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The Republic came to an end; the Pontifical Government returned; and Colonel Calendrelli, being unable to get away along with the other agents and friends of the Republic, was, of course, apprehended by the restored Government. Why, it was this, that the colonel had embezzled the public funds to the amount of twenty scudi. Twenty scudi! How much is that? Only five pounds sterling!
Justice the Pillar of the State Claim implied in being God's Vicar, namely, that the Pope governs the World as God would govern it, were He personally present in it No Civil Code in the Papal States Citizens have no Rights save as Church Members No Lay Judges The Pontifical Government simply the Embodiment of the Papacy Courts of Justice visited Papal Tribunals The Rota Signatura Cassation Exceptional Tribunals Apostolical Chamber House of Peter Justice bought and sold at Rome POLITICAL JUSTICE Gregorian Code Case of Pietro Leoni Accession of Pius IX. His Popularity at first Re-action Case of Colonel Calendrelli The Three Citizens of Macarata The Hundred Young Men of Faenza Butchery at Sinigaglia Horrible Executions at Ancona Estimated Number of Political Prisoners 30,000 Pope's Prisons described Horrible Treatment of Prisoners The Sbirri The Spies Domiciliary Restraint Expulsions from Rome Imprisonment without reason assigned Manner in which Apprehensions are made Condemnations without Evidence or Trial Misery of Rome The Pope's Jubilee.
And yet, in the teeth of this evidence, completely establishing the innocence of Colonel Calendrelli, which, indeed, no one doubted, was the colonel condemned to the galleys; and when I was in Rome, he was working as a galley-slave on the high-road near Civita Vecchia, chained to another galley-slave. This is a sample of the pontifical justice. Take another case.
That Colonel Calendrelli, a gentleman, a scholar, a man on whose honesty a breath had never been blown, should risk character and liberty for five pounds sterling! Why, the Pontifical Government should have made it five hundred or five thousand pounds, if they wished to have the accusation believed.
But let me come to particulars. I shall first narrate the story of Colonel Calendrelli. It was told me by our own consul in Rome, Mr Freeborn, who knew intimately the colonel, and deeply interested himself in his case. Colonel Calendrelli was treasurer at war during the Republic.
Well, then, on the charge of defrauding the public treasury to the extent of twenty Roman scudi was Colonel Calendrelli brought to trial, and condemned! Condemned to what? To the galleys. Nor does that bring fully out the iniquity of the sentence.
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