Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1830-01-21

singular O1tr0ge.-The morning papers
contain an advertisement which we insert
below, detailing the particulars Of an act Of
violence, unusual in this city, the perpe-
traitors Of which will we hope be detected.
One Hundred Dollars REGARD, will be
given to the driver Of the carriage or any
| other person or persons who may give in
formation that may lead to the detection
and conviction Of the perpetrators Of
most daring outrage, on Monday afternoon
last 9TH inst. between the hours Of a and 5
o'clock, on One Of the most respectable
young ladies, who was returning home
through Frankfort near William st. when
she was accosted by a young man genteel-
ly dressed, and in hurried manner inform
ed her that her father, who had been for
some months confined to the house by ILL
ness, was taken in e. and dying. This
shock deprived her finer recollection, and
when she revived, size fOnnd herself in
carriage driving rapidly, and held by a
person half masked who wore cloak and
cap, and was using means t. restore her to
her senses. The carriage at length stop-
ped before white or pale yellow house,
and it is thought with tree before the
door. She was there lifted out and assured
that that was her fathers house and he
would carry her in as soon as he had got
something from the carriage, believing her
strength too much exhausted by Eainting to
walk. She Immediately discovered the
house not to be her fathers, and while he
was yet seeking in the coach, the hope Of
escape crossed her mind, and she seemed
endowed with supernatural stIeneth-she
darted off, and directly entered dark al
ley or lane near the house which led her
into another street, and after having pass
ed through several streets she found her
self in Pearl.street, where she continued
her fight until her strength became entire
~ exhausted, and she fell senseless on the
pavement Of a respectable merchant, who
kindly took her in and gave her parents
information Of her s:tuation.-N. Y. Am.
Antiquity of Frse M0son,y.-We stated
some days ago, snvs the New York Amer
lean, that an afaication had been made
| BY an aLti-ma hic committee in Boston
TO the Presidents Of Harvard College, and
Of the Andover Theological Institution,
asking whether any evidence existed, with
in the knowledge. Of these gentlemen, or
the Faculties Of Their Colleges, that spec
ulative Free Masonry was to be traced
back beyond the last century. The reply
from these gentlemen was adverse to the
I claimS Of antiquity urged in behalf of Free.
Masonry. On the other side, we find in
tho Gazette Of yesterday, the following
lettor, purporting to be from the learned
John Locke, to the Ri. Hon. Thomas
Earle, of p en.brokc, with an old manuscript
on the subject Of Masonry.
9th May, 1906.
My Lord: have at length, by the
help of Mr.. Collins, procured copy oi
that MS. in the BOdleian library. which
you were 50 curious to see; and, in obedi'
ence to your lordship's commands. here
with send it you. Most of the notes an
nexed to it, are what made yesterday
for the reading of my lady Masham, wh'
has become SO fond Of Masonry, as to say
that she now, more than ever, wishes her
self man, that she might be capable o
admission into the fraternity. The ms
Of which this is a copy, appears to be
bout $50 years old yet, as your lordshi
will observe by the title, it is itself a cop
Oh one yCt WOEC uuSs0nsS ~ "S~~s ~
: years; for the original is said TO be in tn
handwriting Of K. Henry 9th. Wher
that prince had it, is at present an unce'
tainty but it seems to me to DO, an exam
nation, taken perhaps before the King
of some ono Of the brotherhood of Ma
SONS; among whom, he entered himsel
as it is said. when he came out OF his mi
nority; and t,enceIorth put stop to
persecution which had been raised again:
them. But must not detain your lord
ship longer, by my preface. from the thin
itself. | know not what effect the s'gh
; Of this old paper may have uPo" your lord
ship, but for my own part, cannot Gen.
that il has so much raised my curiosity. a
10 induce me to enter myself into the fra
ternity. which am determined to do ~
NAV be ADMITTEDLY tho next time 60 u
J London. and that will be shortly.
I am, my lord, your lordship's most ODE
dent and most humble servant,
i Signed, JOHN LOCKE
The Sultan MahmOnd.-The rage o
the Sultan for innovations, and an assim'
l.,;on (so unorthodOx in 10 MussuIn,an) u