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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DSO. 26.

Tic Bonn tribunal has just pronounced its judg-
ment in the cause of the eleven English residents
of that town who protested against the intemperate
language in which Moruza, the Deputy of the
provincial Attorney-General, reflected upon the
English nation when he was prosecuting Captain
MacnoNAte for an alleged assault. The circum-
stances out of which the trial of 'MACDONALD arose
have been often discussed, and we have no inten-
tion of returning to them, because, although the
Attorney-General Amnon, who conducted this
later prosecution, insisted on going into them,
they have nothing to do with the charge against
the authors of the protest. That charge was that
they had reflected injuriously on Mot:ll.ra as a
public functionary. In the eyes of the Prussian
Government the sacredness of functionaryism,
if we may for once be allowed the word, is only
equalled by the horror with which it regards public
criticism. The unnatural and pernicious power
of the Prussian bureaucracy is a thing which most
of us fancy we understand in England ; but we
suspect that those who read the trial of Dr. Penar,
the Rev. Mr. Amoutmos, and their co-defendants,
will admit that they bad previously ❑o adequate
conception of its extravagance.

Let us see what has been the action of the
Prussian Government since the trial of Captain
bfAcnoNsi.n. The attack made on the English
character by Moam.za was naturally felt keenly by
the British residents in Bonn, who consulted
together and agreed that it ought not to paw unno-
ticed. It was resolved to protest against the
imputations which had been cast upon their nation,
and in a day or two the following document
appeared in the Bonn and Cologne papers :

We, the undersigned Euglish inhabitenia of Bonn, beg
$o protest against the amsertiou made by the Meats-Procu-
rator Moller, on Tuesday, the 17th inst., during the public
matting of the police court, that " the EngliAh rending Rod
travelling on the continent were notorious for the rudeness,
impudence, And Idackguardiam of their conduct " (Antrim,

swig, l'nverschamthini, and Luannelei).
We may not have reached the height of retoement and
roper (relies on which the Staata•Procurator sterols (we
are but. Esclishmen), but we cannot uoderatand how a
repreeeotau•e of the Prussian crown could be so farcarried
away by his private feelings of hatred as to insult a whole
nation to which the consort of the crown prince beloags.
Our royal princess is "an Englishwoman residing on the
continent ;" our Queen will soon be "an Englishwoman
travelling on the continent." Must they, too, quietly allow
themselves to be dragged out of a railway carriage by the
railway servants, tilled "domes Volk and Plegel" by
orthopedic physicians, or if (they defend themselves, be
thrust into a dirty gaol for a week, and be then brought
out to be told that they are " rude and impudent black-
guards" by the Attorney. General of the crown ?
is the conduct of the many respectable English families
who live in Bonn as peaceably as the feeling which the
Btaata Procurator tries to rouse %mast them will allow, of
such a kind as to deserve so noodled•for and cowardly an
attack on the whole British nation'.

What would be thought of en English Attorney-General
of the crown who should stand up in court and denounce all
the :arm= resident. iu London and Manchester as " rude
and impudent blackout/sr
J. S. M. Anderson, British Chaplain ; Walter C.
Perry, P. J. H. &Ackley, E. Rapp, G. M. Cum.
berhod, Major ; C. J. Oltlfield, lonel ;
Mortimer Pery Drummond, Pram.. P. Washing.
ton, G. C. E. Rochfort, George Williams, C. T.
Thurston.

While the English residents at Bonn were pre-
paring this protest, Mosttze's superiors, perceiv-
ing the compromising tendency of his speech, had
ordered an inquiry into his conduct at MAC.
I>oNALD's trial. in course, in such a process the
English ought to have been heard as complainants.
But while that inquiry, which has since ended in
the reprimand of Murtha, was still pending, the
subscribers of the foregoing protest were all
included in • prosecution for libel. Our reader.'
must not expect us to explain how it can be pre-
tended that there is anything libellous in that
paper. It is for Englishmen one of the deep
things of Prussian law, and they must make the
best they can of it. Thu fact is that eleven of our
countrymen have had to stand at the bar of •
Prussian court and answer for • protest which they
could not have omitted to make without proving
themselves less than Englishmen.
Fur what have the signers of the protest said?
They brought forward the words of biomass, and
denounced them as an insulting, cowardly, and
uncalled-for attack on the whole British nation.
They had the consideration to ascribe the violence
of that person to private and not class or official
fueling, and asked what Prussians would think if
Germans were so tre►ted by an English crown
lawyer. Of course the Attorney-General AwDQN
could not allege that bloectios's language had
been civil or necessary. Of course he did
nut adopt the feeling which that language
betrayed. It was impossible to juitify
Moe-Lica. Every witness for the prosecution,
the magistrates who gave evidence and even'
Attorney-General ANNoN himself, bloettea's im-
mediate superior, gave him up. Then why bring
this prosecution expressly on Alusturien account
This is most periling to English common
sense. The attempt of thu Prussian Arrosser-
GLNIII AL to show either that his subordinate had
not employed the words compl►ined of in the Pro-
test, or that they had not received • general appli-
cation, miserably failed, and may be dismissed
towther with the piddling lexicography in which he
also indulged, as below contempt. Our countrymen
were not called to servant for traiegat.

ing n word too strongly, or for differing
with the IC I authorities as to the degree of rletui-
uess may re•.urnuably be required in a
',nom. In the eyes of the Prussian “ovenitueut
ih. ‘‘.lh that, mccang thvir vountry ‘ilifit.4l,
they Low.• rather to male a direct appeal to public