1821 Oct. 1

To Toreno

2 o or 3 o

Letter IV

Religion

Censorship

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Two Articles after comes Article 220 “which power is given to the King, hearing (oyendo[?]) the advice of his Council of State in the manner prescribed by the Constitution (namely in Article 171 to which however, no reference is given) to suspend the course of and call in (recoger[?]) Pastoral Charges Instructions or Edicts which the Prelates or Ecclesiastical Judges have directed to their Diocesans on the exercise of their ministry, if in their opinion the instruments in question contain things contrary to the Constitution, or to the laws, and give order for the prevention[?] of the author, if he has deserved it (sè habiere meritos para illo[?]).

In Ultramaria, some power to the Political Chief taking into consultation the Fiscals of the Supreme Judicatory[?] (audicuna[?]) of the Province, or if there be no such Judicatory, two lettered Fiscal Promoters.

In the Peninsula and adjacent Isles like power of calling in to the Political Chief, under his responsibility in case of having urgency and danger in it en il caso de grave urgentia y peligro.

Thus plainly there you see Sir are the functionaries in question invested with the Censorship, and with only this difference from the ordinary mode namely that if the authors of the writings /delinquents/ in question make /employ ordinary/ use of common measure in ingenuity and industry, the whole or the greatest part of the whole of the good aimed at may be frustrated, rendered unattainable, the offence may /will/ be productive of the greatest matter of the supposed mischievous effect it aims at.