Your item published in La Presse of July 26 concerning my stay in 
Paris, which has been reprinted word for word by other newspapers, 
contains such erroneous assertions that I am compelled to write a few 
lines in reply. 

In the first place, the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, of which I was the 
owner *"! and editor-in-chief, was never banned. Its publication was 
suspended only for five days because of the state of siege. When the 
state of siege was lifted, the newspaper reappeared, and continued to 
appear during the following seven months. Since the Prussian 
Government could not see any possibility of legally prohibiting the 
newspaper it had recourse to a strange measure: It got rid of the 
owner, that is to say, it forbade me to reside in Prussia.” As regards 
the legality of this measure, this will be decided by the Prussian 
Chamber of Deputies which is shortly to meet. 

After being forbidden to stay in Prussia, I went first of all to the 
Grand Duchy of Hesse, in which—as in other parts of Germany—I 
was not forbidden to reside. I did not go to Paris as a refugee, as your 
newspaper asserts, but of my own accord with a regular passport and 
with the sole aim of collecting additional material for my work on the 
history of political economy, which I had begun already five years 
earlier.* 

@ Emile de Girardin.— Ed. 
> See this volume, p. 451.— Ed. 

To the Editor of the Newspaper La Presse 481 

Neither was I ordered to leave Paris immediately; on the contrary, I 
was given time to address a complaint to the Minister of the Interior.? 
This complaint has been handed in and I now await the result.“ 

Kindly accept etc., 

Dr. K. Marx 
ly 30, 1849 ; : 
July Published in English for the first 

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