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A Failed Attempt at Censorship: the British Diplomatic Service and Pöllnitz's Histoire secrette de la Duchesse d'Hanover

A Failed Attempt at Censorship: the British Diplomatic Service and Pöllnitz's Histoire secrette... JEREMY BLACK A Failed Attempt at Censorship: the British Diplomatic Service and Pöllnitz's Histoire secrette de la Duchesse d'Hanover* Material in the British diplomatic papers provides fascinating evidence of an attempt in 1732 to suppress the sale of a book deemed embarrassing for George II. It also provides an opportunity to attempt to disentangle the provenance of various works associated with the quixotic German adven- turer Freiherr Karl Ludwig von Pollnitz (1692-1775). Compared to the French government, troubled in the 1720s and 1730s by ecclesiastical disputes stemming from the Jansenist controversy, the British government of the period made little effort to suppress or hinder the publication of books. The principal exception, as in the case with the newspapers,1 was material favouring the Jacobite cause. Thus in 1723 Stephen Poyntz, who had accompanied Viscount Townshend, the Secretary of State for the Northern Department to Hanover, wrote, clearly on behalf of Townshend, to Charles Delafaye, Under Secretary in the Southern Department and the official principally responsible for the surveillance and prosecution of opposition publications: You will see in the advertisements a Book printed for Vaillant and published by one Ramsey in Engl. and French which pretends to give an account http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaerendo Brill

A Failed Attempt at Censorship: the British Diplomatic Service and Pöllnitz's Histoire secrette de la Duchesse d'Hanover

Black, Jeremy
Quaerendo , Volume 18 (3): 211 – Jan 1, 1988
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© 1988 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0014-9527
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10.1163/157006988X00123
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JEREMY BLACK A Failed Attempt at Censorship: the British Diplomatic Service and Pöllnitz's Histoire secrette de la Duchesse d'Hanover* Material in the British diplomatic papers provides fascinating evidence of an attempt in 1732 to suppress the sale of a book deemed embarrassing for George II. It also provides an opportunity to attempt to disentangle the provenance of various works associated with the quixotic German adven- turer Freiherr Karl Ludwig von Pollnitz (1692-1775). Compared to the French government, troubled in the 1720s and 1730s by ecclesiastical disputes stemming from the Jansenist controversy, the British government of the period made little effort to suppress or hinder the publication of books. The principal exception, as in the case with the newspapers,1 was material favouring the Jacobite cause. Thus in 1723 Stephen Poyntz, who had accompanied Viscount Townshend, the Secretary of State for the Northern Department to Hanover, wrote, clearly on behalf of Townshend, to Charles Delafaye, Under Secretary in the Southern Department and the official principally responsible for the surveillance and prosecution of opposition publications: You will see in the advertisements a Book printed for Vaillant and published by one Ramsey in Engl. and French which pretends to give an account

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