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of suppressing
unwarrantable attacks upon- the French authorities.. Mr. said that Lord Canning had interfered to prevent the mischiefs of a licentious press in India, and suggested that Imight
have wercised a similar Control.
Istated at some
lingth to
His Excellency the reasons
which had convinced me
that non-
interfermer
on
the
part of the Govemment with
a
the
licentious press was on whole a wiser policy than its
Suppression,
or Evrn call
calling
in
C.
in, the action of the Tribunals = but that it was
quite opru to him to avail himself of
the protection of the law - against Calumniators if he thought fit to sick that protection. He stated that he had found
to address his it necessary Government on the subject,- for that however despised the Newspapers might be in the Colony where their Editors
their
were known, and
vitesperation properly appreciated, the repetition of such vituperation
Europe was
in
injurious to
the. Characters of public men.
and
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