She was the great Aunt of your Grandfather: In quality of your relation, her ashes demand respect from you, though the enormity of her crimes must excite your abhorrence.

The nature of those crimes no one is more capable of explaining to you than myself: I was personally acquainted with the holy Man who proscribed her nocturnal riots in the Castle of Lindenberg, and I hold this narrative from his own lips.
'Beatrice de las Cisternas took the veil at an early age, not by her own choice, but at the express command of her Parents.

She was then too young to regret the pleasures of which her profession deprived her: But no sooner did her warm and voluptuous character begin to be developed than She abandoned herself freely to the impulse of her passions, and seized the first opportunity to procure their gratification.

This opportunity was at length presented, after many obstacles which only added new force to her desires.

She contrived to elope from the Convent, and fled to Germany with the Baron Lindenberg.
She lived at his Castle several months as his avowed Concubine: All Bavaria was scandalized by her impudent and abandoned conduct.