While Ormonde was negotiating at Kilkenny, Rinuccini was in low estate at Galway. 'For eight months,' he wrote, 'I have seen none of my attendants, and am reduced to such a point, that however bad the vessel, the sea is almost safer for me than the land.' He sent his confessor, Giuseppe Arcamoni, a Theatine, to Rome in order to counterbalance the efforts of the Carmelite Roe. The Confederates had gone so far as to order him out of Ireland to make his defence before the Pope in person, and to forbid him in the meantime to 'intermeddle directly or indirectly' in Irish affairs. A duplicate of this letter was sent to the Corporation of Galway, and both original and copy were accompanied by a long statement of charges against the nuncio. The corporation were peremptorily ordered to have no further dealings with the 'lord archbishop of Fermo.' He was accused generally of arbitrary and tyrannical conduct, of endeavouring to subvert fundamental laws and to withdraw the people from their allegiance to the Crown, and of plotting to 'introduce a foreign, arbitrary, and tyrannical government.' In a paper drawn up about this time Ormonde says, 'the nuncio is a foreigner, and no subject of his Majesty's; therefore not at all interested in any agreement between his Majesty and his subjects, and may have aims prejudicial to both, wherefore his satisfaction may be as difficult as unnecessary.'[136] [Sidenote: Rinuccini leaves Ireland, February 1648-9.] [Sidenote: Reasons of his failure.] [Sidenote: What was thought at Rome.]