The determination of the Federal Council to suppress the writings of Young Germany not only nipped the _Deutsche Revue_ in the bud, but also put an end to the existence of Mundt's _Litterarischer Zodiacus_, published in Leipzig, and prevented the publication of Laube's _Mitternachtszeitung_, which was to have appeared in Brunswick. Immediately after Menzel's first attack on Gutzkow and his friends, Mundt, with the valour of the prudent man, had written a series of severe articles against Heine, Gutzkow, and Wienbarg--but all to no purpose; his fate was sealed. It seemed for a time as if the resolution were intended not only to affect everything that the proscribed authors had already written, but everything that they might write in the future. An edict of the Prussian Government, dated 11th December 1835, expressly provides that "the _future_ literary productions of Heinrich Heine, wherever they may be published and in whatever language, are to be subject to the same regulations as the writings of Gutzkow, Wienbarg, Laube, and Mundt." And not only was every possible measure taken to silence the obnoxious authors, but (as in Russia, when a man is in disgrace with the Government) it was made illegal, even for those who desired to write disparagingly of them, to print their names. Mundt's name was erased from the list of contributors to the _Berliner Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Kritik_, and in the announcements of Varnhagen and Mundt's edition of Knebel's _Literary Remains_, Varnhagen alone might be named as editor. Excessively strict precautions were at the same time taken with regard to foreign publications. A few inoffensive English and French newspapers were countenanced. In the case of all the others the expedient was resorted to of requiring the same postage to be paid for them as for letters, thereby raising the cost of such papers to at least 500 thalers (£75) per annum.[1]