“whether a Roman Catholic clergyman be in any case compellable to disclose the secrets of auricular confession ; decided at the Court of General Sessions, in the City of New York ; present, the honorable De Witt Clinton, mayor, the honorable Josiah Ogden Hoffman, recorder, Richard Cunningham, Isaac S. Douglass, esqrs. sitting aldermen ;with the arguments of counsel, and the unanimous opinion of the court, delivered by the mayor, with his reasons in support of that opinion”