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The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser
Washington, District Of Columbia
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Louis Napoleon decrees the suppression of the Amsterdam Evening Journal for falsely claiming royal authority and criticizing allied governments. Conductors of printed works are prohibited from similar acts, punishable as disturbers of tranquility. Issued Aug. 6, 1806, at Mentz; reported from The Hague Aug. 10.
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Louis Napoleon, by the Grace of God, &c. We have determined, and 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.
"2. 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 tranquillity, and a transgressor of his duties to his sovereign.
C. J. VAN BRAKEL."
Given at Mentz, Aug. 6, 1806.
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Amsterdam
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Aug. 6, 1806
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suppression of the amsterdam evening journal; conductor banned from future periodical work; future violators to be punished as disturbers of public tranquility.
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Louis Napoleon issues a decree suppressing the Amsterdam Evening Journal for falsely pretending to write under royal authority and unjustifiably criticizing governments at peace with Holland in its July 24 publication. The decree prohibits subjects from speaking in the sovereign's name or censuring foreign governments publicly in print, limiting such speech to private domestic circles.