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101.: CAVAIGNAC’S DEFENCE EXAMINER, 24 APR., 1831, P. 266 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXII - Newspaper Writings December 1822 - July 1831 Part I [1822]

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The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXII - Newspaper Writings December 1822 - July 1831 Part I, ed. Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson, Introduction by Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986).

Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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101.

CAVAIGNAC’S DEFENCE

EXAMINER, 24 APR., 1831, P. 266

For the background, see No. 100, n1. This paragraph introduces a translation that is given in App. A. It is the first item in the “Foreign Intelligence” of the Examiner, subheaded “France,” Not listed in Mill’s bibliography or in the Somerville College set, the translation is acknowledged as his by Mill in a letter to Thomas Carlyle of 25 Nov., 1833 (EL, CW, Vol. XII, p. 194); there can be little doubt that the introductory paragraph is also his.

the pretended republican conspirators have been acquitted, and carried in triumph through the streets of Paris. Our daily papers being unable to find room at the present juncture for French news of any interest or importance, but only for loose talk and idle speculation, we think it a duty to present our readers with a translation of part of M. Cavaignac’s defence; that they may see what manner of men those are whom the satellites of power load with abuse, whom the government has not feared nor been ashamed to put on trial upon a capital charge, and who, it has been supposed by good-natured, timid friends of freedom, both in this country and in France, must needs be firebrands and sowers of sedition, seeing that the citizen king and his government cannot rest in their beds on account of them.