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The Enquirer
Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia
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Louis Napoleon issues a decree from The Hague suppressing the Amsterdam Evening Journal for falsely claiming authority and criticizing peaceful governments, banning its conductor from future periodical work and threatening punishment for similar violations.
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HAGUE, Aug. 19, 1806.
Louis Napoleon, by the Grace of God, &c. We have determined, and do determine by these.
1. The daily paper, called The Amsterdam Evening Journal, shall be suppressed. The conductor shall not obtain permission to be employed again in any periodical work, having falsely pretended to be the writer of a paper under our authority; and having spoken in his publication of July 24, in a light and unjustifiable manner of governments with whom we are at peace.
Since no subject is permitted to speak in the name of his Sovereign: and as it is unlawful for any private person to censure the acts of different governments otherwise than in speech, and this entirely within his own domestic circle, every conductor of any printed work, who shall act in opposition to this law, shall be punished as an open disturber of the public tranquility, and a transgressor of his duties to his sovereign.
C. S. VAN BRAKEL.
Given at Mentz, Aug. 6, 1806.
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Hague
Event Date
Aug. 19, 1806
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suppression of the amsterdam evening journal; conductor banned from future periodical work; punishment for violators as disturbers of public tranquility.
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Louis Napoleon decrees the suppression of the daily paper The Amsterdam Evening Journal due to the conductor's false pretense of authority and unjustifiable criticism of peaceful governments in the July 24 publication. No subject may speak in the sovereign's name, and private censure of governments is limited to speech within domestic circles. Conductors violating this will be punished.