... paper,explained the motives for the murder of de Launay and Flesselles butdescribed the events as ‘deplorable’; nevertheless,it felt that the King’sresponsewas the best way to appease the situation.This ... Forexample, a press censor was established in Amsterdam and after the The cosmopolitan press Act of Mediation in Switzerland () the press there also came underFrench control. The German press ... rumouredthat the French had bribed the only Dutch gazettes permitted to enterFrance. It was said that Du Breuil, the editor of the Gazette d’Amsterdam,was paid , livres for allowing the French ambassador...