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Masonic Notes And Queries.
" Prussian majesty and suite , under universal cannon salvos , arrived , Sunday 12 th ; to stay tdl AA ' udaesday ( three days ) with his august sonin-law and daughter here . Durchlaucht Lippe presents himself at court , the rest of us not ; privately settles with the prinoe . : Tuesday night , eve of his majesty ' s departure ; that shall be the night : at Korn ' s Hotel , late enough ! ' ' And there , accordingly , on the appointed night , 14 th and loth August , 173 S , the light luggage trunks have yielded their stage properties ; and all things are ready ; Tiler ( Kielmannsegge' . s valet )
watching with drawn sword against the profane . As to our Hanover neighbour , on the other side the partition , say . s Bielfeld , wo waited on him this day after dinner , successively paying our respects ; successively pledged him iu so mam' bumpers , he is lying dead drunk hours ago , could not overhear a . camion battery , he . And soon after midnight , the Crown Prince glides in , a Captain W ' artensleben accompanying , who is also a candidate ; and the mysterious rites are accomplished on both of them , on the Crown Prince first , without accident , and in the usual
Avay . _ " Bielfeld could not enough admire the demeanour of this prince , his clearness , sense , quiet " , brilliancy ; and how he was so ' intrepid ' , and ' possessed himself' so gracefully in the most critical instants ' . Kxtremely genial air , and so young , looks younger than his years : handsome to a degree , though short of stature . Physiognomy , features , quite charming ; fine auburn hair ( beau brim ) , a negligent plenty of it ; 'his large blue eyes have something at once severesweetsud gracious . Eliible
, , g Mason indeed . ' Had better' make despatch at present , lest Papa be getting on the road before him I Bienfeld delivered a small address , composed beforehand , Avith which the prince seemed to be content . And so , with Masonic grip , they made their adieus for the present ; and the Crown Prince and AYurtensleben were back at their posts , ready for tho road along with his niaiestv ..
"As for the transaction itself , there is intrinsically no harm in tin ' s initiation , we will hope : but it behoves to be kept well hidden from Papa . * * * * * * * " AVe will add the following stray particulars , more or less illustrative of the Masonic transaction ; and so end that trifling affair . " Tho Captain AA'artensleben , fellow recipient of thc mysteries at Brunswick , is youngest son . by a second marriage , of old Feldmarschall AVartensleben , now deceased ; and is consequently uncle , half uncle , of
poor Lieutenant Katte , though some years younger than Katte would now have been . Tender memories hang by AA ' artensleben , in a silent way ! He is captain in the Potsdam Giants ; somewhat an intimate , and not undeservedly so , of the Crown Prince ; succeeds AVoldeu as Hofmarsehall at Iteinsburgh , not many months after this ; AA ' olden having died of an apoplectic stroke . Of Bielfeld comes a book , slightly citable ; from no other of the brethren , or their feat at Korn ' s comes ( we may say ) anything whatever . The Crown Prince prosecuted his
Masonry , at Roinsberg or elsewhere , occasionally , for a year or two ; but Avas never ardent in it ; and very soon after his accession , left off altogether : ' child ' s play and igni * futnux mainly ! ' A royal Lodge was established at Berlin of which the new king consented to be patron ; but he never once entered the place ; and only his portrait ( a welcomely good one , still to be found there ) presided over the mysteries in that establishment . Harmless ' fire , ' but too 'fatuous ; ' mere flame circles cut in the airfor infants we know how !
, " AVith Lippe Biickeburg there ensued some correspondence , high enough on his serenity ' s side ; but it soon languished on the prince ' s side ; and in private poetry , within a two years of this Brunswick scene , Ave find Lippe used proverbially for a typc--specimeu of fools . " 'Taciturne , Caton , avec rnes bous parents .
Aussi fou que la Lippe avec les jeunnes gens . ' ( Kirrrcs , . si ., SO ( Discnur . i sur lit . Fauxete . written 1710 ) . "A windy fantastic individual;—overwhelmed in finance difficulties too ? Lippe continued Avriting ; but 'only secretaries now answered him from Berlin . ' A son of his , son . and successor , something of a Quixote too , but not ablein artillery practice and otherwise , will turn up at a future stage . " Kor is Bielfeld with his book a thing of much moment to Friedrich
or to TIS . Bielfeld too has a- light airy vein of talk ; loves A oltaire and the philosophies in a light way;—knows the arts of society , especially the art of flattering-, and would fain make himself agreeable to the Crown Prince , being anxious to rise in the world . His father is a Hamburg merchant , Hamburg ' sealing wax manufacturer , ' not ill off for money . Son has been at schools , high schools , under tutors , posture masters ; swashes about on those terms , with French esprit in his mouth ,
and lace ruffles at his wrists , still under thirty , showy enough , sharp enough ; considerably a coxcomb , as it is still evident . He did transiently get about Freidrich , as we shall see , and hoped to have sold his heart to good purpose there;—was , by and by , employed in slight functions ; not found fit for grave ones . In thc course of some years he got a title of Baron , and sold his heart more advantageously to some rich widow or Fraiileiu , with whom he retired to Saxony , and there lived on au estate lie had purchaseda stranger to Prussia- thenceforth
, . f His book ( Letters , & c , all turning on Friedrich ) which came out in 1 / 03 , at the height of Friodrieh ' s fame , and Avas much read , is still freely cited by historians as an authority . But the reading of a few pages sufficientl y intimates that these ' le ' ttera' never can have gone through a terrestial post office ; that they are an afterthought , composed from vague memory and imagination , in that fine Saxon retreat : a sorrowful
Masonic Notes And Queries.
ghost like Travels of Anacharsis instead of living words by an eyewitness Sot to be cited freely at all , but sparingly , and under conditions . They abound in small errors , in misdates , mistakes ; small fictions even , and impossible pretensions . Foolish mortal to write down his bit of knowledge in that form ; for the man , in spite of his lace ruffles and gesticulations , has brisk eyesight of a superficial kind ; he could have done us this little service ( apparently Ids one mission in the world for which
nature gave him bed and board here ); and he , the lace ruffles having gone into his soul , has been temjjted into misdoing it . Bielfeld and Bielfeld's book , such as they are , appear to be the one conquest Friedrich got of Freemasonry ; no other result now traceable to us of that adventure in Korn ' s Hotel , croAvning event of the journey to Loo . " AVhatcvcr maybe thought of Mr . Carlyle ' s eminence as aAvriter , his style must be condemned equally with his ignorance of Masonic
tenets and the sneering Avay iu Avhich he writes of such a man as Baron Bielfeld . But . enough . I w-ould only ask one question , Was the poet Camphell , Avith his large heart and human sympathies , a Mason ? I am pretty sure such a cynic as Mr . Carlyle cannot be , or he Avould have shown some more fa . voura . hlc symptoms than douht and distrust . — VIDEO .
Literature. Reviews.
^ ittraturfi , EEVIEWS .
Speeches of / lie Managers and Counsel in the Trial of Warren . Hastings . Edited b y E . A . BOND , Assistant Keeper ^ of the MSS . in the British Museum . Published hy Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty ' s Treasury . A ol . I . London : Longman and Co . THE interest fef t by every Avefl read man and lover of his country ' s purity of administrationhas always been manifested in a desire
, to be minutely acquainted with the impeachment of the celebrated AVarren Hastings , Governor-General of India . This , the greatest of all modem state trials , has ever commanded thc first jdace in English forensic literature , partly on account of the subject itself , but more in reference to the g iant minds and unequalled eloquence displayed throughout the course of the trial ; and iu the above A'olume AVC have for the first time—and as yet but an instalment
only , a record of the speeches as they were delivered , the majority of Avliich have never before been printed . Of those delivered by Burke there is a copy published in the collected edition of his Avorks , but these have been so altered and amended by himself afterwards , by striking out portions not proved in evidence , and strengthening other parts which he had but touched ou or entirely ignoredthat it may fairly he said that his speeches on the occasion
, alluded to were not extant for the general reader , until printed in Mr . Bond ' s book . Those of Fox , Sheridan , Grey , Adam , and others here appear for the first time , although Ave have caught glimpses of Sheridan ' s oration in several works that have professed to be his biography , still , as we before advanced , to Mr . Bond wc arc indented for these wonderful words of remarkable
men in their fullest integrity . 'The volume hears thc marks of assiduous labour and care in its preparation for the press , and the editor has bestowed unwearied pains to present to the world correct and accurate versions of these masterpieces of oratory , and they have been mainly collected from the shorthand notes of the late Mr . Gurney , to whom Mr . Bond pays a Avell merited eulogium for his accuracy and intelligence .
Without entering upon the Avhy or wherefore of the speeches hy Burke being ineffective , or attempting to characterize them ( as every man of taste must have admired his productions for their style , even if differing from his conclusions ) Ave present our readers Avith an extract of his declamatory argumentative style : — " He have arbitrary power ! My lords , the Fast India Company have not arbitrary power to give him ; the king has no arbitrary power to
give him ; your lordships have not : nor the commons ; nor the whole legislature . AVe have no arbitrary power to give , because arbitrary power is a thing which neither any man can hold nor any man can give away . Xo man can govern himself by his own will , much less can he be governed by the will of others . AVe are all born in subjection , all born equally , high and low , governors and governed , in subjection to one great , immutable , preexistent law , prior to all our devices , and prior to all our contrivances , paramount to our very being itself , by which we are knit and connected in the eternal frame of the universe , out of which
we cannot stir . " This great law does not arise from our conventions or compacts , on the contrary , it gives to our conventions and compacts all the force and sanction they can have ; it docs not arise from our vain institutions . Kvery good gift is of Cod , all power is of God ; and he who has given the power and from whom italone originates Avill never suffer the exercise of it to be practised upon any less solid foundation than the power itself . Therefore , will it be imagined , if this be true . th ;\ t he will suffer this
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Masonic Notes And Queries.
" Prussian majesty and suite , under universal cannon salvos , arrived , Sunday 12 th ; to stay tdl AA ' udaesday ( three days ) with his august sonin-law and daughter here . Durchlaucht Lippe presents himself at court , the rest of us not ; privately settles with the prinoe . : Tuesday night , eve of his majesty ' s departure ; that shall be the night : at Korn ' s Hotel , late enough ! ' ' And there , accordingly , on the appointed night , 14 th and loth August , 173 S , the light luggage trunks have yielded their stage properties ; and all things are ready ; Tiler ( Kielmannsegge' . s valet )
watching with drawn sword against the profane . As to our Hanover neighbour , on the other side the partition , say . s Bielfeld , wo waited on him this day after dinner , successively paying our respects ; successively pledged him iu so mam' bumpers , he is lying dead drunk hours ago , could not overhear a . camion battery , he . And soon after midnight , the Crown Prince glides in , a Captain W ' artensleben accompanying , who is also a candidate ; and the mysterious rites are accomplished on both of them , on the Crown Prince first , without accident , and in the usual
Avay . _ " Bielfeld could not enough admire the demeanour of this prince , his clearness , sense , quiet " , brilliancy ; and how he was so ' intrepid ' , and ' possessed himself' so gracefully in the most critical instants ' . Kxtremely genial air , and so young , looks younger than his years : handsome to a degree , though short of stature . Physiognomy , features , quite charming ; fine auburn hair ( beau brim ) , a negligent plenty of it ; 'his large blue eyes have something at once severesweetsud gracious . Eliible
, , g Mason indeed . ' Had better' make despatch at present , lest Papa be getting on the road before him I Bienfeld delivered a small address , composed beforehand , Avith which the prince seemed to be content . And so , with Masonic grip , they made their adieus for the present ; and the Crown Prince and AYurtensleben were back at their posts , ready for tho road along with his niaiestv ..
"As for the transaction itself , there is intrinsically no harm in tin ' s initiation , we will hope : but it behoves to be kept well hidden from Papa . * * * * * * * " AVe will add the following stray particulars , more or less illustrative of the Masonic transaction ; and so end that trifling affair . " Tho Captain AA'artensleben , fellow recipient of thc mysteries at Brunswick , is youngest son . by a second marriage , of old Feldmarschall AVartensleben , now deceased ; and is consequently uncle , half uncle , of
poor Lieutenant Katte , though some years younger than Katte would now have been . Tender memories hang by AA ' artensleben , in a silent way ! He is captain in the Potsdam Giants ; somewhat an intimate , and not undeservedly so , of the Crown Prince ; succeeds AVoldeu as Hofmarsehall at Iteinsburgh , not many months after this ; AA ' olden having died of an apoplectic stroke . Of Bielfeld comes a book , slightly citable ; from no other of the brethren , or their feat at Korn ' s comes ( we may say ) anything whatever . The Crown Prince prosecuted his
Masonry , at Roinsberg or elsewhere , occasionally , for a year or two ; but Avas never ardent in it ; and very soon after his accession , left off altogether : ' child ' s play and igni * futnux mainly ! ' A royal Lodge was established at Berlin of which the new king consented to be patron ; but he never once entered the place ; and only his portrait ( a welcomely good one , still to be found there ) presided over the mysteries in that establishment . Harmless ' fire , ' but too 'fatuous ; ' mere flame circles cut in the airfor infants we know how !
, " AVith Lippe Biickeburg there ensued some correspondence , high enough on his serenity ' s side ; but it soon languished on the prince ' s side ; and in private poetry , within a two years of this Brunswick scene , Ave find Lippe used proverbially for a typc--specimeu of fools . " 'Taciturne , Caton , avec rnes bous parents .
Aussi fou que la Lippe avec les jeunnes gens . ' ( Kirrrcs , . si ., SO ( Discnur . i sur lit . Fauxete . written 1710 ) . "A windy fantastic individual;—overwhelmed in finance difficulties too ? Lippe continued Avriting ; but 'only secretaries now answered him from Berlin . ' A son of his , son . and successor , something of a Quixote too , but not ablein artillery practice and otherwise , will turn up at a future stage . " Kor is Bielfeld with his book a thing of much moment to Friedrich
or to TIS . Bielfeld too has a- light airy vein of talk ; loves A oltaire and the philosophies in a light way;—knows the arts of society , especially the art of flattering-, and would fain make himself agreeable to the Crown Prince , being anxious to rise in the world . His father is a Hamburg merchant , Hamburg ' sealing wax manufacturer , ' not ill off for money . Son has been at schools , high schools , under tutors , posture masters ; swashes about on those terms , with French esprit in his mouth ,
and lace ruffles at his wrists , still under thirty , showy enough , sharp enough ; considerably a coxcomb , as it is still evident . He did transiently get about Freidrich , as we shall see , and hoped to have sold his heart to good purpose there;—was , by and by , employed in slight functions ; not found fit for grave ones . In thc course of some years he got a title of Baron , and sold his heart more advantageously to some rich widow or Fraiileiu , with whom he retired to Saxony , and there lived on au estate lie had purchaseda stranger to Prussia- thenceforth
, . f His book ( Letters , & c , all turning on Friedrich ) which came out in 1 / 03 , at the height of Friodrieh ' s fame , and Avas much read , is still freely cited by historians as an authority . But the reading of a few pages sufficientl y intimates that these ' le ' ttera' never can have gone through a terrestial post office ; that they are an afterthought , composed from vague memory and imagination , in that fine Saxon retreat : a sorrowful
Masonic Notes And Queries.
ghost like Travels of Anacharsis instead of living words by an eyewitness Sot to be cited freely at all , but sparingly , and under conditions . They abound in small errors , in misdates , mistakes ; small fictions even , and impossible pretensions . Foolish mortal to write down his bit of knowledge in that form ; for the man , in spite of his lace ruffles and gesticulations , has brisk eyesight of a superficial kind ; he could have done us this little service ( apparently Ids one mission in the world for which
nature gave him bed and board here ); and he , the lace ruffles having gone into his soul , has been temjjted into misdoing it . Bielfeld and Bielfeld's book , such as they are , appear to be the one conquest Friedrich got of Freemasonry ; no other result now traceable to us of that adventure in Korn ' s Hotel , croAvning event of the journey to Loo . " AVhatcvcr maybe thought of Mr . Carlyle ' s eminence as aAvriter , his style must be condemned equally with his ignorance of Masonic
tenets and the sneering Avay iu Avhich he writes of such a man as Baron Bielfeld . But . enough . I w-ould only ask one question , Was the poet Camphell , Avith his large heart and human sympathies , a Mason ? I am pretty sure such a cynic as Mr . Carlyle cannot be , or he Avould have shown some more fa . voura . hlc symptoms than douht and distrust . — VIDEO .
Literature. Reviews.
^ ittraturfi , EEVIEWS .
Speeches of / lie Managers and Counsel in the Trial of Warren . Hastings . Edited b y E . A . BOND , Assistant Keeper ^ of the MSS . in the British Museum . Published hy Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty ' s Treasury . A ol . I . London : Longman and Co . THE interest fef t by every Avefl read man and lover of his country ' s purity of administrationhas always been manifested in a desire
, to be minutely acquainted with the impeachment of the celebrated AVarren Hastings , Governor-General of India . This , the greatest of all modem state trials , has ever commanded thc first jdace in English forensic literature , partly on account of the subject itself , but more in reference to the g iant minds and unequalled eloquence displayed throughout the course of the trial ; and iu the above A'olume AVC have for the first time—and as yet but an instalment
only , a record of the speeches as they were delivered , the majority of Avliich have never before been printed . Of those delivered by Burke there is a copy published in the collected edition of his Avorks , but these have been so altered and amended by himself afterwards , by striking out portions not proved in evidence , and strengthening other parts which he had but touched ou or entirely ignoredthat it may fairly he said that his speeches on the occasion
, alluded to were not extant for the general reader , until printed in Mr . Bond ' s book . Those of Fox , Sheridan , Grey , Adam , and others here appear for the first time , although Ave have caught glimpses of Sheridan ' s oration in several works that have professed to be his biography , still , as we before advanced , to Mr . Bond wc arc indented for these wonderful words of remarkable
men in their fullest integrity . 'The volume hears thc marks of assiduous labour and care in its preparation for the press , and the editor has bestowed unwearied pains to present to the world correct and accurate versions of these masterpieces of oratory , and they have been mainly collected from the shorthand notes of the late Mr . Gurney , to whom Mr . Bond pays a Avell merited eulogium for his accuracy and intelligence .
Without entering upon the Avhy or wherefore of the speeches hy Burke being ineffective , or attempting to characterize them ( as every man of taste must have admired his productions for their style , even if differing from his conclusions ) Ave present our readers Avith an extract of his declamatory argumentative style : — " He have arbitrary power ! My lords , the Fast India Company have not arbitrary power to give him ; the king has no arbitrary power to
give him ; your lordships have not : nor the commons ; nor the whole legislature . AVe have no arbitrary power to give , because arbitrary power is a thing which neither any man can hold nor any man can give away . Xo man can govern himself by his own will , much less can he be governed by the will of others . AVe are all born in subjection , all born equally , high and low , governors and governed , in subjection to one great , immutable , preexistent law , prior to all our devices , and prior to all our contrivances , paramount to our very being itself , by which we are knit and connected in the eternal frame of the universe , out of which
we cannot stir . " This great law does not arise from our conventions or compacts , on the contrary , it gives to our conventions and compacts all the force and sanction they can have ; it docs not arise from our vain institutions . Kvery good gift is of Cod , all power is of God ; and he who has given the power and from whom italone originates Avill never suffer the exercise of it to be practised upon any less solid foundation than the power itself . Therefore , will it be imagined , if this be true . th ;\ t he will suffer this