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HISTORY. 19
In 1802 warrants of constitution were issued for the
opening of Sublime Lodges of Perfection in Savannah,
Georgia, and many other parts of the United States.
About 1806-7, Consistories of Valiant and Sublime
Princes of the Royal Secret were organized in the City
of New York, and remained so until the formation of
the Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction ol
the United States.
Attention is again called to the year 1795, when
Colonel John Mitchell was appointed by Spitzer a
Deputy Inspector-General, in the place of Myers, who
had removed ; but he was restricted from acting until
after Myers' death, which took place in the following
year.
After the French Revolution of 1793, the mass of
the people became atheists, and with them the great
body of Masons ; the Bible, as a general thing, was
committed to the flames, and .sublime Freemasonry fell
into disuse ; it was not until after the establishment
of the Supreme Council at Charleston, in 1801, that the
sublime system was revived in France, by the establish-
ment of a Supreme Council at Paris, in 1804, by Count
De Grasse, Grand Inspector-General, under authority
from the Charleston Council. The Pai'is Supreme
Council still exists.
The Grand Orient of France, which before this held an
existence only as a " Symbolic Grand Lodge of Master
Masons," immediately commenced her assumed jurisdiction
over all the decrees of the Ancient and Ao