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Article MEMOIRS OF THE FREEMASONS AT NAPLES. ← Page 4 of 5 →
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Memoirs Of The Freemasons At Naples.
apparently hardened by criminal actipns , laughed at their fears , fastened the rope under his arms ; with one hand seized the sack with the lime , and with the other the dark lantern , ordering them to let him down . He opens the coffin , takes out the body and throws it amongst tlie rest ; pours his quick-lime on it , and , which is well known , consumes the body in a short time . This ni ght-scene appeared to be well worthy the pencil of an able painterwho would naturally seize
, the moment where the nofaiy should receive the price of his villany in strangling himself by accident witii the rope , the instrument of his crime . AH these details were blazed about by the Mason , who confirmed them afterwards by deposition before the judges . He added , that the spy , Nicolo Capeliaro , had promised him a great reward by order of
Pallante to carry the- sack of quick-lime to the church . Three months after he recalled this deposition as a false one , saying , it was suggested to him by Ponsard with tlie promise of a reward . Being on this imprisoned a second time , he some days after confirmed his first deposition on oath , adding that the second had been forced from him by the threatenings and promises of Pallante and his party ,
Nicolo Capeliaro , Pallante ' s well known spy , a familiar comrade of the Polander , and a principal actor in the nocturnal scene in tlie church , . though he denied any share in the poisoning , is not yet liberated from that suspicion ; he is yet actually in prison with two working masons . The notary obtained his liberty under pretext of sickness '; the count I-Jubschmaster of the Polanderwas not 011 I 3 ' suspected of joining
, , in ; the plot against the Freemasons , but of having been ( if not an accomplice ) at least informed of the poisoning . . He passed in public for the son of a Jew at Constantinople , who had borrowed t .-e name and title of Count de Hubsch , and for being a spy of Pallante , a circumstance which confirmed all suspicions ; a Freemason himself and knowing his servant to be one , it was supposed he had sacrificed him
to the' artifice of Pallante ; lie had suffered nobody to come near him during his malady , and notwithstanding the complaints of the unfortunate wretch , had ordered him no antidote of any kind whatever ; he had . given no advice of his death to any one ; and what strongly confirmed the suspicion above all , was , that he had received some time before from Pallante 4500 ducats by way of loan , a sum which all tliQ world well knew he never could repay . Hubsch denied every thing , but he was taken up , and remains 'in orison to this very day .
Pallante , in answer to these depositions against him , cries out fhey were lies and slander ; but an unexpected circumstance destroyed all his hopes . The advocate of Ponsard represented to the King , that the deposition of tlie witnesses could not be complete as long as Pallante should remain at Naples , where he was . always ' employed in corrupting them , and thwarting the operations of justice . In pursuance of this remonstrance he received orders to quit Naples , and to retire to the distance , of thirty miles from the city . All his former disappointments were nothing to this last stroke ; he did all in his
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Memoirs Of The Freemasons At Naples.
apparently hardened by criminal actipns , laughed at their fears , fastened the rope under his arms ; with one hand seized the sack with the lime , and with the other the dark lantern , ordering them to let him down . He opens the coffin , takes out the body and throws it amongst tlie rest ; pours his quick-lime on it , and , which is well known , consumes the body in a short time . This ni ght-scene appeared to be well worthy the pencil of an able painterwho would naturally seize
, the moment where the nofaiy should receive the price of his villany in strangling himself by accident witii the rope , the instrument of his crime . AH these details were blazed about by the Mason , who confirmed them afterwards by deposition before the judges . He added , that the spy , Nicolo Capeliaro , had promised him a great reward by order of
Pallante to carry the- sack of quick-lime to the church . Three months after he recalled this deposition as a false one , saying , it was suggested to him by Ponsard with tlie promise of a reward . Being on this imprisoned a second time , he some days after confirmed his first deposition on oath , adding that the second had been forced from him by the threatenings and promises of Pallante and his party ,
Nicolo Capeliaro , Pallante ' s well known spy , a familiar comrade of the Polander , and a principal actor in the nocturnal scene in tlie church , . though he denied any share in the poisoning , is not yet liberated from that suspicion ; he is yet actually in prison with two working masons . The notary obtained his liberty under pretext of sickness '; the count I-Jubschmaster of the Polanderwas not 011 I 3 ' suspected of joining
, , in ; the plot against the Freemasons , but of having been ( if not an accomplice ) at least informed of the poisoning . . He passed in public for the son of a Jew at Constantinople , who had borrowed t .-e name and title of Count de Hubsch , and for being a spy of Pallante , a circumstance which confirmed all suspicions ; a Freemason himself and knowing his servant to be one , it was supposed he had sacrificed him
to the' artifice of Pallante ; lie had suffered nobody to come near him during his malady , and notwithstanding the complaints of the unfortunate wretch , had ordered him no antidote of any kind whatever ; he had . given no advice of his death to any one ; and what strongly confirmed the suspicion above all , was , that he had received some time before from Pallante 4500 ducats by way of loan , a sum which all tliQ world well knew he never could repay . Hubsch denied every thing , but he was taken up , and remains 'in orison to this very day .
Pallante , in answer to these depositions against him , cries out fhey were lies and slander ; but an unexpected circumstance destroyed all his hopes . The advocate of Ponsard represented to the King , that the deposition of tlie witnesses could not be complete as long as Pallante should remain at Naples , where he was . always ' employed in corrupting them , and thwarting the operations of justice . In pursuance of this remonstrance he received orders to quit Naples , and to retire to the distance , of thirty miles from the city . All his former disappointments were nothing to this last stroke ; he did all in his