The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-03-12

Escape of DR.. Achilli.

ROME, Jan. Goth, 1850.
The good news of DR.. Achilli's escape has
gone like the Withdrawing many heart ex
ult. Every one like clever trick upon the
Cardinals, and the Romans, therefore, enjoy
this adventure as much as the English. As the
feat is accomplished, ard in such an adroit way
that nobody is to blame, we can safely give the
particulars -
The testimony Of DR., Achilli was demanded
in the trial OF Cernuschi, the officer of the Re.
public by whose order the Villa Borghese and
other places were destroyed and whom the
French arrested for an attempt to excite popu-
lar insults against them ms they entered the city.
Tho Cardinal Vicar could not see the particu-
lar necessity of DR., Achill's testimony in the
case, and at first positively refused to let him
be brought out but the lawyers insisted, and
tho French General grew warm in the matter,
and the Cardinal was constrained to sign an Or
der for his appearance in Court. He made his
appearance on Friday, under French guard,
and was duly restored to his prison; he was A.
gain brought ont on Saturday, in the same way,
with guard in attendance at the Court. In
the course Of the trial, however, he received per.
mission to withdraw awhile into n side ROOM
and that is the last they saw of him. The guards
having their orders to watch the front door, paid
no attention TO what was going on in the rear
and there they lost him. OF course no one is
responsible. The general knows nothing the
/ Court knows nothing the guards did their du
/ ty in leading him to and fro, and watching thu
Court room door
The rules Of the Court allow witnesses to or
cupy that chamber occasionally, and the blam,
can rest only on Dr. Achlli himself, who vic
lated the confidence of the Court in slipping a
way. Strange to say he met friends there, wh'
hurried him into place of safety he found
moreover, passport in readiness for him, ant
it so happened that the French Steamer was II
leave Civita Vecchia next morning, so that h
went post-haste from the Court room to Mar
settles.
The Cardinal Vicar, upon hearing Of his es
cape. actually wep. with modification and rage
+" 1t is a judgement Of God upon me-" he said
" for having allowed the wretch to step out q
the Castle" The next day the Cardinal toll
our informant that he had said three masses up
on his knees in expiration Of his remissness i
this thing 1t appears. moreover, that the RI
man Government are exceedingly indignant q
this trick upon them. The inquisition ha
foard DIR Achili worthy of Imprisonment f.
life, and in spite of all interccsson for him fror
the French Cabinet, they had determined shor
ly to remove him to safer and severer prison
lie is man peculiarly odious to them, as a
influential apostate from the Papacy-greatl
/ serviceable to the English propagandists in III
: ly They showed their eagerness to seize hir
D by descending to trickery and deceiying
. French officer now tho trick is restored upo
him. The Vicar General has been made cat
paw-lheir prey has escaped when 1iey wei
sure of his doom and, like the old Pope d.
> Ecribed by Bunyan, they can do little more tina
sit ia their InquisiIion, grnning at the Frenc
: and biting their nails because they cannot con
/ al them.