The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1835.

Hillsboro'4ll, and the Loyal Orange Institution of Eng-
land, in the same circular, call the attention of their Orange
brethren, by re-publishing the resolutions of the Grand
Lodge of Dublin, as follows :-
4' And lastly, we beg to call the attention of the t (band
Lodge, and through them return our heartfelt thanks and
'congratulations to our brethren through various parts of
Ireland, who, at the late meetings of the three thousand
in Dublin, five thousand at Bandon, thirty thousand at Ca-
van, and seventy-five thousand at Hillsborough, by their
strength and numbers, the rank, respectability, and orderly
conduct of their attendance, the manly and eloquent ex-
pressions of every Christian and loyal sentiment, vindicated
so nobly the character of our institution, against the as.
perFlon thrown on it, as the paltry remnant of an expiring
faTtion.' And we ardently hope that our brethren in the
other parts of the kingdom, who have not yet come forward
will do so, and not forget the hint given to us iu our Sove-
reign's last most gracious declaration 'to speak out.'"

POWERS OF THE IMPERIAL GRAND MASTER.
Your Committee submit that all these publications are
indications of the importanz!e which is attached to the in-
crease of numbers in the Orange institutions, with the view
of a display of, or having recourse to, physical force, when-
ever an occasion shall require it.
In the printed proceedings of the Grand Lodge, 4th
June, 1833, the Duke of Cumberland is reported to have
stated, " that if the Grand Lodge have not confidence in
the grand master, it is better, perhaps, that I should know
it ; but if it have confidence, its members must be aware
that it is my wish to simplify the proceedings of the institu-
tion as much as possible. Individual opinion is not to be
consPited upon vital and important arrangements, involving
the welfare and best interests of the institution."
It must always be kept in mind, that the power of
calling out the members of all the Orange Lodges in
Ireland rests with the grand master and his deputy,
on the application of twelve members of the grand com-
mittee ; that the same person is grand master of Great
Britain also, having the same powers, which are stated
to be uncontrollnd and arbitrary, of bringing together
large bodies of armed and unarmed men, to make a
demonstration of physical force, which might prove
highly dangerous. It appears, by a paper indorsed by
Lieutenant• Colonel Fairman, which he had received on
the Bth of June, 1834, from Randal E. Plunkett, M.P.
(grand master of county Meath, deputy grand master in
Ireland, and member of the grand committee of the
London Orange Institution), the draft of an address to
the members of the Carlton Club, to be printed and cir-
culated in the name of and by the Orange Institution. The
following is the first paragraph, and deserves the attention
of every man in the country :—" The Orange Institution
is the only society peculiar to Great Britain and Ireland
which already includes individuals of every rank and grade,
from the nearest to the throne to the poorest peasant."
The draft was modified, among other alterations, the ex-
pression, " nearest to the throne," was changed for the
term, " the first male subject in the realm ;" the address
was then widely circulated. Mr. Plunkett, in a letter of
the sth July, 1834, to the deputy grand secretary, says :
—" In the general tenor of the appeal I fully acquiesce ;
every word of it must find an echo in every loyal breast."
He further adds :—" That the physical strength of the
Orange Institution, as its last resort, should be explained
by a short address." The Orange body is capable of brig
rendered eminently available at elections ; " its peculiar
and almost unique application to purposes of co:nmunica-
tion between persons of all trades and to large bodies,
whether the intent of such application 13:,-• for insuring an
election or strengthening the hands of a Government, &c."
and, he continues, " that Conservat;sm is inferior to Orange-
ism, as it is solely, and almost selfishly, political. I can-
not consent to lose your vcinable exertions by identifying
you with the politics of tb:d Carlton Club. I should fly at
higher game, and endr.favour to make the members of the
Carlton Orangemer.,."
Your Committee could not keep out of sight the riots
that took place in Ireland at that gentleman's election, by
the interfer:fnce of large bodies of armed Orangemen, as
detailed in the evidence on the table of the House, as the
,Ind of eminent services that may be rendered at elections
by Orangemen.

EFFORTS FOR EXTENSION IN ENGLAND.
The following paragraphs of the Address to the members
of the Carlton Club and the Conservatives of England, as
circulated, are worthy of attention :
" The day has passed when a debate and a vote of either
House could settle, even for a time, a vital question. To re-
store that day, a large portion of the community must be
bound in union for the support of the institutions of the coun-
try. Their ostensibility would give physical weight to those
spirited and truly patriotic Members of both Houses, who
should have the moral courage to oppose the will of bold in-
novators, and the rash measures of wild experimentalists.
Where, then, is this union to be found? Where is the nucleus
around which may be arrayed the advocates of our social sys-
tem, who are now disheartened, passive lookers-on at the
march of Radicalism, since they are without leaders on whom
they can rely ?
" Such an union, such a nucleus, has (to a very limited ex-
tent in Ea land) some years existed, and requires only to be
well understood and adopted by the Conservatives generally,
to become so expanded as to present the happiest means not
only of preserving the vessel of the State from wreck, but of
carrying her is safety clear of all the rocks, shoals and shal-
lows which at present peril her navigation ; that union, that
nu cleus, noble Lords, gentlemen, and fellow-countrymen, is
' The Loyal Orange Institution.'
" This is the only society peculiar to Great Britain and Ire-
land, which already includes persons of every rank and grade,
from the first male subject in the realm, down to the humblest
individual."

" It is not an occult society ; it is not one of concealments ;
it is not bound by oaths; although every member has either
taken, or is willing to take the oaths of allegiance and supre-
macy; but it is a society, every member of which pledges
himself to support to the utmost of his ability, and by all legal
means, our Prote;tant establishment, and ancient institutions
in Church and State."

" It is governed by a Grand Master, the first Prince of the
blood, who, with the aid of noblemen and gentlemen eminent
for loyalty, wisdom, and sound discretion, will be able (when
the institution shall become more extensively ramified) to mus-
ter, in every part of the empire, no small portion of all that
is sound in the community, and thus present, in every quarter,
a phalanx too strong to be overpowered by the destructives,
which will give a moral as well as a known physical strength
to the Government of the King, and will enable it to set at
defiance the tyrannous power that has been so madly called
into existence."

ACTIVITY OF THE INSTITUTION.
The activity of the institution may be judged of from
the declaration of Lieutenant-Colonel Fairman, that he nas
been in the habit of receiving a multiplicity of co..nmuni-
cations from all parts of the world ; and that lie now has
a cart-load of correspondence in his house Lambeth.
In the letters from the deputy gram secretary to the
Marquis of Londonderry, and to the Duke of Gordon and
others, there is a general referenrA to the advantage of in-
crease of numbers, of boldr,ess of attitude, and even of
physical force, to support the views of the Orange in-
stitution.

Copy.)
" Cannon-ro(w, Westminster, July 30, 1832.
"My Lord Marquis—In my letter of Saturday, I omitted
to mention that we have the military with us as far as they are
at liberty to avow their principles and sentiments; but since
the lamented death of the Duke of York, every impediment
has been thrown in Cie way of them holding a lodge. The
same observation tk,at was applied to the colliers might be at-
tached to the soldiery. As Orangemen, they would be an
additional secizity for their allegiance and unalterable fidelity
in times lilte the present, when revolutionary writers are
striving to set them up to open sedition and mutiny. In tres-
passing thus upon the attention of your Lordship, I am not so
presuraptuous as to suppose that any thing urged by me could
influence your conduct; but understanding the Duke of Cum-
berland has communicated with your Lordship on this sub-
ject, I felt it my duty to put you in possession of certain facts
with which you might not be acquainted.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord Marquis,
" Your Lordship's very respectful and obedient servants
" W. B. FA:iRmA

" To the Marquis of Londonderry."
EXTRACT LETTER TO THE THE DU' OF GORDON.
" Cannon-row, Westm;:nster, Aug. 11, 1832.
" Our institution is going on rosperously, and my accounts
from all quarters are of the tr
..ost satisfactory kind. By our
next general meeting we stall be assuming, I think, such an
attitude of boldness as 'will strike the foe with awe ; but we
inculcate the doctrine of passive obedience and of non-resist-
ance too religiouslf; by far.
" I ha:ie the honour to be, my Lord Duke,
" Your (drp.ee's most devoted and respectful servant,
" W. B. FAIRMAN."

TENDENCY OF OEANGEISM.
In Jr,ne, 1833, Lieutenant-Colonel Fairman writes to
Lord Tu o n g fo r d in these words :—" We shall speedily have
such a moral and physical force, I trust, as will strike with
tor. .or and sore dismay the foes of our country."
As there are no entries, in the books of the institution,
of answers to those and similar letters, your Committee
have been unable to ascertain what were the opinions of
those Noble Lords thereupon ; but, as the public circulars
of the institution express nearly the same sentiments, and
as the Deputy Grand Secretary has been continued in the
confidence of the Grand Officers of the institution, a con-
elus'.on may be drawn that his conduct has not met with
their disapprobation.
The obvious tendency and effect of these Orange Lodges
is to keep up an exclusive association in civil and military
soclety, exciting one portion of the people against the
other ; to increase the rancour and animosity too often,
unfortunately, existing between persons of different reli-
gious persuasions—to make the Protestant the enemy of
the Catholic, and the Catholic the enemy of the Protes-
tant—by processions on particular days, attended with the
insignia of the society, to excite to breaches of the peace
and to bloodshed—to raise up other secret societies among
the Catholics in their own defence, and for their own pro-
tection against the insults of the Orangemen—to interrupt

the course of justice ; to interfere with the discipline of the
army, and thus to render its services injurious instead of
useful, them required on occasions where Catholics and
Pittntants may be parties. All these evils have been
proved by the evidence before the House in regard to Ire-
land, where the system has long existed on an extended.
scale, rendered more prejudicial to the best interests of
society, by the patronage and protection of so many wealthy
members, high in office and rank, taking an active part in
the proceedings of these lodges.
The Orange lodges have also interfered in various poli-
tical subjects of the day, and made Orangeism a means of
supporting the views of a political party, to main`
-;Lin, as
they avow, the Protestant ascendancy. eOran +? lutJo -s
have addressed his Majesty, and ,ndiyiriaais., special oc-
casions of a political J.l.artire-1 patronized and sup-
ported, by subscription voles of thanks, &c., parts, of ti.e
public press whiell advocated their opinions Views in
politics—have interfered in the co.Arn.',. Of justice, by sub-
scriptions to defend and pniect parties of Orangemen,
and to prosecute td» magistrates for interfering with 441 m
(as in the case of Liverpool in 1834, when the mayor of
Liverpool interrupted the Orange precession on the 12th
of July in that year)—and have also interfered with the
elective franchise, by evening members of their body, as
at Rochdale in 1833, for voting for the liberal candidate.
The following are some of the many instances recorded in
the minute books and in the printed circulars of the society,
and will support the statements of your Committee :
At Moston, Committee Meeting, 11th August, 1819.
Resolved,—" That an immediate subscription be entered
into by the Loyal Orange Institution, to defray the great
expense attending the late prosecution in Liverpool, which
expenses amount to a serious sum of money in consequence
of the great number of witnesses and the exertions re-
quired to collect evidence for the support of the prosecu-
tion ; the amount of expenses attending the prosecution and
amount of property destroyed are upwards of 2001.
7th August, 1820.—Resolved at a special meeting of
the Committee in Manchester, " That from the conduct
adopted by Sir John Tobin, Knt., Mayor of Liverpool, to-
wards the members of the institution, when walking in pro-
cession in that town on the 12th July last, and his seizing
and illegally imprisoning Mr. Tyrer, this Committee deems
it highly necessary for the honour of the institution that
Mr. Tyrer should immediately adopt proceedings against
the Mayor, unless a proper explanation and apology be
made by the Mayor to Mr. Tyrer for such outrage."
Committee Meeting, 13th of October. 1819, Manches-
ter.—Thanks to Lord Kenyon for his subscription towards
the prosecution in Liverpool, and to I:ne lodges who have
subscribed and transmitted their subscriptions for the same
purpose.
Committee Meeting, 26th July, 1823.—The following
resolution, recommended to the Grand Lodge by the Grand
Committee, " That the several deputy grand masters and
secretaries constantly report to the grand committee the
increase or decrease of our enemies and their proceedings,
as well as the increase or decrease of our friends, with any
suggestions for the good of our constitution in Church and
State, and that brothers who reside where either Popery
or disloyalty prevail be especially on the alert."
" That D. G. M. French do ascertain what Orangeman
of warrant No. 60, authorized attendance on the Birming-
ham Political Union, and that he transmit the list of Orange-
men who so attended and who have not sufficiently testi-
fied their regret and contrition for such un-Orange and, im-
proper conduct."
At an annual meeting of the Grand Lodge in Manches-
ter, 26th and 27th June, 1820, it was resolved, “ That this
meeting strongly recommends to the notice of all lodges,
the newspapar called The Hibernian Journal, published in
Dublin, by our excellent Brother, John Burke Fitzsimmons,
Esq., as the only paper which has avowed spiritfully, and
undauntedly maintains the Orange principles, in defiance of
all Popish attempts to stifle the swelling chorus of loyalty to
our King and sincere attachment to our glorious constition."
Meeting at Lord Kenyon's, 27th April, 1821.—Re-
solved, " That the grateful thanks of this meeting be given,
on behalf of the Loyal Orange Institution of Great Britain,
to the proprietors and editors of The True Briton and The
Hibernian Journal, for the constitutional part which they
took on the introduction into Parliament of the late Bills
for the destruction of the Protestant religion and glorious
constitution of this country."
At a meeting of the Grand Lodge, 16th June, .1823,
thanks were given to- the editor of the John Bull Surkay
newspaper, " for his advocacy of constitutional Orange
principles on a recent occasion."
Thanks moved by the Duke of Gordon in the Grand
Lodge, on June 4, 1833, to the editors of the Edinburgh
Evening Post, Glasgow Courier, and other papers.
" June 16, 1833.—Thanks to Sir A. B. King, Bart.—
For the gentlemanly, firm, and conscientious conduct he
displayed at the bar of the House of Commons during his
examination on the subject of oaths and constitution of the
Orange Society, whereby we consider him to have com-
pletely established its entire coincidence with the true prin-
ciples of our glorious Constitution."
" Thanks to Mr. Secretary Peel were given for his sup-
port of Protestant principles."
IS THE GRAND MASTER IGNORANT OF THE EXISTENCE OF
LODGES IN THE ARMY

Your Committee, in reviewing all the facts brought be-
fore them, and taking into consideration the mode in which
they have been proved, are unable to reconcile those facts
with the ignorance professed by the Imperial Grand Master,
the Deputy Grand Master of England and Wales, and by
other grand officers of the institution, of the existence of
lodges in the army.
The books of the institution have been, from time to
time, neglected ; but the business of the Grand Lodge has
been very regularly conducted ; the evidence of every wit-
ness proves that the Deputy Grand Secretary and Grand
Committee prepare the business for the Grand Lodge ; and
that every proposition for its deliberation is considered by
the Lodge in the order entered on the Rota ; and a report
of the proceedings of every Grand Lodge, detailing the
business therein transacted, is printed and circulat-,:i to
every grand officer of the Grand Lodge, and generally to
every master of a lodge. All these forms induce your Com-
mittee to place reliance on the docur:,entary evidence, which
may be classed as follows :—,
Ist . There have beerminutes of the proceedings of the
Grand Lodge keptsince 1 19 ; and in them there are en-
tries respe,
the cti7,g the military brethren,-the granting of war-
rants, ar.,
receipt of money from various lodges in the
.
arm;. The following are example of such entries, viz.—
At a meeting of the Loyal Orange Institution Man-
chester, 28th June, 1819—Resolved, " That a warrant be
granted to brother Brew, to hold a lodge in the 6th Re-
ment of Infantry,"
26th and 27th June, 1820. Meeting at Manchester.—
Resolved, " That all military lodges on their arrival in Ire-
land shall communicate with the Grand Lodge of Ireland,
but must transmit their returns regularly to the Grand
Lodge of England."

oth
March, 1821, Manchester.—Resolved, " That Ser.
jeant Hill of the 4th Dragoon Guards be again admitted as
a member of the institution, in consequence of the charges
originally made against him having been proved to be ma-
licious and false."

16th June, 1821. Half-yearly meeting at Lord Konyon's
—Resolved, " That brother William Bridgman, toaster of
Lodge 131, lately held in the 16th regiments be reciniKed to
account to the Grand Lodge for his corithret. b'n pain of
expulsion ; at the same meeting, warrant* Were granted to
Faithful Hall, 11th regiment of foot, Thomas Mackean,
10th light dragoons, and to Henry Gray, 2d or Coldstream
Guards, to hold lodges in their respective regiments.
25th March, 182:3. Meting of Grand Lodge at Lord
Kenyon's.—Resolve,,' " That warrants be granted to John
Sempleton, sct.oolmaster-sergeant, 3d regiment of guards."
And at ":(11s meeting there is a separate resolution—" That
no (.listinction in numbers be made between military and
civil warrants."

At a meeting of the Grand Lodge at Lord Kenyon's
on the 29th September, 1823, deputy grandmaster
Stockdale in the chair. It was resolved—" That our mi-
litary brethren holding warrants, regularly notify to the
deputy-grand secretary their change of quarters, that the
necessary communications may be preserved with the
Grand Lodge."
_ .

Meeting of Grand Lodge, 15th June, 1827, Lord Kenyon
in the chair. " John Gibson (military) Woolwich," attended
the meeting, and was appointed a deputy grandmaster.
And at the first meeting of the Orange Institution of
Great Britain, after the Duke of Cumberland became grand
master, held at the house of Lord Kenyon, on the 17th
March, 1829, the Duke of Cumberland in the chair, the
the Report of the Grand Committee was read, received,
and confirmed, and the following resolutions were unani-
mously adopted:--

" That New Warrants be granted."
No. 66, to Samuel Morris, musician, 43d Foot, Gibraltar.
94, to Hospital- Serjeant Charles 0. Haines, 2d Batt.
Rifle Brigade, Malta.
104, to Private James Bain, 42d Foot, Gibraltar.
114, to Corporal John Parkinson, 2d Batt. Rifle Brigade,
Dcvonport.
248, to R. Lawrence, sth Batt. Royal Artillery, Gibraltar,.
At a subsequent meeting in the same place, on the 4th
of June, 1832, where the Duke of Cumberland also pre•
sided, the Report of the Grand Committee and their reso-
lutions were read before the Grand Lodge. The tenth
resolution is to the effect, that " several additional letters
were laid before the Grand Committee, containing com-
plaints against Mr. Chetwoode ;" among these were letters
from the following non-commissioned officers and privates :
Bermuda.—Sergeant Chainey, Nov. 2, 1831.
Corfu.—Hospitabl-Sergeant Haines, 2d batt. Rifles, April
15, 1832.

Dublin.—Brother Nichols, 50th Reg., May 12, 1832.
Malta.—Brother M'lnnes, 42d Reg. Highlanders, Ist May,
1832.

Quebec.—Brother Inglis, 24th Reg.
By the Report of the proceedings of the Grand Lodge,

held on the 16th of April, 1833, the Duke of Cumberland
being in the chair, it appears that the proceedings of war-
rant 233, Woolwich (being a military warrant, Royal Ar-
tillery, 911 i Battalion) were read, and Brother John Gibson
(military) of the said warrant was examined; and it was
resolved that Charles Nimens (a private in that battalion
should b;.., suspended from membership, with right of appeal
through the Grand Committee to the next Grand Lodge.
2d. In the letter-book of the institution, from
ats to•
the latest period, there are conie OlO
,ewers nitareaAPo -
deputy- grand SC.:.eLary of the institution 10 fieli-conithis-
-7„:.eu officers onti litAt'atO Itl i•egithents., aria in deilleh-
lowntA of ftilnery at home and abroad c(COPi6§ .43itie of
which are annexed in the Appendix;) all sent by the de-
puty grand secretary fff,- the time in the name of the grand
lodge. There is is also a mass of letters from soldiers,
belonging to lodges in the army, some of:them addePectillii
Lord Kenyon, which his Lordship admitted he must have
seen, although lie di:4 hot at first recollect them ; these
lettort cniihrace a large portion of the army, and will be
seen in the appendix.
3. There are regular entries of the names of the regi.
ments, and lists of artillery in the ledgers 11`oni 1820 to 1824,
the number of the warrants granted to each of them, the
amount of dues oWing by them to the Grand Lodge, and
the amounts received from time to time from thetil ; all
these accounts are kept by the depot') grand treasurer,
rod once a year, or oftener th accounts of the institution
were balanced and laid before the Grand Lodge, and in
these ortounts.entries from lodges in the army appear. In
the accounts published and circulated of late years to every
member of the Grand Lodge, there arc many entries
also of the names of the privates and con-commissioned
officers, from whom money was received.
Dues received from the following Military Lodges, from the
account submitted to the Grand Lodge, June 4, 1835.
Woolwich, 133: 13, Does to March 1833 ... £0 15 6
2,96: Ist Royal Dragoons 2 8 0
Gibraltar... s3d Reg. for new Warrant...
From Malta Fusil.?.ers,'grantedbv COrAnlissiVqiee
Nucella for new Artkrritil.. A 0 0
Dover 114 : Does ik'ent itOie, 1832, Ist Rifle
ttgtclel 0 0
4th Those 4s a register in which some thousand names
are alphabetically entered, with the number of the lodge
they belonged to ; and of these, some hundreds entered as
military, and the number of the regiments they belong to.
sth. There exist 3 a printed register, made up to 1830, of
all tho lodges under the institution, having the names of
thirty regiments or corps opposite the numbers or the war-
rants they held ; and many of the printed circulars an-
nounced that those registers of the lodges were on sale at
2s. each. An ektract of the registers of military lodges is
given in another part of the Report.
6th. In the printed circular reports or the proceedings
of the Grand Lodge at which his Royal Highness presided,
there are entries of the warrants granted to Regiments by
that Grand Lodge : for instance, it appears from minutes
of proceedings of the meeting of the Grand Lodge at No. 9,
Portman-square, on the 17th of February, 1831, the Duke
of Cumberland, Grand Master of the Empire, in the chair,
that the issuing of 24 Warrants to hold new lodges was ap-
proved, and thmt of them are thus inserted, viz.—
No. 244 to Samuel Heasty, 6th battalion Artillery.
T 258 to James Smith, 94th Foot.
260 to Private Wilson, 17th Foot.
There are also entries (4947) of Sergeant William Keith
having attended two meetings as proxy for the Ist Regiment
of Dragoon Guards, warrant 269. And by a resolution of
the Grand Lodge, on the 15th February, 1827, " No per-
-1 son can be received as proxy in the Grand Lodge who is
not of himself qualified to sit and vote therein."
7th. In the laws and ordinances of 1821, 1826, and 1834,
there is an apparent encouragement held out for the initia-
tion of soldiers and sailors to be Orangemen, by the remis-
sion of the fees on admission.
On the 4th of June, 1834, there is the following entry
in the printed Report of proceedings :
" The laws and ordinances of the Institution, as revised by
the grand committee, and submitted to the inspection of his
Royal Highness the grand master, and his Lordship the de-
puty grand master of England and Wales, were approved and
confided by his Royal Highness to the final supervision of Lord
Kenyon."
And it is difficult to believe that either of them could be
ignorant of the following law ; viz.—
" Rule 41st. No person can be admitted into this institu-
tion for a less fee than 155., nor advanced into the Purple
order, after a reasonable probation, for less than an extra
fee of 55., except soldiers and sailors, when the fee of ad-
mission shall be at the discretion of the meeting."
This rule was also in the manuscript laws submitted to
Mr. Sergeant Lens in 1821, also in the copy of 1826, and
is in the laSt copy revised in 1834.
FOREIGN WARRANT IO lIIOSTIIta E. NUCELLA.
. .

Bth. A warrant was ,granted in 1832 to Edward Nucella,
Esq., to visit established lodges on the continent of Europe,
and in Malta and the lonian Islands, and to establish others
where he could.
(The warrant is signed by the Duke of Cumberland and
the Marquis of Chandos.)
Mr. Namlia was informed, before his departure from
England, that there were military lodges in Malta, and he
stated to the Committee that it was publicly known in that
island that Orange lodges were held in the regiments there.
He was known as the agent of the Loyal Orange Institu-
tion, and the soldiers and non-commissioned officers visited
him as such, and he attended their lodges. He wrote seve-
ral letters from Malta and the lonian Islands to the Deputy
Grand Secretary, describing his proceedings ; these letters
were read by the Grand Committee—were read in the
Grand Lodge, when the Duke of Cumberland and Lord
Kenyon were present, and the thanks of the Grand Lodge
were given to Mr. Nucella for his zeal. Mr. Nucella
granted two warrants—viz, to the 7th and 73d Regiments,
to hold lodges ; and these were afterwards approved of by
the Grand Lodge, and the dues for the same were entered
in the account of the regiment, kept in the books of the
Grand Lodge. On the 4th October, 1C5:.13, he writes,
" I find only two out of ft'Ur battalions of regiments and
companies of hrtillery stationed in this island—viz., the
42d ftliiilanders (the head lodge) and the 94th, are sit-
ting under warrants, the former, Master John M‘Kay ;
the latter, No. 258, Master Frederick Spooner ; the two
other regiments, the 7th and 73d, are sitting under pre-
cepts." On the 30th October, 1833, he sends a list of
the members of lodge No. 258 in the 94th Regiment, and
of No. 194 lodge in the 7th Regiment, &c. ; he states,
" That Major Middleton, of the 43d Regiment, had put down
the lodge No, 104 held in that regiment," and ho details his
expostulation with the Major for so doing. In his letter from
Corfu, dated 2t3th Nov. 1833, he states that he had been
prevented by Lord Nugent, the civil governor, from esta-
blishing a lodge there ► and he mentions, with astonish-
ment, the orders of the commander of the forces, prohibit-
ing the goidiers from holding oe sitting In any lodge what-
coo. In his letter of the 7th February, 1834, he mentions
that he lied granted to Captain M'Dugall, paymaster of
the 4td Royal Highlanders, the warrant No. 196 Z lodge,
for having been an Orangeman for thirty years, and that he
had raise him and the deputy master, ensign and quarter-
master Hickman of the 72d regiment, to the dignity of the
purple order. " All this," he adds, " subject to the appro-
bation and confirmation of the grand master of the empire,
whom you of course make acquainted with the whole, and
also the grand lodge." Mr. Nucella never thought of con-
cealing his mission as a commissioner appointed by the
Orange association ; but in every letter, and in his evidence,
seems proud of that duty ; his warrant was hung up openly
in his chambers all the time he was in Malta. These let-
ters were read in the grand lodge at different times. No-
tice of them was made on the 4th of June, 1833, by Lord
Kenyon, in very favourable terms, and another time the
following entry appears ;
" The zealous exertions of brother Nucella, M. o. C: and
grand commissioner on the Continent for the achuioeffieht et
the institution, as detailed in his letters from Italy, Malta, and
the lonian Islands, afforded high gratification, and called forth
the unanimous approbation of the Grand Lodge:"
Your Committee call attention particularly to the pit*
ceedings of Mr. Nucella, as he was sent under a foreign
warrant of the Duke of Cumberland, imperial grand master,
to Malta and other places—he reports his progress—and
the state of Orange lodges in the regiments from time to
time—his letters are read in Grand Lodge—notice of them
taken in the printed reports) and finally, he received from
the deputy grand secretary the following letter of thanks
from the imperial grand master :

" ORANGE INSTITUTION,
(Copy) " Canhon-row, June 0, 1834.
"My dear Sir,—lt affords me no small portion of pleasure
to forward you an extract from the last Report of the Grand
Committee, which was confirmed by our illustrious Grand
Master in Grand Lodge. My time has been so engrossed, as
well in preparing for that meeting as in presiding at grand
committees, since another of which, on finance, will be held
t,3..morrow, that I have scarcely had one moment which I could
:ail my own. This must serve as my apology for not offering
--ou my respects in person, which I shall seize the first oppor-
tunity of doing ; in the meanwhile, begging you to accept my
best wishes for the restoration of your health.
" I have, &c.
(Signed) "W. BLENNERHASSETT FAIRMAN.
" To Edmond Nucella, Esq."

Having heard read the highly interesting, important, and
valuable communications of brother Nucella, M.G.C. &c.,
from Corfu, Malta, and other remote places, of various
dates, as also one of this morning from Vauxhall-place, on
his return to England, after an absence of two years, during
which he had been making a tour no less extensive than
useful, your Grand Committee beg to offlr lint -their
warmest congratulations and their most cordial welcome on
returning to his native land. The acceptable pr-les he has
afforded on all occasions of his unremittinr, zeal to p, emote
the objects and to extend the principles of our insti, tution
have been such as cannot fail to ensure him the approb, ation
of the Grand Lodge. In bearing this testimony to his
merits, the Committee would be guilty of great inju ice
were they not to recommend him strongly for some espeso, 'al

mark of honour for the heavy claim he has established on l
the gratitude of the high dignitaries and of the brotherhood
in general. They cannot close this well-deserved tribute of
from
rite,ossmppoe
sctititiiefoonii
with withouttheirett his in:
W. B. . Ohairman.
l)th. Lie F
utenant-Colonel Fairman states, that suldi,r,
thO castle -were admitted in ther regi
mentals to thPlodorem held in I,4db-thumb *hilrt nn. hip
ttiHi cl thiPaidti ; that hograntdd nett military it arrant.
to the 6th ljr*dtig, at Sheffield and; as 4 matter of
Codige;li and h;A hpi4
ekthalig6ci many old Irish military warrants for English
ones without inquiry. At Rochdale, it was publicly and
generally known that the military, belonged to the Orange
Associations'. fO,Mtilta:
driiiy was generally known by officers and men ; and Mr.
Nucella was recognized by them openly as a Commissioner
from the Duke of Cumberland, the imperial grand mater
of the Loyal Orange Association of England: Me. Ntt
cella remonstrated with the eemmanding offieef of the 42d
regiment on the subject of his suppressing the lodge in
that regiment, and he afterwards attended the nieetings of
other military lodges there, although he know they *ere
held contrary to the order of the Commander of the fordei,
Your Committee therefore submit to the House these
details, as some of the many proofs which have been
brought before them, of the manner in which the Orange
Lodges in the army have, from time to time, come under
the notice of the grand committee and of the Grand Lodge ;
and when it is also known that at every meeting of the
Grand Lodge since his appointment the imperial grand
master and the deputy grand master for Great Britain
have been present, your Committee must repeat, that they
find it impossible to reconcile statements, in evidence before
them, with the ignorance of these proceedings professed by
Lord Kenyon and by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cum-
berland,