The daily gazette., 1877-08-02
Cardinal Antonelli's Daughter.
From the London TRUTH

1 am not surprised at the Countess
Lambertini's claim to the 81, 900, ,000francs
at which Antonelli's fortune is estimated.
What wonder at is, that there is not
great many other claimants. The Car
dinal ever evinced repugnance for holy
orders. To be a deacon he was obliged
to take the VOW of celbacy; but he knew
himself too well to become priest, and
in all his life never confessed penitent.
Numerous were the young Romans whom
he brought up and settled. The daugh-
ter Of a 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 Vati can, and never left him without
a handsome present. The Cardinal
bought an estate near Terracina for this
youth, who was the son of a Sicilian Alb
bess. His Eminence was lavish in his
generosity to the daughter of diplomat
ic Count and Countess from Munich.
In his will Antonell repudiated with
virtuons Indignation the reports wicked
men had spread about the immensity of
his fortune aid its origin. He derived ,he
said, the best part of it from his respecta-
BILE father, who was farmer at Somnlno
In England this was believed; in Rome it
was not.
The respectable father left eight chill
dren, and unless loaves- s-and-fshes mir
! acle was performed at the cutting up of
his estate, what fell to each inheritor
could not have been fat portion. There
were five sons and three daughters, 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 iu transacting business.
Cardinal Antonelli was concerned with
the financialists of Louis Napoleon. His
mother under the preteXt eff being sent to
Paris to surveiller Sacconi, the Nuncio,
went there to operate with Mires, the pa
tron, by the by, of Louis Veuillot. Angelo
on the downfall of that financialist, got
hold of Viennese clerk of RothschilJ's,
a handsome, impudent fellow, gifted with
fiorid kind of eloquehce. He advised
him to be converted and to enter orders
and he secretly pushed him on at the
Tuileries, where the Hebrew priest, who
was at once raised TO red stockings bt came
prodigious tavorte of the ladies, the
confessor of the Empress, and cut out the
beau, Nigra.
| Filippe Antonelli, another brother was
also financialist. He was the Cardinals s
man of straw at the Roman Bank, of
which he was the manager. Filippe is
counted the most miserly man in Rome.
He lives in small house at Santa Agata
ALA Suburb, and bears the title ef
| Count ~
iGregorio, the eldest brother, is the
gentleman of the family. His special
function was to look after the Cardinals
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 a Platonic
! partnership. The niece-in-law was given
royal dover, and was bequethed the
Cardinals silver gilt breakfast service,
which he prayed her not "to lock up, but
4 to use freely" Since his death she has
gone to live in Paris.
Signora Maroon, who adopted the
little girl Loretta, was a fine looking
Roman lady, without an avowable in
come. She kept a political salon, receiv-
ed mixed company, was well with the
Monsignori, went to the Borghese recep-
tons, and was suspected of taking secret
service money from three great empires.
Since 1870 she has professed herself a
Garibaldian.