The Apostolic nuncios are all inquisitors, as are also the Apostolic vicars.  Here, then, we see the Roman Inquisition extending to the most remote countries.”  Again this same writer informs us, (page 112,) that “the principal object of the Inquisition is to possess themselves, by every means in their power, of the secrets of every class of society.  Consequently its agents (Jesuits and Missionaries,) enter the domestic circle, observe every motion, listen to every conversation, and would, if possible, become acquainted with the most hidden thoughts.  It is in fact, the police, not only of Rome, but of all Italy; indeed, it may be said of the whole world.”

The above statements of Dr. Achilli are fully corroborated by the Rev. Wm. H. Rule, of London.  In a book published by him in 1852, entitled “The Brand of Dominic,” we find the following remarks in relation to the Inquisition of the present time.  The Roman Inquisition is, therefore, acknowledged to have an infinite multitude of affairs constantly on hand, which necessitates its assemblage thrice every week.  Still there are criminals, and criminal processes.  The body of officials are still maintained on established revenues of the holy office.  So far from any mitigation of severity or judicial improvement in the spirit of its administration, the criminal has now no choice of an advocate; but one person, and he a servant of the Inquisition, performs an idle ceremony, under the name of advocacy, for the conviction of all.  And let the reader mark, that as there are bishops in partibus, so, in like manner, there are inquisitors of the same class appointed in every country, and chiefly, in Great Britain and the colonies, who are sworn to secrecy, and of course communicate intelligence to this sacred congregation of all that can be conceived capable of comprehension within the infinitude of its affairs.  We must, therefore, either believe that the court of Rome is not in earnest, and that this apparatus of universal jurisdiction is but a shadow,—­an assumption which is contrary to all experience,—­or we must understand that the spies and familiars of the Inquisition are listening at our doors, and intruding themselves on our hearths.  How they proceed, and what their brethren at Rome are doing, events may tell; but we may be sure they are not idle.

They were not idle in Rome in 1825, when they rebuilt the prisons of the Inquisition.  They were not idle in 1842, when they imprisoned Dr. Achilli for heresy, as he assures us; nor was the captain, or some other of the subalterns, who, acting in their name, took his watch from him as he came out.  They were not idle in 1843, when they renewed the old edicts against the Jews.  And all the world knows that the inquisitors on their stations throughout the pontifical states, and the inquisitorial agents in Italy, Germany, and Eastern Europe, were never