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112 of the reports against him, as they emanated from the court of Rome, which he would have taken good care not to offend, had he really been a low and common impostor. At any rate, the charges brought against him in the work published at Rome by the Apostolic Chamber bear the stamp of falsehood. That work is entitled “A Compendium of the Life and Actions of Giuseppe Balsamo, otherwise called Count Cagliostro, extracted from the process carried on against him at Rome in the year 1790.” In this work the Apostolic Chamber attributes the impunity which he enjoyed for so many years, and in so many countries, in spite of his crimes (crimes which were not proved at all) to the powerful influence of his relations; accusing him, at the same time, with apostolic indifference to logic, of being low-born, and of belonging to the most abject rabble of Palermo.