But the imposition does not end here; Dr Bataille does not merely describe what took place at a lodge which was not in existence--he gives particulars of an address delivered by a certain Dr Murray at a meeting attended by himself.

Now, at the date in question, there was no such person either in the town, in its vicinity, or in Penang.

There is fortunately an institution among us which is termed the British Museum, and it enables us to verify questions of this kind.
Furthermore, when describing the Palladian meeting at the Presbyterian chapel--there was such a chapel by the way--he tells us that the Grand Master was named Spencer, and that he was a _negociant_ of Singapore, but there was again no such person in the town or its vicinity at the time, and so his entire narrative, with its ritual reproduced from Leo Taxil, is demolished completely.

I submit that these two instances are sufficient to indicate the kind of man with whom we are dealing.

It may be a matter of astonishment to my readers that a work even of imposition should be performed so clumsily as to betray itself at once to a little easy research, but it must be remembered that the class of French readers to whom Dr Bataille made appeal are so ignorant of all which concerns the English that skill is not required to exploit them; it is enough that the English are abused.