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MASONIC NOTICES FOR NETT WEEK. •
ENGLAND.
Monday, March 15, Lomoom. Nos.l, 13,. 14, 15, 22,
234 293, 308.
Cyr:my. N0..20, 72, 97, 102, 219,
_ 231, 311, 368, 423,. 425,
43', 509, 510, 521, 524,
D
54, 558, 583, 643, 630,
7 .
- 16, bompox. Not 33, 42. 263, 309,316.
GOUNTRT. No. 87, 127, 1:40, 151,
117, 170, 184, 199, 235,
210, 38.5, 477, 532, 544,
Zl, 592, 640, 649.
Wednesday, - 17, boxroom. Grind Steward's bodge,
}utak Night. Nos. 36,
S, 92, 134, 223, 296.
COUNTRY. No. 54, 95, 105. 121, 124,
146, 164, 207, 229, 291,
- :39, 342, 465, 472, 480,
• 'B7, 529, 543, 563, 381,
178, 711.
_ 18, LONDOX. 1•4(.. 65, 123, 152, 274,-
- 388. House Com. Fern.
• Sch. at 11.
COUNTRY. l'os. 45, 48, 31, 57, 113,
. • 115, 171, 238, 384, 416,
420, 451, 453, 481, 466,
469, 483, 500, 511, 545,
• 556, 561, 586, 587, 657,
670. 717.
_ 19, LONDON. -No. 493: • -
COUNTRY. Nos. 28, 30, 55, 193, 470,
.600,-648.
_ 20, LoNoom., ' •
Couxyny. Xos. 64. •
1 R ELAND'.:
Moniay, March 15, CORN; No. 67-.

Tuesday,

Thursday,

Friday,

Saturday,

LEICESTERSHIRE.
On Wednesday, March 3d, a' 0-invocation of the Chapter of
Fortitude, attached to the St John's Lodge, (52.5), was held at
the Bell Hotel, in Leicester, Sir FREDERICK GUSTAVUS,
FOWKE, Bart., &c.,- when the Right Hon. Earl Howe and
George Pochin Esq., were installed in the Chairs of H. & I. ;
after which the members belonging to the Lodge and Chapter
sat down to a banquet served up in Brother Amick's best stile,
—Brother Wm. Cooke, the Worshipful Master of the Lodge,
presided, supported by Earl Howe, Sir F'. G. Fowke, Bart.,
George Pochin, Esq., Laurence Thompson, Esq., Brothers
Macre, Thos. Cook, )wston, Macaulay, Alston, Musson,
Hester, Morris, Birdsall, Lang, Stallard, Parsons, Cape, G. S.
Kirk, Marius, Frer, Chamberlayne, &c., &c. After the cloth
was drawn, and the health of the King, the Grand Patron, was
given, the national anthem was sung by the whole of the
Brethren present. The health of Ilia Royal Highness the Duke
of Sussex, M. W. Grand Master, the Duke of York, the
Marquis of Hastings, Sir John Doyle, Earl -Howe, D. G. M.,
and Sir Frederick Fawke,—Lord Howe rose, acid in a short but
elegant address proposed the health of the Worshipful Master,
which was received with the most heartfelt joy by all present.
The W. M. returned thanks in language expressive of his
feelings on the occasion, which can he better conceived than
described. After many other Masonic toasts were given, the
Brethren separated, highly gratified.

IRELAND.
To the Right Honourable and Honourable, the Knights, Citi-
zens, and Burgesses of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
and Ireland, in Parliament assembled.
The humble Petition of the Undersigned MeMbers of the
Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Ac-
cepted Masons of Ireland,
Humbly slieweth--,That an Act having passed the Legisla-
ture in the last Session of Parliament, for the suppression of
1 Societies connected with a secret botid of union, the Freemasons
of Ireland, ever prompt to obey the laws of their country, irn-
' mcdiately decided upon a suspension of their meetings. until
an appeal could he made to the Iniperial Parliament on their
behalf ; tbat, notwithstanding they might hare continued to
'netts witlout the probability or ineurrin— the penalties of the
law, yet as they were of opinion that a full opportunity was not
afforded to Pailiamentt to appreciate their principles anti their conduct, they have preferred to avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity of addressing the Legislature of the country on the object
of their Society•
That the Frremarons• have from: time to time immemorial,
existed as a charitable, hmevolent, and peaceable Institution,
disclaiming all rzligiOus or political differences, and by their
fundamental princiPle:', they are poltibited from even the con-
sid,!ration of such subjects:.

That the Freemasons of the British Empire have had the ho-
nour to have enrolled amonizst their :limbers his Most Graci-
ous Majesty, and we believe all the hale Branches of his au-
King ~eorge 111.,
gust Family, with CO many of the Nobility, and of the Magis-
tracy in general, as becomes. an ainPL-_, guarantee, not only for
the purity of their principles,
_but for the general conduct of the
Society hereafter. • .
That those principles were so fully felt and acknowledged by
his late Majesty
the Legislature, when P,,"'ing the English Act of the 9th3 of
for the prevention of ille,al
Societies, that the freen?a'nns of Great Britain are particularly
exempted from the Pr°7l,3ions of that Act, and certain regula-
tions
are
therein
0;10)13:led for their conduct.
The Freemasons of Ireland, therefore, not yielding to any
class of his Majesty's anbjeet, •in, loyalty to the Throne, or in
obedience to the laws of the Realm, roost respectfully entreat
your Honourable house
of last that they may be exempt from the
se,4
provisions of the Act I , ,'ion of Parliament, respecting
Secret Societies in Ireland, and i placed in a similar situation
with the Freemasons of Great Britain.