have turned their arms against him if he had attempted to arrest their work.  They began with the holy fathers.  The first they put to death in the machine for breaking joints.  The torture of the inquisitor put to death by the dropping of water on his head was most excruciating.  The poor man cried out in agony to be taken from the fatal machine.  The inquisitor general was brought before the infernal engine called “The Virgin.”  He begged to be excused.  “No” said they, “you have caused others to kiss her, and now you must do it.”  They interlocked their bayonets so as to form large forks, and with these pushed him over the deadly circle.  The beautiful image instantly prepared for the embrace, clasped him in its arms, and he was cut into innumerable pieces.  Col.  L. said, he witnessed the torture of four of them—­his heart sickened at the awful scene—­and he left the soldiers to wreak their vengeance on the last guilty inmate of that prison-house of hell.

In the mean time it was reported through Madrid that the prisons of the Inquisition were broken open, and multitudes hastened to the fatal spot.  And, Oh, what a meeting was there!  It was like a resurrection!  About a hundred who had been buried for many years were now restored to life.  There were fathers who had found their long lost daughters; wives were restored to their husbands, sisters to their brothers, parents to their children; and there were some who could recognize no friend among the multitude.  The scene was such as no tongue can describe.

When the multitude had retired, Col.  L. caused the library, paintings, furniture, etc., to be removed, and having sent to the city for a wagon load of powder, he deposited a large quantity in the vaults beneath the building, and placed a slow match in connection with it.  All had withdrawn to a distance, and in a few moments there was a most joyful sight to thousands.  The walls and turrets of the massive structure rose majestically towards the heavens, impelled by the tremendous explosion, and fell back to the earth an immense heap of ruins.  The Inquisition was no more!

Such is the account given by Col.  Lehmanowsky of the destruction of the inquisition in Spain.  Was it then finally destroyed, never again to be revived?  Listen to the testimony of the Rev. Giacinto Achilli, D. D. Surely, his statements in this respect can be relied upon, for he is himself a convert from Romanism, and was formerly the “Head Professor of Theology, and Vicar of the Master of the Sacred Apostolic Palace.”

He certainly had every opportunity to obtain correct information on the subject, and in a book published by him in 1851, entitled “Dealings with the Inquisition,” we find, (page 71) the following startling announcement.  “We are now in the middle of the nineteenth century, and still the Inquisition is actually and potentially in existence.  This disgrace to humanity, whose entire history is a mass of atrocious crimes, committed by the priests of the Church of Rome, in the name of God and of His Christ, whose vicar and representative, the pope, the head of the Inquisition, declares himself to be,—­this abominable institution is still in existence in Rome and in the Roman States.”