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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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In France, two Directors and over 60 Council members arrested and banished with property seized; elections in 42 departments annulled; 32 journals suppressed and editors/printers arrested by the Directory, violating laws and constitution. Editors face trials but likely banishment.
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Two Directors and more than sixty members of the two Councils, arrested, banished and their property sequestered—and the elections of forty-two departments annulled—thirty-two Journals suppressed, their editors and printers arrested—by a sovereign and a despotic arrest of three Directors, in violation of all laws, of the constitution and of every principle of justice!! Now, say the tyrants, the republic is saved!! This surely must be a "terrible republic."
West. Star.
Freedom of the Press in France!
The Executive Directory have ordered thirty-two Editors of Paris Journals to be confined in the Prison of La Force, all of them accused of being Conspirators. These it seems are to have the form of a Trial, although the Deputies were banished without such a ceremony. It is easy to foresee that the Editors must follow the Deputies.
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two directors and over 60 council members arrested, banished, property sequestered; elections in 42 departments annulled; 32 journals suppressed; 32 editors and printers arrested; editors to be tried but likely banished.
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The French Directory arrested two Directors and more than sixty members of the two Councils, banished them, sequestered their property, annulled elections in forty-two departments, suppressed thirty-two journals, and arrested their editors and printers. Three Directors were arrested despotically, violating laws and constitution. Thirty-two Paris journal editors ordered confined in La Force prison as conspirators, to face trial unlike the banished Deputies, but expected to follow them.