From: Dutton, Thomas. Editor’s Letter. The Dramatic Censor 1:1 (4 Jan. 1800): 4.

In this state of abject degeneracy, the propriety and indeed necessity, of erecting a critical tribunal for the reformation of the Stage, will be disputed by no lover of legitimate drama, and unvitiated taste. The nature of the evil demands a remedy, which shall meet the complaint in its fullest extent. This the proprietors of The Dramatic Censor, and Weekly Theatrical Report hope to provide in the work they now submit to the candid judgment of an enlightened public. Embarking in the present undertaking, not from motives of speculative emolument, but from a firm conviction of the utility of their plan, it is their fixed, irrevocable determination scrupulously to adhere to the principles on which that plan is founded. These are, strict impartiality, and undeviating critical integrity. They will neither sacrifice to personal friendship, nor to pique. Truth is, and shall remain, the sole object of their views. They will speak with freedom, alike when the duties of their office all for censure, or for praise. And, though they never must feel reluctant, when compelled to wound; they will perform this part of their censorial function with the conscientious feelings of a human surgeon, who probes a fore, not for the purpose of inflicting pain, but as the necessary preliminary of a cure. 

Remedy:

1. A means of counteracting a source of misery or difficulty, in early use especially sin, evil, or a vice; a means of relieving a bad situation or avoiding a problem. 

2. A cure for a disease, disorder, injury, etc.; a medicine or treatment that promotes healing or alleviates symptoms.

Censor:

1. The title of two magistrates in ancient Rome, who drew up the register or census of the citizens, etc., and had the supervision of public morals.

2. a. transf. One who exercises official or officious supervision over morals and conduct. b. spec. An official in some countries whose duty it is to inspect all books, journals, dramatic pieces, etc., before publication, to secure that they shall contain nothing immoral, heretical, or offensive to the government. More explicitly dramatic censor,  film censor.

Dramatic Censor as remedy (censorship as remedy); ‘truth’ as remedy (seemingly, objective).