_Jacques Mabiotte._--I read, that certain members of the continental
masonic lodges interpret the Hiram, whose death the freemasons affect to
deplore, as meaning Molai, Grand Master of the Templars; but that others
understand the said Hiram to mean Jacques Mabiotte. Now, I should think
the person whom secret associations can be even imagined, ever so
falsely, to keep in continual remembrance, and who is thus placed in
competition with the Grand Master of the Temple, should at least enjoy
that moderate share of celebrity that will enable some of your
correspondents to inform me who he was, and what were the circumstances
of his death. I have not myself been able to find him.