Star.
London, England, 1822-01-15 00:00:00

PRIVATE LETTER.

ge PARIS, JANUARY 12.-Six O'CLOCK Peat.

" The career of the French Censors may be con-
sidered as terminated for the present. The coup de
grace has been given by the Ministers themselves.—
On the Bth instant, the Censors struck out an article
of M. Fievee on the Law of the Press, written for the
Quotid.:enae, of which he is a proprietor. The article
merely protested against the intended confiscation of
property, and suggested a kind of middle course be-
tween the hardship of the present system and the ter-
rors of the new law ; the principal point in it being a
recommendation to substitute in the new Project for
regulating the Journals, a temporary subjection of
the paper which shall be declared guilty by the Cour
Royal, to the jurisdiction of the Censorship, for a
longer or shorter period, instead of its suspension or
total suppression. The sovereign Board having pre-
viously resolved that they would receive no article
against the new Project of Law, rejected that of 11.
Fievee, without being able to assign any reason for
their conduct; thus departing from their prescrilAeJ
functions, which were to suppress lii.els, or to extin-
guish matter of inflammation, but not to prevent tem-
perate discussion. The latter Gentleman, calculating
as much on the weakness of the Ministry and the ex-
pit ing power of his adversaries, as relying on the mo-
deration of his rejected remarks, ordered his printer
to insert his essay in spite of the censorial injunction
to the contrary. The Board, enraged at this mark
of disrespect, denounced M. Fievee to the Public Pro.
secutor as guilty of a flagrant breach of the Law of
the Press. But, in an unlucky moment, in order to
repair the false step which they had taken, they took
another still more foolish and inexcusable. On the
following day they wrote to all the Offices of the
daily papers the following circular :

MINISTRY OF TITS INTERIOR.
Commission of Censure, Jan. 9, I RIM
The Commission bask the honour of requesting Messrs. LM
Editors of Journals, not to sad It any article of ilimesios on

rroject of taw relative to the Police of the Journals. The
•nnii“inri has been under the necessity of rejecting all the
nted since the 6th instant.'
M. ,ic Chativeliii, having obtained a copy of this
ulcer, and comparing its date with the publica-
of the article of M. Fievee, said, Here is your
oni,sion of Censors, or the Ministry who direct
see they distrust their LAW so much that they
obit all discussion on the topic."fhe Ministers
embarrassed, and have disavowed the Circular.
v have done more—they have entered a kind of
prosequi against M. Fievcc, or rather have given
ler, to the Royal Procureur not to prosecute: and:
',Commanded their affected displeasure to be tes-
to ti•e Censors. The Keeper of the Seals has
declared, that he has been enlightened by the
ted article of M. Fievee, and has resolved to
a its suggestion as an amendment of his Bill. In-
t. therefore, of suppression, an obnoxious Jour-
will now only be eunished by a Censorship: the
tors of suspicious Newspapers will be placed under
asorial surreal/4am. Such, at least, I have heard,
good authosity, is the intended amendment of
P: eject of Law.
The Funds to-day have experienced little varia-
: they left off at SSE 50c.

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