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Seacombe, near Liverpool. I was in Viterbo from the
begionin, of 1831 to the beginning of June, 1833. I
was in the convent of Gradi then. Dr. Achilli was then
sub-prior and professor of divinity in that convent. I
remember his prewibing the Lent sermons at Monte
Fiaserni• DC, CA '
ali 1. was universally very highly es-
teemed
amongst all ranks of Catholic eeelesisstics. I
have never heard anything against him at Rome. I
have ,at Viterbo. fie had there many enemies. He
was held in the highest ebteem by the monks and friars,
bat not by the. bishop, Who was -an enemy of his. In
1833 he was appOinted to visit convents with his supe-
rior. That shows he 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, whicb'l always thought included, by
implication, though not explicitly, tho2e of chastity and
poverty. The book of Ferraris is of
hi h authority
with respect to the Rom g
ish Church. [A,
passage from
this work, with respect to the obligation of the monastic
vows, having been read, the witness said] I think it
would be essential that, so long as a person continued to
be a Dominican, he should observe the vows of chastity
and poverty.
COUNSEL—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 actions.

COUNSEL—When did you cease to attend the worship
of the Church of Rome? Witness—l reply that Ido
not come here to give you an answer to such questions
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 ant questions connedterWitt eV=
traneous matters.
COUNSEL—But do not assume that this is extraneous?
Witness—l 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—Thail, you, sir.
Reexamined by the ATTORNEY•GENERIL-4 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 estima'ion.
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-equere. I was brought to England from Ge-
neva by teat 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 aro afforded to
me by Father Gavazzi, who employs me. He gives
mo 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 in 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 wife. 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 documents were then put in. They consisted of
a petition of the wife for alimony; a defence by the
husband on the ground of her having committed adultery;
a denial of that charge by the wife; its withdrawal by
the husband; and a document embodying the terms of
reconciliation or compromise—the word in the original
was " conciliezione."
Mariana Chrisaffi—l am the wife of Garimoni, who
carried on the business of a tailor at Corfu.
I remember Dr. Achilli co min hero live at Coru.
I then lived with my mo. 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 ray favour, but 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 be 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. There
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
_ra badman.—
(Laughter.) Ido not know how long D Achilli ha
d
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
when Achilli and my husband 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 he tormented me, and went about laying
that he had found me with this gentleman. There were
two persons passing at the time to whom he said Eo.
My husband pressed Achilli against the wall.
Did Achilli struggle to get loose?—No, he did not.
How did he get loose from your husband, who wqg
holding him against the wall?—I do not know, h
I was up-stairs. because
Did you never come down at all?—No, I r
up-stairs. remained
You did not then come down stairs at all While this
was passing between your husband and Dr. Achilla ?
I could not, come down; I remained on the
stairs. I never descended. stairs; up-
Do the stairs lead directly to the door, or is there
any landing-place near the door?--No
down directly to the door. ; the stairs lead
How came the door to be 'open at eleven o'clock at
night?—l opened it from above with a string, when I
When your husband let Dr. Achilli go, was be stopPl
in thee you
by some per
mother was a laundress; and before
don't know.
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Re-examined—My e
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when
this happened. —°tner was in bed asleep
was
Mrs. AchilliWhen she had
been sworn she expressedthe her meal-
through the medium of an interpreter.
.3 re to be examined
Lord CAMPBELL
woman?—Mre A inquired
.n the affirmative; but
she ~as not an English.
added that her. ,ehillt replied died d when she was very
mother havinee
young, she did Baglish language very
well. She, h_ not speak t
consented to be examined
in English,uwehver, ultimately
with a strongioh she spoket. fluently enough, though
She said—l came over to
this
.country foreign acoeanci
with my h I came to Paris by my-
sell •
Lee, aim there; and came ;Rh him to England, where
h,1,0 since. That was after his escape
we
from
the
iteen.3iliivoirog we took a house in Shaftesbury-
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crescent. "(tilrlei hied a servant named Harriett Harris for
about three months, She left because I went down into
(911,11 d 4 very dirty. I told her
the kitchen one dolt 04