text:  In that year a revolt was the consequence of an income-tax even of two per cent for they were yet unbroken to the yoke; but now that he has saddled property with a deduction _said_ to be eventually equal to fifteen per cent if not more; now that he doubles the impost on the native sulphur which is therefore checked in its sale; now that he keeps an army of 80 000 men to play at soldiers with; now that he constitutes himself the only referee even in questions of commercial expediency and _a fortiori_ in all other cases which he settles _arbitrarily_ or does not settle at all; now that he sees so little the signs of the times that he will not let a professor go to a science-congress at Florence or Bologna without an express permission and so ignorant as to have _refused_ that permission for fear of a political bias; now that he diverts a nation's wealth from works of charity or usefulness to keep a set of foreigners in his pay--they no doubt here remember in their prayers with becoming gratitude "the holy alliance " or as we would call it the _mutual insurance company of the kings of Europe_ of which Castlereagh and Metternich were the honorary secretaries