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The King of PRUSSIA has decided on a STUART
policy. May he 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 HA3IPDENS 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 this as its
first attribute. Our Kings have found means to
overawe Parliaments, and to coerce them to vote
the supplies they demanded. They have endea-
voured to govern without Parliament, or, like
CHARLES 11., with a Long Parliament thoroughly
subservient, and to subsist tie worst
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 The taxes may be said to be 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
us that of FREDERICK THE GREAT (Tyrant), and
that an obstinate, narrow-minded, Divine Right
martinet, like the present King of PRUSSIA, is
absolute lord of her people's pockets.
prusThere. is no evading this conclusion for the
tion, t Lnß; a The KING has laid down this posi-
sk the Houses for what money I want;
if the Representatives offer me less than I de-
mand,
take and spend the money without their
Toting it, and send
them back to their homes."
The question naturally di, arises—Why present them
with a Budget at
If
the KING is to spend
the national taxes, without
coming to an agree-
ment with his Parliamentt
as to the objects on
which the national money shall be expended, why
The importance
pace the Budget before then,
of the issue is great, indeed, when
ber that in no other way have tike
Prussians we remem-
ber
respecting the number of soldiers tob em
a
ployed in their army. The Houses de, not
e -
vote
number of men, nor have theye
an
annual mutiny act, which they could de
cli-e to pass, it' the MONARCH seemed to be
collecting an army so large as to be formidable to
liberty. The Editor of the Cologne Zeitung points
out that the practical issue between the KING and
the nation is, whether it shall have an army of
120,000, as it stood for a long time after the peace ;
or of 150,000, to which it was raised when French
Imperialism began to threaten Europe; or of
210,000 to which the KING desires to raise it. The
country is quite satisfied to commit its safety to at
least 60,000 fewer soldiers than the KING desires to
have. The larger number it thinks a needless ex-
pense, a needless subtraction of able-bodied men
from productive employment, and as more likely to
be_ used for purposes of dynastic ambition than for
the national interests. The people, in the actual

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