Geneva would print my pamphlet, so Monsignor Mermillod sent me to Lyons with a letter of recommendation to Monsieur Chousens, a lawyer, living at 33, Place Bellecourt. He welcomed me very cordially, and introduced me to the Legitimist Committee, composed of Leopold Gaillard, Malezieux, Vincent de Saint-Bonnel, de Saint-Victor, the Abbé des Rozières, Jonne, and the Abbé Morin. All these gentlemen congratulated me, begged me to persist in my resolution, and gave me money for my journey to Paris, together with a letter to the Abbé Sisson, proprietor of the Friend of Belgium. The Lyons printers had refused to print my work, as had those in Switzerland, the only difference being that the former feared a lawsuit with the Government, whereas the latter refused lest they should cause a popular uprising. The Paris Committee, Messrs. Janicot, of the Gazette de France, Garnier and de Riancey, of the Union, Coquille, of the World, all journalists, and Count de Camé, Broglie, Benoist d'Azy, received me with the same kindness shown me by the members of the Lyons Committee. Unfortunately, in Paris, surrounded by shoals of Government agents, men tremble even more than they do in the provinces. Not one of the partisans of Divine Right would undertake to introduce me to a printer. Acting on their advice, I went to Brussels, and, with my manuscript under my arm, introduced myself to Monsieur Paul Néve,

of the Brussels News. No sooner had he looked over my pamphlet than he ordered his printer to throw off 4,000 copies. Its success was immense. In less than two hours the entire edition was sold. During my stay in Brussels I came in contact with all the most illustrious men of the Catholic party, and was well received everywhere. Counts de Theux, de Mérode, Dumortier, Schollart, d'Arenberg, Paul Néve, and many others invited me to dine with them. Several ecclesiastics followed their example. His Eminence Monsignor Cardinal Sterckx invited me to his house at Malines, where he entertained me for a week. The immense success of this pamphlet induced the clerical party to send me to London to have it translated into English.

On the advice of the Holy Father's legate, Ludowiski, now Bishop of Posen, the Belgian Committee sent me to London with a letter for His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman. After reading his colleague's communication, the Prince of the Church installed me in his house, received me at his table, and procured a translator for my pamphlet. His Eminence helped me with all his power and knowledge to correct the proof-sheets, and send them to Scotland, Ireland, and throughout England.

During his exile in Rome the King of Sicily created me a Baron, and sent me, with my titles of nobility, a letter written by his own hand.

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The Roman Court, stimulated by the Court of Naples, sent me through His Eminence Cardinal Antonelli the sum of 5,000 francs.

After a two months' stay in London, at Cardinal Wiseman's, I left His Eminence. I went into his house a simple shepherd, and left there a Baron. The diploma sent me by the King from Rome, and given me by the Cardinal, bears the name: "Griscelli, Baron de Rimini."

From that day forth the name of my forefathers was replaced by that of "Monsieur Arthur Baron de Rimini."

I left for Switzerland, where I wrote a letter to Lord Palmerston, which Monsieur Wyss, of Berne, printed, and another letter to Victor Emmanuel, which I had printed at Freiburg. These two letters form part of a pamphlet which I published at Brussels, and which bears the title "Off With all Masks!"

CHAPTER XLI.

MONSIGNOR BOVIERI.

WHILST I was at Berne, enjoying the sight of the mountains, I received a letter from Monsignor Bovieri, the Holy Father's Nuncio at the Swiss Confederation, inviting me to visit him at Lucerne, where the Nuncio lives, whilst all his colleagues stay at Berne, the seat of the Federal Council. I accepted Monsignor's invitation without having the slightest idea what he could have to say to me. He welcomed me very kindly, invited me to dinner that evening, and while we were at table explained the reason for his invitation.

"Baron de Rimini," said he, "I have received letters from Rome highly in praise of your energy in unmasking the enemies of the Holy Church, and of your devotion to the Sovereign Pontiff. I must confess that, in spite of the services which you rendered us at Bologna and in Rome, your mission to Palermo raised some suspicions, because there

were people who said that if you had been looked upon as one of us, with the instructions which you had, you would certainly have been shot. But the works which you have since published against the Piedmontese have removed all fear from our minds, and force us to place unlimited confidence in the man who renders services such as those to our

cause.

Monsignor," said I, "if the people who calumniated me in Rome had been at Palermo and seen me handcuffed, escorted by soldiers in Garibaldi's presence, if they had heard me speak then they would not now accuse me. I was not to have been shot any more than the other two, although we were guilty of wishing to assassinate Garibaldi. But who could prove it? We arrived one evening,

and were arrested the next morning. We had not even seen the city. If Ortoli was shot, it was because he tried to escape. But I own with regret, Monsignor, that the men surrounding the College of Cardinals are mean brigands and blood-drinkers when they speak of Liberals and Republicans. No! a thousand times no, your Eminence, the Liberals and Republicans of to-day are not the sons of the Republicans of '93. Robespierres, Marats, and Dantons no longer exist. Those who cannot see this are wilfully blind. Look at the Italian revolution, of which I do not approve, against which