The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-04 00:00:00

TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Popers, Oct. 4.

ITIIE TIMES.]
Ln our leading article of Tuesday last, the
28th, the public, if they will recur to it, will'find
the. following paragraph :—" Every thing
~that
'c' the new King (of France) !“.5 dune appears to
" have been well done ; hut there is one measure
" which, we think, his Majesty might adopt at
" the commencement of a new reign, which would
44 at once evince his own security, and gratify hiS
".people's wishes : let him withdraw the Cen-
sorship, and restore the Press to its late Free-
" dom.—What has he to fear? Attacks upon
" the Ministers ? Let the Minister then af-
" ford his adversaries this method of assailing
44 him; if they owe their arms to his indulgence, at
" least they cannot dip them in poison. There
" is no measure by which he could so show him-
" self to be their superior." An express arrived
on Friday night from Paris with the important
decree that the Censorship is abolished by the new
Sovereign, and the date of that decree is the 20th
day of September. It is needless to express ap-
probation of a measure, the approach or the
introduction of which we thus hailed. It of
more consequence to state, that this'most import-
ant act of the new King's reign has been received
by his subjects with corresponding acclamations
of. gratitude ; and among them we are sure it
will bC productive of good rather than ill. It is
beit that hostility and opposition should be al-
lowed to evaporate by the Press, both because
they thus abate or moderate the evils of which
they complain, and because by being smothered
they do but sink the deeper, and become more
foul' and malignant in their quality, till at last,
incessantly gaining strength in the dark, they
explode and blow up the State. It is only when
men, cannot speak or write that they plot. A
free Press, also, forewarns the Government of
danger, and enables it to soothe passions, and
elpde attecks,, of which it could not otherwise
have notice, except by the suspicious and odious
method of espionnage.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We have had an arrival of Paris Journals since
theii release from the Censorshiv. They hove as
yet made a most discrc!ttl. use of their emancipa-
tion, and cont2,in little that is interesting in the
way of ‘..l;•scussion or intelligence. The Conslitu-
:innel repeats, from a Bordeaui paper, the news
that a Russian squadron, with 2,4000 men, had
arrived
.at Majorca, but for the purpose of con-
tradiction only. One Russian vessel did arrive
at Brest, for the purpose of obtaining some marl-
time:information or instruction, which was corn-
municated. These Journals contain intelligence,
from Greece by the way of Constantinople to
the 2tl of September. The Capitan Pacha did
not (wpmr to have attacked, or even closely ap-
pToached the island of Samos, and the destina-
tion of the Egyptian squadron is stated to be un-
known. The last accounts left it in the vicinity of
Rhades,..!l'bus dilatory are the operations of the
two principal resources of the Turks. The land
fOrCes are in; a state of utter inactivity, and even
tliefidelity of some of the Chiefs is doubted. it
is quite evident that the Greeks, who have so
much to gain and to avenge, and who have to
cpntend :With an enemy which, whatever be his
force, has neither system, energy, nor discipline,
must conquer their independence, if they are lit
or worthy of being a nation.

[BRITISH PR BM] .
L.harles X. has done wisely for his popularity
in iviolthig the odious ordinance issued on the
16th,of.4ugnst: last, by his deceased brother, for
the re-establishment of the Censorship. The
Journalists, who choose to do so are now
again free to publish whatever they may
deern.it prudent to become responsible for.—
We cannot join in the unmeasured praises which
are poured.iforth for this act 'of the King, almost
ai abundantly •by the English as by the French
Papers. We Perfectly agree with our corres-
pondent in regarding it as a mere trick for effect:
he proves clearly that substantially the'publie
will gain nothing by ", this apparent sacrifice to
popular feeling." The freedom of the Press is
a farce when no new Paper can be established
withoot:the leave of the Ministry, who, as our
COTlespoudene shews, do not hesitate to withhold
a licence as often as It is asked by those on
whose servility they cannot rely. All the prin-
cipal Journals in Paris, but the Courier Fran-
liave been gained over ; and that one,
standing alone, is it does, exposed to all.
tile' malevolence of power,' and liable to the
most arbitrary attacks, can hardly dare to give
utterance to its sentiments, though the pen of
the Censor is no longer at hand to suppress the:
publication of them. Besides, let us pause for a
mouient, and ask, if the removal of the Censor.
ship be.SO great et•good, to whom did France owe
the evil.of its imposition ? Was it not Charles X.
who reigned, in fact, when the ordinance of the
15th of August was issued ? Still further, to be
satisfied how little is due to him, let us.remem-
ber what were the pretences urged by his Mi-
nistry for the re-establishment of the Censor-
shit). The ground assigned in the preamble of
that-ordinance was, that the tribunals, by recog-
nising" an existence of the Journals de jure, inde-
pendent of their existence de facto, had furnished
a .acre .and easy means of eluding their suppres-
sion. We call these reasons shallow-sand, we may
nOw add, shameless pretences ; for what we do be-
hold, in less than six weeks after the public allege-
lien of ,them, constituting a necessary ground for
tskieg away all liberty from the public, press ?
'rho ljerisorship is removed—but why.? Have
the tribunals, disavowed their doctrine ? Not
they.' What then doei the • ' •
ing, reigning in his
own.. name, state as 'his reason, for undoing the
acts he did when reigninvin tire name of his
brother ? •

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`; .rioduclgiug it neeetisßty totriaintain any longisr the Inca-
mire which was adapted under direrent circumstances, agaibst
the bases Or the; liberty of tiro Journals.. by the advice of our
li
Cribtacil we have ordained 4tutorclain tic follows:...'
_ _ _ ..

" 'Under different circumstance" Indeed ! Not
a circumstance is there Uinerant, bUt tliat the
carne of Charles now appears as that of the King