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on Government House. "He there found
As His Excellency entered the room he observed Mr Hayllar apparently endeavouring to conceal something. The Governor asked Mr Hayllar, what it was. He replied, "Sir, it is a book I brought to show you." The Governor opened the book and saw it was an illustrated catalogue of pictures and statues in the Museum at Naples, containing prints of a most indecent description. The Governor thereupon ordered him to take the book and himself out of the Government House immediately, and to turn him out. "Was Lady Hennessey in the room?" "I cannot say, I do not know. You must waive my entering into that part of the question," he said.
"But, Mr Eitel, you must be mistaken, the book could have been only the ordinary catalogue of pictures and Statues of the Museum, and the Governor irritated from some other cause must have jumped to an erroneous conclusion." "He said, 'No, there was no mistake about it.
or he would not have directed his servants
It was not the ordinary catalogue but it was a catalogue of the Musée Privé." "I said the first print in this book was that of a man and a woman in indecent attitudes." He described the book in other respects and assured me there could not be a mistake about the matter. He said a great deal more and I left the house. I must mention that I had previously told Mr Eitel that I reserved myself full liberty to make use, as I thought fit, of the statements here made, and that
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