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The relatives of the deceased refused to comply with this demand , as being an insuhV to his memory , and made a complaint to the Government . On the 3 rd June , 1854 , the Lodges " La Triple Esperance , " and "LaPalx , " received from the office of the Colonial Secretary a reply to their letter of the 11 th May , in which His Excellency General Sutherland informed the Freemasons that , considering the question too delicate and serious , he could not arrange the
difference , but that he should refer the matter to Her Majesty the Queen , and that , the Brethren might count upon a strong recommendation in their favour from himself . The Lodges " La Triple Esperance / ' and "La Paix , " to corroborate the report of His Excellency the Governor , prepared a collective complaint against the abuses of Monseigneur Collier , and placed the same at the foot of the throne of Her Majesty * The Lodges of the Mauritius hoped to have enjoyed a little calm in waiting for the decision of Her Majesty , when the bishop committed a new act of intolerance .
The Brother Duverge , No . 32 , member of the Lodge "La Triple Espdrance , " having expressed a wish in his dying moments to be carried to the Lodge to which he belonged , the family dutifully fulfilled the desire of the dying man . It was from this place the procession would start , in order to proceed to the church and from thence to the burial-ground . When these-circumstances became known to the chief of the episcopate , he refused to the dead all admission into the church , and the prayers of the dead . *
rru , „ T ~ J cc t ~ rn _• 1 ^ xn ~„^ ' ^ a ? i . ~ *~ xi . ^ u "U ~~ 1 : «^ . i"u » i l >« „^ ,, 'M The Lodge" La Triple Esperance " wrote to the bishop , begging that he would allow the body of the Brother Duverge to be received in the church , and prayers to be said over it . His eminence replied , that he would not alter in the least the rules he had laid down for ecclesiastical sepulture , and refused to allow the body to be carried into the cathedral , and all the endeavours of the principal Brethren were in vain ; on which the members of the Colonial Administrative Council and Brethren waited
upon the Governor , and communicated to him this new cause of complaint . His excellency deplored that such conduct should be resorted to , but replied that he could do nothing . On the 11 th October , 1854 , a considerable assemblage of Freemasons and others followed the defunct to the burial-place , protesting by their presence at the funeral against the arbitrary conduct of the bishop . Such is the succinct expose of the persecutions practised against the Lodges "La Triple Espe ' rance , " and " La Paix , " by the bishop of Port Louis ( Mauritius ) . The above certified to be conformable to the documents sent to the Grand
Orient of France . The Deputy Grand Master of the Masonic Order in France . ( Signed ) HEULnANT
Past Pleasure.
PAST PLEASUBE .
Those summer days are past away , We felt the sorrow nigh , We never let one ray of sunlight , Flit unheeded by ; We knew the dark must fall on us , The dark did fall full soon , Let us kneel and bless the giver ,
Of that glorious noon ! Though our burthen'd hearts be failing , Our days a tale of wrong , Once remember they flow'd onward Like a marriage song ; And though the words be faded , The melody remains , Dulling with its sorrow-music , Half our spirit pains .
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The relatives of the deceased refused to comply with this demand , as being an insuhV to his memory , and made a complaint to the Government . On the 3 rd June , 1854 , the Lodges " La Triple Esperance , " and "LaPalx , " received from the office of the Colonial Secretary a reply to their letter of the 11 th May , in which His Excellency General Sutherland informed the Freemasons that , considering the question too delicate and serious , he could not arrange the
difference , but that he should refer the matter to Her Majesty the Queen , and that , the Brethren might count upon a strong recommendation in their favour from himself . The Lodges " La Triple Esperance / ' and "La Paix , " to corroborate the report of His Excellency the Governor , prepared a collective complaint against the abuses of Monseigneur Collier , and placed the same at the foot of the throne of Her Majesty * The Lodges of the Mauritius hoped to have enjoyed a little calm in waiting for the decision of Her Majesty , when the bishop committed a new act of intolerance .
The Brother Duverge , No . 32 , member of the Lodge "La Triple Espdrance , " having expressed a wish in his dying moments to be carried to the Lodge to which he belonged , the family dutifully fulfilled the desire of the dying man . It was from this place the procession would start , in order to proceed to the church and from thence to the burial-ground . When these-circumstances became known to the chief of the episcopate , he refused to the dead all admission into the church , and the prayers of the dead . *
rru , „ T ~ J cc t ~ rn _• 1 ^ xn ~„^ ' ^ a ? i . ~ *~ xi . ^ u "U ~~ 1 : «^ . i"u » i l >« „^ ,, 'M The Lodge" La Triple Esperance " wrote to the bishop , begging that he would allow the body of the Brother Duverge to be received in the church , and prayers to be said over it . His eminence replied , that he would not alter in the least the rules he had laid down for ecclesiastical sepulture , and refused to allow the body to be carried into the cathedral , and all the endeavours of the principal Brethren were in vain ; on which the members of the Colonial Administrative Council and Brethren waited
upon the Governor , and communicated to him this new cause of complaint . His excellency deplored that such conduct should be resorted to , but replied that he could do nothing . On the 11 th October , 1854 , a considerable assemblage of Freemasons and others followed the defunct to the burial-place , protesting by their presence at the funeral against the arbitrary conduct of the bishop . Such is the succinct expose of the persecutions practised against the Lodges "La Triple Espe ' rance , " and " La Paix , " by the bishop of Port Louis ( Mauritius ) . The above certified to be conformable to the documents sent to the Grand
Orient of France . The Deputy Grand Master of the Masonic Order in France . ( Signed ) HEULnANT
Past Pleasure.
PAST PLEASUBE .
Those summer days are past away , We felt the sorrow nigh , We never let one ray of sunlight , Flit unheeded by ; We knew the dark must fall on us , The dark did fall full soon , Let us kneel and bless the giver ,
Of that glorious noon ! Though our burthen'd hearts be failing , Our days a tale of wrong , Once remember they flow'd onward Like a marriage song ; And though the words be faded , The melody remains , Dulling with its sorrow-music , Half our spirit pains .