Proceedings Of A Captive Lodge.

30 th March , 1809 . —The Treasurer , Bro . Saunders , ordered to attend on the 1 st Thursday in May and produce the cash . Observation . —Brother Saunders made his escape on the 28 th May without rendering any account of the cash to the Lodge . The Sum of money taken amounted to eleven pounds Sterling and one penny—in cash . *

[ No further meeting of the lodge took rjlace in 1809 , and the next record appears under date of 1811 . ] 11 th February , 1811 . —Surgeon George Burleigh , Royal Waggon Train , proposed Captain Francis Miles Millman , Esqr ., of the Coldstream Guards ; John Taylor , Esq ., Captain , of the Royal Regiment of Artillery ; and Mr . John Beckford , Merchant Captain [ and they were initiated and passed ] .

9 th April , 1811 , —At the apartments of Brother Lord Viscount Barrington , at Valenciennes . —James Slack , Esq ., and James Robertson , M . D . [ initiated and passed ] . BARRINGTON , Secretary . Signed , E . BDTLEE , Master . 22 nd Dec , 1811 . —[ Fourty-four brethren present ] being all the Ancient Masons within hail . The W . Master made several proposals for the better government of the Society while in France , which were all adopted Nem . Con . Resolved that this Lodge should meet on the 1 st and 3 rd Thursday of each Month .

The W . M . laid before the Lodge several authentic documents respecting the conduct and behaviour of Br . Lord Viscount Barrington , not only derogatory to his dignity as a Mason , but shameful and scandalous as a man , beingnothing less than a direliction of all his Masonic duties and breach of all his obligations ; on which the Lodge unanimously expelled him . 2 nd May , 1812 . —[ Forty-two members present . ] The W . M ., Bro . Butler ,

proposed to the Lodge a desire of uniting the members thereof to the Ancient Mother Lodge of France , by desiring a dispensation from the Grand Lodge to hold the Lodge in this Country under their patronage and support , which was approved Nem . Con ., and petitions were immediately made out and sign'd to that effect , in order to send them to Paris . 2 nd July 1812 . —Mr . H . Stewart was again proposed and rejected by a

, majority of 15 voices against 11 . 7 th January , 1813 . —The Lodge visited by the R . W . B . de la Lain , Master of the Lodge of Perfect Union , Donary , and B . Richard Lovelace , Esq ., Member of the said Lodge . [ Bro . Lovelace , a honorary member of No . 183 , was presented on the 18 th February , 1813 , with a Past Master ' s jewel , " as a testimony of gratitude for the services rendered by him to the Lodge . ]

1 st April , 1813 . —The Lodge was visited by Bros . Wm . Russell , of Lodge No . 435 , Ireland [ 83 rd Regiment ] ; James Bartley , of No . 165 ; John Wilson , of 239 ; James McCollum and Henry Henderson , of 784 ; and James Austin , of 846 [ Tyrone Militia ] ; who were unanimously approved of as members of this Lodge . 24 th June , 1814 , St . John ' s Day . —The Lodge assembled at Br . White , Rue

de Bobineau , precisely at 12 o ' clock . Fifty-four members present . The new officers where install'd for the ensuing six months , and gav'd their obligations . And an Oration was spoke from the chair suitable to the purpose , after which the Lodge passed to refreshment . 2 nd December , 1813 . —Mr . Richard Smith , Duckells , proposed to become a member . This Decision was Differred until next regular Lodge in order to inquire into his Caracter . [ This procedure very common in the Lodge . ] The