The German Papers contain some rather interesting particulars respecting the
resistance of the Hungarian Diet to the mandates of their Imperial 1VIasterat Vienna. Some years ago, the Emperor FRANCIS, in one of his elegant Latin addresses to the Diet, complimented the Hungarians on their submissive spirit, when all the rest of the world was running mad upon Constitutions and Liber ty. With the exception of Hungary, said the Imperial Classic, " totus mundus stultizat." It appears, at last, that even the Hungarians have caught the infection, and become as great blockheads as the rest of the world. The members of the Diet insist upon publishing their proceedings; they demand an entire liberty of the press, and lof public discussion, both in their own Chamber and beyond its precincts. The Imperial Lieutenant protests against these proceedings; they refuse to enter his protest in their minutes. The Emperor may coerce his spirited subjects for a time ; but the facts above mentioned are evidence of the existence of a spirit which may well make a despot shudder.
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