Memoirs Of The Freemasons Of Naples.

that under the present rule the Neapolitans -will enjoy greater freedom of opinion ; that injustice will no longer exist , and that every encouragement will be given for the maintenance of truth and virtue . Under such a system Ereemasonry will again flourish , and may the delighted traveller who visits this classic groundviewing the

, academy of Cicero , the tomb of Virgil , and the birthplace of Tasso , meet a brother , able and willing to give him information . In writing these memoirs we commenced by translating from a Erench periodical , dated 1794 , an account of the persecutions of the Ereemasons at that period . This

had been translated into that language from the Italian , but the title of the the book is not given . Since then we have taken our matter from any source we could , generally from the continental periodicals . "We have also speciall y looked for corroboration of these facts in Pietro Colletta ' s work . "We have further deriA'ed much

information from private sources and from the following works : — 1 . Atti K Documenti del Processo di Maestd per r / li auvenimenti del 15 Maggio 1848 , in Wapoli , etc . Torini . Eerdincodi Lorenzo , 1851 . 2 . I casi di UTapoli del 29 Gennago 1848 in poi .

Letter e politiehe , per Guiseppe Massari . ' 3 . Le Moi de Naples clevant L'O pinion Piiblique . Par Gustavo Ghatenet . 4 . Sicily and England . A sketch of events in Sicily in 1812 and 1848 . Illustrated by Touchers and State Papers . London : James EidgAvay 1849 .

, 5 . Narrazioni Storielie di Piersilvestro Leopardi con Motti Documenti Inediti relativi alia Guerra dell' Indipendenza d'Italia K alia Beazione Namoletana . Torino , 1856 .

Masonic Adventure.

MASONIC ADVENTURE .

( Continued from page 82 . ) It certainly is a curious fact that , let an accident happen in any toAvn or village , however quiet and sequestered , and however deserted the street apparently was before , yet in a marvellous short ] space of time a crowd assembles ; let Punch and Jud itch their

y p stand in the street , an itinerent Tyrolese with his white mice and hurdy-gurdy appear , and simultaneously a crowd of ragged urchins , with a sprinkling of adults and well-dressed citizens , like raisins among the currants of a plum pudding , surround the show or the sufferer ; whence they come or whither they go , as soon as the excitement

ceases , is a mystery , Thus it was Avith Charles Johnstone , Avho , from being a feAV minutes previously a comparatively insignificent unit , was at once the hero of the moment ; a medical man , Avho , unlike a policeman , is sure always to be in the Avay when Avanted , immediately hastened to render assistance to the suffererand

-, pro claimed to the commiserating crowd that Charles had received a broken collar bone and several contusions from being trampled on by the runaway horses ; as he Avas still insensible , he was carried into the house nearest to the place where the accident occurred ; here he was soon restored to consciousness ; on recallin g his scattered

senses , after thanking those around him , his first impulse was to rise and return to his hotel ; on attempting this , exhausted nature again gave way , and once more he fainted , and only awoke in a raging fever , which lasted some days . During the delirium of the fever , he called on his friend Arthur Grimwood and his sister ; raved of the battle

and the incidents of his escape . At length the fever subsided , and a good constitution , aided by attentive nursin g , triumphed over the disease . On

awaking to consciousness , Charles found himself in a small , though scrupulously neat and clean room , the appointments of Avhich shoAved that it was evidently the chamber of a female . Who is there that has ever been seriously ill but can recollect the delightful langonr of recovery : the cool room and half opened AAundoAvs admitting the refreshing and health-giving breeze which

rushes through the branches of trees , and hymns a song of praise and thanskgrving to the Great Giver of all things for life presented and health restored . Absorbed in these dreamy reveries , Charles had not perceived the cloor open , and was someAA'hat surprised at hearing a soft voice address him by name and express the wish

that he Avas better ; after answering in the affirmative , he enquired the name of his kind entertainers , and learnt , Avith surprise , that she Avho now addressed him Avas the sister of Arthur Grimwood , and that he was in the house of her aunt , Mrs , Adams , who now entered the roomand informed him that their supicions as to

, who he was had been excited by his ravings , ancl that subsequent enquiries had confirmed them , ancl ended by requesting him during his stay to make her house his home . After a feAV days , Charles recounted his adventure to his friends , and the messages and trust confided him by his friend Arthur . Well has the illustrious poet

sung" Oh woman in our hour of ease , Inconstant , coy , and hard to please , When pain and anguish wring the brow , A ministering angel thou . " It is in times like these when the mind has been racked

by anxiety and the body by pain , that the heart is most open to tender emotions ; what Avonder then that Charles soon felt the charge confided to him one of pleasure , and became deeply in love Avith Ellen . Pity is akin to love , first she pitied him , then the interest which all Avomen take in bringing anything they are engaged inmore especiall

, y any nursing , to a satisfactory conclusion , made her regard him as more peculiarly her OAVU private property , and when to this Avas added the recollection of their childhood's friendship ) and the peculiar connection which existed between them , Avhat Avonder that Ellen loved Charles also . The eyes of love are proverbially said to

be sharp-sighted ( though this is someAvhat of an anamol y , loA'e being generally depicted as blind ) , so what Avonder that Charles declared , and Ellen , Avith all the proper amount of blushes , & c , accepted his adoration . Love scenes and speeches , though highly interesting to the two

parties concerned , are generally a great bore to all other people , so Ave will consider the affair settled , and Charles and Ellen engaged to be married Avhen the war was over . About this time a letter from Arthur Grimwood reached Charles , stating that he was slowly though surely recovering from the effects of his wound and

the long and dangerous illness the excitement and fatigues of his flight had occasioned . "I am now , " wrote Arthur , "much better , and domiciled AA'ith a kind ancl excellent family . HaA'ing giA'en my parole I am alloAved every liberty ; and this is another reason for gratitude to our glorious Order of Masonry . On being taken into the

camp I Avas at once placed under the care of a surgeon , a young man of about my own age . On stripping me , for I AA'as insensible , some Masonic ornaments , and my G . L . certificate , which I , as you knoAV , ahvays carry on my person , were found ; the young surgeon was a brother Masonand tended me Avith a brother ' s care and

tender-, ness ; perceiving hoAV dangerously ill I was he obtained leave to remove me to his father ' s house , where I now am . When I was sufficiently recovered , having found me by certain sure signs and tokens to be a brother