A Hundred Years Ago
" THE SPECTATOR," APRIL 26TH, 1834.
Tag FREES IN FRANCE is public opinion. How is it treated Let us show you. The Tribune has been put down by force of arms, though the Tribune is legally established, according to the precise wording of the laws passed even by the Juste Milieu to punish and to persecute the press. In order to put it down, the bureaus of the Tribune have been entered by an armed force, closed by an armed force, and kept from the proprietors by an armed force. The editori are sent to gaol. The registers are seized by the Government. • The names of all the subscribers are impounded, in order that in every department, as well as at. Paris, where they live, they may be persecuted. The, oorrespondence of this journal has been seized ; and all those:individuals who, when the armed-force arrived at the bureaus of the Tribune, happened to be there-merely enjoyyinmgg the news of the day, were taken off to prison, and-ever sinee.theuhave
there been shut up.
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