DEALINGS WITH THE INQUISITION: OR, PAPAL ROME, HER PRIESTS, AND HER JESUITS. WITH IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES. BY THE REV. GIACINTO ACHILLI, D.D. LATE PRIOR AND VISITOR OF THE DOMINICAN ORDER, HEAD PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY, AND VICAR OF THE MASTER OF THE SACRED APOSTOLIC PALACE, ETC. ETC. "Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken and we are escaped."— Ps. cxxiv. 7. "It is time for thee, Lord , to work; for they have made void thy law."— Ps. cxix. 126. SECOND EDIT

The first edition of the ensuing pages having been disposed of very shortly after the publication of it, the Author has availed himself of the opportunity afforded him by a second being called for, to make several important additions, which will be found in the Appendix; and to subject the whole to a minute and careful revision: nor can he send forth his work again before the Public, without expressing the heartfelt gratification it has given him to find the simple narrative, which has been writ

THE PROTEUS-LIKE CHARACTER OF THE INQUISITION, BOTH IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES. When I asserted that the Inquisition had never undergone any change, that as it existed in the time of its founder, Innocent III., so it continued in the days of its renowned legislator, Paul IV., and in those of the fierce persecutors of good Christians, Pius V. and Gregory XII., and that we find it still preserving the same character, in our own time, under Gregory XVI. and Pius IX., I did not intend to lead my re

MY EXILE. It was in the month of September, 1842, that I found myself beyond the walls of Rome, in the province of Sabina; in a fine country, near Nazzano, in the neighbourhood of Mount Soracte. I had chosen this situation as a commodious one, and sufficiently distant from the capital, to allow me to arrange and settle my affairs, previous to my final departure from Italy. But how bitter was the thought that I was about to leave my native country! Nevertheless, I saw that it was necessary for my

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