Logan Republican | 1903-02-27 | How Royalty is protected

How Royalty la Protected. HJ Tho law Is libel, as regards royalty, H Is different from that which affects HJ othor pcoplo, and In this respect great- H cr privileges aro accorded to reigning H families, at least, by British law. Tho HH rulo of English law Is that "any pub- H llcatlon tending to degrndo or dofamo" H roynl families ot this or other coun- H tries may bo treated ns libels. So HH long ago as 1787 Lord Georgo Gordon H was convicted of a libel of this kind upon Mario Antoinette. In 1801 Vint HB was convicted of libeling tho Russian HH omporor, nnd later a Frenchman H named Peltier got Into trouble for an . HH article abusing Napoleon, who waa ; B then n prisoner on ..io Island ot Elba. w HH