The only evidence we should admit either for or against him, is his public acts.

The only witnesses to which any weight should be attributed are the greatness and the prosperity of the country he governs.
Such an inquiry would, I fear, be ruinous to Antonelli.

The nation reproaches him with all the evils it has suffered for the last ten years.

The public wretchedness and ignorance, the decline of the arts, the entire suppression of liberty, the ever-present curse of foreign occupation,--all fall upon his head, because he alone is responsible for everything.
It may be alleged that he has at least served the reactionary party.

I much doubt it.