I am, with profound respect, etc. etc.,
(Signed) The Viscount Châteaubriand.
6. The Chancellor Dambray to the Count Decazes.
Paris, September, 19th, 1816.
I send you confidentially, my dear colleague, a letter which I received yesterday from M. de Châteaubriand, with the informal Protest of which he has made me the depository. I beg you will return these documents, which ought not to be made public. I enclose also a copy of my answer, which I also request you to return after reading; for I have kept no other. I hope it will meet your approbation.
I repeat the expression of my friendly sentiments.
Dambray.
7. The Chancellor Dambray to the Viscount de Châteaubriand.
Paris, September 19th, 1816.
My Lord Viscount,
I have received with the letter you have addressed to me, the declaration relative to the seizure which took place at the residence of your bookseller; I find it difficult to understand the use you propose to make of this document, which cannot extenuate in any manner the infraction of law committed by M. Le Normant. The Law of the 21st of October, 1814, is precise on this point. No printer can publish or offer for sale any work, in any manner whatever, before having deposited the prescribed number of copies. There is ground for seizure, the Article adds, and for sequestrating a work, if the printer does not produce the receipts of the deposit ordered by the preceding Article.