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ANNUAL RtGISTER, 1817. [Dec. 



peculiar malignant character has 

 recently appeared. The follow- 

 ing resolution has been come 

 to by the corporate body of thi? 

 city.— 



That we do strongly recom- 

 mend to our fellow-citizens, to 

 take the most prompt and active 

 measures within their respective 

 parishes, to have the habitations 

 of the poor properly cleansed and 

 white-washed, as the best means 

 of preserving the present healthy 

 state of the city, and of prevent- 

 ing the introduction of the con- 

 tagious fever that has proved so 

 destructive in several parts of the 

 country. 



10. Bologna. — A notification of 

 the Cardinal Secretary of State has 

 been published here in the follow- 

 ing terms : — 



His Holiness having guaran- 

 teed to their possessor's the acqui- 

 sitions of national property which 

 they had made for reasons ex- 

 pressed in the edict of July .5, 

 1815, and in the motu proprio of 

 July 16, 1816, provided these ac- 

 quisitions have been originally 

 made without contravention of the 

 la-vVs and regulations established 

 by the Italian and French Govern- 

 ment; and wishing that these dis- 

 positions should not be altered, 

 and that all doubts and errors, in- 

 evitable when these questions are 

 brought before the tribunals, 

 should be removed, has been pleas- 

 ed to order that actions attacking 

 the validity of the above-mention- 

 ed acquisitions should not be pro- 

 secuted before any tribunal what- 

 ever ; and that pending suits on 

 this account should not be pro- 

 ceeded in, but that they be 

 brought before the particular con- 



gi'egatioh instituted by the said 

 motu propria, which is invested 

 with necessary powers. 



11. Weimar — ^I'he Government 

 has addressed the following-circu- 

 lar to the residents and Charges 

 d' Affaires of the Grand Duchy: — 



" It has frequently hapjienedfor 

 some time past, that some of the 

 Charges d 'Affaires of the Grand 

 Duchy have transmitted to Go- 

 vernment complaints on the part 

 of foieign diplomatists, in regard 

 to articles inserted in the public 

 journals of the Grand Duchy. 

 These reports can have no other 

 object than that of causing the 

 publication of such articles to be 

 prohibited in future, or of inflict- 

 ing punishment upon the authors 

 of such as have been already pub- 

 lished. But none of these pur- 

 poses can be accomplished in this 

 manner ; and Messrs. the Charges 

 de Affaires ought to know, accord • 

 ing to the anterior communication 

 made to (hem by the Govern- 

 ment — 



" 1st, That the censorshipof the 

 press has been totally abolished 

 in the Grand Duchy of Weimar, 

 by the fundamental constitution 

 of the States, which all the Sove- 

 reigns and States of the Confede- 

 ration have solenmly guaranteed ; 

 and, consequently, that there ex- 

 ist no legal means of preventing 

 the publication of articles that may 

 prove offensive. 



"2. That in the case of well- 

 founded complaints against inju- 

 rious and unbecoming assertions 

 published in print, the authors 

 and editors of such productions 

 must, after an examination as to 

 the importance of the matters com- 

 plained of, be proceeded against 



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