This regime is well known.

Its working is witnessed daily.
Such men were requisite to invent such a thing.

Despotism has never shown itself more grossly insolent and stupid than in this species of censorship of the morrow, which precedes and announces the suppression, and which administers the bastinado to a paper before killing it entirely.

The folly of such a government corrects and tempers its atrocity.

The whole of the decree concerning the press may be summed up in one line: "I permit you to speak, but I require you to be silent." Who reigns, in God's name?
Is it Tiberius?
Is it Schahabaham?
Three-fourths of the republican journalists transported or proscribed, the remainder hunted down by mixed commissions, dispersed, wandering, in hiding.