The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-21 00:00:00

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MINISTERIAL REPORT AND DECREE FOR
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THE SUPPRESSION OF TWO JOURNALS.
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(Pram yssasiday'sNeaterie.)
I , 111 Sire,—When a criminal attempt, like that of Ja-
nuary 14, aersreßlMltetterrify" THEt 2:forPldE,RanCid show the
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most incredulous what it is that wild anarchy would
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fain, by means of eksamination, impose on France,
, everyone expects the government to be on the alert,
1 • and to provide against such dangers.
.. Without allowing ourselves to Le hurried on by
the public indignation, it is neoensary,with the calm,
but firm, moderation which proportions the energy
of the remedies to the gravity of the disease, to
Il ascertain precisely the danger, that we may then
know how to act.
The flagrant danger, Sire, is in that inexhaustible
asst of 111141111111 recruiting its numbers in broad
daylight a few leagues from our frontiers, and in a
few hours sending into the very centre of Paris
its missionaries and their frightful instruments of
death.
That which encourages them, that which encou-
rages especially those who pay and direct them, is
the idle hope in which they indulge, that insanee-
tion, when they should have broken the powerful
arm that has already vanquished it, would deliver
it
i up to them Paris, France, and part of Europe. This
hope, which is without foundation in the face of a
I ; resolute government, a devoted army, and a satisfied
I people, is sustained only on the one hand by the
action of demagogues incessantly striving to organics
themselves and to diffuse agitation; on the other
• hand, by the imprudent opposition of those relics of
old parties, which also expect, and quite as absurdly,
ill 1 an impossible resurrection as the result of anarchy.
Ittt To remedy such a situation of affairs various mea-
sures are about to be submitted to the examination
of your Majesty. There is one, however, that our
hews already sanction, which is, no longer to permit
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flat certain journals should in the hands of a few
leaden—few but indefatigable—be made the daily
Instruments of demagogic efforts, the almost official
organs of all their direct or indirect excitations. Nor
is it proper,on the other hand—attacking es they do
Incessantly, under skilfully disguised forms, the new
dynasty and constitution which the country has
bestowed upon itself—that parties should persist in
exhibiting as hopeful, aa realities still passible and
near, pretensions that have fallen without a Mane*
&return into the nothingness of the past.
1 Among the French journals it is easy to indicate
which those are whose efforts, more or less disguised,
prepare as fir as in them lies the paths for other
• hopes than those of the Empire's durability. ,
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!. 1 So long as free England had to fear for the family
I now reigning over her the attacks or intrigues of •
Pretender's friends, that liberty, of which she is so
proud, was eclipsed by Leib and energetic measures.
Your government, Sire, is now, as that of England
siontioued to be for a long time after William 111.,
evidently in the cue of legitimate self defence i the
attempt of /an. 14 proves it but too well. We
should be wanting in our duty if, from this moment,
we did not make use, in the interest of society, of
those weapons which the existing laws afford us
and I beg your Majesty immediately to make a
I, ' severe application of the decree of 1952 respecting
, I , the press.
A review which, founded hardly two years since
! , as a political organ, forgot the very day after my
' 1 permission the formal engagements entered into by
its conductors, and which has given up its columns
4 . to the most detestable inspirations of densagogess,
I ) the Roue de Paris, is new endeavouring to make
itself the centre of a kind of agitation by corre-
spondents'
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anofdwthhicehn haveeu just been
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detected by the government in several departments.
It also goes on perseveringly with its efforts at pro-
pagandism, and its last number even contains a glo-
t
rification of the reminiscences and hopes of the
republican idea. During these two years, having
can henceforth only be suppressed. The decree of
Feb. 17, 1932, permits this suppression, and I paw-
paw to your Majesty to declare it.
A journal which under a very different banner
has not ceased since the re-establishment of the em-
pire to wage a secret but incessant war against the
new institutions sanctioned by the national will, the
fipeetateur (the late ilesentblis Nati,inale), persist-
ing in hoisting its hostile banner, has but yesterday,
srainst the expressions of horror with which the
crime of January 14 inspires it, found occasion to
protest anew in favour of " the principles it de•fends," and without taking history inks aseount, for-
getting the adnaminationa of Henry 111., Henry
IY., and the Duke de Berri, it adds, " that in former
• tinsel these detestable passions found a restraint in
that salutary law of the monarchy, which, by placing
the hereditary principle above all changes and all
ambitions, rendered these crimes useless, and in some
sort deprived them of all reason for their commie-
ion." This is altogether forgetting that the In-
heritance of the crown, in the imperial family, is the
fundamental principle inscribed by eight millions of
Totes in oar constitution.
This journal, already warned five times and iris
suspended, ought, as it appears to me, to be visited
with suppression.
These measures of severity, Sire, are legitimate.
The government of a great nation ought not to suffer
11 itself to be stealthily undermined by the dexterities
of the few, any more than to be violently attacked
by the savage brutalities of conspiracies.
The decree, which I propose to you, will mete out
I nothing more than justice to those whom It noshes;
moreover, it will be a warning to others.
I am, with profound respect, Sire, &c., &c,,
The Minister Secretary of State for
the Department of the Interior,
liimatter.
The Emperor's decree for the suspension of the
two journals referred to cites, in the Revue de
Parse, nine or ten different articles inserted sines
last March, entitled respectively, " The Individuel
and the State," " Robespierre and Daniel," " The
Soul of the Executioner," "Royalty no desheial,"
" The History of the Peasants," " Camille Dessies-
hes," " Dramas of the Poor," " Eugene fie,'
" Menial," and others ; lastly, an article white ap-
pear...! an the 15th inst. The Speetateer, after No
warnings and two suspensions, is suppressed for its
article of the 17th inst.
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