Correspondence.

p . 19 . Leaning ' s Encyclopedic . Hermes , ( 1812 ) , Vol . I ., p . 296 . Chemin Dupontes , Memoire stir liTEcossisme . Clavel , Ilistoire TPitlorcsoue , p . 206 , et passim . Schlosser , History of the Eighteenth Century . Mitchell , History of Masonryt p . 116 . Albert Pike , M . P . Sov . G . Com . 33 ° of the Mother Council of the World , Address to the Grand Lodge of Louisiana , 1 S 58 , ( and it is particularly noteworthy that Bro . Albert Pike is

the head of the very body wdio first promulgated these Statutes , and has , himself , printed and edited them in English , Latin , and French , —while it is evident that from his labours the Golden Square Council have taken their text ) , and Folger ' s ^ Masonic History from the first to the thirty-third degree , ( New York , 1 S 62 ) . These , so-called Frederick [ Frederick Dalcho ?] Statutes were first heard of at Charlestown in South America after the year

1 S 02 . This , naturally , induces an inquiry of , What relations had Frederick the Great with Charlestown that his masonic doings were only known there ? And , let it be remembered that in most countries where the Ancient and Accepted Rite is practised , its derivation may be traced from Charlestown , to which latter place it was taken in the form of a new Rite of the " Empire of the East and West , " consisting of twenty-live degrees , by Bro .

Stephen Morin , a travelling Jewish merchant . Putting the foregoing facts together , can any sane man imagine that Frederick the Great , King of Prussia , employed such an agent , in a Republic , to create " Sovereign Princes " ? If we turn to these Statutes themselves what do they unmistakably reveal ? At pages 38 and 39 of thc edition recently put forth by the Sup . G . Council of the 33 , in Golden Square , there

arc four signatures and five blanks . At pages 46 and 4 . 7 , the same signatures and blanks re-appear , but in a different order . The explanation propounded for acceptance of this mysterious identity of names and blanks , in diversity of position , is 110 more than the recapitulation of the old tale , —the blanks have been produced by the attrition of sea-water , and the other perils of the elements .

Now does it not appear very wonderful that the waves of old Ocean were so discriminating as to efface the same signatures , where the blanks exist , and to spare the same names where they remain , notwithstanding the order in which they stand is , in both cases , varied ? No conclusion from such premises need be drawn the assertion bears its own condemnation .

I have thus far examined one of the claims put forward by the S . G . C . of the 33 ° in Golden Square , and as it is a new claim it shows to what lengths the claimants are now prepared to go . Other matters of equal interest shall be investigated hereafter . In this letter I hope I have conclusively shown that one of the most important documents the Golden Square S . G . C . 33 recently adopts as a basis of power , is untenable , and any body of men

acting on such data FOUNDS ITS 1 'OSITION UPON FORGERY AND VRAUD ; of both of which there is an abundance of further evidence , which can be adduced , if necessary , by Fraternally yours , Manchester , 24 th June , 1 S 71 . J YARKER .

The York Rite.

THE YORK RITE .

WE have received copies of a broadside , headed History of the Old English or York Site of Free-Masonry . Unfortunately its length is a bar to its appearance in these columns and to submit extracts would be to rob it of its unity and power , for it is such an exhaustive statement of the case that it ought lo be read by every brother Free-Mason in its entirety . The same has been reprinted , with a protest , for Irish Free-Masons and

the protesting knights have appended to their re-issue a circular issued by " The Grand Chapter of Prince Masons of Ireland " in which that body puts forth so many ridiculous claims , based on the assumptions of the Golden Square S . G . C . 33 ° , as to stamp the protest as a manly effusion of good honest sense and the circular as its counterpart—in nonsense and pretension . A meeting followed the issue of the circular by the Prince

Mason ' s Chapter and , at that meeting a letter was read from Captain Nathaniel George Philips in which he spoke of Bro . Yarker as an expelled Mason . This , however , to say the least of it , is utterly incorrect . Brother Yarker is not an expelled Mason , and it is by no means unlikely that Bro . Yarker is in much better masonic standing than Captain Philips himself . True , Bro . Yarker was expelled from Captain Philips ' s

Rite because he declined to attend a meeting where a brother who had personally most grossly insulted him was in the triple capacity of accuser , summoner , and judge , a species of justice peculiar to , and practised only , in Captain Philips's Rite . Then this communication went on to promise "to put down" thc Jerusalem Chapter and kindred bodies , and to prevent Irish Masons getting degrees in England .

How the Prince Mason ' s Chapter could have heard such nonsense read with patience passes all understanding . Captain Philips has no power " to put anything down . " Fie , and his Rite , are illegal . He is the pretender and his power is nil . Out of his newly-acquired Statutes he shall be judged , in another number , and though he may not permit a brother to associate with his set all the Philips ' s on earth cannot take away the right

of an Englishman , to use any degree he has honestly acquired . Now mark the action which followed . After the reading of this wonderful missive , from the would-be controller of masonic liberties , the Prince Mason ' s Chapter ordered that its own circular should be advertised in the ex-militiaman's periodical ! An authority the said captain has threatened also to put down . " O , lame and impotent conclusion . "

It may be news to some of our readers that in this poor benighted land of England there exists two other Supreme Councils where the face of that pelil maitre is unknown , and whose members , far above him in social position , brains , and fortune , pay just as much regard to his expressions as they would to the chattering of an organ-grinder ' s monkey . So to all who have taken the degrees under Templary , the York Rite , the English

Council of Rites , or any other masonic organisation , we unhesitatingly counsel , Never mind the Philips' rite , or his threats ; go on steadily as you have commenced , and let the petit maitre whistle down the wind , without raising a bubble in a tea-cup , just as long as he chooses . Be like the navvy , when his wife slapped his face , and say " If it pleases him it don't hurt mc . " [ Copies of both the papers alluded to having been placed al our

disposal , for circulation , tec shall be happy lo forward them to any brethren who -will favour its with their addresses on slcmqml postage covers . —ED . M . E . ]

Triangulation.

TRIANGULATION .

TRIANGULATION may be popularly defined as the art of scientifically estimating high , or remote , objects where actual measurement cannot be resorted to . It is a practice essentially geometrical and therefore masonic .

As there has lately been a kind of triangular compact between three Masonic Organisations our brethren will be able , readily , to comprehend the action of this ill-assorted co-partnership if they will attempt to apply the principles of Triangulation . The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite , —by the

hands into which its direction has unfortunately fallen , —cannot , even , be measured by Triangulation . It presents so many broken surfaces , so much absurdity , and such an un-masonic spirit , through its principal wire-puller , that no geometrical ratio of its baseness can be calculated , and therefore it is beyond the power of masonic definition .