, 1877-12-23
THE COUNTESS LAMBERTlNI.

! "A-'
,, ! saw you." .-.
, THE COUNTESS LAMBERTlN.
! Kcview OF tho Testimony in tho Famo7
: Trial ut Romc-Is She Antonellis Dausl
ter?
l. Correspondence london Daily Ntto*4
RoNE, Dec. 3.-The; Romance Of the Forum
receives its latest aud not least striking cont
button from no less quarter than the Vatica
Yes, in the rooms Immediately Aboye the Font
fical apartments begins the story whose subs
quent scenes are enacted in many other local
ties Of the Holy Cty,-sccncs which oilcr
strange but instructive medley traits Of clla
actcr and conflict Of motives at once rncy
Roman soil and universal i'll their interest. L
| the curtain rise on any one of them and til
mind is at oncc arrested and rivetcd on til
singular tablcau. The time is twcnty-fou
years ago, and to that portion Of til
Vatican palace which is occupied y
the Pope young lady may be seen asccndin
the Secretary of State. Alone, and scenlingl
q stranger to the place, the attention she natur
ally excites is enhanced by the grace OF her iig
ure, which is tail and sylpll-lke, and by the dis
tinction OF her features, which bear the stam'
Of aristocracY. Her blue eyes 8nd blonde ha
suggest Tcutonic,-that is, English or German
| nationality,-an Inference winch is strengthened
when, In unfamiliar French, ekel out by iudif
fercnt Italian, she inquiries for mis- Elnincnce
Carnal Antone nna after some further lar
diual, "ougi sono amnlu'ato," an announce
mcnt which Tamburlani, the majordomo, un.icr-
stands 10 mean, II am not to be Interrupted ut
this interview What relation this fair young
stranger bore to his E,nncncc was unknown
even to his valet, ana unknown it would for
ever have remained but for the revelations to
bc presently made. These shall bc taken from
the first Of the series Of printed documents that
lie before me, documents which have been
handed into the cIauecry OF the Roman trl-
bl1nal before which has again come for hear
ing the now famous suit Of "La1nbcrtini W.
Antonelll." The documents cuntuin the depo-
sitions, taken down and legally autIlcnt:c:tclby
notary public, Of the witnesses lcr the plaintiff,
aud such extracts stall be made lrom theEl Us
will explain the grounds OF the action while ill.,
cidentally unfolding the romance.
Anua Geryasi, resi1ing in the Via Rasella, No.
Is, dcppses that in the early part Of 1s55 there
came t89ler house DR.. Lucchfni physician we'll
known to her as having often been III y relation
matter,'' said the Doctor, ''whrh brings me
here to-day is one OF the graycst Importance,
requiring therefore the most solemn sccrecy.n
/ thanked him, sail Dame Gcryasi, for the CON
tidenee lie placed in inc, and adding that secrecy
was Que Of the first qualifications OF my calling,
- 49," - t"I-' "'ot.e
me-; hG sa4tl' ~ tne t'Ga1uleht ~ a 1uu5 VI
anxious. being unmarried, to bury the affair III
The profoundest secrecy. We both know tile
world, men anu their 1a1linEs, and confde to
you profound secret. Inc tather o. the cl!id
III question l. no other than his Eulincncc the
secretary OF stare, tafals1a1 James ahtenclll.'
- at this" says Dame Gcrvas1, - w:u
thrown into the most abject terror knew
what manner OF man Cardinal Antonclt was.
For him, as they said i'll 1to1nc, one word was
little and another wns too many; his arm was
long aud reached everywhere. There was moth
ing, therefore, but to obey, and answered that
was quite ready to be Of service, but that it
would be most difficult to find the married pair
who would consent to assume the parcntngc
of the child. DR.. Lucciliui thought he could
arrange that, aud, again binding me to the most
scrupllious secrecy he went away, promising tn
return in few days. ,Iie kept his word, aul
resumed tho subject by saying that he had seen
me In the house of one Signora Antoinetta
Marconi, aud from my intimacy with her must
know tier familiar relations with Cardinal AM
touelli. [ owned that did, and then he told
me it was precisely this Signora Marconi, whom,
he had Thought OF, being married, though sep
arated from her husband, and therefore just
the nerson to serve him.
The reader may be SHARED the next starcs Of
the dcuosition. which are too professional for
publication. Suffice it to say that the Young
lady OF rank was attended. ia Apartments
specially provided for her, Mt Dame Geryasi's:
that in i house hard by Sienora Marconi had for
weeks been Stimulating pregnancy; that on the
Young lady being delivered Of a female child it
was swiftly and successfully smuggled from, the
one house to the other, and that the whole
mystitication was so well contrived and kept up