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Before any resistance could be made , the crew of the Temerario were taken in custody , and placed on board the Brazilian man-of-war . The commander of the Brazilian schooner , on receiving the report from his subordinate , concluded that Captain Jenkins was concealed below , and had a search made for him , when he was finally discovered in the cable , and taken into custody . I was also examined , and in
cine ; and in others small arms and cutlasses , together with farina , indian corn , beans , and rice . " Here are your articles for St . Helena , my good sir ! " said the officer ; " I shall seize you . "
my defence had of course to say much that criminated my employer , Mr . Darkle . But of this I was not sorry , for his conduct towards me , in making me go as supercargo of a slave-vessel , was by no means warranted by any of the laws of trade . The Brazilian man-ofwar , with the Temerario under her charge , put back to Bio de Janeiro , all the crew of the brig being kept in close custody . From this , however , I was exempted . I discovered a Brother in one of the superior officers of the schooner , who could safely vouch for the truth of my story , so that I was set at liberty , whilst scant convenience fell to the share of all the others *
Coloured Lodges In America.
COLOURED LODGES IN AMERICA .
{ Continued from page 687 . ) Ok the 6 th of June , 1845 , a requisition was brought before the Grand Lodge of New York , in which a large body of coloured
people represented themselves as members of the Boyer Lodge , created by the African Lodge , and begged to be acknowledged . The Grand Secretary , Brother Herring , fulfilled his mission , and reported on their association on the 2 nd of June , 1846 , and , in stating the afore-given history of the African Lodge , in Boston ,
observed , that a discussion on the legality of the Boyer Lodge had already taken place , on the 3 rd of March , 1842 , and 4 th of March , 1844 . On the proposition of Brother Herring , the Grand Lodge resolved : — " That the Boyer Lodge was illegal : because the African Lodge , in Boston , had been erected in an illegal manner , by the Grand Lodge of England , in the Province of the city of
Massachusets , and had been long since cancelled by that Lodge . In the year 1845 , a mulatto , son of a Cherokee , and therefore " free-born" in a legal point of view ( though his father was an African , an Indian ) , received admittance in a Lodge in Chicago
( Illinois , free-state ) ; in consequence of which the Lodges opposed themselves en masse , and the Grand Lodge resolved ( 1846 ) : — " That it be prohibited to the sister Lodges to admit negroes or mulattos , under penalty of erasure . " The Hoston Daily Atlas , 18 fch of June , 1850 , communicates that , at the festival of ' the fifty-seventh anniversary of the battle of
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Before any resistance could be made , the crew of the Temerario were taken in custody , and placed on board the Brazilian man-of-war . The commander of the Brazilian schooner , on receiving the report from his subordinate , concluded that Captain Jenkins was concealed below , and had a search made for him , when he was finally discovered in the cable , and taken into custody . I was also examined , and in
cine ; and in others small arms and cutlasses , together with farina , indian corn , beans , and rice . " Here are your articles for St . Helena , my good sir ! " said the officer ; " I shall seize you . "
my defence had of course to say much that criminated my employer , Mr . Darkle . But of this I was not sorry , for his conduct towards me , in making me go as supercargo of a slave-vessel , was by no means warranted by any of the laws of trade . The Brazilian man-ofwar , with the Temerario under her charge , put back to Bio de Janeiro , all the crew of the brig being kept in close custody . From this , however , I was exempted . I discovered a Brother in one of the superior officers of the schooner , who could safely vouch for the truth of my story , so that I was set at liberty , whilst scant convenience fell to the share of all the others *
Coloured Lodges In America.
COLOURED LODGES IN AMERICA .
{ Continued from page 687 . ) Ok the 6 th of June , 1845 , a requisition was brought before the Grand Lodge of New York , in which a large body of coloured
people represented themselves as members of the Boyer Lodge , created by the African Lodge , and begged to be acknowledged . The Grand Secretary , Brother Herring , fulfilled his mission , and reported on their association on the 2 nd of June , 1846 , and , in stating the afore-given history of the African Lodge , in Boston ,
observed , that a discussion on the legality of the Boyer Lodge had already taken place , on the 3 rd of March , 1842 , and 4 th of March , 1844 . On the proposition of Brother Herring , the Grand Lodge resolved : — " That the Boyer Lodge was illegal : because the African Lodge , in Boston , had been erected in an illegal manner , by the Grand Lodge of England , in the Province of the city of
Massachusets , and had been long since cancelled by that Lodge . In the year 1845 , a mulatto , son of a Cherokee , and therefore " free-born" in a legal point of view ( though his father was an African , an Indian ) , received admittance in a Lodge in Chicago
( Illinois , free-state ) ; in consequence of which the Lodges opposed themselves en masse , and the Grand Lodge resolved ( 1846 ) : — " That it be prohibited to the sister Lodges to admit negroes or mulattos , under penalty of erasure . " The Hoston Daily Atlas , 18 fch of June , 1850 , communicates that , at the festival of ' the fifty-seventh anniversary of the battle of