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an analogous subject , on AA-kich I had long since intended seeking information in your pages . In the months of July , August and September , 1801 , a considerable number of the Officers of the Royal Horse Guards Blue , were initiated , and several of them passed and raised , in St . John ' s Lodge , in this toAvn , the meetings being also attended as a visitor , by Capt . W . Miller , of that

regiment , a member of the "Wallace" Lodge ( No . 53 ) . Tho officers initiated Avere Lieutenants John Horsley , Augustus John Foster , William Cherry , and John Batcher ; and Cornets John Thoyts , Henry Thomhill , Robert Packo , and Brotherton Brown . Cornet Richard Hunter Bird , of the 12 th Light Dragoons , and Thomas Draper , a private in the BluesAA-ere also initiatedthe last mentioned probabl

, , y as a Tyler , Avith the intention of forming a lodge in connection Avith the regiment . My chief object , hoAA'cver , is to seek information respecting the military , rather than the Masonic career of those brethren , and Avhether any of them distinguished themselves in the A \ ar in t \ ie Peninsular , and in the subsequent battles in Avhich tho British Army AA as so nobly engaged up to the croA \ ming A'ictory of AVafcerlooand

, also AA'hether any of them are still living . One feature of our newly erected Masonic Hall is intended to be a collection of original or engraA-ed portraits of distinguished brethren , connected with the province , and among those not the least worthy of honour Avould be portraits of any of those members AVIIO had deserved Avell of their country on the battle-field , fighting for the independence of

Europe . Of the career and i ' atc of one of those warriors , I need not seek information , that of thc gallant Major Packe , Avho so nobly fell at Waterloo , and to Avhose memory his brother officers , as a tribute of affection and respect , erected a monument in the Military Chapel , at Windsor . A monument was also placed in the Church of PrestAvold , on the family domain in this countynow the tof bis

, propery nephew , C . AY Packe , Esq ., M . P . This cenotaph , which is admirably executed by Rossi , in alto-relievo , represents a charge at Waterloo , and beneath it the following lines , said j to be the production of Sir Walter Scott : —

Though manly vigour , withered in its bloom , Has called thee early to the silent tomb , AVe will not weep for him who raised his hand , To guard the glories of his native land , And seal'd , observant of his country ' s claim , A life of honour with a death of fame . Pride of thy parents ! gallant spirit , rest ! In life belov'dand in thine end how blest !

, When wild ambition raised his banner high , tearless and foremost tliou hast dared to die , And nobly won , on England's brightest day , A victor wren th that shall not fade away . AA ' THIAM KELLY , D . Prov . G . M . Leicester . COUXT BEHTOL . VS " l . ' oilICIXE BE LA MAlJOXXERIE . "

I haA'e recently picked up for our Masonic Hall Library , from a London bookseller ' s catalogue , a privately printed work hitherto unknown to mo . It is entitled "DcL'Origine Morale et Religiensc de la Maconncrie , de sa Mission et do L'Epoque Positive do son Institution MatericJle , Par le comfcc S . de Giorgi Bertola , do Rome , cke \ -alicr du Christ et membre de la Franche , Maconncrie anx rites Francais et

Ecossais , & c . " Thc Avork , Avhich is dedicated to tho Duke of Sussex , Avas printed in London in 1841 . AVhafc is knoAvn of the author ' s connection Avith tho order ?—AYILLIAAI KELLY , Leicester .

MASONIC SYNOXYllES . Some of thc Turkish Masonic terms , I have heard , arc Mnsonc for Mason , and Masonhfk for Masonry , but in lodge tho officers are designated by their English names . — HYDE CLAKKE , Constantinople , Oct ., 1860 . FOUNDERS' TABLETS . In the lodge-room of the Oriental Lodge of

Constantinople ( No . 988 ) , which does so much credit to the zeal of the brethren , there is rather a novel and praiseworthy featui'e . This is a framed inscription , commemorating the names of the brethren who Avere tho founders of the lodge . This is a mode of decorating lodge walls Avhich might be turned to account . In the chamberlain ' s office at Guildhall are framed addresses to those Avho ha \ 'o received the thanks of the corporation ; and , as AVO have many

calligraphers , so might we haA'e votes of thanks , b ' ats of 1 embers , founders , & c . —HYDE CLAHKE , Constantinople , Oct ., 860 . ST . TAUL ' S LODGE . In reply to _ " Genealogicus " in your last number , page 327 , you may if you please say that the St . Paul ' s Lodge ( No . 229 ) adopts a device Avhich is something like St . Paul

preaching , Avhich . they use upon their seal , and that the Percy Lodge ( No . 234 ) , whether right or wrong in doing so , have for many years used a common seal , an impression of Avhich is deposited Avith the Grand Secretary at his office . The seal used by tho latter lodge is the .. Arms of the Duke of Northumberland , Avhich they use for all lodge purposes and seal their lodge certificates Avith , when they arc given to members on leaving the lodge , as required by the Book of Constitution . —LEX , 30 th October , 1860 .

THE EltEEAIASOXS' MAGAZINE , 1793 . I copy the folloAving advertisement from The York Herald of Saturday , September 7 th , 1793 , and I forward it for insertion in your " Masonic Notes and Queries , " thinking that Avhich has interested myself may possibly interest others . —GEOHGE MAKKHAM TWEDDELL , "Dedicated , by permission , to the Eight AVorshipful and Right

Hon . the Earl of Moira , and the rest of the officers composing the Grand lodge of England . This day was published , price Is . 6 d ., ] N o . III . of The -Freemason ' s Magazine ; or , General and Complete Library . Beautifully embellished Avith two very grand and magnificent engravings , viz ..- —1 . A striking likeness of the Eight Hon . the Earl of Moira , acting Grand Master of Masons of Englvnd , from an original painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds , and engraved by Jones , engraver extraordinary to His Eoyal Highness tho Prince 7

of AAales , and principal engraver to His Eoyal Highness the Duke of York . 2 . A very capital vignette , being tho coronet of Her Eoyal Highness the Duchess of Cumberland , supported by Fame and A irtue near the Masonic Obelisk , which is inscribed to Her Eoyal Highness , AVIIO is the Patroness of the Freemasons' Charity , etc ., designed by Mather Brown , Esq ., and engraved by a capital artist . This magazine is not entirely devoted to Masonic researches , but contains every useful and entertaining subject , and is

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be had equal to the first edition ( as also No . II . )„ both in respect to the embellishments and letter press . In order to give this work the most decided superiority over contemporary publications , and that none may boast of the most trivial advantage which it will not possess , anecdotes and refined poetry , political intelligence in its various branches , shall be given , v > -ith all that variety of fugitive matter necessary to suit the diversity of taste , consistent with the strictures of delicacyand the princile of indiscriminate

improve-, p ment , to which will be added a faithful register and journal of tho whole transactions of the month , foreign and domestic , marriages , deaths , promotions , preferments , etc . London ; Printed and published by J . AA . Biuiney , No . 7 , Newcastle-street , Strand ; and sold by AV . Stewart , opposite York House , Piccadilly ; Scatcherd and AVliitakcr , Are Maria-lane ; H . D . Symonds , Paternoster-row ; and all Booksellers and Newsearricrs in town and country . "

A LAWYER ' S MISTAKE , AND HOAV HE GOT Our or IT . — " I had , " says Lord Eldon , " very early after I was called to the bar , a brief in business in the King's Bench , as Junior to Mr . Dunning . He began the argument , and appeared to be reasoning very powerfully against our client . Waiting till I was quite convinced that he had mistaken for what party he was retained , I then touched his arm , and , upon his turning his head towards me , I whispered to him that

he must have misunderstood for whom he was employed , as he was reasoning against our client . He gave me a very rough and rude i eprimand for not having sooner set him right , and then proceeded to state that what he had addressed to the court was all that could be stated against his client , and that he had put the case as unfavorably as possible against him , in order that the court might see how very satisfactorily the case against him could he answered ; and , accordingly , very powerfully answered what he had before stated . " — Men Who Jfava Pisen .