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The first session of the Prussian Parliament was opened by

King Frederick William on Sunday last, with a very long speech, delivered, it is said, ex tenzpore, and conveying an elaborate and reiterated caveat against what his "dear and trusty Orders'! ought not to do with the new toy. His speech, however, involved the important declaration, that he would contract no loans, levy no new taxes, nor increase those that exist—always excepting what may be necessary in war-time—" without the free consent of all the Orders" Prussia, therefore, has at last its embryo Par- liament assembled in Berlin ; and that Parliament has received the partial custody of the purse-strings.

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