The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-24 00:00:00

He was in a state of transition, or chrysalis?—
(Laughter.)—Not quite so.
COUNSEL—Good enough for a clerk, but not for a
parson; you had got through that stage, and were suffi-
ciently advanced to be a parson—was that how it stood?
(The witness made no reply.)
COUNSEL—The lady, too; did she officiate in any ca-
pacity ? Was she one of the pew-openers? Witness—
No; never. Coriboni continued to officiate as clerk to
the very last day that I had this chapel. Mr: Reynolds
did not, the Erst time he came to my chapel, remonstrate
against the employment of such persons. On the con-
tray, he has often used my servant for what he wanted.
COUNSEL—Did he not remonstrate against their being
employed in connexon with public worship? Witness
—No.
COUNSEL—You remember having remonstrated with
Mr.
_Reynolds on account of his intemperance? Wit-
ness—Yes, and I was requested to do this by his own
wife.
Was he very much addicted to intemperance?—As
far as I can judge, he was an habitual drunkard.
By day as well as night?--That I cannot tell.
You have seen him drunk?—Sometimes.
How long had you known him] before you remon-
strated with him?—Three months.
What has become of the Coribonis?—They are in the
Roman States.
What! he went back to Roman Catholicism, did he?
—I believe there are very few Roman Catholics in the
Roman States.
They are Protestants, are they—No; negative.
Have yon made any attempt to bring them here?—No.
Did you ever say to Mr. Reynolds that Madame Cori-
boni Magdalen, and you did not.like to withdraw
y from her?—No; it is a story
(Laughter.)
was
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a protection
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never walked with Coriboni's wife, in the
street. I may have met her in the street and come home
with her, but that only very near the house.
COUNSEL—What made you leave Zante? Witness—.
I had determined to go to Malta to open an Italian
church, for which purpose I was corresponding with the
Bishop of Gibraltar. I opened a domestic chapel a
fortnight after my arrival in Malta, subsequently another
church. I received secretly from his family the means of
subsistence from the time I left the Roman States until I
got to Malta, and besides I earned some money by my
literary labours. When I sent Saccares away from
Malta, it was in order that he might take fifty or sixty
Bibles from the depot of the Bible Society in.Mnita, and
distribute them in Sicily. I did not then know that a
day was`, fixed fur resuming the investigation into his
conduct; on the contrary, I thought the investigation
was finish'd.

COUNSEL—Had not Dr. Hadfield told you he was
going to resume it? Witness—No, no, no. [He con-
tinued.] On coming to England I lived in biorthum-
borland-street, Strand. While lodging there I engaged
Harriet Harris as my servant. I afterwards removed' to
Shaftesbury-crescent. Mrs. Aehilli came there two or
three days after. There was a person employed in
putting down carpets when I first went there. He re-
mained there until late in the evening. I never, took
liberties with Harriet Ilarrii; I never touched. her. I
say the same thing with respect to Jane Legge. I know
her sister Mrs. Logan who lives in Shattesbury-cres-
cent. When the subveaas were served upon her and
her sister she did not send any message to me, but two
of my friends being lodgers there, I had occasion to go
to the house, and I heard of It. I did not look at the
ta subpeenas ad tell them that they need not come. She
told mo that she was forced to eorae.by a man who had
put this subpoana and a guinea into her hand. I may
have said it was a curious thing, but I gave no advice.
COUNSEL—Did you not tell her if any one, `came
about this matter to shut the door in their faces? Wit-
ness—Not in.that sense; not about that.

COUNSEL—WeII, about what? Give your own version
of it. Witness—She told me that it was with violPnee
this paper had been put into her hands: I said, "I do
not believe that in houses in England any violence can
be ofFm.ed."

COUNSEL —You did not U3O the words, '• Shut the
door in their faces?" Witnesi—Oh, no.
COUNSEL—Did she say anything to you about 'King
intimate with her sister Jane? Witness—l think not.
COUNSEL—What! cannot you recollect whether or not
such a charge was made? I ai,k you again, did she not
charge you with being intimate with her sister Jane?
Witnens—No.

COUNSEL—Why did you sea " I think not" lust now?
Witness—l dial not unclersteu'd you; I was not aniwer•
ing in that souse. She never said this to me. On the
contrary, she was sorry anything had been said about
my having been intimate with her sister. I never toalt
the slightest liberties with Sarah Wood, nor did her
father or uncle ever come to mu to complain of my con-
duct towards her.
Sir A. COCKBURN—I now put the same question to you
with regard to England that I have done as to other
places where you have been. Have you had connexion
with any other women besides these?
The Foreman of the jury—The jury think that is a
very unfair question to ask.
Lord CAMPBELL —I think that the Learned Counsel
has a perfect right to put it—(Slight applause)—though
at the same time it is a question which the witness is
not bound to answer. I think it is not an irrelevant
question.
Sir A. COCKBURN.—I will put a specific ease. Did you
know Louisa Colchester?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL submitted that there was
no plea with respect to Louisa Colchester.
Lord CararnEar. thought that the name of Louisa
Colchester should have been put upon the record if it
had been intended to ask any questions about her.
Sir A. COCKBURN said that that was impossible, be-
cause, if the information which the defendant had re-
ceived was correct, the intimacy with her had taken
place since the record was made up. He submitted that
he could put this question as a means of testing the cre-
dibility of the witness.
Lord CAMPBELL, however, decided that the question
could not be put.
Sir A. Cocianurtar—When did you openly renounce
the tenets of the Church of Rome and become a Pro-
testant? Dr. Achilli—As soon as I got to Corfu I
began to write letters to some cardinals and to the Pope.
When did you become convinced that the doctrine of
transubstantiation was untrue?—l began to have doubts
on this doctrine when I was professor. of philosophy at
Viterbo, and was explaining a treatise upon it.
When was that?—At Viterbo, in the year 1831 0r1832.
After you had become convinced of the falsehood of
the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, did you
continue to act as ono of its priests, and to celebrate its
ceremonies?—In my case there was what has happened
in that of all the reformers who have seceded from the
Roman Catholic religion.
Then, am I to take it us true that you celebrated the
mass after you had ceased to believe the doctrines in-
volved in it?—l was not perfectly convinced.
Sir A. COCKBURN (after reading a passage from
Dr. Achilli's work) While you were continuing to
perform it wero you not perfectly satisfied of its impo-
sition?—l had that p-rsuasion in my mind, but I had
not yet felt the strength of that persuasion in my heart.
Then you were persuaded that it was an imposture in
ycue mind, but you did not feel it in your heart?—
-
(Laughter.)—l believe that conversion in a man rests
more in the heart thee in the mind.
Was it not made matter of complaint that you did not
attend the choir regularly when you were professor of
philosophy at Viterbo?—No.
Re-examined--It is the habit of persons to be out late
at night at Corfu.
Dr. Achilli thon retired from the vvitness•box, having
been under examination just seven hours.
Dominic° Poggi—l was brought up in the Church of
Borne. I was a member of the Dominican order. I
was a father of that order. I aim not now of that Church.
am the principal of an educational establishment at