The lawsuit of Mrs. Livingston is over and has turned out into a verdict against her. She had falsely accused Father Louis Gillet, C.SS.R. of solicitation. Gillet will tell the story to Lefevere. This woman has caused discord between Sanderl and Gillet as their views entirely disagree. On the day of Confirmation Mrs. Livingston, as it came out in her trial, received absolution and went Publicly to Communion. She had been sent away by Sanderl who told her that not the Pope himself could give her absolution as it was a condition sine qua non to raise her children in the Catholic religion. She had agreed with her husband to raise her children Presbyterians. She pleaded that she could not disturb the family peace. In her trial she implied that Sanderl had impeached the validity of her marriage. Sanderl blames Gillet for having given her the sacraments and he is glad that punishment followed so closely because Gillet must now be convinced that his penitent turned out to be a most impious wretch. The French are now persecuting her. It is foreseen that "she goes to Jackson" if justice be done to her unless the Presbyterians plead insanity. When Sanderl reproached Gillet, Gillet told him that Lefevere had been consulted and had allowed it. Mrs. Livingston has proved her disposition by making two false oaths for which she is liable to be sent to the state prison and Sanderl hopes that such a latitudinarian principle will not be approved, showing from examples in Prussia that her arrangement was sinful and that while she might in her old age receive forgiveness, she could not while of childbearing age. :: III-2-h A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.