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"In April 1838 Dublin University Magazine, a prosperous Tory periodical whose literary merits even its political opponents admitted, accused the government of refusing the Achill Missionary Herald the usual press postage facilities (on the grounds that it was not a newspaper) for political reasons. But this was the first attempt, the writer admitted, 'to carry out the despotic principles of whiggery to the extent of a censorship of the press'" (Inglis, The Freedom of the Press in Ireland 1784-1841. p.210).