In our leading article of...
In our leading article of Tuesday last, the 28th, the public, if they will ;ecur to it, will find( the following para- graph:-" Every thing that the new KING (of FRANCR) "has done appears to have been well done ; but there is "one measure which, we think, His iMAJESTY might "adopt at the commencemenit of a new reign, which would "at once evince his own security, and gratify his people's wislhes: LET HIM WITHDrIAW TIlE CENSORESHIt, AND RESTORE THE PRESS TO ITS LATE FREEDOM. lWhat b has he to fear? Attacks upon the Ministers ? Let the MN-Iinister then afford his adversaries this metho(d of "assailing hirn: if they owe their arms to his indulgence,at least they cannot dip them in poison. There is no mea- sure by which he could so show himself to be their su- "perior." An express arrived on Friday niglht from Paris with the important decree that the Censorship is abolish- ed by the new Sovereign, and the (late of that decree is the 29th day of September. It is needless to express ap. probation of a measure, the approach or the introduction of which we thus lhaile(l. It is of more consequence to state, that this most important act of the new KING'S reign has been received by his subjects with corrcsponding acclamations of gratitude; anid among Ihem we are sure it will be prodluctive of good rather than ill. It is best that hostility and oppoeition should be allowed 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 canuot speak or write that they plot. A free press, also, forewarns the Government of danger, and enables it to sooth passions, andl elude attacks, of which it could otherwise have no notice, except by the suspicious and odious method of espionnage.