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The King of PraTssiA has decided on a STUART
policy. May be repent in time to save him from
deserving a STUART fate; but, for the interests of
the Liberal cause in Europe, one may hope that
some Prussian HAMPDENS will be found to expose
to the world the despotism of their King. We do
not remember the precise terms in which the right
to vote the nation's money is bestowed on the Prus-
sian representatives by their Charter—but this
every English school boy, every school girl,
even, well knows, that the right to tax themselves
through their representatives is the birthright cf
Englishmen, and that constitutional or representa-
tive Government is inconceivable without is as its
first attribute. Our Kings have found this
means to
overawe Parliaments, and to coerce them to vote
the supplies they demanded. They have endea-
voured to govern without Parliement, or, like
CHARLES 11., with a Long Parliament thoroughly
subservient, and to subsist on the proceeds of taxes
already authorised—but the worst of them have re-
cognised the fundamental check imposed on them
by constitutional forms—that the people's represen-
tatives must vote the people's money.
How will the Prussian people accept the exact
contrary of this ? Will a whole nation be found
without one man in it to try the great question,
whether he can be legally compelled to pay the
taxes not imposed by his representatives. We are
aware of the difficult form the question may as-
sum 3. The taxes may be said to bo already lega
lised, and that the only thing to be done is to
impeach those who spend them without authority
of Parliament. Let the Prussian patriot lawyers
decide on the form of legal attack, but if there
be none, it is obvious to the humbliest capacity
that Prussia is still under a despotism as perfect
as that of FREDERICK THE GREAT (Tyrant), and
thatan obstinate, narrow-minded, Divine Right
martinet, like the present King of PRUSSIA, is
absolute lord of her people's pockets.
There
is
no
evading this conclusion for the
Prussians- The KING has laid down this posi-
tion,—..a
ask the Houses for what money I want;
if the Representatives offer me less than I de-
mand, I take an
spend the money without their
Toting it,
and send
altihem back to their homes."
Y arises—Why present them
'l'Vriaitehquaesßtiuodn atgentoutr
all?
If
the KING is to spend
the national taxes, With oatcoming to an agree-
ment with his Parliament
which the national money shall to the objects on
ace the Budget before them? The
expended, why
pace
the issue is great, indeed,h
when w importance
remem-
ber that in no other way have
rtusso ians a
voice respecting the number of
soldiers the
Prussians
em-
ployed in their army. The Houses do be
e not vote
the number of men, nor have
they an
could
annual mutiny act, which they de-
cli. a to pass, if the MONARCH seemed to
be
Collecting an army so large as to be formidable
t
liberty. The Editor of the Cologne Zeitung pointso
out that the practical issue between the KING and
the nation is, whether it shall have an army of
120,000, es it stood for a long time after the peace ;
or of 1,50,000. to which it was raised when French
Imperialism began to threaten Europe ; or of
210,000 to which the KING desires.toraise it. The
country is quite satisfied to commit
its safety to at
least 60,000 fewer soldiers than the KING desires to
n
have. The larger number it thinks a needless ex-
pense, a needless suatractio of able-bodied men
likel
from
rotay
productive employment, and as more
"to
used for purposes of dynastic ambition than for
the u -
F Alouai interests. The people, in the actual

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 14, 1862.