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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 8 of 10 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
committee of inquiry to ascertain the facta and find out the Brother who had committed thc breach ; but this I did not want to do : I only wish to correct the evil , and not to deal harshly with any individual . I think what the Grand Master has mentioned will have a good effect ; and when the proposed report appears , let tho " Freemasons' Quarterly" deal with it as they please ; but so long as I have done my duty I am satisfied ( cheers ) . The Minutes of last Quarterly Communication and of the Grand Festival were severally read and confirmed .
Those members of the Grand Lodge who were not present may hope the preceding report to be impartial and ungarbled . We have no objection to state that , as far as the four first speakers are concerned , it is a favourable version of the substance of what was said , and good humouredly interspersed with the complimentary intimations of " hear , hear , " " cheers , " & c . But come we to the fifth . Except with a derisive allusion , he is dismissed as the shade of a shadow ; and yet his address called up the sixth speakerwho although pretty favourablhandledis
, y , made to say that " he could not imagine how any one could think that what passed from Bro . Fox Maule was a compliment . " So that Bro . Fox Maule might have exclaimed , Pol ! meocciditis , amid ! but he did not , thinking , possibly , that he might make bad worse . The Grand Reporter assigns to the seventh speaker a wretched meagre skeleton of a most lucid address on the question of privilege . The eighth speaker has less reason to complain , for his address was
pointed and epigrammatic ; but the ninth may rejoice that the Grand Reporter could not fearlessly report the amount of malevolence contained in the least possible space . The tenth speaker may probably consider that the substance of his excellent remarks have been given , but we confess that we do not consider important omissions to be an impartial mode of reporting . But what shall we say to the audacious - emasculation of the address of the eleventh speaker ?—why that it was as unjust as it was disgraceful . The
twelfth speaker may possibly take a different view of the report of his address from ourselves—but as it is clear that neither the Grand Reporter nor the Grand Editor comprehended his clear and straightforward observations , so the reply thereto was of course altogether a failure . _ We have remarked already that those absent on the memorable occasion may consider this first effort of the Grand Editor to be correctand indeed there have been allusions made to the subject at provincial meetings—at one in particularheld at Dorchester . The Prov . Grand
, Master rejoiced that now the reports of Grand Lodge are to be published faithfully , and by authority . What will he think , when on reading our report of the Grand Lodge on the first instant , that one of the speakers has given notice of a breach of privilege on the subject of his address in June . He was driven to this necessity because the Grand Master considered that if a ___ rrip . ved . the Brother should hnvp . . riven r . hf . GrnTid
Master due notice . If this ruling be masonically correct , we ask by what authority was the Honourable Fox Maule permitted to moot the question of privilege ? Having disposed of the "breach of privilege" portion of this first grand report , we shall not wade through the remainder , which is indeed comparatively unimportant . The question of "breach of privilege" has interested every class of our readers—Masonic and non-Masonic . Even ladies have pondered on the subject , and favoured us by remarks . Some of them we should
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
committee of inquiry to ascertain the facta and find out the Brother who had committed thc breach ; but this I did not want to do : I only wish to correct the evil , and not to deal harshly with any individual . I think what the Grand Master has mentioned will have a good effect ; and when the proposed report appears , let tho " Freemasons' Quarterly" deal with it as they please ; but so long as I have done my duty I am satisfied ( cheers ) . The Minutes of last Quarterly Communication and of the Grand Festival were severally read and confirmed .
Those members of the Grand Lodge who were not present may hope the preceding report to be impartial and ungarbled . We have no objection to state that , as far as the four first speakers are concerned , it is a favourable version of the substance of what was said , and good humouredly interspersed with the complimentary intimations of " hear , hear , " " cheers , " & c . But come we to the fifth . Except with a derisive allusion , he is dismissed as the shade of a shadow ; and yet his address called up the sixth speakerwho although pretty favourablhandledis
, y , made to say that " he could not imagine how any one could think that what passed from Bro . Fox Maule was a compliment . " So that Bro . Fox Maule might have exclaimed , Pol ! meocciditis , amid ! but he did not , thinking , possibly , that he might make bad worse . The Grand Reporter assigns to the seventh speaker a wretched meagre skeleton of a most lucid address on the question of privilege . The eighth speaker has less reason to complain , for his address was
pointed and epigrammatic ; but the ninth may rejoice that the Grand Reporter could not fearlessly report the amount of malevolence contained in the least possible space . The tenth speaker may probably consider that the substance of his excellent remarks have been given , but we confess that we do not consider important omissions to be an impartial mode of reporting . But what shall we say to the audacious - emasculation of the address of the eleventh speaker ?—why that it was as unjust as it was disgraceful . The
twelfth speaker may possibly take a different view of the report of his address from ourselves—but as it is clear that neither the Grand Reporter nor the Grand Editor comprehended his clear and straightforward observations , so the reply thereto was of course altogether a failure . _ We have remarked already that those absent on the memorable occasion may consider this first effort of the Grand Editor to be correctand indeed there have been allusions made to the subject at provincial meetings—at one in particularheld at Dorchester . The Prov . Grand
, Master rejoiced that now the reports of Grand Lodge are to be published faithfully , and by authority . What will he think , when on reading our report of the Grand Lodge on the first instant , that one of the speakers has given notice of a breach of privilege on the subject of his address in June . He was driven to this necessity because the Grand Master considered that if a ___ rrip . ved . the Brother should hnvp . . riven r . hf . GrnTid
Master due notice . If this ruling be masonically correct , we ask by what authority was the Honourable Fox Maule permitted to moot the question of privilege ? Having disposed of the "breach of privilege" portion of this first grand report , we shall not wade through the remainder , which is indeed comparatively unimportant . The question of "breach of privilege" has interested every class of our readers—Masonic and non-Masonic . Even ladies have pondered on the subject , and favoured us by remarks . Some of them we should