You have probably not had my opportunities of comparing distant lands; but I can assure you this has been long ago recognized as a mark of aristocratic government.

Do you suppose, in a country really self-governed, such abuses could exist?
Your own intelligence, however uncultivated, tells you they could not.

Take Austria, a country even possibly more enslaved than England.

I have myself conversed with one of the survivors of the Ring Theatre, and though his colloquial German was not very good, I succeeded in gathering a pretty clear idea of his opinion of the case.

But, what will perhaps interest you still more, here is a cutting on the subject from a Vienna newspaper, which I will now read to you, translating as I go.