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Masonic Intelligence.
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE .
The Grand Lodge having decided upon the important question that affected the reputation of a Brother in the Craft , we now proceed to give the general particulars , as far as may be necessary to render the subject intelligible to our readers . It is not possible to withold altogether certain documents , as they are essential explanations ; and therefore , in justice to Grand Lodge , before whom the case has been broughtand bwhom it has been decided
, y , as well as to the accused , it is but just that as fair a statement of circumstances as possible should be made . We give , then , the following address from Bro . R . T . Crueefix , which has already been extensively circulated in the metropolis :
"TO THE MASONIC CRAFT * "A circular , purporting to detail the proceedings of the meeting of Grand Lodge on the Srd June last , having , as I understand , been addressed to every Lodge under the Masonic Constitution of England , and even to the Lodges of Scotland and Ireland , whilst the proceedings ofthe Grand Lodge of September and December , 1839 , and of March and April 1840 | have not yet been printed leave doubt in the
, , , can no minds of all Masons , that the object of such publication is to create a prejudice against myself and others , whose cases are therein reported . If the proceedings of Grand Lodge hacl been correctly reported , as they are in the Freemasons' Quarterly Review , I should have no reason to complain ; but the paper thus circulated is so incorrect in all essential particulars , that I feel it clue to myself to explain what reall y did occur in my own case , leaving to others the opportunity of showing that it is
equally incorrect in theirs . " The paper sets out , in its own form , the charges which had been brought against myself and others before the Board of General Purposes ; the decision upon them ; and the fact that I , as well as the other Brethren , had appealed against that decision . My appeal His Royal Highness the Grand Master would not allow to be heard , ancl it is the mode in which that appeal was got rid of to which I call the particular attention of the Craft
; premising , that in a question so personal to His Royal Highness it might have been supposed that the ( . rand Master would , for the sake of his character , have afforded every opportunity of investigating the charges , and proving to the Masonic world , either that expressions derogatory to His Royal Highness hacl not been used , or , if they had , that they were totally untrue and undeserved ; and that the respect clue to the Grand Master would have prevented any Mason from taking technical objections , which would leave the truth in perfect obscurity .
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Masonic Intelligence.
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE .
The Grand Lodge having decided upon the important question that affected the reputation of a Brother in the Craft , we now proceed to give the general particulars , as far as may be necessary to render the subject intelligible to our readers . It is not possible to withold altogether certain documents , as they are essential explanations ; and therefore , in justice to Grand Lodge , before whom the case has been broughtand bwhom it has been decided
, y , as well as to the accused , it is but just that as fair a statement of circumstances as possible should be made . We give , then , the following address from Bro . R . T . Crueefix , which has already been extensively circulated in the metropolis :
"TO THE MASONIC CRAFT * "A circular , purporting to detail the proceedings of the meeting of Grand Lodge on the Srd June last , having , as I understand , been addressed to every Lodge under the Masonic Constitution of England , and even to the Lodges of Scotland and Ireland , whilst the proceedings ofthe Grand Lodge of September and December , 1839 , and of March and April 1840 | have not yet been printed leave doubt in the
, , , can no minds of all Masons , that the object of such publication is to create a prejudice against myself and others , whose cases are therein reported . If the proceedings of Grand Lodge hacl been correctly reported , as they are in the Freemasons' Quarterly Review , I should have no reason to complain ; but the paper thus circulated is so incorrect in all essential particulars , that I feel it clue to myself to explain what reall y did occur in my own case , leaving to others the opportunity of showing that it is
equally incorrect in theirs . " The paper sets out , in its own form , the charges which had been brought against myself and others before the Board of General Purposes ; the decision upon them ; and the fact that I , as well as the other Brethren , had appealed against that decision . My appeal His Royal Highness the Grand Master would not allow to be heard , ancl it is the mode in which that appeal was got rid of to which I call the particular attention of the Craft
; premising , that in a question so personal to His Royal Highness it might have been supposed that the ( . rand Master would , for the sake of his character , have afforded every opportunity of investigating the charges , and proving to the Masonic world , either that expressions derogatory to His Royal Highness hacl not been used , or , if they had , that they were totally untrue and undeserved ; and that the respect clue to the Grand Master would have prevented any Mason from taking technical objections , which would leave the truth in perfect obscurity .