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faction the truth of the charges which are contained in
the pleas of justification, and which are to the number of
not less than 23. Was ever any man placed in such a
situation as Dr. Achillienow is—called upon to answer
26 years of his life--arraigned spun no fewer than 23
chaps? Now, in order to narrow our field of view,
let me direct your minds, in the first instance, to various
chargoe which have beta, put
upen the record, but of
which not the slightest proof has been offered. In the
first place, it is alleged in the 7th charge that Dr.
Achilli, on the Ist of Febtuary, 1331, debauched and
carnally knew Rosa di Alessandria, and that in the
was found guilty
month of September, 1833; he of that
offence by the P,ithop of Viterbo. In the 12th charge
this offence is alleged to have been committed in the
sacristy of the church of Grads,
at Viterbo; and in the
20th charge Dr. Achilli is
represented to have given
50 ecudi, amounting to 10/., to the father of Rosa di
Alessandria by way of hash. moue-.
y Now, on the part
of thu defendant, no evidence whatever has been given
on that subject; and I do not even
.except those etc-
ceedings of the Inquieitien,
for it will be found, when
they are referred to,
in
them
froni
beginning' 'to i'td. I am, therefore, en-
titled to say that the detettdant hes failed, so far as he
that,nettsSingle name. is mentioned
has gone, in every proof oti that subject.
persons, ore mentioned is the
Lord CAMPBELL—The' names of placs, but not of
Proceedings of the In-
quisitien. .
The ATTORNEY•GENERALZ-.Eut we have the evidence
of Dr. Achiiii on this subject; for he. says that the only
Rosa di Alessandria with . wham he is acquainted is a
nun, a relation of his, a person
older than himself, and
five or whose father, to whom he is supposed to have given
hush-money, died when he was oat-j six years
old. He denied that he was ever accused in the Bishop's
Court at Viterbo, and therefore that he could have been
sentenced or punished there. And you may remember
that although my Learned Frientle have given proof
that the records ,oft theapolice•ci.Ece, at Viterbo were
burnt at-die last revolution, no
cafdencelititeVer had
been given that any attempt had been made to search
for any documents whatever in the Bishop's
Court, in which these proceedings are alleged
aiehth
to have taken place. In the
charge Dr.
Achilli was accused of !mine., in Jul-,
et 1834, debauched
and carnally known, at Viterbo, a certain other
woman, name unknown, being then
chaste and unmar-
ried. Now we have documents which cannot possibly de-
ceive, from which it appeared that Dr. Achilli remained
at Viterbo up to the end of the year 1833, and that he
then accompanied the provincial of hie order upon a tour
of visitation; that he, was absent nearly the whole of the
in
year 1834; that he returned to
..•
iterbo in the month of
November in that year, and took up his residence with
his provincial for a few days, and went thence on a visit
, therefore, with regard
tt oo this Bth conventBt h chaatr
nocent is supposed to have suffered from the passions of
gNeapolnes.whlicthhitnhkis
sup
unknown
in-
Dr. Achilli, that he will be acquitted e
e your verdict.
We have then the 9th charge, in which he te alleged, in
1835, at Viterbo, and at Monte F n rusooni in the neigh-
bourhood, to have debauched and carnally known a per-
son named Vincenza Guerra, and a certain other woman
name unknown—and whenever there is ft woman with a
" name unknown " she is sure to be chaste and unmar-
ried—(Laughter)—and
of the charge by the Holy Inquisition. Now
ried—(Laughter)—aiarl that he was
if he were found guilty by the holy inquisition
of an offence at Viterbo in the year 1835, it
afterwards found
will be a pretty good sample of ' what
attributed to the proceedings of the faith is to heholy Inquisition,
because after 1834 Dr. Achilli was never at Viterbo or
in the neighbourhood. The 13d1 1-.
Cuarge is one of
rather an extraordinary character. is alleged It ' that
on the lot of January, 1841, and at divers other times,
the'said G. Achilli, " being a priest, at
Rome, Canna:
Naples, and Malta, spoke and talked against the doc-
trines of the Catholic faith—to wit, the doctrine of au-
ricular confession and absolution, and
against the moral
obligations of chastity and continence, and by means of
this preaching and teaching he corrupted various per-
sons, amongst others one Lugi di Santis, one Fortunate
Saccaree, the said Rosa di Alessandria, the said Elena
di Valente, and the said Maria Giovanni Princepo from
their belief in such doctrines, and obedience to such
laws." Now, allow me just to call your attention to
the mode in which these charges have been fabricated
against Dr. Achilli, when you find that it having been
previously alleged that hishad debauched and carnally
known Rosa di Alessandria and Elena di Valente in
1831, he is in this plea represented as having is 1841,
by his corrupt teaching and preaching, led them astray
from the laws of morality and virtue, which they had
obeyed up to that time. Again, in the 21st charge,
it is alleged that in a certain official document
amongst the archives of the Neapolitan police,
Dr. Achilli had been reported for habitual inconti-
nency. Now, I know pertectly well that my Learned
Friends would say they attempted to give in evidence a
document procured from the Minister of Ecclesiastical
Affairs, and represented by him to be a copy of the re-
port from the police. But I thought it my duty, after
the information we have lately had as to the faith and
credit to be attached to the Neapolitan police reports,
to insist that if they proposed to give any evidence on
the subject they should go to the fountain-head, and
satisfy the Court that the document was produced from
the proper depository. These ate the points on which
no evidence is produced, and oa which Dr. Newman
must necessarily be found guilty by
your verdict. I
pass on to those charges which Dr. Newman has under-
taken to substantiate, and fur which I confidently believe
I shall be able to satisfy you there are no grounds what•
ever. In the first place he has charged Dr. Achilli with
person
beine an infidel. Now, bY ths word " infidel" is ordi-
nariTy understood a
who denies the inspiration
of the Christian Scriptures and the Divine origin of
the Christian religion. Now Dr. Achilli has never
,
been an infidel in that sense
of she word. It is alleged
that he preached against auricular confession and abso-
lution ; and if it be meant that because Achilli did not
believe in transubstantiation--did not believe in the
efficacy of human absolution, that be is, therefore, an
infidel, I say it without the "slightest levity, but
with the strongest feeling f
n
''' anxiety on the subject, that
I hopeithat the number of
creased.—(Applause.) ti, is
then charged with being a
Roman Catholic priest, and
and you have
a hypocrite;
heard from coy Learned Friend
avry eloquent passage,
in which he endeavoured to establish the truth of that
charge by a reference to --tame Passages in Dr. Achill's
such infidels will be daily in-
work. [After again readier,. - passages from De
burn, the. Atterney•General
-a those
upon all these occasions. It is difficult,
Aebilli's book which were referred to by Sir A. Cook•
Here you
have an example of a strong mind struggling with its
doubts; you have an example of the course which is
Proceeded.]
followed
for a man to tear himself from his ancient faith; there
are so many associations intimate, interwoven with it
-
that
it is almost
ha
impossible for ayerson at once to dis-
engage himself from it. Ile indeed,
-as referred to Luther; and
you all remember how long and
anxiously he atrugglsd
with himself from time to tune, and how his strong mind
was bent and bowed down by the
_on ...in.ct
which he had
with himself, and how it wasu
Only by de degrees that he
gradually advanced to the position he afterwards assumed
as the great reformer of our Church. From ar to year
long and anxiously did he strug le and pray; and has
anybody the boldness to say that because Luther re-
mained in the church in which a
until his doubts bad ripen n
h® had been born and bred
€- into conviction, and until
the full light of truth wee Poured upon his mind, that
therefore Luther would be n
eroPerly- characterised as a
hypocrite. But who is the ne,.
e waoa from whom these in-
sinuations proceeded? From the
Counsel of Dr. Newman.
Was Dr. Newman suddenly converted?—did no doubts
infuse themselves into his mind --"'' while he was a member
of our Protestant Church? Del
-n conviction flash at once
upon his soul? Did he lie down
a satisfied and con-
tented Protestant, disbelieving in
transubstantiation, in
confession, and in absolution, an,
‘4 did be rise up in the
morning a fully blown Roman Catholic?3
Strange indeed
is it that we should have heard the 0 arguments pro-
ceeding from such a source. it 0
rounds Dr.
Achilli is to be subjected to the i n these g
clPntation of hp
an
ocrisy,
he shares it with men who
nornament are a and
honour to our faith and our religion,
andheis contented
to suffer the imputation, 0
111 -re esPeeiall in consequence
of the quarter from which it proceeds. YLet us proceed
now to the next charge. It is aled ;
in charge four, that
Dr. Achilli, as early as 1826, wasA
stePrived of his faculty
to lecture for an offence which his
best to conceal. Now, the fact is that superiors did their
which lecthipe
which Dr. Achilli obtained was at li-
• iterbo in y 1827,uree and be
continued to hold it down to 1833. In -
the fifth charge it is
alleged that in 1827, he had already aahned the reputation
of a scandalous friar. That was the
• Year in which he
obtained the lectureship at Viterbo.
Now, we called
two persons who were monks at Viterbo during the
years that Achilli was there, and they have told you
that he maintained a high reputation during the whole
period of his residence at Viterbo. But, -in addition
to that, we have carried down the evidence as to the
putation in which he was held for ten years longer. It
re-
is absurd to suppose that if Dr. Achilli had then earned
the reputation of a scandalous frier, he ,e,
nould have been
selected for the offices of great trust and importance
which beheld during the interval from 1827 down to his
obtaining his letters of secularization in 1839. I new
come to the sixth charge, relating to Elena Valente,upon
which my Learned Friend has dwelt at such length. And
in introducing the charges supported by Italian
witnesses
I must make a few preliminary observations. We
have had some intimation of the interest felt in Roman
Catholic countries upon the subject of this inquiry-
We have had proof that great facilities have been af-
forded to the persons who were sent out for the purposeof
procuring evidence. We had one remarkable and striking
instance—a circumstance introduced in the course of this
inquiry, showing tha.t a Roman Cathelie gentleman of
very great respectability was in conainueication with a
high in the Roman Church.functionary The deepest
interest was excited in this conflict, upon
which it was
to depend whether Dr. Achilli was to remain a most
et
formidable antagonist to the Roman Church or to be
d annihilated by these chergea
crushed an I think it
due to the interests of truth and justice to remind you
of those circumstances, and to beg you to consider whe-
ther they are capable of any satisfactory explanation
consistently with a desire that
only the truth should be
arrived at upon this occasion. Again, tee have from
statement that her curate told her
Elena Valente the _
the
sake-
that she must come hero for
h of holy mother
Church and the honour of God. Now, who aropes,
1 witnesses? whero do they come from? They come
i from Italy; and the moment their work is done they re-

turn there again. They arc birds of passage—here to-
day, gone to-morrow. Not expossd to any punishment
that our laws may award for perjury—careless of the
public opinion of this country—returning, perhaps with
esteem and honour, to their residence again, and, with-
out going beyond the information we have obtained in
this most extraordinary inquiry, likely—if they have
veiled the truth fcr the good of holy mother Church, and
for the honour of God—to obtain from their tender-
h..:arted confesiors a wry easy penance. But Dr.
Aehilli, cn the ether hand—shut out from every Roman
Catholic country on the continent—must remain here

exposed to all the obloquy and the other consequences
which follow from the sin of deliberate, perjury. And
how can you, therefore, by possibility compare the po-
sition of the Italian witnesses with that of Dr. Achilli,
and not observe that as far as that is an element in Jour
judgment of the worth of their testimony, the balance
inclines strongly in favour of the prosecutor? Then I
come to what I must characterise as a very unfair pro-
ceeding towards Dr. Achill. He comes here prepared
to meet these charges; he is ready to answer distinctly
and specifically upon eveh charge in succession; but ho
is then pressed by my Learned Friend as to whether he
has not at times been guilty of breaches of morality
with respect to women: Now Dr. Achilli has felt it his
duty to himself to avail himself of the protection which
the law gives hire, end be.hoe refused to answer that ques-
tion. Gentlemen, I very much fear that if such a ques-
tion were put to the wisest and best amongst us, we
should find it difficult indeed, consistently with truth,
to answer that question so that we may be acquitted to
our comeiences.. Is it then to be made a charge against
Dr. Achilli that ha will not answer a question which is
directed to ascertain, not whether he has been guilty of
these specific charges alleged against him, but whether
he has ever transgressed the laws of morality? I refer
everybody to his own heart for an answer to that ques-
tion. I submit, with the most perfect confidence, that
not only that circumstance should not prejudice Dr.
Achill', but thy:it-has 'a most important bearing on the
answer that be gives in every inseance. If he came
here determined to deny everything which was to the
prejudice of his character, what was there to prevent
him from giving a direct contradiction to the notion that
he had over sinned ageinst the laws of conscience?
Elena Valente says that her first knowledge of Achilli
was at the country-house of Signora Gentilli, where he
had gone to spend his country month. Now, Achilli
says that he never did spend his country month with
a Gentilli. Ho says that he neyer stayed with but
three families; and not one of them was a Gentilli.
One of those houses was that of a Madame Cristofcri;
and my Learned Friend having elicited the fact that
she was a Gentilli before her marriage with her de-
ceased husband, claimed this as a corroboration of Elena
di Valente, because he said that it was a usual thing
for women in Italy to bear their maiden names after
the death of their husbands. But Elena Valente also
spoke of two brothers of this lady's deccaed husband
being named Gentilli; where's it was clear that, if the
explanation of my Learned Friend were correct, they
wotild be Cristoferi. It was clear, therefore, that the
evidence of Elena di Valente derived no corroboration
on this point freer' Dr. Achilli. This woman had sworn
that she had bad intercourse with Dr. Achilli four
times. Dr. Achilli • had denied in the moot ex-
plicit terms that he had ever had any intercourse
with her. Twenty years after the supposed event the
matter is brought forward as: a charge against hits.;
and during the whole of that period not ono word had
Elena di Valente whispered to any one, not even to her
mother, of there being any foundation for
such a charge. Nor was this reticence on her pert
owing to any liberality on the part of Dr. Achilli
towards her, for you remember the absurd and
trifling presents which she represented that he had given
her. Then there was Dr. Achilli, having comnrtted
this breach of morality in 1831, publicly lecturing as
professor of theology, publicly performing all the offices
of the Church, preaching more diligently than any
monks of his order, recommended to offices of trust,
and no one uttering a word against him until, 22 years
afterwards, a voice is heard in the streets of London,
calling him to account for this improper intercourse. Dr.
Achilli denies this charge most explicitly, and it is for
you. to compare the evidence on both sides, and say
whether you believe that denial on a charge which is
made under these most extraordinary and incredible cir-
cuniltanceS. I now go to Naples, where the prose-
cutor is charged by the 12th plea with having debauched
and carnally known Maria Principe, a child of 15, on
Good Friday, in the scar 1840. W hen, however, Maria
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which I must direct your attention. Mrs. Principe
said that she was fifty-nine years old, and she
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Principe stated that this intercourse only took place on
one occasion, and the cross-examination of my Learned
Friend the Solicitor-General proceeded entirely on that
footing. But when she came to be re-examined the
next day she said that it had occurred several times; and
being pressed, she said seven or eight times. What re-
liance can you place, under all these circumstances, on
the testimony which has been given by this girl, met as
it is by the positive denial of Dr. Achilli, that he ever
was acquainted with her, or even knew her by sight?
Well, but my Learned Friend says, " Oh, but there is
proof here confirmatory of her statement, because it ap-
pears !hat some friend of Achilli had applied to the
commissary of police with respect to some charges which
were said to have been made against him." Now, I must
say that anything more hard, anything more cruel, than
the course which has been adopted upon the present
occasion can hardly be imagined. You may remember
that I was inquiring as to whether the Duke de Lariats'
a friend of Dr. Achilli's, in consequence of something
being said against himovent before the police, and inquired
as to some accusations that had been made against
him, when my Learned Friend immediately interfered,
and shut out that evidence. In the course of his cross-
examination he did indeed pursue that subject, and ob-
tain some further information; but I appeal to your me-
mory and to my Lord's notes whether it was ever sug-
gested until he stated it to-day that those accusations, or
charges, or rumours, or gossip, or whatever you please
to call them, were connected with the Principes, or with
any distinct or specific charge of that kind, or whether
there is any foundation whatever for the accusation of
my Learned Friend in that respect? What confirma-
tion, then, is there of that most incredible and self-con-
tradictory story ? I have now come to the end of the
Italian witnesses; acd I now ask you to compare their
evidence with that of Dr. Achilli (recollecting the mode
in which it was given), and then say whether you can
for one moment d mbt the denial which he has given of
any intercourse with these parties; and whether you do
not think that these two charges with respect to Elena di
Valente and Maria Principe are not completely disposed
of? We proceed now to Corfu, where Dr. Achilli is
charged by Dr. Newman with having committed adultery
with the wife of Garamoni and the wife of Coriboni. My
friend lays stress upon what he calls a contradiction be-
tween Dr. Achilli and Garamoni's wife. Dr. Achilli says as
ho was passing the house she called to him, and was be-
ginning a question. She says no question was put. It
is clear the appearance of the husband prevented it, and
yet my friend wishes you from this to assume that there
was improper intercourse, although they all deny that
any such thing took place. I should have thought, if
the object had been justice, my friend would not have
rested on this part of the case. I think I may rely
upon your judgment, and not apprehend any unfavour-
able result. We now come to Coriboni's wife. The
statement is that she was a prostitute, that her husband
was living upon the wages of her prostitution, and that
Dr. Achilli ought not to have taken her into his service.
But if it was notorious that Dr. Achilli's reputation was
injured as soon as he engaged them, then, instead of
mixing with society of the first class, he ought to have
been driven into obscurity. The charge upon this part
of the case mainly depends upon the testimony of Mr.
Reynolds. My friend has had great difficulty in
dealing with the interference of Mr. Reynolds, and
has designated his letters as eery foolish. Mr. Rey-
nolds says he used to see Dr. Achilli toying
improperly with Coriboni's wife, committing indecent
familiarities. Mr. Reynolds says ho remonstrated
with him. Dr. Achilli refused to dismiss his ser-
vants, and Mr. Reynolds left his chapel. He adds that
he saw them very frequently arm in arm in the public
streets. This Dr. Achill'. denies. Mr. Reynolds said
from one window to another was 15 or 20 feet. Measure
that in your eye, and see how short the distance is. It
is admitted that the parties could only be seen when they
came to the window. It they had gone on one side they
would not have been seen, they would have been screened
from all observation." It is clear from the statement of
Mr. Reynolds that he had told Dr. Achilli of these
familiarities; then Dr. Achilli was aware there were
spies upon his conduct, and yet he was so shameless
and profligate that he could not restrainhis passions
even so that he might not be seen by the very man who
had remonstrated with him. Dr. Achilli said, from the
situation of the houses ho could not have been seen.
Noss, the servant is supposed to have confirmed Mr.
Reynolds.
She was seated with the blinds down, and
she says, that she saw these familiarities taking place.
If the window of Dr. Achilli was higher than that of
Mr. Reynolds, it would have been impossible she could
have seen. Dr. Achilli says Mr. Reynolds did complain,
but not until he had several times remonstrated with
him upon his habits of intoxication. Mr. Reynolds,
in order to corroborate this statement, speaks of
the pillows and the table-clotb. Ido not impute to
that young woman that she is committing perjury, but
she might have seen something which. Mr. geynolds
represented to her as being Dr. Achilli, and she must
have been mistaken as to the person she save. Dr.
Achilli says if he had been seen only once with the
wife of Coriboni his congregation would entirely have
left. Mr. Reynolds says it did fall off. How ho knew
that after he left I cannot tell, but Dr. Achilli says it
increased. If Dr. Achilli had been the profligate repre-
sented, should we not have had proof of it here? Dr.
Achilli has said, " I never did walk publicly in the
streets with that woman." It is absurd to suppose it.
Dr. Achilli went to Malta for the purpose of establishing
a chapel there. What! a man reeking from the profli-
gacy of Zante! Would not that reputation have fol-