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To The Editor.
This missive is a poor attempt to disparage the Supreme Council of the Grand Inspectors-General for England and Wales , and to palm on the credulity of such as believe in slander , for the sake of its venom , the legitimacy of what should be altogether scouted as a disgrace to our Order . As there are noxious weeds in most gardens , it may not be expected that the garden of Masonry is altogether free from them . A brochure
, professing the title of "Les Supremes Conseils de la Grande'Bretagne , " would cause a smile on perusal , were it not that a spirit of apostacy prevails . Truth appears an affair of indifference . Dublin is honoured by the laudation of the author of this creditable (!) brochure , who states that , previous to I SOS , the first British Supreme Council was erected by patent from that of Charleston , United States . Dr . Arnottof Arlary , next comes in for some left-handed compliments
, on his mode of erecting a Supreme Grand Council of Rites for Scotland . The Doctor is acknowledged as a distinguished professor in a Scottish university ; but he is taxed directly with assuming to have been initiated in the Thirty-third Degree by Brother Deuchar , who died some short time previously . The chivalric axithor of this precious brochure having , as he states , proved to Dr . Arnott that Bro . Deuchar himself did not
belong to the Order , ' - it is asserted that the Doctor then posted off ( or , possibly , railroaded it ) to London , where he met accidentally with General Jube , a member of the Supreme Council of France , by whom he was initiated . This is humorously termed " falling on Charybdis , by avoiding Scylla ; " for it is avowed that General Jube never set his feet on English ground . And now comes the flourish of trumpets . Under these misdoingsour honourable friend le frere Morison ^ de
, Greenfield , honorary Member of the Supreme Council of France , arrived in Edinburgh . His presence created a great sensation among the Masons in that city 1 Then follows a slavering laudation of thirty years' labour—sacrifice of time—the richest collection of Masonic MSS . and books in the world , and all that sort of thing . And then , that on the 14 th July , 1846 , " our honourable friend was memorialised in his territory of Greenfielda dozen leagues from Edinburghwhere he was
, , reposing , after the fatigues of his voyage I" ( risum teneatis ) by A , B , and C , & c , who begged him to examine into the titles , memorials , ike . This act of the farce ended by his triumphant entry into Edinburgh on the 4 th of August : that then and there he conferred the Thirtythird Degree on the said A , B , C , & c . f—of course , himself being the self-constituted Grand Commander .
Ihe Supreme Council of the Grand Orient of France was repudiated , as was that of London , the Grand Commander of which , it is declared , had been illegally authorised by the Grand Council for the Northern Jurisdiction of the United States . But the chief objection appears to be , that the Supreme Council of London have enteretl into alliance ivith the Supreme Council of the Grand Orient of France , hine Hire
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To The Editor.
This missive is a poor attempt to disparage the Supreme Council of the Grand Inspectors-General for England and Wales , and to palm on the credulity of such as believe in slander , for the sake of its venom , the legitimacy of what should be altogether scouted as a disgrace to our Order . As there are noxious weeds in most gardens , it may not be expected that the garden of Masonry is altogether free from them . A brochure
, professing the title of "Les Supremes Conseils de la Grande'Bretagne , " would cause a smile on perusal , were it not that a spirit of apostacy prevails . Truth appears an affair of indifference . Dublin is honoured by the laudation of the author of this creditable (!) brochure , who states that , previous to I SOS , the first British Supreme Council was erected by patent from that of Charleston , United States . Dr . Arnottof Arlary , next comes in for some left-handed compliments
, on his mode of erecting a Supreme Grand Council of Rites for Scotland . The Doctor is acknowledged as a distinguished professor in a Scottish university ; but he is taxed directly with assuming to have been initiated in the Thirty-third Degree by Brother Deuchar , who died some short time previously . The chivalric axithor of this precious brochure having , as he states , proved to Dr . Arnott that Bro . Deuchar himself did not
belong to the Order , ' - it is asserted that the Doctor then posted off ( or , possibly , railroaded it ) to London , where he met accidentally with General Jube , a member of the Supreme Council of France , by whom he was initiated . This is humorously termed " falling on Charybdis , by avoiding Scylla ; " for it is avowed that General Jube never set his feet on English ground . And now comes the flourish of trumpets . Under these misdoingsour honourable friend le frere Morison ^ de
, Greenfield , honorary Member of the Supreme Council of France , arrived in Edinburgh . His presence created a great sensation among the Masons in that city 1 Then follows a slavering laudation of thirty years' labour—sacrifice of time—the richest collection of Masonic MSS . and books in the world , and all that sort of thing . And then , that on the 14 th July , 1846 , " our honourable friend was memorialised in his territory of Greenfielda dozen leagues from Edinburghwhere he was
, , reposing , after the fatigues of his voyage I" ( risum teneatis ) by A , B , and C , & c , who begged him to examine into the titles , memorials , ike . This act of the farce ended by his triumphant entry into Edinburgh on the 4 th of August : that then and there he conferred the Thirtythird Degree on the said A , B , C , & c . f—of course , himself being the self-constituted Grand Commander .
Ihe Supreme Council of the Grand Orient of France was repudiated , as was that of London , the Grand Commander of which , it is declared , had been illegally authorised by the Grand Council for the Northern Jurisdiction of the United States . But the chief objection appears to be , that the Supreme Council of London have enteretl into alliance ivith the Supreme Council of the Grand Orient of France , hine Hire