The National Register.
London, England, 1811-02-24 00:00:00

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FRENCH PRESS.
MEASURES RELATIVE TO SUPPRESSED PRINTERS. •
An Imperial Decree of the fld of February, 1811 i contains the
following Regulations :--
" The Printers retained in Paris are bound to purchase the
Presses of the Suppressed Printers; they sh.Lll pay for them ac-
cording to the valuatton whlCh shall be. set upon them, within
tle period of one year, and by four instalments. -
" Each of the Retained Printers shall pay one sixtieth of thq
total price of this purchase.
" Immediately after the publication of this Decree, sea's shal
be affixed on the Types belonging to the Suppressed Printers.
" They may sell them if they please, provided th_y are sod
only to Licensed Printers and Type Founders. •
, An indemnification shall be paid to the Suppressed Printrn
by those who are retained.
" This indemnification is fixed at the rate of 4,-000 francs to
every Suppressed Printer.
" It shall form one general fund, which shall be divided
among the Suppressed Printers in proportion to the extent and
buline,s of their Printing Establishment duly ascertained.
" For this purpose the Suppressed Printers shall be divided
into classes.

This division into classes shall be made, and the indemnifi-
cation fixed by a commis,ion.
66 Each of the sivy Retained Printers shall pay a sixtieth of
the sum total fixed for the indemnification due to the Suppressed
Printers.
" Every creditor of the Suppressed Printers may object to
the amount of the purchase-money, for the preservation of his
rights.
66 '['he commission shall consist of the Inspector of the Intpe.-
rial Press, who shall preside, of an Auditor of the Council of
State, of two Inspectors of Books, and two Licensed Printers."
Another Decree of the same date orders, that Printers' Li-
cences shall he delivered to them on parchment by the Director
General of the Press. The price of issuing these Licences is
fixed at fifty francs for Parts, and twenty-five francs for tI
other cities of the empire.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FEB. 19.
[FROM TIIE DUBLIN EVENLNG POST.)
CATHOLIC MEETING:
The constitutional and manly spirit of a consi-
derable number of country Gentlemen, of the llo.;
man Catholic Religion, was evinced on Saturday
last. We state with infinite pleasure, that on that
day a most respectable assemblage of Catholic
Gentlemen took place at the Farming Repository,
Stephen's-green.
At five o'clock Mr. O‘MANoNy was unanimously
called to the Chair.
Mr. O'MAIIONY begged leave to remind Gentle,.
men, that the only purpose of assembling was, to
discharge the duty reposed in them by their nume-
rous Fellow-Catholic in the respective parts of
the kingdom, by communicating the sentimfant,
of their Catholic brethren: He observed that
he expected to hear each Gentlemen delivering
himself on the Subject of petitioning the Legisla-
ture, with that energy, spirit, and. determination,
which every Catholic ought and must feel from
the recent attempt to deprive them of the last and
only remaining constitutional privilege that was left
them, namely, that of petitioning. He intreated
Gentlemen not to digress from the . subject of their
meeting.
Captain POWER afterwards addressed the Chatt
in a manly and imated :h of kiderablit
length, and wh'
sures that were

from meeting
purpose of petit
the happy eke'
sentiment and

ad animated speech of comiderablit
chile he regretted the impolitic rnea•
proposed, to prevent the Catholicf
in a constitutional manner, forthe
:titioning, he congratul4t*tpros
:t it created, by 4441,7thitti, II V Ans
feeling alas, gaiiitW4ii&tsisOtkii
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