition to that officer is confined to a " clique" or section in the B . C . L ., and is well known to have arisen from a quarrel which occurred nearly two years since , between a former President of the Lodge of Instruction and the present Prov . G . T ., who remonstrated very warmly upon his having broken into the Bladud encampment when prepared for a conclaveof K . T . R . And this brings

me to the second portion of * Justitia ' s " lettei * . Having seen the oath of allegiance to the Grand Master of England administered in the Baldwyn camp of Bristol , I speak from authority when I say that that camp never claimed for itself the rank of a grand encampment . On the death of the Duke of Sussex it asserted its independence of the G . O . of England . I was present when the discussion took place ; I advocated the recognition of the present G . O . of England , but a majority ruled that as far as Bristol was concerned they were an independent camp . The first time I hear of the " Grand

Encampment of Baldwyn is in " Justitia s own letter ; he admits that " certain Sir Knights of that encampment , assisted by the only surviving Sir Knight of the dormant camp ( in Lath ) , revived it . " Pie says that "it never acknowledged any Grand Conclave ; I call upon him in his own name to give us the proofs ; I say that this assertion is simply untrue , because I have in my possession an original document , from which I extract the following : — " Conclave of Antiquity from time immemorial , constituted in the city of Bath , 1790 , under an ancient

warrant ( as above entitled ) , granted by the late T . Dunckerley , Esq ., M . E . G . M . of the Order . Bevived and reopened June 11 , 1814 , by Comp . Sir 15 . Plummer , Grand Expert of England , 11 . 11 . II . the Dulce of Kent , Grand Patron of the Order . ''' ' This document , which is dated July 14 , 1820 , is signed by Matthew Patton , the B . C ., from 'whom 1 received it ; and goes on to state that the warrant was purloined in the previous year , but that the Brethren resolved to meet without it , in compliance with an opinion id veil bv the " Camp of Baldwin . " Here the

( 1 . Conclave of England is expressly acknowledged , and I call upon " Justitia " to produce the warrant under which " certain Sir Knights" resuscitated the Cam ]) of Antiquity in Bath . About ten years ago , while on a visit to Colonel Tyntc , he told me that if I could find the lost warrant ho would give me authority to resuscitate the camp . I called together the late eminent Sir Knights Bythesea and Patton , who told mo that the camp had not met lor many years , and that the warrant was