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London, England, 1852-06-24 00:00:00

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JUNE 24 1852.
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Did you,run when you got out?—l had no ueed. for
my own door wai only a few steps from it. Now,' re-
collect my house'had two doors.
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Was :that by which you entered the back door?—
(Laughter.)—Yes. •
Why, did noethe p'eople in the street stop you as you
left the house?No, no.—(Smiling.)
Have you got Madame 'Graramoni here?—Yes, and
you will have the pleasure of seeing her.
Have you got Madame Coriboni here?—No.
When you went to 'Corfu you travelled as a cavaliero?
—I did not put in my passport. I used that title on my
cards.

When did you make the acquaintance of Madame Co-
ribani? Witness—l believe in the summer of 1843,
while I was at Corfu. Her husband was a small trades-
man. He then went about with a small operatic com-
pany, and,was afterwards engaged at the theatre. I
believe, though , I have never seen him at the theatre,
that he Vtas.a chOras singer.. When I first made their
acquaintance I cannot recollect where they lived. I got
to. know Ihism because all the Italians sought my ac-
quaintance, and I took pleasure in it.
Sir A. COCKBURN—Did you learn what this woman's
eha'racter'was?—No.
Did you teke any trouble to ascertain?—No. '

Was she somewhat remarkable about her dress—did
she go with her bosom much exposed ?—No; on the
contrary, she used to be dressed very modestly.
' When you took her into•your service had you heard
anything against' her character?.;--No.
Who recommended her husband to you as'a servant?
—He came to ask me, as I was to have a servant, to take
him.
Did you ask his character?—No; I knew hiin by ha-
bitually seeing him in the streets,,and he appeared to be
a good man. •
What 1 you mean from his outward appearance?—
Yes. • •

And the lady; 'did she, appear to be a good person
from her appearanee?—l had no - reason to find fault
witb
Was she good-looking?—(Laughter.)—Neither the
one thing nor the other.—(Laughter.) They were in
my service in Corfu for a few months—when I went to
ante I dismissed them, but sent for them as soon as I
had taken"my house. I used part of that house for a
chapel. Coriboni, like the greater part of Italians, was
neither Catholic nor Protestant.—(Laughter.)
Sir A. COCKBURN—Were you one of that sort?
Witness:--No.

Was Coriboni of the one religion or the other, as you
happened to turn him about?—No; he had an antipathy
against the Roman Catholic Church, but he was not yet
a Protestant.

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 sho officiate in any ca-
pacity? Was she one of the pew-openersf Witness—
No; never. Coriboni continued to officiate as clerk to
the very last daS? that I had this chapel. Mr. Reynolds
tlid 'nett, the first 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 hack to Roman Catholicism, did he?
—I believe there are very few Roman Catholics in the
Roman States.

They are Protestants, aro they—No; negative.
Have you made any attempt to bring them here?---No.
Did you' ever say to Mr. Reynolds that Madame Cori-
both was a 111!,gdalen, and you did not like to withdraw
your protection from her?—No; it is a story.—
(Laughter:) I 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 Matte, subsequently another
church. I received secretly from his family the means of

nubsistenco from the time I left the Roman Stated until I
got to Malts, and besides I earned some money by my
literary labours. When I sent Saccares away from
Malta, it was in order that ho might take fifty or sixty
13ibLa from the depot of the Bible Society in Malta, and
distribute them in Sicily. I did not then know that a
day was fixed for resuming the investigation into his
conduct; on the contrary, I thoug'nt the investigation
was finished.

COUNSEL—Had not Dr. Hadfield told ycn he wa3
going to resume it? Witness—No, no, no. [He con-
tinued.] On coming to England I lived is Northum-
berland-street, Strand. While lodging there I engaged
Harriet ,Ilarris as my servant. I afterwards removed to
Shaftesbury-crescent. Mrs. Achilli 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 Harris; I never touched her. I
say the same thing with respect to Jane Legge. I know
her sister Mrs. Logan who lives in Shaftesbury-ores-
cent. When the subpoenas were served upon her and
her sister she did not send any message to me, but two
of my friends being lodgers there, Iliad occasion to go
to the house, and I beard of it. I did not look at the
subpoenas and tell them that they need not come. She
told me that she was forced, to come by a man who had
put this subpoena 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 it 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 violence
this paper had been put into her hands. I said, "I do
not believe that in houses in England any violence can
be offered."
COUNSEL—You did not use the words, " Shut the
door in their faces?" Witness—Oh, 'no.

COUNSEL—Did she say anything to you about being
intimate with her sister Jane? Witness—l think not.

COUNSEL—What! cannot you recollect whether or not
such a charge was made? I ask you again, did she not
charge you with being intimate with her sister Jane?
Witness—No.
COUNSEL—Why did you say " I think not" just now?
Witness—l did not understand you; I was not answer-
ing in that sense. 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 took
the slightest liberties with Sarah Wood, nor did her
father or uncle ever come to me to complain of my con-
duct towards her.
Sir A. Cocnnunet—l 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. Cocitisumi—l will put a specific case. 1)i1 you
know Louisa Colchester?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL submitted that there was
no plea with respect to Louisa Colchester.
Lord CAMPBELL thought that the name of Louisa
Cdlchester 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 bad re-
ceived was correct, the intimacy with her had taken
place since the quest was made up. He submitted that
he could put this qion as a means of testing the cre-
dibility of the witness.
Lord CAMPBELL, however, decided that the question
could not be put.
Sir A. COCKBURN—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
transubstitntiation was untrue?—l began to have doubts
en -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 one of its priests, and to celebrate its
ceremonies?—In my case there was what has happened
its that of all the reformers who have seceded from the
Roman Catholic religion.
Then, am I to take it as true that you celebrated the
mass after you had ceased to believe the doctrines in-
volved in it?—l was no perfectly convinced.
Sir A. COCKBURN (after reading a passage from
Dr. Achilles work) While you were coutinuing to
perform it were you not perfectly satisfied of its impo-
sition?—I 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
your mind, but you did not feel it in your heart?—
(Laughter.)—l believe that conversion in a man rests
more in the heart than 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—lt is the habit of persons to be out late
at night at Corfu.
Dr. Achilli then retired from the witness.box, having
been under ereamination just seven hours,
Dominico Poggi—l was brought up in the Church of
Rome. I was a member of the Dominican order. I
was a father of that order. I am not now of that Church.
.1L am the principal • of an educational establishment at

Seacombe,nearr Liverpool. I was in Viterbo from the
beginning of 1831 to the beginning of June, 1833. I
Was in the convent of Gtadi then. Dr. Achilli was then
'Bll6- prior and professor of divinity in that convent. I
remember his preaching the Lent sermons at Monte
•Flaserni: Dr. Acbilli was univerkilly very highly es-
te"n"d t.i.niiongst:all ranks of
.Catholic ecelesisstics. • I
haVe never heard anything against him at Rome.' I
-have at Viterbo. Ho had there many enemies. He
was hold.in -the highest esteem by the monks and friars,
1833 het' by the bis.fiop, who was an curtly of his. In
appointed to visit convents with his supe-
rior.. That shows be was highly esteemed in his order.
No man whose conduct was doubtful could, by the rules
of the order, be appointed prior of St. Pietro at Naples.
Cross-examined—As a Dominican father I took the
vow of obedience, which I always thought included, by
implication; though not
explicitly, those of chastity and
poverty: The book of 'Ferraris it of high authority
_with respect to, the 'Romish Chu. CA CA - passage from
this work, with respect to the obligation of the monastic
vows, having been read, the svitneisi- -I think it
would be essential that, so long as.a person continued to
be a
and Dominy ican, he should observe- the vows of chastity
povert.
CouisEL-When did you leave the Church of Rome?
Witness—l beg to decline to answer that question.- I
did not come here to give an account of my ackisms.
COUNSEL—When did you cease to attend the worship
of the Church of Rome? Witness—l reply that I
not come here to give you, an answer to such qaestioLs
as -that:..

COUNSEL—Why do you make such a mystery about it
—what' possible objection can .you- have to answer the
question? Witness—l have an objection to it in my,
own mind; you must excuse me.
COUNSEL—I cannot see what objection you can have
to answer the question? Witness—l would answer any'
question connected with what I have come here about ;,
but I cannot answer any questions zonnected Wit' ex-
traneous matters.

• CoiThrsEL--;-But do not assume that thid is extraneous?
Witnessl think it is so; I may be wrong, but that
is my opinion.
Sir A. COCKBURN—But your opinion won't decide it.
When did you leave Italy? Witness—ln 1840.
Sir A. COCKBURN—Did you then secede from the
Church of Rome? Witness—ln my own mind I did.
Sir A. COCKBURN—I suppose as soon as you got to
England, you joined the Church of England?—The
witness, who appeared determined not to allow the de-
sired information to be extracted from him by any cir-
cuitous process, began—" I did not come here"— when
he was interrupted by loud laughter.
Sir A. COCKBURN—WeII, I won't ask you any more.—
Witness—Malik, you, sir.
Re-examined by the ATTORNEY•GENERLL—I am a
schoolmaster.

As the witness left the box there were some slight
hisses in the gallery.
Dominico Paoli—l was formerly a friar of the order
of Serviti at Viterbo. I lived at Viterbo several years--
from the end of 1831 to nearly the end of 1837. While
I was there I knew Dr. Achilli—from 1831 to 1833.
When he left Viterbo he was in good public estimation.
I have nothing to say against him. I never heard of any
charges of immorality having been made against him
whilst he was at Viterbo.

Cross-examined—l have now been in England a year.
I am a free man, having left the Roman Catholic Church.
I came here originally being engaged by a society to
evangelize the foreigners during the Great Exhibition.
It was a society called " The Society for the Spread of
the Gospel amongst Foreigners." which had an office in
Leicester-square. I was brought to England from Ge-
neva by that society. I have been severed from the
communion of the Catholic Church about two years. I
say so, because I have left Italy about two years. I
left for the purpose of being able to profess freely my
religious opinions. It is about two - years since I left
Italy. I live now upon the means that are afforded to
me by Father Gavazzi, who employs me. He gives
me writing to do. I act as his secretary. In short, I
do what he tells me.

Captain W. Hudson Lawrence—l am a captain on
half-pay in the Royal Artillery. lam inspector-general
of police in the lonian Islands. I have been is commu-
nication with the attorneys for the prosecution, and I
have in consequence applied for the proceedings in the
court at Corfu between Garamoni and his wile. I was
also employed to find the wife of Garamoni. She is now
in England. I tried, in consequence of a communica-
tion I received from the prosecutor's attorney, to find
Coriboni and his wife, but I have not been able to do so.
Mr. Kirkpatrick—l was for several years Chief
Justice of the lonian Islands. I have seen the
proceedings obtained by Captain Lawrence, which are
proceedings of the civil court of those islands. They
appear to relate to a suit for alimony. I think there
-were no witnesses examined. The cause had only pro-
ceeded to two or three petitions when a reconciliation
took place at the instance of the president of the
court. She withdrew her suit and had her dowry re-
turned.

The d)cuments were then put ie. They consisted of
a petition of the wife for alimony; a oefence by the
husband on the grout's(' of her having committed adultery;
a denial of that charge by the wire; its withdrawal by
the hut-band; and a documeut embodying the terms of
reconciliation or compromise—the word ia the original
was " conciliazione."
Mariana Chrisaffi—l am the wife of Garimoni, who
carried on the business of a tailor at Corfu.
I remember Dr. Achilli coming to live at Corfu.
I then lived with my mother. My husband
did not live with me. I remember one night
speaking to Dr. Achilli as he was passing the house.
My husband had often used me ill. See, my face is disfi-
gured by him. I recollect one night I wished to call Dr.
Achilli, because my mother pointed him out to me, and
said that probably, being a neighbour, he might have
heard a Quarrel between me and a lady a friend of my
husband. I told her that I would wait till the evening,
and then ask him whether he had heard the quarrel. I
went to the window, to be able to call him as he passed,
and as I was going down stairs to speak to him, it hap-
pened that my husband and Dr. Achilli rushed in to-
gether. I wished to call Dr. Achilli that he might be a
witness in my favour, bat I did not know him before.
My husband rushed up stairs and said many things that
he should not have said. Dr. Achilli was never in my
mother's house before or since. Dr. Achilli was out-
side the door, when my husband put him in. I cannot
say that he was ever within the door, though he was
quite close to it. There was never any improper inti-
macy between me and Dr. Achilli. I did not know him
before he was pointed out to me in England by the
daughter of the landlady with whom I reside. Ther.
were some legal proceedings between me and my hus-
band. We were reconciled and lived together for some
years. We have now been separated again for seven
years and a half.
Cross-examined—l was married to my present hus-
band it may be sixteen years ago. He always led me a
miserable life. I was beaten because he had to do with
other women.
CouNsEL—Were you not beaten because your hus-
band said you had to do with other men? Witness—
No, it was not for that. There are many proofs of
what I say; two doctors, four lawyers, and many other
men.—(Laughter.)
Are these men to prove your innocence?—No; they
will all prove that my husband is a bad man.—
(Laughter.) Ido not know how long Dr. Achilli had
come to live near my mother's house before I spoke to
him. I was waiting at the window, to see him pass, when
he came up.
How did you know that he was out that evening, in
order to wait for him?—My mother said to me, " This
gentleman is not at home now;" and I answered, " I will
remain here all night, if necessary, that I may see him."
I did not even call to him; but my intention was to
call to him, to ascertain whether he had heard the
quarrel with the woman. I had not got down to the door
who's Aohilli and my Kuabo.ad came in. I was up-stairs
with a light.
Did,your husband call to you to bring the light ?
No, he did not call for the light; it was I who wished
to come down to speak to the gentleman.
Did you hold the light up to the gentleman's face ?
—No, I did not.

Did your husband say, " Worthless woman! wretch!
I have caught you ?"—That evening and the whole of
that night ho tormented me, and went about saying
that he had found me with this gentleman. There were
two persons passing at the time to whom he said Eo.
My husbandpressed Achilli against the wall.

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bid Achilli struggle to get loose?—No, he did not.
How did he get loose from your husband, who was
holding him against the wall?—I do not know, because
I was up-stairs.
Did you never come down at all?—No, I remained
up-stairs.
You did not then come down stairs at all while this
was passing between your husband and Dr. Achille ?
I
stairscou I never desc endld not come down;ed.
I remained on the stairs; up-
.
Do the stairs lead directly to the door, or is there
any landing-place near the door?--No ; the stairs lead
down directly to the door.
How came the door to be epr.qi at eleven o'clock at
saw Achill i
oight?—l opened
ing. it from above with a string, "en
i
com
When your husband let Dr. Achilli go, was he stopped
in the street by soul° persons?—l don't know. I was
mother was a laundress; and before I was waffle-
60m,
with her and my brothers. Day mother has also
MY mother was in
landed property.
Re-c,xarnined—
this hr,p;;ened.
hen she bed
Mrs. Achilli was the next witness.
Who examined
been sworn she expressed her desire to
through the medium of an interpreter.
~,a not an English.
Lord CAMPBELL inuired if sties
-h-egaifirmative; but
woman?—Mrs. Achilli replied
in the
she was very
added that her mother having died,
English language very
young, she did
not speak ,the Benn'ted to be examined
well. She, however, ultimatel'consnay bed asleep when
enough, though
in English, which she spoke re said—l came over to
with a strong foreign accent' d. 'came to Paris by my-
this country with my haumisban with him to England, where
self; met him there; an— nic ''
That was after his escape
we have been living
le.took a house in Shaftesbury.
from the Inquisition.
servant named Harriett Harris for
Shaftesbury-
crescent, Wet had a
sserhe 16ft because I went down into
about three months.
the kitchen we d* -
and found it very,dirty. I told her

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so, and she saidjf was not the custom of Enerrr'sii.iadies
to-go down i the kitchen. said, "I am nos English;
I hare not the customs of English ladies, inn
efore come in the kitchen." • She said, "Than I
shall aye." I told her she might go. Before the end
of the onth's warning. she asked melt) let her stay. I
refused to allow her to do so. She came aftervrarde to
ask me to give her a character. I said she was dirty.
She never complained of Dr. Achilli having taken any
liberties with her. Aftersbe left I erga.'ed Jane Legge.
On one occasion I came home, and found a•young man
concealed in the kitchen at eleven o'clock at night.
Next day I told her to go.. I recollect Sarah Wood be-
ing in our service. I think she was a Roman Catholio
because she fasted on Wednesdays and Fridays. She
had a hymn-book to the Virgin Mary.
This witness was not cross-examined.
This concluded the evidence for the prosecutor.
The Court then (at half-past six) adjourned to this
morning, when the Learned Counsel on each side will bo
heard iu reply.

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- The following is the original of the judgment of the
It:qui:Won which was referred to in the course of the
day:—
" Testor ego Infrascriptus Notarius S. Congregationis Ro-
mans;, et Universalis Inquisitionis, quod perquisites actis as-
sumptis in S. Officio contra sacerootem P. Hyacinthum
Achilli religiosum professum ordinis prmdicatornm, constat ex
eisdem antis, ipsum Achilli, corrstitutis jadicialibusescussum,
fuisse Reum confessum de carnali copula, dum in ccenobio
Viterbiensi moraretur, cum pluribus fcemiuis habits, item de
defloratione alterins virginis in civitate Montis Falisci, alias-
que dual mulieres Capus carnaliter cognovisse. Eruitur
quoque, alias puellam Neapoli matrem reddidisse ; ac saperi-
orem ordinis prndicatorum scntata quinquaginta alteri
fatminas ab eodem Achilli coruptm pependisse ad damna Mate
sarcienda.
." Denique fides facio, quod ob memorata crimina; et all&
de'quibus in antis maturo prius discusso examine grave-
minum ex antis . resultantium ; perpensis defensionibus
tame ex more consideratis, necnon benigne excepts Ipsius
Inquisiti Confessione,,ejusdem declaratione sequentis tenons.
Non chiedo di.non esser gastigato, anzi amo the si proceda
severamente sal , conto mici sin quel modo the la Justizia
Esige .Ricevere con rassegnazione qualunqpe disposizione
.venga,eMituata, ed ova maneasse qualche regions a proce-
dere confiu rigore la mia confessions sia bastante a punirmi
tome megfio creder6. it S. Tribunale. Emmentissi Inquisi-
tores:Gend ales Fer. IV., die 16 Junii,' 1841, in Conventu S.
non privationis
.thria A;.elipra.
a celebrando sacri-
Marla; r Aline'rvam decreverunt luauisitus P. liyacin-
fiebos. miss, prtevia suspensione perpetua
directionen; ' ad verbs Dei prmdicatiortem,
-`""e inhabifitatione perpetua ad quam cumque
net_,_ anin3arum et
pcenitentiis saluta - vocis an passivx,' et impositia
"In quorum datum daninetur ad
...
manendam per trien-
vantitc.....-°l4. di religiosa sui or btriatieris obeer.
iniiim iii.,siguit
,dnbas, activw,
Septenibria, 1851, cance
" ANGELUS ARGENTI,
eX- - Ilaria S. Officii has die 22
"Testis fr. VINCE.. S. Romx et Univ. Inq., Notus.
' S.R. Inq. s LEO SALLUA, P. Freed, L Socius,
"JOHN GORDON, C°llg. Oral-. ,Dr
-.es
Birmingham, t,. P.} Witness.
"NICHOLAS DARNELL, Conn., 4.1
Aitness.,
Presb., Birmingham, 6 Oral ,
"Sworn before me at 17thR,,oBmrietitshhisc011:Wr
of
art, Rome."
-93' of NnV IESI 4 6 jous. F _ .., 9
RE ZEtORN,
On the left hand of the signature
was the seal of the Inquisition, consisting goe_los Argeiati
an2a first and
four quarterings, with a lion rampant or of shield of
fourth, and two beadlets in the second
CI third
quar-
ters. The shield was surmounted by the tiara,was supported on either side by half figures of which
St. Peter
and St. Paul; and round the whole were the words
e
" Sigil. S. Roman et Univers, Inquisitionis." Under
Mr. Freeborn's signature were the arms of the British
consulate.

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