The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-08-11


animation at once; notwithstanding
that the decision was quite within his
power, he referred it to the Tribunal.
The day fixed for the discussion is next
Saturday, the 21st, when not only Sig
nor Tajani will take part, but the cele-
brated leader Of the Tuscan, bar, Ad-
riano Mari, ex- President Of the Cham.
per OF Deputies, and ex-Minister of
Grace and Justice, with him. The ad-
vocates of the three Counts Antonelli
are now five in number, The discus
sion is not expected to close till the
tuesday following, when the Tribunal
will announce its decision. Thereafter
the case will not be resumed before the
9Th of November, on which occasion
Signor Tajani, it is calculated, will open
the case in favor OF the Countess with
speech of not less than two days
duration. The Counts Antoneli show
their anxiety as to the result, not only
by engaging Mari for the defence, but
by actually producing the Cardinals
will. This they obviously do to secure
the twothirds of the Cardinals fortune,
which must be theirs, even should the
Countess gain her suit.
From the London Truth,
I am not surprised at the Countess
Lambertinis claim to the 81 900 600
francs at which the Antonelli's fortune
is estimated. What wonder at s.that
there are not a great many other claim-
ants. The Cardinal ever evinced a re-
pugnanca for holy orders. To bs a
deacon he was obliged to take the vow
OF celibacy; but he knew himself too
well to he become a priest, and in all
his life he never confessed a penitent.
Numerous were the young Romans he
brought up and settled. The daughter
of Portuguese singer was watched by
him with paternal fondness from her
cradle upward. A boy now in the
Papal Guard often visited him in his
rooms in the Vatican, and never left
him without handsome present. I he
Cardinal bought an estate near Terra
Gina for this youth who was the son of
a Sicilian A6bess. His Eminence was
lavish in his generosity to the daughter
Of a diplomatic Count and Countess
from Munich.
In his will, ,Antonelli repudiated with
virtuous indignation the reports wicked
men had spread about the immensity of
his fortdne and its origin. He derived,
he said,, the hest part of it from his re-
spectacle father, who was a farmer at
SomhinO. In England this was be-
lieved; in Rome it was not.
The respecta BILE father left eight chill.
dren, and unless a loaves. and. fishes
miracle was performed at the cutting
up of his estate, what fell to each in.
heritor could not have been q fat portion.
There were five sons and three daugh.
ters, and Jacopo was the fifth child.
An excellent family man was this
Prince of the Church. His relations
were shreWd, avaricious cOntadini, but
clOse-mOuthed and reliable. He was
not ashamed OF them; and they served
him faithfully in transactiDg financial
business.
Cardinal Antonelli was concerned
with the financialists of Louis Napo-
leon. His brother Angelo, under the
pretext of being sent tO Paris to surveil-
lier Sacconi, the Nuncio, went there to
operate with Mires, the patron, by the
by, of Louis Veuillot. Angelo, on the
downfall Of that financialist, got hold of
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handsome, impudent fellow, gifted with
a ford kind of elOquence. He advised
him to be converted and to enter orders,
and he secretly pushed on at the Tuil-
cries, where the Hebrew priest, who
was at once raised to red stockings, be-
came prodigious favorite of the ladies,
the confessor of the Empress, and cut
out the beau Nlgra.
Filippe AntonelIi, another brother,
was also a financiallst. He was the
Cardinals man of straw at the Roman
Bank, of which lie was manager. Flip
pc is counted the most miseTly man in
Rome. He lives in small house az
Santa Agata ALA Suburra, and bears
the title of Count.
Gregorio, the eldest brother, Is the
gentleman of the family. His special
was to look after the Cardin-
ais children, and to negotiate hush
money payments. His son AgOstino
was the uncle S favorite. and was obliged
by him to marry a daughter of the
Countess Garcia. 1t was stipulated,
however, that this marriage was only
to be Platonic partnership. The
neice'in-law was given a royal dover,
and was bpqueathed the Cardinals
sllver-giIt breakfast service, which he
prayed her not ITO lock up, but use
freely" SiIce his death she has gone
10 live in Paris.
Slgnora Marconi, who adopted the
gill Loretta, was a fine. looking Roman
lady, without an avoWable income. She
kept a political salon, received mixed
company, was well with the MonsiP-
ntri, went to the Borghese receptions,
.nd was suspected OF taking secret-
service money from three great empires.
Since 1870 she has professed herself a
Garibaldian.