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After alluding to the first cause of trouble , tho desire of the members of the Supreme Council to have rules and regulations prepared for the government of subordinate bodies , and the efforts of Bro . Eaymond to defeat the intentions of the Council and the Committee appointed by it for that purpose , and touching upon the alleged illegal admission of brethren to the 33 rd degree ,

Bro . Case thus disposes of one of the charges made by Bro . Eaymond against the Gr . Sec . Gen-, that the latter - " has not seen fit to submit for my inspection any of the correspondence with foreign bodies for the last two years , " aud that such a course had greatly embarrassed him , inasmuch as it "led to the charge of neglect of the duties of my ( his ) office" & c . — " The answer to all this

, is simple and effectual . Since the annual meeting in 1859 , no official documents addressed to the Council , or to the Sov . Sec . Gen ., intended for the Grand Commander ' s action , were received from foreign or other bodies . " Indeed Bro . Case , in connection with this charge , so logically refuted , defends the Sec . General from the

charge of inattention or neglect made against him by Bro . Eaymond , by stating that , in addition to the duties of the Secretariat , the Gr . Secretary prepared for Bro . E . the addresses he was in the habit of reading to the Council , and leading his readers to draw the inference of the latter ' s incapacity to write or perpare his own . Bro . Case also emphatically denies the charge , made by Bro . Eaymond , relative to the records , when he says . — " We have had no book of records since the Council

has been located m this city , ( Boston ) , and m reference to the delay in getting out the printed proceedings , which was a subject of complaint by Bro . E ., the author of the pamphlet says : —• " The remarks about ' printing from memoranda , commonly towards the close cf the year , ' comes with an ill grace from a man who caused the delay at different times . I have written out the

proceedings for the printer , and submitted the manuscript to Com'r Eaymond , and waited for a month or more for its return , and then , after correcting the proof sheets , have placed them in his hands , and , under the pretence of examining them , he has detained them for months ; and , on one occasion in particular , after importuning him for ' one form' for a long time , he

concluded he had lost it . In fact , he was so lax in the examination , that we have been for more than once obliged to print without exhibiting proof to him , in oz-der to get the pamphlet out' before the close of the year . ' " Our space will not permit us to tonch upon all the points referred to by Bro . Case in bis "Statement of " . Facts . " There are one or two more , however , which cannot be omitted , without doing injustice to the subject . In Bro . Eaymond ' s adress he excuses himself for

abruptly closing the Supreme Council in August 1860 , on the ground that , that was " a Special meeting , called to consider certain charges which had been preferred , " and that , therefore , when those charges had been acted upon , no further business could be transacted . This abrupt closing of the Body , and the refusal of Bro . Eaymondto permit other business for which the

special meeting was called , led to his desposition eventually , and in proof that the call of the August session was not exclusively for the trial of charges . Bro . Case publishes the call for the same which is as follows : "Boston , July 31 , 1860 . CHARLES W . MOOKE , ESQ . Dear Sir and III . S . (? ., H . E . —You are hereby

requested to notify the members of the Supreme Council , 33 rd , N . J . "U . S ., that a meeting of said Council will be held at their Grand East , Boston , Mass ., on "Wednesday , August 22 nd , 1860 , for the purpose of transacting such business as may regularly come before them . But more especially to consider and act upon certain charges that have been presented for their consideration . Yours , & c . EDWAUD A . EAYMOSD , S . G C . "

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g § This letter certainly confirms Bro . Case ' s statement . In reference to the autocratic powers which it is alleged Bro . Eaymond claimed to possess . Bro . Case thus remarks : " Eaymond evidently assumes that , at the head of the Council , he is supreme , and can make or unmake , and no one dare to ask why ? He even asserted that , by his obligation , he could not allow any Inspr .

General to read the ' Secret Constitutions , ' which he now says ' wo are all bound to support and maintain ' and boasts that they invest him with all power ; so that he might be expected to say , on taking the chair , as his previous autocratic rulings indicate the thought , ' behold , a greater than Frederick' is here . " If Bro . Eaymond refused to allow those whom he professed to to

govern see the laws by which they were to be governed , he committed a grievous mistake , for although Sov . Gr . Commander , he was only in his Council primus inter pares , tho powers originally said to have been possessed by Frederick solely during his lifetime , being at his death the joint inheritance of the Council of Nine , of which the the Grand Commander made but one . Frederick ' s

connexion with the Order , however , is as much a fiction as that " it takes nine tailors to make a man ; " or nine Councillors to make a Frederick . The Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction is therefore no longer a unit . It is at present a house divided against itself ; and if the concluding lines of Bro . Case ' s pamphlet be taken as an index , " I must be

permitted to say that the duty I have here attempted to perform was one of necessity , not of choice , for it is unpleasant to take the moral dissecting knife and lay open even the malicious and wicked machinations and perversions of one with whom we have walked as a brother , " during the lifetime of some of the present actors in the drama , no union , no peace can be hoped for . 111 . brethren , let there be peace .

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MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

KNIGHTS TEMPLAR . I should feel greatly obliged to any brother who could complete , or add to , the following list of Eulers of the Temple ; and also to any one who would inform me where a list of the English Grand Priors of the Hospital of St . John is to be had ? 22 . Johannes Marcus Larmenius 1313

Bertram ! du Guescl ' m 1357-1380 Eobert Leuoncourt 1478-1497 Philip Chahot 1516-1543 Duke of Montmorency 1574-1614 DukedeDuras 1681-1705 Duke of Orleans 1705-1724 . Duke of Maine 1724-1737

Louis Henry Bourbon Conde 1737-1740 . Louis Prancis Bourbon Conty 1741-1776 Duke de Cosse Brissae 1776-1804 B . R . Pabre Palaprat 1804-1 S 3 S Admiral Sir Sydney Smith 1838-1810 ENGLISH . 18 . Wm . de la More ( Grand Prior ) 1313

Joshua Springer ( Bristol ) 1780 ' Thanias Dunkeley 1792-1806 Edward Duke of Kent 1806-1811 Kodwell Wright 1811-1812 Duke of Sussex ( Grand Prior ) 1812-1843 In whose care is the " Charter of Compact" mentioned in the Bristol Warrant of 1780 ?—A .

COLO & SE . One would have thought the " Charter of Cologne " instead of furthering the interests of the high grades , would have had an opposite tendency ? The following relating to the town may not be uninteresting to some readers . The church of Cologne ( built by the Freemasons ) , contains a small marble chapel , lighted by ( 3 ?)