Star.
London, England, 1831-04-15 00:00:00

FOREIGN JNYELLIGENCE•.

NICE, APRIL s.—The King of Sardinia is better, and
even speaks of coming to complete his recovery at Nice.
His Majesty's disease appears to be precisely the same :is
that which proved fatal to George IV. of England.
PARIS, April 12.—The National of this date has a long
article on the recent proceedings against the Journals, of
which the following are extracts :
" There is a way of executing the law to the letter,
which is the most manifest violation of its spirit. Nobody
doubts that M. Persil may prosecute a journal when he sees
reason, or that the Court of Assize may pronounce the max-
imum of the penalty and the fine when it thinks fit.--
But if this is repeated several times in a month for the same
journal; if ono journal has five prosecutions against it, ano-
ther four, another six ; if the severity of the Court of As-
size is invariably certain, no security can suffice to pay
the fines, no Editor but must have his health destroyed by
this law ; and this law is a conquest of July, the interven-
tion of the King on the transgressions of the pries. It is
intended to make us say ourseh es what our enemies are
incessantly repeating, that we obtained for ourselves poisoned
gifts. We have for ever erased front our code confiscation
and censorship; but of what avail is it to have abo-
lished the words if we keep the things ? To seize at
once the whole 60,000 francs, which the proprietors
of a journal must deposit, would be a crime, a confisca-
tion; but to take 6,000 francs to-day, as much to-morrow,
and so on till the whole capital is exhausted, is strict justice !
To understand the law this would be downright folly. It
should be remembered that under the restoration the li-
beral Journals were evidently inimical to the dynasty, yet
the Constitutionnel was able to procure in peace 20,0410
subscribers. The Courrier, the Journal du Commerce, the
National, were persecuted, but never, even under the Po-
Llcixac Administration, were they treated as the Quoit-
dienne, the Tribune, the Revolution, are now. When the
Ministry of Bth August found that with its official Journal
it was no match for the cross-fire of the Revolutionary press
it established the censorship. It must always come to this
sooner or later when people will not understand that the
press has in itself the best remedy for the evils it may
I cause."

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