Gaceta Renana
With the paper's fortunes on the rise, the "Rheinische Zeitung" continued to draw the government's ire, with the publication in January 1843 of a series of articles documenting the government's refusal to take seriously the complaints of the local peasantry. A defiant tone of some published correspondence and growing sentiment for democracy among the populus further alienated the authorities. On 21 January 1843 the Cabinet, with the King in attendance, decided that the "Rheinische Zeitung" should be suppressed.