[42] Whether Thilorier had come to England at the request of Cagliostro or not is uncertain, but it is now known that he wrote Cagliostro’s replies to Morande’s charges.
[43] Perhaps Pergolezzi?
[44] Cagliostro’s pretended transmission of his supernatural powers, as previously stated, was nothing more than the discovery that the so-called “psychic” faculty, instead of being confined to a few exceptional people, as was till then generally believed, existed in a more or less developed state in everybody. Before his time, and in fact till many years after, the “psychic” faculty was so little understood that the above phenomenon, familiar enough to spirit-rappers and planchette-writers of the present day, was believed to be the work of the powers of darkness whose manifestations inspired terror, of which familiarity has apparently robbed them now-a-days.
[45] One of his followers, de Vismes, was induced to come to London from Paris on purpose to act as a decoy.
[46] Liber memorialis de Caleostro dum esset Roberetti contains an account of Cagliostro’s doings in Rovoredo.
[47] The Moniteur, however, was subsequently informed by its Roman correspondent that he had received bills of exchange from both London and Paris.
[48] The abolition of their Order was but temporary. It had been forced upon the Pope by sovereigns whose power in an atheistical age had increased as his declined. The Jesuits continued to exist in secret, and to inspire and control the Papacy.
[49] To justify the attitude they adopted the Inquisition-biographer was accordingly obliged to blacken the character of Cagliostro by attributing to him the infamous reputation of Balsamo as a means of emphasizing the odious lives of Freemasons in general.
[50] The Roman correspondent of the Moniteur states that at each examination of Cagliostro and his wife, the rack was displayed.
[51] In the Bastille he also asked for fresh linen, which was given him. If he dressed like a mountebank, he was at least always scrupulously clean.