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The Freemasons' Repository.
We shall close the selections for this month with the Professsor ' s ANIMATED DESCRIPTION OF THK PRINCIPALITY OF NEUW-IED IN WESTPHALIA . ' If there ever was a spot upon earth where men may be happy in a state of cultivated society , it was the little principality of Neuwied . I saw it in 1770 . The town was neat , and the palace handsome and
in good taste . But the country was beyond conception delightful ; not a cottage that was out of repair , not a' hedge out of order ; it had been the hobby ( pardon me the word ) of the Prince , who made it his daily employment to go through his principality regularly , and assist every householder , of whatever condition , with his advice , and with his purse ; andwhen a freeholder could not of himself put
, things into a thriving condition , the Prince sent his workmen and did it for him . He endowed schools for the common people , and two academies forthe gentry and the people of business . He gave little portions to the daughters , and prizes to the well-behaving sons of the labouring people . His own household was a pattern of elegance
and economy ; his sons were sent to Paris to learn elegance , and to England to learn science and agriculture . In short , the whole was like a romance ( and was ¦ indeed romantic ) . I heard it spoken of with a smile at the table of the Bishop of Treves , at Ehrenbretstein , and was induced to see it next day as a curiosity : and yet , even here , the fanaticism of Knigge would distribute bis poison , and tell the blinded people that they were in a state of sin and misery ; that their
Prince was a despot ; and that they would never be happy till he was made to fly , and till they were all marie equal . ' They got their wish : the swarm of French locusts sat down on . Neuwied ' s beautiful fields in 1 79 , 1 , and entrenched themselves ; and in three months , Prince and farmers houses , and cottages , and schoolsand academies—all had vanished ; and all the subjects were
, made equal . But when they complained to the French General ( P . enc- le Grand ) of being plundered by bis soldiers , he answered , with a contemptuous and cutting laugh , " All is ours—we have left you your eyes to cry . ' "— . Biscite justitiam moniti , et non temnere divos I '
. BROTHER MUNKHOUSU'S SERMON . WE have with very great satisfaction perused and re-perused the Sermon of tlie Rev . Brother Dr . R . Munkhouse , delivered in the church of St . John the Baptist , at Wakefield , Yorkshire , on St . John ' s Day , 25 th June , 1798 : it has since been published * for the benefit of the Charity Fund of the Lodge of Unanimity at
Wakefield ; and we pronounce it to be a plain , sensible , ) 'et animated discourse , well suited to the occasion , and highly worth-. - of the attention of our Brethren . The' text we think very appropriately selected from the xxth chapter ofthe Acts of the Apostles , verse 33 .
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The Freemasons' Repository.
We shall close the selections for this month with the Professsor ' s ANIMATED DESCRIPTION OF THK PRINCIPALITY OF NEUW-IED IN WESTPHALIA . ' If there ever was a spot upon earth where men may be happy in a state of cultivated society , it was the little principality of Neuwied . I saw it in 1770 . The town was neat , and the palace handsome and
in good taste . But the country was beyond conception delightful ; not a cottage that was out of repair , not a' hedge out of order ; it had been the hobby ( pardon me the word ) of the Prince , who made it his daily employment to go through his principality regularly , and assist every householder , of whatever condition , with his advice , and with his purse ; andwhen a freeholder could not of himself put
, things into a thriving condition , the Prince sent his workmen and did it for him . He endowed schools for the common people , and two academies forthe gentry and the people of business . He gave little portions to the daughters , and prizes to the well-behaving sons of the labouring people . His own household was a pattern of elegance
and economy ; his sons were sent to Paris to learn elegance , and to England to learn science and agriculture . In short , the whole was like a romance ( and was ¦ indeed romantic ) . I heard it spoken of with a smile at the table of the Bishop of Treves , at Ehrenbretstein , and was induced to see it next day as a curiosity : and yet , even here , the fanaticism of Knigge would distribute bis poison , and tell the blinded people that they were in a state of sin and misery ; that their
Prince was a despot ; and that they would never be happy till he was made to fly , and till they were all marie equal . ' They got their wish : the swarm of French locusts sat down on . Neuwied ' s beautiful fields in 1 79 , 1 , and entrenched themselves ; and in three months , Prince and farmers houses , and cottages , and schoolsand academies—all had vanished ; and all the subjects were
, made equal . But when they complained to the French General ( P . enc- le Grand ) of being plundered by bis soldiers , he answered , with a contemptuous and cutting laugh , " All is ours—we have left you your eyes to cry . ' "— . Biscite justitiam moniti , et non temnere divos I '
. BROTHER MUNKHOUSU'S SERMON . WE have with very great satisfaction perused and re-perused the Sermon of tlie Rev . Brother Dr . R . Munkhouse , delivered in the church of St . John the Baptist , at Wakefield , Yorkshire , on St . John ' s Day , 25 th June , 1798 : it has since been published * for the benefit of the Charity Fund of the Lodge of Unanimity at
Wakefield ; and we pronounce it to be a plain , sensible , ) 'et animated discourse , well suited to the occasion , and highly worth-. - of the attention of our Brethren . The' text we think very appropriately selected from the xxth chapter ofthe Acts of the Apostles , verse 33 .