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Page 76 - To reward crime, to entrap innocence — this is the whole secret of the Police ! ' The master of this formidable engine is the more terrible, because his power mixes itself with all the other departments: in fact, he is the prime, if not the sole, minister. Nay, He may be said to be King, who commands the whole gendarmerie of France, and annually levies, without check, or account to the people, seven or eight millions (from 350,000 to 400,000/.
Page 39 - Chambers, where the interests of the people are debated ; the public, in which the conduct of the Chambers is discussed. ' In the differences which may arise between the Ministers and the Chambers, how is the public to know the truth if the journals are under the restraint of the...
Page 43 - At last it has been discovered that these written mandates from the police might involve the parties in some little difficulties; they have therefore been of late abandoned, and the editors have been acquainted, that they would henceforward receive their instructions verbally. Thus the proofs of unconstitutional interference are destroyed, and the commands of the minister may be, if necessary, explained away as the mistake of an editor. "Thus it is that France is insulted, and Europe deceived ;...
Page 70 - But if one of the agents of the police happens to be involved in a criminal affair, as having been a voluntary accomplice with the intention of becoming an informer — if in the course of the trial the accused should adduce in their defence this fact, which tends to their exculpation by diminishing the credit due to a character thus doubly infamous — the police forbids the newspapers to report these parts of the evidence...
Page 42 - Besides, 1 am accustomed to insults of this nature, and in truth grown somewhat callous. I individually am but one of little importance, but the principles of my work may be of some ; and for this reason I would entreat the public not to judge of it from the report of the journals.
Page 76 - Why intrust such monstrous powers to a minister, whose communications with all that is vile and depraved in society tend to blunt every good feeling, and inflame every bad; to profit by corruption and thrive by abuses? ' What is a good police ? A good police is that which bribes the servant to accuse his master; which seduces the son to betray his father; which lays snares for friendship, and man-traps for innocence. ' A good minister of Police will persecute if he cannot corrupt fidelity, lest it...
Page 42 - I would entreat the public not to judge of it from the report of the journals. It attacks a powerful party — that party has the exclusive dominion of these journals; — literature and politics continue to be made at the old shop in the police office — I may then expect every kind of attack ; but I may also venture to beg not to be condemned till I shall have been read.
Page 75 - We tolerate a department, whose nature is to overleap or violate all laws ? ' ' Why intrust such monstrous powers to a minister, whose communications with all that is vile and depraved in society tend to blunt every good feeling, and inflame every bad; to profit by corruption and thrive by abuses? ' What is a good police ? A good police is that which bribes the Servant to accuse his master; which seduces the srtn t6 betray his father; which lays snares for friendship, and man-traps for innocence.
Page 76 - Police is that which bribes the servant to accuse his master ; which seduces the son to betray his father ; which lays snares for friendship, and man-traps for innocence. ' A good Minister of Police will persecute if he cannot corrupt fidelity, lest it should reveal the turpitude of the offers which it has resisted. To reward crime, to entrap innocence — this is the whole secret of the Police ! ' The master of this formidable engine is the more terrible, because his power mixes itself with all...
Page 76 - ... to betray his father; which lays snares for friendship, and man-traps for innocence. A good Minister of Police will persecute if he cannot corrupt fidelity, lest it should reveal the turpitude of the offers which it has resisted. To reward crime, to entrap innocence — this is the whole secret of the Police! The master of this formidable engine is the more terrible, because his power mixes itself with all the other departments: in fact, he is the prime, if not the tole, Minister. Nay, He may...