- C 2795.
- File
- 1836, Nov. 7.
Part of Harpton Court Estate Records,
The Commission were welcomed in Malta as they were expected to establish immediately a freedom of the press; the Neapolitan consul is regarded as the chief obstacle to this freedom; Chief Justice Stoddart's speech in court was in pretty much the same tone of an article in the Times or any other blackguard newspaper; Mitrovich and his friends attach no weight to Stoddart's effusions; a separate report is needed on the question of the press; it is almost impossible to have confidential communication with anybody in Malta.