text:  Those who bear the rule in Germany however have for the last thirty years done every thing that they possibly could do to make the royal word a public mockery and a shame; one cannot review the well-known despotic proceedings of the German diet first in 1829 and afterwards in 1832 without subscribing a most full assent to the sentence of the Baron von Stein when he says in reference to those very matters--"the falsehood that prevails in our age is deserving of the most serious reprehension