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Masonic Chit-Chat.
Dr . Raffles , at the opening of the New Independent College , at AVithington , recently , stated that thirty years ago , he waited upon his Royal Highness at Kensington Palace . " Did you ever meet with Bishop Clayton on the Hebrew text , Mr . Raffles ? " asked his Grace . " I am acquainted with Bishop Clayton on Hebrew Chronology , " said the Doctor . " Ayeaye" rejoined the Duke of Sussex " but that is not
, , ; what I mean . The book I mention is a thin quarto , so rare that I borrowed it of a friend , and so valuable that I ( forgot to return it , ive thought Dr . Raffles was about to represent his Royal Highness as saying : but no , and let book collectors take a leaf out of his Grace ' s book ) copied it with my own hand . "—Lancaster Guardian .
KING AVILLIAM IV . AND THE DUKE OP SUSSEX . —The Chronicle , in 1832 , published the following account of the causes of the difference between his Majesty and his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex : — It appears that the Duke of Sussex presented to his Alajesty a petition from a public meeting at Bristol , on the subject of Reform . This petition was signed by the chairman on behalf of the meeting , and its chief object was , petitioning his Majesty to create peers , if
necessary , to carry the Reform Bill . His Majesty , or his Majesty ' s private adviser ( it seems ) , did not wish to receive this petition , if it was possible to avoid it . The first objection started was , that it was an illegal assembly ; but as this was found , on reference to a certain law authority , not to be the case , the objection was , that it was not a legally constituted assembly . On this objection , therefore , the King refused to receive the petition ; consequently , the persons who formed the
committee at Bristol published the petition at length . His Majesty saw it in the public prints ; and as it was couched in rather pointed , though not at all violent terms , his Majesty thought it proper to write to the Duke of Sussex , to tell him , that as he had thought proper to attempt to present such an address to him , his Majesty thought that his brother ( the Duke of Sussex ) had better absent himself from the palace at St . James ' s as much as possible . Not only this letter , but the following order was given , both at the levee , and the drawingroom , and the ball—That if the Duke of Sussex came , he was not to be admitted !!!
BY tbe late lamented death of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , the Anti-Slavery cause has lost one of its most devoted friends . Following the illustrious example of his cousin , the late Duke of Gloucester , who , as President of the African Institution , was for many years the warm and consistent friend of Africa , the deceased prince ivas ever prompt to extend his generous aid on behalf of the suffering and the oppressed . The last time his Royal Highness presided over the
Anniversary Meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society , was in IS E IO , at the close of the great Convention , when he entered with much interest and animation into its proceedings . On that occasion the illustrious Duke said , " If I understand their object , it is by all peaceable , religious , and moral means , to carry into effect the total abolition of slavery throughout the world . I may therefore use an expression which I have frequently adopted in other places as well as here . This is a Catholic cause . It is a cause which combines all nations , all religions , all colours , —audit is right that it should he so ; for that AU-
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Masonic Chit-Chat.
Dr . Raffles , at the opening of the New Independent College , at AVithington , recently , stated that thirty years ago , he waited upon his Royal Highness at Kensington Palace . " Did you ever meet with Bishop Clayton on the Hebrew text , Mr . Raffles ? " asked his Grace . " I am acquainted with Bishop Clayton on Hebrew Chronology , " said the Doctor . " Ayeaye" rejoined the Duke of Sussex " but that is not
, , ; what I mean . The book I mention is a thin quarto , so rare that I borrowed it of a friend , and so valuable that I ( forgot to return it , ive thought Dr . Raffles was about to represent his Royal Highness as saying : but no , and let book collectors take a leaf out of his Grace ' s book ) copied it with my own hand . "—Lancaster Guardian .
KING AVILLIAM IV . AND THE DUKE OP SUSSEX . —The Chronicle , in 1832 , published the following account of the causes of the difference between his Majesty and his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex : — It appears that the Duke of Sussex presented to his Alajesty a petition from a public meeting at Bristol , on the subject of Reform . This petition was signed by the chairman on behalf of the meeting , and its chief object was , petitioning his Majesty to create peers , if
necessary , to carry the Reform Bill . His Majesty , or his Majesty ' s private adviser ( it seems ) , did not wish to receive this petition , if it was possible to avoid it . The first objection started was , that it was an illegal assembly ; but as this was found , on reference to a certain law authority , not to be the case , the objection was , that it was not a legally constituted assembly . On this objection , therefore , the King refused to receive the petition ; consequently , the persons who formed the
committee at Bristol published the petition at length . His Majesty saw it in the public prints ; and as it was couched in rather pointed , though not at all violent terms , his Majesty thought it proper to write to the Duke of Sussex , to tell him , that as he had thought proper to attempt to present such an address to him , his Majesty thought that his brother ( the Duke of Sussex ) had better absent himself from the palace at St . James ' s as much as possible . Not only this letter , but the following order was given , both at the levee , and the drawingroom , and the ball—That if the Duke of Sussex came , he was not to be admitted !!!
BY tbe late lamented death of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , the Anti-Slavery cause has lost one of its most devoted friends . Following the illustrious example of his cousin , the late Duke of Gloucester , who , as President of the African Institution , was for many years the warm and consistent friend of Africa , the deceased prince ivas ever prompt to extend his generous aid on behalf of the suffering and the oppressed . The last time his Royal Highness presided over the
Anniversary Meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society , was in IS E IO , at the close of the great Convention , when he entered with much interest and animation into its proceedings . On that occasion the illustrious Duke said , " If I understand their object , it is by all peaceable , religious , and moral means , to carry into effect the total abolition of slavery throughout the world . I may therefore use an expression which I have frequently adopted in other places as well as here . This is a Catholic cause . It is a cause which combines all nations , all religions , all colours , —audit is right that it should he so ; for that AU-