Very good: the juries of free countries will understand that these exiles represent justice, and that the Bonapartist government personifies iniquity.

These juries will follow the example of the Belgian jury and acquit.

The friendly governments will then be solicited to expel these refugees, to banish these exiles.

Very good: the exiles will go elsewhere; they will always find some corner of the earth open to them where they can speak.

How then are they to be got at?
Rouher and Baroche clubbed their wits together, and between them they hit upon this expedient: to patch up a law dealing with crimes committed by Frenchmen in foreign countries, and to slip into it "crimes of the press." The Council of State sanctioned this, and the Corps Legislatif did not oppose it, and it is now the law of the land.
If we speak outside of France, we shall be condemned for the offence in France; imprisonment (in future, if caught), fines and confiscations.
Again, very good.