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Cagliostro And The Lodge Of Antiquity.
now excites great interest amongst the learned . In fche year 1785 , Cagliostro Avas busy in Paris , founding Egyptian Lodges , Avhich appear to havo flourished overyAvherc , when all of a sudden , he , his wife , the Cardinal , the Countess la Motto , and sonic others , were consigned to the Bastille , and not liberated until tho following May , and then ordered to quit ' Paris in twenty-four hours , and France in throe Aveeks ,
and then the Count arrives in . England and lodges in Sloanc-strect . but here he was vary much distrusted , although some Egyptian Masonic Lodges ' Avere still under his sway . On his arrival here , one Morande , editor of a Courier de VEurope , published in London , had for some time been amongst the foremost of Cagliostro ' s enemies , and catching up a speech , of the Count ' s , in which ho mentioned having seen pigs
fattened upon arsenic , and turned out to bo eaten by the Avild beasts Avho Avere poisoned thereby , made merry over it in his paper ,, and Cagliostro completely turned the tables upon him in the folio-wing adroit Avay;—the Count inserted an advertisement in tho Public Advertiser of September - > rd , 1780 , challenging Morande to breakfast with him in public , ou a sucking pig , fattened on Cagliostro ' s system , but to be cooked , carved , and chosen from by Morande , under a bet of five thousand guineas that , tiro next morning , Morande was to bo
dead and Cagliostro alive . Morande neither having the money to hst nor the inclination to try the food , backed , out of tire matter in the best possible way , and left Cagliostro to himself for the future . The Count was , again , in May . 1787 , obliged to leave England . He went to Savoy , Sardinia , .-aid other places , aud by some unaccountable impulse oven on to Rome , Avhich he entered iu May , 1789 . In the
December of thc same year , the Holy Inquisition , who had been long Avatchiug for an opportunity , detected him founding an Egyptian Lodge , and locked him up iu the Castle of Sfc . Angelo , - " where they also had gotten his wife , ivho begins to confess , and he , finding that such is thc case , confesses also ; AA'hen , after eig hteen months baffling and fi ghting , sentence - is given , that the manuscript of Egyptian
Masonry is to be burned by the hands / if the common hangman , and all that intermeddle with such Masou / v arc accursed ; Joseph Balsamo ( Count OiigUostro ) , justly forfeited uf life ( for being a Freemason ) , shall nevertheless in mercy by forgiven ; instructed in the duties of penitence , and even kept safe thenceforth and till death , —in ward of Holy Church . " So languished Count Cagliostro in tho
dungeons of the Holy lloman Inquisition , until the year 1795 , Avhen his body Avas found , lifeless , on a summer morning , he having died from apoplexy . A . MAXt / Jfl-SIS .
A "WORD FOB PLAIN ENGLISH . —Though a linguist should pride himself fo havo ¦ 111 the tongues that Babel cleft the Avorld into—yet if he have not studied the solid things in them , he Avere nothing so much to he esteemed a learned man , as any yeoman or tradesman competently ivise in his mother dialect only . Milton .
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Cagliostro And The Lodge Of Antiquity.
now excites great interest amongst the learned . In fche year 1785 , Cagliostro Avas busy in Paris , founding Egyptian Lodges , Avhich appear to havo flourished overyAvherc , when all of a sudden , he , his wife , the Cardinal , the Countess la Motto , and sonic others , were consigned to the Bastille , and not liberated until tho following May , and then ordered to quit ' Paris in twenty-four hours , and France in throe Aveeks ,
and then the Count arrives in . England and lodges in Sloanc-strect . but here he was vary much distrusted , although some Egyptian Masonic Lodges ' Avere still under his sway . On his arrival here , one Morande , editor of a Courier de VEurope , published in London , had for some time been amongst the foremost of Cagliostro ' s enemies , and catching up a speech , of the Count ' s , in which ho mentioned having seen pigs
fattened upon arsenic , and turned out to bo eaten by the Avild beasts Avho Avere poisoned thereby , made merry over it in his paper ,, and Cagliostro completely turned the tables upon him in the folio-wing adroit Avay;—the Count inserted an advertisement in tho Public Advertiser of September - > rd , 1780 , challenging Morande to breakfast with him in public , ou a sucking pig , fattened on Cagliostro ' s system , but to be cooked , carved , and chosen from by Morande , under a bet of five thousand guineas that , tiro next morning , Morande was to bo
dead and Cagliostro alive . Morande neither having the money to hst nor the inclination to try the food , backed , out of tire matter in the best possible way , and left Cagliostro to himself for the future . The Count was , again , in May . 1787 , obliged to leave England . He went to Savoy , Sardinia , .-aid other places , aud by some unaccountable impulse oven on to Rome , Avhich he entered iu May , 1789 . In the
December of thc same year , the Holy Inquisition , who had been long Avatchiug for an opportunity , detected him founding an Egyptian Lodge , and locked him up iu the Castle of Sfc . Angelo , - " where they also had gotten his wife , ivho begins to confess , and he , finding that such is thc case , confesses also ; AA'hen , after eig hteen months baffling and fi ghting , sentence - is given , that the manuscript of Egyptian
Masonry is to be burned by the hands / if the common hangman , and all that intermeddle with such Masou / v arc accursed ; Joseph Balsamo ( Count OiigUostro ) , justly forfeited uf life ( for being a Freemason ) , shall nevertheless in mercy by forgiven ; instructed in the duties of penitence , and even kept safe thenceforth and till death , —in ward of Holy Church . " So languished Count Cagliostro in tho
dungeons of the Holy lloman Inquisition , until the year 1795 , Avhen his body Avas found , lifeless , on a summer morning , he having died from apoplexy . A . MAXt / Jfl-SIS .
A "WORD FOB PLAIN ENGLISH . —Though a linguist should pride himself fo havo ¦ 111 the tongues that Babel cleft the Avorld into—yet if he have not studied the solid things in them , he Avere nothing so much to he esteemed a learned man , as any yeoman or tradesman competently ivise in his mother dialect only . Milton .