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William Henry Lambton, Esq. M P.
Among Masons ( as such ) the discussion of particular politics , or relig ious differences , is happily under a state of inhibition : and this account of an eminent Mason shall not be made a vehicle to describe or appreciate political questions . The' great leading principles of loyalty , morality , and religion , are interwoven in the very essence of our institution * ; and are enhanced , in an especial and impressive manneron all occasionsby the subject of this essay :- '—
, , but to the particulars of sect or party , as Freemasons , we descend not . It ma } ' be , therefore , only necessary to remark , in this place , that , though we do not meet Mr . L . starting into speech on every partymotion , yet he is in general found among the eloquent part of that division of the House of Commons , which at present is termed the Opposition . He is loyally and zealously attached to the King and
Constitution of this country ; and at the same time is an able advocate for the amelioration of a wise and temperate reform . His ideas on this delicate subject cannot be better expressed , than in his own elegant and energetic language , extracted from a letter written b y him , and published in the Newcastle papers , about the stirring time of December 1 792 . " All I wish" says he , " is to see this happy
, " Constitution reformed and repaired upon its own principles ; and " that every reparation may be made in the stik of the building . " We come now to consider this Gentleman in his Masonic capacity , as presiding over the fraternal rites and constitution of an
intelligent and numerous district of the order . The patent appointing him Provincial Grand Master of the county of Durham was signed by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland October 6 , 178 7 ; and on the 9 th of September 1788 he was installed in his hi gh office , in the presence of upwards of 150 brethren , . with a degree of splendour not often known in those parts ; and the interesting occasion closed with that regulated festivity by which the Society is
so eminently distinguished . These and other transactions of this Provincial . Grand Lodge have been recorded in another part of our Magazinef ; we shall onfy add , that Mr . Lambton holds his station with appropriate dignityand accommodating politeness . The annual and other communications are made not a little interesting by the elegant charges which are delivered from the chair upon those
occasions ; and the writer of this article cannot refuse himself the present opportunity of expressing the sensible pleasure that was received by a numerous auditory from an animated oration delivered at the Provincial Meeting August 12 , 1 794 , wherein , among other shining passages , he glanced with peculiar felicity on the subject of Fraternization—striking , in a most emphatic mannerthe
plunder-, ing fraternization of the French with the unresisting Belgian—the insidious fraternization of Russia and Prussia with the devoted Polein contrast with the pure and benevolent fraternization then in exhibition before him : and this was done in a stile of such indignant
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William Henry Lambton, Esq. M P.
Among Masons ( as such ) the discussion of particular politics , or relig ious differences , is happily under a state of inhibition : and this account of an eminent Mason shall not be made a vehicle to describe or appreciate political questions . The' great leading principles of loyalty , morality , and religion , are interwoven in the very essence of our institution * ; and are enhanced , in an especial and impressive manneron all occasionsby the subject of this essay :- '—
, , but to the particulars of sect or party , as Freemasons , we descend not . It ma } ' be , therefore , only necessary to remark , in this place , that , though we do not meet Mr . L . starting into speech on every partymotion , yet he is in general found among the eloquent part of that division of the House of Commons , which at present is termed the Opposition . He is loyally and zealously attached to the King and
Constitution of this country ; and at the same time is an able advocate for the amelioration of a wise and temperate reform . His ideas on this delicate subject cannot be better expressed , than in his own elegant and energetic language , extracted from a letter written b y him , and published in the Newcastle papers , about the stirring time of December 1 792 . " All I wish" says he , " is to see this happy
, " Constitution reformed and repaired upon its own principles ; and " that every reparation may be made in the stik of the building . " We come now to consider this Gentleman in his Masonic capacity , as presiding over the fraternal rites and constitution of an
intelligent and numerous district of the order . The patent appointing him Provincial Grand Master of the county of Durham was signed by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland October 6 , 178 7 ; and on the 9 th of September 1788 he was installed in his hi gh office , in the presence of upwards of 150 brethren , . with a degree of splendour not often known in those parts ; and the interesting occasion closed with that regulated festivity by which the Society is
so eminently distinguished . These and other transactions of this Provincial . Grand Lodge have been recorded in another part of our Magazinef ; we shall onfy add , that Mr . Lambton holds his station with appropriate dignityand accommodating politeness . The annual and other communications are made not a little interesting by the elegant charges which are delivered from the chair upon those
occasions ; and the writer of this article cannot refuse himself the present opportunity of expressing the sensible pleasure that was received by a numerous auditory from an animated oration delivered at the Provincial Meeting August 12 , 1 794 , wherein , among other shining passages , he glanced with peculiar felicity on the subject of Fraternization—striking , in a most emphatic mannerthe
plunder-, ing fraternization of the French with the unresisting Belgian—the insidious fraternization of Russia and Prussia with the devoted Polein contrast with the pure and benevolent fraternization then in exhibition before him : and this was done in a stile of such indignant