The bare announcement of this fact will, no doubt, cause as much surprise
to many here to-night as it certainly did to myself when it became
first known to me. I could with difficulty believe that the late Lord
Palmerston, knew the veritable secret of Freemasonry, and that for the
greater part of his career he was the real master, the successor of
Nubius, the Grand Patriarch of the Illuminati, and as such, the Ruler
of all the secret societies in the world. I knew, of course, that as
a Statesman, the distinguished nobleman had dealings of a very close
character with Mazzini, Cavour, Napoleon III., Garibaldi, Kossuth,
and the other leading revolutionary spirits of Europe in his day; but
I never for a moment suspected that he went so far as to accept the
supreme direction of the whole dark and complex machinery of organized
Atheism, or sacrificed the welfare of the great country he was supposed
to serve so ably and so well, to the designs of the terrible secret
conclave whose acts and tendencies were so well known to him. But the
mass of evidence collected by Father Deschamps and others,[18] to prove
Lord Palmerston’s complicity with the worst designs of Atheism against
Christianity and monarchy—not even excepting the monarchy of England—is
so weighty, clear, and conclusive, that it is impossible to refuse it
credence. Father Deschamps brings forward in proof, the testimony of
Henry Misley, one of the foremost Revolutionists of the period, when
Palmerston reigned over the secret Islam of the sects, and other no less
important testimonies. These I would wish, if time permitted, to give
at length. But the whole history, unhappily, of Lord Palmerston proves
them. In 1809, when but 23 years of age, we find him War Minister in
the Cabinet of the Duke of Portland. He remained in this office until
1828, during the successive administrations of Mr. Percival, the Earl
of Liverpool, Mr. Canning, Lord Goderick, and the Duke of Wellington.
He left his party—the Conservative—when the last-named Premier insisted
upon accepting the resignation of Mr. Huskisson. In 1830, he accepted the
position of Foreign Secretary in the Whig Ministry of Earl Grey. Up to
this period he must have been well informed in the policy of England. He
saw Napoleon in the fulness of youth, and he saw his fall. He knew and
approved of the measures taken after that event by the advisers of George
IV., for the conservation of legitimate interests in Europe, and for the
preservation to the Pope of the Papal States. The balance of power, as
formed by the Congress of Vienna, was considered by the wisest and most
patriotic English statesmen, the best safeguard for British interests
and influence on the Continent. While it existed the multitude of small
States in Italy and Germany could be always so manipulated by British
diplomacy, as effectually to prevent that complete isolation which
England feels to-day so keenly, and which may prove so disastrous within
a short period to her best interests. If this sound policy has been since
changed, it is entirely owing to Palmerston, who appears, after leaving
the ranks of the Tories, to have thrown himself absolutely into the hands
of that Liberalistic Freemasonry, which, at the period, began to show its
power in France and in Europe generally. On his accession to the Foreign
Office in 1830, he found the Cabinet freed from the influence of George
IV., and from Conservative traditions; and he at once threw the whole
weight of his energy, position, and influence to cause his government to
side with the Masonic programme for revolutionizing Europe. With his aid,
the sectaries were able to disturb Spain, Portugal, Naples, the States of
the Church, and the minor States of Italy. The cry for a constitutional
Government received his support in every State of Europe, great and
small. The Pope’s temporal authority, and every Catholic interest, were
assailed. England, indeed, remained quiet. Her people were fascinated
by that fact. Trade interests being served by the distractions of other
States, and religious bigotry gratified at seeing the Pope, and every
Catholic country harassed, they all gave a willing, even a hearty support
to the policy of Palmerston. They little knew that it was dictated, not
by devotion to their interests, but in obedience to a hidden power of
which Palmerston had become the dupe and the tool, and which permitted
them to glory in their own quiet, only to gain their assistance, and, on
a future day, to compass with greater certainty their ruin. Freemasonry,
as we have already seen, creates many “figure-head” Grand Masters, from
the princes of reigning houses, and the foremost statesmen of nations, to
whom, however, it only shows a small part of its real secrets. Palmerston
was an exception to this rule. He was admitted into the very recesses
of the sect. He was made its Monarch, and as such ruled with a real
sway over its realms of darkness. By this confidence he was flattered,
cajoled, and finally entangled beyond the hope of extrication in the
meshes of the sectaries. He was a noble, without a hope of issue, or
of a near heir to his title and estates. He therefore preferred the
designs of the Atheistic conspiracy he governed, to the interests of the
country which employed him, and he sacrificed England to the projects
of Masonry. As he advanced in years he appears to have grown more
infatuated with his work. In 1837, in or about the time when Nubius was
carried off by poison, Mazzini, who most probably caused that Chief to
disappear, and who became the leader of the party of action, fixed his
permanent abode in London. With him came also several counsellors of the
“Grand Patriarch,” and from that day forward the liberty of Palmerston
to move England in any direction, except in the interest of the secret
conspiracy, passed away for ever. Immediately, plans were elaborated
destined to move the programme of Weishaupt another step towards
its ultimate completion.[19] These were, by the aid of well-planned
Revolutions, to create one immense Empire from the small German States,
in the centre of Europe, under the house of Brandenburg; next to weaken
Austrian dominion; then to annihilate the temporal sovereignty of the
Pope, by the formation of a United Kingdom of Italy under the provisional
government of the house of Savoy; and lastly, to form of the discontented
Polish, Hungarian, and Slavonian populations, an independent kingdom
between Austria and Russia.
After an interval during which these plans were hatched, Palmerston
returned to office in 1846, and then the influence of England was seen at
work, in the many revolutions which broke out in Europe within eighteen
months afterwards. If these partly failed, they eventuated at least in
giving a Masonic Ruler to France in the person of the Carbonaro, Louis
Napoleon. With him Palmerston instantly joined the fortunes of England,
and with him he plotted for the realization of his Masonic ideas to the
very end of his career. Now here comes a most important event, proving
beyond question the determination of Palmerston to sacrifice his country
to the designs of the sect he ruled. The Conservative feeling in England
shrank from acknowledging Louis Napoleon or approving of his _coup
d’etat_. The country began to grow afraid of revolutionists, crowned or
uncrowned. This feeling was shared by the Sovereign, by the Cabinet,
and by the Parliament, so far that Lord Derby was able to move a vote
of censure on the Government, because of the foreign policy of Lord
Palmerston. For Palmerston, confiding in the secret strength he wielded,
and which was not without its influence in England herself, threw every
consideration of loyalty, duty, and honour overboard, and without
consulting his Queen or his colleagues, he sent, as Foreign Secretary,
the recognition of England to Louis Napoleon. He committed England to
the Empire, and the other nations of Europe had to follow suit.
On this point, Chambers’s Encyclopædia, Art. “Palmerston,” has the
following notice:—“In December, 1852, the public was startled at the
news that Palmerston was no longer a member of the Russell Cabinet. He
had expressed his approbation of the _coup d’etat_ of Louis Napoleon
(gave England’s official acknowledgment of the perpetration) without
consulting either the Premier or the Queen; and as explanations were
refused, Her Majesty exercised her constitutional right of dismissing
her minister.” Palmerston had also audaciously interpolated despatches
signed by the Queen. He acted in fact as he pleased. He had the agents
of his dark realm in almost every Masonic lodge in England. The Press
at home and abroad, under Masonic influences, applauded his policy. The
sect so acted that his measures were productive of immediate success. His
manner, his _bonhomie_, his very vices fascinated the multitude. He won
the confidence of the trading classes, and held the Conservatives at bay.
Dismissed by the Sovereign, he soon returned into power her master, and
from that day to the day of his death ruled England and the world in the
interests of the Atheistic Revolution, of which he thought himself the
master spirit.[20]
In a few moments we shall see the truth of this when considering the
political action of the sect he led, but first it will be necessary to
glance at what the Church and Christianity generally had to suffer in his
day by the—