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Q. Where you shewn any thing particular in the second vale.

A. I was shewn an imitation of the table of shew-bread, the burning incense and the candlestick with seven branches.

Q. Were you entrusted with any thing there,

A. The pass words.

Q. Give them to me.

A. Eleazer, Aaron, Moses.

Q. Did those pass words gain you admission into the third vale.

A. They did.

Q. On entering the third vale, what was said to you.

A. I was desired to be attentive to a portion of scripture.
Q. Were you shewn any thing particular.

A. I was shewn the ark of the covenant.

Q. What did that ark contain,

A. The tables of stone, golden pot of Manna, and the imitation of Aaron's rod that budded.

Q. Were you entrusted with a sign.

A. I was.

Q. How were you disposed of.

A. I was desired to withdraw and to prepare for further information.

Q. After you were properly prepared, how were you admitted.

A. By giving five distinct reports.

Q. What was then said to you.

A. Who comes there.

Q. Your answer.

A. Three sojourners, who wish to offer their services to the Sanhedrim sitting in council.

Q. What was then said to you.

A. I was desired to wait while the Scribes acquainted the High Chiefs, and I should have an answer.

Q. What was the answer.

A. Enter in the name of the Most High.

Q. After you were admitted, what was then said to you.

A. I was addressed by the High Chief as follows: Sojourners, what is your request.

Q. What was your answer.

A. We first beg leave, Most Excellent, to sojourn among you; having heard that you are about to rebuild the second temple of the Lord. We beg your acceptance of our best services in promoting that glorious work.

Q. In what labour do you wish to engage.

A. We deem, the lowest situation in the Lord's House an honour; therefore, we only beg employment.

Q. Your humility bespeaks your merit, and we doubt not but you are qualified for some superior office. Those at present being full, and as you prepared with tools for the purpose, we, for the present, shall appoint you to go and prepare for the foundation of the second temple. But let me lay this injunction upon you, that, should you meet with any thing belonging to the first temple, you will communicate no part thereof to any one, until you have faithfully made your report to the Sanhedrim here sitting in chapter. Go and may the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, be with you and prosper you.

(The reader must here suppose that these sojourners retire, begin to work, make a discovery of a concealed arch, and return to report to the Sanhedrim. Masonry in its form and ceremony, is child's-play. Children should be taught it, if men cannot be otherwise shamed out of it.

Q. Sojourners, we are informed that you have made a discovery.

A. We have, most excellent; for, being at our work early this morning, our companion brake up the ground with his pick-axe, and we, judging from the sound thereof, that it was hollow, called upon our companion with his shovel to clear away the loose earth and discovered the perfect crown of an arch. Not being able to make our way into it, another companion removed the key stone, which excited our curiosity to know what it contained; but being afraid of danger, and other unknown circumstances, we cast lots which should first go down, which lot, most excellent, fell upon

me.

We also agreed upon proper securiy against danger. I was then let down with a cable-tow round my waist and another at each hand. Having arrived at the bottom without impediment, I gave the signal for my freedom, and in searching the arch found this scroll. From the want of light, I could not discern its contents; for the sun had but just come to the portico of the eastern door and darting its beams parallel to the plane of the horizon, I could not discover what it contained. I, therefore, gave the agreed signal and was drawn up. Arriving at the light, we found that it contained a part of the holy law. We have, as in duty bound, thus come to make our report.

Q. The discovery which you have made is of the greatest import; therefore, lest any stranger should go unobserved, you will shew the arch to our companion Nehemiah, that a further discovery may be made.

(Here another retirement is supposed, in which a discovery is made of the grand word, by removing a second and a third keystone of other arches, and which forms the subject of a second report.)

Q. We are informed, that you have made another discovery. A. Most excellent, we have; for, on recommencing our labour in the place where we first commenced, we found a second crown of an arch and with difficulty removed the key-stone. We descended the arch and found nothing of any consequence. Fit judging, from the sound thereof, that, it was hollow beneath, our curiosity was excited for a further search. We discovered a keystone of a third arch. On removing it, the sun, having now gained its meridian height, darted its rays to the centre. It shone resplendent on a white marble pedestal, whereon was a plate of gold. On this plate was engraved a triple triangle, and within the triangle some characters which are beyond our comprehension; therefore, we have, as in duty bound, made our second report.

Q. Pray sojourners, give us that which you have found and explain their characters.

A. That, most excellent, we should be glad to do; but must confess our ignorance like wise men. We should deem it too great a presumption in us to attempt it.

Q. We greatly commend your conduct and should be glad to know who you are.

A. We are of your own kindred and people, sprung from your tribes and branches and from the same original stock, equally with you descendants of our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But we have been under the displeasure of Almighty God, through the offences committed by our ancestors, who deviated from the true masonic principles and laws, and not only committed numberless errors, but ran into every kind of wickedness; so that the almighty, being displeased denounced his judgment against them, by the mouth of Jeremiah and other prophets, by whom he declared that the fruitfulness of the lord should be spoiled, their city, become desolate and an abomination, and that they should feel the weight of his wrath for seventy years. This actually began to be fulfilled in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakin-A. L. 3398.

Q. Our knowledge of the facts and the candour with which you have related them, leave no doubt of your sincerity; but we beg to be informed who were your immediate ancestors.

A. We are not of the lineage of that race of traitors who fell away during the seige and went over to the enemy, when liberty and kindred had most need of their assistance; nor of the lower class of the people left behind by Nebuzaradan, the chief Nebuchadnezzar's officers, to cultivate the vineyards and for other servile purposes; but the offspring of those princes and nobles carried into captivity with Zedekiah.. The seventy years of captivity being expired and the anger of the Lord appeased, he hath stirred up the heart of Cyrus king of Persia and Babylon, who hath issued his proclamation, saying:-"Who is there of the lord's people, his God be with him and let him go up to Jerusalem

which is in Judea and build him a house to the Lord God of Israel; for he is the only true and living God." We, therefore, have taken the advantage of this proclamation and have returned for that purpose.

Q. Royal sojourners, how have you been employed during your captivity in Babylon.

A. In masonry, most excellent.

Q. What do you mean by Masonry.

A. That grand and universal science which includes all others; but more especially that which teaches the knowledge of ourselves and the duties incumbent on us as men and Masons.

Q. This, sojourners, is worthy of the offspring of your noble ancestors and it shall be our care to reward you. Go and prepare to receive those honours due to your zeal and perseverance.

I cannot do you justice as a Royal Arch Mason, this week, my Royal Duke, in one letter, so I must break and resume the subject. The fault, if any body's, is my own or Mrs. Wright's that pink of female sufferers (I may say the males too and they must not be angry) for warring against profitable superstition, political religion and religious wickedness. After having been the patient of the whole routine of nervous disorders, and of almost every other disorder, in a state of complication, she has come out of a dreadful state with the loss of sight in her left eye, but with a better prospect of permanent health than she has long enjoyed. She has taken the first opportunity to come to see me since her liberation from Cold Bath Fields' Prison, and has so delighted me with the detail of the particulars of her share of the campaign since 1821, that, for ten days, I have neglected every thing to listen to her.

With all her sufferings, her spirits are not broken; but she is as firm as ever, and would enter my shop again with pleasure and alacrity, if there were a renewal of prosecutions. I will give you her address, it is 10, Gibson Street, near the Coburg Theatre, and if you will give her a call, she will verify in person all that I have said of her. I look upon her as by far the most interesting woman in the country, and one who has done more public good than any other one: done it too in the face of sufferings such as but few women would face. She is but a little delicate woman, and what I truly call her-all spirit and no matter; though this is a figurative refutation of my theory of Materialism.

RICHARD CARLILE.

JUSTICE versus RELIGION.

Now, Friend Beauchamp, your case is my stimulus to write a dialogue, that has been long thought of, as important to all those who come into Courts of Law with too much sense to bring ought of superstition with them. By religion, I shall suppose Mr. Heath, or his counsel perhaps Adolphus, examining you, who, injured in the person of your child by a Christian ruffian, are seeking the award of law and justice upon the criminal. I shall suppose your case thoroughly proved, as to the assault upon your infant son, and that the only reason why Mr. Heath does not plead guilty to the charge of assault, is, because, that, you, the father of the infant, are not of the same religion, or do not go to the same chapel, with himself. I fear, that I shall not be in time for your particular case; but the subject cannot fail to be useful, in application to all cases of the kind. Wherever I come in contact with men who require me to say that I am a Christian, I have resolved to be a Christian, and that without hypocrisy, deceit or mental reservation: which you shall now see :-we must suppose JUSTICE, at the witness's bar of a Court of Law, under examinations by RELIGION, or a religious lawyer, like Adolphus, or that more dirty hypocrite, Charles Phillips, whose "Celestine and St. Aubert" I shall certainly print for him, when I can remove all idea of doing the thing for profit.

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DIALOGUE.

Religion.-Pray, Mr. Justice, of what religion are you ? Justice. To give you a proper auswer, you must define to me what you mean by the word religion.

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R.-Define to you what I mean by the word religion! Is it possible, that a man can be living in this religious country, under such a very religious government, where even our soldiers carry the Bible as a charm to the operation of their bayonets and ball cartridges, and not know what the word religion means?

J.-I have a meaning for the word religion; but, unless I understand that it corresponds with your definition, it is impossible, that I can give a clear and intelligible answer to your question.

R.-Well, then, Sir, know, that, by religion, I mean a

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