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To The Editor.
as they may bear by peculiarity upon the objects with which I set out , as concerning this communication . These , however , are of the most gratifying nature . Often have I visited meetings of a similar description , often have I , as a Provincial Grand Officer , taken part in the duties consequent upon such assemblages ; and to me , therefore , there was no novelty to attract attention or excite surprise ; yet will the Masonic labours and the social relaxations of the 10 th of September , 1837 , shine forth the
purest ancl warmest among the brightest rays of my pleasurable recollections . Excepting only the illustrious Duke , who is indeed the father of the Fraternity , the experience of seventeen years has afforded me no example of Masonic excellence , whether in presiding over a Lodge , or fulfilling the minor duty of countenancing and controlling a public festival , comparable even to that of the Earl of Durham . In him precept ancl example are so identified , that one seeks for a single word to expresses them both . Happy will it be for Northumberland , as it has
been for Durham , that Freemasonry has such a leader there . Never was the wise discrimination of H . R . H ., the Duke of Sussex , made more manifest than by such a delegation of his Masonic power ; and , as if all who had to take part in the after proceedings of the day , had caught up the spirit thus diffused , not a single failure took place in the incidental addresses which had to be made . The Most Worshipful Provincial Grand Master , occasionally assisted by his worthy deputy , William
Loraine , Esq ., proposed altogether about twenty toasts ; and their addresses were so excellent , and their individual acknowledgements so appropriate , that the most critical could not but be disarmed , the most fastidious satisfied . I have made two visits to private Lodges since the provincial meeting , but must defer further mention of them for a day or two , both for convenience of writing and of transmission . Meanwhile , believe me to be , in due Masonie regard , Yours , Sir and Brother , most sincerely , s
Sunderland , Friday , Sept . 15 , i 837 . P . S . I regret to say that the minutes of the Especial Meeting of the Grand Lodge have not yet reached any Lodge in this neighbourhood ; so that the promulgation of the M . W . Grand Master ' s wishes respecting the Masonic mourning for his late Majesty is not likely to arrive until after the period shall have elapsed .
A -mimi . — " I cannot form an idea of a mortal more wretched than a man of real talent , compelled to curb his genius , ancl to submit himself , in the exercise of that genius , to those whom he knows to he far inferior to himself , ancl whom he must despise from the bottom of his soul . " — Cobbett .
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To The Editor.
as they may bear by peculiarity upon the objects with which I set out , as concerning this communication . These , however , are of the most gratifying nature . Often have I visited meetings of a similar description , often have I , as a Provincial Grand Officer , taken part in the duties consequent upon such assemblages ; and to me , therefore , there was no novelty to attract attention or excite surprise ; yet will the Masonic labours and the social relaxations of the 10 th of September , 1837 , shine forth the
purest ancl warmest among the brightest rays of my pleasurable recollections . Excepting only the illustrious Duke , who is indeed the father of the Fraternity , the experience of seventeen years has afforded me no example of Masonic excellence , whether in presiding over a Lodge , or fulfilling the minor duty of countenancing and controlling a public festival , comparable even to that of the Earl of Durham . In him precept ancl example are so identified , that one seeks for a single word to expresses them both . Happy will it be for Northumberland , as it has
been for Durham , that Freemasonry has such a leader there . Never was the wise discrimination of H . R . H ., the Duke of Sussex , made more manifest than by such a delegation of his Masonic power ; and , as if all who had to take part in the after proceedings of the day , had caught up the spirit thus diffused , not a single failure took place in the incidental addresses which had to be made . The Most Worshipful Provincial Grand Master , occasionally assisted by his worthy deputy , William
Loraine , Esq ., proposed altogether about twenty toasts ; and their addresses were so excellent , and their individual acknowledgements so appropriate , that the most critical could not but be disarmed , the most fastidious satisfied . I have made two visits to private Lodges since the provincial meeting , but must defer further mention of them for a day or two , both for convenience of writing and of transmission . Meanwhile , believe me to be , in due Masonie regard , Yours , Sir and Brother , most sincerely , s
Sunderland , Friday , Sept . 15 , i 837 . P . S . I regret to say that the minutes of the Especial Meeting of the Grand Lodge have not yet reached any Lodge in this neighbourhood ; so that the promulgation of the M . W . Grand Master ' s wishes respecting the Masonic mourning for his late Majesty is not likely to arrive until after the period shall have elapsed .
A -mimi . — " I cannot form an idea of a mortal more wretched than a man of real talent , compelled to curb his genius , ancl to submit himself , in the exercise of that genius , to those whom he knows to he far inferior to himself , ancl whom he must despise from the bottom of his soul . " — Cobbett .