A few days afterwards, Admiral Mundy joined me in the Villa Reale. He was evidently in a towering passion, though he controlled himself within the limits of good breeding; for he was a very gentlemanly old man.

"I am very much annoyed," he said, "at your bringing a Jesuit on board my ship. I cannot understand you,- -how you, a liberal, can rescue a Jesuit conspirator from the punishment he deserves! How can you blow hot and cold at the same time? It is quite improper to put a Jesuit on board a Queen's ship!"

"I am proud," I replied, "that the Queen's ships have always been a sure refuge for all political fugitives, whatever their religion or politics."

"But this man," continued the Admiral, “is

the very soul of all the reactionary conspiracies in Naples. The Government has applied to me to give him up, and I really think I ought to do so. But I won't though!" he added.

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No you won't, Admiral, I know that," I said. "I think I ought: they have refused to send him a passport. He is the greatest plotter in the country. I ought to surrender him-But I won't though. A Jesuit on board my flag ship! I can't stand it! I'll deliver him up-But I won't though!"

And thus the poor old bigoted Admiral vented his annoyance :-arguing against his own anxiety to get rid of the Jesuit, and always winding up every observation by declaring that he would not do that which he felt inclined to do.

It certainly looked as if my Padre had been conspiring for several letters came to me, all of them addressed, under various names, with a request that I would pass them on to him. I returned them all to the writers; with an intimation that I would not be a party to any clandestine correspondence. I afterwards found out that the provisional Government really did refuse a passport to my Jesuit friend: and he remained, for weeks, in the Hannibal; until there was an opportunity of sending him to Malta in an English ship. He told me, however, that he was very well employed on board the Hannibal: that a great many of the sailors had come to him privately; and declaring themselves to be Catholics, had gone through some of those religious duties which their officers had always attempted to prevent them fulfilling. He told me that he was thinking of putting up a temporary altar and saying mass in his cabin: but I dissuaded him from doing what I thought would be a breach of courtesy towards those who protected him.

It is, however, most curious to note how the spirit of bigotry comes over English people when out of their own country. The articles of war expressly provide that Catholic seamen should be taken to divine service on Sundays, when their ships are in harbour. And yet, in this squadron, was the same objection raised that I had had to combat at Lisbon, where in the ships under Admiral Sir A. Dundas the same tyranny was exercised. No one can suppose that these people were actuated by a real spirit of Christianity, even according to their own interpretation of it. But living in Catholic countries and in a minority, a spirit of combativeness comes over them-leading them to assert a power which they cared not to use while they were in the majority. We have seen how Mr. Elliot had ministered to the bigots in the case of Lady Eleanor Butler. Soon after my arrival at Naples, I had been brought into controversy with Mr. Bonham, the English Consul there, because a certain Dr. Bishop would not permit this same Jesuit priest, whom I had placed on board the Hannibal, to minister to an English Catholic dying in the English American hospital; and was upheld, in his refusal, by this Consul who paid Government money to the hospital for the support of every

patient who could not pay for himself. A Catholic priest was not to minister to Catholics in a hospital maintained by public English and American money! This conduct was so disgusting to the American legation, that, had we not been prevented by the revolution, we should have founded another hospital on the Christian principles which Messrs. Bonham, Bishop and Co. professed, but were too conscientious to carry out.

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CHAPTER XXI.

GIVE AND TAKE.

Battle of the Volturno.-Violence of Garibaldi.—The patriots of Caserta.-General Bixio after the Battle.-General Cialdini.-Meeting of Victor Emanuel and Garibaldi.— The plebiscite.-Number of Voters. - Napoleon or Cavaignac.-The British Legion.-The Calabrian Army. -How many volunteers.-Entrance of the King of Italy.-Napoleon III.-Garibaldi at the palace.-His farewell. The beggars.-Postscript letter from him.

IF King Francis was to be in his capital again on the festival of his Patron Saint, on the 4th of October, it was necessary that some effort should be made. On the 2nd of the month, Naples was in much the same state as Brussels had been during the battle of Waterloo. All was uncertainty, excitement and hope: wounded Garibaldians were being constantly carried under our windows to the hospital beyond: printed handbills, telling of battles, were being posted and distributed on the arrival of every train. In fact, the great battle of