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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY REVIEW .
SECOND SERIES—SEPTEMBER 30 , 1847 .
PRIVILEGE . " Periculosaj plenum opus aleae . "—H ORACE . # * # * * ' Periculosum est credere et non credere . Ergo exploranda est Veritas multum prius , Quara stulta prave judicet sententia . — PH . EDRUS .
THAT the abettors of the crusade against the " Reporter" of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review have shot wide of their mark is too clearl y evident to require comment . Some few years since it was observed by the editor of a Paris Journal that " In wishing to convert the Chamber of Peers into a Court-martial for trying the press , the sincerity as well as the strength of our constitution has been compromised . " And about the same period the Times
remarked thus : — " To the power of a Star Chamber must be annexed the commission of a Grand Inquisitor . The attempt to control the license of tbe pen by other means than the pen itself , leads only to the employment of other means of resistance , and the loose opinions of the press are consolidated and invigorated , until they assume the menacing attitude of revolution !" No slight authorities these for questioning either the policy or the
propriety of the modern " Crusaders , " who study the constitutions only to coerce the governed ; and who , in their capacity of " legists , " prove how lamentably deficient they are in the power to remedy a supposed evil . We will now place before our readers a copy of the authorized report of the various speeches on the 2 nd of June last . The report did not reach us until after our publication . Whether this was intentional or not is indifferent to ourselvesas we gave the substance of what took place ; but
, if the Grand Editor would but condescend to publish the report of the Grand Reporter in time , it would be a boon to the Masonic world to have the earliest intelligence from the highest possible authority . Even as we write , the report of the 2 nd of September has not appeared , and we fear that we shall not be able to present it in a postscript . But to business .
BREACH OF PRIVILEGE . On the Grand Secretary proceeding to read the Minutes , ThcR . W . Brother the Right Honourable Fox MAULE rose and said , —My Lord , before the minutes of the last Quarterly Communication are read for tha purpose of being confirmee , I am sorry to say I feel it my duty to intrude for a few moments on the time of the Brethren , and to draw the attention of the Grand Lodge to a matter respecting its privileges . I know nothing to which the Grand Lodge should apply more earnest vigilance in general than the preservation of its privileges—privileges established by legislation , and in conformity with the laws
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY REVIEW .
SECOND SERIES—SEPTEMBER 30 , 1847 .
PRIVILEGE . " Periculosaj plenum opus aleae . "—H ORACE . # * # * * ' Periculosum est credere et non credere . Ergo exploranda est Veritas multum prius , Quara stulta prave judicet sententia . — PH . EDRUS .
THAT the abettors of the crusade against the " Reporter" of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review have shot wide of their mark is too clearl y evident to require comment . Some few years since it was observed by the editor of a Paris Journal that " In wishing to convert the Chamber of Peers into a Court-martial for trying the press , the sincerity as well as the strength of our constitution has been compromised . " And about the same period the Times
remarked thus : — " To the power of a Star Chamber must be annexed the commission of a Grand Inquisitor . The attempt to control the license of tbe pen by other means than the pen itself , leads only to the employment of other means of resistance , and the loose opinions of the press are consolidated and invigorated , until they assume the menacing attitude of revolution !" No slight authorities these for questioning either the policy or the
propriety of the modern " Crusaders , " who study the constitutions only to coerce the governed ; and who , in their capacity of " legists , " prove how lamentably deficient they are in the power to remedy a supposed evil . We will now place before our readers a copy of the authorized report of the various speeches on the 2 nd of June last . The report did not reach us until after our publication . Whether this was intentional or not is indifferent to ourselvesas we gave the substance of what took place ; but
, if the Grand Editor would but condescend to publish the report of the Grand Reporter in time , it would be a boon to the Masonic world to have the earliest intelligence from the highest possible authority . Even as we write , the report of the 2 nd of September has not appeared , and we fear that we shall not be able to present it in a postscript . But to business .
BREACH OF PRIVILEGE . On the Grand Secretary proceeding to read the Minutes , ThcR . W . Brother the Right Honourable Fox MAULE rose and said , —My Lord , before the minutes of the last Quarterly Communication are read for tha purpose of being confirmee , I am sorry to say I feel it my duty to intrude for a few moments on the time of the Brethren , and to draw the attention of the Grand Lodge to a matter respecting its privileges . I know nothing to which the Grand Lodge should apply more earnest vigilance in general than the preservation of its privileges—privileges established by legislation , and in conformity with the laws