Cokbesponmince.

With regard to the * odium which your correspondent says I showered on the Prov . G . M ., I can only indignantly deny his assertion . Whatever I may have uttered respecting the Prov . G . M . was the truth , and I am prepared to repeat . Truth cannot be unjust , though it may be called sarcastic ; but perhaps Bro . Oliver would kindly favour your readers with some of these unjust and sarcastic remarks , as he calls them 1 Let me assure you they will bear investigation .

In conclusion , allow me to add , that it has been my fate , from time to time , conscientiously , to oppose Bro . C . W . Oliver , whose conduct I could not approve . I knew that he joined our Lodge merely to make it a stepping-stone to the purple , and to use his own words , " ' He did not care for Masonry after that was obtained ,

as his father particularly wished him to get the purple in the Province of Somerset . " Besides , he was an E . A . ten or eleven years before he came to Bath , and took his F . C . and M . M . degrees in our Lodge ; and as I knew his motives , for they were communicated to me after he had joined , I did not feel myself justified in gratifying his laudable ambition , and in placing him in office over the heads of Brethren better Masons , in and out of Lodge , than himself .

I feel some little difficulty in replying to this Brother , because I will frankly own that I have to overcome a great temptation to tell him a few more wholesome truths : from this I forbear at the present time ; but I can only say , in taking my leave of him , that the Royal Cumberland Lodge is fortunate in having received his resignation , and I trust he will for the future abstain from telling people that I drove him from the Lodge , for he knows full well that disappointment alone was the cause of his un-Masonic conduct .

I trust that this letter will close * the correspondence , and if you admit any others in your pages , written in a spirit of hostility to me ; I feel assured that your high and well-known sense of justice will permit me the privilege of replying thereto . —I am , dear Sir and Brother , Yours faithfully and fraternally , Peecy Wells , P . M . and H ., No . 48 , M . E . Commander Camp of Antiquity , and Grand Bath , July 10 i 7 i , 1856 . Captain of the Grand Commandery .

THE GRAND CHAPLAIN OF KENT . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sir , — A few days after the preparatory meeting of the Freemasons of Kent , held at Maidstone on the 11 th of May , I received a letter from the Prov . Grand Secretary , to announce that the annual Provincial festival would be held at Dartford on the 16 th of June ; among other subjects he told me , that the Prov . G . M . had displaced me from the office of Prov . G . Chap , without assigning

any cause whatever , and without his worship ' s compliments or respects even to be addressed to me ; and that a Brother Kingsford , of Brenchley , was appointed to officiate this year instead of me ; from whom , on application , I received a note soon afterwards to say , that he would not accept the office . Now , I think that I have great reason to complain of so unkind and un-Masonic treatment at the hands of the Prov . G . M . Bro . Cooper , in this instance . I was appointed to the office of Prov . G . Chap , in the year 1828 ( by request ) , and I officiated at the annual festivals every year since , and all the Brethren present expressed their great

satisfaction respecting the sermons , for which service I received a fee or gratuity of five guineas to defray my expenses . When the annual meeting was held at Margate , Rarnsgate , Hythe , Dover , or Chatham , which was always on a Monday , I was compelled to go down on the previous Saturday ( as I did not think it right to travel on a Sunday ) , and to remain till the following Tuesday morning ; so that I had to pay my travelling expenses and those incurred at the tavern from Saturday night till Tuesday morning , and also to pay a substitute for discharging my heavy duties at home ; so that , generally , the live guineas were far from being sufficient

* it must . —[ Mo . P . M . <(• M . M A